Favorite Lines from songs....

[psuro]

was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

 

[demlion]

a recent favorite from Tyler Childers:
Daddy I've been trying i just can't catch a break
There's too much in this world that i can't seem to shake.
But i remember your words lord they bring me to chills.
Keep your nose on the grind stone and out of the pills.

 

[demlion]

John Prine (RIP):
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke
Blow up your t.v. throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find jesus on your own

 

[Lavar5150]

was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

Van Halen

" I heard the news baby
All about your disease
yeah, you may have all you want baby
but I got something you need
Oh Yea!
Aint talking bout love"

Classic David Lee Roth. Van Halen became my favorite band of all time

 

[Lion78]

Honey, how you've grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play
When we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree

 

[MtNittany]

Pretty easy for me. Jimmy Webb is an underrated genius

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

 

[Spydersgirl]

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.

Echoes...Pink Floyd

 

[interrobang]

Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little f*ck

 

[Spydersgirl]

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

Donald Fagen...I.G.Y.

 

[fairgambit]

If I should live forever,
and all my dreams come true.
My memories of love will be of you.

Perhaps Love written by John Denver

 

[psuro]

"She was working in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
I just kept looking at the sight of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on when the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said, "Tell me, don't I know your name?"
I muttered something underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face

I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue"

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue

 

[psufan1999797]

They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

Simon and Garfunkel - Kodachrome

Not exactly deep thoughts, but the song cheers me up.

 

[novaclassof90]

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
or is it something worse?
- the boss

 

[massimoManca II]

“she’s filing her nails as they’re dragging the lake”

 

[BVSt.Paul]

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

Tom Waits

 

[Op2]

“she’s filing her nails as they’re dragging the lake”

I was going to list a line off that same album:

"I said I'm so happy I could die /
She said 'Drop dead' and left with another guy"
--Elvis Costello "Red Shoes"

 

[Nitt1300]

When I asked her if she’d like to stay
She was down my stairs so quick
I never asked what got her started
With the sorry river tricks
So I get the bottle open
But something’s hit a nerve
And I’m looking in the mirror
At the face that I deserve

Mark Knopfler

 

[Op2]

This one works better if you hear the actual song because it strongly sets you up for the rhyme and then goes the other way at the end.

"Now you're the only one here \
Who can tell me if it's true \
That you love me \
And I love me."
--They Might Be Giants "Kiss Me, Son of God"

 

[MtNittany]

Always loved this one too:

I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind

 

[Mile High Lion]

was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

That lyric from Wish You Were Here was the first thing that came to my mind
"Running over the same old ground
What have we found? The same old fears"

"They got a name for the winners in the world
And I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues"
Deacon Blues - Steeley Dan

 

[AWS1022]

“she’s filing her nails as they’re dragging the lake”

I was thinking of the same song, but I was thinking of the line “she pulled his eyes out with a face like a magnet.”

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Chelsea Hotel No. 2 by Leonard Cohen, about his brief affair with Janis Joplin, is wonderful from beginning to end. But, the final verse really nails the bittersweet memory of fleeting romance...

I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
That's all, I don't even think of you that often

 

[Bob78]

Imo, and just from a romantic/lost love pov, here are a few of many that have always stuck with me:

But, I'd trade all of my tomorrows, for a single yesterday
To be holdin' Bobby's body next to mine
- Me And Bobby McGee (Lyrics by Kris Kristofferson/Sung by Janis Joplin)


You don't know how long I have wanted
To touch your lips and hold you tight, oh
You don't know how long I have waited
And I was going to tell you tonight
But the secret is still my own
And my love for you is still unknown
Alone
- Alone (Heart)

Well, I keep on thinkin' 'bout you, sister golden hair surprise
And I just can't live without you, can't you see it in my eyes?
I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind
- Sister Golden Hair (America)

She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
I thought you'd never say hello, she said
You look like the silent type
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And everyone of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul
From me to you
Tangled up in blue
- Tangled Up In Blue (Dylan)

I think I really dug her 'cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt." She said, "Honey, let me heal it"
- Spirit In The Night (Springsteen)

Some day, when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
- The Way You Look Tonight (Sinatra and other artists)

 

[massimoManca II]

Van Halen

" I heard the news baby
All about your disease
yeah, you may have all you want baby
but I got something you need
Oh Yea!
Aint talking bout love"

Classic David Lee Roth. Van Halen became my favorite band of all time

You know you’re semi-good looking....

Big double-take butcha keep on walkin...

Brilliant ... DLR captures the wavelengths/synapse-firings of 85% of 13-24yr old guys living in the 1970s-80s

 

[Post_ShockTherapy_MackDaddy]

was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

Closer

Nine Inch Nails


You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you
You let me complicate you
Help me
I broke apart my insides
Help me
I've got no soul to sell
Help me
The only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself
I want to fvck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to **** you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god
You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything
Help me
Tear down my reason
Help me
It's your sex I can smell
Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else
I want to **** you…

 

[kijanacat]

I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night
Billy Joel

Ezra Pound and T.S Eliott
are fighting in the captain's tower
while Calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers
Bob Dylan

The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones her face
Bob Dylan

 

[Mister Magoo]

This is a public service announcement.....with guitar!!

 

[MarkPSU]

Jackson Browne:

Don't confront me with my failures......I had not forgotten them.

 

[Op2]

"The more you know you know you don't know sh*t" --Ben Folds song "Bastard"

 

[Little J]

But of all the honored idols, there's but one that stands the test,
It's the stately Nittany Lion, the symbol of our best

 

[Bob78]

Closer

Nine Inch Nails


You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you
You let me complicate you
Help me
I broke apart my insides
Help me
I've got no soul to sell
Help me
The only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself
I want to fvck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to **** you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god
You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything
Help me
Tear down my reason
Help me
It's your sex I can smell
Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else
I want to **** you…

Well, if you're just going to choose everyone's favorite first dance wedding song....

 

[Steve G]

was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

Ten years ago, I walked this street my dreams were riding tall
Tonight I would be thankful Lord, for any dream at all.
Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true
But everything you gather is just more that you can lose.

 

[Op2]

Here's another line from that same Ben Folds song, "Bastard," that is especially appropriate today.

"Why ya gotta act like you know when you don't know? \
It's okay if you don't know everything."

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Fiona Apple, Valentine:

It's all I'll do 'cause I'm not free
A fugitive too dull to flee
I'm amorous but out of reach
A still life drawing of a peach

 

[Chickenman Testa]

“she’s filing her nails as they’re dragging the lake”

“Broken noses hung up on the wall, back slapping drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl, so punch drunk they don’t understand at all. You better watch your step”

 

[Bob78]

"She was working in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
I just kept looking at the sight of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on when the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said, "Tell me, don't I know your name?"
I muttered something underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face

I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue"

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue

Funny how we chose different verses from that same great song. One of my all-time Top # faves.

 

[psu1969a]

Richard Harris's MacArthur's Park
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no

Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, wo wo wo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
'Joltin Joe' has left and gone away, hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

 

[wex18]

We busted out of class had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school
"No Surrender," Springsteen

 

[psuro]

Funny how we chose different verses from that same great song. One of my all-time Top # faves.

Here is something you might enjoy. Deciphering the meaning of the lyrics. It’s a phenomenal song.

 

[Op2]

“Broken noses hung up on the wall, back slapping drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl, so punch drunk they don’t understand at all. You better watch your step”

"Two little Hitlers will fight it out until \
One little Hitler does the other one's will"
--Elvis Costello "Two Little Hitlers" But Nick Lowe wrote that song.