| Jody Watley – Everything Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Recently I listened to this song after not hearing it for about 30 years. For reasons that aren't clear to me, the song and the music video have strongly appealed to me and have made me reflect. | |
| Van Morrison – Have I Told You Lately Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I agree with several commenters that this is a love song to God. I heard Van Morrison perform this song in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 2017. He changed the lyrics slightly but now I can't quite remember the change. Another love song that suggests a prayer is by The Seekers, "I'll Never Find Another You." | |
| Seekers – I'll Never Find Another You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| There is a great music video for this tune on youtube. They filmed The Seekers at the recording studio on Abbey Road and it's a very nostalgic look back at the 1960s and a time of innocence. As for the song by Dionysius P. A. O'Brien aka Tom Springfield, brother of the late Dusty Springfield, it is clearly a love song. But like Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately" the lyrics could be interpreted as a prayer to God. The reference to the Promised Land, the guide through the storm, the willingness to lose a worldly fortune, the uniqueness of the beloved, and the eternal duration of the love (forever and a day), are suggestive of a divine love. | |
| Jim Croce – Which Way Are You Goin'? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I found these lyrics to be an inspiring source of reflection on the day after the Nazi day of terror in Charlottesville Virginia. | |
| Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| You can't stay at home and watch "the revolution." A revolution is not an event. It is not planned or scheduled and it has no commercial value or mass appeal. It is living in the present and it exists within an individual. It is what the Greeks called "metanoia" or repentance - a changing of mind and attitude and conversion to embrace a way of living that goes beyond your limitations. So you can't just sit and wait for the revolution to come to you and watch it pass by like a parade. No one will bring to you or show it to you. The world has no interest or desire to give you the revolution because ultimately the world derives no benefit or advantage from the revolution. | |
| Jim Croce – I Got A Name Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song too. It expresses pride, not in the sense of a feeling of superiority, but in terms of self-respect. I think this song also recognizes that we owe a debt to our ancestors, and that it expresses gratitude for the opportunities that they didn't have. ("I've got a name, I've got a name/And I carry it with me like my daddy did/But I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid") I think that this lyric also has an interesting ambiguity. "I'm livin the dream that he kept hid" suggests not only Croce's gratitude for the chance to live his dream, but also a challenge to himself - to not be inhibited and lower expectations for himself as his father did. There is also an interesting progression from name to song to dream. It symbolizes identity, expression and fulfillment. At the same time it seems to mark a life progression from childhood, to maturity, and completion with a soulmate. Like nearly all of Croce's work, this song is thought-provoking, written artfully, yet clearly and undertstandably, and prompts an emotional response. A great song. |
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| Paul Davis – I Go Crazy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have heard this song thousands of times, and loved it, but never picked up on who sang it. I don't ever remember hearing of Paul Davis until I picked up this song on Pandora. It is a great lyric, so remorseful and passionate, and Paul's voice is incredibly smooth and emotional. | |
| Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Piña Colada Song) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Not a great song, but romantically funny. It pokes fun at people's weaknesses. | |
| Stephen Bishop – It Might Be You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with pistolero. Very romantic and poetic. The melody is perfect too, so wistful and expressive. It just sounds like you're in love but you wonder if it's for real. I really like the opening lyric: Time I've been passing time watching trains go by All of my life Lying on the sand, watching seabirds fly Wishing there would be Someone waiting home for me Something's telling me it might be you It's telling me it might be you All of my life |
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| England Dan & John Ford Coley – Love Is The Answer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| A great song for believers! Light of the world, shine on me. | |
| Dave Loggins – Please Come To Boston Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love these poetic lyrics in the second stanza: We'll move up into the mountains So far that we can't be found And throw I love you echos Down the canyons And then lie awake at night Until they come back around |
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| Eagles – Love Will Keep Us Alive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song too, but it's hard to find a recording of it. I don't think it's on Greatest Hits. | |
| Jim Croce – Lover's Cross Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| An underrated song that receives little airplay from a great songwriter. I think it means more than a gf or spouse who tries to turn you into something you're not. I think he is referring to an emotionally abusive partner who wants to turn the relationship into a soap opera - a drama queen, for lack of a better term. This song is about reaching the point where you have the courage to respect yourself and end the relationship. | |
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