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Post by mirrororchid on Feb 8, 2022 6:08:26 GMT -5
Man, when you remove the "water" from the flippin' bottom of the ocean, there just ain't nothin' left, is there?
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
You may find yourself in another part of the world
You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
You may ask yourself, how do I work this?
You may ask yourself, where is that large automobile?
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water, carry the water
Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, into silent water
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house?
You may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to?
You may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong?
You may say to yourself, my god, what have I done?
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, into silent water
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Look where my hand was
Time isn't holding us, time isn't after us
Time isn't holding us, time doesn't hold you back
Time isn't holding us, time isn't after us
Time isn't holding us...
Letting the days go by, letting the days go by, letting the days go by, once in a lifetime [?]
Letting the days go by, letting the days go by, letting the days go by, once in a lifetime
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Post by mirrororchid on Feb 11, 2022 5:28:45 GMT -5
Refused wife has some parting advice for her bait n' switch husband.
This was all you, none of it me
You put your hands all over my body and told me, mmm
You told me you were ready
For the big one, for the big jump
I'd be your last love, everlasting, you and me, mmm
That was what you told me
I'm giving you up
I've forgiven it all
You set me free
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
I was too strong, you were trembling
You couldn't handle the hot heat rising (rising), mmm
Baby, I'm still rising
I was running, you were walking
You couldn't keep up, you were falling down (down), mmm
There's only one way down
I'm giving you up
I've forgiven it all
You set me free, oh
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We've both know we ain't kids no more
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
If you're ready, if you're ready
If you're ready, I am ready
If you're ready, if you're ready
We both know we ain't kids no more
No, we ain't kids no more
I'm giving you up
I've forgiven it all
You set me free
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
If you're ready, if you're ready (send my love to your new lover)
If you're ready, are you ready? (Treat her better)
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
If you're ready, if you're ready (send my love to your new lover)
If you're ready, are you ready? (Treat her better)
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
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Post by mirrororchid on Apr 1, 2022 17:17:38 GMT -5
List for this thread so far:
"How's It Going To Be" by Third Eye Blind "Time For Me To Fly" by REO Speedwagon "That Ain't Love" by REO Speedwagon "Cumbersome" by Seven Mary Three "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt "No Surprise" by Daughtry "Love For Hire" by Backtalk Rockets "One Less Set Of Footsteps" by Jim Croce "Send Me Down to Tucson" by Mel Tillis "You Can't Hurt Me" by Bridin Brennan “Run to You” by Bryan Adams "I Drove Her Out of My Mind" by Johnny Cash "Cold" by Mean Mary "Thorn In My Side" by the Eurythmics "When the Night Comes" by Joe Cocker (written by Bryan Adams) "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones "I'd Do Anything for Love" by Meat Loaf "Love is a Long Road" by Tom Petty "Keep Me Hanging On" by Kim Wilde/The Supremes "Always on My Mind" by Pet Shop Boys "Conversation 16" by The National "Sacrifice" by The Devil Wears Prada "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day “Knocking Boots” by ? "My soon to be ex mother in law” by ? "Drunk" - Elle King and Miranda Lambert "She Used to Love Me a Lot" by Johnny Cash "Love Me Like You Used To" by Seven Seconds of Love "What is Love" by Haddaway "Sometimes" by Bill Anderson and Mary Lou Turner "Not Fair" by Lily Allen "Karma" by AJR "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads "Send my Love" by Adele "Fate's Faithful Punchline" by Legendary Pink Dots "Always a Woman to Me" by Billy Joel Most of the Album Laughter and Lust by Joe Jackson "Pale Shelter" by Tears for Fears Lots of The Smiths, Especially "Please, Please, Please" "Exhibition" by The Devil Wears Prada "Immature" by FLO "Show Me" by Erised "Another Man Loved Me Last Night", "After the Fire is Gone", "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill" by Loretta Lynn "Thorn in My Side" by the Eurythmics "Good Clean Fun" by the Allman Brothers "I Scare Myself" Thomas Dolby "Get Some Strange" by Shark Island "Broken" by The Guess Who "When a Woman Goes Cold" by Mary Gauthier "Vertigo" by Khalid Related threads:
iliasm.org/thread/5372/song-who-left-sm"I'm Still Standing" Elton John ? - by Don Henley (blocked by UMG, so, unsure which song obobfla was referring to) iliasm.org/thread/5014/theme-song-staying"Leaving and Saying Goodbye" by Faron Young The theme from "Jaws" played on loop. "My Life" by Billy Joel "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd "She's My Girl" by Tom Lehrer "I'm Not Ready Yet" by Tom T. HALL "Uninvited" by Alanis Morrisette "Cheaper To Keep Her" by Johnnie Taylor "Downhearted" by Australian Crawl "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" by MeatLoaf "We Just Disagree" by Dave Mason "Good Enough for Now" by Weird Al Yankovic "Painless" by Fozzy “Escape (the Pina Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes iliasm.org/thread/5592/song-leaving "One More Minute" by Weird Al Yankovic "Long Road Out of Eden" by The Eagles (entire album)?
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Post by Apocrypha on Apr 2, 2022 12:33:44 GMT -5
The Legendary Pink Dots - Fate's Faithful Punchline
Lined up between the arrows at your heart - is this a charmed life that I lead?
Now could it be that some place, Some time, you will stop believing
and things that once were charming will feel like sand against your eyes?
When I walk into your space, you'll see a thief by night.
To send away or lock away or run away from...
Will there come a day?
Will we have the courage just to walk away while something still remains?
Will we keep it pure?
Now let this death be noble.
Let this death be grand.
Don't keep it on a lead...
When I think of you I want to see you on a summer day.
My treasure. My lover. Together.
Alone.
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Post by mirrororchid on Apr 27, 2022 5:56:11 GMT -5
Grinning to myself one day, I wanted to hear someone do a Screamo cover of Billy Joel's "Always a Woman" Then I went even darker and imagined this being sung by the affair partner of a refuser to the refused husband, a ruthless, soul-crushing taunt. Not posting a video, because I need you to imagine it sung in Death Metal unintelligible growl: She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me
She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you
And she'll take what you give her as long as it's free
Yeah she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me
Oh, she takes care of herself, she can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh, and she never gives out and she never gives in
She just changes her mind
And she'll promise you more than the garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding
But she brings out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me
<chorus>
She is frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel
But she can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree
And the most she will do is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me
Fun fact: Before Billy Joel was a soft rock crooner, he was in a duo called Attila that sang Heavy Metal. (badly)  They make a lovely couple, don't they? |
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Post by hanamidreaming on Apr 27, 2022 9:09:37 GMT -5
Man, when you remove the "water" from the flippin' bottom of the ocean, there just ain't nothin' left, is there? The more time goes by, the more I think this song is the Hotel California for Gen X… |
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Post by mirrororchid on May 12, 2022 5:04:57 GMT -5
The Old Songs
Joe Jackson
Play at 1.25 speed for a bouncier downer. There goes another one Another happy couple on the road to emptiness I think of my father and mother Can they imagine how two people can get in this mess But the old songs say - love's forever And the old songs never say die But a song can't keep us together How can that beautiful song be a lie Me I blame the old songs Filling hearts with rebellion and romance Our book of revelations And all we had to do was dance Play us another one Play us the hopes and dreams of twenty years ago They're all over the bloody radio It's like they're telling us there's nowhere left to go And the old songs say - "be my baby" And the old songs say - "she loves you" All the songs we'll sing come what may be I like those songs But I'd like something new Me I blame the old songs Protect us all against a change of course All our great expectations Turn to alimony and remorse The Old Songs isn't the only SM-applicable song on Jackson's album, Laughter and LustJamie G. (temptation after refusal) Goin' Downtown (Goin' Downtown Date night with a refusing spouse) Drowning (Trapped by your own devotion) My HouseWhen You're Not Around & The Other Me (Odes to an AP) It's All Too Much (Staying for Fear of the Unknown) Hit Single (Post SM) Trying to Cry (One of these guys may be LIASM) Most of the album could apply.
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Post by hanamidreaming on May 12, 2022 21:14:26 GMT -5
Tears for Fears, “Pale Shelter”
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Post by hanamidreaming on May 19, 2022 19:47:59 GMT -5
Maybe I’m reading into it things that aren’t there, but half the Smiths’ catalogue seems applicable. Like Please Please Please:
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Post by deadzone75 on Sept 17, 2022 0:02:41 GMT -5
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Post by winter123 on Sept 17, 2022 2:47:17 GMT -5
Flo - Immature
Feels like I've been waitin' a lifetime (yeah, yeah)
For you to tell me what's goin' on in your mind (mind)
But you don't talk to me, talk to me
I'm tryna walk with you so walk with me
But you be takin' too long (you be takin' too long)
Soon, I'll be gone
Say you want my body, body
But you ain't never do a thing about it
Baby, lovin' you is such a chore
'Cause you're steady movin' immature
I don't want no body, body
Who talk that talk but don't do shit about it
Say you gonna put it down for sure
Why you gotta be so imma-, imma-
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-ture
Oh (oh)
I'm tryna understand your point of view
But you fuckin' with me, fuckin' with me
Tell me, how can I relate (ah)
If you don't communicate?
But you don't talk to me, talk to me (oh)
I'm tryna walk with you so walk with me (walk with me, yeah)
But you be takin' too long (you be takin' too long)
Soon, I'll be gone
Say you want my body, body (ah)
But you ain't never do a thing about it (ha-ah-ah-ah)
Baby, lovin' you is such a chore
'Cause you're steady movin' immature
I don't want no body, body (no I don't, no I don't)
Who talk that shit but don't do shit about it
Say you gonna put it down for sure
Why you gotta be so imma-, imma-
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture
Imma-ture
Say you want my body, body
But you ain't never do a thing about it (thing about it)
Baby, lovin' you is such a chore
'Cause you're steady movin', immature
I don't want nobody, body (no, oh)
Who talk the talk but don't do shit about it (about it)
Say you gonna put it down for sure (down for sure)
Why you gotta be so imma-, imma-
Immature, immature (immature, immature)
Immature, immature (immature, immature)
Ha, ah, ah (imma-tu-tu-tu-ture, tu-tu-tu-ture)
Immature, so immature
Why you gotta be? (So immature)
Why you gotta be? (So immature)
So immature
Oh
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Post by alwaysseverus on Oct 17, 2022 3:10:50 GMT -5
Show Me
I cannot calm the rain
I cannot warm your pain
Why do you keep on counting on me?
I cannot erase your hate
I cannot face your fate
Why do you keep on counting on me?
(chorus) Why can't you show me your weakness?
Oh and let yourself go...
Are you afraid to show me?
Because I already know...
I cannot be your faith
I cannot save your grace
Why do you keep on counting on me?
I cannot break your chains
I cannot change your ways
Why do you keep on counting on me? (chorus)
Why can't you show me your weakness?
Oh and let yourself go... show me, show me your weakness,
Are you afraid to show me? Let yourself go
Because I already know... show me, show me your weakness
Why can't you show me your weakness? Because I already know...
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Post by jim44444 on Oct 17, 2022 20:15:08 GMT -5
With the passing of Loretta Lynn a lot of her songs got played. She had a few that are appropriate for this thread. There are probably others since she wrote and sang about real life.
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Post by warmways on Oct 27, 2022 23:34:31 GMT -5
This. Explains it all. Thank you!! |
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Post by blunder8 on Oct 28, 2022 15:33:29 GMT -5
I'm too lazy to find a YouTube video. This thread reminded me of a line in an Allman Brothers song: "if you don't want to love me somebody else will."
Ironically the song is "Good Clean Fun"
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