Treacle. Schlock, Maudlin, Morose, Trite...

[thebes]

...banal, hackneyed, clichéd, vapid, overdone, hoary
stupid love songs thingies.

I’m fed up to here with silly little love songs, Well not that
one, which is kinda cute, but enough is enough. Does every single popular song
have to be about love. Fer cryng out loud, can’t we find something else to say.

I mean, think about this lyric: “Shoot me like a soldier, don’t
hang me like a dog, I’ve fought for Irish freedom, to free the land I love”. Starts
out great but then they can’t even keep the word love out of a fighting,
propaganda rebel tune. Pah. I think I’ll
just, gag, put on this tune by Patti Smith:

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz

When an old friend I happened to see

I introduced her to my loved one and while they were dancin'

My friend stole my sweetheart from me

I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz

Now I know just how much I have lost

Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing

The beautiful Tennessee Waltz

Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing

The beautiful Tennessee

They were playing the Waltz on the night I lost my love

So what silly piece of soapy treacle gets your fur in a dander?

[seti]

There need to be more songs about high effeciency horns and directly heated coupled single ended triode tube amps.

[Boxx]

Kind of makes you wish for the days of "Bloodrock" and their hit DOA. Lyrics, wow.... How does a group follow this one up?

[thebes]

Maudlin as heck oh gosh. Implied family endearment, but not actually spelled out

I was born and raised down in Alabama
On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches
Papa used to tease me about it
'Cause deep down inside he was hurt
'Cause he'd done all he could

My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hands, see
Education he never had
He did wonders when the times got bad
The little money from the crops he raised
Barely paid the bills we made

For, life had kick him down to the ground
When he tried to get up
Life would kick him back down
One day Papa called me to his dyin' bed
Put his hands on my shoulders
And in his tears he said

He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you

Two days later Papa passed away, and
I became a man that day
So I told Mama I was gonna quit school, but
She said that was Daddy's strictest rule

So ev'ry mornin' 'fore I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
I wanted to leave, just run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin' bed

He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
I tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest

Then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of 13 I thought
I was carryin' the weight of the
Whole world on my shoulders
And you know, Mama knew
What I was goin' through, 'cause

Ev'ry day I had to work the fields
'Cause that's the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of the family
And ev'rybody else depended on me
Ev'ry night I heard my Mama pray
Lord, give him the strength to face another day

So years have passed and all the kids are grown
The angels took Mama to a brand new home
Lord knows, people, I shedded tears
But my daddy's voice kept me through the years

Sing
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you

Oh, I can still hear Papa's voice sayin'
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
I've tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest

I can still hear Papa, what he said
Patches...

[thebes]

Now my suspicion is that they are dancing to this tune:

They asked me how I knew

My true love was true

Oh, I of course replied

Something here inside cannot be denied



They said someday you'll find

All who love are blind

Oh, when your heart's on fire

You must realize

Smoke gets in your eyes



So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed

To think they could doubt my love

Yet today my love has flown away

I am without my love



Now laughing friends deride

Tears I can not hide

Oh, so I smile and say

When a lovely flame dies

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke gets in your eyes

Say, do you think they are Twins?

[Timmikid]

This will get me in a mood of agressive rage, only antidote is something like Highway to Hell or some of White Light's insanity to calm me down again...

"Nine Million Bicycles"

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing

That's a fact,

It's a thing we can't deny

Like the fact that I will love you till I die.

We are twelve billion light years from the edge,

That's a guess,

No-one can ever say it's true

But I know that I will always be with you.

I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday

So don't call me a liar,

Just believe everything that I say

There are six BILLION people in the world

More or less

and it makes me feel quite small

But you're the one I love the most of all

[iNTERLUDE]

We're high on the wire

With the world in our sight

And I'll never tire,

Of the love that you give me every night

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing

That's a Fact,

it's a thing we can't deny

Like the fact that I will love you till I die

And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing

And you know that I will love you till I die!

And BTW there are more bicycles in Amsterdam, but who gives a flying donkey!?

[Timmikid]

Sorry about that... Can't figure out how to use space and enter on an apple on this board. I hope that will change next week?

[Quiet_Hollow]

And BTW there are more bicycles in Amsterdam, but who gives a flying donkey!?

Not a Katie Melua fan I take it? []