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What song lyrics are stuck in your head?

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step8
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:09 pm    Post subject: What song lyrics are stuck in your head? Reply with quote

For me, it's...

Quote:
You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well who hasn't been there before?
I come round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you french toast again


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't laugh at me.... but Eddie Rabbit. Embarassed

Well I love a rainy night
I love a rainy night
I love to hear the thunder
Watch the lightning
When it lights up the sky
You know it makes me feel good.



To me this sticks in my head because it is very true to the way I feel. I sleep better when it's raining outside. I guess there's more comfort in the shelter. It's still a great song.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"You can leave your hat on."


Originally by Randy Newman I think, but when you here Joe sing this phrase 37 times in the song... how could you get it out of your head???
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
You think I give a damm about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me.
"But Slim what if u win wouldn't it be weird?"
Why? So you guys can just lie to get me here?
So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears.
s***, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs


That song makes me laugh every time I hear it.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Highly replaceable. It's the ones I heard a minute ago - and they hang around for a while. Then another bunch move in, when and if I hear them, assuming they're not mumbled, slurred, mispronounced, or overpowered by a klanky, dissonant track.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't exactly say the song lyrics are stuck in my head, because I never memorized the song - that would be the educational thing to do.

I have to post the entire thing, because there isn't one portion that sticks out in particular - the whole thing is great.

Quote:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

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

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

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

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

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

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

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

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

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
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:58 pm    Post subject: My dad loved me even when we did not see eye to eye Reply with quote

My dad ask me on may 6 2003 to write him a song ,and I did but he died may 7 2003.I call it to be like you,and the words will never leave my mind.


I remember when I was young
I heard my daddy yelling get up son ,its time to go
your mommy got your lunch packed,grab your shirt and shoes
And dont forget your fishing pole


Well we would load up the car,and head for the beach
I swear I would be half asleep
I would hear him say ,we got to get there soon
Or there will be no fishing room
And as I would lay there stairing at the starry skys I knew
Dad I want to be like you,and I think you knew,I was going to be like you


But as the times went on
It got harder and harder for us just to get along
I would say yes and you would say no
and then separate ways we would go


Then you would get all pissed off at what I said
You know your face turned red,you know
I did not care what I said to you
Because ther was nothing,you could do
And as I walked away I would yell back hey
Dad I'm going to be like you


Then I would remember stairingout at those starry skys
some how I knew every thing was going to be all right
And there would be no turning back,even after our eyes go black
Only love will remain,it will remain


I under stand now when you would say
That every good dog has to have a bad day
For you tault me the differance,between right and wrong
You tault me how to walk tall and be strong


So I guess what I am trying to say is
Thank you in my own way,you see
As you watch me from there
I have a handel on thing down here
because all those times I think you knew
dad I am trying to be like you ,and I think you knew
I am going to be like you
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for me it's "when i see mommy i feel like a mummy"
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for me its

Im in another state, another state of mind
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have hawthorne heights song "ohio is for lovers" in my head all day everyday, not counting my own songs....
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard this line only once a few months ago on the radio. The part in brackets is my paraphrase.



[You don't need to keep speaking],
you're already a voice in my head.



I don't know whose lyrics these are, but they hit me pretty hard and have stuck with me ever since.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I first started paying attentin to lyrics more closely when I first heard Melissa Etheridge sing

"...And when I woke
I tasted the sweat
Of desire on my mouth

i thought that was a realy good line.

Right now, all the lyrics kinda get my attention

By the way, to the guy who wrote the song for his dad, I really liked it!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Perspective pries your once weighty eyes and it gives you wings."--Incubus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

streetlight it shines through the shades / casting lines on the floor / and lines on his face / he reflects on the day...

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dobes wrote:
streetlight it shines through the shades / casting lines on the floor / and lines on his face / he reflects on the day...

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I also like Ben Folds lyrics. I enjoy John Mayer lyrics too.

You can recognize their lyrics even if you don't know the song, because they have a very personal way of expressing themselves.
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