happy songs for happy spring days

The Undertones "Here Comes the Summer" is my all-time favorite spring raveup.

Originally posted by twangirl:
The Undertones "Here Comes the Summer" is my all-time favorite spring raveup.

Plus, it has the best drum solo ever! :D

The Flaming Lips "Race for the Prize" is a great song for a spring day. Couple that with Malcolm X/Meridan Hill Park view right outside my front window.

i like watching the cherry blossoms wither while listening to joy division's "new dawn fades".

bagpipes. full volume. nothing else gets the spirit up quite the same.

Church bells on a Sunday morning, we don't get to hear that much over here stateside.

the church near me has carillon music on sunday…

and how about elvis songs on bagpipes… (just heard it on wait wait)

The whole All Night Radio album is pretty damn good for a spring day. Also, I know it is a bit premature, but you can't go wrong with a little Staying Out For The Summer by Dodgy

Eugenius – Oomalama

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
i've always associated "magic" by the cars has a happy song for spring days. .

That is a good one. "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins (Also a nice summer day / driving song.)

The Wee Turtles: Why The Bombers?

Great sunny song.

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now ?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry


You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well, and I've heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall


You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)


A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine


Sure !

"Make us cry!"

Originally posted by Bollocks:
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now ?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry


You say : "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well, and I've heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall


You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)


A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine


Sure !

Sure……

You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know
You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know what the sound is darlin'
It's the sound of my tears fallin'
Or is it the rain?
You don't know how to play the game
You cheat
You lie
You make me wanna cry
You make me wanna cry
Cry…
You make me wanna cry
You don't know how to ease my pain
You don't know
You don't know how to ease my pain
Don't you hear any voices cryin'?
That's the sound of my love(?) dyin'
Here comes the rain
You don't know how to play the game
You cheat
You lie
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
You don't know
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
You don't even know how to say goodbye
You make me wanna cry
Cry…
Cry (x3)

Give me time
To realise my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses
Words that burn me
Lovers never ask you why
In my heart
The fires burning
Choose my colour
Find a star
Precious people always tell me
That's a step
A step too far

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

Words are few
I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow
Words are token
Come inside/and catch my tears
You've been talking
But believe me

If it's true
You do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I'm prepared
To let you go

If it's love you want from me
Then take it away
Everything is not what you see
It's over again

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

You don't remember me
But I remember you
T'was not so long ago
You broke my heart in two

[CHORUS:]
Tears on my pillow
Pain in my heart
Caused by you

[2:]
If we could start anew
I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back
And tempt the hand of fate

[CHORUS:]

[3:]
Love is not a gadget
Love is not a toy
When you find the one you love
She'll fill your heart with joy

[2:]

[CHORUS:]

[x3:]
Caused by you

I take that back. Don't make us cry.

Then again, if I was choosing the Culture Club to make people cry, I would have sticked with "Victims"

The victims we know so well
They shine in our eyes
When they kiss and tell
Strange places we never see
But you're always there
Like a ghost in my dreams
And i keep on telling you
Please don't do the things you do
When you do those things
Pull my puppet strings
I have that strangest void for you

We love and we never tell
What places our hearts in the wishing well
Love lead us into the stream
And it's sink or swim
Like it's always been
And i keep on loving you
It's the only thing to do
When the angel sings
There are greater things
Can i give them all to you

Pull the strings of emotion
Take a ride into unknown pleasure
Feel like a child
On a dark night
Wishing there was some kind of heaven
I could be warm with your smiling
Hold out your hand for a while
The victims
We know them so well

(chorus)

Show my heart some devotion
Push aside those that whisper never
Feel like a child on a dark night
Wishing we could spend it together
I could be warm with your smiling
Hold out your hand for a while
The victims
We know them so well

Originally posted by chimblysweep:
"Victims"

This is better.

BILLY SITS ALONE AND WONDERS WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO , BILLY GROWS TIRED EVERY DAY AND MEANING SEEMS TO FADE AWAY , BILLY KNOWS HE'S NOT ALONE , HE KNOWS HE'S NO TO BLAME , OTHERS FEAR THROUGH IGNORANCE , AND BILLY'S CARED TO STAY AMONG THE WHISPERS BARELY SPOKEN , BILLY FEELS CONTEMPT , INDIGNANT WORDS FROM HYPOCRITES , TO THEM IT'S GOD'SREVENGE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY WORKED WITH OTHER MEN , TO THEM WAS ONCE A LAD . WHEN THEY LEARNED OF BILLY'S STORY , WENT BEHIND HIS BACK , SPREAD AROUND THE FACTORY FLOOR , THEN BILLY GOT THE SACK , FRIENDS HAVE WASHED THEIR HANDS OF BILLY , HE FEELS SO BETRAYED . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . BILLY'S YOUNG AND BILLY'S DYING , FIGHTING EVERY DAY . THE FEW HE TRUSTS WILL GIVE HIM STRENGTH , THEY WILL NOT WALK AWAY , LOVE WILL NEVER WASH ITS HANDS , AND NEVER WILL BETRAY , BILLY CAN'T ESCAPE THE TRUTH , BUT HE WONT DIE ALONE . NO - ONE TO BLAME , THERE'S ONLY VICTIMS . ( TO FADE

Well, if we're going for sad, this one takes the cake.

the kitchen is cold
but the coffee is warm
and the suns coming up
the day has just begun
and your already bored.

bored of cheering me up
bored of calming me down
bored of drying my eyes
but there once was a time when you were the one.
you were the blue of the sky
you came after the storm
you were the switch on the wall
in the dark of the hall
im still fumbling for

cuz im lost in the black
i dont know where I am.
arms strecthed out in front
im calling your name
just as loud as I can

I know theres words that we will never speak
and the questions cant be answered easily
but I wanted to be easy so
nod your head if the plans have change
shake it, love, they stayed the same
smile at me and I will stay
start to cry and I'll go away
just please dont leave me guessing.

so you made me come
then you sent me away
like a messenger bird
so I circled the earth
blown away in the wind
but I always returned
with some new little song
some sad story to tell
of a breif love affair
with a girl I compared to you and she failed
you said you dont want me to beg
then you said get down on your knees
cuz you knew that I would
if I do any good satisfying your needs.

and I know all about those things we cannot speak
and just so you know well they dont bother me
so you dont have to be worried
just nod your head if the plans have changed
shake it, love, if they stayed the same
smile at me and I will stay
start to cry and I'll go away
just please dont keep me waiting

just nod your head if your mind's been changed
shake it, love, if some hope remains
just say the word and of course ill stay
roll your eyes and Ill go away
just please dont leave me guessing.
just please dont keep me waiting

This is to make you "happy cry"

A man is in love, how do I know?
He came and walked with me, and he told me so
In a song he sang, and then I knew
A man is in love with you

A man is in love, how did I hear?
I heard him talk too much whenever you're near
He whispered your name when his eyes were closed
A man is in love and he knows

A man is in love, how did I guess?
I figuered it out while he was watching you dress
He'd give you his all, if you'd but agree
A man is in love and he's me