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[Hopelessly Human]

What songs (or pieces of lyrics) do you think were destined to be written and become well known? For example, the lryic hope I die before I get old was just hanging around waiting for some rock band to make it famous. If The Who didn't popularize it, someone else would have.

Also Billy Joel's Piano Man seems like a song that had to be written. If he didn't do it, some other piano man would have eventually told the same story in a similar style.

This not a knock on the songs or the lyrics, and I'm not saying they're not original, but that they just seem like they were destined to be written, whether it was Billy Joel or Pete Townsend or not. I hope you know what I mean.

We can even include instrumentals and riff's, like Eddie Van Halen's Eruption.

So, what other songs, lyrics or riffs, do you think seem like they would have come along eventually?








P.S. But the real trick is to find the inevitable song that hasn't come around yet, and write it yourself.

[cbclark4]

Bringin' sexy back.

[jaderedux]

They tried to make go to rehab. I say no no no!

[JMO]

[cosmo]

I think I could have written this song if it had not come along.
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I don't know enough about you

I know a little bit
about a lot of things
but I don't know enough about you
just when I think you're mine
you try a different line
baby, what can I do

I read the latest news
no buttons on my shoes
but baby I'm confused about you
you've got me in a spin
and what a spin i'm in
'cause I don't know enough about you

Jack of all trades
master of none
and isn't it a shame
I'm so sure that you'd be good for me
if you'd only play my game

you know i went to school
and i'm nobody's fool
that is to say until I met you
I know a little bit about a lot of things
but I don't know enough about you

Jack of all trades
master of none
and isn't it a shame
I'm so sure that you'd be good for me
if you'd only play my game

you know i went to school
and i'm nobody's fool
that is to say until I met you
I know a little bit about a lot of things
but I don't know enough about you

I know a bit about biology
a little more about psychology
I'm a little gem in geology
but I don't know enough about you
no I don't know enough about you
no I don't know enough about you

[safeblad]

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (my friends)

[mack4289]

Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad get me out of this

Warren Zevon

[Satori]

If you ever change your mind
About leavin', leavin' me behind
Oh bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me ...

Sam Cooke

[swetepete]

"Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels...
There's a good saloon, in every single town.

Oh, and I remember something you once told me:
and I'll be damned, if it did not come true.
Twenty thousand roads I've been down (down, down)
But they all led me straight back home to you."

Gram Parsons, 'Return of the Grievous Angel'

"Sometimes I live in the country.
Sometimes, I live in town.
Sometimes, I have a great notion
to jump, into the river, and drown."

Huddy Ledbetter, 'Good-night, Irene'

[cosmo]

When you read The Summer Of '69 lyrics they seem inevitable. It is a classic story.
When put to music, it is transformed into a dynamic and powerful song.
Here's Bryan Adams Summer Of 69 concert live at wembley stadium london 92.
EDIT: one of the comments below says "this ain't wembley"
Awesome concert and the video is produced in a way that makes you feel as if you are there.
I am trying to think of a better concert video and nothing comes to mind.
Bryan Adams Summer Of 69 live
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2dBnCF8yf4I
I got my first real six string
bought it at the five and dime.
Played it till my fingers bled
was the summer of sixty-nine.
Me and some guys from school
had a band and we tried real hard.
Jimmy quit and Jody got married,
I shoulda known we'd never get far.
Oh, when I look back now,
that summer seemed to last forever.
And if I had the choice,
yeah, I'd always wanna be there.
Those were the best days of my life.
Ain't no use in complainin'
when you got a job to do.
Spent my evenin's down at the drive in,
and that's when I met you.
Standin' on your mama's porch,
you told me you would wait forever.
Oh and when you held my hand,
I knew that it was now or never.
Those were the best days of my life.
Oh yeah, back in the summer of sixty-nine.
Man, we were killin' time.
We were young and restless,
we needed to unwind.
I guess nothing can last forever, forever, no!
Yeah!
And now the times are changin',
look at everything that's come and gone.
Sometimes when I play that old six string,
I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
Standin' on your mama's porch,
you told me it would last forever.
Oh and when you held my hand,
I knew that it was now or never.
Those were the best days of my life.
Back in the summer of sixty-nine.
It was the summer of sixty-nine, oh yeah.
Me and my baby in sixty-nine.
Oh, oh!
It was the summer, summer, summer of sixty-nine.

[Hopelessly Human]

Some good ones people. Cosmo, your post of Summer of '69 made me think of Juke Box Hero by Foreigner for some reason. There's another song that was just waiting to happen.

Another one is Happy Birthday. Not The Beatles one, but the traditional one. If there was ever an inevitable song that one is it.

[cosmo]