This is a love song to John and Leisha's mother / This isn't easy I might not write another
― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
He says at the start that he's listening to a familiar song on the radio, and then later on that he's 'hiding in his music' so the big swelling notes that follow are like the dream he has when he 'closes his eyes and he drifts away.' And it's 'More Than a feeling' because it's a feeling manifested in the actuality of the song. And if you think it's pretentious that he says 'hide in my music' well you have to suspend that idea.
― maryann (maryann), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 03:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 09:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bham, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
have no doubt, Marcello: "Feel" is rivalling "Strong" in my mental chamber of horrors. hearing the album might reduce me to a floating skull off Chesil Beach.
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shame on us.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth the minor fall, the major lift; the baffled king composing Hallelujah!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 2 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
And "The Fear" as well - "And the chorus goes like this" - not Jarvis's finest lyrical hour, admittedly, but it's there.
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 3 January 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Why do I find it hard to write the next line..."
― delbert organization iii, Friday, 3 January 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lukas Bergstrom (lukas), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
rather, cherchez la ghost
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday
"The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn this song"
That is such an underrated line.
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
which is the worst, as he keeps going SAYING THAT!!!
(Spandau Ballet, True, for the USA bods)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Mekons: Empire of the Senseless
"They took away our films and tapes and notebooks but it's OK, we self-censored this song. But these lines are all individuals! And there's no such thing as this song."
"This song promotes homosexuality. It's in a pretended family relationship with the others on this record. And on the charts and on the jukebox. And in the radio."
That is such an underrated song.
― zero, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Were You There for that Session
This Is a Song that Only Has One Chord
Watering Down the Legacy
― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song..."
David Bowie, 5 Years. But Borrowed Tune comes a close 2nd.
― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Billy Bragg – New EnglandI was 21 years when I wrote this song, I’m 22 now but won’t be for longNicked from Paul Simon: Leaves That Are Green
Second verse, Same as th first,Judy Is Punk - RamonesNicked from Herman's Hermits (et al): I'm Henry The Eighth I Am
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
- True to the Game, Ice Cube
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I think this song was top 5 in the USA too.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
How does it feel?Your night light, your curling ironLit up by the sweat of others,For many's the dayBut not from November to May
The floor is litteredWith woodchips and apple coresAnd hulls (holes?) of acornsThere is a chattering sound
Because they were squirrels; real squirrels.(And there were thousands)This isn't some kind of metaphor,Goddamn, this is real
― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh I love her, and I just can't live without herAnd I've got the urge to tell the world about herBut our love's a secret and can't see the light of dayBut I went and wrote this love song anywayHer name is [twang]Her eyes are [twang]Her hair is just like [twang]And she measures [twang]Oh someday, I'll fill in the lines when she and I are freeAnd we'll walk in the sunshine, [twang] and me
Still fitting (I think) but less awesome, though not by much:
1. "Another Irish Drinking Song," DaVinci's Notebook,2. "Title of the Song," DVN,3. "Meaningless Songs In Very High Voices" by Hee Bee Gee Bees, once they sing "The world is very very big and bacon comes from a pig but it's you I really want on my plate,"4. "The Most Offensive Song Ever" from Kenny and Mr Hankey ("'Cause you can *mmph mmph mmph mmph* and still be a virgin, Mary!"), 5. "Silly Love Songs," Wings, and6. "That's Evolution!" by Wally Pleasant ("Jesse Pickerel[sp?], why don't you just take it away! [musical interlude] Oh, Jesse, give it back!")
― Nackles (Nackles), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
So, "Sunny Days" by Lighthouse: "it was four in the afternoon when I wrote this tune."
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
This is the song against itselfIt's of two minds of its ownThe discussion brough to logical conclusionIt follows throughBut is not true
We'll just write a song against itselfWhy do you act like you don't knowWhat in the world i'm talking about?It follows throughYou have no clue
― danski (danski), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― danski (danski), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
"Cause this song has no title/just words and a tune."
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Well I can't tell you anything You don't already knowI keep on tryingI should just let it go
I keep on singingYour eyes, they just rollIt sounds like someone else's song From a long time ago
You already know the story And the chords are just the sameYou already know I love youAnd I sound like what's his name
But you can't stop meI want you to knowI know it sounds like someone else's song From a long time ago
(played like faux-Hank Williams on the record, and like Led Zepplin live)
Also,
Steve Goodman/David Allan Coe, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" (extended ambiguity about whether it's a song to a rejecting lover or to a rejecting public, then spoken-word interlude about how Goodman told Coe it was the perfect country song, and Coe said it couldn't be the perfect country song if it didn't say anything about getting drunk, or mama, or prison, or trucks, or trains, followed by Goodman's response -- a final verse involving all of the foregoing).
Bright Eyes, "Take It Easy, Love Nothing" (If you stay too long inside my memory / I will put you in a song tied to a melody / And I'll keep you there so you can't bother me)
Shari Lewis, "The Song That Never Ends" (This is the song that ne-ver ends / Yes it goes on and on my friends / Some people started singing it not knowing what it was / And they'll continue singing it forever just because / This is the song that ne-ver ends . . . )
― Vornado, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― matlewis, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
"borrowed tune" ("i'm singing this borrowed tune/i took from the rolling stones..."
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link