Members Terry Allan Hall Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 You know songs that "hit you where you live"... Here's a fairly new one for me...possibly the only Tim McGraw song I've ever heard that I like. "Between The River And Me" I was fifteen when my daddy died, mama worked two jobs just to get bySeemed like a blessing when Harley came around so she took his name but I had my doubtsDidn't take long for his drinking ways to start showing up on mama's faceOne violent night hiding under my bed I swore that he wouldn't see another sunsetNext day I followed him down to the riverbankI knew one of us wouldn't walk away I might have had a plan but he didn't know itI might have been scared but I didn't show itThat's all between the river and meWith the current and the rocks it could have been mistyHe might have been sober but I brought the whiskeyThat's all between the river and me I walked up to him and I said his nameJust so he could see the look on my faceWe stood eye to eye and toe to toeWhen I told him that he wasn't gonna come back homeHe raised his fist to me but I didn't flinchI said 'I ain't your son you son of a bitch' I might have had a knife in my back pocketI might have pulled it out before he saw itThat's all between the river and meI might have had a gun but I didn't fire itHe might have tried to yell but I kept him quietThat's all between the river and me That's all between the river and me Sheriff came knocking on our front doorThey said they found his body by the reservoirBottle in his shirt and liquor in his bloodHe must have fallen in the river and he never came up There might have been blood but they never saw itJust a little mud on the living room carpetThat's all between the river and meWell after what he done there ain't no wonderI can't remember how long I held him underThat's all between the river and me That's all between the river and me That's all between the river and me That's all That's all What song "hits you where you live"?
Members vteckid22 Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 Sparks by Coldplay Hands down by Dashboard Donfessional I will follow you into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie
Members Michael Martin Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 Haven't heard that McGraw tune. Lyrically it's got quite a bit going on... Songs I would love to lay claim to, in no particular order: Dylan's "If You See Her Say Hello", "Tangled up in Blue" Mark Knopfler's "Telegraph Road", "Tunnel of Love" Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris", "Rainy Night House" R.E.M.'s "Try Not to Breathe", "Half a World Away", "Ebow the Letter" Townshend's "Behind Blue Eyes", "Heart to Hang Onto"
Members missedmyexit Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 Best of you Foo Fighters.Always been a huge fan of 'say hello to Heaven' by Temple of the DogShe talkes to Angles - Black Crowes
Members LaXu Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing", "Brothers in Arms" Mew - "Am I Wry, No" Manic Street Preachers - "Motorcycle Emptiness" The Pillows - "One Life" Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (so groovy!)
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted May 17, 2007 Author Members Posted May 17, 2007 tickin.elton rockin in the free world. neil i'm an english boy.townsend travelin star.jt watching the wheels.lennon yesterday.mccartney wichita lineman.glen campbell two knights and two maidens. roberts/crash test dummies she's got a way.joel give me love.harrison "Wichita Lineman" was written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote "McArthur's Park", "Galveston", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Up, Up, and Away", "The Moon's A Harsh Mistress" and a bunch of others...very prolithic songsmith!
Members DonK Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 One I was listening to today: Daylight Again, by CSN: Daylight again Following me to bed I think about a hundred years ago How my fathers bled I think I see a valley Covered with bones in blue All the brave soldiers That cannot get older Been asking after you Hear the past a' calling From Armageddon's side When everyone's talking And no one is listening How can we decide? Do we find the cost of freedom buried in the ground? Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted May 17, 2007 Author Members Posted May 17, 2007 thanks. i always thought it was glen. regardless, i loved that song. the chord changes and melody are hauntingly beautiful.Absolutely...most of Webb's stuff is "hauntingly beautiful", to cop your apt phrase! Not sure if Campbell writes songs, now that I give it some thought... btw, "Ticking" just might be my favorite Elton John song...very powerful!Another songwriter who blew me away was Harry Chapin...check out his "opus", "Sniper": It is an early Monday morning. The sun is becoming bright on the land.No one is watching as he comes a walking.Two bulky suitcases hang from his hands.He heads towards the tower that stands in the campus.He goes through the door, he starts up the stairs.The sound of his footsteps, the sound of his breathing,The sound of the silence when no one was there.I didn't really know him.He was kind of strange.Always sort of sat there.He never seemed to change.He reached the catwalk. He put down his burden.The four sided clock began to chime.Seven AM, the day is beginning.So much to do and so little time.He looks at the city where no one had known him.He looks at the sky where no one looks down.He looks at his life and what it has shown him.He looks for his shadow it cannot be found.He was such a moody child, very hard to touch.Even as a baby he never smiled too much. No no.No no.You bug me, she said.Your ugly, she said.Please hug me, I said.But she just sat thereWith the same flat stareThat she saves for me aloneWhen I'm home.When I'm home.Take me home.He laid out the rifles, he loaded the shotgun,He stacked up the cartridges along the wall.He knew he would need them for his conversation.If it went as it he planned, then he might use them all.He said Listen you people I've got a questionYou won't pay attention but I'll ask anyhow.I found a way that will get me an answer.Been waiting to ask you 'till now.Right now !Am I ?I am a lover who's never been kissed.Am I ?I am a fighter who's not made a fist.Am I ?If I'm alive then there's so much I've missed.How do I know I exist ?Are you listening to me ?Are you listening to me ?Am I ?The first words he spoke took the town by surprise.One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye.It blew her through the window wedged her against the door.Reality poured from her face, staining the floor.He was kind of creepy,Sort of a dunce.I met him at the corner bar.I only dated the poor boy once,That's all. Just once, that was all.Bill Whedon was questioned as stepped from his car.Tom Scott ran across the street but he never got that far.The police were there in minutes, they set up baricades.He spoke right on over them in a half-mile circle.In a dumb struck city his pointed questions were sprayed.He knocked over Danny Tyson as he ran towards the noise.Just about then the answers started comming. Sweet, sweet joy.Thudding in the clock face, whining off the walls,Reaching up to where he sat there, answering calls.Thirty-seven people got his message so far.Yes, he was reaching them right were they are.They set up an assault team. They asked for volunteers.They had to go and get him, that much was clear.And the word spread about him on the radios and TV's.In appropriately sober tone they asked "Who can it be ?"He was a very dull boy, very taciturn.Not much of a joiner, he did not want to learn.No no.No no.They're coming to get me, they don't want to let meStay in the bright light too long.It's getting on noon now, it's goin to be soon now.But oh, what a wonderful sound !Mama, won't you nurse me ?Rain me down the sweet milk of your kindness.Mama, it's getting worse for me.Won't you please make me warm and mindless ?Mama, yes you have cursed me.I never will forgive you for your blindness.I hate you!The wires are all humming for me.And I can hear them coming for me.Soon they'll be here, but there's nothing to fear.Not any more though they've blasted the door.As the copter dropped the gas he shouted " Who cares ?" .They could hear him laughing as they started up the stairs.As they stormed out on the catwalk, blinking at the sun,With their final fusillade his answer had come.Am I ?There is no way that you can hide me.Am I ?Though you have put your fire inside me.Am I ?You've given me my answer can't you see ?I was !I am !and now I Will BeI WILL BE !!! I recall seeing the debut of this song, when he was guest-host of "The Mike Douglas Show"...when he and his band finished, the cameras panned over the stunned audience, who sat there, collectively, for maybe 20 seconds, then burst into applause...that was powerful!
Members denvertrakker Posted May 17, 2007 Members Posted May 17, 2007 Jackson Browne's "Farther On" and "Colors Of The Sun" have kept me alive for more years than I care to remember. "For A Dancer" ain't too shabby either.
Members T.B. Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 thanks. i always thought it was glen. regardless, i loved that song. the chord changes and melody are hauntingly beautiful.I like Glenn/Jimmy Webb stuff too. We're kindred spirits. Come Sunday - Duke EllingtonWho's Is He? ( And What Is He To You?) - Bill WithersRosalinda's Eyes - Billy JoelWhat Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life - Michel LegrandBackwater Blues - Sheila Wilcoxson (songwriter) but made famous by Bessie Smith and Dinah Washington. Dinah version is heartbreakingly beautiful.As - Stevie WonderI Write A Song For You - Earth, Wind, & FireJust Ease My Mind - Curtis MayfieldHarvest For the World - Isley BrothersTrina
Members guitarist21 Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 Drops of Jupiter- Train Stop This Train- John Mayer Ellen
Members Cripes Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 There were many songs that spoke to me about different things. I can't remember most of them, lyrically, but I'll always remember how they left me and that's good enough. There was a time, repleat with repertoire, when I was a prodigal son of my musical generation. There was pride and sentiment in that time and it could be heard genuinely invested in song. It was a cultured soul and renaissance of old world spirit that, once again, will be lost by the simple passage of time. Edit: Anything by Mason Proffit, who influenced most subsequent writers with an axe to grind, no pun intended.
Members KATMAN Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 Man,all the good ones! Here's a few of them: Bridge over Troubled Water---Simon & Garfunkel Fire & Rain-------------------James Taylor Thrashers-------------------Neil Young Southern Cross--------------C S & Y County Down----------------Phil Keaggy Areial Boundries-------------Michael Hedges Anything by Tommy Emmanuel
Members roadscholar Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 "These Days" Jackson Browne "Someday" Steve Earle "Cherokee City" Kevin Montgomery
Members Krash Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 "Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain." "Jungleland" - Springsteen
Members kenadyan Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 "Dust in the Wind" - Kerry Livgren "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - Duke Ellington "Imagine" - John Lennon "The Girl From Ipanema" - Carlos Jobim
Members beerpong Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 "Deeper Water" - Paul Kelly (Lyrics/Tab)
Members Freeman Keller Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 "Looking for a Leader" - Neil Young (heck, I wished I'd written any of the songs on Living with War) http://www.human-highway.org/lyrics/lyrics-47.html "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - Richard Thompson ("said Red Molly to James, that's a fine motor bike...)
Members Dru Edwards Posted May 18, 2007 Members Posted May 18, 2007 Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden Creeping Death - Metallica Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel
Members Etienne Rambert Posted May 19, 2007 Members Posted May 19, 2007 I wish I'd written more songs than I've actually written. And I've written quite a few. I wish I'd written every song in my set list that I didn't actually write, (9 of 12). I guess that's why I put them in the set list. Some, like "Music to Watch Girls By" are big orchestrations. Some are more or less acoustic arrangements. Of those, I wish I'd written: "I'll Have to Say I Love you In a Song" "Oh, Lonesome Me" "Happy Trails"
Members Hoddy Posted May 19, 2007 Members Posted May 19, 2007 The Alarm Song: Spirit of 76. Album: Standards [" Standards " CD] Well I find myself in reverie 'Bout what we might have had And what might have been We had something going once That was such a long, long time ago It was way back in '76 Our friendship formed of pure innocence We first met in Mathew Street Where we heard something that would set us free A sign stands over a door, it says "Four lads who shook the world" In the depths of those heady nights We would dream of those bright lights Oh my friend, Oh my friend, Oh my friend And my friend John, he went away He made some mistakes Spent time in Walton jail And now when I see him we still talk But there's no light shining in his eyes And Susie, she was seventeen And more beauty in this world I swear you'll never see I was gonna be king And she was gonna be queen But now all she does is hide behind the tears If there was more sense in this world And work wasn't so hard to find You would not be going your way I would not be going mine Oh my friend, Oh my friend, Oh my friend Somewhere tonight out on the street Somewhere beneath this city's heat In the eyes of strangers who pass me by Life is cruel and so unkind Oh, Oh the SPIRIT OF '76 And Pete has seen his dreams come true But that don't make him no hero He's just one of the lucky few If a man can't change the world these days I still believe a man can change his own destiny But the price is high that has got to be paid For everyone who survives there are many who fail I've seen my friends caught out in that crossfire All their dreams and hopes smashed on the funeral pyre I will never give in until the day I die Get myself some independence Carve out a future with my two bare hands Oh my friend, Oh my friend, Oh my friend Somewhere tonight out on the street Somewhere beneath this city's heat In the eyes of strangers who pass me by Life is cruel and so unkind Oh, Oh the SPIRIT OF '76 Mersey lights shine in the distance Same as they did for us then Mersey lights shine bright in the distance Where are you now my friend? You see some nights when I can't sleep I still think of you And all the promises,all our dreams we shared I know those lights still call to you I can hear them now I can hear them now (Still shining for us) (Let em shine) (Can you hear them) (Can you hear them) (Lights are still shining) Somewhere tonight out on the street Somewhere beneath this city's heat In the eyes of strangers who pass me by Life is cruel and so unkind Oh- Oh Where's it gone The SPIRIT OF '76 Lyrics > T > The Alarm Lyrics > Spirit of 76. Song Lyrics
Members septopus Posted May 19, 2007 Members Posted May 19, 2007 Lots of songs I wish I wrote, but I'll just start with anything off of Beck's "Sea Change".
Members LiveMusic Posted May 19, 2007 Members Posted May 19, 2007 "Between The River And Me" TAH, did you hear that on the radio? If so, mainstream country radio? If so, did they censor "son of a bitch" or not? I think The Warren Brothers did this song first and I suspect they are the writers.
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