Favourite Lyrics

[Guest andyrattigan]

Favourite Lyrics:

Breakaway- Steve Karmen feat. Jimmy Radcliffe

Born a Loser- Don Ray

Grits Aint Groceries- Little Milton

Home is where the Hatred is- Esther Phillips

I'd Rather be with you- Terry Callier

Dancing Girl- Terry Callier

What Colour is love- Terry Callier

Just a few that spring to mind.

[Guest maria]

Whats your favourite lyrics from a northern/soul sound here`s one of mine

ITS ALMOST LIKE EATING PEAS BY THE POUND

THEN WRAPPING UP IN ADHESIVE TAPE

FROM THE WAIST DOWN

EXCITERS-BLOWING UP MY MIND-RCA

Many years ago a great guy I know wrote all the lyrics in a letter to his girlfriend from the song by Bobby Hebb, Love Love Love,

A beautiful song and a very touching thought, I never mentioned it to him, but with a twinkle in her eye she convided in me of what he had done. So every time I hear this record I recall the above story.

[timthemod]

There's a mighty long road

when you're trying to make it all alone

when you've got no wife in your corner

to stand by your side

Corny lyric of the week:

I've got a PHD in Loveology!

Edited January 10, 2008 by timthemod

[Guest]

lets pick up the pieces - start all over - stop runing away hey - hurting each other / larry hueston lets spend some time together . this has got to be one of the best openings to a song ever . unlessof course you know different

[Simsy]

People say I'm the life of the party

Because I tell a joke or two

Although I might be laughing loud and hearty

Deep inside I'm blue

So take a good look at my face

You'll see my smile looks out of place

If you look closer, it's easy to trace

The tracks of my tears..

I need you, need you

Since you left me if you see me with another girl

Seeming like I'm having fun

Although she may be cute

She's just a substitute

Because you're the permanent one..

So take a good look at my face

You'll see my smile looks out of place

If you look closer, it's easy to trace

The tracks of my tears..

I need you, need you

Outside I'm masquerading

Inside my hope is fading

Just a clown oh yeah

Since you put me down

My smile is my make up

I wear since my break up with you..

So take a good look at my face

You'll see my smile looks out of place

If you look closer, it's easy to trace

The tracks of my tears

William 'Smokey' Robinson Jr.

[Barry]

lets pick up the pieces - start all over - stop runing away hey - hurting each other / larry hueston lets spend some time together . this has got to be one of the best openings to a song ever . unlessof course you know different

I have to bring to the fore the 'Top Cat', era when I honestly would have killed for the then covered Larry Houston track - simply one of my dearest memories on a dancefloor.

"WHOOO!"

[foolish fool]

Something told me it was over

when I saw you and her talking,

Something deep down in my soul said, Cry boy

when I saw you and that girl walking.

I would rather, I would rather go blind boy,

Than to see you, walk away from me.

bettye swann, etta james, chicken shack etc.etc

[Rbman]

Can't be arsed to read all the posts so I hope I'm not repeating one that someone has already mentioned but I just love the lyrics to Johnny Wyatt's "I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You" the flip to 1-2-3. A Demo only I'm told...why it never saw a release, sold big and crossed over to the pop charts I'm not sure.

I still haven't got a copy so if you have one for sale let me know. Reminds me of an ex girlfriend too.

[Spacehopper]

where do you start theres so many !....i walked away,dont pity me,open the door,too late(williams and watson)....first i look at the purse always makes me smile !....what about "your love is like vintage wine,stronger with taste,sweeter with time" cause youre mine..

[Laurent Mtp]

Getting used to the blues-Bobby Bland

[Guest]

I have to bring to the fore the 'Top Cat', era when I honestly would have killed for the then covered Larry Houston track - simply one of my dearest memories on a dancefloor.

"WHOOO!"

a mate of mine payed £50 fo it so i had a cheeky grin when when i got it for a fiver 3 weeks later at clifton hall

[billb]

Whats your favourite lyrics from a northern/soul sound here`s one of mine

ITS ALMOST LIKE EATING PEAS BY THE POUND

THEN WRAPPING UP IN ADHESIVE TAPE

FROM THE WAIST DOWN

EXCITERS-BLOWING UP MY MIND-RCA

Drifters - This magic moment

This magic moment

So different and so new

Was like any other

Until I kissed you

And then it happened

It took me by suprise

I knew that you felt it too

By the look in your eyes

Sweeter than wine

Softer than the summer night

Everything I want I have

Whenever I hold you tight

This magic moment

While you lips are close to mine

Will last forever

Forever til the end of time

Bobby Womack - If you think you're lonely now

When it's cold outside who are you holding?

If y'all don't mind I'd like to talk about this woman of mine

She's always complainin' 'bout me never bein' at home

But when I'm there I'm broke

She's tellin' me about the things that her girlfriend's got

What she ain't got, and she wants me to go out and get 'em for her

But, but girl, I can't be in two places at one time

If you think you're lonely now, huh

Wait until tonight, girl

(If you think you're lonely now) I'll be long gone

(Wait until tonight, girl) And you'll never find another man that'll treat you right!

Doug Banks - I just kept on dancing

Suddenly you walked in with him,

and it hurt so much, I coudn't bear it,

My heart started beating so loud and fast,

I thought everybody could hear it,

but I just kept on dancing, aooow

yes I just kept on dancing, aooow

I held her closer in my arms

and I wish I was holding you!

[Guest Soultown andy]

They smile in your face all the time they wanna take your place.

[Rob Wigley]

They smile in your face all the time they wanna take your place.

My favorite record ever "Backstabbers"

[Kazb]

They smile in your face all the time they wanna take your place.

B side of Marv johnson on Gordy ,gotta be the best love song, got it for my Kaz ,says every thing you wannas tell someone you love

Kit

[billb]

no one could ever change me

no one can re-arrange me!

don't tell me any more 'cus I'll feel like I did before!

[Guest Mrs Simsy]

Love the lyrics to shoes by Bobby bland. The kinda song i sing at the top of my lungs...

Have been singing all the way through this thread!

[Lenny Harkins]

"put your head on your pillow go on dream, your life will be a world of peaches and cream" the mighty lovers

[Guest JJMMWGDuPree]

Another sundown in Watts - The Exits

Sand in my shoes - The Drifters

Gone - Tower of Power

and, of course, "Hope it doesn't show while I'm driving down the road that I had too much to drink" from 'Bump City' - ToP

[Guest]

there stood a woman . hey hey hey .dressed in red. hey hey hey . she even wore it .... all around her head . what she say . she sied leave me alone you know a man gone done me wrong i cant take it . ba bada ba ba .......... i dont think that needs an introduction do you . when i listen to the words i know how he feels

[Soulfinger]

When I take the bus and give you taxi fee

It's not just the gentleman in me........

and

Can't you know lies can be seen in your eyes

And from wrong you'll never be free

While you sit cryin', you've been lyin'

You've been cheatin', cheatin' on me

[Soulfreak]

Some great lyrics on here, and I love a good wrist slashing lyric myself,

but a song that always makes me grin is 'Sho Wasn't Me' by the late lamented Ronnie Lovejoy;

You say your sister saw me,

comin' out the Holiday Inn.

And the woman I was with,

used to be your best friend.

Well she must need glasses,

'cause that sho wasn't me.

Your sister's got a bad case,

of mistaken identity.

I could even give you an alibi,

but all you gonna do,

is turn around and call me a liar.

Your sister done lied on me,

she oughta take it all back.

All I've got to say is this about that.

If you didn't see my face,

then I sho wasn't there.

You can say all you want about me

Go on babe, I don't care.

You can put me anywhere,

Anywhere you want me to be.

But if you didn't come up and touch me,

Then it sho wasn't me.

Now I've been accused,

Oh so many times.

All this women you given me,

They can't all be mine.

You say their husbands are comin' in the front door,

And I'm runnin' out the back.

Well this couldn't be me baby,

I wasn't raised like that.

These women are jealous,

Lyin' about the things I do.

And even the fellas,

Hah! they lyin' on me too.

They'll do me wrong,

At the drop of a hat.

Well all I can say is this about that

You didn't find my drawers

Beside nobody's bed.

You didn't find my hat,

I still got my hat on my head.

You said you saw somebody,

Who looks exactly like me.

But if you didn't come up and touch me,

then it sho wasn't me

[Guest SteveC]

Been through the thread. Dont think Ray Pollard's "The Drifter" has been mentioned.

From the unissued Little Ann's " Lean Lanky Daddy" the final lines:

I just wanna tell all you girls about my man

Coz he's a smooth operator

Yeah he's a mind regulator

Superb!!!

[Simsy]

Been through the thread. Dont think Ray Pollard's "The Drifter" has been mentioned.

Great minds! Post # 15

"And when I go into a town the people there just put me down they say hey drifter go away don't want your kind around, so I go my way back to the highway" Ray Pollard.

I'm gonna find somebody whose in my corner so I know she's there when I wanner

I could never put my trust in you cos a all the sneaky things that you do

[Guest SteveC]

Great minds! Post # 15

Sorry - was listening to Posh scoring 8 goals at the time - so forgive me!!

[Barry]

a mate of mine payed £50 fo it so i had a cheeky grin when when i got it for a fiver 3 weeks later at clifton hall

Whatever you paid for that record is irrelevant, it is as you say a beautiful track - I see it regularly for about £8-£10 - probably a pound dearer than a Wombats CD (???)... really!

"I know that something is wrong baby,

I can feel the vibe!

Let's forgive and forget honey -

and give-a-love another try!"

It always had the ability to hush a dancefloor - it drew whoever was on that dancefloor together - the inspired delivery that Larry Houston made of that song, I feel (and forget Northern Soul here, let's talk music) was unsurpassed.

I'm feeling particularly starry eyed tonight, but I make no apologies for my views on a track that should be deemed as a Top Ten Northen Soul dancefloor shaper.

Proof that Modern/Newies brought another....relevant, emotional angle to peoples mindset as they danced.

[Barry]

I'm sure you know the track..

" I don't want no-one who don't love me,

Who keep on dishin' out misery!

You don't want no-one who don't treat you right [sho-Nuff]

She gotta give you lovin' every night now!

You an' your new love 'Keep On, Keepin' On!'

I know that loving feeling is gone, Yeah!

Too late, Too late, Too late Baby now!

Too late - Whoohooooh!!"

Beat that with a bat!?

[Guest moggy]

"Because I love you, better than I do myself"

Sam Williams

"My heart is like an oak tree, standing big and tall"

Jock Mitchell

"Im undaunted by your force, & Im gonna shout it until Im horse"

"youyouyou your just too darn soulful"

Morris Chestnut

"True love can be so hard to find, but when you find it, it can mess up your mind"

Alexander Patten

[Simsy]

Involving just the two of us together on a night like this

you just look at me and touch my hand and then we'll try a little kiss

[scotchmartin]

What's the first one from - it's really annoying me but I can't place the lyric even though I know it from somewhere - Valatone I think?

A distant night and lonely days

I see your face in many ways,

But you are gone, and Im alone,

I need your love to carry me through,

carry me through

and

The way hold your head, to understand what I say, Oh this gets to me baby,

the way you pout and cry everytime I say goodbye, it gets to me baby,

The way you give your kiss from your soul not your lips,

the way you hold me tenderly,

this gets to me oh, baby how it gets to me!

and

It takes gallons of water, to make the deepest sea,

it takes a whole lot of pain, to make a misery,

But all it took was a little kiss, to make my poor heart feel like this,

filled with joy and filled with glee,

I dont know whats come over me.

[wolfie66]

"I'm a minger

You're a minger too,

Come on minger,

I want to ming with you"

And of course...................

"I'm forever blowing bubbles,

Pretty bubbles in the air.

They fly so high,

Nearly reach the sky,

Then like my dreams,

They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

I've looked everywhere,

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

Pretty bubbles in the air

Utd. Utd. errr

Utd"

[Alan Walls]

On 26/12/2007 at 22:24, Simsy said:

 

Patience is a virtue and waiting can't hurt you I know I'll make it somehow.

Somebody please out me out of my misery and tell me what this is.

[Alan Walls]

2 hours ago, Alan Walls said:

Somebody please out me out of my misery and tell me what this is.

Someone? Anyone? I've had this in my head all day, big voiced male banger "I'm gonna hang on in there girl" - a Guy or Keb spin, great intro...

[Simon T]

8 minutes ago, Alan Walls said:

Someone? Anyone? I've had this in my head all day, big voiced male banger "I'm gonna hang on in there girl" - a Guy or Keb spin, great intro...

Jesse Davis on Era

[Alan Walls]

2 minutes ago, simon t said:

Jesse Davis on Era

Yes yes yes, that's the bugger! Cheers mate, that was doing my head in!!

[Gilly]

and when the play is over and done

youll realise it was all in fun

iam  gonna run right to your side

and kiss away all those jealous tears from your eyes

soon well play a part in real life, cus we will be husband and wife

and forever youll be my leading lady, forever youll stay my leading lady

the leading lady, in my heart..

Shakespear at his best

[Addio]

"We Know what we are, we know what we are

Champions of England

We know what we are"

Repeat incessantly

[Robbk]

"She can be covered with a rash...."

"Long as she's got some cash!"  The Contours 1965

"Just Like Pagliacci did, I'll keep my sadness hid" Smokey Robinson

"My smile is just a frown, turned upside down" - Carolyn Crawford

 

 

[Stateside]

Not too sure if it's been mentioned before as I haven't read them all.

"I can live cheaper by myself !

Don't need no woman to help me starve to death"

Too Late

LW & JW

 

Perfume smellin' like Chanel No5

Gotta to be the finest thing alive

Walks real cool, catches everybody's eye

The cats are too nervous, to even say Hi

Not too skinny and not too fat

She's a real humdinger and I like 'em like that

She's the Devil with the blue dress, blue dress on

Shorty Long

[Guest Spain pete]

It takes a man with insight  yes it does To really understand  The change in life a woman goes through        mel Britt.            Hormones hormones hormones ?

[Kevin Jones]

The Contours - First I Look At The Purse

I don't care if she waddles like a duck

I don't care if she's covered in a rash, along has she has got plenty of cash

Would that be politically acceptable these days ? LOL

Kev

[Joesoul1958]

You keep me locked in a pen like a hog, then you throw me leftovers like you do a dog, cause im your yes man, Clarence Reid.

[Robbk]

2 hours ago, kevin jones said:

The Contours - First I Look At The Purse

I don't care if she waddles like a duck

I don't care if she's covered in a rash, along has she has got plenty of cash

Would that be politically acceptable these days ? LOL

Kev

"I don't care if she waddles like a duck, or talks with a lisp,

I just think I'd be better off if her Dollar Bills are crisp!"

My OH my.... 'Cause first I look at the purse!"

 

They don't write them like THAT anymore!  Doggone Politically Correct lobbyists!

[Guest egosheep]

If my woe would seem to please you, I'd be pleased with my woe. 

And if my sorrow brought you joy, I'd enjoy my sorrow.

And I wouldn't think twice about the sacrifice, anything that I'd have to do,

Because whatever makes you happy would make me happy too.

-Miracles

Edited July 27, 2016 by egosheep

[Sjclement]

Another 2 dollar room

That's never seen a broom 

A neon sign reflecting on my cieling

In all my days I can't recall ever having such a lonely feeling

But I can't stop now

Gotta find her somehow

Sweet James Epps

[Gotsoul]

I love lyrics, so here goes...I love you girl with all my heart and soul, I can't understand why you treat me cold[girl why you wanna make me blue-the temptations]...I can't find sleep at night I'm either watching T.V. or walking  , I can't find any conversation that means more to me than talking...Take the lock off of the gate to my heart and let your love come rumbling through, if I'm gonna take a chance on any romance then I'd rather take that chance with you[Forever-Major Lance]...Who are you trying to impress with that fancy makeup and pretty dress]...If there is something that you don't see eye to eye you better wait before you tell your love goodbye[A Folk In The Road-The Miracles]...When I'm In your arms I'm king on a throne, but when we're apart I walk the streets alone[Love Is A Hurting Thing-Lou Rawls].

Edited August 7, 2016 by Gotsoul
left out artist

[Pga1]

William bell 'man in the street' lyrics for now!!  Man on tv come see me if you need a little cash. 40 odd years ahead and a great record. Cheers

[Pga1]

Lamont dozier- tricky dick please stop your (bleep)  just love the bleep,  shit !! What did he say, cheers

[Pga1]

One casino classic- leave me alone, go back where you belong,  cheers

[Gotsoul]

Girl to restore the faith you had in me, I'm begging  you down on my knees don't leave me, don't leave- I Need Your Lovin-The Temptations.

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by Gotsoul
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