The Song Dedication Thread

The People's Republic of Clogher

08-26-05

This song is dedicated to someone...

Van Morrison - A Town Called Paradise

Copycats ripped off my words
Copycats ripped off my songs
Copycats ripped off my melody
It doesn't matter what they say
It doesn't matter what they do
All that matters is my relationship to you

Gonna take you out
Get you in my car
We're going for a long long drive
We're going down to A Town Called Paradise
Down where we can be free
We're gonna drink that wine
We're gonna jump for joy
In a town called Paradise

We're going up the mountainside
Child you can look for miles
And see the vision on the west
We're gonna swing round
And look from north to south
Swing round from east to west
And go round in a circle too
And we're gonna start dancing
Like we've never done before
I'm gonna take you in my arms
I'm gonna squeeze you tight
Everything will be alright
We're gonna get that squealin' feelin'
Gonna take you down to a town called Paradise,
Down where we can be free
It doesn't matter what they say
It doesn't matter what they do
All that matters is my relationship to you
By the river we will linger
As we drive down to be free
We're gonna ride all night long
All along the ancient highway
Gonna be there for the mornin' comes

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SamsoniteDelilah

Standing in the Sunlight, Laughing

08-26-05

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Caitlyn

MoFo Patrol

08-26-05

Originally Posted by Tacitus

This song is dedicated to someone...

Van Morrison - A Town Called Paradise

Hmmmm....

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AiSv Nv wa do hi ya do...
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Tacitus

The People's Republic of Clogher

08-26-05

Originally Posted by Caitlyn

Hmmmm....

I couldn't possibly comment...

Tacitus

The People's Republic of Clogher

08-28-05

For nebbs.

Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows

Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street
Got in my nose
As we carried our ladders down the street
With the wrought-iron gate rows
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break
Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner
And went straight back to work.

Oh, Sam was up on top
And I was on the bottom with the v
We went for lemonade and Paris buns
At the shop and broke for tea
I collected from the lady
And I cleaned the fanlight inside-out
I was blowing saxophone on the weekend
In that down joint.

What's my line?
I'm happy cleaning windows
Take my time
I'll see you when my love grows
Baby don't let it slide
I'm a working man in my prime
Cleaning windows (number a hundred and thirty-six)

I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon
On the street where I was born
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee,
Muddy Waters singin' "I'm A Rolling Stone"
I went home and read my Christmas Humphreys' book on Zen
Curiosity killed the cat
Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" and "On The Road"

What's my line?
I'm happy cleaning windows
Take my time
I'll see you when my love grows
Baby don't let it slide
I'm a working man in my prime
Cleaning windows...

SamsoniteDelilah

Standing in the Sunlight, Laughing

09-16-05

I Will Survive
by Gloria Gaynor

First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high
and you see me
somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I'm saving all my loving
for someone who's loving me

Tacitus

The People's Republic of Clogher

09-16-05

*sniff* thanks luv...

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all though...

This one's for Pyro in appreciation of his days ahead (and before you go ape, bud, I was one myself

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The Fall - Hey Student

Ah-well I'm walking down the street,
It's always students that I meet,
Long hair down and sneakers on your feet.
Write your letters to the Evening News
I clench my fist and sing this tune:
I said Hey student, hey student, hey student,
You're gonna get it through the head,
I said Hey student, hey student, hey student,
You're gonna get it through the head, I said...
Well, walking to work,
It's always students that I meet
Henna in your hair, [...]
As you [...]
I clench my hand before I flip my lid.
CHORUS.
I'm walking down the street,
It's always students that I meet,
Long hair down and sneakers on your feet.
As you listen to Pearl Jam in your room.
I'm thinking like that when I sing this song:
CHORUS.
I said I walk some more, walk some more,
Walk some more, wah wah wah x2
I'm walking down the street,
It's always students that I meet,
Long hair down and sneakers on your feet.
As you stare in your room at Shaun Ryder's face
Down long long long long days
CHORUS.
I said I walk some more, walk some more, walk some more, wah wah
wah x2
The dead brains of class A-B
[...]
Twin swastikas
I'm thinking like this when I sing this tune:
CHORUS.
I said I walk some more, walk some more,
Walk some more, wah wah wah x2

Eyes

Registered User

09-19-05

For Pyro Tramp

Good Charlotte- Movin' On

When I think about my life
I wonder if I will survive to live to see in 25
Or will I just fall?
Like all my friends, they just keep dying
People �round me always crying
In this place that I like to call my home

Not everybody knows that everybody goes to a better place
Not everybody knows that everyone could be living their last days
But the hard times will come, and we�ll keep movin� on, we�re movin� up
Keep movin� on

Life,
Hope,
Truth,
Trust,
Faith,
Pride,
Love,
Lust

On without the things we�ve lost
The things we�ve gained we�ll take with us

And all I�ve got are these two hands to make myself a better man
I wonder if I�ll ever see the end of this
With all this rain it just keeps falling
On my head and now I�m calling
Out to someone else to help me make it through

Not everybody knows that everybody goes to a better place
Not everybody knows that everyone could be living their last days
But the hard times will come, and we�ll keep movin� on, we�re movin� up
Keep movin� on

Life,
Hope,
Truth,
Trust,
Faith,
Pride,
Love,
Lust,
Pain,
Hate,
Lies,
Kill,
Laugh,
Cry,
Live,
Die

Some friends become enemies
Some friends become your family
Make the best with what you�re given
This ain�t dying
This is living!

Said we�re movin� on, and we got nothing to prove
To anyone �cause we�ll get through
We�re movin� on and on and on and on...
Keep movin� on

Life,
Hope,
Truth,
Trust,
Faith,
Pride,
Love,
Lust,
Pain,
Hate,
Lies,
Kill,
Laugh,
Cry,
Live,
Die

Some friends become enemies
Some friends become your family
Make the best with what you�re given
This ain�t dying
This is living!

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SamsoniteDelilah

Standing in the Sunlight, Laughing

01-26-06

For Ophelia:

A Long December
by Counting Crows

A long December and there�s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can�t remember the last thing you said as you were leavin�
Now the days go by so fast

And it�s one more day up in the canyons
And it�s one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven... I wish you would

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it�s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it�s one more day up in the canyons
And it�s one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California... I think you should

Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it�s been a long December and there�s no reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better that the last
I can�t remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it�s one more day up in the canyon
And it�s one more night in Hollywood
It�s been so long since I�ve seen the ocean... I guess I should

SmegFirk

Ground Control To Major Thom

01-26-06

What does 'winter hospital' smell of i wonder

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Anonymous Last

Arresting your development

01-26-06

Originally Posted by SmegFirk

What does 'winter hospital' smell of i wonder

Runny noses, cold meds and frozen bedpans?

Wait...are we talking a moral consistent, victory?

Nothing wrong with consistency! Unless it�s too thick, or sorta soupy.

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Embrace the chaos and sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Last edited by Anonymous Last; 01-26-06 at 05:05 PM.

SmegFirk

Ground Control To Major Thom

01-26-06

Originally Posted by Anonymous Last

Runny noses, cold meds and frozen bedpans?

smells like, victory

Anonymous Last

Arresting your development

01-26-06

Originally Posted by SmegFirk

smells like, victory

You learn something everyday... thanks man.

ash_is_the_gal

i'm SUPER GOOD at Jewel karaoke

01-26-06

i dedicate this song to someone...

Goodbye Earl
by the dixie chicks

Mary-Anne and Wanda were the best of friends
All through their high school days
Both members of the 4h club
Both active in the FFA
After graduation Mary-Anne went out lookin�
For a bright new world
Wanda looked all around this town
And all she found was Earl

Well it wasn�t two weeks
After she got married that
Wanda started gettin� abused
She put on dark glasses and long sleeved blouses
And make-up to cover a bruise
Well she finally got the nerve to file for divorce
She let the law take it from there
But Earl walked right through that restraining order
And put her in intensive care

Right away Mary-Anne flew in from Atlanta
On a red eye midnight flight
She held Wanda�s hand as they
Worked out a plan
And it didn�t take them long to decided

That Earl had to die
Goodbye Earl
Those black-eyed peas!
They tasted all right to me Earl
You feeling weak?
Why don�t you lay down
And sleep Earl
Ain�t it dark
Wrapped up in that tarp Earl

The cops came by to bring Earl in
They searched the house
High and low
Then they tipped their hats
And said �thank you ladies
If you hear from him let us know�

Well the weeks went by and
Spring turned to summer
And summer faded into fall
And it turns out he was a missing person
Who nobody missed al all

So the girls bought some land
At a roadside stand
Out on highway 109
They sell tennessee ham
And strawberry jam
And they don�t
Lose any sleep at night �cause

Earl had to die
Goodbye Earl
We need a break
Let�s go out to the lake Earl
We�ll pack a lunch!
And stuff you in the trunk Earl
Well is that all right?
Good let�s go for a ride
Earl hey

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Ophelia

Registered User

01-27-06

Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah

For Ophelia:

The smell of hospitals in winter

And it�s one more day up in the canyons
And it�s one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California... I think you should

What a great thing to come home to after work, I couldnt help but laugh....thank you, thanks for thinking of me.

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ash_is_the_gal

i'm SUPER GOOD at Jewel karaoke

02-01-06

For Anonymous Last!!

We Didn't Start The Fire
by Bill Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day
Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I
And The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean,
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak,
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai,
Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
California baseball
Starkweather homicides,
Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur
Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro
Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee
payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho,
Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion (****, i lost my place...)
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock
Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan
Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride,
heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, Homeless Vets
AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores
China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars,
I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Anonymous Last

Arresting your development

02-01-06

Originally Posted by ash_is_the_gal

Lyrics.com got it wrong?

SamsoniteDelilah

Standing in the Sunlight, Laughing

02-13-06

You give love a bad name
by Bon Jovi

Shot through the heart, and you're to blame,
darling you give love a bad name

An angel's smile is what you sell
You promise me heaven then put me through hell
Chains of love, got a hold on me
When passion's a prison you can't break free

You're a loaded gun ... yeah
There's nowhere to run
No-one can save me, the damage is done

Shot through the heart, and your to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name
You give love a bad name

You paint your smile on your lips
Blood red nails on your fingertips
A school boys dream, you act so shy
Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye

You're a loaded gun
There's nowhere to run
No-one can save me, the damage is done

Shot through the heart, and your to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name
You give love.....

Shot through the heart and your to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name

Shot through the heart and your to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name

You give love....
You give love a bad name
You give love....
You give love a bad name
You give love....
You give love a bad name

Tacitus

The People's Republic of Clogher

02-17-06

Lullaby Of London - The Pogues

As I walked down by the riverside
One evening in the spring
Heard a long gone song
From days gone by
Blown in on the great north wind
Though there is no lonesome corncrake�s cry
Of sorrow and delight
You can hear the cars
And the shouts from bars
And the laughter and the fights

May the ghosts that howled
Round the house at night
Never keep you from your sleep
May they all sleep tight
Down in hell tonight
Or wherever they may be

As I walked on with a heavy heart
Then a stone danced on the tide
And the song went on
Though the lights were gone
And the north wind gently sighed
And an evening breeze coming from the east
That kissed the riverside
So I pray now child that you sleep tonight
When you hear this lullaby
May the wind that blows from haunted graves
Never bring you misery
May the angels bright
Watch you tonight
And keep you while you sleep

ash_is_the_gal