Song lyrics that are like poetry

[Bluetitnest]

I like a friend to many is a friend to none

It'll be fine by dusk light I'm telling you, baby
These things eat at your bones and drive your young mind crazy
But when you place your head between my collar and jaw
I don't know much but there's no weight at all

The man in one nineteen takes his tea all alone
Mornings we all rise
To wireless Verdi cries
I'm hearing opera through the door

The souls of men and women
impassioned all
Their voices rise and fall
battle trumpets call.
I fill the bath and climb inside
singing
Oh oh oh o-o-o-oh

The moon's a fingernail that's slowly sinking
Another day begins and now I'm thinking
That this indifference was my invention
When everything I did sought your attention
You were my compass star, you were my measure
You were a pirate's map, a buried treasure
If this was all correct, the last thing I'd expect
The prosecution rests, it's time that I confessed
I must have loved you

Any Jeff Buckley lyrics

The sun is settin' and the leaves are turning red
Sit on the windowsill and lean back on the bed
'Cause things are changing, maybe
It's warmer lately
Kick up the comforter, good morning to your toes
Sniff in the citronella, whistle through your nose
'Cause it's not over, no sir
You're just getting older

Poems
Don’t sit by river
Aren’t there to be picked up by poets who pass
To find them on bank
And I’m
Not built to deliver
When stepping stone love in need
Of a bridge or a plank
Youth
The stream so much wider
Thought you could slow down the flow
If you drank and you drank
Middle age
Still unable to find her
The words on the stone that you skimmed
So heavy it sank
The ripple
Hesitation creates
The unposted poem with message
So clear yet so blank
Love will come
Not to he who just waits
For mouthing from bank side seems safer
Than living in tank
Thoughs
We understand were preserved
Rotted and quickly moved on
To a less cluttered bed
Rust
Somethoughts never deserved
But treated no different to ones
You kept in your head
Couldn’t master me a classical piece
My brain’s well oiled buts its never been greased
Popular but not fighting for seats
Pays the rent but never the lease
Never classed as a work of art
Unlikely with the slowest of starts
Good progress if he ever tok part
Schooldays when you live by your heart
Those
Strong and able to survive
And so at the expense
Of fiction and art
Dissolve
Unnoticed to sea
As time eats the evidence left
That we even took part
Poems
Don’t sit by river

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?

Everything by Hozier.
Some of my favourites:

'In a Week':
I have never known peace
Like the damp grass that yields to me
I have never known hunger
Like these insects that feast on me
A thousand teeth
And yours among them, I know
Our hungers appeased
Our heartbeats becoming slow
We lay here for years or for hours
Thrown here or found
To freeze or to thaw
So long we become the flowers
Two corpses we were
Two corpses I saw

'Movement'
I still watch you when you're groovin'
As if through water from the bottom of a pool
You're movin' without movin'
And when you move, I'm moved
You are a call to motion
There, all of you a verb in perfect view
Like Jonah on the ocean
When you move, I'm moved

'Shrike'
The words hung above
But never would form
Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn
Remember me love when I'm reborn
As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn

@helly29 that's mine too. Gives me shivers every time! All of 'Grace' is poetry tbf though.

Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Arctic Monkeys, e.g.

Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts
Simmer down and pucker up
I'm sorry to interrupt. It's just I'm constantly on the cusp of trying to kiss you
I don't know if you feel the same as I do
But we could be together if you wanted to

eat listened to, it’s all in the phrasing

You and your words flooded my senses
Your sentences left me defenseless
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
You built cathedrals
I'm re-reading the letters you wrote me
I'm searching and scanning for answers
In every line
For some kind of sign
And when you were mine
The world seemed to burn, burn

I'm gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you always know
As long as one and one makes two
There will never be a father loves his daughter more than I love you.

I have a book of Paul Simon lyrics. Glorious stuff.

A candy-coloured clown they call the Sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper:
Go to sleep, everything is alright.

Anything by The Avett Brothers

My heart breaks when I play this one.

Jeff x

Oh, hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags
I've come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shone, beat down on bony backs
So far from home, where the ocean stood
Down dust and pine cone tracks

The man in One Nineteen takes his tea all alone.
Mornings we all rise
to wireless Verdi cries
I'm hearing opera through the door

The souls of men and women, impassioned all.
Their voices climb and fall,
Battle trumpets call.
I fill the bath and climb inside, singing

He will not touch their pastries but everyday they bring him more
Gold from the breakfast tray
I steal them all away
And then go eat them on the shore

Yes to Arctic Monkeys- specifically Alex Turner, lots of his lyrics, such as Love is a Laserquest and Piledriver Waltz and Cornerstone.

I came on to say Into Your Arms by Nick Cave and I see it’s already been mentioned.

A line that gets me every time is from a song called Only in Dreams by Weezer;
”You can’t resist her,
She’s in your bones
She is your marrow
And your ride home”

And I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes

I'll get older but your lovers stay my age

From when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones

I'm a soldier who's returning half her weight

And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?

Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?

Cause in this city's barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow

And how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well

Pretty much the whole of this song is like poetry but I absolutely love this verse of 'All Too Well'

Negotiations and love songs
Are often mistaken
For one and the same

Paul Simon is a true poet

Autumn Leaves by Eva Cassidy.....

I'll miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

Where shall I go on that big, black night?
Shall I take the coast road back through my life?
See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light and say, well
They'll do all right for me

Anything by Bon Iver.

I never wanted to kill
I am not naturally evil
Such things I do
Just to make myself more attractive to you
Have I failed