Best Lyrics Thread- And Can You Name The Song?

[TSJMajesty]

Hint: They're both by the same person

When the ebbing tide retreats
Along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tidal pools
In a short-lived galaxy

Each microcosmic planet
A complete society

A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea


And...

The dancer slows her frantic pace in pain and desperation
Her aching limbs and downcast face aglow with perspiration

Stiff as wire her lungs on fire with just the briefest pause
Then flooding through her memory the echoes of old applause.

And she limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door...

2 of my favorites! And the coolest thing about the 2nd one for me is, until the 4th line, I imagine a scene on a stage. And with the final, I think, "Wait. She's not dancing. Any more."

What a masterful songwriter he was!!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Losing It is onion sandwich AF. Beautiful song

 

[TSJMajesty]

Losing It is onion sandwich AF. Beautiful song

I LOVE the 5/8 feel, and how it goes into 4/4 SO well! And of course the electric violin. Just a great, under-the-radar song from Rush!

 

[FuzzyAce]

This song just popped in my head:


I got a way I can find you,
Down on melody ranch,
I know you're there most everyday,
That's where you like to spend some time alone

I need to talk to you,
Tell you what I feel, like
Warm "hellos" in the morning mist,
You're the magic that turns my heart around

Seems to me we're really living way too fast,
Oh when we should let the story of love last.
Sometimes I just want to go and drift away....
Move on to some forty mile town.

I got a way I can see you,
Close my eyes and start to watch the ancient water flow,
Like a crystal dance that paupers know so well.
That's the way kings keep dreamin',
Hold their head up high and live below forty mile skies,
The way that it can be in ocean towns.

Things of this world, guess we never really own;
Oh that mountain falls, and then we're going home,
We should try and make the best and get away....
And work on towards a forty mile town

Seems to me we really need to feel love more,
Oh, an ordinary smile opens the door.
Sometimes all I want to do is dream away....
And wake up in some forty mile town