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To follow on from Last Rebels songs about eyes, what is the best lyric to describe how beautiful somebody is?
Can anybody beat "The swan was in her movement and the morning in her smile" cos I think that's pretty darn good!
Bonedaddy
Well Bonedaddy, that's right good there I admit. It sure beats "Sexy and Seventeen".
- Zurf
She's a Brick House 36-24-36....lol Sorry had to do it. Peace!
Straight from HeeHaw, yee haw!!!
Your lips are as red as boysenberries
Your ears look like a big cabbage leaf
Your eyes bug out like an old pop-eyed mullet
Your hair's like haywire and hangs to your feet
. . . .
OK, this doesn't answer the question, but SouthPaw, your lyric reminded me of this gem:
"You done stomped on my heart,
and mashed that sucker flat
baby you just sort-a
stomped on my aorta
You started steppin' out with guys
I felt us drift apart
and every step you took
was a stomp upon my heart".
So.....sad.......
OK, it's not a lyric, but I'll throw it out there anyway--Shakespeare's sonnet "My Mistress eyes are nothing like the sun"....talks about how imperfect she is...how normal she is, but she's still the most wonderful thing ever in his eyes.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak,--yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground;
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
One of my favorite lines of all time is from a Milton sonnet---Milton had gone blind & was no longer able to look upon his love...but he could dream....and he would see her in his dreams....and then he would wake up....and this is the line;
"I woke, she fled, and the day braught back my night".
I love that line...remember it from my college days....1983 to be exact.
For me its this one!Eric Clapton.
"I say my darling you were wonderful tonight"
Because! When i see the word "Wonderful" i think of,
Fabulous,astonishing,sensational,wonderous,pleasing, divine, groovey,etc.
She must have been one special Lady!
Old Doll.
I was also thinking of Wonderful Tonight, Old Doll, but for different reasons. It's because the song carries such a feeling of familiarity to it. It's a man singing about what makes the woman so wonderful to him, and it's all those sorts of things that come with familiarity and reliance. Nothing is more beautiful than chosing to be with another person, and then getting more and more pleased with the decision over time as familiarity grows.
I love that song. It is counterpointed by the sadness of Clapton's "Promises" which describes what it's like when the relationship has run its course.
- Big D
Zurf,
What a lovely way to describe a great relationship.It must be
wonderful to feel that kind of security with someone..
George Harrrison From the Beatles wrote "Something"In the way she moves"
For his lady Pattie Boyd.
Eric Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight For, Pattie Boyd also. He was
also married to this lady.
I do remember how beautiful to the eye she was. But she sure must
have had something more then looks!! 2 of the best songs ever written
inspired by Her.
Old Doll.
Old doll…..Lena. You writing about Harrison’s “Something" and Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight" composed for Pattie Boyd.
Reminded me about the tangle web of relationships revolving around the women in connection with different songs and also the involvement of her sister Paula.
This link explains it better than I could.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie_Boyd
Hope you find it interesting
Regards
Ark
Thank You Stroll Soul Ark,
I so enjoyed that link. Talk about keeping it in the family?
She was then a very beautiful girl, and im sure she has aged real good 2.
She probably doesn't stay on Chordie late nights { not like some, not a million miles from here!!
Im starting my swimming now for the winter, so that should
take a wee bit more out of me.. Preparing for the Olympics Ark, you should see
me in my togs and goggles? Im only massive ! :Lol:
Old Doll.
John Denver's "Annie's Song" has some wonderful lines:
'You fill up my senses like a night in a forest, like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain . . . '
I particularly like this lyric because it is focused on the profound effects of his love's beauty and not on the purely visual details of her appearance.
I always thought I could be romantic when I want to be, or when I need to be,lol. But after reading most of these replies I see I am just common muck, lol, A good place to be!!
But my description is verging on the censorship side of things ,lol,
She's a bang
Ken
hi bonedaddy i like {i love you because}by jim reeves it says everything...stay cool
very good song for a description , good choice!!!
I love this song but it is a song i am still to find someone else that likes it
Ken
The song "Your In My Soul" by Rod Steward has some nice lines in it that describe how beautiful one can be.
"My love for you is inmeasureable, My respect for you immense, your ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, your beauty and eleagant"
How about Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful To Me" or
Harry Chapin's "A Better Place To Be"
"She was so danm beautiful, she could warm a winter's
frost"
Anyway just a few... Badeye.
That's me knocked into a cocked hat so to speak, I never expected Shakespeare and Jim Reeves in the same thread but every day's an education on Chordie!
I'm going to embarass myself on the guitar now 
'eyes that look like heaven, lips like cherry wine...' - lol the oak ridge boys
I like George Jones's "Tennesse Whiskey"
"Your as smooth, as Tennesse Whiskey,
Your as sweet, as stawberry wine,
Your as warm, as a glass of brandy,
And I stay stoned on your love, all the time".
Fun Thread... Badeye.
ok now I could get silly with this description and quote ac/dc
she was a fast machine she kept her motor clean, she was the best damn woman that i ever sen
Use yer imagination on this one 
Ken
What about this one from The Monks....
'I had to take her dancing, I couldn't let her down
So we caught the bus to the other side of town
Out upon the dance floor, I wasn't getting far
So I had a drink with my friends up at the bar
I asked them what they thought of her they fell about the place
And they said nice legs shame about her face'
Maybe not, eh? lol
Perhaps not the sort of lyrics intended, but what about the 2nd and 3rd verse of a certain song by Rabbie Burns?
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
Not exactly a description of beauty.....but she must have been a 'right wee stoater' (very beautifull) if he came up with lyrics like that for her.
Craig.
OK, it's not a lyric, but I'll throw it out there anyway--Shakespeare's sonnet "My Mistress eyes are nothing like the sun"....talks about how imperfect she is...how normal she is, but she's still the most wonderful thing ever in his eyes.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Beat me too it. The Bard pretty much has the final word on everything.
I never said you looked alright.
I never said you'd be Mr. Right.
And if I said "Hey! Spend the night!"
It was the alcohol talking...
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