“I wish that they’d swoop down on a country lane, late at night when I’m driving. Take me on board their beautiful ship, show me the world as I’d love to see it. I’d tell all my friends but they’d never believe me. They’d think that I had finally lost it completely. I’d show them the stars and the meaning of life. They’d shut me away, but I’d be alright.”

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Freedom just around the corner for you. But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

haha..don't laugh when I post lyrics now! If a song really speaks to me I usually have to look up the lyrics. This is the most recent from mid-November'ish. Reverie from Above and Beyond, lyrics and vocals by Zoe Johnston.

you used to bring the smell of rain into my bed
and lie so close to me you could be inside my head
............
you live in me, my reverie
don't ever leave me

Barry Manilow and Mandy (because they're so cheesy but it rhymes).

Caught up in a world
Of uphill climbing
The tears are in my mind
And nothing is rhyming

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

The Replacements have always been one of my all-time favorite bands, in part because Paul Westerberg is such a great writer:

I can't live without your touch
I could die within your reach

Another one on a similar vein from Tom Petty's "Rebels":

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked
But I keep coming back cuz it's so hard to kick it

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Love me some ok computer

Staying with some classics (more than a line)

Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to the kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah

And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father Son and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died

And then there is Bob Dylan...

Mother Nature is pregnant for the third time
For ya’ll have knocked her up
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit

Maggot Brain- Funkadelic

The guitar solo that follows is also pretty awesome.

So many - just off the top of my head.


Harvest Moon
When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart



Can't Hardly Wait
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes


Whip it, whip it good!

Been listening to a little more Rush this past week ... Much of what Neil Peart wrote starting at about Permanent Waves (1979, IIRC) is very reflective of society and technology today and is great listening on multiple levels, both for the music and the words. If you don't like Geddy Lee's voice then just find the lyric sheets...

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Less is more.

Ya know, my python boot is tight
I couldn't get it off last night
A week went by
Now it's July
I finally got it off and my girlfriend cried:
You got STINK-FOOT

The one and only Frank Zappa!

There really is only one answer.

I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

"Is that a real poncho... i mean. Is that a Mexican poncho, or is that a sears poncho? Hmmm... no foolin ...?"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

So damn hard to narrow down, but a few have been in my head lately...

”I've got a couple more years on you, baby, that's all.
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall.
And it ain't that I'm wiser,
It's only that I've spent more time with my back to the wall.
And I've picked up a couple more years on you, baby.. that's all.

I've walked a couple more roads than you, baby, that's all.
And I'm tired of runnin' while you're only learning to crawl.
And you're headin somewhere,
But I've been to somewhere, and found it was nowhere at all.
And I've picked up a couple of years on you baby, that's all.“
- Willie Nelson, written by Shel Silverstein

“Keep in mind that a man's just as good as his word
It takes twice as long to build bridges you've burned
And there's hurt you can cause time alone cannot heal
Keep your nose on the grindstone and out of the pills”

Tyler Childers, Nose on the Grindstone


And so, so many others.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

I do have an all time favorite, though. No song expresses a very specific feeling for me like Wish List.

“I wish I was a neutron bomb for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on
The Christmas tree I wish I was the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence I wish I was the grounds
For fifty million hands upraised and open toward the sky

I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood

I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on
I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down”

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

Montana!
My favorite guitar solo of all time. The only thing better than his lyrics was his playing.

edit to add- Oops, my bad, just listened, that's not at then end of Montana as I thought. Had to look it up - Camarillo Brillo. Thanks for that one. Been a while.

I'm not sure if you we're including rap lyrics, but I've always been impressed with Eminem's rhyming. This set has the last three syllables of each phrase rhyme plus the first syllable of the following phrase:

Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy? No
He won't have it, he knows his whole back city's ropes
It don't matter, he's dope, he knows that, but he's broke
He's so stacked that he knows, when he goes back to his mobile home, that's when its
Back to the lab again yo, this whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

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There are a few great videos on YouTube that break down the structure of rhymes and bars. I wonder if they sit down and write out that structure, or just make up rhymes in their head that flow that way. Biggie was pretty impressive at that as well. Some rappers like Mos Def and other less well-known guys are phenomenal at this.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

Unbelievable.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

"She packed up her bags, and she took off down the road
Left me here stranded, with the bills she owed
She gave me a false address
Took of with my American Express
Sunspot Baby, she sure had me way out guessed"

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"...the street finds its own uses for things"

Leaving Lepidoptera... Please don't touch the display, little boy. Oh-ho-ho... cute. Moving to the next aisle, we have Arachnida, the spiders, our finest collection. This friendly, little fellow is the Heptithilidae, unfortunately harmless. Next to him... the nasty Lycosa Raptoria. His tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of the skin. And here... my prize, The Black Widow. Isn't she lovely? And so deadly. Her kiss is fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake. You see, her venom is highly neuro-toxic. Which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system; causing intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in breathing, loss of conciousness, violent convulsions, and, finally... uh, death. You know, what I think I love the most about her is her in-born need to dominate, posess. In fact, immediately after the consummation of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the specie, she kills and eats him. Oo-hoo, she is delicious! (And I hope he was.) If I may put forward a slice of personal phylosophy, I feel that Man has ruled this world as a stumbling, demented child-king long enough! And as his empire crumbles, my precious Black Widow shall rise as his most fitting successor!

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

A variation is also used in "Cosmic Debris"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

On Jeopardy! last night - the regular one, not the GOAT one - the category was "Greek Mythology" The only reason I knew Charybdis was the whirlpool next to Scylla was from the lyric to "Wrapped Around Your Finger"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I'm not much of a rap fan but that's what I was talking about. I just can't wrap my head around the talent it would take to put that together. I pulled up the rest of the lyrics and I'm sitting at my desk with tears welling up in my eyes.

Early one mornin' the sun was shinin'
I was layin' in bed
Wondrin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like
Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bank book wasn't big enough
And I was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on my shoes
Heading out for the east coast
Lord knows I've paid some dues

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then - Bob Seger

Wow. I thought this would be easy, but I can’t pick any now.

I think Springsteen might have some of my favorites, or Garth Brooks, but I just can’t pick any.

Well, I’ll be listening to music for the rest of the day trying to decide now.

Okay. Zac Brown Band. My Old Man. If you haven’t heard it, go listen. You might cry, but it’s one to the most touching songs I’ve heard.

Going with the stanza method instead of one line-

“ My old man
I know one day we'll meet again
As he's looking down
My old man
I hope he's proud of who I am
I'm trying to fill the boot of my old man”

I'm gonna put on the Pistols
I'm gonna cause a scene
I'm gonna goddamn save the queen

-Elizabeth Cook, Dyin'

"...Gettin' throoouuuuggghhhh.
Tangled up in blue."

That album has so many classic lines its hard to pick just one.

"They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn.
They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn.
But you wouldn't know it by me.
Every day's been darkness since you been gone."

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Freedom just around the corner for you. But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Well, you tried it just for once found it all right for kicks
But now you found out that it's habit that sticks
And you're an orgasm addict, you're and orgasm addict

Buzzcocks

Also see signature line

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All I Wanted Was A Pepsi, Just One Pepsi

Team Zoot, Team Zoot Mid-Atlantic

This has been the most meaningful to me over time.

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my name, I've changed my face
But no one wants you when you lose
Don't give up
'Cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

this one from Dawes:

''So if you want to get to know me, follow my smile down in to its curves. All the lines are born in sorrows and pleasures. Every man ends up with the face that he deserves."

< They don't always have to be profound >

"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

"If I could hang the stars up I'd hang them up one by one to leave this world with something my hands made.
And when that sun came up and made them all disappear I'd know my work was real 'cause nothing real can stay." - Chamberlain


"And I'm a big disappointment, well that's only half true. Half of me is a party, the other half's letting down you." - Stuck Out Here


"And I haven't been taking my meds, so lock all the cabinets and send me to bed.
Cause I know you're still worried I'm gonna get scared again and make my insides clean with your kitchen bleach.
But I've kissed enough bathroom sinks to make up for the lovers that never loved me." - Julien Baker


"The pain this morning, it filled my head. It's Jameson, it means that I'm not dead." - Hot Water Music


So many more. I could literally do this all day.

While dating Hot/crazy these words were pretty profound to me...

The Outsider ~
Lying to my face again
Suicidal imbecile
You're pounding on a fault line
What'll it take to get it through to you precious
Over this , why do you wanna
Throw it away like this
Such a mess, over this, over this
Disconnect and self destruct,
One bullet at a time
What's your hurry, everyone will have his day to die
If you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere,
Do it somewhere far away from here

Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight
- Bare Naked Ladies, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

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I can tell you why you're sick, I just can't write you an Rx

That's a great lyric.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

"Slid out of my dreams like a baby out of the nurse's hands Onto the hard floor of day" - 'When You Give It Away' Bruce Cockburn

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

That has been one of my favorites too. I know it from BNL but it actually predates them to Bruce Cochran in 1984.

A cop love song
I left your house this morning
'Bout a quarter after nine
Coulda been the Willie Nelson
Coulda been the wine
When I left your house this morning
It was a little after nine
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves, one star at time
Drove back to town this morning
With working on my mind
I thought of maybe quittin'
Thought of leavin' it behind
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pullin' down the blind
Yeah, the sky was dull and hypothetical
And fallin' one cloud at a time
That night in Toronto
With its checkerboard floors
Riding on horseback
And keeping order restored
'Til The Men They Couldn't Hang
Stepped to the mic and sang
And their voices rang with that Aryan twang.

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'STICK EM UP PUNK ITS THE FUN LOVING CRIMINAL'

Did not know that. I am apparently too young and not Canadian enough to know of Bruce Cochran's existence :p

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I can tell you why you're sick, I just can't write you an Rx

This is my favorite verse from a song "Movimientos" by Jorge Drexler.

I will let you guys look up the translation for most of the verse.
But here the very last bit in English:

We were the drop of water in the meteorite
We crossed galaxies, millennia of time and space
We sought oxygen
We found dreams


Atravesamos desiertos, glaciares, continentes
El mundo entero de extremo a extremo
Empecinados, supervivientes
El ojo en el viento y en las corrientes
La mano firme en el remo
Cargamos con nuestras guerras
Nuestras canciones de cuna
Nuestro rumbo hecho de versos
De migraciones, de hambrunas
Y así ha sido desde siempre, desde el infinito
Fuimos la gota de agua viajando en el meteorito
Cruzamos galaxias, vacío, milenios
Buscábamos oxígeno, encontramos sueños.

Cockburn, people Cockburn

... and it's pronounced "Co-Burn" go figure

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

My defense statement makes even more sense now :p

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I can tell you why you're sick, I just can't write you an Rx

Glad to help

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I've seen some of those. I've probably seen the one you posted and will check it out.

I'm betting it depends on the writer. Mozart and Bethoven were opposites. It just flowed out of Mozart, while Bethoven was meticulous. I have a friends who used to write raps and, again, it just flowed out. I'm more meticulous (as is my friend Leslie).

I can't remember if I wrote this in the other thread, but there's often a balance that has to be struck. The more simple and symmetrical a song is, the catchier it is, but the less interesting it is. There's a phrase I heard in jazz that in order to play "outside" you have to establish what it is outside of. "Outside" means playing deliberately outside of the key and song structure, but if that's all you do, you just sound like someone who doesn't know what he's doing.

I like this from Scenario:

Scenarios, radios, rates more than four
Scores for the smores that smother dance floors
Now I go for mine, shades of sea shore
Ship-shape plush Grape Apes to play tapes
Papes make drakes baked for the wakes
Of an L-AH, an E-ADER, simply just a leader
Bass innerspace means peace see ya later

The first few and last few lines are pretty basic, but in the middle he raps straight quarter notes and rhymed 10 of the 15 syllables. That only stands out because of the standard structure set up before and after.

Likewise, Eminem could have probably made the whole first verse of Lose Yourself have that repeated rhyme structure that i pointed out earlier, but it would get boring after a while.

Side note to all of this, my brother (professional trombone player and high school band and theater director) has a theory about the evolution of genres music, and how over time they get more and more complicated such that it ends up playing more toward the musicians and hardcore fans and less to mainstream audiences (swing to bebop for example).

I'm not sure I agree with this as rap, in particular, has gotten horrible formulaic and dumbed down, at least in the mainstream. But what do I know? I'll admit this is just a lot of un-worked out conjecture on my part. The point is, ultimately the more and more complicated the rhyme schemes get, the harder mainstream audiences can appreciate it. Hmmmmm.......maybe there's a divide right now? Intelligent rap for the rap fans, and formulaic mumble rap for the mainstream audiences?

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Pretty much everything by The Mountain Goats but i think my favourite is
“I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me”
I’ve spent too long trying to work our what “making it through” is if you die.

Way too many CDs in my collection, but here are some favorite lines.

From 2004, this seems prophetic.
"You want to save the world with your dirty tone
You want to heal their pain with a fine wound of your own
You want to save the world with your dirty tone
You want to wield the power in your pretty little gun"

"...we walked on water, we were perfect..."

"I could die here tonight
Your beautiful words in my soul
I could die here tonight
And you wouldn't even notice
You wouldn't even protest here
We could lie here together
Pulling the stars from the sky
Maybe things will get better
Maybe not, I don't know why
Maybe not, I don't know
Do you feel scared like I do
Do you feel lower than angels
Do you feel scared like I do
Do you feel love so high?"


"That booklet I thought I'd write
Our long weekend (in Newport) last June
Chateau-sur-Mer, the ocean air
Marble House, The Breakers, and you

The words were there, then they were not there, at all
The words were there, then they were not there, at all"

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◼︎ We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green. - Chesterton

Then let's go for this

Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love
You take my body
I give you heat
You say youre hungry
I give you meat
I suck your mind
You blow my head

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Just out of curiosity, I pulled up the lyrics to the current Billboard #1 song. It turns out to be something called, The Box, pasted below for your enjoyment. I'll just say have have trouble relating to it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get these damn kids of my lawn.

Pullin' out the coupe out the 'lot
Told 'em "Fuck 12, fuck SWAT"
Bustin' out the bells out the box
I just hit a lick with the box
Had to put the stick in a box, mm
Pour up the whole damn seal, I'ma get lazy
I got the mojo-deals, we been trappin' like the '80's
She sell that nigga soul, gotta cashout
Told 'em wipe a nigga nose, say slatt, slatt
I won't never sell my soul, and I can back that
And I really wanna know, where you at, at?
I was setback, where the stash at?
Cruise the city in a bulletproof Cadillac (Skrrt)
'Cause I know these niggas after where the bag at
Gotta move smarter, gotta move harder
Niggas tryna get me for my water
I live lay his ass down on my son or my daughter
I had the Draco with me, Dwayne Carter
'Lotta niggas out here playin', I ball 'em
I done out my whole arm in the rim, Vince Carter
And know I probably get a key for the quarter
Shawty been in the scene, double C's, I bought 'em
Got a bitch that's looking like Aaliyah, she a model
I got the Pink Slip, all my whips is key-less
Call them I'm 'bout to get the key to the city
Patek like the sea
Pullin' out the coupe out the 'lot
Told 'em "Fuck 12, fuck SWAT"
Bustin' out the bells out the box
I just hit a lick with the box
Had to put the stick in a box, mm
Pour up the whole damn seal, I'ma get lazy
I got the mojo-deals, we been trappin' like the '80's
She sell that nigga soul, gotta cashout
Told 'em wipe a nigga nose, say slatt, slatt
I won't never sell my soul, and I can back that
And I really wanna know, where you at, at?
Ha-ha-ha, I been movin' them out'
It's dealin' with me, then he got the blues in the pouch
Took her to the forrest, put wood in her mouth
Bitch don't wear no shoes in my house
The private, I'm flyin' in, I never wanna fly again
I take my chances in traffic
She suckin' on dick no hands with it
I just made the Rollie plane like a landing-strip
I'm a 2020 president candidate
I done put a hunnid bands on Zimmerman shit
I been movin' real gangsta', so that's why she pick a cryp
Shawty call me Crisco, 'cause I pop my shit
Got it out the mud, there's nothin' you can tell me, yeah
When I had the drugs, I was street-wealthy
Pullin' out the coupe out the 'lot
Told 'em "Fuck 12, fuck SWAT"
Bustin' out the bells out the box
I just hit a lick with the box
Had to put the stick in a box, mm
Pour up the whole damn seal, I'ma get lazy
I got the mojo-deals, we been trappin' like the '80's
She sell that nigga soul, gotta cashout
Told 'em wipe a nigga nose, say slatt, slatt
I won't never sell my soul, and I can back that
And I really wanna know, where you at, at?

Brilliant rhyming.
I guess i am not advanced enough to enjoy this rap stuff either
I read it and I am thinking...

Idiocracy is coming at us real fast
Not sure how this country is going last
These morans are quickly going to spawn
Till there is too many to chase off my lawn...

Quote:

maybe there's a divide right now? Intelligent rap for the rap fans, and formulaic mumble rap for the mainstream audiences?

Absolutely true. It's why mumble rap gets slammed so hard by old school rappers who understand the history and evolution of hip hop and how rare it is to see artists combine message and delivery in a way that both satisfies those afficionados and appeals to young audiences who are essentially there for the beats and image.

As Q-tip (one of the greatest IMO) said way back then, rap is not pop if you call it that then stop.

Busta is a fucking magician.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

If you haven't seen this one, it's worth the time. Hadn't heard of him before or since, but damn.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees"

"Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh"

Sung by Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan) 1937
based on a poem written by Abel Meeropol
Powerful words in a haunting voice - always hit me hard hearing her wail on this song

"Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

That's awesome!


Not sure if its appropriate for this thread, or the dumpster fire I started in the other thread, or its own thread, but there's a really good Malcolm Gladwell podcast out there where he talks rap and country lyrics and compares them to rock lyrics.

It's too much to summarize here, but in a nutshell he talks about sad songs (I'll throw in angry) versus happy songs, and the locations that the artists grew up in. Rock throws a big net and captures a large audience, so the lyrics are somewhat generic and anthemic, and are typically not sad. Country and Rap (separately) cater to more homogeneous demographics so they can get very specific with their lyrics, which makes them more powerful.

The video you showed above tells a very specific story and, if you are capable, you can feel the emotion through his lyrics. Compare that to, say, Tuti Fruiti, or Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog.

Here's a transcript. You can probably find the actual podcast somewhere:

https://blog.simonsays.ai/...nscript-398a913f0015

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That's an astute observation about the specificity of country and rap, relative to pop and rock. I'd never thought of it that way.

That freestyle I posted is just so impressive, and speaks to all the points made above. You need to hear it a few times to really appreciate everything that's happening. It's highly specific, relevant social commentary, technically masterful, clever and versatile (using the same word as the rhyme but applying all of it's meanings [charging to mean giving energy, prosecuting a crime, and rushing to attack], not sure that I've seen that done three ways before), and generally just great story telling that hits all the pertinent points. Not to mention the memorization of the lines, in order, and the delivery. It's probably the most impressive rap performance I've ever seen, all things considered.

Thanks for the pod link, I'll check that out on my drive home tonight.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

So many are always running through my mind

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Pink Floyd


Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way Lynyrd Skynyrd

Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
Fore we see it you take it
Oh, make you want to holler
The way they do my life
Make me want to holler
The way they do my life
This ain't livin', This ain't livin'
No, no baby, this ain't livin'
No, no, no
Inflation no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die
Make me want to holler
The way they do my life
Make me want to holler
The way they do my life

Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
Natural fact is
I can't pay my taxes
Oh, make me want to holler
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it makes me want to holler
And throw up both my hands
Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we're heading

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Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio



Kinda crazy to think these two songs were recorded within a year of each other. Totally different sounds, totally different genres, but the dame instability bloomed both.

You could quote 1000 Zappa phrases & just be getting started.

“You ride the wave, you don’t ask where they go”
Primitive Radio Gods

“ Well, I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
And the town lit up, the world got still”
Tom Petty

“And a woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle”
U2

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Harry: "I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Loyd: "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man."

I always remember this one because my 7th grade English teacher used to sing it to the class!

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No fear. No envy. No meanness.

I was a, was a kamikaze pilot
They gave me a plane, I couldn't fly it home.
Taught how to take off, I don't know how to land.
They say it doesn't matter and I just cannot understand.
I was a kamikaze pilot,
They gave me a plane, I couldn't fly it home.

Hoodoo Gurus

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No fear. No envy. No meanness.

This one from Keith Richards deserves to be included:

I gotta find my way to heaven
Cuz I did my time in hell
I wasn't looking too good
But I was feeling real well

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Breathe out
So I can breathe you in
Hold you in"

'I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary,
But he couldn't help me either..' - The Who

'You could never be strong, You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth, but you owe that to me..' - Guided by Voices

'There's a town I know, where the hipsters go
Called Bedrock!
Twist,Twist!' - Flintstones

Random, overcaffeinated ideas about some song lyrics I'll never stop singing out loud.

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.

Always a wake up call - Pink Floyd

Definitely one of my all-time faves!

Also...

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's...
his hair was PERFECT


and

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
I got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me
Two that wanna stone me
One since she's a friend of mine


This could really go on and on, but those are the first ones to pop into mind at the moment.

Ooohh yes, more of my favorites!

I like new Country <ducking>

Old Dominion's "Song for Another Time"
Morgan Wallen's "Whiskey Glasses"
Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road"
Anything by Luke Combs

Damn, you beat me to it. The above lyrics in particular.

Classic Truly Top 3
I used to live this life back in Boulder in the 70's

Everything up to & including Nebraska, then the winners are few & far between

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Anyone who can successfully integrate the word "parthenogenesis" into a catchy song is a genius in my book:

In a jungle of the senses
Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper
Love has no meaning, not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple
Very little fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully correctly wrong

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
From the juices of the dying
We are no monsters, we're moral people
And yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendor of our achievement
Call in the air strike with a poison kiss

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

How bad it gets, you can't imagine
The burning wax, the breath of reptiles
God is not mocked, he owns our business
Karma could take us at any moment
Cover him up, I think we're finished
You know it's never been so exotic
But I don't know, my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

bluemonkeytri wrote:

Anyone who can successfully integrate the word "parthenogenesis" into a catchy song is a genius in my book:

Too big a word, sounds like learnin'

If I wanna learn something, I'll watch Animaniacs

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Funny, I took you for more of a Wiggles guy...

Bono swiped that

https://www.phrases.org.uk/...needs-a-bicycle.html

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I could never figure out why The Wiggles were wearing Classic Star Trek uniforms [but what department is Purple, anyway?]

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I asked Hank Williams "how lonely does it get?". Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.

That's actually a cover. The original is by Bruce Cockburn. Lots of other good lines in "wondering where the lions are", " Love and romance", "Coldest night of the year" .

Cockburn, not Cochran

There needs to be some Tragically Hip on here:

It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time

Or

New Orleans is sinking and I don't wanna swim

Or

That's when the hornet stung me and I had a feverish dream. With revenge and doubt, that's when we smoked them out.


Then again, Glenn Campbell:

And I need you more than want you. And I want you for all time.

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under a black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea
She is ragin', she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand still

Verse 3. U2 “Running to Stand Still”

"Tequila" from the song "Tequila" by The Champs (1958)

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Remember - It's important to be comfortable in your own skin... because it turns out society frowns on wearing other people's

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you seein' me
You'd see yourself so differently
Believe me

Edit: I did just discover Pucsifer's "The Humbling River," which is pretty awesome. Video with lyrics:

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War is god

Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you

And the hangovers hurt more than they used to
And cornbread and ice tea took the place
Of pills and ninety proof
And it seems like none of us do things quite like we used to do
And nobody wants to get high on the town
And all my rowdy friends have settled down

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Thank god someone posted this one. Thank god. (edit: Time)

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Not everything is as it seems -Mr. Miyagi

 



Every truth carries blame
And every light reveals some shame,
Progress rides with thieves and whores
The stowaways of civil war,
The stowaways of civil war.

--Joe Henry, Civil War

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Not everything is as it seems -Mr. Miyagi

Some girls are sadistic, materialistic,
Lookin' for a man makes them opportunistic,
They're lyin' on the beach perpetratin' a tan,
So that a brother with money can be their man.
So on the beach you're strollin, real high rollin',
Everything you have is yours and not stolen.
A girl runs up with somethin' to prove,
So don't just stand there, bust a move.


Not the deepest meaning, but the lyrics and rhymes in this song always amused me. Flea's bass guitar contributes to the song, too.

The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
When the darkness rolls away

It's gone away in yesterday
And I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide