What Song Has Your Favorite Lyrics?

[StevenAlexander]

The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Oh, crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be okay

So say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Because it's too late, it's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

The fourth verse is always painful for me.

Great choice !!

 

[Trickster]

Halestorm ~ Beautiful With You

I stare at the girl in the mirror
Tee-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen
But the words you sing me
You get underneath me
And all my defenses just fall away
Fall away

I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
I am beautiful with you

I stand naked beside you now
No walls to hide behind
So here are my seal of my scars
Still here you are
I obey my soul and I'm not afraid
Not afraid

I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
I am beautiful with you

I've been the strong one for so long
But I was wrong
Does it make you weak if you're needing someone
I'm not holding back and I know what I want

I am beautiful with you
I am beautiful with you
You want for myself
Look at me like no one else
I am beautiful with you

I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
I am beautiful with you

 

[darklands]

There's plenty of Pink Floyd and Springsteen, etc. I could go with but, a bit more 'left-field':

Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (oh, and Diamond Smiles)
ABBA(!) - The Winner Takes it All

No doubt both considered naff in some circles....


Could cut and paste the lyrics, but it's easy enough to look them up - I'll attach the tracks instead:

The Winner Takes it All

Rat Trap

Diamond Smiles

 

[darklands]

Billy Joel - Catain Jack:

So you got everything, aw but nothing's cool
They just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won't be going back to school
Anymore.

 

[darklands]

Lots of Billy Joel: e.g.:

Scenes from an Italian restaurant

The Entertainer

And:

At seventeen - What a heart-felt lyric