Songs That Say So Much With Very Few Words

'Oh, My Love'

 

You mean Skip James?

 

Ethel Profit- "Life is a Battle"
Guided by Voices- "A Salty Salute" (and most other songs by Pollard)

 

I don't know if Yoko says so much with this but she says it a lot.

 

The Replacements: Seen Your Video.

 

Elton's beautiful 'Song For Guy'......

Life
Isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything

 

John Martyn- Small Hours




Gonna get on up and fly away
Go on out for another way
And a new day’s dawn
Gonna carry on.

Keep on loving while your love is strong
Keep on loving ’til your love is gone away.

Well you’re very lovely, gonna take you home
Say you’ll be my ruin but I just don't care
Cos I love you so
I just love you so.

Keep on loving ’til your love is gone
Keep on loving while your love is strong
All the way.

 

Daryl Hall's "The Farther Away I Am" is a perfect example.

The farther away I am,
The farther away I am
Is it just a cloud passing under
I don't want to lose you

 

Roy Harper: 'One for All'.

 

"I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood."

 

Queen - Bijou

 

Brigitte Fontaine has a song , the whole lyrics translate as:

I am eating cow s**t
There is bread, but it's for the boss
I am drinking cow piss
There is white wine, but it's for the boss

 

Wild Thing

 

We've got a winner, ladies and gentlemen!

 

Inspired by another current thread: For a song whose only real lyric is the title, "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" by Pop Will Eat Itself manages to put across a fair bit IMHO...

 

Nirvana: "School". Totally captures the nightmare of being in school again with something like 14 words.

 

The Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

The Ramones cornered that market back in '76

....until Napalm Death came along with You Suffer

 

Etta James - Feeling Uneasy
A two word song about being strung out and feeling wretched. But somehow almost ecstatic on some level. Great song.

 

James Brown - Please Please Please

 

Qotsa:
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy , alcohol ca ca ca ca ca cocaine!

Hmmm I think it might be about drugs "feel good hit of the summer" from rated r

 

The Beatles - The End

 

Nick drake

 

These guys were the masters!

 

Yesterday (Beatles) Suprised this and Cage's 4:33" hadn't already been mentioned.

Never Ending Song Of Love For You (Delaney & Bonnie)