The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. Votes: 4
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Votes: 4
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties. Votes: 4
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. Votes: 4
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. Votes: 4
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on... Votes: 4
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' Votes: 4
The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby Votes: 3
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction) Votes: 3
Ragtime was my lullaby. Votes: 2
Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Votes: 2
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. Votes: 2
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference. Votes: 2
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be Votes: 2
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Votes: 2
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Votes: 2
I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby. Votes: 2
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear. Votes: 2
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say. Votes: 2
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby. Votes: 2
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby. Votes: 2
There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme. Votes: 2
I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music. Votes: 2
It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it? Votes: 2
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics. Votes: 2
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby Votes: 1
Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin! Votes: 0
Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby. Votes: 0
The sight of a dancing lady is like a soothing sensation of a lullaby. Votes: 0
A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby. Votes: 0
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. Votes: 0
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! Votes: 0
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. Votes: 0
Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky. Votes: 0
I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby. Votes: 0
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. Votes: 0
Heâs speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when theyâre about to break you apart. Gentleâkind, evenâlike they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.
River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on... Votes: 6 Sarah Dessen