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Love You Mate...

That never fails in filling my eyes with tears

Something pretty personal to myself..........'Bizarre love Triangle' - New Order


Every time i think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
While every day my confusion grows
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way, I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say

Jones wrote:

Love You Mate...

i explained the song to my mate who i manged to get into Elbow and when she understood why he says that she was in tears when we had a listen again

Yep. Another lyric that used to have me in tears was:

Of the love we should say this:
There were switches never flicked

Still gets me sometimes...

Stay calm, dont be alarmed... its just another day back at the funny farm

David Ford's Song For The Road is the most beautiful love song ever written*.

Well the day casts down
Lengthy shadows on unfamiliar towns
I drove 300 miles from the place I call home
And I tip my hat to the Angel of the North

And the sun sets fire to the heavens
On the hills over Sheffield tonight
And I'll sail over this countryside with new friends and old
And we are no where, but man, we're alright

So you can keep your belief in whatever
I'll wear my cynicism like a tattoo
While poets try to engineer definitions of love
You know all I can think of is you

And I can't wait to see you on Sunday
Far from the traffic and the smoke and the noise
For this evening I will play back every message that you sent
And I will sleep to the sound of your voice

Now I don't lightly use words like forever
But I will love you til the end of today
And in the morning when I remember everything that you are
I know I'll fall for you all over again

I know someday this all will be over
And it's hard to say what most I will miss
Just give me one way to spend my last moments alive
And I'll choose this, I'll choose this, I'll choose this
I'll choose this, I'll choose this, I'll choose this
I'll choose this, I'll choose this, I'll choose this

*I reserve the right to have a new 'most beautiful love song ever written' tomorrow.

Kick off your feet
Twist off your head
Lady, lady

Burn all your clothes
And then let's go to bed
And get Lazy
Lady, Please, Please

Elbow - Lay Down Your Cross

Love it.

The melody is important but for me, a song is a poem set to music. These are some of my favourite lyricists.

She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at St Martin's college
That's where I, caught her eye
Common People - Pulp

I buy her all the right clothes
And pretty jewels to wear
My friends say she's a dumb blonde
But they don't know she dyes her hair
She thinks the fighting in Central America's easily solved
But what to wear to Bel Air Premieres
Is a problem she could never resolve

You ask me do I love you
Does the Pope live in the woods
Quad Erat Demonstrandum baby
"Oh, you speak French!"
Airhead - Thomas Dolby

I don't believe it!
There she goes again
She's tidied up and I can't find anything!
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

Mott the Hoople and the game of life
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match
Monopoloy, Twenty One, Checkers and Chess
Mr Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess
Let's play Twister, lets play Risk
See you in Heaven if you make the list

Moses went walking with the staff of wood
Newton got beaned by the apple good
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp
Mr Charles Darwin had the balls to ask
Man on the Moon - R.E.M.

There are so many, I can't mention them all.

Dylan has always been one of my favourites and this was one of my favourite songs -

Don't think twice

It aint no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It dont matter, anyhow
An it aint no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you dont know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and Ill be gone
Youre the reason Im travlin on
Dont think twice, its all right

It aint no use in turnin on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An it aint no use in turnin on your light, babe
Im on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin anyway
So dont think twice, its all right

It aint no use in callin out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It aint no use in callin out my name, gal
I cant hear you any more
Im a-thinkin and a-wondrin all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child Im told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But dont think twice, its all right



Love it.............

Topaz wrote:

Kick off your feet
Twist off your head
Lady, lady

Burn all your clothes
And then let's go to bed
And get Lazy
Lady, Please, Please

Elbow - Lay Down Your Cross

Love it.

Hi Topaz - I've never heard this one before. Where can I find it?

It's off Cast of Thousands, ticky. Do you have that one yet?

http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Thousands-Elbow/dp/B0000APSML

Scroll down and have a listen!

Yes I do - but that's not on it. WTF. Is there a different version in the US?

US got an extra track (b-side) in this country and Japan got 2 extra b-sides on their version.

Every so often. ticky, you will see mention on forums of the long anticipated double b-side elbow album which we are still waiting on being released.
We are gradually wanting to add some live radio sessions on Elbowfans Ning site...I'l see if they did it live on the radio at all. But not unfortunately the tracks that have already been commercially released and can be bought on albums/singles.

The discography on Ning isn't quite complete yet, but...

http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/6978/

shows all the songs written and released by Elbow so far, that we know about, apart from 'Vum Garda' and 'Every bit the Little Girl' which no one has attempted to add to the lyrics site yet, as I suspect there are some nonsense lyrics in there, like on the backing to Bones of you...

So from there and the discog, you can check out what Elbow songs you havn't heard yet

You're a star - Thank you!

Don't you know you've got your Daddy's eyes,
Daddy was an alcoholic,
but your mother kept it all inside,
threw it all away. - Alcoholic, Starsailor.


Transport, motorways and tramlines,
starting and then stopping,
taking off and landing,
the emptiest of feelings,
disappointed people, clinging on to bottles,
and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing.

Let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental,
it always ends up drivel.
One day, I am gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Let down, again,
Let down, again,
Let down.

You know, you know where you are with,
you know where you are with,
floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
and one day, I am gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]
hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]
hysterical and [you know where you are,]

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Speechlessly good there. Let down by Radiohead.

Last Goodbye, by Jeff Buckley...a bit melancholy, but so incredibly gorgeous....

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this, and then I'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say "No, this can't happen to me,"
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over... it's over