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"Beautiful"

Sorry for this if you think this is the kind of rubbish that should be kept out of the life forum but meh.

Listened to this last night and it struck me just how beautiful this lyric is...

"Will you catch me if I'm falling?
Will you kiss me if I'm leaving?
Will you hold me when I'm lonely?"

Pretty average really

½pint wrote:
> transposed them wrong. Haha, caught ya :P
>
> "Would you catch me if I was falling
> Would you kiss me if I was leaving
> Would you hold me cos I'm lonely without you"
>
> I believe is how it should be.

Nope, the version I got them from is how I wrote them.

CC change their alternate lyrics every show, which is why all their live songs are unique to each show: they never play the same one twice.

Jethro Tull released an album, Aqualung. It was about how man uses people, religion and God, to his own benefit. How we're afraid to stand on our own, and we need something to keep us going. The lyrics are pretty much completely about how pathetic and terrible humanity is. And it'd be quite a depressing album, if it wasn't for Wond'ring Aloud, which was placed right in the middle of the album. It's probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

Wond'ring Aloud - Jethro Tull.

Wond'ring aloud... how we feel today...
Last night I sipped the sunset, my hands in her hair.
We are our own saviours as we start, both our hearts, beating life... into each other.

Wond'ring aloud... will the years treat us well?
As she floats in the kitchen, I'm tasting the smell... yeah... of toast as the butter runs.
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed.
And I shake my head.

And it's only the giving that makes you... what you are.

I was looking for this post, because I really like CC now (thanks to RBS, I have to say). I wanted to know what the lyrics were that he'd posted as being great, since I couldn't remember, then realised he'd transposed them wrong. Haha, caught ya :P

"Would you catch me if I was falling
Would you kiss me if I was leaving
Would you hold me cos I'm lonely without you"

I believe is how it should be.

Simon Says wrote:
> I agree with you in the most part, but I wouldn't really say that the
> contribution I made was a love song. Probably why it doesn't seem so
> beautiful written down.

Yes, I was only referring to some (most?) of the contributions made here, rather than all of them.

Round Here is my favourite CC song.

As for song lyrics, there are too many good ones to single out one.

Another favourite,
Tears in heaven

"Would you know my name,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same,
if I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong,
and carry on,
'cause I know, I don't belong,
here in heaven.

Would you hold my hand,
if I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand,
if I saw you in heaven?
I'll find my way,
through night and day,
'cause I know, I just can't stay,
here in heaven."

written after his son died.

VenomByte wrote:
> The thing about lovesongs, is that there are a bilion songs out there
> with lyrics pretty similar to anything you can name. Having the song
> written by a decent band doesn't make those lyrics any more original
> or meaningful. Or beautiful. If you read the words like you mean them,
> even a fair chunk of the pop songs will sound beautiful.

I agree with you in the most part, but I wouldn't really say that the contribution I made was a love song. Probably why it doesn't seem so beautiful written down.

The thing about lovesongs, is that there are a bilion songs out there with lyrics pretty similar to anything you can name. Having the song written by a decent band doesn't make those lyrics any more original or meaningful. Or beautiful. If you read the words like you mean them, even a fair chunk of the pop songs will sound beautiful.

Here's one of my favourties:-

The Living Dead - Suede

"Where's all you money gone?
I'm talking to you.
All up the hole in your arm.
Is a needle a much better screw,
But oh, what will you do, alone.
Because I have to go."

I know reading it on paper (or whatever) it doesn't seem so beautiful,
I guess you have to hear the ballad that goes with it.
Yeah, it's sad, but it is beautiful too.