Rock lyrics don't have to be bland or clichéd. Here's some inspiration on Modern Love - The biggest subject of literature in general - you would have thought someone would have got board - run of of ways to say 'I Love You' ' I miss you' 'Love hurts' - but no - we continue to reinvent the ways of expressing all this. Here are some examples for Rock poets.
Letters from across the sea
Roses dipped in ceiling wax
Valentines and maple leaves
Tucked into a paper back.
Tin Angel - Joni Mitchell
He reached past the wine for my hand to hold
The Priest - Joni Mitchell
Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems.
Turn off the Light - Nelly Furtado
Sliding mystified on the wine of the tide
Cadence and Cascade - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson
Lucky that lips not only mumble
They spill kisses like a fountain
Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains.
Whenever - Whereever - Shakira
Gazelle girl striding through your palace
Afgan Woman - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Saw the Fortune Teller, had my fortune read
She sent me to the Doctor who sent me straight to bed
He said I'm lonesome and I'm lovesick. I've got my mind on lipstick.
I Gotta Know (Evans - Williams) Elvis Presley.
You're every bridge I should have burned
Every lesson I've unlearned
In this smoke-filled waiting room
with incarcerated love-sick fool
I will wait for you to cut me loose.
Letters from the Wasteland - the Wallflowers
You're the other half of what I am
You're the missing piece
Wedding Song - Bob Dylan
Ain't it strange how a moment can play a part in the story of your heart
Ain't it funny - Jennifer Lopaz
Holy smoke and saints alive
I never thought this could happen to me
I Got Stung - (Schroeder and Hall) Elvis Presley.
You're cracked country lips, I still wish to kiss
as to be under the strength of your skin.
Ramona - Bob Dylan
She gently put her finger on her lips
To let him know she understood
Louise - Human League
She was born to be my unicorn
Robed head of ferns
Cat child, tutored by the learned
She was born to be my Unicorn - Tyrannosaurus Rex
I barely know you somehow I know what you're about
A deeper love I've found you and I no longer doubt
Ain't it Funny - Jennifer Lopaz
Woke up this morning feelin' fine
I felt like the world was my Valentine
Something tells me I'm into something good
Something Good - Herman's Hermits
She puts on her make up and brushes her long blond hair
And then asks me 'Do I look alright' and I say
'You look wonderful tonight'
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Sometimes in the evening
he would read to her
Roll her in his arms
and give his seed to her
Blue Boy - Joni Mitchell
I got you under my skin
(Title) - Frankie Vallie
Drinking scented tea with someone on my knee
Jasmin - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Just being next to you is a natural thing for me
Wedding Song - Bob Dylan
As long as I'm with you
It doesn't matter what we do
I'm Real - Jennifer Lopaz
You don't like crazy music, you don't like rockin' bands
You just wanna go to a movie show
and sit there holding hands
You're so square - Baby I don't care.
Baby I Don't Care (Lieber and Stoller) Elvis Presley
Nothing she wants is denied her
You better take my advice
Tokyo Girl - Ace of Base
Lucky you were born that far away
We can both make fun of distances
Whenever, Whereever - Shakira
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending you are still around
The Great Pretender - The Inkblots
All my days are leafy blue
because I'm not with you
All my words are ragged steel
When I'm not with you
Dove - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Grass in your hair, stretched like a Lion in the sun
Lady of the Dancing Water - King Crimson
Weeping willow woman
Ladled on the arm
of the Misty coast of Albany
with its charm
pining pillow of the wild willow's end
womanly waiting for
your manly friend
The Misty Coast of Albany - Tyrannosaurus Rex
We go inside, the place is a mess
She says my name's the 'liquid Poetess'
She unties her mouth
and her buckskin dress
She drinks from a bottle
labelled 'Tenderness'
One Inch Rock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Baby I would climb the Andes solely
To count the freckles on your body
Never could imagine there only
Ten million ways to love somebody
Whenever, Whereever - Shakira
On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding
Spanish Harlem Incident - Bob Dylan
Let our bodies be twisted but never our minds
Is This Love - Alyson Moyet
A well a bless my soul a what's wrong with me
I'm itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I'm acting as queer as a bug
I'm in love - I'm All Shook Up
All Shook Up (Blackwell) Elvis Presley
There she goes again, racing through my brain
And I can't contain this feeling that remains
There She Goes - The La's
Foxey
You know you're a cute little heartbreaker
Foxey Yeah
And I know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Picked up a pencil and wrote 'I Love you'
in my finest hand.
Wanted to send it
But I don't know where I stand
I Don't know where I Stand - Joni Mitchell
Oh Deborah, you look like a Zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the Spanish Main
Oh Deborah
Deborah - Tyrannosaurus Rex
I've only known careless love
This time 'round it's more correct
Right on target, so direct
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You don't have to be a victim of ego
No you don't have to be self-centred or deceitful
You'll make it happen if you're beautiful inside
Beautiful Inside - Louise.
Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Marcie - Joni Mitchell
Clowns to the right, jokers to the left
Here am I - Stuck in the Middle with you.
Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealer's Wheel - Louise
Now you could spare a kiss or two and still have plenty left
Now I ain't greedy baby - all I want is all you got.
A Big Hunk 'O Love - (Wische & Schreoder) Elvis Presley
They might fill spoons full of diamonds
They might fill spoons full of gold
Just a little spoon of your precious love
Satisfy my soul
Spoonful - Willie Dixon
My life's a shadowless horse if I can't get across to you
Mambo Sun - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Could I ever explain
This feeling of love, it just lingers on
The fear in my heart that keeps telling me which way to turn
Night Porter - Japan
I thought you'd never say hello she said
You look like the silent type
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memory
Come as you are
There's the one who writers her letters in his facts and figures scrawl
Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell
In a fleeting moment of a restless day
Driven to distraction, I was captured by the game
Is This Love - Alyson Moyet
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