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Haunting lyrics and/or songs that you dig

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by hockeybeat, Oct 24, 2007.

  1. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    I see you, and raise you "Sky Blue and Black"
     
  2. HandsomeHarley

    HandsomeHarley Well-Known Member

    Just browsed through my iTunes to hear some tunes that help define the mood I'm in and came up with these gems:

    please come now
    i think i'm falling
    i'm holding to all i think is safe
    it seems i found the road to nowhere
    and i'm trying to escape
    i yelled back when i heard thunder
    but i'm down to one last breath
    and with it let me say
    let me say

    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking
    maybe six feet
    ain't so far down

    i'm looking down now that it's over
    reflecting on all of my mistakes
    i thought i found the road to somewhere
    somewhere in His grace
    i cried out, heaven save me
    but i'm down to one last breath
    and with it let me say
    let me say

    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking
    maybe six feet
    ain't so far down
    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking
    maybe six feet
    ain't so far down
    i'm so far down

    sad eyes follow me
    but i still believe there's something left for me
    so please come stay with me
    'cause i still believe there's something left for you and me
    for you and me
    for you and me

    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking

    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking
    maybe six feet
    ain't so far down
    hold me now
    i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinking
    maybe six feet
    ain't so far down

    please come now
    i think i'm falling
    i'm holding to all i think is safe
    * * * * *
    call you up in the middle of the night
    like a firefly without a light
    you were there like a slow torch burning
    i was a key that could use a little turning

    so tired that i couldn't even sleep
    so many secrets i couldn't keep
    promised myself i wouldn't weep
    one more promise i couldn't keep

    it seems no one can help me now
    i'm in too deep
    there's no way out
    this time i have really led myself astray

    runaway train never going back
    wrong way on a one-way track
    seems like i should be getting somewhere
    somehow i'm neither here nor there

    can you help me remember how to smile
    make it somehow all seem worthwhile
    how on earth did i get so jaded
    life's mystery seems so faded

    i can go where no one else can go
    i know what no one else knows
    here i am just drownin' in the rain
    with a ticket for a runaway train

    everything is cut and dry
    day and night
    earth and sky
    somehow i just don't believe it

    runaway train never going back
    wrong way on a one-way track
    seems like i should be getting somewhere
    somehow i'm neither here nor there

    bought a ticket for a runaway train
    like a madman laughin' at the rain
    little out of touch, little insane
    just easier than dealing with the pain

    runaway train never going back
    wrong way on a one-way track
    seems like i should be getting somewhere
    somehow i'm neither here nor there

    runaway train never comin' back
    runaway train tearin' up the track
    runaway train burnin' in my veins
    runaway but it always seems the same
    * * * * *
    i can't escape this hell
    so many times i've tried
    but i'm still caged inside
    somebody get me through this nightmare
    i can't control myself

    so what if you can see
    the darker side of me
    no one will ever change this animal i have become
    and we believe
    it's not the real me
    somebody help me tame this animal
    (this animal)
    (this animal)

    i can't escape myself
    so many times i've lied
    but there's still rage inside
    somebody get me through this nightmare
    i can't control myself

    so what if you can see
    the darker side of me
    no one will ever change this animal i have become

    help me believe
    it's not the real me
    somebody help me tame this animal i have become

    and we believe
    it's not the real me
    somebody help me tame this animal

    somebody help me through this nightmare
    i can't control myself
    somebody wake me from this nightmare
    i can't escape this hell
    (this animal)
    (this animal)
    (this animal)
    (this animal)
    (this animal)
    (this animal)
    (this animal)

    so what if you can see
    the darker side of me
    no one will ever change this animal i have become
    and we believe
    it's not the real me
    somebody help me tame this animal i have become
    and we believe
    it's not the real me
    somebody help me tame this animal
    this animal i have become
    * * * * *
     
  3. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    Pink Floyd has several songs with some darkish/haunting lyrics.

    Comfortably Numb
    Mother
    Run Like Hell
    Goodbye Blue Sky
     
  4. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    All good, and Doc had "The Great Gig In The Sky"

    Is "Time" too obvious? Beautiful and timeless with chord progressions and lyrics that I would certainly classify as haunting.
     
  5. PaperDoll

    PaperDoll Well-Known Member

    Marc Cohn's "Girl of Mysterious Sorrow"

    I’m coming to see you
    Tomorrow sometime
    Gonna bring you some roses
    Gonna tear off the vines

    Gonna talk to the wind
    That blows through the trees
    Kiss you like always
    From down on my knees

    Gonna ask you some questions
    Get no replies
    Wipe all the tears
    Falling down from my eyes

    ‘Cause the one that I wanted
    I never could know
    Girl of mysterious sorrow
    Girl of mysterious sorrow

    Gonna park in the street
    Gonna open the gate
    Walk to the spot where
    You always wait

    I’ll be shaking my head
    Like I usually do
    ‘Cause the name and the dates
    Tell me nothing about you

    But I’ll sit in the shadows
    And let you explain
    All of the sadness
    And all of the pain

    Did it all seem so hopeless
    You just had to let go?
    Girl of mysterious sorrow
    Girl of mysterious sorrow

    Mysterious... mysterious
    mysterious... mysterious

    Yeah I’m coming to see you
    But I really can’t wait
    There’s just a few things
    I needed to say

    Like why were you hiding
    So much of yourself?
    Why were you living
    For somebody else?

    Well I know that I’ve always
    Been looking for you
    But lately it’s not
    Such a hard thing to do

    ‘Cause it seems like inside
    Every woman I know
    There’s a girl of mysterious sorrow
    A girl of mysterious sorrow

    Mysterious... mysterious
    Mysterious... sorrow...
     
  6. HandsomeHarley

    HandsomeHarley Well-Known Member

    Pink Floyd is classicly haunting, and as much as I like most of the hits, the most haunting song, IMHO, is "The Final Cut".
     
  7. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    I love Comfortably Numb.
     
  8. HandsomeHarley

    HandsomeHarley Well-Known Member

    Fixed.
     
  9. EE94

    EE94 Guest

    didn't leonard cohen write hallelujah?
     
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