Lyrical Bliss

[Gabble Ratchet]

My customary Genesis lyric is from "In The Cage":

If I keep my self control
I'll be safe in my soul
And the childhood belief
Brings a moment's relief
But my cynic soon returns
And the lifeboat burns
My spirit just never learns

 

[Groovy Man]

''Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men

There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone''

Ripple - The Grateful Dead

 

[Soot and Stars]

-- Especially the part "while I'm out on this raging sea, about to capsize." Have you ever felt like you're going through something incalculably immense while everyone around you is just going about their day, feeling quite together and alright? This whole song sums up how I felt a year ago better than anything could.

Oh I could go on and on...

Great song dude! You should do a thread on this guy! I've heard the name before but never the music and his vocals are great! Thanks for the introduction dude!

 

[Groovy Man]

''Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that...

“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”...

I said that''

Bob Dylan - Talkin' World War III Blues

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

We Grow Up have some outstanding lyrics:

Fingernails:

For to move like us
As a snowflake in an avalanche
You'd feel as blind as you look to me
But if you want to be the only man to walk on the sea
Can I be underwhelmed by your defeat?

Moments:

They say love is blind
I feel mine is more deaf and dumb all the time
Burning a crack on the edge of my mind
Into the light of the morning

One Down:

There was nothing divine in the sky
No star to tell you, you should be kind
Still you feel like you're part of the scene
But morality means nothing, when you're losing your mind

 

[Travelin' Man]

I've always loved these lyrics by Al Stewart from The Year of the Cat....

"On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

(especially these lyrics...)

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat"

I would think it hard to paint a picture more aptly.....even without the water colors.

 

[LG]

^^I agree in MP's Al Stewart thread I even said he was my favorite Singer/Songwriter from the British Isles.

 

[Sox]

John Lennon's Across The Universe, real clever a wordsmith IMO.

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

My favourite lyric from the big man:

"I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks,
But there 'aint no coupe de ville hiding at the bottom of a cracker jack box"

 

[Travelin' Man]

Into The Mystic by Van (the man) Morrison

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when the fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don't have to fear it

And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will flow into the mystic

When that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when that fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don't have to fear it

And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will flow into the mystic
Come on girl...

I suppose you can guess who I'm listening to tonight.