Counterpoint: Song lyrics that sum it up for you

[bob]

Just as a good bumper sticker should sum up your philosophy and at the same time cause anyone who reads it to question everything in which they believe, a good song lyric should do much the same. So as counterpoint to the "Stupid Song Lyrics..." thread, I offer this...

A couple, for openers...

"So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide."
'The River', Garth Brooks


"It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give,
And the soul, afraid of dyin', that never learns to live."
'The Rose', Bette Midler

 

[ChiknNutz]

Bob, I must say that I have to agree. I've always felt that Garth Brooks had some of the best "story songs" with exceptional content, and The River is one of my favorites.

 

[Fred Weiss]

Harry Chapin was a very special singer-songwriter ... perhaps the last of the troubadours.

Oh sometimes words can serve me well, and sometimes words can go to hell,
For all that they do.
And for every dream that took me high there's been a dream that passed me by,
I know it's so true.

But I can see it clear up to the end, and I whisper it to her now and again,
Because she shares my life.
That more than all the ghosts of glory, she makes up the story,
Yeah she's the only story of my life.

Story of a Life • Harry Chapin

Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard.
All the melodies I'm missin' and all the magic words.
And all those golden voices and the choices we had then.
How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

Remember When the Music • Harry Chapin

 

[Letterbox Mike]

When I walk beside her
I am a better man
when i look to leave her
I always stagger back again

Once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
when I climb down to be set free
she took me in again

Originally written by Gordon Peterson, recently redone by Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) in a much better version. Makes me think of my wife and our sometimes tumultuous marriage (like all younger married couples I guess...). It's really a phenomenal song, always makes me pause and think.

 

[Pat Whatley]

For most of my life this fit perfectly:
Crazy women That's the only kind I know
Crazy women Keep me running for the door
Crazy women I guess they're all the same
Crazy women Got my foolish heart to blame
- - -Jupiter Coyote, "Crazy Women


Lately this sticks in my head an awful lot
All you touch and all you see,
Is all your life will ever be.
- - - Pink Floyd, "Breathe"

 

[Billct2]

Don't know why but this morning these are the first two I thought of....

Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been

Trucking/GD

Small wheel turn by the fire and rod,
Big wheel turn by the grace of God,
Every time that wheel turn 'round,
Bound to cover just a little more ground.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

The Wheel GD

 

[Joe Diaz]

Here's one:

Ooh dat dress so scandalous
And ya know another @#$% couldn't handle it
See ya shakin that thang like who's da ish
With a look in ya eye so devilish

Uh
Ya like to dance at all the hip hop spots
And ya cruise to the crews like connect da dots
Not just urban she likes the pop
Cuz she was livin la vida loca

She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what
Baby move your butt butt butt
Uh
I think to sing it again
She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what
All night long
Let me see that thong

I like it when the beat goes da na da na
Baby make your booty go da na da na
Girl I know you wanna show da na da na
That thong th thong thong thong
I like it when the beat goes da na da na
Baby make your booty go da na da na
Girl I know you wanna show da na da na
That thong th thong thong thong

:Big Laugh

 

[wes70]

Here's one:

Ooh dat dress so scandalous
And ya know another @#$% couldn't handle it
See ya shakin that thang like who's da ish
With a look in ya eye so devilish

Uh
Ya like to dance at all the hip hop spots
And ya cruise to the crews like connect da dots
Not just urban she likes the pop
Cuz she was livin la vida loca

She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what
Baby move your butt butt butt
Uh
I think to sing it again
She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what
All night long
Let me see that thong

I like it when the beat goes da na da na
Baby make your booty go da na da na
Girl I know you wanna show da na da na
That thong th thong thong thong
I like it when the beat goes da na da na
Baby make your booty go da na da na
Girl I know you wanna show da na da na
That thong th thong thong thong

:Big Laugh

Lyrics to live by!:ROFLMAO:

 

[Rodi]

It doesn't pay to try,
All the smart boys know why,
It doesn't mean I didn't try,
I just never know why.
Feel so cold and all alone,
Cause baby, you're not at home.
And when I'm home
Big deal, I'm still alone.

Feel so restless, I am,
Beat my head against a pole
Try to knock some sense,
down in my bones.
And even though they don't show,
The scars aren't so old
And when they go,
They let you know

You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
Don't try, don't try

You're just a bastard kid,
And you got no name
Cause you're living with me,
We're one and the same

And even though they dont show,
They scars aren't so old
And when they go,
They let you know

You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
Don't try, don't try

You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
You can't put your arms around a memory
Don't try, don't try

 

[Mosh]

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico

 

[Kwiksigns]

Shoot the kids at school,
All in a bloody pool,
I'll show the teachers too,
'Cuz they can't tell me what to do,

* getting C's and D's
Saying "thanks and please"
Yer broke the golden rules,
Yer staying after school,

Life is real estate,
To the ones I hate,
Cops say you just refrain,
From squattin', drinkin', and hoppin' trains

Drink but don't drink this,
It aint beer it's piss,
Rock the 40oz.,
It's the change that counts,
When we get there on the train,
We'll get some booze and start again,

Living in the past, Goin' nowhere fast,
Jesus has a place for me,
A life of sin and infamy,

Droppin' out of school,
Teacher is a fool,
So yer run away,
Livin' day to day,

Doin' whatcha gotta do,
And what makes you happy too,

* Fallin' prey to drugs,
Sportin' body bugs,
Rock the 40oz.
It's the change that counts,

Just don't get locked up in jail,
'Cuz no ones gonna have the bail,
Takin' time to break the laws,
& then I'll lick my dirty paws,
Dodging all the lies I'm fed,
I'll live my life and then I'm dead
...........................................................
cause I like 40's

 

[Pro Image]

The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
And you only get mugged
If you go down town

I live back in the woods, you see
A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

Because you can’t starve us out
And you cant makes us run
Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun
And we say grace and we say Ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn

We came from the West Virginia coalmines
And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies
And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly
My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a businessman
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I’d send him some homemade wine

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
And shoot him with my old 45
Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

Cause you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun
And we say grace and we say Ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn

We’re from North California and south Alabam
And little towns all around this land
And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

Nuff said................

 

[Mosh]

Country DJ's knows I'm an outllaw, they never come see me in this dive, where bikers stair at cowboys, who are lookin at the hippies, who are praying they'll get out of here alive....My long hair just can't cover up my redneck......

 

[Graphics2u]

"Everybody wanna go to heaven
but nodody wanna go now"

Kenny Chesney

Songwriters:Jim Collins, Martin Edward Dodson

 

[ABPGraphics]

Where did he go
the man who said "I have a dream"
Where have they gone
the four who sang to let it be
Jackie's alone
she lost him one November day
L.A. Motel
one sad mistake took Sam away

Oh, remember then
remember when

Captured by the moment
in the magic of a yesterday
captured by the moment
and i hope it never fades away

Sweet Janis cried
Lord, won't you buy a Benz for me
Jimi was right
Castles made of sand slip to the sea

Otis replied
a little tenderness we got to try
One open door
He tried to set the night on fire

Captured by the moment
In the magic of yesterday
Captured by the moment
and I hope it never fades away

 

[Just Another Sign Guy]

I'm an old soul I think I was born in the wrong era or maybe it is from a past life...


Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

Then I fell in love, head over heels in love, with the most wonderful boy in the world.
We would take long walks by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each other's eyes.
We were so very much in love.
Then one day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't,
and when I didn't I said to myself, "is that all there is to love?"


Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing


I know what you must be saying to yourselves,
if that's the way she feels about it why doesn't she just end it all?
Oh, no, not me. I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment,
for I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,
when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my lst breath, I'll be saying to myself

Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

peggy lee

 

[Bigdawg]

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

KANSAS "Dust In The Wind"