Favorite songs that tell a story

[invisible airwave]

Best storyteller sequel:

 

[Leanne]

Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

[driventotheedge]

Foreigner - Juke Box Hero

[goose]

Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

Luka - Suzanne Vega

[laughedatbytime]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

[goose]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever

[driventotheedge]

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

[laughedatbytime]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever

Fred Bear

[laughedatbytime]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever

Fred Bear

The Great White Buffalo

Edited May 12, 2019 by laughedatbytime

[goose]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever

Fred Bear

The Great White Buffalo

:haz:

[tangy]

Dog Eat Dog -Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever

 

Rattle my snake

[The Cat 3]

By-Tor & the Snow Dog

 

I. At the Tobes of Hades

 

II. Across the Styx

 

III. Of the Battle

 

i. Challenge and Defiance

 

ii. 7/4 War Furor

 

iii. Aftermath

 

iv. Hymn of Triumph

 

IV. Epilogue

[The Cat 3]

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

 

BOB DYLAN

 

The festival was over, the boys were all plannin’ for a fall

The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall

The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin’ wheel shut down

Anyone with any sense had already left town

He was standin’ in the doorway lookin’ like the Jack of Hearts

 

He moved across the mirrored room, “Set it up for everyone,” he said

Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin’ before he turned their heads

Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin

“Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?”

Then he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts

 

Backstage the girls were playin’ five-card stud by the stairs

Lily had two queens, she was hopin’ for a third to match her pair

Outside the streets were fillin’ up, the window was open wide

A gentle breeze was blowin’, you could feel it from inside

Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts

 

Big Jim was no one’s fool, he owned the town’s only diamond mine

He made his usual entrance lookin’ so dandy and so fine

With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place

He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste

But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts

 

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town

She slipped in through the side door lookin’ like a queen without a crown

She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear

“Sorry, darlin’, that I’m late,” but he didn’t seem to hear

He was starin’ into space over at the Jack of Hearts

 

“I know I’ve seen that face before,” Big Jim was thinkin’ to himself

“Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody’s shelf”

But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the houselights did dim

And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him

Starin’ at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts

 

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a child

She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash every time she smiled

She’d come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs

With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere

But she’d never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts

 

The hangin’ judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined

The drillin’ in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind

It was known all around that Lily had Jim’s ring

And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king

No, nothin’ ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts

 

Rosemary started drinkin’ hard and seein’ her reflection in the knife

She was tired of the attention, tired of playin’ the role of Big Jim’s wife

She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide

Was lookin’ to do just one good deed before she died

She was gazin’ to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts

 

Lily washed her face, took her dress off and buried it away

“Has your luck run out?” she laughed at him, “Well, I guess you must

have known it would someday

Be careful not to touch the wall, there’s a brand-new coat of paint

I’m glad to see you’re still alive, you’re lookin’ like a saint”

Down the hallway footsteps were comin’ for the Jack of Hearts

 

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair

“There’s something funny going on,” he said, “I can just feel it in the air”

He went to get the hangin’ judge, but the hangin’ judge was drunk

As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk

There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts

 

Lily’s arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch

She forgot all about the man she couldn’t stand who hounded her so much

“I’ve missed you so,” she said to him, and he felt she was sincere

But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear

Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

 

No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened pretty quick

The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked

And Big Jim was standin’ there, ya couldn’t say surprised

Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes

She was with Big Jim but she was leanin’ to the Jack of Hearts

 

Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall

And cleaned out the bank safe, it’s said that they got off with quite a haul

In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground

For one more member who had business back in town

But they couldn’t go no further without the Jack of Hearts

 

The next day was hangin’ day, the sky was overcast and black

Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back

And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn’t even blink

The hangin’ judge was sober, he hadn’t had a drink

The only person on the scene missin’ was the Jack of Hearts

 

The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, “Closed for repair”

Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair

She was thinkin’ ’bout her father, who she very rarely saw

Thinkin’ ’bout Rosemary and thinkin’ about the law

But most of all she was thinkin’ ’bout the Jack of Hearts

 

[Tony R]

Grendel by Marillion

 

http://youtu.be/Rxp5KJOHqmI

 

 

 

Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk

Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks

They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight

The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night

Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, their eyes

Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea

Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams

They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame

They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel's name

Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, their eyes

As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere

Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear

He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify

His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky

Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, their eyes

Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew

Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through

Mother nature's bastard child shunned by leaf and stream

An alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams

The shaper's lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp

Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart

Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell

Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell

Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife

Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries

Screams are his music, lightning his guide

Raping the darkness, death by his side

Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams

Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene

Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe

Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know

Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave

Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave

So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out

You should have known better after all this time

You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander

With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes

Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame

God's on my side, sure as hell, I'm gonna take no blame

I'm gonna take no blame, I'm gonna take no blame

So you say you believe in all of Mother Nature's laws

You lust for gold with your sharpened knives

Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot

You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods

Then you try to place the killer's blade in my hand

You call for justice and distort the truth

Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches

Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws

And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow.

 

 

 

 

[grep]

Paradise by the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf.

 

So now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive

Because if I have to spend another minute with you I don't think I could really survive....

[Entre_Perpetuo]

I’ve always liked Sleeping On The Sidewalk - Queen

 

Not an original story or very original music, but Brian’s performance is plenty to keep me coming back.

[goose]

I’ve always liked Sleeping On The Sidewalk - Queen

 

Not an original story or very original music, but Brian’s performance is plenty to keep me coming back.

:ebert:

[driventotheedge]

Paradise by the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf.

 

So now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive

Because if I have to spend another minute with you I don't think I could really survive....

I posted this already

[ReRushed]

I’ve always liked Sleeping On The Sidewalk - Queen

 

Not an original story or very original music, but Brian’s performance is plenty to keep me coming back.

A very surprising choice!

[Entre_Perpetuo]

More from Queen!

 

Good Company

[tangy]

Sqounk

 

And genesis were not the only rock group to reference the sqounk.

 

Have you ever seen a sqounks tears in a steely dan tune pre dates phil snd the boys

 

Iirc

[Entre_Perpetuo]

One - Metallica

 

I mean, with the video at least.

[J2112YYZ]

One - Metallica

 

I mean, with the video at least.

 

Those clips in the video are from the movie Johnny Got His Gun. The lyrics to One are about that.

[goose]

One - Metallica

 

I mean, with the video at least.

 

Those clips in the video are from the movie Johnny Got His Gun. The lyrics to One are about that.

Taken from the 1938 novel

[Rick N. Backer]

Back in Black - AC/DC