🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[XShadynzX]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

R.E.M - Everybody Hurts​

 

[Wonderer67]

Song w great lyric.


Springsteen is a god here in Jersey. He wrote amazing lyrics. Like poems.

This song is totally overplayed but the lyrics evoke something so NJ, so being 19: cars and girls, warm summer nights. Magic. And we like Asbury Park. Had a good discussion w our punk rock neighbors just last nite about how great Asbury park was before it got gentrified.

Route 9, the boardwalk, Wall Township Speedway, the bennies, the bikers, feeling like you have no control over your own life…

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

I'm so glad I got this song in before anyone else. Normal pop-stars stop at one... maybe two... but my girl Carly gave us six. Genius.

I really, really, really, really, really, really like you

I Really Like You - Carly Rae Jepsen

 

[Grant55]

Day 12: Nessun Dorma

None shall sleep

ETA: I posted this without realizing it was the great tenor's birthday today.

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

 

[vagrantx]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

Seba Jun, what a wonderful mind you had... Mixing jazz and hip hop and funk and spoken word. There's nobody quite like him. Teaming up with Pase Rock to create this heavenly flow. Mwah.

What I wouldn't do to hear @morelikeasong rap this

you wanna get on? you gotta get right
hold on, sit tight, look at the dim light
take a breath, ask yes with some insight
say yes from your belly through your wind pipe

...and the beat goes...

Nujabes - Yes!

 

[morelikeasong]

What I wouldn't do to hear @morelikeasong rap this

I was just telling @SalaciousMonkey22 like 2 days ago that I need to do another rap for you soon because I love how much joy it brings you

Can’t promise this one because I’ve never heard it before but I do like it!

 

[morelikeasong]

BTW— I wanna know which lyric made you choose the song! Share with the class!

 

[vagrantx]

I was just telling @SalaciousMonkey22 like 2 days ago that I need to do another rap for you soon because I love how much joy it brings you

Can’t promise this one because I’ve never heard it before but I do like it!

Oh god yes! Please. Time to revive the dedicate a song thread!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

Talking Heads is another one of those bands that never comes up when I’m talking about my favorite bands and yet I love everything they did.

Mmm, a kinky little sister
Mmm, a-wearin' rubber gloves
A sexual health emergency
A copulation fantasy
You and me, ecstasy
Hate to be reality

 

[orangecurious]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

Joe Henry - Fireman's Wedding
Joe is a poet, his words swirl around and capture a moment. This was the first one where i truly fell in love with his music.
"There's a wind that will blow every streamer and sign from the cars.
And we'll chase every plate of food rolling out through the yard.
And I'll wrap myself around you as the clouds blow away from the stars"

"As if all news will be good news from now on"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric
Arguably one of the greatest love songs of all time. Where to start with the genius lyrics?

"My name is Humpty, pronounced with an 'Umpty,' Yo ladies how I like to funk thee..."
"I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky; I'm spunky, I like my oatmeal lumpy"
"Oh yes, ladies, I'm being sincere; 'cause in a 69 my nose will tickle your rear"

Every word drips poetry to gladden the heart.
I'm still bitter that my wife vetoed this as our wedding song.

"The Humpty Dance" - Digital Underground

 

[Bry1313]

Day 12 - Song with great lyrics
It’s Yom Kippur, we are going Midwestern Jew

 

[curious_slut]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

She moved with shameless wonder
The perfect creature rarely seen
Since some liar brought the thunder
When the land was godless and free

Her eyes look sharp and steady
Into the empty parts of me
Still my heart is heavy
With the hate of some other man's beliefs

Hozier - Foreigner's God

 

[Apisto42]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

Left my homie's house paid (word)
Picked up a girl been tryna dig since the 12th grade
It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
Felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy and killed the punani
And my jimmy runs deep, so deep
So deep put her butt to sleep

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

I am, at my core, a man of words. And there are so many incredible lyrics out there -- verses, choruses, whole songs that speak to me. So I read the prompt again, and accepted it as a challenge.

"A song with a great lyric." A lyric.
One line.
One evocative line.
Today, this one comes to mind.

It is a shame that Jeff Buckley is only known for two things -- covering one of the greatest songs ever penned, and dying far too young. He was a remarkable talent and lyricists in his own right. Almost any line in this song of regretting the pain he caused is brilliant, but this image is lovely:

"She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"


"Lover, You Should've Come Over," Jeff Buckley

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 11 - Song you’d put on a jukebox in a room full of Litsters
Who’s dancing with me?

Land of a 1,000 dances by Wilson Pickett

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 12: Nessun Dorma

None shall sleep

ETA: I posted this without realizing it was the great tenor's birthday today.

not on my jukebox!

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

I am, at my core, a man of words. And there are so many incredible lyrics out there -- verses, choruses, whole songs that speak to me. So I read the prompt again, and accepted it as a challenge.

"A song with a great lyric." A lyric. One line. One evocative line. Today, this one comes to mind.

It is a shame that Jeff Buckley is only known for two things -- covering one of the greatest songs ever penned, and dying far too young. He was a remarkable talent and lyricists in his own right. Almost any line in this song of regretting the pain he caused is brilliant, but this image is lovely:

"She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"


"Lover, You Should've Come Over," Jeff Buckley

Taxi by Harry Chapin

Gone to soon!

 

[Grant55]

@bonnietaylor200a

You're thinking of the wrong day.

But if I had a jukebox, it sure as hell would be on there.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

"Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes, I see them running too"

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

"It's harder to be yourself than it is to be anybody else. I wish I were a little less of a coward"

Big Bird - AJJ

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

I am, at my core, a man of words. And there are so many incredible lyrics out there -- verses, choruses, whole songs that speak to me. So I read the prompt again, and accepted it as a challenge.

"A song with a great lyric." A lyric. One line. One evocative line. Today, this one comes to mind.

It is a shame that Jeff Buckley is only known for two things -- covering one of the greatest songs ever penned, and dying far too young. He was a remarkable talent and lyricists in his own right. Almost any line in this song of regretting the pain he caused is brilliant, but this image is lovely:

"She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"


"Lover, You Should've Come Over," Jeff Buckley

Nice choice! I just listened to this one early this morning and considered posting it. This is one of my all-time favourite albums

 

[sister jenny]

The Cure - There is no if

This song is so beautiful and it always makes me cry.

”You yawned and I had to say it over
I said, "I love you I said", you didn't say a word
Just held your hands to your shining eyes
And I watched as the tears ran through your fingers
Held your hands to your shining eyes and cried
"If you die", you said, "So do I", you said
But it ends the day you see how it is
There is no always forever, just this, just this”

 

[sister jenny]

Day 12: A song with a great lyric

I am, at my core, a man of words. And there are so many incredible lyrics out there -- verses, choruses, whole songs that speak to me. So I read the prompt again, and accepted it as a challenge.

"A song with a great lyric." A lyric.
One line.
One evocative line.
Today, this one comes to mind.

It is a shame that Jeff Buckley is only known for two things -- covering one of the greatest songs ever penned, and dying far too young. He was a remarkable talent and lyricists in his own right. Almost any line in this song of regretting the pain he caused is brilliant, but this image is lovely:

"She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"


"Lover, You Should've Come Over," Jeff Buckley

This!