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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2001-06-19 05:53 PM


If there is plently of one thing it is love songs. most of them are cliched ridden terrible poppy songs by manufactured boy bands and girl bands. What I want to hear is about real love songs that sum up love for you. So no Britney, Back street boys, etc. Real bands, singers and songs. I am looking for real genuinely felt love songs.

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my favourite love songs are two Nick Cave and the Bad seed songs.


Into My Arms


I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms


Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms


And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms


Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms


And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

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Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?


I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near
I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here
Are you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear?
Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?
Well take that coat babe, and throw it on the floor
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?


As you've been moving surely toward me
My soul has comforted and assured me
That in time my heart it will reward me
And that all will be revealed
So I've sat and I've watched an ice-age thaw
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?


Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
Out of longing great wonders have been willed
They're only little tears, darling, let them spill
And lay your head upon my shoulder
Outside my window the world has gone to war
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?


O we will know, won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
O but they don't, do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die


There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him
He said, "He who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in"
I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting
And how every little thing anticipates you
All down my veins my heart-strings call
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?



"Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life". Terry Pratchett



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Janet Marie
Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

1 posted 2001-06-19 07:56 PM


you're right Bri...I do love this one  

for me...the to die for love song is the one that when you hear it...
you say either -- I wish I had wrote that...
or...I wish someone had wrote that for me.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Flame
Cheap Trick


Another night slowly closes in,
And I feel so lonely.
Touching heat freezing on my skin,
I pretend you still hold me.
I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep.
I'm in too far, I'm in way too deep over you.
I can't believe you're gone.
You were the first, you'll be the last.

Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon.
Remember: after the fire, after all the rain,
I will be the flame.
I will be the flame.

Watching shadows move across the wall,
I feel so frightened.
I wanna run to you, I wanna call,
But I've been hit by lightening.
Just can't stand up for fallin' apart.
Can't see through this veil across my heart, over you.
You'll always be the one.
You were the first, you'll be the last.

Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon.
Remember: after the fire, after all the rain,
I will be the flame.
I will be the flame.

I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep.
I'm in too far, I'm in way too deep over you.
You'll always be the one.
You were the first, you'll be the last.

Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon.
Remember: after the fire, after all the rain,
I will be the flame.
I will be the flame.

Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
And whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SKY BLUE AND BLACK
Jackson Browne

In the calling out to one another
Of the lovers up and down the strand
In the sound of the waves and the cries
Of the seagulls circling the sand
In the fragments of the songs
Carried down the wind from some radio
In the murmuring of the city in the distance
Ominous and low

I hear the sound of the world where we played
And the far too simple beauty
Of the promises we made

If you ever need holding
Call my name, I'll be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, I'll see you through
Sky blue and black

Where the touch of the lover ends
And the soul of the friend begins
There's a need to be separate and a need to be one
And a struggle neither wins
Where you gave me the world I was in
And a place I could make a stand
I could never see how you doubted me
When I'd let go of your hand

Yeah, and I was much younger then
And I must have thought that I would know
If things were going to end

And the heavens were rolling
Like a wheel on a track
And our sky was unfolding
And it'll never fold back
Sky blue and black

And I'd have fought the world for you
If I thought that you wanted me to
Or put aside what was true or untrue
If I'd know that's what you needed
What you needed me to do

But the moment has passed by me now
To have put away my pride
And just come through for you somehow

If you ever need holding
Call my name, I'll be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, I'll see you through

You're the color of the sky
Reflected in each store-front window pane
You're the whispering and the singing
Of my tires in the rain
You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost
In everything I do
Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you
In the sunlight and the shadows
And the faces on the avenue
That's the way love is
That's the way love is
That's the way love is
Sky blue and black

Severn
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704

2 posted 2001-06-20 01:04 AM


ooohhhh...REAL love songs? COOL!

Ok ok...here's one:

Bjork:

Possibly Maybe (very much an association song with one particular past relationship)

your flirt finds me out
teases the crack in me
smittens me with hope

possibly maybe probably love

as much as I enjoy solitude
I wouldn't mind perhaps
spending a little time with you
sometimes
sometimes

possibly maybe probably love

uncertainity excites me
baby
who knows what going to happen?
lottery or car crash
or you'll join a cult

possibly maybe possibly love

mon petit vulcan
you're eruptions and disasters
I keep calm
admiring your lava
I keep calm

possibly maybe probably love

electric shocks?
I love them!
with you: dozen a day
but after awhile I wonder
where's that love you promised me?

possibly maybe probably love

how can you offer me love like that?
my heart's burned
how can you offer me love like that?
I'm exhausted
leave me alone

possibly maybe
possibly maybe
possibly maybe

since we broke up
I'm using lipstick again
I suck my tongue
as a remembrance of you...

(c) Bjork.

Sigh...oh I love that song..have to go hear it RIGHT NOW! It has such a dreamy, moody sound...quite unique...and in the last two stanzas there is such an edge of desperation...ohhh it gives me shivers...

K



[This message has been edited by Severn (edited 06-20-2001).]

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546
missouri
3 posted 2001-06-20 01:24 AM


Oh this is easy...it has to be COLOUR MY WORLD by Chicago

As time goes on
I realize
just what you mean
to me
And now...
now that you're near
promise your love
that I've waited to share
and dream
of our moments together
Colour my world
with hope
of loving you

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094
Coastal Texas
4 posted 2001-06-20 12:52 PM


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