Most Beautiful Lyric

Sucka

Don't know if this has been done before, would have thought it had, but a quick search has turned up nothing; anyhoo.....

What do you consider to be the most beautiful song lyric you've ever heard?

Mine would have to be from Caledonia by Dolores Keane/someone else if its a cover

"let me tell you that i love you
that i think about you all the time"


Simple I know but therein lies the beauty imo. The haunting way in which it is sung is probably a large factor too.

Anybody else?

JimboPope

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

Beach Boys - God Only Knows.

magz

See here

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/hootie-&-the-blowfish/65902.html

thetrickykid

Nick Cave - Into my arms

"I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms"

MrJoeSoap

Jeff Buckleys beautiful 'Last Goodbye'

"This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can’t we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it’s just because I didn’t know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry ’cause I know that in time
I’ll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye"

magz

Just when you mention Jeff....


'Don't fool yourself, she was heartache from the moment that you met her.
My heart is so still as I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.
Oh she's somewhere out there now.
My tears are falling down as I try to forget,
Her love was a joke from the day that we met.
All of the words, all of the men, all of my pain when I think back till when.
Remember her hair as it shown in the sun, the smell of the bed when I knew what she'd done.
Tell yourself over and over you won't ever need her again.
But don't fool yourself, she was heartache from the moment that you met her'

cormie

Anything and everything by Leonard Cohen!

From simplicity as:

Dear Heather
Please walk by me again
With a drink in your hand
And your legs all white
From the winter


to the romance of:

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.


And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.


Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

PiE

And I am a writer / Writer of ffffictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages / Upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones

azezil

I really like the lyrics of I don't want to miss a thing

damien

Bright Eyes - Poison Oak

Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
When the telephone was a tin can on a string
And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
You said you weren't afraid to die
In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer?
Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more

Than when you turned away, when you slammed the door
When you stole the car, drove towards Mexico
And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm
I was young enough, I still believed in war

Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam

But me, I'm a single cell on the serpent's tongue
There's a mudfield where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away but I'm still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears

And I never thought this life was possible
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for

The end of paralysis, I was a statuette
Now I'm drunk as hell on the piano bench
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness makes me happier

Bright Eyes - Road to Joy

The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleepin' in their beds
The city cemetary's hummin'
I'm wide awake, its mornin'

I have my drugs, I have my woman
they keep away my loneliness
My parents, they have their religion
But sleep in seperate houses

I read the body count out of the paper
And now its written all over my face
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
Sometimes thats just the most comfortable place

So I'm drinkin, breathin, writin, singin
Every day I'm on the clock
My mind races with all my longings
But can't keep up with what I got

And so I hope I dont sound too ungratefull
Well, history gave modern man
A telephone to talk to strangers
Machine guns and a camera lense

So when you're asked to fight a war thats over nothing
Its best to join the side thats gonna win
No ones sure how all of this got started
But we're gonna make 'em God damn certain how its gonna end
Oh yah we will, oh yah we will!

Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had some one else's voice
But failures always sounded better
Let's **** it up boys, make some noise!

The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleepin' in their beds
The city cemetary's hummin'
I'm wide awake, its mornin'!

Dinner

From Jimmy Eat World, Episode IV,



We'll dance off time to the songs we've never liked.
And sing off key, thinkin it sounds alright.
And you know I almost lost my will to live.

DotOrg

Probably not the most beautiful but it's amazing to hear sung every time I hear it

"and I was just chancing my arm, cos it's woth less than my heart"
by Polar

eggshapedfred

Just when you mention Jeff....

"I miss my beautiful friend" - Morning Theft (I think)

I had a beautiful friend once, whom I now miss....

dudara

thetrickykid wrote:

Nick Cave - Into my arms

"I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms"

Ditto and double ditto. Or "Are you the one that I've been waiting for?"

FranknFurter

Before my time, but still my favourite piece of music of all time.........

Don McLean - Vincent Song Lyrics

Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain

weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.

Starry
starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity

how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

magz

eggshapedfred wrote:

"I miss my beautiful friend" - Morning Theft (I think)

I had a beautiful friend once, whom I now miss....

'Time takes care of the wound, so I can believe.'

deedee lepoopoo

old blue eyes. 'What now my love'. Bittersweet.

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Frank-Sinatra/What-Now-My-Love.html

'Once I could see, Once I could feel,
Now I am numb, I've become unreal,
I walked the night, without a goal,
Stripped of my heart, my soul'

Morrigan

"Her eyes are a blue million miles..."

Captain Beefheart

full forward

A father sends his last son off to battle to defend the enslaved people of Ireland.


Danny Boy or the Derry Air

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

treefingers

I jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
All the things I used to see.

All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

mentalimplosion

whoever said bright eyes: i agree. anything written by him, especially the calender hung itself:

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you.
Oh, does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched
And does he cry through broken sentences like "I love you far too much?"
Does he lay awake listening to your breath,
Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile there's a thousand more you won’t ever see but most hold inside yourself eternally.



gets me every time

Phil_321

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AC/DC - Given the dog a bone

She take you down easy
Going down to her knees
Going down to the devil
Down down to ninety degrees
Oh, She's blowing me crazy
Till my ammunition is dry

Oh, She's using her head again
She's using her head
Oh, She's using her head again

I'm just a givin' the dog a bone
Givin' the dog a bone
Givin' the dog a bone
Givin' the dog a bone
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone
Givin' the dog a bone
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone
Givin' the dog a bone

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Brings a tear to my eye

stagolee

Yes im drunk now,
But ive got to be,
To tell you how much,
You mean to me.

abccormac

Into My Arms is already up there, so 2nd favorite from me...

I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song?
To all those little girls and boys

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you talking in my head
I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

Rainy night in Soho
The Pogues

John

Into My Arms is a damn fine song. Damn fine I say. But a better lyric comes from his bandmate Blixa Bargeld:

"You will find me if you want me in the garden
Unless it's pouring down with rain."

The Garden from Einstuerzende Neubauten's album Ende Neu. The lyric doesn't really hold up to much on paper but in the context of the music it is wonderful. Sad but very beautiful.

annette curtain

With Arms Wide Open
Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face
With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life
With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he's not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world
With arms wide open...

this song......need i say anymore

Morrigan

Phil_321 wrote:

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AC/DC - Given the dog a bone

She take you down easy
Going down to her knees
Going down to the devil
Down down
etc

Oh Phil, you are a funny guy, here to amuse me...

hshortt

Lots of songs by Sarah McLachlan would make my list. But sometimes lyrics just are not meant to be read out. They need to be heard in the context of a song, a melody, something that associates the emotiveness of the moment to the lyrics in the song.

Possession...
"And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear"

Answer...
"If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Because I can only tell you that I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright"

dregin

Don't worry (I'll Catch You) - The Getup Kids

Can you sleep as the sand hits your ears one at a time?
An unspoken balance here
Unabridged for so many years
That I should stare at receivers to receive her isn't fair

Don't worry I'll catch you
Don't worry I'll catch you
Don't ever worry

Your arms in mine, anytime
I wouldn't trade anything
You're still my everything
To my surprise, before my eyes, you arrive

Don't worry i'll catch you
Don't worry i'll catch you
Don't ever worry

I'm still breaking old habits, habits
When you pulled the wool over me
I can see everything, everything
Remembering "jinx removing"

Don't worry I'll catch you
Don't worry I'll catch you
Dont't ever worry
No need for reminding
You're still all that matters to me

Keyzer

One of my personal favorites....

You put your left leg in, your left leg out
in, out, in, out, shake it all about...
you do the hokey cokey and you turn around...
Thats what its all about....

(sing it now)
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh hokey cokey cokey
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh hokey cokey cokey
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh hokey cokey cokey
And thats what its all about....

Keyzer

Name this tune -

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