Off your feet(Lyrics)

Here's one I always think of when the weather turns cold.
Harry Nillson said:
Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind

People stopping staring
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes

I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Thru' the pouring rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes
Banking off of the North East wind
Sailing on a summer breeze
And skipping over the ocean like a stone
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BTW, excellent movie to rent.
 
I remember when this song was on the radio; it used to have great meaning for me....now it just makes me sentimental. :(

Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading

I am not in love
But I'm open to persuasion
East or West
Where's the best
For romancing

With a friend
I can smile
But with a lover
I could hold my head back
I could really laugh
Really laugh

Thank you
You took me dancing
'Cross the floor
Cheek to cheek
But with a lover
I could really move
Really move
I could really dance
Really dance
Really dance
Really dance
I could really move
Really move
Really move
Really move

Now if I can feel the sun
In my eyes
And the rain on my face
Why can't I
Feel love

I can really love
Really love
Really love
Really love
Really love
Love love love love
Love love love love

Now I got all
The friends that I want
I may need more
But I shall just stick to those
That I have got
With friends I still feel
So insecure

Little darling I believe you could
Help me a lot
Just take my hand
And lead me where you will
No conversation
No wave goodnight
Just make love
With affection

Sing me another love song
But this time
With a little dedication
Sing it, sing it
You know that's what I like
Once more with feeling
Give me love
Give me love
Give me love
Love...
 
MONO : SILICONE

so many times
i tried to make you understand.
you never tried
to see behind my smile.

if i didnt know you like i do
i'd let you into
the secret in me

just because i'm good at fooling you
when no one's around,
i walk in your shoes...

i'm smiling
while lying
to you.
... if you only knew.

i always try
to hide behind a painted smile.
so many things
the public never sees.

... so on so forth.
 
Okay, this is the last Iris Dement and/or John Prine song I list, but the lyrics are so powerful, the music so beautiful, and the voice so sweet ... I can't help but share the goodness. Not to mention, as the title of the thread says, these are songs that hit close to home. "Acres of Corn" probably drescribes my innermost feelings quite well.


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I'll give to you a box of visions
I'll give to you a jar of hearts
I'll lend to you a gypsy's ear
To hear the sacred harp

I'll give to you a house of mirrors
A thousand lives they belong to you
A labyrinth of wild roses
I know you'll find your own way through

Wait a while and you'll grow older
Nevermind what the old folks say
Just keep an angel on your shoulder
And never throw your dreams away
For they might save your life one day

A song is just a box of visions
You can unlock it with a key
A message rolled up inside a bottle
And dropped into the salty sea

A song is just a box of visions
A jar of hearts, A gypsy's ear
A labyrinth of wild roses
A journey to the house of mirrors

Wait a while and you'll grow stronger
Nevermind what the sad folks say
Just keep an angel on your shoulder
And never throw your dreams away
For they might save your life one day

I'll give to you a box of visions
I'll give to you a jar of hearts

I'll lend to you a gypsy's ear
To hear the sacred harp

Box of Visions
Iris Dement & John Prine
 
I have swum those raging seas.
Washed up by an ocean who had tired of me.
How I survive I will never know.
This wreck's got a home and a whole lot of hope.

I'm out on a beach, sat on a rock,
Thinking of you and the love I've got.
I saw the devil's servant. I sent her home.
I said, "Bring me your master. I don't want his dog."
I'm on fire. I'm full of a new desire.
I'm full of love and new desire.

I lit my fire; blew my conch. Nobody comes.
I built my boat from bamboo, but it sunk.
I looked at the sky for vapour trails. Nobody comes.
I wrote your name on a tree
along with the days this has taken you away from me.

I'm out on a beach, eating my heart,
Thinking of you and the love I got.
I saw the devil's servant. I sent her home.
I said, "Bring me your master. I don't want his dog."
But, I'm on fire. I'm full of a new desire.
I need somebody like you, a warm body.
I ain't afraid to die.
There you go,
"?in't afraid to die."

I'm out on a beach, eating my heart,
Thinking of you and the love I got.
I saw the devil's serpent. I sent him home.
I said, "Bring me your master. I don't want his dog."
I'm out on a beach, sat on a rock,
Thinking of you and the love I got.
I saw the devil's servant. I sent her home.
I said, "Bring me your master. I don't want his dog."
I need somebody like you.

Richard Ashcroft - On A Beach
 
I'm living without you
I know all about you
I have run you down into the ground
Spread disease about you over town

I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and close to you

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less

I...
I...

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know

I used to amuse you
I knew that I'd lose you
Now you're here and begging for a chance
But there's no way in hell I'd take you back

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I've run out of comments
I'm tired of the violence
I couldn't care less

I'm looking for a new [4x]

We were the talk of the town [4x]

I thought you were special [4x]

Garbage - Special
 
Save me from critical acclaim
Save my smile its' too cracked from fame
Wish me well with my fantasy
Feel my arrogance with your sanity

Wash me oh so painfully clean
Disect my words with a fist full of your dreams
Build me up and strike me down please
Sign my name, sign my name

It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche
It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche

Colour my views in red, white and blue
I'm wide awake now, wide awake now
I kiss you, I kiss you, but I'm falling down
And all my friends are crowding around

They're crowding around looking down to see
But all they can see is me, me, me
So blow me away now, with your screwed up mind
There's no charm left now, for you to find

It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche
It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche

I see you, you see me
And who the hell am I supposed to be
I don't care now but I know that I should
Wasting away like you knew I would

It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, still
It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, still
It takes blood and guts to be this cool
But I'm still, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche
Just a cliche, just a cliche

Skunk Anansie - It Takes Blood & Guts To Be This Cool, But I'm Still Just A Cliche
 
There are a bunch of White Stripes songs that describe me and how I think. Here's the one that probably fits me best.

Dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound
when I hear your lips make a sound

Thirty notes in the mailbox
will tell you that I'm coming home
and I think I'm gonna stick around
for a while so you're not alone
for a while so you're not alone

If you can hear a piano fall
you can hear me coming down the hall
if I could just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all
I don't think I need to see at all

Soft hair and a velvet tongue
I want to give you what you give to me
and every breath that is in your lungs
is a tiny little gift to me
is a tiny little gift to me

I didn't feel so bad till the sun went down
then I come home
no one to wrap my arms around

Well any man with a microphone
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love at all
if you're thinking of the holy ghost
if you're thinking of the holy ghost
 
back in the high life - stevie winwood....a lifetime favorite (and sometimes the pun is intended....sometimes no... :D )

It used to seem to me
That my life ran on too fast
And I had to take it slowly
Just to make the good parts last
But when you're born to run
It's so hard to just slow down
So don't be surprised to see me
Back in that bright part of town

I'll be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
I'll be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watched me once will smile and take me in

And I'll drink and dance with one hand free
Let the world back into me
And on I'll be a sight to see
Back in the high life again

You used to be the best
To make life be life to me
And I hope that you're still out there
And you're like you used to be
We'll have ourselves a time
And we'll dance 'til the morning sun
And we'll let the good times come in
And we won't stop 'til we're done

We'll be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
We'll be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watch^Eed us once will smile and take us in
And we'll drink and dance with one hand free
And have the world so easily
And oh we'll be a sight to see
Back in the high life again

We'll be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
We'll be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watched us once will smile and take us in
And we'll drink and dance with one hand free
And have the world so easily
And oh we'll be a sight to see
Back in the high life again
 
FARTHER ON ~ Jackson Browne

In my early years I hid my tears
And passed my days alone
Adrift on an ocean of loneliness
My dreams like nets were thrown
To catch the love that I'd heard of
In books and films and songs
Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy
In the place where the real world belongs

Still I look for the beauty in songs
To fill my head and lead me on
Though my dreams have come up torn and empty
As many times as love has come and gone

To those gentle ones my memory runs
To the laughter we shared at the meals
I filled their kitchens and living rooms
With my schemes and my broken wheels
It was never clear how far or near
The gates to my citadel lay
They were cutting from stone some dreams of their own
But they listened to mine anyway

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say
It could be I've lost my way
Though I keep a watch over the distance
Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday

And the angels are older
They know not to wait up for the sun
They look over my shoulder
At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun

Now the distance leads me farther on
Though the reasons I once had are gone
I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for
In the sand beneath the dawn

But the angels are older
They can see that the sun's setting fast
They look over my shoulder
At the vision of paradise contained in the light of the past
And they lay down behind me
To sleep beside the road till the morning has come
Where they know they will find me
With my maps and my faith in the distance
Moving farther on
 
Where have all the heroes gone?
Returning where they’re from
Did they touch God or did they touch the sun?

Preperation day!
Fearless desire
Someone will lose by living
Chosen suicide!

Did they touch God or did they touch the sun?

Preperation day!
Selfless act of giving
Many pay the price
Heroes suicide
Unsung

The world we recognize has just begun
Some die from living
So unsung

Preperation day!
Fearless desire
Someone will lose by living
Chosen suicide!

Some die from living
So unsung

Preperation day!
Selfless act of giving
Many pay the price
Heroes suicide

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This song describes my relationships, both with boyfriends and friends thus far in life. There's only one person who hasn't screwed me over yet-and that's me.

Re-Offender

Keeping up appearances
Keeping up with the Jones'
Fooling my selfish heart
Going through the motions

But I'm fooling myself
I'm fooling myself
Cause you say you love me
And then you do it again, you do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again, you do it again

Everybody thinks you're well
Everybody thinks I'm ill
Watching me fall apart
Falling under your spell

But you're fooling yourself
You're fooling yourself
Cause you say you love me
And then you do it again, you do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again, you do it again
And again and again and again and again

But you're fooling yourself
You're fooling yourself
Cause you say you love me
And then you do it again, you do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again, you do it again
You say you love me
And then you do it again, you do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again, you do it again
And again and again and again and again
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Travis
 
Tom Petty ~ Wildflowers lyrics

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
Sail away, kill off the hours
You belong somewhere you feel free

Run away, find you a lover
Go away somewhere all bright and new
I have seen no other
Who compares with you

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free

Run away, go find a lover
Run away, let your heart be your guide
You deserve the deepest of cover
You belong in that home by and by

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free

(Repeat Chorus)
 
this is actually a beautiful song.....who knew? :D

she blinded me with science ~ thomas dolby

It's poetry in motion
she turned her tender eyes to me.
As deep as any ocean
as sweet as any harmony.
But she blinded me with science
she blinded me with science

And failed me in geometry.
When I'm dancing close to her
blinding me with science
science - science.
I can smell the chemicals
blinding me with science
science -
Science
science.
But it's poetry in motion
and when she tunied her eyes to me

As deep as any ocean
as sweet as any harmony.
But she blinded me with science
she blinded me with science

And failed me in geometry.
When she's dancing next to me
blinding me with science
science - science.
I can hear machinery
blinding me with science
science - science.

It's poetry in motion
and now she's making love to me.
The speres are in comotion
the elements in hannony.
She blinded me with science
she blinded me with science

And hit me with technology.
Good heavens Ms. Sakamoto you're beautiful.
I - I don't believe it
there she goes again.
She's tidied up
and I can't find anything

All my tubes and wires
and careful notes
and antiquated notions.
But it's poetry in motion

And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean

As sweet as any harmony.
But she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
She blinded me - with -.
 
SPACEHOG LYRICS
IN THE MEANTIME LYRICS

...and in the end we shall achieve in time
the thing they call divine
when all the stars will smile for me,
then all is well and well was all for all
and forever after,
maybe in the meantime wait and see
We love the all the all of you
Our lands are green and sky is blue
When all in all we're just like you
We love the all of you
...and when I cry for me I cry for you
with tears of holy joy
for all the days you've still to come,
and did I ever say I'd never play
or fly toward the sun
maybe in the meantime something's gone
CHORUS
Well that sounds fine so I'll see ya sunshine
Give my love to the future of the humankind
OK, OK, that's not OK
and while it's on my mind there's a girl to fit the crime
of a future lovers dream that we've still to find
But In the Meantime
CHORUS
 
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