Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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Hallelujah-My favorite version is by Rufus Wainwright.
I believe it was used in the movie Shrek.

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty
in the moonlight
overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne,
she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you'd let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me do you?
Remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
"Happiness is the object and design of our existence...
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another." Joseph Smith
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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KimberlyAnn wrote:
Roberta Flack's timing is sublime. I don't know that there's a song with better phrasing.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

KA


I love that song. :smile:
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That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another." Joseph Smith
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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Seven wrote:Hallelujah-My favorite version is by Rufus Wainwright.
I believe it was used in the movie Shrek.

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty
in the moonlight
overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne,
she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you'd let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me do you?
Remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Doofus Ain't-right? “F” that crap. Jeff Buckley's version is much, much better.
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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I will nominate a modern song that I still LOVE. The original video has over 24 million views on youtube.

Apologize by One Republic featuring Timbaland is my favorite version.
I'm holding on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground
I'm hearin what you say but I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down, but wait
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around, and say that...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothing new
I loved you with a fire red-
Now it's turning blue, and you say...
"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late


It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
It's too late to apologize, yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah-
I'm holdin on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground...
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That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another." Joseph Smith
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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karl61 wrote:just one more special one - it's the only time you will see a hundreds of men cry:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-OXb38 ... re=related


I didn't know if we could nominate musicals. I would have put this one as my favorite too. :smile: I used to play this song over and over when I was around age 12.

Some of the songs from Phantom of the Opera would also go on my list. All I ask of you is amazing.
Gerard Butler can stalk me anytime.
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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personage wrote:For the record, the only thing keeping me from submitting "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is the Taupin lyric,

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny black toad

Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?


:lol: That's a great song. I think my favorite Elton John song is "The Last Song." The lyrics are very touching. It's a song about a homosexual son that is dying and his father making amends with him.

Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall
Just one more whisper of a voice unheard
Tomorrow leave the windows open
As fear grows please hold me in your arms
Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger
I need your gentle hands to keep me calm
`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son
Things we never said come together
The hidden truth no longer haunting me
Tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken
That kind of understanding sets me free
`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son
"Happiness is the object and design of our existence...
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another." Joseph Smith
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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Here's a beautiful song.

Kansas "Dust in the Wind"

I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh

Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
The wind
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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KimberlyAnn wrote:
personage wrote:For the record, the only thing keeping me from submitting "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is the Taupin lyric,

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny black toad

Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?



It's "hunting the horny-back toad".


I should just lie and say that was a typo but the fact is that all these years I really did think it was "horny black toad". Man I feel stupid.
At any rate I still think he could have come up with something better to rhyme with road.
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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Seven wrote:Here's a beautiful song.

Kansas "Dust in the Wind"

Yeah, that's a good one.
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Re: Nominations for Best Written Song of All Time

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personage wrote:I should just lie and say that was a typo but the fact is that all these years I really did think it was "horny black toad". Man I feel stupid.
At any rate I still think he could have come up with something better to rhyme with road.


Goodness. There's no reason to feel stupid. In case you've never seen a horny (horned) toad, I found a picture of one for you:

Image

They're few and far between, though they used to be more common. I haven't seen one in years and years.

KA
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