Fav Song Lyrics--A revival

[amysanangel]

What are you favorite lyrics of all time??




The Edge of Water (JARS OF CLAY)
Have you ever been haunted the way I’ve been by you. And have you ever felt the measure of the days that I’ve spent waiting, pining for you. I can’t see the sun for the daylight. I can’t feel your breath for the wind. I don’t want to step from these shadows, till you’re comin back again. I’ve dammed the emotions to keep my lanterns lit. I’m shaken by this longing coursing through my veins. In my mind I can’t make sense of it. I can’t see the sun for the daylight. I can’t feel your breath for the wind. I get so used to these shadows. Are you comin back again? Do we give up this search and turn out the light? Give up this holy ghost that rattles through the night? I can’t see the sun for the daylight. I can’t feel your breath for the wind. I get so used to these shadows. Will you chase away these shadows when you come back again?

[Isabel_Knight]

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire"

:cool

The lyrics take you right through American history, from nineteen-fifty onwards...

:singing Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Jonny Ray, South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio. :notes

:singing Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. :notes

:singing Rosenburgs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmonjom, Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher in The Rye. :notes

:singing Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Macciano, Liberace, Santayana Goodbye. :notes

:singing We didn't start the fire! it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it... :notes



Isabel :pinkfishy

[Sweet Sangria]

Isabel,
When I was eight years old and wanted a Nintendo, my dad told me I could have one if I wrote a short paragraph on every single item in "We Didn't Start The Fire". This was before the Internet, so I had to look it all up in encyclopedias and by calling my grandparents!

I still have the Nintendo. :sun

Love.
:love Sweet Sangria.

[ediblewoman]

Hey,

A fun topic to think about.

This is not my favorite song, but when I was trying to come up with my favorite, it struck me how poignant these lyrics have become after nine-eleven. The song is Fear of Falling by Shona Laing. The album, New on Earth, came out in nineteen ninety-two, and is now out of print, but the song seems all new now. Here are the lyrics(some of them):

And there was nothing special at all about the flight path
Just this counterfeit peace and those counterfeit hearts
Here on the edge of time we
See the grief, see the inquiry
Cover up age-old questions asked

No there's nothing special at all about a half moon
Except tonight it's the only light in my room
Unless you count the TV
Knowing of the tragedy
Before the family knows its doom

Chorus:
There's a fireman burning
Years after the fire
It's so down to earth
Oh, it's so down to earth
This fear of falling

Just another commercial airliner gone down.



Kind of weird how she anticipated all that, huh? I guess tragedy is universal.