What disco song do u believe has the most meaningful lyrics?

[markydefad]

I'm gonna vote for this one mentioned earlier by someone [it was neonlights] ....the lyrics are so wise, weary and sad yet poetic and heartfelt.

Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free
(music & lyrics by Dave Crawford)

What's the sense in sharing this one and only life
Ending up, just another lost and lonely wife
You count up the years, and they will be filled with tears, oooh
Love only breaks up, to start over again
You'll get the babies, but you won't have your man
While he is busy loving every woman that he can, huh huh

Say I wanna leave a thousand times a day
It's easier said that done, when I just can't break away
Just can't break away

Young hearts, run free
Never be hung up, hung up like my man and me (oooh)
Hmmm, my man and me
Young hearts, to yourself be true
Don't be no fool when love really don't love you
Don't love you


It's high time now, just one crack at life
Who wants to live it, in trouble and strife
My mind must be free, to learn all I can about me
I'm gonna love me for the rest of my days
Encourage the babies every time they say
Self preservation is what's really going on today, oooh

Say I wanna leave a thousand times a day
How can I turn loose
When you just can't break away (just can't break away)

Young hearts, run free
Never be hung up, hung up like my man and me (oooh)
Oooh, my man and me
Whoa, young hearts, to yourself be true
Don't be no fool when love really don't love you
I said I don't love you, hmmm

Oh, whoa
Oh, whoa
Oh, whoa
Oh, whoa

Young hearts, run free
Never be hung up, hung up like my man and me (oooh)
Whoa, my man and me
Whoa, young hearts, to yourself be true
Don't be no fool when loving is all there is (oooh)
No, yeah aaah aaah aaah

Young hearts, run free...

[discokicks]

Young hearts, to yourself be true
Don't be no fool when love really don't love you
...

I'm gonna throw a vote out to Young Hearts Run Free as well....incredibly wise and loving lyrics that were filtered out all over mid to late '70s airwaves into the unsuspecting, naive, young minds of many of us (I should have been paying closer attention to lyrics back then)....and written by a man :icon_eek:

From a quick search, I found this......
"Candi's most famous recording came about several years after she left Muscle Shoals. Following producer Dave Crawford out to California, she made her third marriage ‑ to Tyrone Davis' former promoter, and commenced a period of domestic misery and abuse (not her first). Crawford's song ‘Young Hearts Run Free' was inspired by the painful stories that Candi told him about life with James.

"We would sit down and I would tell him the horrors I was going through in the marriage I was trying to get out of," Staton remembers. "I would bring David incidents, and little did I know he was making mental notes and writing all that stuff down." A masterpiece of marital grief - "You count up the years/And they will be filled with tears" - ‘Young Hearts' also placed Staton in the middle of the disco outbreak of 1976."

[boogienights]

Jean Carne "Dont Let It Go To Your Head"
Don Ray "Got To Have Loving"
Sharon Redd "Beat The Street" (in a weird sorta way)
Norma Jean Wright "Saturday"...let me explain. I was fired from my job when I was 18 in 2004 for a "drunken misdemeanour". I had a period where my family were cold to me and totally overplayed Normas debut which I found for 50 cents at Salvos. "Saturday" sorta has this vibe that is funky but also longing..not wanting to sound too corny..Chic had it with "I Want Your Love".

[FranceJoliFan]

For lyrics with a social conscience, exposing the horrid working conditions of an unregulated industry,
I choose Sheila & B. Devotion's Crazy World Of Cover Girls:

Get up at five, not quite alive
I've lived the last three nights on dry martinis
Although it's winter time
They make me pose outside in a bikini
My skin is wash and wear
Got rainbows in my hair, oh what a sight
I've got a flair that makes the people stare
And I'll go anywhere the price is right

Crazy world of cover girls
The crazy world of cover girls

etc.

[Cory Ander]

I'm sure everyone has their own definition of "meaningful"...but for the last few years the disco song whose lyrics touched me on a personal level was the Pet Shop Boys sad meditation on AIDS, "Being Boring" ("Of all the people I was kissing...some are here and some are missing in the 1990s"). For a non disco song, Bonnie Raitt's poignant "Nick of Time" wins hands down ("Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste"). Truer words have never been spoken.

[PierreConstantin]

"Was that all it was" has meaningful lyrics but the singer and the background bass make them come alive -that's not really the case of the covers: Debbie Rose, Kym Mazelle and Hannah Jones don't deliver as Jean Carn and their producers do.

[DyscoSouljah]

Your Song by Billy Paul

a true masterpiece

[KBallenger53]

Jean Carne "Dont Let It Go To Your Head"
Don Ray "Got To Have Loving"
Sharon Redd "Beat The Street" (in a weird sorta way)
Norma Jean Wright "Saturday"...let me explain. I was fired from my job when I was 18 in 2004 for a "drunken misdemeanour". I had a period where my family were cold to me and totally overplayed Normas debut which I found for 50 cents at Salvos. "Saturday" sorta has this vibe that is funky but also longing..not wanting to sound too corny..Chic had it with "I Want Your Love".

I can agree with you when it comes to Beat The Street, Boogienights. You have to really have an OPEN MIND when you listen to this song, because the GROOVE overpowers the lyrics. The one verse that stands out the most to me in this song is: "YOU'VE ONLY GOT ONE LIFE TO LIVE, DON'T YOU WASTE IT"!!!

She said it with so much Passion that it almost makes you stop what you're doing for a second, and think about it!!!

'NUFF SAID

[Cory Ander]

I think the teams of McFadden and Whitehead and Gamble and Huff were excellent at writing songs with meaningful lyrics. Alot of that Phillysound stuff was good at it.

Coming in after them is the team of Ashford and Simpson

But the one that stands out for me is "Was That All It Was" sung by Jean Carne.

Honorable Mentions:

Patrice Rushen "Forget Me Nots"
Donna Summer "On The Radio" "Dim All The Lights" and to an extent, "Last Dance" written by Paul Jabara.

Post disco, I would give it to The Pet Shop Boys for writing what I call intelligent disco. Also Depech Mode.

Needlefingers

one lyric that has stuck in my mind recently was this one from Donna Summer: "Don't You Understand/that when someone TRIES/you say something nice". I doubt I'll ever forgive Gamble and Huff for this one they wrote for Lou Rawls: "I met a girl from Hong Kong/she said her name was Suzie Wong" (from "You're the One"). They must have been in a hurry that day.