Most Beautiful Lyric

kenmc

"You don’t say how you love him
But it shows in every word
When he played his favorite music
Was the best you’d ever heard
You tell me that he couldn’t watch
The violence cut by men
When all is quiet throughout the land
I hope you meet again"
The Sawdoctors - I hope you meet again.
or
"You were sitting in a cafe
At a table by the juke-box
Making cups of coffee last for years
You never heard the fanfare
Never saw the sunshine smiling
And the summer slipped in unnoticed
From beneath your tears"
The Sawdoctors - Exhilirating Sadness

"I've got loads and loads of patience
And I'm just as proud as you
If it goes until I'm dead and gone
I won't come running on after you
But if you enjoy remembering
When you were my best friend
I'd really love to wake up sleeping
In your arms again"
Sawdoctors (again!!) Wake up sleeping
I know that they're generally derided, but loads of their songs have really beautiful lyrics - eg
To Win Just Once
Share The Darkness
World of good
and more.

sinjin_smythe

"im a skat man skibby dibby dibby dum dum dum (pause) dum du dum dum"
That song gets me every time

Keyzer

weedhead wrote:

"im a skat man skibby dibby dibby dum dum dum (pause) dum du dum dum"
That song gets me every time

Stop ripping off my gags....

Morrigan

Keyzer wrote:

Stop ripping off my gags....

Check post number 22 in this very thread.

Keyzer

You cant compare that to my posts, AC/DC write some of the most meaningful lyrics ever...

Lick my love pump by Spinal Tap is a fantastic instrumental btw...

Morrigan

You are right there, Ted. It's beautiful. So poignant. The melody really conveys the soft yearning urge behind the forlorn entreaty for his lovepump to be licked...

Jimmy_Jazz

When the routine bites hard
and ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways,
taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart
again

Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through
our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again

Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart
again

Peerless.

MellonCollie

These may not be the MOST beautiful lyrics I could have come up with, but they're amongst my favourites lately...

"I will come to you in the daytime
I will raise you from your sleep
I will kiss you in four places
As I go runnin' down your street

I will squeeze the life right out of you
I will make you laugh, and make you cry
And we may never forget it
As I make you call my name as you shout it to the blue, summer sky"
-You will throw your arms around me (Pearljam)

&

"I read bad poetry
Into your machine.
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice.
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes.
You always say your name,
Like I wouldn't know it's you,
At your most beautiful.

I've found a way to make you smile
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly.
With every one, whisper I love you.
I let you sleep.
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening.
I though I saw a smile."
-At Your Most Beautiful (R.E.M.)

John

Keyzer wrote:

Name this tune -

Dank für die Zeiten,
Den Sie mir Die Erinnerungen gegeben haben,
sind alle in meinem Gemüt,
Und jetzt dass wirzum Ende von unserem Regenbogen gekommen sind,
Es Gibt etwas das ich muss sagen aus laut

Sie Sind einmal,zweimal Drei Zeiten eine Dame
Ja Sie sind einmal zweimal Drei Zeiten eine Dame
Und ich liebe Sie

Wenn wir zusammen Die Momente sind, schätze ich Mit jedem schlägt von meinem Herzen, Sie zu
berühren, Sie zu halten, Sie zu fühlen, Sie zu brauchen, den Es nichts Gibt, uns auseinander Sie zu behalten,

Sind einmal zweimal Drei Zeiten eine Dame
Und ich liebe Sie, den ich Sie liebe

Three Times A Lady by the Commodores. What do I win? An evening with Bill Bailey?

bored101

there's a new artist from america, she's called Holly Wwilliams and her lyrics are absolutely beautiful here's one e.g.
it's called i'll only break your heart

I used to call you mystery
I wanted to play all the parts
Beware the one who calls for me
I'll only break your heart

The beginning's always beautiful
Like every brand new start
But in the end, when there's nothing left of you
I'll only break your heart

I want you with a harsh desire
I crave you in the night
But I'm here to warn you
You're not safe with me
I'll only break your heart

It scares me like my deepest confession
It haunts me like their pain
While everyone's looking for someone to love
I'll only break your heart

I fade like every summer leaf
I drift like the mind of a child
I never was meant to stay in one place
I only broke their hearts

I used to call you mystery
I wanted to play all the parts
Beware the one who calls for me
I'll only break your heart

DerekD Goldfish

"Love will get you like a case of anthrax
and thats somnething I dont want to catch"
Gang of Four - Anthrax

fizzynicenice

'it was a big pop piz-ow bang-a-dang biggity biggity bang biggity bang kaboom the big bizang'

from 'the big bizang' by MC Hawking
www.mchawking.com

Talliesin

cormie wrote:

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
...

One of the few songs to make it into a Norton poetry anthology, and well-deserving of it. I'd also suggest his "Famous Blue Raincoat", "Who by Fire" and "Hallelujah" for consideration.

MrJoeSoap

Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over

It's never over,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles
when I slept so soft against her...
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear
That hangs inside my soul forever

Its gotta be Jeff Buckley every time.