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Songs with the Greatest lyrics...

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  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 373
    Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
    Wet Dream - Max Romeo
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt - Elvis Costelllo
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,854
    Silverdreammachine said:
    Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
    Wet Dream - Max Romeo
    And there's me thinking your favourite was going to be:

    I've a dream, silver dream machine
    Silver dream, silver dream machine
    Silver dream, silver dream machine
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,916
    edited April 2020
    XTC - Dear God
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,878
    The Greatest Day - Take That

    Greatest Love of All - George Benson

    Greatest Dancer -   Sister Sledge

    The Greatest - Sia 
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,358
    Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders with Um Um Um Um Um Um
  • UEAAddick
    UEAAddick Posts: 513
    Lou Reed- The Kids (although very grim)
    Everything But The Girl- Oxford Street
    Big Star- Thirteen
    The Who- Getting In Tune
    Peter Tosh- Stepping Razor
    John Cale- Half Past France
    Mighty Diamonds- Why Me Black Brother
    Freda Payne- Love On Borrowed Time
    The Streets- On The Edge Of A Cliff
    The Clash- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
    Kano- Little Sis

    Just some of many 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,916
    Though it has to be said that few song lyrics have the simple, yet devastating poetic lyricism that takes you back to a point of time where thousands were unified by a simple message, in harmony with one collective thought like a multi-consciousness gestalt 

    Simon Jordan is a wanker, is a wanker.
    Simon Jordan is a wanker, is a wanker.
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Elvis Costello's Tramp The Dirt Down

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  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,217
    What a wonderful world- Louis Armstrong 

    Agadoo
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,633
    Bowie, Rock n roll suicide...fck knows what it’s really about but the lyrics are superb
  • Chef_addick
    Chef_addick Posts: 2,196
    F.E.A.R - Ian Brown.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,278
    edited April 2020
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders with Um Um Um Um Um Um
    It's a cover of Major Lance original recording written by Curtis Mayfield.

    ( I realise this is probably a piss take because of the title :smiley::wink: )
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,043
    edited April 2020
    Some Fantastic Place - Squeeze
    Watching the detectives - Elvis C
    When you were young - The Killer
    Ever fallen in love - the Buzzcocks
    Maggie May - Rod Stewart

    and something to sum up recent Charlton owners - Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury (or at least the start of it)
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    Admiral Fell Promises - Sun Kil Moon
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,617

    If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

    One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men

    Joy & Pain - Maze

    The World's Greatest - R. Kelly

  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    I think American Pie is the greatest lyric ever written. Other songs that spring to mind:

    New England - Billy Brag
    Just Dropped In - Kenny Rogers
    Man on the Moon (and Low Desert) - R.E.M.  

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Also.
    Dat
    By Pluto Shervington.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,023
    edited April 2020
    Another shout out for John Martyn, the sublime Couldn’t Love you More:

    If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
    And if you told me all the lies that I deserve
    And if you laid all night in the rain for me

    Well, I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    I couldn't love you more

    And if you loved me till my eyes can no more shine for you
    If you walked beside me all the long way home
    And if you wasted all of your time on me

    Well, I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more

    And if you gave me all the things, I'd never ask of you
    And if you showed me all the ways you have to cry
    And if you laid all night in the rain for me

    I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more

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  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    So many on here I could agree with but 'Its to late' by Carole King has to be the saddest song ever written.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
    A Day in the Life - The Beatles
    Where have all the good times gone - The Kinks
    Lola - The Kinks
    Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob
    Idiot Wind - Bob
    Opel - Syd Barrett
    The Bewley Brothers - David Bowie

    There are just too many to remember
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,411
    I recently had a look at U2 City Of Blinding Lights and thought some of the lyrics were pertinent to the current emergency. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,369
    charltonbob said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders with Um Um Um Um Um Um
    It's a cover of Major Lance original recording written by Curtis Mayfield.

    ( I realise this is probably a piss take because of the title :smiley::wink: )
    charltonbob said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders with Um Um Um Um Um Um
    It's a cover of Major Lance original recording written by Curtis Mayfield.

    ( I realise this is probably a piss take because of the title :smiley::wink: )

    very strange but effective  song  .. the Lance recording has a super arrangement .. reminiscent of a lot of Mayfield's stuff, horns and bongos heavy in the background (I've posted it on the 'listening to' thread)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,047
    Lola - wow there was a song ahead of its time.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,854
    Big fan of Jim Croce and his story telling abilities but if I had to pick one of his it would be Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)

    This particular one is about a soldier on military duty who has received a "Dear John" letter from his now ex-girlfriend:

    Operator, well could you help me place this call?
    See, the number on the matchbook is old and faded
    She's living in L.A. with my best old ex-friend Ray
    A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated

    Isn't that the way they say it goes? Well, let's forget all that
    And give me the number if you can find it
    So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine and to show
    I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well
    I only wish my words could just convince myself
    That it just wasn't real, but that's not the way it feels

    Operator, well could you help me place this call?
    Well, I can't read the number that you just gave me
    There's something in my eyes, you know it happens every time
    I think about a love that I thought would save me

    Operator, well let's forget about this call
    There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
    Thank you for your time, ah, you've been so much more than kind
    And you can keep the dime


  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    Stig said:
    Lola - wow there was a song ahead of its time.
    It's a classic Ray Davies song - full of pathos and humanity and no little humour.
    Classic pay-off line
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,916
    edited April 2020
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
    A Day in the Life - The Beatles
    Where have all the good times gone - The Kinks
    Lola - The Kinks
    Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob
    Idiot Wind - Bob
    Opel - Syd Barrett
    The Bewley Brothers - David Bowie

    There are just too many to remember
    She's Leaving Home also by The Beatles is another great lyric, with effectively 2 separate lyrics and melodies being sung at the same time in the chorus, with Paul singing about the girl, and John singing about the parents' point of view
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie has clever  humorous and sad lyrics all rolled into one.
  • PemburyAddick
    PemburyAddick Posts: 506
    "I wish you'd listen to me, no I don't want a cup of tea."

    "Stick my fingers right up your nose"

    "wish your 16 again"

    three songs and three guesses? (bet Stonemuse gets em)

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