🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[TwoTaTango]

First Track ...off .... First Offense....Eh..

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 23
Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

What a way to kick off an album. It just demands attention from the first second and remains completely brilliant until the last. God I would have loved to have seen them at their peak

This was dangerous music when it came out. There was little that was like it. I saw them way before their peak (and forgot completely about them until finding a copy of one of their early cassettes I picked up in the bar) and again when they were on the Use Your Illusion tour in '91.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love
I've used this song before, when I first started doing The Challenge. I have made an effort never to repeat, but I really love the lyrics of this song. Mikel Jollett writes in a lovely, dense, and sardonic poetic style, and sometimes I identify so strongly with his songs that I wonder if they were written for me. This song so much so that I have more than half decided to tattoo some of the lyrics on my skin.

"Why Why Why" is a breakup song, where the singer watches his girlfriend walk away from him, and he blames her. By the end of the song, half a year has passed, and he realized that he had ignored everything she did to try to fix the relationship. The heart of the song is him trying to work it all out, each starting with the phrase "it's foolish to think," where he talks himself out of attempting to fix things. I love all of it, but I will highlight two sections. The first, I understand all to well, and love the metaphor:

"And it's foolish to think
You can bury it all in some endless drive to drink
Every person you meet can tell you're a ship
Taking water in a storm and you're starting to sink"

The most cutting lyric for me, the one that may be my next tattoo:

"They say follow your heart
What if your heart never knew where to go? Or why?"

And that is the question.

"Why Why Why," The Airborne Toxic Event

"And I’ll write your name in stars across the sky..."

 

[orangecurious]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

Joe Henry - Lighthouse
It could be any of Joe's songs, but this one always hits.. he has a way with a phrase, it gets me every time. Also, i Love this whole album and this song fads in from the previous one, as if sneaking up to put its hands (paws) over your eyes to say "guess who?". It also mentions a library and i like librarians.
anyway... those opening lines "oh my dear, I've swallowed the moon and left it dark like a ring burned on a spoon. But now all those stars that fall around you, they land at your feet to light up the room."
Oh yea.. that "shhhh" is great too.

Not many songwriters have books published of their lyrics. Joe has.

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

I really appreciate today's prompt. This is my favourite part of listening to music!
Naturally, I could go with any endless number of brilliant choices from my songwriting gods (Cohen, Dylan), since today's prompt represents the initial reason that they achieved deity status in my young eyes. However, I truly enjoy it when innovative and unique lyricism is hidden in plain sight... right there in the middle of mainstream rock radio. I always found this Hip song to be particularly fascinating, since there's not a typical "catchy" structure... no choruses, no easy lyrical hooks, just pure stream-of-consciousness storytelling... and yet countless times I've heard huge crowds (or stadiums) of Canadians belting this out word for word. I'm not always partial to the populist singalong, myself... but it's so much cooler when they're actually required to know quite intricate lyrics, rather than lazily pouncing on the low-hanging fruit of a somewhat predictable chorus. Oh, and perhaps it shouldn't go without saying that I luv the actual words to this song! Brilliant storytelling. Wonderful lyrics...

The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

I'd like to bring something out of left field, as it's not English, but in my native language. German indie/rap rock band Kraftklub has some amazing lyrics. This is my favourite:

Wenn du mich küsst, ist die Welt ein bisschen weniger scheiße

(=When you kiss me, the world sucks a little less).

Is there a better way to say "I love you"?

Kraftklub - Songs für Liam

 

[lingus60]

How to pick only one? Almost impossible...

Pink Floyd; Wish you were here

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

 

[Lonely_Scot]

Day 24 etc etc

 

[kenbrack]

All my life
Been running from a pain in me
A feeling I don't understand
Holding me down
So rain on me
Underwater
All I am, getting harder
A heavy weight
I carry around
Today
I don't have to fall apart
I don't have to be afraid
I don't have to let the damage
Consume me,
My shadow see through me
'Cause fear in itself
Will reel you in and spit you out
Over and over again
Believe in yourself
And you will walk
Now, fear in itself
Will use you up and break you down
Like you were never enough
Yeah, I used to fall, now I get back up
I'm up here
I'm looking at the way down there
I'm staring through the I don't care
It's staring back at me
The beauty is
I'm learning how to face my beast
Starting now to find some peace
Set myself free, yeah
Today
I don't have to fall apart
I don't have to be afraid
I don't have to let the damage consume me
My shadow see through me
'Cause fear in itself
Will reel you in and spit you out
Over and over again
Believe in yourself
And you will walk
And now, fear in itself
Will use you up and break you down
Like you were never enough
I used to fall but now I get back up
I'm moving on
Oh God just move on
Today
I don't have to fall apart
I don't have to be afraid
Get back up
Get up
Feel it, fear, wow
And now fear, fear in itself can use you up
And then breaks you down
You're never enough
And I used to fall
Breathe
Ask for more
If you're bitter still
Ask him to help you carry on
https://youtu.be/bZVQoWUY97s?si=CISbzwKKslImgnmE

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love
I'm not sure "love" is the right word here, but "Father McKenzie, writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear - no one comes near," hits awfully close to home sometimes.
"Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles

 

[Bry1313]

Day 24 - Song with Lyrics you love

Story time with Bob.

 

[BrendaBear]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

I love this song because so often following the "common sense" that people give me is really not right for me. I've found in my life the times I did what society said was the normal, proper thing to do - including all my friends - ended in disaster for me. This song celebrates doing what your intuition says instead of others.

And also it is a celebration of just feeling good and being happy.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Feel Lucky

 

[curious_slut]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

I guess my subconscious mind is listening to lyrics even when I'm not because the first time I heard this song, the lyrics grabbed me so hard I had to restart it halfway through.

Paloma Faith - Circus of Your Mind

I've heard enough, I'm losing my mind
I've spent a life searching for what I'll never find
I'm praying for silence or an easy way out
Tryin' to make sense of what is always in doubt

I'm turnin' the pages, but nothin' changes
The voices in my head won't listen to a word I've said
I know what it takes, think I'm in a safe place
Then here we go again, oh, and again, oh, and again

It's like living on a merry-go-round and 'round we seem to go
No one ever seems to know why
I'm seein' darkness where the light should be, madness takin' over me
Listen, many things you will find in the circus of your mind

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil​

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 24 a song with lyrics you love

I’m a lyrics first guy in general so like all songs. But I’ve been reminded of this artist this week and love this song (and this video tbh)

If the bad times are coming, let 'em come
Let the death drum break the slump
Before the once-young braves succumb
The fickle flicker of desire expires
If the bad times are coming let 'em come

 

[Pad_Foot]

Honestly I was looking for Meatloaf’s longer song, but he gives his all to these lyrics

Love the piano intro

Special

RIP Mr Meatloaf
oh and this

What was the paradise that was revealed?

I will accept my spanking now

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I will accept my spanking now

Sorry, @morelikeasong is off this month. Substitute spankings are being administered.

https://imgur.com/a/XGQB0Y2

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 24 - Song with Lyrics you love

Story time with Bob.

Bob Dylan, excellent song writer, I love most of the covers of his music. However, I just don't like his voice. It's shaped weird, has strange dips & flares. Voices should flow, but his creates an anxiety, a weird uncomfortable anxiety, in my field of vision. It's as though he's a bunch of cylinders, meant to be bound by gravity, but instead are floating in an unpredictable way, at once crashing into each there and yet floating too far apart. I know this makes no sense to people without chromesthesia, but Dylan fans are just sure I haven't heard the right song, that I'll love him eventually, when the truth is that I need a Xanax if forced to listen to him for any extended amount of time.

 

[Lonely_Scot]

Bob Dylan, excellent song writer, I love most of the covers of his music. However, I just don't like his voice. It's shaped weird, has strange dips & flares. Voices should flow, but his creates an anxiety, a weird uncomfortable anxiety, in my field of vision. It's as though he's a bunch of cylinders, meant to be bound by gravity, but instead are floating in an unpredictable way, at once crashing into each there and yet floating too far apart. I know this makes no sense to people without chromesthesia, but Dylan fans are just sure I haven't heard the right song, that I'll love him eventually, when the truth is that I need a Xanax if forced to listen to him for any extended amount of time.

His song writing is incredible. His voice is awful.

 

[Bry1313]

Bob Dylan, excellent song writer, I love most of the covers of his music. However, I just don't like his voice. It's shaped weird, has strange dips & flares. Voices should flow, but his creates an anxiety, a weird uncomfortable anxiety, in my field of vision. It's as though he's a bunch of cylinders, meant to be bound by gravity, but instead are floating in an unpredictable way, at once crashing into each there and yet floating too far apart. I know this makes no sense to people without chromesthesia, but Dylan fans are just sure I haven't heard the right song, that I'll love him eventually, when the truth is that I need a Xanax if forced to listen to him for any extended amount of time.

His voice is very much an acquired taste even for those who don’t have visuals mixed with out audios. I enjoy his singing but he’ll never be confused with Pavarotti

 

[Apisto42]

Day 24: A song with lyrics you love

Great lyrics. Love dire straits as well.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Bob Dylan, excellent song writer, I love most of the covers of his music. However, I just don't like his voice. It's shaped weird, has strange dips & flares. Voices should flow, but his creates an anxiety, a weird uncomfortable anxiety, in my field of vision. It's as though he's a bunch of cylinders, meant to be bound by gravity, but instead are floating in an unpredictable way, at once crashing into each there and yet floating too far apart. I know this makes no sense to people without chromesthesia, but Dylan fans are just sure I haven't heard the right song, that I'll love him eventually, when the truth is that I need a Xanax if forced to listen to him for any extended amount of time.

I hear this so hard. Cannot stand listening to him. And also love hearing people tell me I’m just listening to the wrong stuff.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Bob Dylan, excellent song writer, I love most of the covers of his music. However, I just don't like his voice. It's shaped weird, has strange dips & flares. Voices should flow, but his creates an anxiety, a weird uncomfortable anxiety, in my field of vision. It's as though he's a bunch of cylinders, meant to be bound by gravity, but instead are floating in an unpredictable way, at once crashing into each there and yet floating too far apart. I know this makes no sense to people without chromesthesia, but Dylan fans are just sure I haven't heard the right song, that I'll love him eventually, when the truth is that I need a Xanax if forced to listen to him for any extended amount of time.

Though, tbf, I almost picked his son for today’s prompt

 

[MindYaBitness]

His voice is very much an acquired taste even for those who don’t have visuals mixed with out audios. I enjoy his singing but he’ll never be confused with Pavarotti

I don't like Pavarotti either...