Seeing how its creative writing... I thought I would turn to some artist for good lyrics. I usually listent to music for the music not the lyrics. But some bands, its all about the lyrics... good example
THE SMITHS - GIRL AFRAID
Girl afraid
where does his intentions lay?
Or does he even have any?
She says:
"He never really looks at me
I give him every opportunity
in the room downstairs
he sat and stared
in the room downstairs
he sat in stared
I'll never make that mistake again !"
Boy afraid
prudence never pays
and everything she wants costs money
"But she doesn't even LIKE me!"
and I know because she said so
in the room downstairs
she sat and stared
in the room downstairs
she sat and stared
I'll never make that mistake again!"
Add your favorite lyrics to a song...
Posted by itzjerm at August 26, 2004 09:27 PMyah know... jeremy didn't like music for the longest time. Can you imagine. i finally commented on Jeremy Friday... go see his mother's comments on his life.
Posted by: mona at August 26, 2004 09:44 PMSome day you might find you are starving,
and eating all of the words that you said
- ani defranco "32 Flavors"
she doesn't know the man
who tries to push her wheelchair in the sand
she just looks up to see
he's talking endlessly
oh why won't he shut up
i take my medicine, i crush the paper cup.
oh maybe he's my son
and he's come to set me freeeee...
- Rasputina
I want that diamond
i really do
i think that you should get me one
then you can prove
your love is true
and the gift giving has just begun
... i dont' care how you get it
you can rob a store, there's just nothing
that i want more
than diamonds for me and aunt gladis
just some little stud earings!
-Rasputina
i'll tell you every intimate note
without sparing a detail
but this i.. truely must confide.
I don't tell my secrets anymore..
shouldn't be no suprise...
that i don't tell my secrets anymore..
i only tell lies
- Jump, LIttle children
Posted by: darcie at August 26, 2004 10:02 PMDarc,
What JLC (I REFUSE to just call them Jump...Ugh) song is that from? Good stuff.
D.A.
Posted by: D.A. at August 27, 2004 01:24 AMyou were an island
and i passed you by
you were an island
to discover
- coldplay
Posted by: Autumn at August 27, 2004 07:04 AM ...When I wish of her
I wish her beneath my gaze
And if I drink of her it will
be all my days
...I should have been amazed
Sand in the hallway
The glisten of her laugh
I’ve never found it easier to spend my days
My soul sings the prowler’s nocturne
From deep down within this cage
We have too many last nights in our lives
Too many desperate hours
Whispering goodbyes
And baby the earth shook
The last time I heard you cry
Yes you loved me
Gently caressed my face
Not some little sorcery
Some simple twist of fate
I was hundreds of feet away
I should have been amazed
-Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot of Grunts
There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from the piles of fallen leaves
There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass
Springtime calls her children until she let's them go at last
And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds
There are things we can't recall, Blind as night that finds us all
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
But my hands remember hers, rolling around the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
-Iron & Wine
Well, I thought, why not some Muse? My favorite band to quote. Sorta. Well. . .not really. Okay so here it is.
Citizen Erased
Break me in,
Teach us to cheat
And to lie, cover up
What shouldn't be shared?
All the truth unwinding
Scraping away
At my mind
Please stop asking me to describe him
For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free
Self expressed, exhausting for all
To see and to be
What you want and what you need
The truth unwinding
Scraping away
At my mind
Please stop asking me to describe
For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free
For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free
Wash me away
Clean your body of me
Erase all the memories
They will only bring us pain
And I've seen all I'll ever need
A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried at the terrible sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diagetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
On the news tonight
The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Mmm
Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
--Jack Johnson
Nina,
Great Iron and Wine song. I think I posted the lyrics to it on a previous quote day on here or somewhere. It made me happy to see it again.
If you are in to I&W you may like a guy by the name of Bill Riccini, and if you haven't heard it yet, get ahold of I&W covering The Postal Service "Such Great Heights". It's a B-side to the single of the same name, and also on the Garden State soundtrack.
D.A.
Posted by: D.A. at August 27, 2004 12:09 PMHey Thanks! I'll definately check those out...always looking for new music.
Yeah I couldn't remember where I heard about Passing Afternoon, but it probably was here...sorry to steal it from you!! :) Still...it's an awesome song.
Posted by: Nina at August 27, 2004 12:21 PMFalling in and out of love
With something sweet to throw away.
But I want something good to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
- Queens of The Stone Age
--- Go With The Flow
i like that quote, it fits well
Posted by: case at August 27, 2004 01:58 PMok here you go DA
it's bugging me, grating me
and twisting me around
yeah i'm endlessly caving in
and turning inside out
'cause I want it now
I want it now
give me your heart and your soul
and i'm breaking out
i'm breaking out
last chance to lose control
I'm with D.A., you really should quote something better. How about. . .Mineral
i wouldn't mind if you took me in my sleep tonight i wouldn't even put up a
fight i wouldn't care if you took it all away today i'm sure i wouldn't even
miss the pain but i know i've got to live my life and roll aroud on the ground
and feel the strife and realize along the way that i'm nothing more than a
grain of salt in the salt of the earth and everything is grace so come on with
the darkness come on with the fear cause i've got to start somewhere and it
might as well be here and when i'm finally naked and standing in the sunlight
i'll look back at all this selfishness and foolish pride and laugh at myself.
Mineral
Posted by: Well Played Young Friend at August 27, 2004 04:30 PMCarve your heart out yourself
Hopelessness is your cell
Since you've drawn out these lines
Are you protected from trying times?
Man it takes a silly girl to lie about the dreams she has
But it takes a lonely one to wish that she had never dreamt at all
Oh look now, there you go with hope again
Oh, you're so sure I'll be leaving in the end
Dig a ditch deep enough
To keep you clear of the sun
You've been burned more than once
You don't think much of trust
--Dashboard Confessional
Posted by: jill at August 27, 2004 05:09 PMDA... that's from the song secrets... i really don't know what album... it's not from magazine, the early years, or their last two either. who knows:)
Posted by: darcie at August 27, 2004 08:09 PMHmmm...thanks darc. I'll look into it.
All this talk of Mineral makes me wish I had brought some to Nashville. I guess I'll have to rustle up some.
Also, to Nina, I didn't want to insult your intelligence earlier but simply assuming you didn't know of him, but something occurred to me while posting:
Listening to Iron and Wine, you should be in to Elliott Smith as well.
D.A.
Posted by: D.A. at August 27, 2004 11:40 PMyeah I agree jerm, the smiths have some pretty good lyrics....here's another good example,
shyness is nice, but
shyness can stop you
from doing all the things in life
that you'd like to
So if there's something that you'd
like to try
Ask me - i wont say "no" - how could I?
Coyness is nice, but
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
life that you want to
So, if there's something that you'd
like to try
If there's something that you'd
like to try
Ask me - I won't say "no" - How could I?
Spending warm, Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
Ask me, Ask me, Ask me
Ask me, Ask me, Ask me
Because if it's not love
Then it's the bomb
that will bring us together
Nature is a language-can't you read?
Nature is a language-can't you read?
Ask me, Ask me, Ask me
Ask me, Ask me, Ask me
Because if it's not love
Then it's the bomb
That will bring us together
"Ask" - The Smiths
Mmmm...don't get me started on Smiths lyrics. Some of the best bits of wordage anywhere, songs or not.
D.A.
Posted by: D.A. at August 29, 2004 02:27 AMactually i love the lyrics to that song to lea prob that and the one i put up are my favorite two...
shyness is nice, but
shyness can stop you
from doing all the things in life
that you'd like to
thats great... and what helped changed my own personality... although i continue to work at it.