Greatest song ever written

• thavoice

  Gotta agree with november rain.
  
  Piano man is amazing as well.
  
  SInce it is christmas, how about Fairytale of New York by the pogues....ha!
  
  
  SUmmer WIn by SInatra has some great flowing lyrics I think.
  
  Hurt..by NIN even though I think it better suits JC.
• Gblock

  gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"

  +1
• vball10set

  Stairway to Heaven, with Imagine a very close second.
• ManO'War

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1341672 wrote:I nominate this master piece!
  
  [video=youtube;kfVsfOSbJY0][/video]

  God, that was so bad on so many levels.
• Tiernan

  gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"

  Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?
• GoChiefs

  

  Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?

  
  His mom was run over by a fucking train. You dont think that broke his heart??
• vball10set

  Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include an achy, breaky heart?

  fify
• gut

  Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?

  Ummmm, that song basically is about a broken heart
• gut

  GoChiefs;1341926 wrote:His mom was run over by a ****ing train. You dont think that broke his heart??

  technically it was a damned old train
• Tiernan

  Touche' - I retract my original objection your Honor,,,
• FatHobbit

  

  gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"

  This was my first thought.
• Ironman92

  

  We Built This City
  
  Kyrie
  
  Walk Like an Egyptian
• said_aouita

  

  Too bad he lived it.
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• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Stairway to Heaven ?
• Riderfan

  Maybe I'm Amazed
• cat_lover

  He stopped loving her today- George Jones
  Not exactly an uplifting song but it stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.
• mcburg93

  

  Fishing in the dark, nitty gritty dirt band was always one that I loved to hear.
• Trueblue23

  

  Stairway to Heaven
  Wish You Were Here
  Simple Man
  Dear Mama - 2Pac
• reclegend22

  

  Fake Plastic Trees is a beautifully written song. Thom Yorke takes a completely random assortment of words -- "Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant" -- and stabs you in the heart with them. It's one of those amazingly emotionally-moving songs that, depending on the mood you are in, can be about something entirely different each time you listen to it.
  
  Yorke wrote it after spending a night walking alone in an area of East London called Canary Wharf, which is populated with a lot of artificial plants. Said Yorke, "Fake Plastic Trees was the product of a joke that wasn't really a joke; a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts." It is said that the Radiohead lead man broke down in tears the first time the band ever performed it.
  
  Epic song.
• reclegend22

  

  As for rap songs, Dear Mama and Juicy are certainly near the top. Great call, Trueblue. Those two masterpieces are as good as it gets.
• Trueblue23

  

  Fantastic call CC. I love that song. Syd def deserved that tribute.
• Speedofsand

  

  Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
  What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
  O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
  And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
  Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
  
  On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
  Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
  What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
  As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
  Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
  In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
  'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
  
  And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
  That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
  A home and a country should leave us no more!
  Their <nobr>blood</nobr> has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
  No refuge could save the hireling and slave
  From the terror of <nobr>flight</nobr>, or the gloom of the grave:
  And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
  
  Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
  Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
  Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
  Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
  Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
  And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
  And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
• Trueblue23

  

  Speedofsand;1342441 wrote:Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
  What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
  O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
  And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
  Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
  
  On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
  Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
  What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
  As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
  Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
  In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
  'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
  
  And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
  That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
  A home and a country should leave us no more!
  Their <nobr>blood</nobr> has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
  No refuge could save the hireling and slave
  From the terror of <nobr>flight</nobr>, or the gloom of the grave:
  And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
  
  Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
  Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
  Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
  Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
  Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
  And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
  And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

  Dumb.
• Trueblue23

  

  I bet Toby Keith loves that damn song.
• Ghmothwdwhso

  /Positively 4th Street
  
  Thread over........maybe..Do you take me for such a fool?