Emotionally impacting lyrics

[Scarlet1987]

I was just listening to 'If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me', and the line "If you don't want me then you don't have to have me, I just thought you might feel the same, that's all" hit me really hard. The emotion and yearning in that line is amazing. Which lines do you find really impact you emotionally?

One of my all time favourite Morrissey songs.

 

[penfoldsfive]

"Shyness is nice, and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to
So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
ASK ME - I WON'T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I ?"

cast my memory back there Lord....

 

[mick ransommich]

It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas

'Now how did I guess
You were going to express
Your disdain at the crane
With the bright fairy lights
And you moan at the snow
‘Cos your car wouldn’t go
Oh it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas..

You don’t have a tree
And your smile has a fee
All the same, here’s a card
For your boring facade
Jingle Bells, piney smells
All the boys and the girls
Say it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas
Oh it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas

See how we yawn
At your bile and your scorn
It’s a beautiful day!
Peace on Earth has been played
Make a noise with your toys
And ignore the killjoys
‘Cos it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas

Oh it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas..

I saw three ships
Come sailing in
Come sailing in
Come sailing in
I saw three ships
Come sailing in
on Christmas Day
In the morning...'

 

[mick ransommich]

I’m sitting by Ladbroke Grove
Waiting for the NME
They’re coming down to interview me
But I haven’t told the others, ‘cos they’d mess around and burp, and tell the truth and laugh at me for drinking a classic red bottled by a medal-winning estate on the banks of the Garonne..

'So then Bern, it seems every track on the EP involves death, drunkenness, desperate poverty, diabolical dealings, incest, murder and abandonment. Does this reflect your current state of mind?'

Well you know I have days. Those songs were written a few years back when I had a few problems with someone very close – things started to weigh me down – and I generally don’t like to talk about it, you know.

'Okay yeah, no problem.'

What it is you see, is that you can love someone and hate them at the same time, and I felt like I was on a tightrope, kind of like a precipice – it was all a bit deranged, and I guess that comes through in the music.

'Yeah sure. Your guitarist used to be in Evil Gazebo. Has that been an influence on your sound do you think?'

Well those particular songs were more about the descent into madness which I found myself falling into. So obviously I wrote those songs through nothing really to do with erm, this new guitarist… and er, it’s all to do with the ensuing psychiatric help, which I suppose is in evidence within the lyrics. As I say, I don’t want to go into that too much...

'Right yeah. Your ex-girlfriend informs us – errm – after her new band Of Course Pankhurst entered the charts last week – that your treatment as such was at a voluntary day ward and you went along there purely to get people into thinking you were the new Nick Drake?...'

PAUSE..

I’ve been in a mental hospital
I’ve been in a mental hospital
But I don’t like to talk about it – all the same
I’ve been in a mental hospital
I’ve been in a mental hospital
I’VE BEEN IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL!!

 

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I really LOVE the backing "Yeah/Uh" in Black eyed susan....though I Cannot for the Loife of me ever hope to understand what possessed Morrissey to (Almost) destroy that song by including the Stoopid nonsense bit in the middle of it....

 

[alek2702]

Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh John, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Edward, see those alluring lights ?
Tonight will be your very last night

A woman said : "I know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head"


So very sad lyrics.... every time i listen to the song i think about what the children must have gone through.

 

[roma/totti]

"And I am alone, alone forever more"

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Laid my son
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why


A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared
In my own country

 

[roma/totti]

Laid my son
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why


A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared
In my own country

what song is this?

 

[racheluk]

I could probably list most of Moz's lyrics here but one that springs to mind (as no one else seems to rate this song!) is:

"But the person underneath, where does he go?
Does he slide by the wayside or does he just die?
When you find that you've organised your feelings for people
Who didn't like you then and do not like you now."

 

[CrystalGeezer]

what song is this?

This Is Not Your Country, a rare unpublished track.

 

[oscillate wildly]

pretty much every second of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
and Seasick yet Still Docked.

 

[Jessikers]

Oh, have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life?

and

Behind the hatred there lies the murderous desire for love...

 

[Dave]

Don't feel bad for me, I want you to know
deep in the cell of my heart I really want to go


Wherever you are
I hope you're singing now

 

[nugz]

To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.

Seals are for clubbing, nugz. Not quoting. tsk, tsk.

 

[nugz]

Seals are for clubbing, nugz. Not quoting. tsk, tsk.

crystal, ftw!

 

[CrystalGeezer]

crystal, ftw!

Is that wtf backwards?

Just googled it, "for the win!"

 

[nugz]

Is that wtf backwards?

Just googled it, "for the win!"