More Song Lyrics

[jamesq]

I like songs that evoke a feeling of a particular time or place. These songs have an emotional component that always affects me. Sometimes deeply, if I'm in the right mood, sometimes only a twinge, when I hear them briefly in passing. These ten quotes are all from songs I like that have this ability to resonate.

Scarecrow on a wooden cross
Blackbird in the barn.
four hundred empty acres
that used to be my farm.
Grew up my like daddy did
My Grandpa cleared this land
when I was five I walked a fence
while Grandpa held my hand
Rain on the Scarecrow - John Mellencamp
Guessed by wendy_licious

Standing at the limit of an endless ocean,
stranded like a runaway lost at sea.
City on a rainy day down in the harbour,
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay.
Looking everywhere cause I had to find you,
this is not the way that I remember here.
Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island,
Hidden in the summer for a million years.
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Guessed by wackynephews

Out on the road today
I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head
said don't look back you can never look back
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Guessed by wackynephews

Now she used to have a man,
and the man's name was Sam,
and he was the ultimate anti-hero.
And he used to drink
and he used to fight
and he used to beat her almost every night
Melody - Boys Brigade
Guessed by kermie_canada

Muriel plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if I would do a little number
And I sang with all my might
She said, "tell are you a Christian, child"
And I said, "Maam I am tonight"
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Guessed by wendy_licious

I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite colour schemes
Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
Guessed by wendy_licious

The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
and nobodies going to go to school today
she's going to make them stay at home
and daddy doesn't understand it
he alwasy said she was good as gold
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
Guessed by wendy_licious

She was quite a lady
Enola Gay
and though she's gone
she's still here in a way
Shades of 45 - Gary O
Guessed by wackynephews

Well I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl my lord, in a flat bed Ford
Slowing down to take a look at me.
Take It Easy - The Eagles
Guessed by thebrucie

But if you don't know by now
Bill bit the head off a cow
that's no lie
I'm A Boinger - Billy and the Boingers
Guessed by thebrucie

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[(Anonymous)]

Scarecrow on a wooden cross
Blackbird in the barn.
Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellancamp

Out on the road today
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley (that one guessed by wackynephews)

Muriel plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohen

I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson

The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

[jamesq]

Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp
John Mellencamp has a talent for evoking the best and worst of the American Heartland. This song always sounds like the modern equivalent of the American Gothic painting. It's a place that you wouldn't really want to go to unless you grew up there and therefore had a love for it due to familiarity and nostalgia.
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohen
Another melancholy song. It's lonely, but it has an underlying sense of hope. As for the final stanza (which I quoted), I agree with the sentiment - Religious services that concentrate on the joy and community are far more likely to make me reconsider my views than ones involving guilt and hellfire.
Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
I have you and Ryan to thank for turning me on to this song. Thompson really pours it on towards the end, and I like that. Somehow, this song has become associated with my Father in my mind. It gets me weepy.
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
I listened to this song for years (and liked it) without really putting the lyrics together in my head. I still like it despite the Columbine images it invokes.

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[thebrucie.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona"
Take It Easy The Eagles

"But if you don't know by now"
Cuz I'm A Boinger Billy and the Boingers

"She was quite a lady"
Enola Gay OMD (I'm guessing here)

Re: Songs

[jamesq]

Take it Easy - The Eagles
Love this song. Ironically, I didn't used to be an Eagles fan. I kept hearing other bands covering their stuff though (The Travis Tritt version of Take It Easy is the one I got to know). The album Common Thread is a pretty good tribute to the Eagles for example. I finally broke down and bought their greatest hits and I've been hearing all these great old songs and loving them for the first time.

I'm a Boinger - Billy and the Boingers
It's 1985 and Berke Breathed is god.

[(Anonymous)]

She was quite a lady
Shades of 45 - Gary O

-wackynephews

[jamesq]

Shades of 45 - Gary O
It's hard to explain to the younger crowd just how much the threat of nuclear holocaust loomed in our minds. this eighties song captured it nicely though. No doubt the Millennial will have their own bugaboos to worry about.

Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Trust you to get the song popularized in North America by a movie (though I imagine it was a hit in it's own right in Australia).

I'm going there someday.

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Obviously, I like the original version of this song by Don Henley the best. The sad and lonely guitar at the beginning always gets me. It's been remade a couple of times. Sometimes they manage to "get it" (DJ Sammy), and sometimes they don't (The Ataris).

[garething.livejournal.com]

Out on the road today
I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head
said don't look back you can never look back
Don Henly, The Boys of Summer

But if you don't know by now
Bill bit the head off a cow
that's no lie
Deathtongue, aka Billy and the Boingers, I'm a Boinger

[jamesq]

1/2 a point for knowing that Billy and the Boingers was orignally called Deathtongue.

Retro

[thebrucie.livejournal.com]

1/2 a point for knowing that Billy and the Boingers was orignally called Deathtongue.

I got a sudden 80's flashback to playing Karate Champ... HALF-POINT!

[(Anonymous)]

"Standing at the limit of an endless ocean"

Icehouse - Great Southern Land

wackynephews

melody danced her way right into my heart

[kermie-canada.livejournal.com]

Now she used to have a man,
and the man's name was Sam,
and he was the ultimate anti-hero.
And he used to drink
and he used to fight
and he used to beat her almost every night

Melody, Boyz Brigade?

Melody stole my heart and danced away

[jamesq]

I was a little worried that nobody would get this one.

Boys Brigade died too soon. Maybe it was because they were loaded with talented people, and we all know how well they work together.

I've known women like this - the ones who've become trapped in abusive relationships. Not many thank ghod. Some wise up and get out, and others are trapped there still.