ONE song that you wish you'd written

"Over There" by George M. Cohen....

The way it rallied the nation in WWI still gives me goose bumps, the line that gets me is "The yanks are coming and we won't come back till it's over, over there"

I know this may sound corny, but "You Lift Me Up". I love the cover done by Sela, and those lyrics!

I can't pick just one...


But I will:

Southern Cross by CSN.

Purple Heather by Van Morrison. Heck, anything by Van Morrison.

Tough one. I'm listening to Marilyn Manson (very loud) right now, but the one greatest song of all time, the one I wish had my name on it...

Another Stranger Me, Blind Guardian.

Nobody here knows that song. I'm weird.

Oh, please. Bohemian Rhapsody.

Imagine by John Lennon.

But I have different ones for different reeeeeeeeeeasons! Like if I were picking just based on what the lyrics mean to me, Round Here by Counting Crows is it. But if I were picking based on the song that haunts me, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. But if I were picking based on the song that most moved me to sing, River in Judea. But if I wanted the fame and endless respect of the world, Yesterday.

BUT I'M NOT, and I'm picking JUST ONE! AND THAT ONE IS...

American Pie.

(P.S. Yes, Billy, I'm prepared for you to kick my ass now.)

"Cry Love" by John Hiatt, hands down!

What A Wonderful World - Louie Armstrong.

I like several of the ones listed here, such as "Imagine", "What a Wonderful World", and "American Pie" and I like many many more but I think the one I would most like to have written is "Piano Man" by Billy Joel for the way it captures the life of a performer.

Jim Hoye, (JRH)

for me...
"B.O.B" by OutKast

B.O.B stands for Bombs Over Baghdad

I'd love to be getting the royalty checks from "Happy Birthday To You."

So many, but because I'm in an arrested development mood today I'd say Somewhere Only We Know by Keane. Oh simple things, where have you gone? Love the clattering piano chords of any Keane song.

JennaGlatzer said:

(P.S. Yes, Billy, I'm prepared for you to kick my ass now.)

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I'll put a hundred bucks on the lady.

Joe Unidos said:

I'd love to be getting the royalty checks from "Happy Birthday To You."

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I almost said that. But you know, the group that holds the copyright on it seems to have a hard time collecting. don't know that I'd want the aggravation.

"A Most Peculiar Man" by Simon and Garfunkel

Pacing the Cage, written by Bruce Cockburn. Jimmy Buffett's version is pretty damn good, too.

"Stay With Me Baby" by Bette Midler, sung on "The Rose"

It gets me every time.

Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel.

I mean...The Boxer.

I mean...Sounds of Silence.

Okay, no, I mean Bridge Over Troubled Water. ::stands pat::

as i sat sadly by her side
http://youtube.com/watch?v=__MOjSyLgNc

As I sat sadly by her side
At the window, through the glass
She stroked a kitten in her lap
And we watched the world as it fell past
Softly she spoke these words to me
And with brand new eyes, open wide
We pressed our faces to the glass
As I sat sadly by her side

She said, "Father, mother, sister, brother,
Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece,
Soldier, sailor, physician, labourer,
Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest
Earth and moon and sun and stars
Planets and comets with tails blazing
All are there forever falling
Falling lovely and amazing"

Then she smiled and turned to me
And waited for me to reply
Her hair was falling down her shoulders
As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side
The kitten she did gently pass
Over to me and again we pressed
Our different faces to the glass
"That may be very well", I said
"But watch the one falling in the street
See him gesture to his neighbours
See him trampled beneath their feet
All outward motion connects to nothing
For each is concerned with their immediate need
Witness the man reaching up from the gutter
See the other one stumbling on who can not see"

With trembling hand I turned toward her
And pushed the hair out of her eyes
The kitten jumped back to her lap
As I sat sadly by her side

Then she drew the curtains down
And said, "When will you ever learn
That what happens there beyond the glass
Is simply none of your concern?
God has given you but one heart
You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers

And God does not care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for you to sit
At windows in judgement of the world He created
While sorrows pile up around you
Ugly, useless and over-inflated"

At which she turned her head away
Great tears leaping from her eyes
I could not wipe the smile from my face
As I sat sadly by her side

Hummingbird, by Wilco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-hIczcC-A

"Hummingbird" - Wilco

His goal in life was to be an echo
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her

She appears in his dreams
But in his car and in his arms
A dream can mean anything
A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her
But he never could

Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird

His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything

So he slept on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars
He would lie awake and count them
And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone

Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird

Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird

A hummingbird
A hummingbird




(of course if I had been the one to write that song, I'd also have written this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdxomPIA1nA