"Songs I wish I had written"

[trentoliphant]

I Hope you DanceBeing Alive - Stephen SondheimTonight - Stephen Sondheim/Leonard BernsteinSeven Days of LonelyAny number of other songsMaybe it's not so much that I wish I could have written those songs specifically, but that I want to write songs that move people as much as those move me.

[marcin]

Layla, Tears In Heaven, Change The World, Wonderful Tonight all by Eric Clapton (+co-writers)

[baines]

Way too many to choose from, but here's my list:Paint it Black - Rolling StonesKensington Line - Big Head Todd & the MonstersTiny Dancer and Levon - Elton John and B. Taupin (I presume)Climb to Safety - Jerry JosephFunkytown - Lipps, Inc.Typical Situation - Dave MatthewsSweet Caroline - Neil DiamondHoplessly Devoted to You - ONJRear View Mirrow - Pearl JamHigh Hopes - Pink FloydFake Plastic Trees and Street Fade - Radio HeadI could go on....and on....and on....

[milfus]

well, the only song that really popped in my head, is a GREAT song, but thats not the reason I picked it, its before my time and way out of my genre, its just that I could never in a million years get the song off the ground due to forces I could never controlthe preamble being done, me being the hip-hop/rock guy, I understand the "what the.."tracks of my tears - smokey robinson

[ephlat66]

Ahh lists.... just a few that occur to me:Have you ever really loved a woman - Bryan AdamsEvery breath you take - the PoliceAlways a woman - Billy Joel(wow, apparently I wish I wrote more ballads )almost everything that Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neal Peart ever wrote (Rush)everything that Ed Roland wrote (that's Collective Soul fyi)and Cashmere (Zepelin)and Knights in White Satinand Carmen from Habanera (Bizet)and Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousand Unchained Melodyand....

[ephlat66]

and Edelwiessand Coming to America (neil diamond)the entire Rocky soundtrack...

[ephlat66]

and What Hurts the Most (Rascal Flatts)and the entire soundtrack of Fiddler on the Roof..Ok i'll stop! Apparently I like music!!!!

[epister]

"Dark Horse" - Amanda Marshall"Hysteria" - Def Leppard"I Hope You Dance" - Tia Sillers (Leanne Womack)"Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls"Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane"Everybody's Changing" - Keane"Sacrifice" - Elton John"This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore" - Elton John

[linziellen]

Anything by Coldplay - Fix you and Swallowed by the sea are amazing.Damion Rice - Cannonball.Depeche Mode - Somebody.Regina Spektor - Hotel Song, Samson, Fidelity.Tracy Chapman - 3'000 miles.Alanis Morissette - UR.Sarah McLachlan - Angel.Annie Lennox - Pavement Cracks, A Thousand Beautiful Things.Elton John - Your Song.KT Tunstall - Through the Dark.There a too many!Great thread, thanks!

[davekershaw]

Hey Jude - BeatlesIn My Life - BeatlesAll you need is Love - BeatlesLet's just say most of the Beatles songs!Imagine - John LennonIsn't it a Pity - George HarrisonWon't get Fooled Again - WhoSomething in the air - Thunderclap NewmanLonely Boy - Andrew GoldEveryday - SladeThe Living Years - Mike and the MechanicsMagic - PilotBreakaway - Gallagher and LyleRunaway - Gallagher and LyleFifteen Summers - Gallagher and Lyle (waited fifteen years to play that one to my daughter on her fifteenth birthday)Don't let the Sun go Down on Me - Elton JohnSweet Surrender - BreadGoodbye to Love - CarpentersEternal Flame - The BanglesTake it to the Limit - The EaglesThe Heart of the Matter - Don HenleyRocky Mountain Way - Joe WalshI Want to Know What Love Is - ForeignerTheme from Out of Africa - John BarryCould go on and on ........