Meaningful lyrics

[Frank Spencer Clone]

I agree with Mantis on this subject, far, far too many to list.
Some of the more readily thought of ones:

Currently
You Made Me So Very Happy - Blood Sweat & Tears
The Best Of Me - Cliff Richard
Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke

Generally

Ventura Highway - America
By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glen Campbell
Fade Away, Heavy Metal Kids, Hideaway, I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
Cars And Girls - Prefab Sprout
Comfortably Numb, Time - Pink Floyd
Precious And Few - Climax
Alone Again Naturally - Gilbert O' Sullivan
Run - Sandie Shaw
Your Way Of Life - Petula Clark
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Cuts Both Ways - Gloria Estefan
Castles In The Air - Don McLean
Me And My Arrow - Nilsson
Why Don't You All Get F*cked - Skyhooks ( no, not joking, perfectly serious )
Deep Water, Capricorn Dancer - Richard Clapton
Listen To What The Man Said - Wings

 

[Captain Sensible]

Nick Cave
Love Letter

I hold this letter in my hand
A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain

Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her

A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way

Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her

Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind

Come back to me
Come back to me
O baby please come back to me

 

[Captain Sensible]

The Buzzcocks
I don't mind

Realitys a dream
A game in which I seem
To never find out just what I am
I dont know if Im an actor or ham
A shamen or sham
But if you dont mind
I dont mind

Im lost without a clue
So how can I undo
The tangle of these webs I keep weaving
I dont know if I should be believing
Deceptive perceiving
But if you dont mind
I dont mind

I used to bet that you didnt care
But gambling never got me anywhere
Each time I used to feel so sure
Something about you made me doubt you more

How can you convince me
When everything I see
Just makes me feel youre putting me down
And if its true this pathetic clownll
Keep hanging around
Thats if you dont mind
I dont mind

I used to bet that you didnt care
But gambling never got me anywhere
Each time I used to be so sure
Something about you made me doubt you more

I even think you hate me when you call me on the phone
And sometimes when we go out I wish Id stayed at home
And when Im dreaming or just lying in my bed
I think youve got it in for me
Is it all in my head is it in my head

How can you convince me
When everything I see
Just makes me feel youre putting me down
And if its true this pathetic clownll
Keep hanging around
Thats if you dont mind
I dont mind
I dont mind

 

[volcboy]

Hmmm...tough one

Personal lyrics? Roger Waters on The Wall is hard to beat

"There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb."

" got a little black book with my poems in.
Got a bag, got a toothbrush and a comb in.
When Im a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in.
I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on.
Got those swollen hands blues.
Got thirteen channels of **** on the tv to choose from.
I got electric light,
And I got second sight.
Got amazing powers of observation.
And that is how I know,
When I try to get through,
On the telephone to you,
Therell be nobody home.

I got the obligatory hendrix perm,
And the inevitable pinhole burns,
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt.
I got nicotine stains on my fingers.
I got a silver spoon on a chain.
Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains.
Ive got wild, staring eyes.
And I got a strong urge to fly,
But I got nowhere to fly to (-- fly to... fly to... fly to...).
Ooooo babe,
When I pick up the phone,
Theres still nobody home.

I got a pair of gohill boots,
And I got fading roots."

For firing up, no one IMO comes close to Zach from RATM. Some of my favorite selections are;

"Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth reich culture, americana
Chained to the dream they got ya searchin for
The thin line between entertainment and war"

"The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me
Im empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
Boys who travel now in coffins"

"Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed tha war canibal animal
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a Library
Line up to tha mind cemetery now
What we dont know keeps tha contracts alive and
Movin
They dont gotta burn tha books they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells
Rally round tha family
With pockets full of shells
Bulls on parade"

 

[Heisenberg_]

Brilliant choice. Black is one of PJ's best songs. I'd also like to mention Corduroy, too.

Definatly, Eddie Vedder is a great song writer, betterman, reaview mirror, dissident, as wel as black and so many of his songs

 

[Lady Lawrence]

Robbie sung Angels & then straight after that he sung Nan's song. I swear that nan's song made me bawl my eyes out.

check out Simply Red's - Grandma's Hands

 

[Bourne]

song: opportunity
artist: pete murray

So it goes another lonely day
You're saving time but you're miles away
Your flowers drowning in some bitter tea
Forseeing lost opportunity

Find your mirror
Go and look inside
See the talent you always hide
Don't go kid yourself, well not today
Satisfaction's not far away

Hold on now, your exit's here
It's waiting just for you
Don't pause too long
It's fading now
It's ending all too soon you'll see
Soon you'll see

Your coffee's warm but your milk is sour
Life is short but you're here to flower
Dream yourself along another day
Never miss opportunity

Don't be scared of what you cannot see
Your only fear is possibility
Never wonder what the hell went wrong
Your second chance may never come along

Hold on now, your exit's here
It's waiting just for you
Don't pause too long
It's fading now
It's ending all too soon you'll see
Soon you'll see

Hold on now, your exit's here
It's waiting just for you
Don't pause too long
It's fading now
It's ending all too soon you'll see
Soon you'll see
Soon you'll see
Soon you'll see
Soon you'll see
Soon you'll see

 

[spanna050]

Would have to say anything written by eddie vedder.

Anyone concur?

Absolutely. Eddie Vedder & Neil Finn - two of the greatest songwriters of my generation.

 

[Clark Kent]

By the same artist: Don't Sleep in the Subway

I agree with Mantis on this subject, far, far too many to list.
Some of the more readily thought of ones:

......Your Way Of Life - Petula Clark

........

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Porcelain - Cauterize

Sat up for hours
Thoughts of a lover
I’ll probably never get a chance to hold again
All of my days spent waiting for nights with her again
And I’m sharing a drink with a memory
And a laugh with an empty seat
Do you still look the same?
Will you still look at me the same
’Cause I know that I don’t
I’ve gotten so old in these last few years
And I’d rather be fighting with you than sleeping here next to her

Don’t let me fall
I’ll break
What a mess I'd make
Pathetic pieces on your floor
Will cut your feet forever more
You're porcelain
Such a fragile skin
Just let me hold you
I’ll be gentle
I wont drop you
This time I’ll be
Careful

Forget for just one second
That this is not alright
Lets drink to feeling nothing
At least just for tonight
Stay for one more
Pass out on the floor like we used to do
It got so hot in your room

I can't let it go
The phantom pain I’m feeling
And the hurt won’t leave me alone
And I’m tired of sleeping with ghosts

Fell asleep with your ghost
Woke up with a headache
From the cure that’s only temporary
And in the morning always fails me