The Verse That Means The Most - Soul Graffitti

[JimK]

Not sure if this has been attempted before.

 

What I'm planning to do is collate our favourite verse (or one liners) from our collection or memories - you know something that really moves you or gives you goose bumps when you hear it. Please, not the whole song.

 

Initially I was going to create a "Soul Wall" for myself but I think I might go bigger and attempt a publication if there's enough interest.

 

I intend to acknowledge any input with your name (if you wish) and location.

 

What would be nice would be:

 

a.  The verse.

b.  Song title & Artist.

c.  Reason why you chose that.

d.  Name, location.

 

Do you think there would be any mileage in this venture?

 

 

[Dean]

I'll grab an obvious one before anyone else does:

 

a) "You've had your warning, Now I'm leaving walking away from you, HA! I don't want no woman always telling me what to do, if you think you're the boss I'll show you what I can do . . . . . "

b) I'm Gone Eddie Parker

C) Aged 54, moved in with my partner of a few years just 5 weeks ago. Successfully raised son (aged 23) daughter (17), by successful I mean well balanced human beings with respect for all. Fiercely independent lifestyle over many years, lots of partners some good, some not so. Losing myself in this tune on a floor felt like justifying my existence at different times. Hoping now my partner is cool with the 7" brown packages that will be dropping through our shared door! 

d) Not sure what you mean here, name and location of where the tune meant most? Any nighter with space on floor,  but does have a special memeory of a quieter night at wigan, with space on the floor, having recently left a relationship.

[Tezza]

Jimmy Conwell - Too Much

 

I'm Smoking more but enjoying it less

I get a whole lotta sleep but i don't get enough rest.

 

Can't recall when I first heard this but virtually the whole song is given with such emotion. Most of the lines are clever, humerous (in a strange kind of way) and thought provoking

Edited September 3, 2013 by Tezza

[Winnie :-)]

When I feel the need - Marvin Gaye

 

The whole song does it for me, but the third verse in particular just sends shivers up and down my spine

 

''When my arms reach out for something

And I don't know what it is

I just close, close my eyes

And the first thing I visualise

It's my sweet baby''

 

I think it's partly to do with the construction of the verse, but mostly to do with the absolute need we all have within us at times, to call on our partners for support, and knowing that they will supply it. It's the joy of love. From the moment I first heard it at Prestwich all those years ago, to present day it touches me, a truly great lyric IMO When I first heard it I wasn't with anybody, but yearned for that feeling, I now am and that fourth line applies constantly. I dedicate the thought, the feeling and the line to Jackie. 

[Winnie :-)]

And I think it's a great idea for a thread   

[Harry Crosby]

somehow, someway, ive got to get you back, gotta chip at your heart, till I make it crack.

 

 PARIS-SLEEPLESS NIGHTS-DOC

 

 Wherever we were together, if this record came on. My old mate Tony coleby (r.i.p.) would lean over and sing this out loud. Happy days.

[Steve S 60]

^{I know you've seen me watching you baby, for quite some time}

^{And it's written all over my face, just what's on my mind}

^{I wanted to ask you for your love, in some sweet little way}

^{Oh but every time I see you girl, not a word can I say.}

 

 

^{I Can't Speak - Jimmie Bo Horne}

 

 

^{Great lyrics that really resonate, and just asks the question "What if....."}

 

 

^{Steve S, Cumbria}

Edited September 3, 2013 by Steve S 60

[Mickjay33]

These are the eyes that never knew how to smile
Till you came into my life
And these are the arms that long to lock you inside
Every day and every night

al Wilson show & tell

me & the wifes wedding song brings a tear to my eyes everytime I hear it

mick jay grantham

Edited September 3, 2013 by mickjay33

[Mike]

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[Ritchieandrew]

"They turn their heads in pity & confusion wondering why I keep myself locked in seclusion"

 

Freddie Chavez - They'll never no why - Look.

 

Just about sums up the Northern scene from an outsiders viewpoint.!!

[Guest Polyvelts]

"When you're sitting on your own and you feel the city lights surround you,

And she's always on the phone but you just don't think that you can fight it"

 

Odyssey 'Inside Out'

 

I just really like it !!!!

 

Hyson Green Flats, Nottingham 1982

[Back Street Blue]

Can't choose between.....

 

"ever since I met you baby I've been walkin' into closed doors" (Frankie Beverly & the Butlers - if that's what you wanted")......and

 

"in the middle of the night I wake up screamin'" (Soul Twins - quick change artist)

 

both are some of the first lyrics I heard at my first niter and at exactly the right moment to benefit from heightened perception   

 

( A. Liker - Riker Town)

[JimK]

A tongue in cheek plea:

 

I chewed my nails off one by one

I've only got one to go

And unless I see your face real soon

Nails I'll have no more

 

Heart Trouble - Parliaments

 

Such clever writing by Sidney Barnes and George Clinton.  Mr Barnes acknowledged their writing was at it's best around this time.  Cheers me up no end (despite the fact he was dumped!!

[Epic]

"Love is a smile you give me that makes my day seem brighter

Love is your arms around me makes my troubles lighter"

 

 

 

My mum's favourite Northern tune - I can still hear her singing along to this in the kitchen when I was a teenager.

[Guest molly7989]

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Regards,

Dave

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[macca]

"The love we shared honey/will long be remembered/love me, love me tender/all my love, I'll surrender to you baby, ooh' baby etc".

That glorious middle eight or bridge or whatever musicians call it in Sweet Lover by Fortson & Scott. Gets me every bloody time!

[Guest BENSON BOY]

Pick any line,just a great  tune.

 

Lainie Hill---Time marches on

[Geordiejohnson]

Its got to be...

 

 

Its almost like eating beans by the pound then wrap me up in adhesive tape from the waist down.....blowing up my mind..the exciters

 

Mes thinks there'd be more than minds being blown up with all those beans

 

mind you that song is full of one liners...dynamite and nitroglycerine is like a fire cracker but bad for you....not arf....

 

what with mountain climbers and ovens this track is a poetic wonder

 

Geeooooordie

[Peter99]

I have loads - here's my first pick.

 

Daybreak I Need Love

 

Love the lyrics, love the vocals, love the record. Takes me back to all over in the early 80's - magic!

 

I need love

Someone who understands

I need someone

To show me how  

I wanna a trip to heaven

I need someone to turn me on

I want to see that wonderland

They say its grand when you're in love

Where is the love that I need

Someone to show me how

I want to get that feeling ...................that feeling known as, yeah yeah......................

 

Peter

 

[Peter99]

Its got to be...

 

 

Its almost like eating beans by the pound then wrap me up in adhesive tape from the waist down.....blowing up my mind..the exciters

 

Mes thinks there'd be more than minds being blown up with all those beans

 

mind you that song is full of one liners...dynamite and nitroglycerine is like a fire cracker but bad for you....not arf....

 

what with mountain climbers and ovens this track is a poetic wonder

 

Geeooooordie

 

 

Good shout Geeeeoooooordie lad!

[Tony A]

Its got to be...

 

 

Its almost like eating beans by the pound then wrap me up in adhesive tape from the waist down.....blowing up my mind..the exciters

 

Mes thinks there'd be more than minds being blown up with all those beans

 

mind you that song is full of one liners...dynamite and nitroglycerine is like a fire cracker but bad for you....not arf....

 

what with mountain climbers and ovens this track is a poetic wonder

 

Geeooooordie

 

 

 

I always thought it said  (compared to you)   that's what I've sung anyway.     

[Tony A]

We used to walk, laugh and talk, solve the problems of the world.  

 

+ the rest of the record. 

 

Still love it.            

 

 

 

 

Soon You'll see a tear paint my cheek, like a clown.                

Edited September 3, 2013 by Tony A

[Soulman]

Hi Jim

Good to meet you today. Mine would be something I want on my headstone.

"In this world that spins around, I've been up and I've been down, I have pounded every street, 'till my hearts cried to my feet, but I know somewhere there's room for me"

Jesse Davis "there's room for me" revere picture sleeve and for sale at a grand. Never taken off but it will and watch it rise in price!

Best

Steve

[Peter99]

We used to walk, laugh and talk, solve the problems of the world.  

 

+ the rest of the record. 

 

Still love it.            

 

 

 

 

Soon You'll see a tear paint my cheek, like a clown.                

Great shout Tony.

 

Peter

 

[Tony A]

Great shout Tony.

 

Peter

 

 

Still tugs at the heart, what's left of it.  

[Peter99]

Can we have two?

 

Here I sit here in this old lonesome room

With nothing but the smell of sweet perfume

One silk stocking lying on the chair a yellow ribbon that you wore in your hair

Can't get over these memories, can't get over these memories

 

You all know what it is

 

Peter

 

[Guest Byrney]

Fantastic Four. live Up To What She Thinks.

Reason, it's bob on how I feel about my wife in a cocky grinny way , was the record played as we signed our marriage register and I used the words in my speech, not a dry eye in the house:

' sorry if I sound conceited but I think I'm better than you, if you had this girl of mine I think you'd be bragging too. She makes me feel so superior, she says no man can get next to her.

So I tell you what I'll do, and I'll tell you what you would do, said I'm going to live up to what she thinks.

[Wicked]

so you think my heart is made of stone

and when you're near me there's no reaction

well your'e wrong

 

 

opening lines of 'Not on the outside' Linda Jones

cracks me up every time I hear it

Edited September 3, 2013 by wicked

[Swifty]

Can we have two?

 

Here I sit here in this old lonesome room

With nothing but the smell of sweet perfume

One silk stocking lying on the chair a yellow ribbon that you wore in your hair

Can't get over these memories, can't get over these memories

 

You all know what it is

 

Peter

 

Tie a Yellow Ribbon ??

[Barry]

"Oh I try too hard now baby

To get you to see things like me

Oh oh ay - it just ain't easy

Tryin' to live in the world today!"

"My, my my oh my little baby

Why do you wanna leave me baby

And keep on running away?

Bits n Pieces - Keep On Running Away

A big run to the floor record for me at Wigan.

First and last verses of a record that still has the power to make this bloke cry.

The combination of the screaming falsetto lead, falsetto's are normally used in a 'sweet'

way and the to and fro-ing of the male and female backing singers, coupled with THOSE

horns and drum patterns...simply play after play to this present day, it slays me.

I've never heard anything that comes near it for screaming passion...Anything.

Great thread.

[Peter99]

Tie a Yellow Ribbon ??

 

Now feck off!

 

I was going to try this one "There's a guy called Pete, who liives on............................"

 

 

Peter

[Peter99]

I've never heard anything that comes near it for screaming passion...Anything.

Great thread.

Bang on Barry.

 

Hope yer well mate.

 

Peter

[Swifty]

 

Now feck off!

 

I was going to try this one "There's a guy called Pete, who liives on............................"

 

 

Peter

Noooooooooooooo...............

[Peter99]

Noooooooooooooo...............

It brings tears to my fecking eyes every time our kid. And I can't get it out of my fecking head!

 

LOL

 

 

peter

Edited September 3, 2013 by Peter99

[Swifty]

Just hung up the telephone,

I've heard all about you,

your new boyfriend couldn't wait to tell me, Huh,

that you and I are through,

 

Don't try to spare my feelings........

just get out (and let me cry)

 

GET OUT - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES -LANDA

 

First time I heard this in a sweaty talc/Brut smelling club it gave me goosebumps and still does to this day

 

 

Swifty

[Guest in town Mikey]

Wont type it out but the opening verse to My Dearly Beloved by Jack Montgomery.

 

One of my best mates favourite song that was played at his funeral. And for a long time after, if this was played, I could close my eyes on the dancefloor and see him dancing to it. Time passes by and the vision is gone. but the song can still bring a lump to my throat.

 

1985 (Funeral)

[Peter99]

Wont type it out but the opening verse to My Dearly Beloved by Jack Montgomery.

 

One of my best mates favourite song that was played at his funeral. And for a long time after, if this was played, I could close my eyes on the dancefloor and see him dancing to it. Time passes by and the vision is gone. but the song can still bring a lump to my throat.

 

1985 (Funeral)

Ah, good lad Mikey.

 

Peter

 

[Kegsy]

Don't need no woman to help me starve to death.... Can you dig it.

 

 

There's  a thousands other too.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Kegsy

[Guest]

I wake in the morning there you are in my mind again..

cluttering up my thoughts for the day... It's always that way..

[Peter99]

I wake in the morning there you are in my mind again..

cluttering up my thoughts for the day... It's always that way..

Yep, lovely Barry.

 

Great record.

 

Peter

[Peter99]

Bit of a short cut - hope that's ok. But this aint too shabby either is it

 

Garfield Fleming - Don't Send Me Away.

 

Great lyrics throughout the record.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDXIrf_vGo

 

Peter

 

[Peter99]

And of course Mr Charles Johnson

 

I never had a love so good - sublime soul music, beautiful lyrics. I was engaged to a lovely girl at the time and this always reminds me of her.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6QQ4yeNsWw

 

Peter

 

[MrsWoodsrules]

A verse that does it for me, every time......

 

Sitting here with a broken heart, wishing you'd come home.

Sitting here with a broken heart  and I just can't go on.

You give me HEART TROUBLE, and my life just ain't worthwhile.

Without your love, I can't even force a smile.......

 

Heart Trouble, Parliaments.

I like it......, I like it a lot........(in voice of Dumb and Dumber's Jim Carrey!)

[JimK]

I was talking with someone tonight who mentioned Al Wilson's The Snake.  Initially I thought, how many people think "I was sick of that track 20 years ago".  However, the thread is about how a verse or couple of lines affect you or make you stop and think.

 

With this 45 it was the lines "Oh shut up silly woman, said that reptile with a grin.  You knew darn well I was a snake BEFORE you took me in".

 

That doesn't half some up how some of our past partners have tried to change the person they fell for,,,,,,   Leads me onto Bobby Hebb!!!!

 

Sheesh!!

[Petebangor]

I just want to fall in love

No games no deals just love

Just plain and simple love

The Spinners

[Tiberius]

First song that came into my head..........Timi Yuro - It'll Never Be Over For Me........pick any verse you want.

[Petebangor]

Passing seasons all but fade away.

36 years ago I first heard that, and still makes the hairs on my neck stand up

[Petebangor]

First song that came into my head..........Timi Yuro - It'll Never Be Over For Me........pick any verse you want.

Good shout. It's one of the most heart wrenching songs ever......

[Petebangor]

I'm walking down this lonely avenue......

[Dean]

I'll grab another bite at this cherry! Prepared to be honest . . . Been reading a bit at the moment about whilst venues like wigan were not the place for "picking-up" the opposite sex, many relationships came out of long-term friendships and mutual experiences: It would be 1981, a long friendship with Cathy (second name witheld out of respect!) led to a longer affair and relationship that all began with these words:

 

"Yah!, So we share our lovers embraces, Yah! In the dark of hidaway places, Yah! Where no eyes recognise our faces, Me here hiding lying, But these Stolen Hours are such golden hours, I'd be willing to pay any price for these moments of our paradise"

Patrice Holloway - Stolen Hours.

Also reminds me of JB (Phil Woods RIP), who smiled at the significance of that with me every time we heard it after those times.

 

And for a brief time paradise it was, all-nighters and stolen passion, . . . . . . still in touch after all these decades, that's the scene we had/have. Some apology for the sentimentality, but only a half-hearted apology. The lyrics of these songs have been the soundtrack to our lives.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Dean