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Rock Lyrics That Could Be Poetry
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Rock Lyrics That Could Be Poetry
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here
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Watching the wheels by John Lennon
"People say I'm lazy
dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no
longer on the ball"......
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Another group that is poetry in music is the Mama's and the Papa's. My song choice of theirs is:
Dedicated to the one I love
"Each night before you go to bed my baby
Whisper a little prayer for me my baby
And tell all the stars above
This is dedicated to the one I love"......
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I loved Jefferson Airplane too. But my fav song by them that is totally poetry is "Miracles", written also by Marty Balin. They don't write songs like this nowadays 😎
"I can hear windmills and rainbows whenever you talkin' to me (Never say never)
I feel like swirling and dancing whenever you walk in
with me (whenever,whenever you walk with me)
You ripple like the river when I touch you (let me touch you)
Then I pluck your body like a string"......
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"Miracles"...one of his best, but anything by him is incredibly sensual. Also "Caroline". I finally met him years ago and he signed my chest but, unfortunately, I could not afford to have it tattoed. I could have been quite the stalker as far as he's concerned! lol
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Man on the Moon by REM
"Mott the Hoople and the game of life (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)
Andy Kauffman in the wrestling match (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)
Monopoly, 21, checkers and chess (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)
Let's play Twister, let's play risk (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)
See you in heaven if you make the list (yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)"......
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Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond (He even named it after a poet! )
Such were the plans I'd made
For she was a lady
And I was a dreamer
With only words to trade
You know that I was born for a night like this
Warmed by a stolen kiss
For I was lonely
And she was lonely
Let me make your dreams come true
I'll sing my song
Let me make it warm for you
Upon the summer night
We'll leave this worldly time
On his winged flight
Beside this sleepy glade
There I will sing to you
My Longfellow serenade
Such were the plans I made
But she was a lady
As deep as a river
And through the night, we stayed
Loved her with words and more
For she was lonely
And I was lonely
Let me make you dreams come true
I'll sing my song
Let me sing my song
Let me make it warm for you
Upon the summer night
We'll leave this worldly time
On his winged flight
Beside this sleepy glade
There I will sing to you
My Longfellow serenade
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Pieces of April by Three Dog Night
"April gave us springtime and the promise of the flowers
And the feeling that we both shared and the love that we called ours
We had no time for sadness, that's a road we each had crossed
We were living a time meant for us, and even when it would rain
We would laugh it off"......
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Legend of a mind by the Moody Blues
"Timothy Leary's dead
No,no he's outside looking in
Timothy Leary's dead
No,no he's outside looking in
He'll fly his astral plane
Take you trips around the bay
Brings you back the same day
Timothy Leary, Timothy Leary
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Liquor was the only love I'd known
But you rescued me from reachin' for the bottom
And brought me back from being too far gone
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
You're as sweet as strawberry wine
You're as warm as a glass of brandy
And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time
I've looked for love in all the same old places
Found the bottom of a bottle always dry
But when you poured out your heart I didn't waste it
'Cause there's nothing like your love to get me high
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
You're as sweet as strawberry wine
You're as warm as a glass of brandy
And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time
[Instrumental]
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
You're as sweet as strawberry wine
You're as warm as a glass of brandy
And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
— Chris Stapleton
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You've got to hide your love away by the Fab 4️⃣
"Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey, you've got to hide your love away".......
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A Poem On The Underground Wall - S&G
The underground is closing soon
And in the dark deserted station
Restless in anticipation
A man waits in the shadows
At all that they can touch or catch
And hidden deep within his pocket
Safe within its silent socket
He holds a colored crayon
The carriage rides to meet the groom
And opens wide and welcome doors
But he hesitates, then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand
The crayon on the wall he slashes
Deep upon the advertising
A single-worded poem comprised of four letters
The poem across the tracks rebounding
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night, ooh
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Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits
"You get a shiver in the dark
It's a raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie, double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring".......
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Rock the Casbah by the Clash
"Now the king told the boogie man
"You have to let that raga drop"
The oil down the desert way
Has been shaken' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The Muezzin was a-standin'
On the radiator grille"......
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Fields of Gold - Sting
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so upon the fields of barley.
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth among the fields of gold
But I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
See the children run as the sun goes down among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky when we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold, when we walked in fields of gold
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It's Never Too Late - Steppenwolf
As though you were a man possessed
From deep inside comes rushing forth
All the anguish you suppressed
Upon your wall hangs your degree
Your parents craved so much for you
And though you're trained to make your mark
You still don't quite know what to do
To love the people you caused the pain
And help them learn your name
Oh, no, not too late
It's never too late to start all over again
To try and find a little bliss
So on your woman and your child
You release your bitterness
You drift apart some more each day
You feel the guilt and loneliness
And the God of your childhood you can't find
To save you from your emptiness
To love the people you caused the pain
And help them learn your name
Oh, no, not too late
It's never too late to start all over again
And when you're dead you're gone
Your family comes to your grave
And with tears in their eyes
They tell you, you did something wrong
"You left us alone"
And you're finally gone, you won't be back again
You can find a way to change today
You don't have to wait 'til then
To love the people you caused the pain
And help them learn your name
Oh, no, not too late
It's never too late to start all over again
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