Favorite Line from a song
04-11-19, 03:29 PM
#26
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
Heard this today and thought of this thread. I have no idea if this is an original line or not but I like it...
"Closing Time" by Semisonic
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
"Closing Time" by Semisonic
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
04-11-19, 04:00 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"
- "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" by They Might Be Giants
- "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" by They Might Be Giants
04-11-19, 04:56 PM
#29
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
Bruce Cockburn's "Pacing the Cage":
I've proven who I am so many times,
The magnetic strip's worn thin.
I've proven who I am so many times,
The magnetic strip's worn thin.
04-13-19, 09:33 PM
#30
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Another Cockburn song, arguably his best, "Call it Democracy", is just bursting from beginning to end with great, acerbic lines, borne of Cockburn's fury at international politics. The song was written in the mid-'80s, but, although some of the actors have changed, much of it unfortunately remains current.
Spoiler:
04-14-19, 12:25 AM
#31
Re: Favorite Line from a song
crash test dummies - superman's song. this song is like crack to a superhero fan, and hard to love only one lines...
Tarzan wasn't a ladies man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em
Up under his arm like that
Quick as a cat, in the jungle
Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no jungle scape
Dumb as an ape, doin' nothing
Tarzan wasn't a ladies man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em
Up under his arm like that
Quick as a cat, in the jungle
Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no jungle scape
Dumb as an ape, doin' nothing
04-16-19, 10:08 AM
#33
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
"Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything." Bruce Springsteen, "Badlands"
04-16-19, 08:24 PM
#34
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^Yeah, good one. Oddly enough, I think "Badlands" is one of Springsteen's overlooked great songs. It doesn't get its due. It's in his top-10, no doubt.
04-17-19, 10:47 AM
#35
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
"My friends say she's a dumb blonde, but they don't know she dyes her hair"
Airhead by Thomas Dolby
Airhead by Thomas Dolby
04-17-19, 12:07 PM
#36
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And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make
- The End by The Beatles
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
- Africa by Toto
And if you don't make room in your backpack for the devil
You'll have the weight of the world lifted off your shoulders too
- No Diablo by Umphrey's McGee
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make
- The End by The Beatles
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
- Africa by Toto
And if you don't make room in your backpack for the devil
You'll have the weight of the world lifted off your shoulders too
- No Diablo by Umphrey's McGee
04-17-19, 06:30 PM
#38
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
"I hear you've got a new girlfriend...how's the wife taking it?" - Prefab Sprout, "Moving the River"
And another two from Prefab Sprout, these from "Appetite":
"Here she is with two small problems, and the best part of the blame
Wishing she could call him Heartache, but it's not a boy's name."
"If your eyes are wanting all you see, then I think I'll name you after me; I think I'll call you Appetite."
One that often makes my eyes a little damp:
"I will bear my cross; I will bear your cross, too.
I will pine forever. I will torch on for you.
I will carry my torch for you." - Todd Rundgren, "Torch Song"
And lastly, just about the most romantic single line I've ever heard, from SMLE's "Halo":
"Let's go somewhere and never come back."
And another two from Prefab Sprout, these from "Appetite":
"Here she is with two small problems, and the best part of the blame
Wishing she could call him Heartache, but it's not a boy's name."
"If your eyes are wanting all you see, then I think I'll name you after me; I think I'll call you Appetite."
One that often makes my eyes a little damp:
"I will bear my cross; I will bear your cross, too.
I will pine forever. I will torch on for you.
I will carry my torch for you." - Todd Rundgren, "Torch Song"
And lastly, just about the most romantic single line I've ever heard, from SMLE's "Halo":
"Let's go somewhere and never come back."
04-20-19, 11:24 PM
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The band Too Much Joy has tons of great lines. I'll definitely post more, but one of my favorites:
"She's so beautiful, I'd sleep with her brother"
-King of Beers
"She's so beautiful, I'd sleep with her brother"
-King of Beers
04-21-19, 04:21 PM
#41
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Pretty much every line from "Time" by Pink Floyd:
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then, one day, you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
So you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then, one day, you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
So you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
04-22-19, 12:54 PM
#42
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I love double entendres
"My assets froze while yours have dropped"
Squeeze, Is That Love?
"My assets froze while yours have dropped"
Squeeze, Is That Love?
04-22-19, 01:14 PM
#43
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Re: Favorite Line from a song
Saw Of Montreal again last night and they have another great one.
Maybe I love you like I love myself
Not a lot
Maybe I love you like I love myself
Not a lot
05-02-19, 09:57 AM
#44
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I know a girl from a lonely street, cold as ice cream but still as sweet
Blondie, Sunday Girl
Blondie, Sunday Girl
05-02-19, 10:58 AM
#45
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... he points to the sky,
Saying, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken."
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
The first time I heard that line it made me laugh out loud. It still makes me smile.
Saying, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken."
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
The first time I heard that line it made me laugh out loud. It still makes me smile.
Last edited by Nick Danger; 05-02-19 at 11:29 AM.
05-02-19, 02:31 PM
#47
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oof. I dunno. If we keep hitting the "so bad it's good lyrics", we'll see a lot of Steve Miller talking about a "pompatus" and "what the facts is"
