Late Entry QOD
The theme for this week's (Wednesday's) musical chairs posting is "The song you wish you wrote." We decided we mean lyrically, not musically.
I have a couple of songs in mind. Haven't made my final decision yet.
What would you choose?
Comments
Does this include a song you wish you had written so that you could have thrown it away without it ever having been performed?
If it does, I pick "Imagine."
Posted by: Stephen Macklin | September 12, 2005 08:43 PM
Wow, you turned the meaning of the post around in the FIRST comment!
NO!
Posted by: michele | September 12, 2005 08:48 PM
If not me now, someone else later!
Posted by: Stephen Macklin | September 12, 2005 09:22 PM
Badger, badger badger.
I am sincere.
Posted by: SarahW | September 12, 2005 09:32 PM
New York State Of Mind. Yes, I'm predictable. Shut up.
Posted by: Faith | September 12, 2005 09:48 PM
"Brian Wilson" by Barenaked Ladies.
Posted by: Farmer Joe | September 12, 2005 10:20 PM
I wish I'd written "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Not because it's particularly meaningful to me, though I do like it as an alternative anti-war perspective. I just think it's really, really good writing. It's like an epic novel in a couple dozen lines.
Posted by: joe miller | September 12, 2005 10:20 PM
O.K.
I'll play it straight up.
Guitar and Pen - The Who
Posted by: Stephen Macklin | September 12, 2005 10:47 PM
'Here I Go Again' Whitesnake
SM: Love the sentiment...I agree.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | September 13, 2005 06:19 AM
Night Moves
Posted by: Timmer | September 13, 2005 06:50 AM
'A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying'
I mean, can you get any more poetic than "This pretty little thing come up to me and starts kneadin' my balls like hard-boiled eggs in a tube sock."
Posted by: Sharp as a Marble | September 13, 2005 08:29 AM
I Hope You Dance-
Yes-you can barf now, but I don't care . . . .
Posted by: julie | September 13, 2005 10:45 AM
Bold as Love
Posted by: Craven Moorehed | September 13, 2005 11:22 AM
The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Posted by: Annastazia | September 13, 2005 12:21 PM
Annastazia, if I'm to be serious, which I'm wont to do on occasion, I'd go with Fortress Around Your Heart. Something about
That just send shivers down my spine.
Posted by: Sharp as a Marble | September 13, 2005 01:38 PM
"I Don't Need You Now" by the Mr. T Experience.
Doctor Frank is such an awesome songwriter.
Posted by: Megan | September 13, 2005 02:20 PM
Megan, that song is actually one of my three finalists.
Posted by: michele | September 13, 2005 02:21 PM
Moonlight Mile by the Rolling Stones
"When the wind blows
and the rain feels cold
with a head full of snow. . . ."
Posted by: Crazy Horse | September 13, 2005 05:32 PM
The Star-Spangled Banner...just one long-assed question, but it's got legs.
Posted by: Cowboy Blob | September 13, 2005 07:00 PM
Yeah but that twit Francis Scott Key wrote a bit in it that know bass could ever sing even in falsetto.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | September 14, 2005 08:54 AM
Actually, Frankie Key didn't write the music. His poem/lyrics were later adapted to a old drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." If I'd written it, I'd ask some musician friends in Baltimore to jam for a few months and come up some something original. Maybe have a composition contest....
Posted by: Cowboy Blob | September 14, 2005 07:35 PM