Haunting lyrics and/or songs that you dig

Fenian_Bastard · Oct 24, 2007

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I heard a hoot owl singin'
as they were taking down the tents.
The stars above the barren trees
were his only audience.
Those charcoal gypsy maidens
strut their feathers well.
And I know no one can sing the blues
like Blind Willie McTell.

-- The Master

Please see also: R. Johnson: "Hellhound On My Trail" and "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day."

sportschick · Oct 24, 2007

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Mayfly said:

Some of Eminem's songs always got me. I am trying to cycle through them to pick out the right song.
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The last verse of Stan is really creepy.

Flash · Oct 24, 2007

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Bobcaygeon by Tragically Hip:

left your house this morning about a quarter after nine
Coulda been the Willie Nelson coulda been the wine
When I left your house this morning
It was a little after nine
It was in Bobcaygeon I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time

Drove back to town this morning
With working on my mind
I thought of maybe quitting
Thought of leaving it behind
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pulling down the blind
The sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time

That night in Toronto with its checkerboard floors
Riding on horseback and keeping order restored
Til the men they couldn't hang
Stepped to the mic and sang
And their voices rang with that Aryan twang

I got to your house this morning just a little after nine
In the middle of that riot
Couldn't get you off my mind
So I'm at your house this morning
Just a little after nine
Cause it was in Bobcaygeon where I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time

Mayfly · Oct 24, 2007

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sportschick said:

Mayfly said:

Some of Eminem's songs always got me. I am trying to cycle through them to pick out the right song.
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The last verse of Stan is really creepy.
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It is, but "Rock Bottom" and "Love You More" are rather haunting. That and "Kim".

Flash · Oct 24, 2007

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And more from the Hip ... Wheat Kings

Sundown in the Paris of the Prairies
Wheat Kings have all their treasures buried
All you hear are the rusty breezes
Pushing around the weather vane Jesus

In a zippo lighter you see the killer's face
Maybe it's someone standing in the killer's place
Twenty years for nothing well that's nothing new
Besides no one is interested in something you didn't do
Wheat Kings and pretty things,
Lets just see what the morning brings

There's a dream he dreams where the high school is dead and stark
It's a museum and we're all locked up and after dark
Where the walls are lined all yellow gray and sinister
Hung with pictures of our parents prime ministers
Wheat Kings and pretty things,
Lets just see what the tomorrow brings

Late breaking story on the CBC,
A nation whispers "we always know he'd go free"
They add "you can't be fond of living in the past,
Cause if you are then there is no way you are going to last"
Wheat Kings and pretty things,
Lets just see what the morning brings
Wheat Kings and pretty things,
Thats what tomorrow brings

sportschick · Oct 24, 2007

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Mayfly said:

sportschick said:

Mayfly said:

Some of Eminem's songs always got me. I am trying to cycle through them to pick out the right song.
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The last verse of Stan is really creepy.
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It is, but "Rock Bottom" and "Love You More" are rather haunting. That and "Kim".
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Can't stand Kim, for the record.

Mayfly · Oct 24, 2007

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"Spend Some Time" by Eminem, Obie Trice, Stat Quo and 50 Cent.

[Chorus: Eminem]
"Spend some time with me - savour, the good times"
I, never thought I'd find, someone to be mine
Lord knows I was right, cause you just crossed the line..
"Spend some time with me - savour, the good times"

[Eminem]
I used to say I never met a girl like you before
Still ain't got a fuckin clue as to who you truly are
Almost went as far as introducin you to my daughters
'til you went as far as goin and snoopin through my drawers
Now I just feel stupid for the loop that you threw me for
Can't believe I almost flew the coop for some stupid whore
You used to say all you wanted was for me to be yours
All I ever wanted from you was a few booty calls
If you recall I used to treat you like a groupie broad
When we fucked I refused to even take my jewelry off
But it threw me off the first time I called and you blew me off
It was a shock, it struck me as odd, but it turned me on
You started gettin moody on me, pretty soon we'd argue
And the ruder you got, the more beautiful you got to me
And whoulda even knew that, who woulda even thought possibly
Cupid could shoot another one of them God damned darts at me
It's true that I got shot in the heart
But when someone seems too good to be true, they usually are
But see, when you're in it it's too hard to see
'til you pull up and see some other dude's car parked and reach
{*click*} up under the seat as your heart starts to beat
Before you make a decision that's life altering
And just as you halt and you turn and you start to leave
You hear them words echoing, almost haunting, that taunting ring

[Chorus]
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After my last break-up, those lyrics hit me hard.

Starman · Oct 24, 2007

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Mornings feel so damn sad these days
without the call of the 8:15
That old familiar echo
has finally died away
leaving nothing but a chill
where there once was a mighty scream

And I've watched the flat cars
take away our timber,
I've watched the coal cars steal our rock
And now that we've got
nothing left to take we're told
that the wheels will stop turning,
the whistles will stop blowing,
these foolish dreams
must stop.

Last year they closed down the post office,
took the only flag we had in town
That old brick building
still stands like a cenotaph
to a vision lost and buried in
a very distant past

And I've watched the flat cars
take away our timber,
I've watched the coal cars steal our rock
And now that we've got
nothing left to take we're told
that the wheels will stop turning,
the whistles will stop blowing,
these foolish dreams
must stop.

The longest train I've ever seen
was the train that you were on
I walked you to the station,
we kissed and you were gone
I dream at night about you coming home
The train in the station,
your uniform on fire
as you step onto the platform
the band plays a little louder,
and as we embrace your cap falls off
Oh, I guess these foolish dreams
must stop.

Mornings feel so damn sad these days
without the call of the 8:15
Looks like this town is finally
going to die away
leaving nothing but broken promises
where there once was small town dreams

And I've watched the flat cars
take away our timber,
I've watched the coal cars steal our rock
And now that we've got
nothing left to take we're told
that the TV station will be closing,
Main Street windows will need boarding,
that these foolish dreams ...

must stop.
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I thought about this song this summer when I drove by the vacant office of a newspaper where I used to work.

pallister · Oct 24, 2007

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Fenian, you bastard, unlike your political views, your taste in music is sound. I was at the crossroads last month (no, I was not meeting a mysterious stranger to make any nefarious deals). Modern times and affectations do not do that area and its history justice, though.

pallister · Oct 24, 2007

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I'll join the Hipjack for a moment with my favorite haunting song of theirs:

Twelve men broke loose in '73
From Milhaven maximum security
Twelve pictures lined up across the front page
seems the mounties had a summertime war to wage
The chief told the people they had nothing to fear
The last thing they'd wanna do is hang around here
They mostly came from towns with long French names
But one of the dozen was a hometown shame

Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall
Been one seat empty 18 years in all
Freezing slow time away from the world
He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl
He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl

We were sitting round table, heard the telephone ring
Father said he'd tell me if he saw anything
Heard the tap on the window in the middle of the night
Held back the curtains for my older brother Mike

See my sister got raped, so a man got killed
Local boy went to prison, man's buried on the hill
Folks went back to normal when they closed the case
They still stare at their shoes when they pass our place

My mother cried "The horror has finally ceased"
He whispered "yeah, for the time being, at least"
Over his shoulder, on the squad car megaphone
Said "Let's go Michael, son, we're taking you home"

Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall
Been one seat empty 18 years in all
Freezing slow time away from the world
He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl
He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl

hockeybeat · Oct 24, 2007

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The two Scrubs' soundtrack songs that got to me...

Guided By Voices' Hold On Hope

Every street is dark
And folding out mysteriously
Where lies the chance we take to be
Always working
Reaching out for a hand that we
can't see
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me

Invitation to the last dance
Then it's time to leave
But that's the price we pay
when we deceive
One another/animal mother
She opens up for free
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's
holding me

Look at the talkbox in mute
frustration
At the station
There hides the cowboy
His campfire flickering
on the landscape

That nothing grows on
But time still goes on
And through each life of misery
Everybody's got a hold on hope
It's the last thing that's holding me
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John Cale's Hallelujah

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before, I know this room
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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Pete Incaviglia · Oct 24, 2007

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Got goosebumps just googling these lyrics. The song fucking chills me:

Don't Wake Daddy - Tragically Hip

Sled dogs after dinner
Close their eyes on
The howlin’ wastes
Kurt cobain, reincarnated,
Sighs and licks his face
Then they drift past strips
Of serengeti and the gates
Of sleepy hollow too
You can pause in wonder,
They paused in wonder and
Yea, i paused in wonder too
Just don’t wake daddy

They can lay their heads
On their futon-beds,
So many miles from home
You can teach your children
Some fashion sense and they
Fashion some of their own
For when the policy-weary
Commune on the untamed land
Through white sheers
Whispers in their ears,
You’re damned
And don’t wake daddy

You can stuff yer void
With the asteroid
That’s hurtlin toward the earth
You can drop the bomb
That restores some calm
Then promises rebirth
Just don’t wake daddy

It’s the perfect time now
For an eclectic choice
They’re all asleep but us now
It’s time to hear your voice

Sing to end all songs
To end all songs
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