Gilliangirl Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 This week or since forever! I played I know You Rider tonight over and over, til my fingers hurt. It's one of my all-time favourite songs. I absolutely love the line(s): "I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain" That produces such a visual image for me. I can see the pitch blackness and the subtle outline of evergreen trees in the background from the solitary light of the train. The rain is just a slight drizzling mist, illuminated by the lone light, as the train forges on through the night. Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honky Dog Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Good idea for a thread, Karen. I can think of quite a few, but I've always loved the first verse to "Cold Autumn Sunday" by my friend Ken Hensley: When the leaving birds fill the stone-grey sky And the green leaves turn away and die And the once-warm sun has to run and hide And the winter clouds begin their stormy ride Cold black shadows cross my eyes And help to make me realise You've gone O cold autumn Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnt Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long the winter looked the same as it never had gone and through an open window where no curtain hung I saw you......I saw you Coming back to me Marty Balin , Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcorner Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 From the Pretenders' 1979 self-titled album, contained in the song Tattooed Love Boys: " I shot my mouth off, and you showed me what that hole was for." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vourot Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 " Welcome to my life Tatoo, I'm a man now thanks to you. I suspect I'll regret you, with a skin graft i won't get you, be there when I die........ Tatooooooooooo....." The Who Live at Leeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadgrateful Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "My mother and I Never went out Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out Or to escape the pain We only went out when it rained" Rocket Man by Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitric Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "Beauty walks a razor's edge, Someday I'll make it mine" Bob Dylan www.myspace.com/brendevereux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_Engr Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "Have You Heard" - Moody Blues, Threshold of a Dream Now you know that you are real Show your friends that you and me Belong to the same world Turned on to the same word Have you heard? Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Two of my favourites: "Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/and the only words that are worth remembering" ('Nothin'', Townes Van Zandt) "Through the lemon trees, the diamonds of light break in splinters, on the pages where I write/that if I lost you, I don't know what I'd do/just burn forever" ('Flame Turns Blue', David Gray) This could go on forever, those are just the first two that came to mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 This is the song about a rose or perhaps it's the song about the shadow of a rose in the mornining the apple sellers congregate on corners of their own but you and I we sing our song about a rose or perhaps the shadow of a rose Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) ........................ once more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lee Walker Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 There’s a road to heaven for every soul on earth Lord I believe that for what it's worth So Lord if you're listening I’m east of Mobile Rolling down highway 10 with the devil behind the wheel - Chris Knight 'Devil Behind The Wheel' Some folks say if you keep rolling And you keep it on the yellow line It'll take you to the big highway But there's a toll to pay, if your going The keeper at the gate is blind So you better be prepared to pay - Steve Earle 'Nowhere Road' Agree with Jinder, this could go on forever. Got road songs on my mind this morning because...I'm on the road;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumps Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Two immediately come to mind: when the rooster crows at the break of dawn look out that window and I'll be gone you're the reason I'm traveling on don't think twice it's alright - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright. Bob Dylan I wish I was the brakeman on a hurtlin' fevered train crashing headlong into the heartland like a cannon in the rain with the beating of the sleepers and the burning of the coal counting towns flashing by me in a night that's full of soul with light in my head, and you in my arms - Fisherman's Blues, The Waterboys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "He said 'I'll love you 'till I die.' She told him 'You'll forget in time.' As the years went slowly by, She still preyed upon his mind." (I guess I like my music sort of simple and straightforward. So the audience won't get lost. If I want stuff to think about - provide me with insight... I prefer lyrics without music. AKA poetry. "Sonnets From The Portuges" would suffer if accompanied by D, A7 and greasy G. IMHO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "She blew my nose and then she blew my mind" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 I couldn't settle on just one verse so... Well there's gonna be a freakers ball Tonight at the freakers hall And you know, you're invited one and all Come on babies grease your lips Grab your hats and swing your hips Don't forget to bring your whips We're going to the freakers ball Blow your whistle and bang your gong Roll up something to take along It feels so good it must be wrong We're freakin at the freakers ball Where all the fags and the dykes they're boogyin' together The leather freaks are dressed in all kinds of leather The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too Screaming "Please hit me, and I'll hit you" The FBI are dancing with the junkies All the straights, are swinging with the funkies Across the floor and up the wall We're freakin at the freakers ball Yall, we're freakin at the freakers ball Everybody's kissing each other Brother with sister, son with mother Smear my body up with butter Take me to the freakers ball Pass that roach please and pour the wine I'll kiss yours if you'll kiss mine I'm gonna boogie till i go blind We're freakin at the freakers ball White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones The greatest of the sadist and the masochists too Screaming "Please hit me, and I'll hit you" Everybody's ballin' in batches Pyromaniacs striking matches I'm gonna itch me where it scratches Freaking at the freakers ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWilson Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Jamey Johnson - album - " That Lonesome Song" song - The High Cost of Livin' "That Southern Baptist parking lot was where I'd go to smoke my pot and sit there in my pickup truck and pray. And staring at that giant cross just reminded me that I was lost and it just never seemed to point the way. As soon as Jesus turned his back I'd find my way across the tracks looking just to score another deal. With my back against that damned eight-ball I didn't have to think or talk..........................or feel." "My whole life went through my head, laying in that motel bed watching as the cops kicked in the door. I had a job and a piece of land and my sweet wife was my best friend but I traded that for cocaine and a whore." "The high cost of livin' aint nothin' like the cost of livin' high." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rar Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 It's hard to narrow this down, but I can tell you one favorite that leapt to mind. Well, more or less tell you, after I set it up a bit. It's from a hi-larious song "H-A-T-R-E-D" by Tonio K that starts off calmly enough, in acoustic-singer-songwritery mode I know it's not unusual It's nothing so unique There's probably hundreds of wonderful love affairs That go bad in this town every week [spoken:] It's a big town! But all of them others Those sad hearted lovers They cry in their beers with the pain It didn't concern me Was none of my business I never had nothin' to say But suddenly, Darlin' The table has turned You have left me for somebody new And now it's hard to express The resentment I feel For the years that I've wasted on you But then he gets a tad worked up -- Let me put this another way, okay? -- and goes electric, which eventually leads to the screamed Great Line: I wish I was a mellow As, for instance, Jackson Browne But "Fountain of Sorrow" my a**, m*****f***er I hope you wind up in the ground!! His record company was convinced this song would be a huge hit if he'd just change that one word so it could get some radio airplay. But he wouldn't. -- Bob R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchabalk Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 don't follow leaders; watch the parking meetaws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nid2007 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Jackson Browne's "These Days", 2 lines: "Now if I seem to be afraid to live the life I have made in song, well it's just that I've been losing so long" "Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "There's a tree down South." from "Everything" Double Aught. (cdbaby.com) Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fezo Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 These are great! I've had this thing for John Hartford's Steamboat Whistle Blues, "Well the city's grown up where it looks all square Like a crossword puzzle on the landscape Looks like an electric shaver now Where the courthouse used to be."..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 the pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles Mr. D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year" - Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon "Beautiful Boy" "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make" - The Beatles "The End" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWilson Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Karen GG - Which version of "I Know You Rider" do you like best? I didn't recognize the title and got Joan Baez singing it in 1960 on youtube. Kind of like Pavoratti singing "Louie, Louie." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 Sorry I've been vacant from this thread most of the day.... I've got a nasty headcold, yuck. Woke up with it this morning. I'm sure enjoying reading these entries, tho'. Terry, I heard Joan Baez's version and agree. The song (according to Wiki) is a 'traditional woman's blues song'. Joan Baez is not doing it bluesy enough for me. My fav version is Jorma's, but the version I play is this guy's. I've got his arrangement nailed down note for note, and I just love playing it! Oh, where's the Kleenex..... boohoo....... sniff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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