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This is a thread for sharing your musical words.
They have written songs about the rose.
Red roses, blue roses, old roses, new roses,
Roses from the south and east and west,
But here is the rose song that I love the best.
Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a girl who cares.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.
Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a stag at bay.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.
She taught me how to do the tango,
Down where the palm trees sway.
I called her Rose-a-mir,
And she called a spade a spade.
Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a storm at sea.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.
One night in Bixby, Mississippi,
We watched the clouds roll by.
I said "My dear, how are you?"
And she whispered "So am I"
Show me a rose,
And I'll show you a girl named Sam.
Show me a rose,
Or leave me alone.
Show me a rose,
A fragrant rose.
Make believe that you don't know me,
Until you show me
A rose.
-G. Marx
snoot
The Lone Haranguer
I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
"Heart and humor and humility"
He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
I left him for the refuge of the roads
I fell in with some drifters
Cast upon a beachtown
Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs
And I wound up fixing dinner
For them and Boston Jim
I well up with affection
Thinking back down the roads to then
The nets were overflowing
In the Gulf of Mexico
They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads
There was spring along the ditches
There were good times in the cities
Oh, radiant happiness
It was all so light and easy
Till I started analyzing
And I brought on my old ways
A thunderhead of judgment was
Gathering in my gaze
And it made most people nervous
They just didn't want to know
What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads
I pulled off into a forest
Crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune
I heard my fate turn, turn turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues
To the innocence in here
These are the clouds of Michelangelo
Muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads
-Joni Mitchell
@1976 Crazy Crow Music BMI
That I came here, I came for you;
Holding hands and gazing at the stars
And my heart beats, it beats for you.
She was so determined to make her way
Diff'rent though they were, she moved him so
That his heart didn't have a chance
But to let her go, on with her own dance.
Watching leaves drifting in the air
Let the wind blow, it blows for you;
Sleeping softly, dreaming in the night
That the world turns, it turns for you.
She was so determined to make her way
Diff'rent though they were, she moved him so
That his heart didn't have a chance
But to let her go, on with her own dance.
See you standing, waving in the train;
And I wait here, I wait for you;
See you leaving, moving out of sight,
And my heart breaks, it breaks for you.
She was so determined to make her way
Diff'rent though they were, she moved him so
That his heart didn't have a chance
But to let her go, on with her own dance.by Mark Doggett and Jacqulyn Fulner (performed by M.D.)
OP
They never asked for recognition, they never wanted fame
My Granddad fought the second World War
When he was just eighteen
He spent four months as a prisoner
To give me the American dream
In my eyes he's everything, all I hope to be
And I won't forget that day he said he was proud of me
Chorus:
So I'll take that one day and figure out what I did right
I'll do it the same way for the rest of my life
Yeah, I'll take that one day and figure out what I did right
I'll do it the same way for the rest of my life
What I did right
I have my good friends, they have a place inside my heart
But my best friend, well she holds the biggest part
She finds the good in me
She knows just what it takes
And she loves the man in me
Through all of my mistakes
In my eyes she's everthing, evertyhing to me
And I won't forget that day she said,
"You're all I need...You're all I need..."
Repeat Chorus
And as I hold my newborn baby
To give her comfort while she cries
In this moment I feel helpless
'Til she looks into my eyes, her tears subside
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus
What I Did Right
by the Sons of the Desert
CD Change
Cares to fall in the sea?
Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers
Long as you've got a kiss that conquers?
Why should I care?
Life is one long jubilee
As long as I care for you
And you care for me.
Ira Gershwin
What makes this depression-era ditty so appealing to me? Maybe it's the lyricist's gift of creating poetry out of so many one-syllable words.
OP
You will ever hear me say
That I want, or need to be without you
I want to give my all
Baby just hold me
Simply control me
Because your arms
They keep away the lonelies
When I look into your eyes
Then I realize
All I need is you in my life
All I need is you in my life
Cause i never felt this way about loving
No, never felt so good
Baby, never felt this way about love and it feels so good
Never Felt So Good
sung by Alicia Keys on the CD Songs in A minor
written by Buffalo, NY native, Brian McKnight and Brandon Barnes
).
I keep thinking of not only lines from songs, but also lines from movies and poems, as relevant to my life at specific moments in time. These days I'm playing Bruce Cockburn's excellent Charity of Night CD in the car and different lines keep on appealing to me. In particular at the moment these lines resonate for me:
Some will run and some will stand
Everything is bullshit but the open hand
as do the lines in Jewel's song "Only Kindness Matters" (think that's what it's called?):
In the end, only kindness matters
Songwriters and poets have a way of distilling the most important things in life, to get the very essence of those things, which they present to us in all their concentrated, powerful, intoxicating form.
I also really like Bruce's song "Pacing the Cage" - let me see if I can remember it without having to trek out to the car in the dark to get the liner notes....
Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
Days drip slowly on the page
You catch yourself pacing the cage
I've proven who I am so many times
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in
Powers chatter in high places
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Set me to pacing the cage
I never knew what you all wanted
So I gave you everything
All that I could pillage
All the spells that I could sing
It's as if the thing were written
In the constitution of the age
Sooner or later you'll wind up
Pacing the cage
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
Today these eyes scan bleached-out land
For the coming of the outbound stage
Pacing the cage
Pacing the cage
damn, had to go out to the car after all!
Whenever I'm in a play, I'm amazed at how relevant the lines become to my life (even if they are 400 years old) - it's fun when you're with the other actors, but probably irritating as hell to non-cast members (who don't get the allusions).
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