quotes/songs with meanings.

"You know we've made big plans
for ten-year-olds.

You and I."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIlAxH4Hjw

Flurticia

This broken fairytale so hard to hide,
I still believe
It's you and me til the end of time,
When we collide we come together
If we don't we'll always be apart
I'll take a bruise I know you're worth it
When ya hit me Hit me hard

Biffy Clyro, Many of Horror

Nhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-uxOT9uXA&feature=related

I came across this song a few years ago a guy called Gavin Bryars was working on a film, below is the story, God it gets me every time...

In 1971, when I lived in London, I was working with a friend, Alan Power, on a film about people living rough in the area around Elephant and Castle and Waterloo Station. In the course of being filmed, some people broke into drunken song - sometimes bits of opera, sometimes sentimental ballads - and one, who in fact did not drink, sang a religious song "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". This was not ultimately used in the film and I was given all the unused sections of tape, including this one.When I played it at home, I found that his singing was in tune with my piano, and I improvised a simple accompaniment. I noticed, too, that the first section of the song - 13 bars in length - formed an effective loop which repeated in a slightly unpredictable way.

I took the tape loop to Leicester, where I was working in the Fine Art Department, and copied the loop onto a continuous reel of tape, thinking about perhaps adding an orchestrated accompaniment to this. The door of the recording room opened on to one of the large painting studios and I left the tape copying, with the door open, while I went to have a cup of coffee.

When I came back I found the normally lively room unnaturally subdued. People were moving about much more slowly than usual and a few were sitting alone, quietly weeping.I was puzzled until I realised that the tape was still playing and that they had been overcome by the old man's singing. This convinced me of the emotional power of the music and of the possibilities offered by adding a simple, though gradually evolving, orchestral accompaniment that respected the tramp's nobility and simple faith. Although he died before he could hear what I had done with his singing, the piece remains as an eloquent, but understated testimony to his spirit and optimism.

Teddy_Picker

Just came across this one, it's a poem called Human Beings by Adrian Mitchell


look at your hands
your beautiful useful hands
you're not an ape
you're not a parrot
you're not a slow loris
or a smart missile
you're human

not british
not american
not israeli
not palestinian
you're human

not catholic
not protestant
not muslim
not hindu
you're human

we all start human
we end up human
human first
human last
we're human
or we're nothing

nothing but bombs
and poison gas
nothing but guns
and torturers
nothing but slaves

of Greed and War
if we're not human

look at your body
with its amazing systems
of nerve-wires and blood canals
think about your mind
which can think about itself
and the whole universe

look at your face
which can freeze into horror
or melt into love
look at all that life
all that beauty
you're human
they are human
we are human
let's try to be human

dance!

Deedsie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttXrb2tRNm0

I posted the song already, but this video suits it better.

Very sad.

Kaffy

Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy

Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old

Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria

Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old

Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria

And I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun

Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
(No I don't have a gun)

And I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun

Memoria, memoria

lilmissprincess

The last verse of the UP video had me crying in the middle of the computer lab in college!

RachyPie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVlESOmPmc

anewme

Somebody has already quoted the Fray...

Best line ever in a song...

between the lines of fear and blame, you begin to wonder why you came.....

Lemming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjS3Jq35kDA

Eric Clapton : Tears in Heaven (filmed in 1992, a year after the death of his four year old son Conor, who fell from the 53rd floor balcony of his mother's friend's apartment in NYC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gZefW4yEA

Billy Joel: Goodnight Saigon.

This may seem like a curious addition to this thread, but it was written after a bunch of US Marine Corps Vietnam vets asked him to write a song based on their experiences. Joel had originally refused saying he had no experience of the war, to which they replied was why he was most suitable as they could not get past the emotions of their own memories. It's quite a personal song when you look at the lyrics.

We met as soul mates on Parris Island
We left as inmates from an asylum
And we were sharp, as sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives

We came in spastic like tameless horses
We left in plastic as numbered corpses
And we learned fast to travel light
Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight

We had no home front, we had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep and shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ with all of our might

We had no cameras to shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes
And it was dark, so dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Remember Charlie, remember Baker
They left their childhood on every acre
And who was wrong? And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fights

We held the day in the palm of our hands
They ruled the nights, and the nights
Seemed to last as long as six weeks...

...On Parris Island
We held the coastline, they held the highlands
And they were sharp, as sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Two favourite (I have a few ... ) songs of mine because they have real meaning and soul behind them. And they're beautiful songs regardless.

g'em

I've had this on loop for the last while - it's mega-cheesy on the one hand, but sometimes it doesn't make a difference what age you are or what stage in your life you're at, when your confidence takes a major knock it's hard not to let your insecurities get to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eWDZqc7lCc

G86

A healthy dose of cyncism from Neil Gaiman.....


“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

cute_cow

This is one I've been listening to for the last couple of months.
Means a lot and love it so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QYEZg6ffpU

If it’s the last thing that you do
If it’s the last time we pull through
And that last line back to you, can I take it?
If it’s the last time that you read
If it’s the last time we concede
Can you do one last thing for me?
Before you break it

So hold on before it’s all gone
It seems we’re never make this right
If we’re going nowhere, can we stay there?
And believe in this for one more night?
It’s not the way we planned it
It’s hard to understand it
We once fell in love so fast
If this is the last time, let the last time, last

We could leave this all behind
We could say we’ve found what we can’t find
But it won’t be the last time that we cry if we fake it

So hold on before it’s all gone
It seems we’re never make this right
If we’re going nowhere, can we stay there?
And believe in this for one more night?
It’s not the way we planned it
It’s hard to understand it
We once fell in love so fast
If this is the last time, let the last time, last

(Watch it all come tumbling down)

Hold on before it’s all gone
Let the colours bled until we are blind
If we’re going nowhere, can we stay there?
You never know what we might find
It’s hard to understand
Its not the way we planned it
Love’s falling apart do fast
If this is the last time, let the last time, last
If this is the last time, let the last time, last

Let this be the last time that you’ll say
This is the last time if you stay

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0h7-F5vro

x Purple Pawprints x

I'm Yours by The Script. I love this song so much, it's kinda sad but I feel like the chorus describes me...

"I may not have the softest touch
I may not say the words as such
And though I may not look like much
I'm yours

And though my edges may be rough
I never feel I'm quite enough
It may not seem like very much
But I'm yours."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQ8pbtC5d0

michelledoh

“They define families as two or more people, related by blood, marriage, adoption or commitment to care for one another”


Just thought this was a nice way to consider the people you love- blood or no blood.

coffeelover

Only heard this song for the first time today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwRiL0-JDY

If I die Young , by The Band Perry

Lyrics:
if i die yound burry me in satin
lay me down on a bed of roses
sink me in the river at dawn
send me away with the words of a love song
ooh ooh ooh ooh

lord make me a rainbow i'll shine down on my mother
shes knows i'm safe with you and she stands under my colors
oh and life aint always what you think it ought to be
no it aint even grey but she burries her baby
the sharp knife of a short life
well i've had just enough time

if i die young burry me satin
lay me down on a bed of roses
sink me in the river at dawn
send me away with the words of a love song
the sharp knife of a short life
well, i have just enough time

and i'll be wearing white
when i come into your kingdom
i'm as green as the ring on my little cold finger
well i've never known the lovin of man
but it sure felt nice when he was holdin my hand
there's a boy here in town
who says he'll love me forever
who would have thought forever could be severed
by a sharp knife of a short life
well i've had just enough time

so put on your best boys, and i'll wear my pearls
what i never did is done
a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar
theyre worth so much more after i'm a gonner
and maybe then you'll hear the words that i've been singin'
its funny when your dead how people start listenin'

if i die young burry me in satin
lay me down on a bed of roses
sink me in the river at dawn
send me away with the words of a love song
ooh ooh the ballad of a dove
go with peace and love
gather up your tears and keep them in your pocket
save em for a time when your really gonna need em.
oh the sharp knife of a short life
well i've had just enough time
so put on your best boys, and i'll wear my pearls

Patriciamc93

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQaM5KhndhI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Bruno mars - today my life begins

Brilliant song to listen to after breaking up or at the end of an "era".

micayla

'L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.' Noah and the Whale

'You've got more than money and sense, my friend you've got heart and you go in your own way'

lalee17

Usually not someone to pay attention to lyrics.. But Cactus by Pixies really got to me.

It's a love song disguised in coarse, roughly recorded music, it's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w8NgvDf4aM

"Bloody your hands on a cactus tree, wipe it on your dress and send it to me."

x Purple Pawprints x

This is a video I made of one of may favourite songs, In Loving Memory by Alter Bridge. I think everybody can relate to this song, it's about losing someone you love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJnNRvQLm8

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJQv1WnRXD0

f I could I would shrink myself and sink through your skin to your blood cells
and remove whatever makes you hurt but I am too weak to be your cure.

That_Guy

Another song by Brand New.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LllchE03xRk

I think it's about a guy taking advantage of a girl. He knows it's wrong, but he isn't strong enough to stop himself. Part of him is grieving that she "falls for every empty word he says".

Part of him wants her see through gimmicks and gambits; but they're working.

This song is fantastic. And I think part of why their singer decides not to fluctuate his tone a whole lot in this song is because it is like this feeling of numbness he gets from being able to take what he wants.

G86

'i'm working hard on walking out
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor...'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTXA_q12hKg

Kiva.D

...He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

~ W D Auden, "Stop the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone"

banie01

Kiva.D wrote: »

...He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

~ W D Auden, "Stop the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone"

That poem always takes me back to the weekend of April 14/15/16th 2007
I remember sitting in the waiting room of the inensive care ward of Limerick Regional waiting for my partner to die and everyone to say their goodbyes..., When my father in law started a conversation with me about the funeral arrangements
He turned to me and said the 1st few lines of that poem, and then said 'I know she was even more to you Son, I'm sorry you've lost her but thanks for the life you gave her, she was happy!

That week is a blur to me and I'll be honest its one of the few lucid memories I have of what was a nightmare time.
I still can't believe that the man who gave me his daughter,His little girl, the apple of his eye and trusted that I'd love and look after her always, a girl who's smile was the measure of my own happiness....
I still can't can't believe that when he knew he'd lost her, that we'd lost her... he took the time to say that to me!
I hope I never have to find out if I'm strong enough to take his part in a similar conversation should something similar ever happen our son!
I love my Father in Law.....
One of the strongest men I know!

Ms.Odgeynist

Home is So Sad - Philip Larkin

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.

It always reminds me of my grandmother's house, where she lived alone after raising a family of seven children.
Very sad and very familiar.

Deedsie

banie01 wrote: »

That week is a blur to me and I'll be honest its one of the few lucid memories I have of what was a nightmare time.
I still can't believe that the man who gave me his daughter,His little girl, the apple of his eye and trusted that I'd love and look after her always, a girl who's smile was the measure of my own happiness....

That's decent mate... Sorry for your loss.

cheesefiend

This tugs at the heart strings. I'm such a sap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGRtHd7UdYA

When you can fall for chains of silver,
You can fall for chains of gold,
You can fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold.
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah!
Now you just say, "Oh Romeo? Yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him".

Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry.
You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die".
There's a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Wibbs

Deedsie wrote: »

That's decent mate... Sorry for your loss.

+1 and he pretty much described what love is too.

cheesefiend wrote: »

This tugs at the heart strings. I'm such a sap.

No worries, you're among fellow saps, so sap yourself out Reading this thread hasn't so much been tugging at my heartstrings as playing a bloody symphony on same.