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OT: No Poll - Just post your favorite/most memorable song lyrics line...

Man I remember when her eyes used to be so blue and shiny,
You ought to see what happened to her hiney!
It’s big enough to land a small plane on!
She wants to get frisky, but these days it’s just too risky,
It’s hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long!
The Notorious Cherry Bombs
 
I just heard this one. Always loved the way Greg Allman delivered this song, "Wasted Words."

Well, I ain't no saint and you sure as hell ain't no savior,
Every other Christmas I would practice good behavior.
That was then, this is now, don't ask me to be Mister Clean,
'cause baby, I don't know how.
 
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I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance, selling each romance
Ooh, what they say

There will come a day when youth will pass away
What will they say about me?
When the end comes, I know
It was just a gigolo
Life goes on without me
 
Joni Mitchell’s song to break up with Crosby. Croz says he found out about Joni dumping him by listening to this song.

I met you on a midway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear
You were playin' on the horses
You were playin' on the guitar strings
You were playin' like a devil wearin' wings
Wearin' wings, you looked so grand wearin' wings
Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing?
Can you fly? I heard you can. Can you fly?
Like an eagle doin' your huntin' from the sky
I followed with the sideshows to another town
And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds
You were betting on some lover
You were shaking up the dice
And I thought I saw you cheatin' once or twice
Once or twice, I heard your bid once or twice
Were you wonderin', "Was the gamble worth the price?"
Pack it in, I heard you did, pack it in
Was it hard to fold a hand you knew could win?
So lately you've been hidin'
It was somewhere in the news
And I'm still at these races with my ticket stubs and my blues
And a voice calls out the numbers
And it sometimes mentions mine
And I feel like I've been workin' overtime
Overtime, I've lost my fire overtime
Always playin' one more hand for one more dime
Slowin' down, I'm gettin' tired, slowin' down
And I envy you the valley that you've found
'Cause I'm midway down the midway
Slowin' down, down, down, down
 
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"As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." Song - Africa. Just because I am amazed anyone could fit those words into a song lyric.
How about “Two broken tigers on fire in the night. Flicker their souls to the wind”. Al Stewart: Roads to Moscow.
 
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"Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please, Mrs. Avery, I just want to tell her goodbye"
 
Ah, push it, push it real good. Ah, push it. Push it real good.
 
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game.

Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
 
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Sam Stone came home
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served
Had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
John Prine - Sam Stone
 
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game.

Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
Love Joni. Best lyricist and musician ever.
 
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You think you're not worthy
I'd have to say I agree
I'm not worthy of you
You're not worthy of me
Which of us is deserving
Look at the human race
The whole planet at arm's length
And we don't deserve this place
 
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Love Joni. Best lyricist and musician ever.
Agree. I’ll post these from Urge for Going:


And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in
Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying and all that lives is getting out
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go
They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in.

Who uses “chevron flight” in a song lyric? It’s brilliant. My wife and I always use that phrase now when watching birds fly in formation. It’s become part of our lexicon.
 
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I know you've loved before
Don't pretend I'm first
I've been on either side of letting someone down and
I don't know which one's worse
I lay down
Just to see what you would feel like next to me
I know now
Too much of anything is poison
And it's laced upon your lips
But the cure is in the venom so I keep on coming back
My soul is stained with your poison
Lies linger off your lips
Your toxin takes its time to settle in
When you said how much my skin reminded you of home
Your tongue seemed to numb my sins
I laid down
All my walls so you could lay here next to me
I know now
Too much of anything is poison
And it's laced upon your lips
But the cure is in the venom so I keep on coming back
My soul is stained with your poison
Your lips are poison baby
Your love is poison baby
Your lips are poison and I love the way it hurts oh
Your lips are poison baby
Your love is poison baby
Your lips are poison and I swear I'll never learn no
 
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Agree. I’ll post these from Urge for Going:


And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in
Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying and all that lives is getting out
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go
They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in.

Who uses “chevron flight” in a song lyric? It’s brilliant. My wife and I always use that phrase now when watching birds fly in formation. It’s become part of our lexicon.
Brilliant is god damn right!!!
 
You're naturally perverse. You ain't even gotta rehearse. You're such a bastard.

Cool groove in this one:
 
She sat with a baby heavy on her knee
and spoke of life most free from slavery
 
Avicii... foreshadowing perhaps?

He said: "One day you'll leave this world behind
So live a life you will remember"
My father told me when I was just a child
"These are the nights that never die"
 
*talking*
Oh my god
Becky, look at her butt
Its so big
She looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends

*rap*
I like big butts and I can not lie
 
My Morning Jacket song Into The Woods, perhaps written with BobPSU92 in mind? :rolleyes:


A good shower head and my right hand
The two best lovers that I ever had
Now if you find you agree with what I just said
You'd better find a new love
And let 'em into your head
 
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