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Favorite Song Lyrics
« on: November 06, 2007, 08:58:56 am »
Sometimes I like songs, but I don't always necessarily read the lyrics which means I often miss the meaning of the song. So here is a place to post the words, the lyrics, to songs I find. If anyone else finds lyrics they like please post them here as well. I always like discovering new music and songs from other people. Who knows someone from here could end up being on the Singing Bee  ;D and then we will know the words  :laugh:

Jack

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 09:02:52 am »
OK, here's the first one, I am trying to go through many of my homemade CDs that I have made from either other CDs or ITunes or similiar places. This song is called "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard.

Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard

There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both 16 and it felt so right
Sleeping all day, staying up all night
Staying up all night

There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street
We would walk on the beach in our bare feet
We were both 18 and it felt so right
Sleeping all day, staying up all night
Staying up all night

If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away

There's a piece of you that's here with me
It's everywhere I go, it's everything I see
When I sleep, I dream and it gets me by
I can make believe that you're here tonight
That you're here tonight

If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away

I remember the look in your eyes
When I told you that this was goodbye
You were begging me not tonight
Not here, not now
We're looking up at the same night sky
And keep pretending the sun will not rise
Be together for one more night
Somewhere, somehow

If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 09:04:30 am »
that is beautiful, Jack.

and sad.

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2007, 11:02:54 pm »
there are two songs that have lyrics that I love...but I don't know the name. I heard it when I was a kid...back in the early seventies or late sixties I think. There was a period in country music when they did a version of what we call rap these days...spoken words in a sing song voice.

They call me a poet
he has a way with words they say
but sometimes words, they're just not enough
like what is the word for the funny shaky feeling
I get when I see you?
Or the warm wonderful confusion when you touch me?

A poet? no no I am not a poet
but if I were, if every word in the world was at my command
my poem would still be
I love you

I love you
what more can I say?


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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2007, 10:31:00 am »
Jess, I haven't heard that song, but I would love to. The words are GREAT!!!

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2007, 10:32:53 am »
The words to my new favorite song this week:

Taking Chances by Celine Dion

Don't know much about your life.
Don't know much about your world, but
Don't want to be alone tonight,
On this planet they call earth.

You don't know about my past, and
I don't have a future figured out.
And maybe this is going too fast.
And maybe it's not meant to last,

But what do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

I just want to start again,
And maybe you could show me how to try,
And maybe you could take me in,
Somewhere underneath your skin?

What do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?

Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

And I had my heart beaten down,
But I always come back for more, yeah.
There’s nothing like love to pull you up,
When you’re laying down on the floor there.
So talk to me, talk to me,
Like lovers do.
Yeah walk with me, walk with me,
Like lovers do,
Like lovers do.

What do you say to taking chances,
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay,
What do you say,
What do you say?

Don’t know much about your life
And I don’t know much about your world.

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2007, 11:46:02 am »
Nice idea for a thread!

Here's my all-time favourite song:

Shadows, ©1982 by Gordon Lightfoot   
                                                           
Let me reach out love and touch you
Let me hold you for awhile
I've been all around the world
Oh how I long to see you smile
There's a shadow on the moon
And the waters here below
Do not shine the way they should
And I love you just in case you didn't know
                                                               
Let it go, let it happen like it happened once before
It's a wicked wind
And it chills me to the bone
And if you do not believe me
Come and gaze upon the shadow at your door
                                                               
Won't you lie down by me baby
Run your fingers through my hands
I've been all around the town
And still I do not understand
Is it me or is it you
Or the shadow of a dream
Is it wrong to be in love
Could it be the finest love I've ever seen
                                                               
Set it free, let it happen like it happened once before
It's a wicked wind
And it chills me to the bone
And if you do not believe me
Come and gaze upon the shadow at your door
                                                               
Please kiss me gently darling
Where the river runs away
From the mountains in the springtime
On a blue and windy day
When there's beauty all around
As the shades of night grow deep
As the morning stars grow dim
They will find us in the shadows fast asleep
                                                               
Let it go, let it happen like it happened once before
It's a wicked wind
And it chills me to the bone
And if you do not believe me
Come and gaze upon the shadow at your door

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2007, 12:31:03 pm »
Thanks Snavel.......and the words to that song are great!!! I'm not sure if I have heard it or not, but I am going to try and find it. Gordon Lightfoot is very good. "If You Could Read My Mind" is one of my favorite all time songs and "Sundown" is another one I can think of.

Jack

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2007, 01:52:52 pm »
Thanks Snavel.......and the words to that song are great!!! I'm not sure if I have heard it or not, but I am going to try and find it. Gordon Lightfoot is very good. "If You Could Read My Mind" is one of my favorite all time songs and "Sundown" is another one I can think of.

Jack

Hey Jack, I found the song on youtube!

Don't mind the pics that go along with it, they have nothing to do with the song!

The song is very Jack and Ennis, isn't it?

Here it is!

Mel


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDS0lhRjywY[/youtube]

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Re: Favorite Song Lyrics
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2007, 03:59:31 pm »
Thanks for finding that Mel. Yes, it is a beautiful song. The song is definitely very Jack and Ennis. There are so many words within in that fit them perfect. It even talks about the wind.