Der Thread existierte definitiv mal im alten Forum. Keine Ahnung, ob er es auch hierher geschafft hat.

Höre gerade "The Big Heat" von Stan Ridgway, und bin grad sehr beeindruckt vom Text von "Walkin' Home Alone":

Walkin' Home Alone

Now there's last Sunday's paper
Crumpled up and rollin' down the street away
And there's a piece of gun
Just waitin' for a ride on someone's feet today
CHORUS
And tonight I'll be walkin' home alone
There's a million things I said
And twice as many that I didn't say
And I remember an afternoon
A broken coffee cup and some Broadway tune
And I shook her hand and I said...OK
And now as I stroll by some skinny dog
Left outside without a bone
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And ain't it funny how one afternoon
Can make two people stop and say
That all the time they spent together
Really didn't mean that much anyway
Except a sink full of dirty dishes
And a picture in a drawer
And a hairbrush on the table
And a hole punched in a door
And if she were here right now
I'd tell her things I never told her before
So now I hear a clock and I get up fast
And draw the curtain on a brand new day
I can't wait to get this cast off
The telephone's dead, I guess they turned it off today
Turn the key on the mailbox slot
I'm lookin' for a letter but bills is all I got
And even the cat she left me with
Is goin' out with someone else
So put another quarter in the jukebox Pete,
But don't play the one with the sad trombone
'Cause tonight I'll be walkin' home alone

Ja, der hier (gleicher Name wie im alten Forum)

Da geht es aber nur um einzelne Zeilen, nicht um ganze Texte.

Was für ein beeindruckender und berührender Text:

Goodnight Saigon
Billy Joel

We met as soul mates, on Parris Island
We left as inmates, from an asylum
And we were sharp
As sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho
To lay down our lives

We came in spastic, like tameless horses
We left in plastic, as numbered corpses
And we learned fast
To travel light
Our arms were heavy
But our bellies were tight

We had no home front, we had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep
And shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ
With all our might

We had no cameras, to shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe, and played our Doors tapes
And it was dark
So dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Remember Charlie, remember Baker
They left their childhood, on every acre
And who was wrong?
And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

We held the day
In the palm
Of our hand

They ruled the night
And the night
Seemed to last as long as

Six weeks, on Parris Island
We held the coastline, they held the highlands
And they were sharp
As sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive

And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together

Dieser Text schafft mich echt. Soviel Hoffnungslosigkeit in einem einzigen Song ringt selbst das sonnigste Gemüt nieder.


Mother Tongue: The Seed

She's got a seed in the belly
She waters it with the smoke all day
She knows the name of the planter
She's damned she's ever gonna say
Well the seed became a baby
Born shakin' crazy for a fix
And mother's jonesin' too
So in a week it's back to the tricks
She says "Look at me, stare
Come on daddy, fuck me
If you dare
Can't you see I'm crazy
Yeah, sugar daddy
I'm gone"

She's home in the doorway
She's got some paper for a roof
She's got a lie she believes in
Swears to God, man
It's the truth
She's got some bushes for a toilet
She's got a fountain for a pool
And she's got a shopping cart
Keeps her wings and pretty jewels
She says "Look at me, stare
Come on daddy, fuck me
If you dare
Can't you see I'm crazy
Yeah, sugar daddy
I'm gone"

She says "Look at me, stare
Come on daddy, fuck me
If you dare
Can't you see I'm crazy
Yeah, sugar daddy
I'm gone"
Can't you see I'm crazy?
Can't you see I'm crazy?
I need you to love me
I need you to love me
Come on daddy, fuck me
Come on daddy, fuck me
I need you to love me
I need you to love me
Can't you see I'm crazy?
Can't you see I'm crazy?
I need you to love me
I need you to love me
I need you to love me

She's got a seed in the belly
She waters it with the smoke all day
She knows the name of the planter
She's damned she's ever gonna say
Well the seed became a baby
Born shakin' crazy for a fix
And mother's jonesin' too
So in a week it's back to the tricks
So make way for the seed
Come on make room for the seed
Yeah, sugar daddy give a little for the seed
Come on make room for the seed
For the seed