Song To Describe Your Life

[TheSkaFish]

Well I've been out walking
I don't do that much talking these days
These days-
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to

And I had a lover
It's so hard to risk another these days
These days-
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long

I'll keep on moving
Things are bound to be improving these days
These days-
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend

Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.........................

Oh man. That song really makes a person feel.

Have you ever heard the original? I first heard it in the movie, "The Royal Tenenbaums".

Nico - These Days

 

[user 162085]

 

[StarDust]

 

[StarDust]

 

[TheSkaFish]

It's hard to encompass my whole life in just one song, because I can see myself having different songs for different feelings and situations.

But if I had to pick just one song, the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" comes close.



The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet

June bug 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 the store
Morphine city slippin' dues
Down to see

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 now
As you see there's no one around

I like this version too:

 

[SecondStarTotheRight]

 

[user 162085]

This has gotta stop-- Clapton has come back-- FREEEDOM! My Anthem...

Where have all the REBELS GONE? Van... &Clapton


YES--- go Canada------- Truckers!!!!!!! Rebels....

 

[user 162085]

And an old one from Bowie= always true. Impossible to describe one's life:
"The only Constant in life IS CHANGE". He knows it, and he'll never be "gone"

 

[U-122]

We live in the sound of machines
And nothing but fear drives us forward
We're lost, we're doomed
The journey costs the mind
We're all all in the same boat
No SOS, no radio signal, no echo, distress
We're all in the same boat
Around us a black sea that roars and rages
We're all in the same boat
Every goodbye keeps his word
We may never disembark again
Who knows how deep the journey will go
That takes us to the brink of madness
We're all all in the same boat

 

[Colster]

"Here I Go Again"

I don't know where I'm going
But I sure know where I've been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday

And I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

Here I go again
Here I go again

Though I keep searching for an answer
I never seem to find what I'm looking for
Oh, Lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on

'Cause I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

Here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone

But I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

Just another heart in need of rescue
Waiting on love's sweet charity
I am gonna hold on
For the rest of my days

'Cause I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

Here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
And I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

But here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go

And I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

Here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
'Cause I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

Here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
I have made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

But here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go
Here I go again

 

[user 135671]

Gotta love a wee bit of the Cov, this has pretty much been my anthem lately

 

[Colster]

Days of No Trust​

Magnum
Pray to the future
Look to the past
Face the accuser
Freeze in our tracks
So many children
Have fallen from grace
The door should be open
No scorn or disgrace

Keys have been stolen
Treasure is lost
Lesson is golden
Hearts have been crossed
So here's to the heros
Come one and come all
Without them well who knows
Well who knows at all

In these days of no trust
Evermore hostility
We're all living under the same old sky
We're all living telling the same old lie
In these days of no trust

And music recorded
Might influence dreams
But headlines are courted
By stretch limosines
Pictures of plenty
Are stuck to the wall
For heads that are empty
Brains on the floor
Can't take any more

Someone is shouting
Revolution is here
He'll climb any mountain
For his selfish career
The truth's not a curtain
To be drawn back and forth
It's a flame that keeps burning
Everlasting tourch

In these days of no trust
Evermore hostility
We're all living under the same old sky
We're all living telling the same old lie
In these days of no trust

Songwriters: Tony Clarkin

 

[user 135671]

Days of No Trust​

Oh man! you're bringing my youth back now, saw these guys so many times at the Marquee back at the dawn of time ain't listened to them in years very nice shout.

 

[Colster]

Pay Travers


Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion

I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

So baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my hand like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion

I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

So baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

So baby, talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes again
Ooh-ooh
Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
Here it goes again, here it goes again

I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it rainin' with you? (Ooh, here it comes again)

Here comes the rain again (I said)
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like e new emotion (ooh-yeah, ooh-yeah)

I want to walk in the open wind (ooh-ooh)
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like e new emotion (yeah, yeah)

 

[Colster]

Tux On​

Marillion
Tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on
He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night
The match was rained off Saturday but the panel came in bright
And on Sunday your mates were toasting you with champagne down the pub
And on Monday you went to London
To pick the cheque up with your mum

You had a tux on, you had a tux on
The first time you had a tux on, lucky man

There's a photo on the mantelpiece, when you bought your first guitar
And your girlfriend came to see you when you were the rising star
You knew your luck was holding when you filled the local hall
The first time and the last time that you thought you had control

You had a tux on, lucky man, you had a tux on
You got a tux on, tux on

Now you're touring stadiums, you've let it go too far
Standing with your manager, your back to every bar
Burning all your credit cards, chopping out the pain
Crowding into toilets with a host of your new-found friends

You got a tux on, nothing's changed, you got a tux on
Lucky man with a tux on, you're still the same with a tux on

It was eyes down in the parlour, they prayed it wouldn't rain
A brother pulled his cuffs down to hide the blue-black vein
His razor'd more than lines out, they found him just too late
The final performance, the main man lies in state

With a tux on, look at him now with a tux on
The last time with a tux on, take him away with a tux on

Somewhere in a tenement, in a well-thumbed magazine
Someone finds a photograph that triggers of a dream
The uniform that symbolises the comfortable life
He's always known his luck's in but now he's found the drive

He's got a tux on, look at him now with a tux on
He's gonna get one with a tux on, free admission with a tux on
Get it anyway with a tux on
He's got a tux on the easy way with a tux on, tux on

Songwriters: Kelly, Mosley, Dick, Rothery, Trewavas

 

[user 162085]

 

[user 162085]

Great Doc on Netflix "Robert Kennedy" no, i ain't of either of those odd new political parties of today! -- we are reliving history in America -- over and over and over-- must be a quote somewhere... History repeats: And, though Dylan wrote this song--he acknowledges Hendrix as owning it:

 

[Adamridge79]

I can't link Spotify...Whiskey Lullaby

She put him out, like the burning end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life trying to forget
We watched him drink away his pain a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to drink her off his mind
Until the night

He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger, and finally drank away her memory, life is short but this time is was bigger, than the strength he had to get up off his knees

We found him with his face down in the pillows, with a note that said I'll love her til I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow, the Angels sung a whiskey Lullaby

 

[sparkyn98]

I was raised by the good book
Learned to work hard every day
Thought that if you can't say something good
There's nothing good to say
And I caught on pretty early it's no use to work
No harder than you play
So I guess that's how I ended up this way

Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

Well I give everything I got, try to give more than I take
For Heaven's sake I keep on smiling
No matter what comes my way
And I may be passin' out on Friday night
But come Sunday I'll be passing the collection plate
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

Yeah I know I'm a sinner, but I've got faith
Oh my good side is what he's gonna see
When I'm standing at them Pearly Gates
He'll have nothing but mercy for me
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

Is a place I keep finding myself
Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun
Then I end up back where I started from
Down on my knees, I pray
Oh Lord let me see another day
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

 

[user 188685]

the story of my life