Best song lyrics about the one that got away..........

[Bonhomme Richard]

I'm really in a Bizarre mood.
Do you have other favorites?

Moody Blues

Once upon a time
Once when you were mine
I remember skies
Reflected in your eyes
I wonder where you are
I wonder if you
Think about me
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams

Once the world was new
Our bodies felt the morning dew
That greets the brand new day
We couldn't tear ourselves away
I wonder if you care
I wonder if you still remember
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams

And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time
Once beneath the stars
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
And all I knew was you
I wonder if you know
I wonder if you think about it
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams

And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
And when the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time

Once upon a time
Once when you were mine
I remember skies
Mirrored in your eyes
I wonder where you are
I wonder if you
Think about me
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams
In your wildest dreams
In your wildest dreams

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Great song. Moody Blues were terrific.

How about this one? Before your time?

Del Shannon's Runaway

As I walk along,
I wonder what went wrong,
With our love, a love that was so strong.
And as I still walk on,
I think of the things we've done
Together, a-while our hearts were young.

I'm a-walkin' in the rain,
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,
Wishin' you were here by me,
To end this misery
And I wonder--
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,
Why,
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,
Yes, and I wonder,
A-where she will stay-ay,
My little runaway,
Run, run, run, run, runaway.




I'm a-walkin' in the rain,
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain,
Wishin' you were here by me,
To end this misery
And I wonder--
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,
Why,
Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,
Yes, and I wonder,
A-where she will stay-ay,
My little runaway,
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.

[immoderate]

11. Moodys were the best at stringing cliches together.

Except for "Go Now"

--IMM

[xmas74]

18. Wow, that's old time Moodys!

[immoderate]

20. Only really great track they ever did. In waltz time too.

--IMM

[xmas74]

23. I don't know about that.

I stole many of my parents albums in high school. They had some of the best music to smoke to!

[immoderate]

25. Of course, that's my opinion.

After their first album, which was before some personnel changes, they abandoned rock and roll to become a giant snooze. Again IMO.

I hope your folks also had some Beatles, Stones, Zombies, Kinks, etc. to give some contrast. Those groups did not string cliches together.

--IMM

[xmas74]

26. Yes they did.

My dad got hooked on the Moodys when he was stationed in Korea. They have been with him ever since.
I grew up listening to so many different bands. In the classic Beatles vs. Stones debate they were for The Beatles.
I can't even start to list all of the bands that they listened to (all albums, which they still keep in plastic covers).

[immoderate]

27. After moving a couple of times I sold my vinyl.

Sad. Sounds like you've got a treasure there. Of course, the Beatle-Stones "debate" is a game for the lounge. You wouldn't want to leave either behind.

--IMM

[xmas74]

28. Let's post the game.

Are you ready?

[immoderate]

31. Step out!

Let it happen Cap'n.

--IMM

[xmas74]

32. First chance I get

Computer keeps messing up.
Btw-who's your choice?

[Squeech]

2. Now I forgot my previous earworm

As I was walkin' round grosvenor square
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air
From the other direction, she was calling my eye
It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try

She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes
And I knew without askin' she was into the blues
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls

In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff
As I picked up my matches and was closing the door
I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before

Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right

Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves
Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes
I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by

Wind in the willow's playin' "Tea for Two"
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
Strangers stoppin' strangers just to shake their hand
Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band

[Willy Lee]

4. Damn I miss that guy!

[bloodyjack]

3. Tom Waits - "The one that got away"

The jigolo's jumpin salty
ain't no trade out on the streets
half past the unlucky
and the hawk's a front-row seat
dressed in full orchestration
stage door johnnys got to pay
and sent him home
talking bout the one that got away
could a been on easy street
could a been a wheel
with irons in the fire
and all them business deals
But the last of the big-time losers
shouted before he drove away
I'll be right back as soon as I crack
the one that got away
the ambulance drivers don't give a shit
they just want to get off work
and the short stop and the victim
have already gone berserk
and the shroud-tailor measures him
for a deep-six holiday
the stiff is froze, the case is closed
on the one that got away
Jim Crow's directing traffic
with them cemetery blues
with them peculiar looking trousers
them old Italian shoes
the wooden kimona was all ready
to drop in San Francisco Bay
but now he's mumbling something
all about the one that got away
Costello was the champion
at the St. Moritz Hotel
and the best this side of Fairfax,
reliable sources tell
but his reputation is at large
and he's at Ben Frank's every day
waiting for the one that got away
he's got a snake skin sportshirt,
and he looks like Vincent Price
with a little piece of chicken
and he's carving off a slice
but someone tipped her off
she'll be doing a Houdini now any day
she shook his hustle
and a Greyhound bus'll
take the one that got away
Andre is at the piano
behind the Ivar in the sewers
with a buck a shot for pop tunes,
and a fin for guided tours
He could of been in Casablanca
he stood in line out there all day
but now he's spilling whiskey
and learning songs about a one that got away
well I've lost my equilibrium
my car keys and my pride
tattoo parlor's warm
and so I huddle there inside
the grinding of the buzz saw
whatchuwanthathingtosay
just don't misspell her name
buddy she's the one that got away

[progmom]

5. Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin - The Man That Got Away

from Ella Fitzgerald - The Harold Arlen Songbook

Lyrics:
The night is bitter,
The stars have lost their glitter,
The winds grow colder,
And suddenly you're older
And all because of
The man that got away.

No more his eager call,
The writing's on the wall,
The dreams you dreamed have all
Gone astray.
The man that won you
Has run off and undone you.
That great beginning
Has seen it's final inning,
Don't know what happened
It's all a crazy game.

No more that all-time thrill
For you've been through the mill,
And never a new love will
Be the same.

Good riddance, good-bye.
Every trick of his you're on to -
But fools will be fools and where's he gone to?

The road gets rougher,
It's lonelier and tougher.
With hope you burn up,
Tomorrow he may turn up.
There's just no letup
The livelong night and day.

Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman
Looking for the man that got away . . .

<interlude>

The road gets rougher,
It's lonelier and tougher.
With hope you burn up,
Tomorrow he may turn up.
There's just no letup
The livelong night and day.

Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman
Looking for the man
The man that got away . . .

The man that got away . . .

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. Title & Registration

by Death Cab For Cutie

The glove compartment isn't accurately named
And everybody knows it.
So i'm proposing a swift orderly change.

Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warm
And all i find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life.

I was searching for some legal document
As the rain beat down on the hood
When i stumbled upon pictures i tried to forget
And that's how this idea was drilled into my head

Cause it's too important
To stay the way it's been

There's no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here i rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night

There's no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here i rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night (up all night)
When i'm lying awake at night.

[MissMillie]

7. Aimee says it best

Coming Up Close

A night in Iowa He and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer Promises in every star
Out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted
we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface
we thought just for an instant we could see the future
we thought for once we knew what really was important

Coming up close, everything sounds like "Welcome Home, Come Home"
and oh, by the way
don't you know that I could make
a dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say -
but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew


We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape
we drove around the fields until it started getting late
and I went back to my hotel room on the highway
and he just got back in his car and drove away

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I'm a huge Moody Blues fan, but for me, this song about not saying I love you because you thought the other person "already knew".... heartbreaking...

[progmom]

8. two from Joni Mitchell

WILLY

Willy is my child, he is my father
I would be his lady all my life
He says he'd love to live with me
But for an ancient injury
That has not healed
He said I feel once again
Like I gave my heart too soon
He stood looking thru the lace
At the face on the conquered moon
And counting all the cars up the hill
And the stars on my window sill
There are still more reasons why I love him

Willy is my joy, he is my sorrow
Now he wants to run away and hide
He says our love cannot be real
He cannot hear the chapel's pealing silver bells
But you know it's hard to tell
When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real
But you're bound to lose
If you let the blues get you scared to feel
And I feel like I'm just being born
Like a shiny light breaking in a storm
There are so many reasons why I love him

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AMELIA

I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
it was the strings of my guitar
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Of picture-post-card-charms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm

I wish that he was here tonight
It's so hard to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
So this is how I hide the hurt
As the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell Amelia, it was just a false alarm

A ghost of aviation
She was swallowed by the sky
Or by the sea, like me she had a dream to fly
Like Icarus ascending
On beautiful foolish arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

Maybe I've never really loved
I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude
And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms

[xmas74]

9. Moody Blues is an institution in my family.

The whole family goes to see them in concert whenever we can. Mom, Dad, brother, fiance, aunts and uncles-we buy block tickets.

[CanuckAmok]

10. No contest: "For No One"

(Lennon/McCartney)

Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you

She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
You think she needs you

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

You stay home, she goes out
She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him

Your day breaks, your mind aches
There will be time when all the things she said will fil your head
You won't forget her

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

[progmom]

12. you're right

i have goosebumps just reading the lyrics. i love that song.

[Lindsey]

16. Looking back on the memory of...

the dance we shared - beneath the stars above.
For a moment, all the world was right
How could I have known - that you'd ever say goodbye?

..and now, I'm glad I didn't know
the way it all would end
the way it all would go
our lives...are better left to chance
I would have missed the pain but I'd of have to miss the dance

Holding you
I held everything
for a moment...wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known...how the king would fall...
Hey who's to say
you know I might have changed it all

And now
I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
the way it all would go
Our lives
are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
but I'd of had to miss the dance

Yes my life, is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
but I'd of had to miss
the dance.

Garth Brooks.

Gets me EVERY time.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. I guess the key is which songs touches us personally............

due to our own backgrounds and baggage.
For me it's Wildest Dreams because of the music connection.

When you really listen to the lyrics it can be intentionally heart wrenching, which at times can be cathartic.

[GumboYaYa]

14. "Five pound Bass" by Robert Earl Keen.

You meant fish, right?

[McKenzie]

15. Dylan's "Sara"

so poignant and evocative of longing.

"Now the beach is deserted except for some kelp
And a piece of an old ship that lies on the shore.
You always responded when I needed your help,
You gimme a map and a key to your door."

[u4ic]

17. It's Patsy Cline's voice I love more than the lyrics

She's Got You

I've got your picture that you gave to me
And it's signed "with love," just like it used to be
The only thing different, the only thing new
I've got your picture, she's got you

I've got the records that we used to share
And they still sound the same as when you were here
The only thing different, the only thing new,
I've got the records, she's got you

I've got your memory, or has it got me?
I really don't know, but I know it won't let me be

I've got your class ring; that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear
The only thing different, the only thing new
I've got these little things, she's got you

[Lady President]

21. Has to be Patsy

No one can convey sorrow like Patsy Cline. "Walking After Midnight" would be my choice for the 'one that got away.'



Walking After Midnight
Patsy Cline

I go out walking, after midnight
Out in the moonlight
Just like we used to do
I'm always walking, after midnight
Searching for you

I walk for miles, along the highway
Well that's just my way
Of saying I love you
I'm always walking after midnight
Searching for you

I stop to see a weeping willow
Crying on his pillow
Maybe he's crying for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be

I go out walking, after midnight
Out in the moonlight
Just hoping you may be
Somewhere a walking after midnight
Searching for me

I stop to see a weeping willow
Crying on his pillow
Maybe he's crying for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be

I go out walking, after midnight
Out in the moonlight
Just hoping you may be
Somewhere a walking after midnight
Searching for me

[blondeatlast]

33. That one's a killer; you just have to have a whiskey to

appreciate it.

I'm happily married and I can feel the pain...

[livetohike]

19. Operator - Jim Croce

Operator, oh could you help me place this call
You see the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She’s livin’ in l.a.
With my best old ex-friend ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated

Isn’t that the way they say it goes
But let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow
I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
But that’s not the way it feels

Operator, oh could you help me place this call
’cause I can’t read the number that you just gave me
There’s something in my eye’s
You know it happens every time
I think about the love that i thought would save me

Isn’t that the way they say it goes
But let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow
I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels

Operato,r oh let’s forget about this call
There’s no one there I really wanted to talk you
Thank you for your time
Oh you’ve been so much more than kind
And you can keep the dime

Isn’t that the way they say it goes
But let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow
I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels

[Bonhomme Richard]

22. Hah, that song has always had meaning to me..........

Except I made out in a stairwell in college with my best friend Rays girlfriend at the time.
Not one of more sterling moments and fealt terrible about it afterwards.

[xmas74]

35. We played

Photographs and Memories at my uncle's funeral many years ago. I can't think of Croce without thinking of the funeral.

[SarahB]

24. Dang.

That song makes me think about stuff again. :(
Good song though.

[catzies]

29. Liz Phair's "Divorce Song"

And the license said
You had to stick around until I was dead
But if you’re tired of looking at my face I guess I already am



Because sometimes "the one that got away" actually got away because they dumped your ass...

[Moms Baby Democrat]

30. Not a favorite, but a goodie

Cinderella - Don't Know What You've Got ('Til it's gone)

..Sighs....Cheesy but a classic example IMO.

[blondeatlast]

34. Spinners--"I'll Be Around"

Best song about a divorce,ever, and most people don't realize what it's about--witness the commercial that completely misses the lyrical point.

[arwalden]

36. Clay Walker -- "Things I Should Have Said"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002L1I/qid=1109287511/sr=2-4/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_4/103-9119774-9691013