Matt the Cat Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I'm posting this without reading all the others, so apologies if someones beaten me to it! "Too young to hold on, too old to just break free and run" Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbg63 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ships smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin. Comfortably Numb.....Pink Floyd=d> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Cat Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Any line from Brand New Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat! It's fantastic start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerpopper Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 One of my recent favorites by one of our own forum members (what a great f'in song): Gonna ride a pullman train Gonna find myself again Goin' where the music suits my clothes Goin' where there's steel guitars Pretty girls and whiskey bars Goin' where the lonesome rivers flow I'm going home "Hazel County" by Jinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 How about "It balances on your head/just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine/your brand new leopard skin pill box hat!" I am loving me a bit of Dylan right now. Whoo, yeah! "He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet" another of my favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPDEN Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Among some of the more deep reaching lyrics ever written... In my life; written by John Lennon Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life I love you more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR GIBS Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, all your money won't another minute buy Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind So wise... So concise...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadgrateful Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Wow 3 pages and (I think) no Cohen lyrics... "And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said all men shall be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 "And while he talks his dreams to sleep, you'll notice there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder" I actually got goosebumps just typing that out. Cohen is definitely among the finest living lyricists today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 One of my recent favorites by one of our own forum members (what a great f'in song): Gonna ride a pullman train Gonna find myself again Goin' where the music suits my clothes Goin' where there's steel guitars Pretty girls and whiskey bars Goin' where the lonesome rivers flow I'm going home "Hazel County" by Jinder Powerpopper, thankyou! I totally missed your post the first time around, and only just saw it. I'm glad you enjoyed the song, it's one that tends to get overlooked a bit, but it is one that I'm proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honky Dog Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 What a fun thread. The only problem is there are so many lines that are great. From the standpoint of painting a picture, I've always loved the line by my friend Ken Hensley from "Cold Autumn Sunday" 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Any line from "Harry's House" by Joni Mitchell, but Verse 2 is my favorite: He opens up his suitcase In the continental suite And people twenty stories down Colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the pan am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb And business men in button downs Press into conference rooms Battalions of paper-minded males Talking commodities and sales While at home their paper wives And paper kids Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid ---------------------------------------------------------- I love the metaphorical imagery by Lucinda Williams from "Right in Time" Not a day goes by I don't think about you You left your mark on me it's permanent a tattoo Pierce the skin and the blood runs through Oh my baby ---------------------------------------------------------- I'm a big fan of Leonard Cohen, also, so from "Deomocracy" It's coming from the sorrow in the street, the holy places where the races meet; from the homicidal *****in' that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat. From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray for the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. And my favorite line from the same song: It's coming to America first, the cradle of the best and of the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff5341 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 This line really puts a lump in my throat, I always have a hard time singing this song: And the old man walks up to the hilltop And gives her a daisy a day Judd Strunk "Daisy a Day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 The blues: "bury my body by the highway side, so my old evil spirit can catch that bus and ride. Me & the Devil Blues Woody G (so apt): some rob you with a six gun, some with a fountain pen" Pretty Boy Flyodd Black humor from Steve Earle, re a border killing "he shot him in Virginia, and he died in Tennessee" Carrie Brown So many. Good topic, GG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinNoName Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Yeah, great topic - the line that sprung to me is "scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far" from "Name" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randal_S Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 And I'm driving a stolen car through a pitch black night I keep telling myself everything is gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear no matter what I do, or where I drive Nobody ever sees me when I ride by Bruce Springsteen- Stolen Car Waves of adverts that promise revival Trinketware that batters the brain The Devil bought the key to Branson Drives a backhoe and wears a gold chain Jay Farrar- Barstow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honky Dog Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Jinder, that's a cool avatar. Who is that scruffy dude, anyway? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeh1 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 "I know a guy he's kinda confused got mucsles in his head ain't never been used" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 "There's a hole in Daddys arm where all the money goes." John Prine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 These 2 arent poetical, exactly, but I get chicken skin when I sing em. Shake Sugaree's a good un, too. It's on my current hit parade. "Delia, Delia, never took advice. last words she said was--Jesus Chrirst" Willie McTell "In a lonesome graveyard low, nothing but a Talco girl, sayin' goodbye daddy, saying hello world. Steve James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_Engr Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 "He earned his love through discipline, a thund'ring velvet hand" Beautiful, inspiring song. Leader or the Band - Dan Fogelberg RIP 2007 Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnt Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Unless my eyes decive no Jim Morrison...until now For the music is your special friend Dance on fire as it intends music is your only friend until the end, until the end, until the end Cancel my subscription to the resurrection, Send my credentials to the house of detention, I got some friends inside The face in the mirror won't stop The girl in the window won't drop A feast of friends alive she cried, Waiting for me outside Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear I want to hear the scream of the butterfly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honky Dog Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 "I know a guy he's kinda confusedgot mucsles in his head ain't never been used" I resemble that remark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibsonGuy Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 "Little lady got mutilated late last night! from the late, great Warren Zevon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Jinder' date=' that's a cool avatar. Who is that scruffy dude, anyway? ;-) [/quote'] Lol...he's just some hairy fiend! I have admired Chris Whitley's lyrics for a long time. I was gutted when I found out he had passed away in 2005. This is a favourite "A long trail of lovers came out of the prison it becomes a matter of habit after the season and the distances mirror the witnesses gone I'll see you there at the Hotel Vast Horizon" (from 'Hotel Vast Horizon') As is this: "I come back here sometimes angels fall, fireflies ascend out beyond the aching skyline reckless distances erupt in intoxication between the hard and soft of our evaporations Where we stand aloft at the vertical desert in the curved air of collapse and creation the ballast of chaos and gravity's liberations" (from 'Vertical Desert') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Shes' got freckles on her but, she is nice And when I hold her in my arms it's paradise unk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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