pinkskulls15 Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 Whos your favorite songwriter, and what are your favorite lyrics by them? :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EasyRider Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 NEIL YOUNG LYRICS "Cinnamon Girl" I wanna live with a cinnamon girl I could be happy the rest of my life With a cinnamon girl. A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl. Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl. A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl. Pa sent me money now I'm gonna make it somehow I need another chance You see your baby loves to dance Yeah...yeah...yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkskulls15 Posted December 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 thanks, I'm also asking what a favorite lyric by the songwriter is however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 I've no idea of my favourite lyricist, John lennon maybe. Anyway, my favourite songwriters are Lennon/McCartney, John Lennon solo, Brian Wilson, Jagger/Richards, and above all Pete Townshend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmosis Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 I've missed that other one so I'll go here. John Lennon and Silvio Rodriguez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielj Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is one of them Time Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older And shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desparation in the English way The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cried Mary After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers "Mary" A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken peices of yesterdays life Somewhere a queen is weeping And somewhere a king has no wife And the wind cries "Mary" The traffic light said turn on blue tommorow And shine the emptiness down on my head The tiny island sags downstream Cause the life that lived is dead And the wind screams "Mary" Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past With his crutch, his old age, and his wisdom He whispers known this will be the last And the wind cries "Mary" Bob Dylan of course once upon a time you dressed so fine/you threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?/ People'd call, say, "beware doll, you're bound to fall"/ you thought they were all kiddin' you/ You used to laugh about/ Everybody that was hangin' out/ now you don't talk so loud/ Now you don't seem so proud/ About having to be scrounging for your next meal.//How does it feel/ How does it feel/ to be without a home/ like a complete unknown/ like a rolling stone?// You've gone to the finest school alright, miss lonely/But you know you only used to get juiced in it/ And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street/And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it/ you said you'd never compromise/ With the mystery tramp but now you realise/ He's not selling any alibis/ As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes/ And say do you want to make a deal?// How does it feel/ How does it feel/ to be on your own/ with no direction home/ like a complete unknown/ like a rolling stone?//You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns/ when they all did tricks for you/you never understood that it ain't no good/you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you/ you used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat/ who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat/Ain't it hard when you discover that/ He really wasn't where it's at/ after he took from you everything he could steal.// How does it feel/How does it feel/ to be on your own/ with no direction home/ like a complete unknown/ like a rolling stone?//Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people/ they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made/ Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things/But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe/ You used to be so amused/ at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used/ Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse/When you aint got nothing, you got nothing to lose/ you're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal// How does it feel/ how does it feel/ to be on your own/ with no direction home/ like a complete unknown/ like a rolling stone///. (PLEASE NOTE THAT DYLAN HAS A HABIT OF ALTERING LYRICS AS AND WHEN IT PLEASES HIM! ! ! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golden_ann Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Barry Manilow. No, really, I like Diane Warren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris33887 Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Roger Waters: Time, anything form the animals album, in fact anything from all his albums John Lennon: My favs are Tomorrow never knows, and A day in the life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Roger Waters and Bruce Springstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictedtoclassic Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Ronnie Van Zant Bob Seger Paul Simon John Lennon Paul McCartney Glenn Frey Don Henley Robert Plant Roger Waters Pete Townshend Paul Rodgers Do I need to pick only one? I guess that would have to be Ronnie Van Zant (I think everyone knows my answer though). How can you stand there smilin', after all you've done You know it seems to make you happy, when you've hurt someone Twice before you fooled me, with your deceiving line Come in and close the door, one more time, one more time You've been gone so long, no one knows where And you say that you still love me, then show me you care Cause you got what it takes sweet mama, to make a man feel fine So I'll take the word of a liar, one more time, one more time Girl you've got me hungry, losing my mind I know I'm playing with fire, get burned every time Yes I'm a fool for you babe, I can't deny Cause I've gotta have your sweet love, one more time, one more time Girl you've got me hungry, losing my mind I know I'm playing with fire, I get burned every time Yes I'm a fool for you mama, but I can't deny But I've gotta have your sweet love, one more time, one more time Yes I'm a fool once more, I can read her brown eyes When the rooster crows tomorrow, well you're certain to cry I'm heading down that old road, she lost her free ride So tonight I'll take what I paid for, one more time, one more time, one more time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Michael Stipe Drive-"Maybe I will maybe you won't maybe I drive to get off" Bad Day- "Sure all men are created equal, here's the church here's the steeple!" just a couple from his brilliant collection of words. Tom Petty The Last DJ-"There goes the last DJ who plays what he wants to play, says what he wants to say, hey, hey, hey" Joe-"My names Joe, I'm the CEO,I'm the man, makes the big wheels roll. I'm the hand on the green light switch, you get to be famous, I get to be rich." The musical protest is delightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Oh yeah, I'm starting to really get into The Smashing Pumpkin's stuff, and Billy Corgan is one helluva song writer '1979' from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skipping like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end to it all And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below Double cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slippin dues down to see That we don't even care as restless as we are We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement, lamented and assured To the lights and towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope Justine never knew the rules, Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below The street heats the urgency of sound As you can see there's no one around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 I've no idea of my favourite lyricist, John lennon maybe. Anyway, my favourite songwriters are Lennon/McCartney, John Lennon solo, Brian Wilson, Jagger/Richards, and above all Pete Townshend. I don't think you can go wrong here. Lennon is my favorite "She's not a girl who misses much.... She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane... The man in the crowd with the multi coloured mirrors on his hob nail boots.. Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime.. A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the national trust.. Brian Wilson "There's a worl where I can go and tell my secrets to..in my room" Too much good stuff. :guitar: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Annabelle_ Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 A few... Robbie Robertson (The Band) Pete Townsend Neil Young Ray Davies John Lennon/Paul McCartney George Harrison Roger Waters But if I had to choose one I would probably say Bob Dylan: One of my favorite songs is "Mr Tambourine Man" from Bringing it All Back Home, I especially like the last verse: "Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow." Another favorite is "I Shall Be Released": "They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. [Chorus] I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released. They say every man needs protection, They say every man must fall. Yet I swear I see my reflection Some place so high above this wall. [Chorus] Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he's not to blame. All day long I hear him shout so loud, Crying out that he was framed. [Chorus] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Lennon-McCartney Neil Young neil diamond Leonard Chen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parma_violet Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 I have to say Ani DiFranco, or Alanis Morissette. Their songs mean too much to me. The lyrics are so clever in every song they created! lol! But Bob Dylan is a classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earth-Angel Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 parma_violet, welcome to Songfacts :guitar: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Oh, sure, Bob Dylan!! and welcome, parma!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictedtoclassic Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Is that a Prince symbol? Or rather the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as prince who is now prince again? And totally agree with Bob Dylan, especially since he wrote several lyrics involving Minnesota!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Annabelle "I shall be released " is one of my battle hymns... Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlota Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Noel Gallagher and Joachim Berg from kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parma_violet Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Oh, sure, Bob Dylan!! and welcome, parma!!! parma_violet, welcome to Songfacts :guitar: Hey, thanks! It'll take a bit of getting used to, though :happybanana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earth-Angel Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Joachim Berg from kent You know I'm with you on this one Charlota! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy17838 Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Whos your favorite songwriter, and what are your favorite lyrics by them? :: Neil Peart, see my signature ("Freewill", Permanent Waves). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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