Best Lyrics Ever !!!!!!

"Now some tarot card shark said I'll draw you a heart
And we'll find you somebody else new
But I've made my last trip to those carnival lips
When I bet all that I had on you"



"I'm tired of watching TV, it makes me want to scream
Outside the world is burning, man it's so hard to believe
Each day you know you're dying from the cradle to the grave
I get so numb sometimes, that I can't feel the pain"


Lyrically, I think These Days album was the deepest but there are some gems ouside of that as mentioned BOR.


For a solo effort: "And I blame this world for making
A good man evil
It's this world that can drive a
Good man mad
And it's this world that turns a killer
Into a hero
Well I blame this world for making
A good man bad'

santa fe was pretty good

wanted dead or alive
always
these days
something to believe in

I think these (slighty altered) lyrics from one of Richie's These Days performances at the Pru are absolutely fantastic:

I was walking around just a face in the crowd
trying to hyde myself out of the rain
Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
and I might end up the same
There's an old man on the corner
singing a song of some change
Everybody's got their cross to bare these days

Dont really care about others, I think Richie is the highlight of the show nowadays.

Bed of Roses ~ Hands down the BEST lyrics JBJ has ever written.

The first time i heard it on the radio i had to know who sang this and who wrote it. I remember buying KTF and reading the lyrics and just thinking OMG how can someone write something this gorgeous and poetic?? Blew me away at a young age.

I also love the lyrics in Diamond Ring:

Don't you know I bleed, every night you sleep, cause i don't know if i'm in your dreams, I want to be your everything....

Last Man Standing has great ones too:

See these real life calloused fingers wrapped around those guitar strings, Kiss the lips where hurt has lingered, It breaks your heart to hear him sing, These songs were more than music they were pictures from the soul...

There's more but i am too lazy to type right now

the entire these days album

Hey I'm glad to see a mostly positive thread on this board for a change

Another set of lyrics I've always liked is from Edge of a Broken Heart

"And when I hold out my hands,
I'll be reaching for you,
I'll give it all that I've got,
Thats all I can do,
When you're waiting for love,
I'll be waiting for you"

Not necessarily the most poetic thing even written but it's my favourite part of that song.

More good boxset lyrics are from The Radio Saved My Life Tonight.

"I got something on my mind; I'm just a little bit depressed,
I try to blame it on the rain but it was in my heart, I guess,
I'm feeling like a stranger when I drove through my hometown,
Past the sign that reads 'the boyhood home of a place that's long gone now'"

I forgot to mention "Wedding Day" and "Love Is War"... really like those lyrics!

Its actually sad that I mention BoR and forgot Hey God, These Days, Lie to Me, as my guitar, something to believe in, Keep the faith, Saturday Night, August 7 etc

I hope I adjusted myself now and I can sleep again, sorry songs

Well


Album = These days. No doubt about it.

Song = These days. Its beautiful. What can I say. Just beautiful.

Piece of lyrics =

"But it's just the wind that's blowing through those secrets that we keep.."

That line is just genious. I love it

What do u think?

I had never thought of this before, we all seem to prefer TD as the best lyrical album....

Dawn