Favourite song lyrics
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"Too many protest singers, not enough protests songs"
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
Do you have any?
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
Do you have any?
Reply 1
Here’s a few:
Secular music:
“Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea” (Stan Rogers)
Also “The Greenland Whale Fisheries”, “The Bonny Ship the Diamond”, “The Shores of England”.
“I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her til I die”
(Thomas Ford)
Other beautiful old love songs — “The Maid in Bedlam”, “The Miles to Dundee”, “Annie Laurie”.
"Beatus ille homo,
Qui sedet in sua domo
Et sedet post fornacem
Et habet bonam pacem.”
(Eichendorff — more for the sound of it than anything else, it’s the last chorus of a macaronic walking song used at the old German university in Prague, I was taught it by an elderly German gentleman in my teens.)
Hymns:
“Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.”
(John Monsell)
and
“Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound—his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.”
(Percy Dearmer after John Bunyan)
All of “Be Thou my Vision”, which is loosely based on the Lorica of St Patrick.
Secular music:
“Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea” (Stan Rogers)
Also “The Greenland Whale Fisheries”, “The Bonny Ship the Diamond”, “The Shores of England”.
“I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her til I die”
(Thomas Ford)
Other beautiful old love songs — “The Maid in Bedlam”, “The Miles to Dundee”, “Annie Laurie”.
"Beatus ille homo,
Qui sedet in sua domo
Et sedet post fornacem
Et habet bonam pacem.”
(Eichendorff — more for the sound of it than anything else, it’s the last chorus of a macaronic walking song used at the old German university in Prague, I was taught it by an elderly German gentleman in my teens.)
Hymns:
“Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.”
(John Monsell)
and
“Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound—his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.”
(Percy Dearmer after John Bunyan)
All of “Be Thou my Vision”, which is loosely based on the Lorica of St Patrick.
Reply 2
NJA
OP
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Original post
by LophocoleaHere’s a few:
Secular music:
“Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea” (Stan Rogers)
Also “The Greenland Whale Fisheries”, “The Bonny Ship the Diamond”, “The Shores of England”.
“I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her til I die”
(Thomas Ford)
Other beautiful old love songs — “The Maid in Bedlam”, “The Miles to Dundee”, “Annie Laurie”.
"Beatus ille homo,
Qui sedet in sua domo
Et sedet post fornacem
Et habet bonam pacem.”
(Eichendorff — more for the sound of it than anything else, it’s the last chorus of a macaronic walking song used at the old German university in Prague, I was taught it by an elderly German gentleman in my teens.)
Hymns:
“Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.”
(John Monsell)
and
“Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound—his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.”
(Percy Dearmer after John Bunyan)
All of “Be Thou my Vision”, which is loosely based on the Lorica of St Patrick.
Secular music:
“Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea” (Stan Rogers)
Also “The Greenland Whale Fisheries”, “The Bonny Ship the Diamond”, “The Shores of England”.
“I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her til I die”
(Thomas Ford)
Other beautiful old love songs — “The Maid in Bedlam”, “The Miles to Dundee”, “Annie Laurie”.
"Beatus ille homo,
Qui sedet in sua domo
Et sedet post fornacem
Et habet bonam pacem.”
(Eichendorff — more for the sound of it than anything else, it’s the last chorus of a macaronic walking song used at the old German university in Prague, I was taught it by an elderly German gentleman in my teens.)
Hymns:
“Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.”
(John Monsell)
and
“Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound—his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.”
(Percy Dearmer after John Bunyan)
All of “Be Thou my Vision”, which is loosely based on the Lorica of St Patrick.
Hymn lyrics are only really appreciated once you have the New Life and are seriously trying to live it. Have you had the original "born again experience"? (see Acts 2v4 for details)
Reply 3
Original post
by NJA"Too many protest singers, not enough protests songs"
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
Do you have any?
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
Do you have any?
These come to mind but I'm bound to think of some other examples later on 😂
"Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, in your Wildest Dreams" Taylor Swift (Wildest Dreams)
" Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies" the Beatles (Penny Lane)
"The corridors of discontent, that I've been travelling on the lonely search for truth" Richard Ashcroft (Break the night with colour)
"And now the purple dusk of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart" Nat King Cole (Stardust)
"Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me" Keith Green but from Psalm 51.
"What have I become? / My sweetest friend / Everyone I know goes away / In the end" Johnny Cash (Hurt)
"Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer" (Personal Jesus) Depeche Mode's lyrics however Johnny Cash's version gives real meaning to them.
"Searching in the sun for another overload. I hear you singing in the wire." Glen Campbell (Wichita Linesman)
I also like the David Bowie one you mentioned, it's my favourite part of the tune 🙂
Reply 4
“The Wreck of the Mary Ellen Carter”
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow,
With smiling b—s lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain,
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow,
With smiling b—s lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain,
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Who knows what could happen?
Do what you do
Just keep on laughing
One thing's true
There's always a brand new day
Do what you do
Just keep on laughing
One thing's true
There's always a brand new day
Reply 6
I forgot this:
"Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!"
From Jerusalem
"Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!"
From Jerusalem
I am a rock, I am an island - and a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.
Reply 8
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by PinkMobilePhoneI am a rock, I am an island - and a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Reply 9
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Tragedy When the feeling's gone and you can't go on It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why It's hard to bear
With no-one to love you, you're goin' nowhere
Tragedy When you lose control and you got no soul It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why It's hard to bear
With no-one beside you, you're goin' nowhere
When the morning cries and you don't know why It's hard to bear
With no-one to love you, you're goin' nowhere
Tragedy When you lose control and you got no soul It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why It's hard to bear
With no-one beside you, you're goin' nowhere
Original post
by NJAStill a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
And disregards the rest
Completely different song, but you got the right artists at least.
The Boxer is also excellent though.
Reply 12
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time, hung me on a line.
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