Most emotionally devastating lyrics? New Order
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runwild wrote:
Adam R wrote:
michael brown wrote: Mine would be Loveless.In this song,here is a man totally devasted
by an unsavoury woman.Its the point at the end where he knows there is no hope,you can sense how gutted he is
For some reason I've always thought the lyrics in Love Less are about a teenage son or daughter where Bernard is the parent... :\ohwell:
as for the song i've chose, Thieves Like Us.
'Un unsavoury woman' = bullshit. She dont look at him, dont talk to him and cannot forgive him. He is not innocent, I think.
'It doesn't take a genius to tell me what I am'. No, it doesn't: jealous!
I am jealous if you wrote Loveless.
Lot's of good suggestions here. One that always hit me is Lonsome Tonight:
How many times before Could you tell I didn't care? When you reached out in your sleep And you knew I wasn't there My eyes are made of stone Just like your sordid home (I always thought this was "solid bone") How many times before Did you leave my soul alone?
Subculture definately, Perfect Kiss, most of Technique especially Round & Round, Mr. Disco and Vanishing Point.
Special.
At the time the song came out I was in the middle of an on/off relationship. I remember plenty of times being pissed as fuck and singing this at the top of my voice.
Some Distant Memory wrote:
michael brown wrote: Mine would be Loveless.In this song,here is a man totally devasted
Spot on! I agree with you.
Probably my all-time fave song and the lyrics are very poignant.
Thats how i see it.Interestingly others hear another scenario in Love less
Someone thought my interpretation was,as he put it,Bullshit
It works for me tho
Last part of Broken Promise:
Oh, I'd tear you out of heaven And I'd tear you out of hell And I'd see your life in ruins Because mine lies there as well And I'd cry out in my loneliness While you sleep in your peace But you'll never see my face again While I need words like these
Ya, I'd say this guy is not a happy fellow.
true he has made some crushingly miserable, and actually rather good lyrics in his time. Even now something like
You really hurt me I nearly threw it all away I got it all wrong Coz you were not the one And I don't know where to turn when you're gone
is pretty good.
Look back on lyrics like that and wish that Barney was still as bitter as he obviously was in that period sometimes
well, I'm glad for Bernard he's become much happier and more positive over the years instead of not being a "happy chappy" as he once said it himself or 'a short fuse burning all the time' but I agree with you that in unhappier times the songs had more emotional depth.
My choice for this subject would therefor be that demo-version with lyrics of 'Let's go', discussed in another topic: Now we take just what we need, you can keep your wings of glory open up and you will bleed , will you try it here before me as this song falls into place, there must be an answer somewhere, feel the rain upon your face, I just need to know if you care...
Leave Me Alone
I've also think "The Sound of Music" has the most angsty lyrics of any in the JD catalog.
runwild wrote:
Adam R wrote:
michael brown wrote: Mine would be Loveless.In this song,here is a man totally devasted
For some reason I've always thought the lyrics in Love Less are about a teenage son or daughter where Bernard is the parent... :\ohwell:
as for the song i've chose, Thieves Like Us.
'Un unsavoury woman' = bullshit. She dont look at him, dont talk to him and cannot forgive him. He is not innocent, I think.
'It doesn't take a genius to tell me what I am'. No, it doesn't: jealous!
What you talking about mate? None of that made any sense, as for the lyric "It doesn't take a genius to tell me what I am" that's All The Way, getting your songs mixed up there unless your post has been totally misunderstood.
I think Runwild is using all the way to have a clumbsy dig at me. I must have upset this person.
Ronald Kirsch wrote: As It Is When It Was
The streets are so empty at this time of night I'd rather walk on my own than fight In a world where I'd forgotten you I found myself forgotten, too That's the danger of believing books And all the lies of those thieves and crooks We sing intellectual songs of love From a stolen pen to a velvet glove.
I find it very emotional. I can just feel the depression in these lyrics.
I've been wondering for years what the last couple of lines of that song were saying; thanks, Ronald! As for my pick, I'd have to say Run - see my sig for the line I'm talking about. It's a devastatingly accurate summing-up of my own life!
All Day Long
This is a song about an innocent Who died at the hands of a desperate man He trusted those who he thought he knew He trusted those who he looked up to I'll never forget the joy in his face He'd laugh and he'd cry and he'd ruin my place He'd drive me crazy, and he'd drive me wild I used to scream and shout all day long
Now I hope you know this song Is about a child who now has gone And other children like him, too Abused and used by what adults do So don't tell me about politics Or all the problems of our economics When you can't look after what you can't own You scream and shout all day long
Just wait til tomorrow.... I guess thats what they all say just before they fall apart.
to me this evokes such a sad picture of failure, loneliness, isolation, futility...
a very underrated effort
john dougherty wrote: Just wait til tomorrow.... I guess thats what they all say just before they fall apart.
to me this evokes such a sad picture of failure, loneliness, isolation, futility...
a very underrated effort
Fucking spot on
Bang on the money!
New order are something else..stirring this deep human thought in just one line.Its the best line, in a classic new order song.
Miss Disco wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: As It Is When It Was
The streets are so empty at this time of night I'd rather walk on my own than fight In a world where I'd forgotten you I found myself forgotten, too That's the danger of believing books And all the lies of those thieves and crooks We sing intellectual songs of love From a stolen pen to a velvet glove.
I find it very emotional. I can just feel the depression in these lyrics.
I've been wondering for years what the last couple of lines of that song were saying; thanks, Ronald! As for my pick, I'd have to say Run - see my sig for the line I'm talking about. It's a devastatingly accurate summing-up of my own life!
I just love Run for the things it says. See my sig. I guess I've been when my life broke in two. Now I'm just trying to be happy with what I have, ie my signiture.
