UNCHAINED LYRICS

UNCHAINED LYRICS

an Andrew Ramble

As a person who writes, or more accurately, as a person who tries to write, I have a propensity to fall in love with words.  Not necessarily words themselves but rather with certain combinations of words, intriguing thoughts and occasionally a stanza.  (Truth be told, I have had more than casual flirtations with the individual words; Allegory, Metaphysical and Wayward, amongst others, but that is a story for another time.)  I truly love many quoted sayings and innumerable writings with the entirety of my intellectual capacity. 

This being said, I humbly offer a preemptive apology to the multitude of the authors both living and dead, for my frequent inability and limited capacity to comprehend the majority of their works.  This inability has surely resulted in my personal twisting of many authors’ original intentions and meanings.  But then, that is the nature of the self taught man, is it not?

Fortunately, for any reader of this particular Ramble, I will not make any attempt to analyze or deconstruct any aspect or segment of traditional literature.  In this case, that task has already been completed for me by the medium in which the words are presented.  The words which follow this introduction are not, in my mind, meant to be broken down, rather they are meant to inspire.  

These are some of the words that often inspire one of these ridiculous blogs. 
These are the words that my heart falls in love with.  
These are the written words that inspire new ideas.  
These are the words that both haunt my quiet hours and walk me through my busy days.   
These are the words that enrich the soul of this romantic fool.

I am naturally referring to the thing that I have called God’s Voice on more than one occasion,  the magical sound and words otherwise known as song.   For my purpose, and for the purpose of brevity (I love that word too), I’m not going to discuss full songs but rather song segments, those lines of written feelings that run on an infinite loop inside my caked brain.  These are some of the song segments that often drive me to sit with a composition book on my lap inviting me to fail at addressing a topic that they have somehow inspired me to explore, but rarely discover through a rambling blog post.   

A lyric or a song is possibly the most intimate of interpretable things in the human heart.  It is for this reason alone that I would never dare to alter or impede another’s heart with my own goofy interpretations. given to any of us.  This writing is simply about an increasingly romantic fool offering twenty lyrical hooks, which randomly came to mind.  They came while sitting with my pen in hand, contemplating the type of question most wannabe writers are ultimately confronted with; “What will inspire me to write next?  Where will this spark come from?  Will it again come from a song?"

These lyrics and song segments are in no particular order nor are they even necessarily my favorites, but I do have love for them all.  I hope that you share a love for at least one of them with me.

Along the Toms

Now those memories come back to haunt me

They haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true

Or is it something worse,

Bruce Springsteen – The River – The River

Each empty snakelike body floats

Silent sorrow in empty boats

Genesis – The Lamia – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Don't do drugs kids

I’m a fleabit peanut monkey

All my friends are junkies

That’s not really true

The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man – Let It Bleed

Which leads to:

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey

Butane in my veins and I’m out to cut the Junkie

Beck – Loser – Mellow Gold

There were times when I was so lonesome

I took some comfort there

Simon and Garfunkel – The Boxer – Bridge Over Troubled Water

If you had just a minute to breathe

And they granted you one final wish

Would you ask for something like another chance?

Traffic – The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

A Bullet had found him

His blood ran as he cried

No money could save him

So she laid down and he died

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

ELP – Lucky Man – Emerson Lake and Palmer

I don’t, I don’t know weather I was the

Boxer or the Bag

Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter – Jeremy B Side

(On list because it’s the only thing I was ever able to comprehend in the whole damn song!)

 Words are kind

They help ease the mind

I’ll miss my old friend

And though you gotta go

We’ll keep a piece of your soul

One goes out

One Comes in

Jack Johnson – If I could – In Between Dreams

We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout

We’ve been talkin’ bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.

Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson – At Folsom Prison

Steal your face right off your head!

Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride

Hot as a pistol but cool inside

Grateful Dead – He’s Gone – Europe 72

So get up, get get down

911 is a joke in yo town

Get up, get, get, get down

Late 911 wears the late crown

Public Enemy – 911 Is a Joke – Fear of A Black Planet

And any fool knows a dog needs a home

A shelter from pigs on the wing.

Pink Floyd - Pigs on The Wing (part 2) – Animals

With every mistake we must sorely be learning

Still my guitar gently weeps

The Beatles – While my Guitar Gently Weeps – The White Album

No more memories no more silent tears

No more gazing across the wasted years

Sarah Brightman – Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again – Phantom of the Opera

Lonely Days, Lonely Nights

Where would I be without my woman.

The Bee Gees – Lonely Days – 2 Years On

I killed on this game

Any Escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth

But the suburbs have no charms to sooth

The restless dreams of youth

Rush – Subdivisions – Signals

Heavenly shades of night are falling

It’s twilight time.

The Platters – Twilight Time

I can see her lyin’ back in her satin dress

In a room where you do what you don’t confess

Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown

Yeah, that's about right

In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man.

Now I’ve reached that age, I’ve tried to do all those things the best I can.

Led Zeppelin – Good Times Bad Times – Led Zeppelin 1