Day 111 Question 111:
What lyrics from a song do you remember the most?
Music is everything. I am always amazed at how I can go from a feeling of blah to happiness in mere moments when music is turned on. There are thousands of songs that can jerk my memory and bring me back to a time spent with family or friends. There are two in particular that the lyrics just pluck the strings of my heart. The first song’s lyrics mean everything to me and this song I have held onto for long over a decade. It is a song that makes me fall in love with people…the people around me that have shown me the way through life and have made the journey so much better. The second song…I looooove the lyrics but it brings me back to a time when I had some of the most fun. I was still living in NY and I had an amazing group of friends. We were together ALL OF THE TIME!!! My really good friend Brad and I woke up one day and just traveled 5 hours together to see Dave Matthews Band and on the car ride this song was played over and over again (and surprisingly it’s not a Dave Matthews Band song). I remember hanging out in my apartment having endless conversations with my group of friends and this song playing on repeating in my bedroom so everyone could hear. Both songs are from the same band and it is funny because that band is Phish and although I like Phish I certainly was not a Phishhead! I would never tour with Phish and I never went to their concerts. These songs however just have stuck with me throughout the years and I love that they can bring me back to a time that was one of my most favorite. Below I left the lyrics as well as a couple of youtube videos for you to check out the songs. What song(s) lyrics touch you or bring you back to a time you will never forget???
Waste Lyrics
Performed by Phish
Don’t want to be an actor pretending on the stage
Don’t want to be a writer with my thoughts out on the page
Don’t want to be a painter ’cause everyone comes to look
Don’t want to be anything where my life’s an open book
A dream it’s true
But I’d see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you
Don’t want to be a farmer working in the sun
Don’t want to be an outlaw always on the run
Don’t want to be a climber reaching for the top
Don’t want to be anything where I don’t know when to stop
A dream it’s true
But I’d see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you
So if I’m inside your head
Don’t believe what you might have read
You’ll see what I might have said
To hear it
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
So if I’m inside your head
Don’t believe what you might have read
You’ll see what I might have said
To hear it
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Farmhouse Lyrics
Performed by Phish
Welcome this is a Farmhouse
We have cluster flies alas
And this time of year is bad
We are so very sorry,
There’s little we can do
But swat them
She didn’t beg oh, not enough
She didn’t stay when things got tough
I told a lie and she got mad
She wasn’t there when things got bad
I never ever saw the northern lights
I never really heard of cluster flies
Never ever saw the stars so bright
In the farmhouse things will be alright
Woke this morning to the stinging lash
Every man rise from the ash
Each betrayal begins with trust
Every man returns to dust.
It's a New Day... 
Sunshine of your Love..Cream. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, Bob Dylan.
Shopping Bag people.-Climax Blues Band. Sense of Direction,,also Climax Blues Band.
Lovely post thanks…..
Another beautiful post! 🙂 I have been thinking of writing blog on music, but never wrote it. Procrastination! Few song lyrics that I really love : Audioslave’s Be yourself is all you can do; Porcupine Tree’s Don’t Hate me I’m not special like you; Porcupine Tree’s Lazarus. There are many others. 😀
Love “Waste” and know every word!
Embarrassingly, I know every word to “Baby’s Got Back”, thanks to a road trip with my best friend way back in high school. I also get ‘Fly me to the Moon’ stuck on repeat in my head frequently. Thanks, Pops.
Thanks for writing!
‘I am a rock’ by Simon and Garfunkel always gave me strength when being hurt by other people.
🙂 I just smiled when I read the question that was the topic of your blog today. I keep asking this question to myself and there are a number of songs which come to mind, depending on the situation, the mood, the overall emotions that I am going through at the moment.
‘Roll me away’ of Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band is one of my most favorite. Whenever there are some confusions in my mind, I like to start my Kawasaki bike and go for a long hard ride… and general mind gets un-cluttered and cleared by he time the clothes & bike gets dirty…
Took a look down a westbound road
right away I made my choice
Headed out to my big two-wheeler
I was tired of my own voice
Took a bead on the northern plains
and just rolled that power on
Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City
stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks
and I told her what I’d decided to do
She looked out the window a long long moment
then she looked into my eyes
She didn’t have to say a thing,
I knew what she was thinkin’
Roll, roll me away
Won’t you roll me away tonight?
I too am lost, I feel double-crossed
and I’m sick of what’s
wrong and what’s right
We never even said a word
We just walked out and got on that bike
And we rolled
And we rolled clean out of sight
We rolled across the high plains
deep into the mountains
Felt so good to me
finally feelin’ free
Somewhere along a high road
the air began to turn cold
She said she missed her home
I headed on alone
Stood alone on a mountain top
starin’ out at the great divide
I could go east, I could go west
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’
and my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin’
Roll, roll me away,
I’m gonna roll me away tonight
Gotta keep rollin, gotta keep ridin’
keep searchin’ till I find what’s right
And as the sunset faded
I spoke to the faintest first starlight
And I said next time
Next time
We’ll get it right
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“thunder road,” because in high school i imagined myself singing it every day to a certain girl.
I’m Henery the eighth I am, Henery the eighth I yam I yam. I got married to the widow next door. She’s been married seven times before. And every one was an ‘enery… Etc etc 🙂 mine is less meaningful and purely based on my inability to remember things unless theres a good hook.
“Venez Divin Messie” (Oh Come Divine Messiah) is the first song I remember. My father taught it to me when I was very young and it was our special song. My favorite song that is always kicking around inside my head, ready to pop out and make anyone happy is “Under the lollipop tree”. It’s a children’s song about believing anything is possible and that even when things seem hopeless there is always something good.
One fine day in early spring I played a funny trick
Out in the yard behind my house I planted a lollipop stick
And every day I watered it well, I watched it carefully
I hoped one day that it would grow to be a lollipop tree.
Ha Ha Ha, Ho Ho Ho, What a place to be
Under my lollipop, lolli lolli lollipop
Lolli lolli lollipop tree
One morning I awoke to see a very lovely sight
A tree all filled with lollipops had grown in the dead of night
I smiled and looked up with a grin
And when I opened up my mouth a lollipop dropped right in
Ha ha ha…
Winter came and days grew cold as winter days will do
And on my tree, my lovely tree, not one little lollipop grew
From every branch an icicle hung, the limbs were bare as bone
But when I broke those icicles off, they turned into ice cream cones.
Ha ha ha…