Lyric Appreciation Thread

[manifold]

The Secret Language of Birds

This sparkling wine is all but empty.
Too late for trains and no taxis.
I know the feeling. seems all too contrived.
There was no master plan but the fact is:
You must stay with me and learn the secret language of birds.

A tentative dawn about to be breaking
On a rousseau garden with monkeys in hiding.
The truth of the matter, yet to be spoken
In words on which everything, everythings riding.
Now stay with me and learn the secret language of birds.

Circled by swallows
In a world for the weary.
Courted by warblers; wicked and eloquent trilling.

Lie in the stillness, window cracked open.
Extended moments, hours for the taking.
Careless hair on the pillow, a bold brushstroke.
Painted verse with a chorus in waiting.
Stay with me and learn the secret language of birds.

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The exam question for today is this: What is the secret language of birds?

 

[manifold]

 

[CA95380]

Indeed!

pssst! What is the difference in THIS thread and http://www.usmessageboard.com/music/55160-best-song-lyrics.html this thread

Ok Ravi! You have been exposed! Now we know that manifold and Ravi is the same person!

Split personalities really DO talk to themselves!

 

[manifold]

Indeed!

pssst! What is the difference in THIS thread and http://www.usmessageboard.com/music/55160-best-song-lyrics.html this thread

Huh?!?

What are the similarities apart from them both being lyrically based?

 

[CA95380]

Nevermind!

I hear Loonie Bin places have Basket Weaving Classes - I am sure they will let you know when.

 

[Shogun]

Im just not sure if which one is kept in the basket!

 

[manifold]

Hey Soggy,

Is that a thinly veiled admission that you don't know?

 

[Shogun]

it's hard to distinguish which of you takes the King Retard crown, yo.

 

[manifold]

it's hard to distinguish which of you takes the King Retard crown, yo.

It's mine and mine alone to lose...and don't you forget it.

But I didn't intend for this thread to be the typical flame digression. Can you tell me what is the secret language of birds?

 

[Shogun]

speaking of which.. I put Aqualung on ye ole record machine last weekend whilst doing some pithy chores. It sure doest fancy mine eardrums.



and to add to your cause.

Born Under A Bad Sign
by Booker T. Jones / William Bell

Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

Hard luck and trouble is my only friend
I been on my own ever since I was ten
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

I can't read, haven't learned how to write
My whole life has been one big fight
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

I ain't lyin'
If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no kind-a luck
If it wasn't for real bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

Wine and women is all I crave
A big legged woman is
gonna carry me to my grave
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

Yeah, my bad luck boy
Been havin' bad luck all of my days, yes

 

[manifold]

Where's $3 Abel now anyway?

I bet that smarty-pants can tell me the answer to the question.

 

[Ravi]

Unknowable

 

[manifold]

Unknowable

Perhaps this will help...


The Secret Language of Birds Part II

No buzz words, fuzzy fudge words,
so freeze those goalposts, don't take the Admiral on board.
This Hardy's not for kissing…
Expression, no explosion,
or whispered promises in clich? or in rhyme.
Instead let's talk the secret language of birds.
Right time but the wrong idea.
Well, you're making it all sound just the same.
Try taking it up a key like that Nightingale
still over there in Berkeley Square.

Do we have problems of communication?
There's something I don't know and you can't explain it to me.
Let's talk the secret language of birds.

Step out of the circus now.
Learn a new trick and make it stick.
Try taking it up a key like that Nightingale
still over there in Berkeley Square.

Finger tracing on misty window:
I'm reading loud and clear this salacious semaphore,
as you leave me standing at the station.
Give it to me - the big dawn chorus:
no whispered promises in clich? or in rhyme.
Let's talk the secret language of birds.

Right time but the wrong idea.
Well, you're making it all sound just the same.
Try taking it up a key like that Nightingale
still over there in Berkeley Square.

 

[Ravi]

I should have said "the unknowable." I was under the impression the secret language of birds was a mystical and unknowable force. In your lyrics it sounds like it is the impossibility of two people actually understanding each other.

 

[Gunny]

Pete Townsend

Behind Blue Eyes

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes



No one knows what it's like

To be hated

To be fated

To telling only lies



But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be



I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free



No one knows what it's like

To feel these feelings

Like I do

And I blame you



No one bites back as hard

On their anger

None of my pain and woe

Can show through



But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be



I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free



When my fist clenches, crack it open

Before I use it and lose my cool

When I smile, tell me some bad news

Before I laugh and act like a fool



If I swallow anything evil

Put your finger down my throat

If I shiver, please give me a blanket

Keep me warm, let me wear your coat



No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

 

[manifold]

I should have said "the unknowable." I was under the impression the secret language of birds was a mystical and unknowable force. In your lyrics it sounds like it is the impossibility of two people actually understanding each other.

Interesting take.

But what about what we learned in the Cold Wind to Valhalla discussion? I think it has more to do with mating rituals personally.

 

[Ravi]

Well, there's ALWAYS that.