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There are so many things I wish I could say. But when the words drift into my tongue and I open my mouth to say them, they die unspoken. It's terrible, you see. So, I turn to music for speech. And there a few songs that say exactly what I want to say. So, NSG, if you were at a loss of words and expressions like I am right now...

If you could speak in song: What would you like to say to him/her? If you could use songs to say what you mean? Which songs would speak the best on your behalf?

Imparable
Agil como el agua- Agile like water
Fuerte como el viento- Strong like the wind
Duro como el tiempo- Hard like time

Me niegas la entrada- You deny me entrance
Una y tantas veces- Time and time again
que vivo del intento- That I live from trying
(y es que soy)- It's because I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart

Tanto que te busco- I search for you so much
Tanto que te alejo- I push you away so much
Tanto que no quiero- So much that I don't want to do it

Son tantas las hormonas- The hormones are so many
que le ganan la batalla- That they win the battle
a todos mis miedos- Against all my fears
(y es que soy)- It's because I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart
Tu corazón.- Your heart

Imparable, por tí soy.- Unstoppable, for you I am
Inexplicable sentimiento.- Unexplainable, this feeling
Pero inalcanzable es tu corazón.- But unreachable is your heart!
(pero soy)- But I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart
Tu corazón.- Your heart

What? for love, or just any emotion to any person?

This song speaks to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m-PsS4jz-Y

I love song and poetry because it allows you to say things that would otherwise sound creepy or stupid or embarassing, but have them be thought of as beautiful.

Right now, I'd go with Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

I love song and poetry because it allows you to say things that would otherwise sound creepy or stupid or embarassing, but have them be thought of as beautiful.

Right now, I'd go with Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

The lyrics of that song are beautiful.:)

depends on what I would want to say...

to someone I was interested in...

Two a.m.
Eyes open
Ticking clocks
And falling rain
Thoughts of you
Dancing through
My mind
I can hear your voice
If only I could

Be your music
You'll be my music
With every song we sing
Love will flow between us
Be my music
(Be my music)
We'll write the music
(My music)
Together
Forever more

I'm playing with a
Simple phase
"I love you"
Not so simple
When it's true
What is this
Helplessness
I feel
When you smile at me
Won't you let me

Be your music
(Be your music)
You'll be my music
(My music)
With every song we sing
Love will flow between us
Be my music
(Be my music)
We'll write the music
(My music)
Together
Forever

I'll be your rainy weather friend
Your nightlight
(Nightlight)
Your sunshine 'round the bend
Your star

I'll be your music
(Be your music)
You'll be my music
(My music)
With every song we sing
Love will flow between us
Be my music
(Be my music)
We'll write the music
(My music)
Together
Forever

I'll be your music
(Be my music)
You'll be my music
(Your music)
With every song we sing
Love will flow between us
Be my music
(Be my music)
We'll write the music
(My music)
Together
Forever.

The lyrics of that song are beautiful.:)

Favorite song of all time. I've listened to it in dozens of different situations, happy and sad, and it has managed to meld itself to apply perfectly every time. And I love the imagery it uses.

depends on what I would want to say...

to someone I was interested in...

Who sings that, JuNii-kun?

also, this:

I'm gonna ride this plane out of your life again
I wish that I could stay, but you argue
More than this I wish, you could've seen my face
In backseats staring out, the window

I'll do anything for you
Kill anyone for you

So leave yourself intact
'Cause I will be coming back
In a phrase to cut these lips
I love you

The morning will come
In the press of every kiss
With your head upon my chest
Where I will annoy you
With every waking breath
Until you decide to wake up

I've earned through hope and faith
On the curves around your face
That I'm the one you'll hold forever
If morning never comes for either one of us
Then this I pray to you wherever

I'll do anything for you
This story is for you
('Cause I'd do anything you want me to for you)
I'll do anything for you
Kill anyone for you

So leave yourself intact
'Cause I won't be coming back
In a phrase to cut these lips
I loved you

The morning will come
In the press of every kiss
With your head upon my chest
Where I will annoy you
With every waking breath
Until you decide to wake up

The morning will come
In the press of every kiss
With your head upon my chest
Where I will annoy you
With every waking breath
'Til you decide to wake up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPXscZGqwI
Flashiness, lots of it. Don't blame me if your brain seizures you to death.

Unbearable crushing,
And terrible rushing;
Not quite dead.
To destiny I shall go,
And power I must know;
All else is done and said.

Life is hollow,
And joy is naught,
Except for what I sought:
The only they follow.

Me.
Tally-ho, quickly!
Be not that which is sickly:
All is mine if I will reach:
I have but myself to beseech.

If I should die,
I forfeit a lie.
If I succeed,
Truth is my deed.

Love is a ghost,
But my heart is a host,
(A flame I will boast!)
To a desire the most
Great.
Oh, please let me sate!
I beg of me.
I will sacrifice all to help thee.

Who sings that, JuNii-kun?

;)

It's from a tv series that ran in the 80's. Fame (http://www.fameforever.net/series/lyrics.php).

there's alot of good songs (to me) from that series.

Favorite song of all time. I've listened to it in dozens of different situations, happy and sad, and it has managed to meld itself to apply perfectly every time. And I love the imagery it uses.

Fukaku shizumari kaeru... tsutsumikomareta sora to karada wo kogasu taiyou, anata ga kieteiku
Nani wo motome samayou no? Hitorikiri no boku wa...

Amid a stillness profound as death... enshrouded in the sky and the sun that burns the flesh, you are vanishing as you go.
What is it that I seek amid this wandering? What for myself, all alone--

Sameta hitomi no oku de nikushimi wo dakishimenagara
jibun o urande mo itami wa kie wa shinai
Eien ni ikiru kanashimi o dakishimete

Even if you despise yourself from within the depths of frigid eyes still clutching at the hatred,
the pain will not, cannot be stifled.
Embracing that eternally living sorrow,

kieta kimi wo omoitsuzukeru koto shika dekinakute
boku no kawaru koto no nai kimi e no omoi wa
fukaku fukaku ima mo,
sou...aishiteru

I cannot help still remembering that vanished person whom once you were,
and my unwavering, unchangeable feelings toward you:
So deeply, so very deeply, even now...
yes... I love you still.

Tsuki-akari ni terasarete kuchizusanda kimi no na mo kaze ni sarawarete kieta

Illumined by the moonlight, even the feel of your name, hummed beneath my breath, is snatched away and extinguished by the wind.

Yoake ni hohoemu kimi ga oshiete kureta ano uta wo utaitsuzuke
hoshizora ni kaeru namida wo kazoeteta
nando mo nando mo tada kurikaeshiteita yoru
aa, fukaku fukaku ima mo
sou...aishiteru!

Hoshi no Suna (Stardust)

Oh, and your thread brought this lyric to mind.

Songs are around whenever you need them
Songs follow you wherever you lead them
Songs, they seem to come alive each time you sing 'em
Songs you can play them straight or you can swing 'em

Songs, don't know how we'd get on without them
Songs, you can hum them, whistle or shout them
Songs keep you company when you're alone
So find a song you can call your own
You can't go wrong, all you need is a song

They get you hummin', you start a strummin', just keep 'em comin', they get you goin'
You snap your fingers, the music lingers, you get some singers to make a showin'
Words and music blending send you dancing down the aisle
Songs can bring you memories of good times, big smiles

The band is jumpin', the music's thumpin', it's really something, they hit the ceiling
A hot piano, a high soprano, do what they can for a happy feeling
Songs bring you up when your down
Songs are the best friends around

Yeah, we're singin' about
All you need is a song

They get you hummin', you start a strummin', just keep 'em comin', they get you goin'
You snap your fingers, the music lingers, you get some singers to make a showin'
Words and music blending send you dancing down the aisle
Songs can bring you memories of good times, big smiles

The band is jumpin', the music's thumpin', it's really something, they hit the ceiling
A hot piano, a high soprano, do what they can for a happy feeling
Songs bring you up when your down
Songs are the best friends around

Yeah, we're singin' about
All you need is a song
All you need is a song

There are so many things I wish I could say. But when the words drift into my tongue and I open my mouth to say them, they die unspoken. It's terrible, you see. So, I turn to music for speech. And there a few songs that say exactly what I want to say. So, NSG, if you were at a loss of words and expressions like I am right now...

If you could speak in song: What would you like to say to him/her? If you could use songs to say what you mean? Which songs would speak the best on your behalf?


I remember thinking what if, through some horrible freak accident, the only way I could communicate was through the songs in my MP3 player? Since then, I've included songs in other languages as well as instrumental songs (no vocals, such as this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKdp0Ye6QS8)) that I think couldn't otherwise be describe things that regular, every-day songs I hear in the U.S. could.

Funny, Goddess Nanatsu always manages to do this ...

I was just sitting in my room, fatigued (as is often the case), and i thought of what i'd be listening to today in the car (before that fuckin' volcano blew), and immediately broke into the song i sang to wifey at my wedding - You & I by Jeff Buckley.
You and I.
Ah, the calm below that poisoned river wild,
You and I.
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child.
Where you look down
I've walked before, burning holes
With eyes of liquid brown.
If we had only known, in a way
We wouldn't reach this ground.
You were my only home, silver eyes.
I want to see you shine.
And we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time
Searching our past for the true
You and I, you and I, you and I,
All for you.
Where you think you'll fall,
I adore you.
Where you shut your soul,
I will open for you.
If we had only known, in a way
We'd never reach this ground.
I'll know, silver eyes.
I can see us shine.
I said, we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time
Searching our past for a true
You and I, you and I, you and I,
All for you.
... and, a smidgeon before the cloud descended upon the torpid town, a friend of many years now gave us a CD, for some reason or t'other, to listen to.

And i'll sing songs as they occur to me, often because i have a really strong sense of timing ... and if i've been listening to any pattern of music on the radio, i'll start to sing the song on any other day they'd play at the same time ...
I occasionally Speak in Queensryche ...
They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us

I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us

Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow

The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word [Revolution]
The word is all of us

And other times, it's not much more than a little commercial ditty i run across on occasion ....

Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow
Meow meow-meow meow MEOW meow meow meow ...

Imparable
Agil como el agua- Agile like water
Fuerte como el viento- Strong like the wind
Duro como el tiempo- Hard like time

Me niegas la entrada- You deny me entrance
Una y tantas veces- Time and time again
que vivo del intento- That I live from trying
(y es que soy)- It's because I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart

Tanto que te busco- I search for you so much
Tanto que te alejo- I push you away so much
Tanto que no quiero- So much that I don't want to do it

Son tantas las hormonas- The hormones are so many
que le ganan la batalla- That they win the battle
a todos mis miedos- Against all my fears
(y es que soy)- It's because I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart
Tu corazón.- Your heart

Imparable, por tí soy.- Unstoppable, for you I am
Inexplicable sentimiento.- Unexplainable, this feeling
Pero inalcanzable es tu corazón.- But unreachable is your heart!
(pero soy)- But I am

Imparable, contigo.- Unstoppable, with you
Indomable es lo que siento- Indomitable is what I feel
Pero es intocable tu corazón.- But untouchable is your heart
Tu corazón.- Your heart

Those lyrics are nice. A bit Spemo for me though.

This is the song I can most relate to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUgRbT70bk

EDIT: followed closley by this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

At th moment

Yeah - well - I say what I mean
I say what comes to my mind
I never get around to things
I live a straight - straight line

You know me - I'm acting dumb
you know the scene - very humdrum
boredom - boredom

I'm living in this movie
but it doesn't move me
I'm the man that's waiting for the phone to ring
Hear it ring-a-ding-a-fucking-ding

You know me ...

You see there's nothing behind me
I'm already a has-been
my future ain't what it was
well I think I know the words that I mean

You know me ...

B'dum - b'dum

I've taken this extravagant journey
so it seems to me
I just came from nowhere
and I'm going straight back there

You know me ...

So I'm living in this movie
but it doesn't move me
so tell me who are you trying to arouse?
get your hands out of my trousers

You know me .

Around The Sun - R.E.M.

I want the sun to shine on me
I want the truth to set me free
I wish the followers would lead
with a voice so strong it could knock me to my knees

hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming
hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off
hold onto this boy a little longer
take another trip around the sun

if I jumped into the ocean to believe
If I climbed a mountain would I have to reach?
do I even dare to speak?--to dream?--believe?
give me a voice so strong
I can question what I have seen

hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming
hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off
hold onto this boy a little longer
take another trip around the sun

around the sun
around the sun
around the sun
let my dreams set me free.
believe. believe.
now now now now now now

There are so many things I wish I could say. But when the words drift into my tongue and I open my mouth to say them, they die unspoken. It's terrible, you see. So, I turn to music for speech. And there a few songs that say exactly what I want to say. So, NSG, if you were at a loss of words and expressions like I am right now...

If you could speak in song: What would you like to say to him/her? If you could use songs to say what you mean? Which songs would speak the best on your behalf?

I never lack the words, as some people here know when it comes to saying what I think, or what people need to hear I always have the right words. My problem is I have no one to say the words too; an infinatly worse problem in my opinion. So I guess it would be a song to the effect of are you even there?

I never lack the words, as some people here know when it comes to saying what I think, or what people need to hear I always have the right words. My problem is I have no one to say the words too; an infinatly worse problem in my opinion. So I guess it would be a song to the effect of are you even there?

So you're articulate, but lonely? Personally I'd also rather be inarticulate and not lonely. Unfortunately I am inarticulate and somewhat lonely. You've got it good.

I am hopelessly awkward when it comes to women in person, so here's some Andy Partridge, who, for my money, is the best lyricist alive in the UK.

It's raining on the beach
She inches close but out of reach
The waves look painted on
Seagulls screaming

The sea is warship grey
It whispers "Fool!'' then slides away
Black coastline slumbers on
Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her

And all the flags that flap on the pier
Spell why on earth do you wait
The fog hides much but one thing is clear
She's nearer

Dead deck chairs under shrouds
And life belts gape like minstrel mouths
Her hair still smells of salt
Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her
Kiss her, kiss her, kiss her, kiss her
He who hesitates is lost

If you want her, you should tell her
Take her by the hand (if you hesitate)
If you wait, November wins her (November will win her)
She returns to sand (so get ahold of her now)

I say I like your coat
Her thank-you tugs my heart afloat
I nearly didn't hear for
Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her

He who hesitates is lost

Funny, Goddess Nanatsu always manages to do this ...

I was just sitting in my room, fatigued (as is often the case), and i thought of what i'd be listening to today in the car (before that fuckin' volcano blew), and immediately broke into the song i sang to wifey at my wedding - You & I by Jeff Buckley.

... and, a smidgeon before the cloud descended upon the torpid town, a friend of many years now gave us a CD, for some reason or t'other, to listen to.

And i'll sing songs as they occur to me, often because i have a really strong sense of timing ... and if i've been listening to any pattern of music on the radio, i'll start to sing the song on any other day they'd play at the same time ...
I occasionally Speak in Queensryche ...


And other times, it's not much more than a little commercial ditty i run across on occasion ....

Yes, I am quite guilty of doing this to you, Straughny. Too often, if I may add.:eek2:

Sometimes I fancy he tells me this:
The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you
Yeah

I'm open, you're closed
Where I follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide

I'm quiet you know
You make a frist impression
I've found I'm scared to know I'm always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find
You and I collide

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to ryhme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find
You and I collide

You finally find
You and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide!

The bolded parts I hear in his voice.:$

She's got whatever it is
It blows me away
She's everything I wanted to say to a woman
but couldn't find the words to say
She's got whatever it is
I don't know what to do
Because every time I try and tell her how I feel
it comes out "I love you"
You got whatever it is


Thats what I have been missing for a while...

Technically, Homer and Virgil should both have their works recited publicly as song.

So if it ever came to it, it would start with:

I sing of arms and the man...

*pisses off everybody who thought they left that crap behind with their insane Classic Lit. teachers*

At the moment, it would In Between - Linkin Park.

I recommend finding this for yourselves and listening to it. While I would want to sing it (and maybe would kill to have a voice like Mr. Gabriel) The music itself is inseparable from the song for me.

Peter Gabriel, "Only Us".

Only Us
Only Us
Only Us

It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throats
It wasn't with the angels in their quilted coats
These battered wings still kick up dust
Seduced by the noise and the bright things that glisten
I knew all the time I should shut up and listen
And I'm finding my way home from the great escape

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I hear you calling me
Yes I hear you calling me
Home from the great escape
Yes I can read you loud and clear

The further on I go, oh the less I know
Friend or foe, there's only us

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I'm coming home again, home again
And I hear you calling me home again
I am coming home again

Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us
Only us

Yes, I am quite guilty of doing this to you, Straughny. Too often, if I may add.:eek2:

Sometimes I fancy he tells me this:


The bolded parts I hear in his voice.:$I'm honestly surprised it isn't this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA
*notes vow*

More seriously per the OP, this one:
The ice is thin come on dive in
underneath my lucid skin
the cold is lost, forgotten
Hours pass days pass time stands still
light gets dark and darkness fills
my secret heart forbidden...
I think you worried for me then
the subtle ways that I'd give in but I know
you liked the show
tied down to this bed of shame
you tried to move around the pain but oh
your soul is anchored

The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here...

I don't like your tragic sighs
as if your god has passed you by well hey fool
that's your deception
your angels speak with jilted tongues
the serpent's tale has come undone you have no
strength to squander

The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here to stay
only a fool's here to stay
only a fool's here...

I'm honestly surprised it isn't this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA
*notes vow*

More seriously per the OP, this one:

This one:
Love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

All my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

All my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes

Peter Gabriel always has something to say that drives the point right home.