Your favorite line in a song

I have tons, but right now it's "It's a good think I haven't slept in weeks, because right now it seems that times are hard for dreamers." That's a Boys Night Out line.

(from The Voice by the Moody Blues-Long Distance Voyager)

"...there ain't no need to act like I shot your dog-I was only tellin'a lie"

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. :)

that you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

"Don't take any wooden nickels when you sell your soul." Mr. E.

"Jesus hung with a low-life crowd
But those working stiffs sure did him proud
Some were murderers, thieves and whores
But at least they didn't do it as legislators"--Hugh Blumenfeld

"Daddy's little helper, silver foot in your mouth"--Paula Cole

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"--Neil Young

"Well we all shine on-like the moon and the stars and the sun"-John Lennon

"You just kinda wasted my precious time-but don't think twice, it's alright."--Bob Dylan

"I got a job and tried to put my money away, but I got debts that no honest man can pay."-Bruce Springsteen-Atlantic City.

"Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old."-Nirvana-Serve The Servants

"Everything comes in threes, but your face shows two."-Uncle Tupelo-Wipe The Clock

"...but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"-Bob Dylan-My Back Pages

"You take my hand, I'll take your hand. Together we may get away."-Neil Young-Down By The River

"We're so pretty, oh so pretty...we're vacant"-Sex Pistols-Pretty Vacant

"London calling now don't look to us. Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust"-The Clash-London Calling

"Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white."-Counting Crows-Round Here

The Clash's "Death is a Star", from Combat Rock. I don't know why I love it so much except that line, and the atmosphere of the song as a whole, is so mysterious and compelling, somehow. Here's the rest:

And I was gripped by that deadly phantom
I followed him through hard jungles
As he stalked through the back lots
Strangling through the night shades

The thief of life
Moved onwards and outwards to love

In a one stop only motel
A storm bangs on the cheapest room
The phantom slips in to spill blood
Even on the sweetest honeymoon

The killer of love
Caught the last late Niagara bus

By chance or escaping from misery
Bu suddeness or in answer to pain
Smoking in the dark cinema
You could see the bad go down again

And the clouds are high in Spanish mountains
And a Ford roars through the night full of rain.

The killer's blood flows
But he loads his gun again

Make a grown man cry like a girl
To see the guns dying at sunset

In vain lovers claimed
But they never had met.

I Am, I Said - Neil Diamond

I'll be clean, you'll be free...

Midnight in Paris, from the "Have Moicy" album, still in print on CD

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"I lost everything I ever loved or feared." - Bruce Springsteen, "Growing Up," on "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey."

"An everyday man was what she wanted, so she gave up the ghost of the chance he haunted." - John Gorka, "Big Time Lonesome," on "Out of the Valley."

"Until long after it matters, you don't know if you're good enough. Yon can bet your dreams will be battered, so just go after what you love." John Gorka, "Out of the Valley," on the album of the same title.

Yes, I'm stuck in Jersey boy land here... :-)

If good looks were minutes, you know you could've been an hour

The Way You Do the Things You Do.


Motown Forever:loveya:

...for a world that doesn't care.

"Brown Shoes Don't Make It", Mothers of Invention.

"I may be your dog, but I'm not your pet." That was back in the days when I still worked for a living.

YES INDEED.

to mean that much to you...Neil Young/Old Man

From Dr. Demento's "Boot to the Head"

Dan Hicks

another great Hicks line...

I scare myself just thinking about you

is one of the best songs ever. That whole album is great.

and Milk Shakin' Mama ain't bad either. Thanks for the idea, I just my copy on the turntable....Canned music, canned music, playing on the radio...

Knowledge is a deadly friend
when no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind I fear
Is in the hands of fools

Angels wanna wear my red shoes by Elvis Costello:
I said I'm so happy I could die;
She said drop dead and left with another guy

The low spark of high-heeled boys by Traffic:
The percentage you're paying is too high priced
while you're living beyond all your means
and the man in the suit has just bought a new car
from the profit he's made on your dreams

...Nobody wants to take you home.

David Byrne. Loco D'Amour.

And there are plenty of more Zappa lines that I love too. Also a number of Springsteen lines, like this one.

"You ain't no beauty, but eh you're all right; and that's all rightwith me" - Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"will you still love me when I'm ...65 or whatever.

Dylan. "Brownsville Girl".

And: "I'm a bad motherfucker don't you know, but I'll crawl over 50 good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole" - Nick Cave, "Stagger Lee"


And: "I don't have a drinking problem, except when I can't get a drink" -Tom Waits, "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart"

And so many others. Those are just a few.

off the top of my head, "drill me a hole with a barber pole" from Burma Shave. Or, "you must be reading my mail" from I never talk to strangers.

But, like you say, so many more...

Possession

....the night is my companion, and solitude my guide
would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?....

"Don't you know we fuck for money; I'm a big-dicked motherfucking porno star." Buckcherry - "Porno Star"

Jimmy Buffet-A Pirate Looks at 40

You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife
I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do
But I wish some one had talked to me like I wanna talk of you…

"...Don't carry the world upon your shoulders."

-Paul McCartney, Hey Jude

...I want to tell you but the words you do not know.
Sing me a lullaby of songs you cannot write, and I will listen for there's beauty where there's love.

-Moody Blues, Emily's Song. I didn't appreciate it until I had young children.

Runners up:

For all that is moving is moved by her hands
She is mirrored forever in the life of the lands
In the building of thoughts, in the shifting of sands

-Incredible String Band, Three is a Green Crown


"Time will tell of stars that fell a million years ago, memories can never take you home." -Moody Blues, You Can Never Go Home

"My God, the spiders are everywhere" -Kaleidoscope (the British band), In the Room of Percussion

"Roads stretch out like healthy veins, and wild gift horses strain their reins, where even Richard Nixon has got soul" -Neil Young, Campaigner

"I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from."

Bob Dylan...Not Dark Yet

from ... The Dogs of War
© 2003 (DemoTex)

Tracer rounds drifted up towards us, flashing from the big guns below. Initially, the few red-orange balls floating up – five at a time, desultorily - seemed harmless; even eerily beautiful. “When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night, and touched the sound of silence,” played the sentient masterpiece of Paul and Art. Then, as suddenly as a desert cloudburst, the anti-aircraft fire poured up in sheets. The NVA gunners were shooting payback from three guns; payback for the B-52 strikes. Payback, as the saying goes, is a motherfucker.

Twenty-four terrified and pissed-off young North Vietnamese soldiers, some probably chained to the guns, were shooting at us with inch-and-a-half explosive tracer shells, fed in five-round charger clips, with a rate-of-fire of 180 rounds-per-minute. The 37 mike-mike anti-aircraft crews tracked our Grumman Mohawk, bracketing us with thunder and lightning. “But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence,” the folk singers’ haunting lyrics addressed my darkest fears.

"As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it."

"And if you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know."

"'The sun's not yellow, it's chicken'"

"Let me tell you about your blood, bamboo kid,
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice."

The father, son and holy ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died."

Don McLean - "American Pie", 1972

from the song "Enlightenment"

This should be played at high volume
Preferably in a residential area

what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above..
Can I sail through the changing ocean's tide...
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Landslide -Stevie Nicks w/Fleetwood Mack

n/t

jimi will always be the master. nuff said.

runner up, in a whole different musical category is godsmack with a favorite line from "Serenity"

"where do we go when we just dont know,
how do we relight the flame when its cold,
why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing,
and when will we learn to control..."

third is led zeppelin stairway to heaven:
"you can always go back, but in the long run, thiers still time to change the road your on..."

ok enough babbling, no1 will probably read this anyway

-LK

and Indians in the summer
with a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps
as the adolescent pumps
his way into his hat."

from "Blinded By The Light" by Bruce Springsteen

Laura Love

i know its too late now...
but i wish i could go back in time...
and start all over somehow...
and get it right from the start...
("find your way back";jefferson starship)

and this one.....

those in the know...
say so it goes...
you plan on reaping...
you'd better sow...
plan on sleeping...
better keep moving...
sleeping aint allowed around here no more...
("cowboy junkies lament";cowboy junkies)

and edited to add this one....

so...so you think you can tell...
heaven from hell...
blue skies from pain...
can you tell a green field...
from a cold steel rail...
a smile from a veil...do you think you can tell...
did they get you to trade...
your heros for ghosts...
hot ashes for trees...
hot air for a cool breeze...
cold comfort for change...
did you exchange your walk on part in the war..
for a lead role in a cage...
("wish you were here";pink floyd)

and this former sig line....

They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you gotta ride it well
The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
("heaven and hell";black sabbath)

I like this lyric by Motorhead's The Game
"I am the game;
You don't wanna play me.
I am control,
No way you can shake me.
I am heavy debt,
No way you can pay me.
I am the pain,
And I know you can't take me."

My favorite "depressed" lyric:
Staind's Epiphany
"'Cause it's always raining in my head;
Forget all the things I should have said."

My favorite "pissed off" lyric:
Eminem's Still Don't Give a Fuck
"Cuz I still don't give a fuck; y'all can kiss my ass!"

Favorite "cruising" lyric:
Eminem Without Me
"Now this looks a job for me..
So everybody just follow me..
Cuz we need a little controversy..
Cuz it feels so empty without me .."

My favorite lyric in general:
The Happytones, I Hate Republicans
"I hate Republicans."

Tell me who’s the real patriots
The archie bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don’t make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can’t even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs

Real freedom scares you
’cos it means responsibility

So you chicken out and threaten me
-Stars and Stripes of Corruption
written by Jello Biafra

Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Eyes of the World

Right outside this lazy summer home
you don't have time to call your soul a critic, no
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home
wondering where the nuthatch winters
Wings a mile long just carried the bird away

Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the World
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own


There comes a redeemer
and he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him
that's loaded with clay
and the seeds that were silent
all burst into bloom and decay
The night comes so quiet
and it's close on the heels of the day


Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the world
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own


Sometimes we live no
particular way but our own
Sometimes we visit your country
and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses
Sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear
are just songs of our own


Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the world
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own

the rapper rakim (from "you know i got soul")tops them all with tempo/timing:
Thinking of this, you keep repeating you miss
The rhymes from the microphone soloist
And you sit by the radio, hand on the dial, soon
As you hear it, pump up the volume

he carried over 'miss...the rhymes'
and 'soon...as you hear it' it was 7 years before i realized he did that. artful, and it makes me remember those lines.

also, kool moe dee (from "i go to work"):
I came to roam
The land I own
And stand alone on the microphone
Daddy's home
Open the door playtime is over...

just clever as hell LOL

"She cries that life is like
Some movie, black and white
Dead actors faking lines..." --Hemorrage, by Fuel

"She parks her car outside of my house
Takes her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
But 'round here, she's always on my mind...." --Round Here, by Counting Crows

"And you may ask yourself, 'Am I right, or am I wrong'?
And you may say to yourself, 'My God! What have I done'?"--Beautiful House (I think) by the Talking Heads

"When the sun descended and the night arose
I heard my father cursing everyone he knows
He was dangerous and drunk, defeated and corroded
By failure and envy and hate
It was always winters and the dreams would freeze
Nowhere to hide, and no leaves on the trees
And my father's eyes were blank as he hit me again and again and again...." --Objects in the Rear View Mirror, by Meat Loaf

"If shame had a face, I think it would kinda look like mine
If it had a home, would it be my eyes?
Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this?
Here we go now, one more time....." --Sick Cycle Carousel, by Lifehouse


Bonus: my favorite Christian song

"Sometimes the night was beautiful
Sometimes the sky was so far away
Sometimes it seemed to slip so close
You could touch it, but your heart would break...
And sometimes I think of Abraham
How one star he saw had been lift for me
He was a stranger in this land
And I am that, no less than he...." --Sometimes by Step, by Rich Mullins