happy songs for happy spring days

[allmy$to930]

The Wee Turtles: Why The Bombers?
 
 Great sunny song.

[mankie]

A dreaded sunny day
 So I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 A dreaded sunny day
 So I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 While Wilde is on mine
 
 So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
 All those people, all those lives
 Where are they now ?
 With loves, and hates
 And passions just like mine
 They were born
 And then they lived
 And then they died
 It seems so unfair
 I want to cry
 
 
 You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
 And you claim these words as your own
 But I've read well, and I've heard them said
 A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
 If you must write prose/poems
 The words you use should be your own
 Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
 'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
 With a big nose, who knows
 And who trips you up and laughs
 When you fall
 Who'll trip you up and laugh
 When you fall
 
 
 You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
 Words which could only be your own
 And then produce the text
 From whence was ripped
 (Some dizzy whore, 1804)
 
 
 A dreaded sunny day
 So let's go where we're happy
 And I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
 A dreaded sunny day
 So let's go where we're wanted
 And I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 But you lose
 'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
 
 
 Sure !

[jkeisenh]

"Make us cry!"
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  A dreaded sunny day
 So I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 A dreaded sunny day
 So I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 While Wilde is on mine
 
 So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
 All those people, all those lives
 Where are they now ?
 With loves, and hates
 And passions just like mine
 They were born
 And then they lived
 And then they died
 It seems so unfair
 I want to cry
 
 
 You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
 And you claim these words as your own
 But I've read well, and I've heard them said
 A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
 If you must write prose/poems
 The words you use should be your own
 Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
 'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
 With a big nose, who knows
 And who trips you up and laughs
 When you fall
 Who'll trip you up and laugh
 When you fall
 
 
 You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
 Words which could only be your own
 And then produce the text
 From whence was ripped
 (Some dizzy whore, 1804)
 
 
 A dreaded sunny day
 So let's go where we're happy
 And I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
 A dreaded sunny day
 So let's go where we're wanted
 And I meet you at the cemetry gates
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
 But you lose
 'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
 
 
 Sure !

[markie]

Sure......
 
 You don't know how to ease my pain
 You don't know
 You don't know how to ease my pain
 You don't know what the sound is darlin'
 It's the sound of my tears fallin'
 Or is it the rain?
 You don't know how to play the game
 You cheat
 You lie
 You make me wanna cry
 You make me wanna cry
 Cry...
 You make me wanna cry
 You don't know how to ease my pain
 You don't know
 You don't know how to ease my pain
 Don't you hear any voices cryin'?
 That's the sound of my love(?) dyin'
 Here comes the rain
 You don't know how to play the game
 You cheat
 You lie
 You don't even know how to say goodbye
 You make me wanna cry
 You don't know
 You don't even know how to say goodbye
 You make me wanna cry
 You don't even know how to say goodbye
 You make me wanna cry
 Cry...
 Cry (x3)

[ggw]

Give me time
 To realise my crime
 Let me love and steal
 I have danced inside your eyes
 How can I be real
 
 Do you really want to hurt me
 Do you really want to make me cry
 Precious kisses
 Words that burn me
 Lovers never ask you why
 In my heart
 The fires burning
 Choose my colour
 Find a star
 Precious people always tell me
 That's a step
 A step too far
 
 Do you really want to hurt me
 Do you really want to make me cry
 Do you really want to hurt me
 Do you really want to make me cry
 
 Words are few
 I have spoken
 I could waste a thousand years
 Wrapped in sorrow
 Words are token
 Come inside/and catch my tears
 You've been talking
 But believe me
 
 If it's true
 You do not know
 This boy loves without a reason
 I'm prepared
 To let you go
 
 If it's love you want from me
 Then take it away
 Everything is not what you see
 It's over again
 
 Do you really want to hurt me
 Do you really want to make me cry
 Do you really want to hurt me
 Do you really want to make me cry

[markie]

You don't remember me
 But I remember you
 T'was not so long ago
 You broke my heart in two
 
 [CHORUS:]
 Tears on my pillow
 Pain in my heart
 Caused by you
 
 [2:]
 If we could start anew
 I wouldn't hesitate
 I'd gladly take you back
 And tempt the hand of fate
 
 [CHORUS:]
 
 [3:]
 Love is not a gadget
 Love is not a toy
 When you find the one you love
 She'll fill your heart with joy
 
 [2:]
 
 [CHORUS:]
 
 [x3:]
 Caused by you

[jkeisenh]

I take that back.  Don't make us cry.
 
 Then again, if I was choosing the Culture Club to make people cry, I would have sticked with "Victims"
 
 The victims we know so well
 They shine in our eyes
 When they kiss and tell
 Strange places we never see
 But you're always there
 Like a ghost in my dreams
 And i keep on telling you
 Please don't do the things you do
 When you do those things
 Pull my puppet strings
 I have that strangest void for you
 
 We love and we never tell
 What places our hearts in the wishing well
 Love lead us into the stream
 And it's sink or swim
 Like it's always been
 And i keep on loving you
 It's the only thing to do
 When the angel sings
 There are greater things
 Can i give them all to you
 
 Pull the strings of emotion
 Take a ride into unknown pleasure
 Feel like a child
 On a dark night
 Wishing there was some kind of heaven
 I could be warm with your smiling
 Hold out your hand for a while
 The victims
 We know them so well
 
 (chorus)
 
 Show my heart some devotion
 Push aside those that whisper never
 Feel like a child on a dark night
 Wishing we could spend it together
 I could be warm with your smiling
 Hold out your hand for a while
 The victims
 We know them so well

[markie]

Originally posted by chimblysweep:
   "Victims"
 
 

This is better.
 
 BILLY SITS ALONE AND WONDERS WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO , BILLY GROWS TIRED EVERY DAY AND MEANING SEEMS TO FADE AWAY , BILLY KNOWS HE'S NOT ALONE , HE KNOWS HE'S NO TO BLAME , OTHERS FEAR THROUGH IGNORANCE , AND BILLY'S CARED TO STAY AMONG THE WHISPERS BARELY SPOKEN , BILLY FEELS CONTEMPT , INDIGNANT WORDS FROM HYPOCRITES , TO THEM IT'S GOD'SREVENGE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY WORKED WITH OTHER MEN , TO THEM WAS ONCE A LAD . WHEN THEY LEARNED OF BILLY'S STORY , WENT BEHIND HIS BACK , SPREAD AROUND THE FACTORY FLOOR , THEN BILLY GOT THE SACK , FRIENDS HAVE WASHED THEIR HANDS OF BILLY , HE FEELS SO BETRAYED . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY'S YOUNG AND BILLY'S DYING , FIGHTING EVERY DAY . THE FEW HE TRUSTS WILL GIVE HIM STRENGTH , THEY WILL NOT WALK AWAY , LOVE WILL NEVER WASH ITS HANDS , AND NEVER WILL BETRAY , BILLY CAN'T ESCAPE THE TRUTH , BUT HE WONT DIE ALONE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . ( TO FADE

[jkeisenh]

Well, if we're going for sad, this one takes the cake.
 
 the kitchen is cold
 but the coffee is warm
 and the suns coming up
 the day has just begun
 and your already bored.
 
 bored of cheering me up
 bored of calming me down
 bored of drying my eyes
 but there once was a time when you were the one.
 you were the blue of the sky
 you came after the storm
 you were the switch on the wall
 in the dark of the hall
 im still fumbling for
 
 cuz im lost in the black
 i dont know where I am.
 arms strecthed out in front
 im calling your name
 just as loud as I can
 
 I know theres words that we will never speak
 and the questions cant be answered easily
 but I wanted to be easy so
 nod your head if the plans have change
 shake it, love, they stayed the same
 smile at me and I will stay
 start to cry and I'll go away
 just please dont leave me guessing.
 
 so you made me come
 then you sent me away
 like a messenger bird
 so I circled the earth
 blown away in the wind
 but I always returned
 with some new little song
 some sad story to tell
 of a breif love affair
 with a girl I compared to you and she failed
 you said you dont want me to beg
 then you said get down on your knees
 cuz you knew that I would
 if I do any good satisfying your needs.
 
 and I know all about those things we cannot speak
 and just so you know well they dont bother me
 so you dont have to be worried
 just nod your head if the plans have changed
 shake it, love, if they stayed the same
 smile at me and I will stay
 start to cry and I'll go away
 just please dont keep me waiting
 
 just nod your head if your mind's been changed
 shake it, love, if some hope remains
 just say the word and of course ill stay
 roll your eyes and Ill go away
 just please dont leave me guessing.
 just please dont keep me waiting

[mankie]

This is to make you "happy cry"
 
 A man is in love, how do I know?
 He came and walked with me, and he told me so
 In a song he sang, and then I knew
 A man is in love with you
 
 A man is in love, how did I hear?
 I heard him talk too much whenever you're near
 He whispered your name when his eyes were closed
 A man is in love and he knows
 
 A man is in love, how did I guess?
 I figuered it out while he was watching you dress
 He'd give you his all, if you'd but agree
 A man is in love and he's me

[markie]

Umm two songs in a row I do not recognise.....
 
 Back to sad:
 
 Gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
 Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
 And I'm singing to all the torn betting slips
 Flying around my feet
 I'm talking to all the chewing gum
 That's stuck everywhere on the street
 And they're ringing the bells all over the city on a Saturday night
 Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright
 
 Cos it's gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
 Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
 I'm standing at the sale of the shoes of bankrupt men
 I just had to buy a pair to show I can live again
 They're ringing the bells all over the city on a Saturday night
 Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright
 
 It's gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me
 Cos I just realized that it was meant to be
 And they're banging on the sheets of metal, sheets of gold
 And these were the finest shoes that were ever sold
 Raining on roofs, raining on drums
 Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums
 They're ringing on the bells in the city on a Saturday night
 Nobody knows why, but they know its gonna be alright

[mankie]

Yeah, lets keep the sad theme going!
 
 If, if you choose that we will always lose
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 And if, if you decide to give him another try
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 
 Well they said if I wrote the perfect love song
 You would take me back
 Well I wrote it but I lost it
 And now will you take me back anyway
 
 Now if, if you insist that this is for the best
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 And if, if you swear that you no longer care
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 
 I'll sail this ship alone
 Between the pain and the pleasure
 I'll sail this ship alone
 Amongst the sharks and the treasure
 If you would rather go your way then go your way
 I'll sail this ship alone
 
 If, if you're afraid that I won't make the grade
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 And if, if you agree to him instead of me
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 
 Well they said if I wrote the perfect letter
 That I would have a chance
 Well I wrote it, and you burnt it
 And now do I have a chance anyway
 
 If, if you swear that you no longer care
 Well then I'll sail this ship alone
 
 I'll sail this ship alone
 Between the pain and the pleasure
 I'll sail this ship alone
 Amongst the sharks and the treasure
 If you would rather go your way then go your way
 I'll sail this ship alone
 
 Well they said if I burnt myself alive
 That you'd come running back

[jkeisenh]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  Umm two songs in a row I do not recognise.....
 

Mine was the inconceivably sad "Messenger Bird's Song" by Bright Eyes.  Just thinking of it... *sigh*  Don't think I've ever heard a song that so well captures that hurt-angry-feeling-used-deflated-why-why-why feeling of a breakup.

[mankie]

Of course there's always this one...this gets old Manks waterworks going everytime!
 
 Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
 Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
 Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
 A tree taps on the window pane
 That feeling smothers me again
 Daddy is it true that we all have to die
 
 At the top of the stairs
 Is darkness
 
 I closed my eyes and when I looked
 Your name was in the memorial book
 and what had become of all the things we planned
 I accepted the commiserations
 Of all your friends and your relations
 But there's some things I still don't understand
 
 You were so tall
 How could you fall?
 
 Some photographs of a summer's day
 A little boy's lifetime away
 Is all I've left of everything we've done
 Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
 Death gazes down as I pass by
 To remind me that I'm but my father's son
 
 I offer up to you
 This tribute
 I offer up to you
 This tank park salute

[Venerable Bede]

i've always been partial to this song for sadness:
 
 In the spring of my life she came to me
 She brought sunshine where winter winds had blown
 Then I took her for my wife in the spring of my life
 And she brought me a joy I'd never known
 
 And the years they went by in the spring of my life
 And in summer she blessed me with a child
 Love continued to grow in the summer of my life
 And in every morning sun I saw her smile
 
 But in the autumn of my years I noticed the tears
 And I knew that our life was in the past
 Though I tried to pretend, I knew it was the end
 For the autumn of my life had come at last
 
 Now what, what do you say to a child of ten?
 How do you tell him his daddy's goin' away?
 Do I tell him that I reached the autumn of my life
 And that he'll understand some winter's day?
 
 Now a rose can't be found on a snow-covered ground
 And the sun cannot shine through cloudy skies
 But I'm richer, you see, for the years she gave to me
 And I'm content in the autumn of my life