Moderators Lee Knight Posted January 15, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2009 Turn on the TV Turn up the sound Your mouth's in motion saying something profound You wanna talk You wanna weep You want attention baby, I just wanna sleep 'cause... You're just talking in circles Like a merry go round You're just talking in circles spinning around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members clambottomjewel Posted January 16, 2009 Members Share Posted January 16, 2009 If you can't help yourself, forget yourself And drag yourself through the halls of school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rasmotron Posted January 19, 2009 Members Share Posted January 19, 2009 I like these: "Your violent romance I'll reciprocate tonightI'll bring you to your knees until you pray..." Until You Pray - deadHorse breathing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bodyguard2112 Posted January 19, 2009 Members Share Posted January 19, 2009 About a girl in a coma, from my song "Celia" (can be heard on the myspace in the signature.) "Oooh what a peaceful girl, we pray you're blessed. Oooh not in this world, and not in the next..." About inequality, from my song "In This City" (not online at this time.) "A man makes his bed from a box in an alley Another man walks arm in arm with his girl A man hails a cab he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 20, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 20, 2009 About a girl in a coma, from my song "Celia" (can be heard on the myspace in the signature.) "Oooh what a peaceful girl, we pray you're blessed. Oooh not in this world, and not in the next..." About inequality, from my song "In This City" (not online at this time.) "A man makes his bed from a box in an alley Another man walks arm in arm with his girl A man hails a cab he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myredshoes Posted January 20, 2009 Members Share Posted January 20, 2009 In a slam poem he was working on here a while back KennethNishimot used the phrase "antifreeze sweet". Just two words and so much there for me. I liked that a lot and still do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 20, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 20, 2009 In a slam poem he was working on here a while back KennethNishimot used the phrase "antifreeze sweet".Just two words and so much there for me. I liked that a lot and still do. Interesting phrase. Antifreeze, of course, is made from polyethylene glycol, related to ethylene glycol, a sweetener. Dogs will lick the stuff up to their demise. That is a cool way of illustrating the things that seem so good, yet turn out so bad. Drugs, promiscuity, gluttony, greed, etc. What else can you tink of that falls into that category? Might be some good fodder there. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mondaymonkey Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 My best set of lines was this: Unspoken worlds scream A life in the past, yet unlived Of riches once but no longer seen Appreciation deserved but unserved Here's to life 1 month ago And Karma's retribution just I wrote it on a bus going home one night on my laptop after ending it with the girlfriend. I felt like all those nights together was simply a dream we had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bodyguard2112 Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hey thanks manThose are some sweet lines.EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gismo recording Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 One of my favorites from my writings Save your secretsDon't let him take them from youHe doesn't need to know aboutWhat you left behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 21, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 One of my favorites from my writingsSave your secretsDon't let him take them from youHe doesn't need to know aboutWhat you left behind. That's nice. There are some very talented people around here. I feel outta my league. I had a teacher once tell me to always associate with people better than you; it's the only way to improve. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members freetime Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted January 21, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 21, 2009 I'm reasonably proud of these two We lived in a lonely house Behind a black iron gate Where the rail goes around the bend It's a feral, overgrown estate We stayed up 'till the dream dam broke Burning incence and melting wax At night you can tell the time From the howling on the tracks and Weekend smoke drifted from our hands And filled the sky as the jets passed overhead Above the hiss and scrape perfect moments pass Softer than felt, smoother than glass And finally, not exactly my favorite, but a line from Gay Chedwisk from the House of Love that stuck in my mind:I shower you in grain WTF? That line is so bizarre I love it. I always thought I was mishearing it, but that's actually it. It's so odd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 Favorite line...hmmm I wanna bag you like some groceries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 21, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 Favorite line...hmmmI wanna bag you like some groceries That line worked for me once. The outcome of which I wrote about in "Oklahoma State Line Blues." I headed south To New Orleans Hard about good times on Bourbon Street Food and drink Out all the time To a country boy that sounded pretty sweet I indulged A little much I suppose that's where my troubles all began I woke up With an ugly girl In retrospect I think she was a man I got the Oklahoma state line blues Been roamin around trying to find a clue I got the Oklahoma state line blues Time to go home I got nothin left to lose EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted January 21, 2009 Members Share Posted January 21, 2009 That line worked for me once. The outcome of which I wrote about in "Oklahoma State Line Blues." I headed south To New Orleans Hard about good times on Bourbon Street Food and drink Out all the time To a country boy that sounded pretty sweet I indulged A little much I suppose that's where my troubles all began I woke up With an ugly girl In retrospect I think she was a man I got the Oklahoma state line blues Been roamin around trying to find a clue I got the Oklahoma state line blues Time to go home I got nothin left to lose EG Where's the bag and grocery lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 22, 2009 Where's the bag and grocery lines? Good one. Didn't actually use them in the song. Just wrote about the terrible aftermath. The pictures of the destroyed houses after the earthquake win awards, not the ones of the homely guys building them. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ALyricman Posted January 23, 2009 Members Share Posted January 23, 2009 In blind, deaf and dumb room We don't need nobodys rules Between rough, stiff and black walls We don't need nobodys laws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 23, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 23, 2009 In blind, deaf and dumb roomWe don't need nobodys rulesBetween rough, stiff and black walls We don't need nobodys laws That's nice. Shades of the Who, anyone? EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ALyricman Posted January 23, 2009 Members Share Posted January 23, 2009 There is answer:http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2192287 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 23, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 23, 2009 There is answer:http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2192287 I only meant that the particular lines you listed here were somewhat evocative of The Who. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members surferbeto Posted January 24, 2009 Members Share Posted January 24, 2009 Memorable lines. Let's see... From Townes Van Zandt, "To Live is to Fly": Days up and down they comelike rain on a conga drumForget most, remember some,but don't turn none away. Everything is not enoughand nothing is too much to bearWhere you've been is good and goneAll you keep's the getting there. To live it to fly, low and highSo shake the dust off of your wingsand the sleep out of your eye. As for me, one of my best moments might be: Come to Halcyon House, it's like nirvanaHear Grateful Dead with Keith and DonnaSmoke all the mari-that you wannaYou'll want to stay until manana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted January 24, 2009 Members Share Posted January 24, 2009 Memorable lines. Let's see...From Townes Van Zandt, "To Live is to Fly":Days up and down they comelike rain on a conga drumForget most, remember some,but don't turn none away. Everything is not enoughand nothing is too much to bearWhere you've been is good and goneAll you keep's the getting there.To live it to fly, low and highSo shake the dust off of your wingsand the sleep out of your eye. Amazing song. It's been too long since I've last heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMP3 Posted January 24, 2009 Members Share Posted January 24, 2009 Maybe not my best but the start of my newest.. Holed up in this dirty hotel room With smoke and powder and impending doom and death is waiting right outside the door But you keep checking to see him come Maybe he just wants to get him some The man in the mirror I don't know no more When you wake up weary it's time to go Somethings for real, sometimes for show But be gone before the ashes hit the floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VGW Posted January 26, 2009 Members Share Posted January 26, 2009 I love this thread. There are a lot of talented lyricists here. I think it is so hard to pick favorites from my songs. Each one is special in its own way, kinda like children. Maybe my favorite single line, in reference to a girl in traffic...She's a hand yeller, like Helen Keller And traffic vigilantes want to get into her panties But my favorite verse is in a song about my real problems with addictions, and how they've screwed up my relationships with people around me. My band doesn't like this song so much, because it is pretty meloncholy, and we're more of an upbeat party band.So I made a promise to my liver One that I could not deliver Not unlike the one I made you all those years ago. Now that bottle keeps on calling Into its grip I keep on falling. To hell with all those preachy people that I used to know. You wanted me to prove I loved you. The only proof I had was 80. I spent the night alone And learned something I should've known Booze ain't no substitute for a lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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