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Favorite Line From A Song (Original Post) JimGinPA Sep 2017 OP
"Hit me in the head with a Harley chain." Sneederbunk Sep 2017 #1
once upon a time i loved this house, now i'm thinkin bout burnin it down. mopinko Sep 2017 #2
All these lines. Very sexy rainy Sep 2017 #3
We are but a moments sunlight, Shibainu Sep 2017 #4
Most beautiful lines: rainy Sep 2017 #5
"Sittin' there on that sack of seeds!" Permanut Sep 2017 #6
"Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there, with open arms and open eyes" from Drive by Incubus FM123 Sep 2017 #7
Beck, "Loser": "In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey" shenmue Sep 2017 #8
One of mine...from "Up to me" Bob Dylan Docreed2003 Sep 2017 #9
From 'Positively 4th Street' JimGinPA Sep 2017 #10
Great one too! There's so many to choose from with Dylan. Docreed2003 Sep 2017 #14
From "Tom Ames' Prayer" by Steve Earle argyl Sep 2017 #11
The Last Resort--The Eagles Bayard Sep 2017 #12
"Live and die let it be done!" from a Pearl Jam song. mucifer Sep 2017 #13
Warren Zevon, from "Poor Poor Pitiful Me": OilemFirchen Sep 2017 #15
Once, on a high and windy hill Iggo Sep 2017 #16
Fall to your knees and repent if you please. Iggo Sep 2017 #17
This: The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #18
'...do the Watusi, the Peppermint Twist, do the Mashed Potatoe...do it like this, just do the Swim.. Tikki Sep 2017 #19
Jefferson Airplane...Crown of Creation... GReedDiamond Sep 2017 #20
Joni Mitchell- Trouble Child Doc_Technical Sep 2017 #21
Silvio by Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter LuckyCharms Sep 2017 #22
Fuck you. We do what we want. Iggo Sep 2017 #23

rainy

(6,091 posts)
3. All these lines. Very sexy
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 09:48 PM
Sep 2017
https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tmsvvwwtntq3wdauurui4d2c3eu?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics&u=0#


Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

Do you feel what I feel
Can we make that so it's part of the deal
I gotta hold you in these arms of steel
Lay your heart on the line this time

I want to breathe when you breathe
When you whisper like that hot summer breeze
Count the beads of sweat that cover me
Didn't you show me a sign this time

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

Can you see what I see
Can you cut behind the mystery
I will meet you by the witness tree
Leave the whole world behind

I want to come when you call
I'll get to you if I have to crawl
They can't hold me with these iron walls
We've got mountains to climb

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

Turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around

Written by Daniel John O'donoghue, Mark Anthony Sheehan • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group

rainy

(6,091 posts)
5. Most beautiful lines:
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 09:53 PM
Sep 2017
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sleepingatlast/saturn.html


"Saturn"

You taught me the courage of stars before you left.
How light carries on endlessly, even after death.
With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite.
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.

I couldn’t help but ask
For you to say it all again.
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen.
I’d give anything to hear
You say it one more time,
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes.

I couldn’t help but ask
For you to say it all again.
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen.
I’d give anything to hear
You say it one more time,
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes.

With shortness of breath, I’ll explain the infinite
How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist.





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Permanut

(5,602 posts)
6. "Sittin' there on that sack of seeds!"
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 09:54 PM
Sep 2017

"Wildwood Weed"



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Written by DON BOWMAN, JIM STAFFORD.

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
9. One of mine...from "Up to me" Bob Dylan
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:19 PM
Sep 2017

"If I'd thought about it I never would've done it
I guess I would've let it slide
If I'd-a paid attention to what others were thinkin'
The heart inside me would've died
But I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
Someone had to reach for the risin' star
I guess it was up to me"

JimGinPA

(14,811 posts)
10. From 'Positively 4th Street'
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:22 PM
Sep 2017

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you"

Love that one too.

argyl

(3,064 posts)
11. From "Tom Ames' Prayer" by Steve Earle
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:35 PM
Sep 2017

" Yeah but who in the hell I talking to
There ain't no one here but me
Then he cocked both his pistols
And he spit in the dirt
And he walked out in the street"

Bayard

(22,061 posts)
12. The Last Resort--The Eagles
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 11:24 PM
Sep 2017

"The Last Resort"

She came from Providence,
the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams
like a refugee
Just as her father came across the sea

She heard about a place people were smilin'
They spoke about the red man's way,
how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or a place to hide

Down in the crowded bars,
out for a good time,
Can't wait to tell you all,
what it's like up there
And they called it paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
through the canyons of the coast,
to the Malibu
Where the pretty people play,
hungry for power
to light their neon way
give them things to do

Some rich men came and raped the land,
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes,
and Jesus people bought 'em
'nd they called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
just like the missionaries did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign: "Jesus is coming"
Brought the white man's burden down
Brought the white man's reign

Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here

We satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny
and in the name of God

And you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it's like up there
They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye





OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
15. Warren Zevon, from "Poor Poor Pitiful Me":
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:12 AM
Sep 2017
Well, I met a girl at the Rainbow bar
She asked me if I'd beat her
She took me back to the Hyatt House
I don't want to talk about it.

A very close second, from "Desperados Under the Eaves":

And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,679 posts)
18. This:
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:44 AM
Sep 2017


The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies.
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love.
And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last till the end of time, my love.

Tikki

(14,557 posts)
19. '...do the Watusi, the Peppermint Twist, do the Mashed Potatoe...do it like this, just do the Swim..
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:34 AM
Sep 2017

Alligator, do the Pony... like Boney Maroney...do the fa fa fa fa Freddy, Freddy....'

"Let Go'... The Plugs



Tikki

GReedDiamond

(5,311 posts)
20. Jefferson Airplane...Crown of Creation...
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 02:15 AM
Sep 2017
Life is change.
How it differs from the rocks.
I've seen their ways too often for my liking.
New worlds to gain.
My life is to survive and be alive for you.


Doc_Technical

(3,526 posts)
21. Joni Mitchell- Trouble Child
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 03:14 AM
Sep 2017

So what are you going to do about it
You can't live life and you can't leave it
Advice and religion, you can't take it
You can't seem to believe it
The peacock is afraid to parade
You're under the thumb of the maid
You really can't give love in this condition
Still you know how you need it

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
22. Silvio by Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 04:30 AM
Sep 2017

Stake my future on a hell of a past
Looks like tomorrow is a coming on fast
Ain't complaining about what I got
Seen better times but who has not

Silvio silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know

Honest as the next jade rolling that stone
When I come and knockin' don't throw me no bone
I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home
If you don't like it you can leave me alone

I can snap my fingers and require the rain
From a clear blue sky and turn it off again
I can stroke your body and relieve your pain
And charm the whistle off an evening train

Silvio silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know

Give what I got until I got no more
I take what I get until I even the score
You know I love you and further more
When it is time to go you got an open door

I can tell you fancy I can tell you plain
You give something up for everything you gain
Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain
Pay for your ticket and don't complain

Silvio silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know

One of these days and it won't be long
Going down the valley and sing my song
Gonna sing it loud and sing it strong
Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong

Silvio silver and gold
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something only dead men know

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