Favorite Lines from Favorite Songs

[KingAHolic]

What's yours?

I've got a kazillion so will start alphabetically...

"Tell me how it is that you can sleep, in the night, without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice" (Aerosmith - What It Takes)

 

[GNTLGNT]

There was no help, no help from you
Sound of the drums
Beating in my heart
The thunder of guns
Tore me apart
You've been
Thunderstruck
....AC/DC

 

[fljoe0]

She really worked me over good
She was a credit to her gender
She put me through some changes, Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender

Warren Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me

 

[KingAHolic]

There was no help, no help from you
Sound of the drums
Beating in my heart
The thunder of guns
Tore me apart
You've been
Thunderstruck
....AC/DC

.... very awesome tune!

 

[KingAHolic]

She really worked me over good
She was a credit to her gender
She put me through some changes, Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender

Warren Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me

.... another great tune!

 

[KingAHolic]

"She's leaving home after living alone for so many years...."

(She's Leaving Home - The Beatles)

 

[fljoe0]

Warren Zevon again from "Mr. Bad Example"

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth
I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross

 

[Grandpa]

A couple come to mind.

"So were are told this is the golden age. And gold is the reason for the wars we wage."

And

"The child has grown; the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb."

I'm sure if I put my mind to it, I could come up with something positive.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again

(Aerosmith)

 

[KingAHolic]

A couple come to mind.

"So were are told this is the golden age. And gold is the reason for the wars we wage."

And

"The child has grown; the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb."

I'm sure if I put my mind to it, I could come up with something positive.

"Comfortably Numb" forever classic.... entire song (and the entire Wall album) just perfect!

 

[KingAHolic]

I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again

(Aerosmith)

wow you all like songs I like! Was worried I wouldn't recognize them! Rocks and Toys In the Attic are my favorite Aerosmith albums.... (Pump and Permanent Vacation are great also!)

 

[Dana Jean]

"I have a happy baby goat he loves to bounce with me..."

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter
Some day, yeah
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done


Well he's not very handsome to look at
Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog
And he's always killin' my chickens
That dirty old egg-suckin' dog


Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere
Get yourself in a bind, lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare

This is where the rubber meets the road
This is where the cream is gonna rise
This is what you really didn't know
This is where the truth don't lie

 

[Neesy]

Learn to work the saxaphone
I play just what I feel

Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
and die behind the wheel

Steely Dan "Deacon Blues"

 

[not_nadine]

The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me



All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

 

[not_nadine]

"Baby can you dig your man?"
"He's a righteous man"

(Larry Underwood)

 

[Grandpa]

I carry the dust of a journey that cannot be shaken away. It lives deep within me, for I breathe it every day.

You and I are yesterday's answers, the dust of the past come to flesh; eroded by time's river to the shapes we now possess.

 

[AchtungBaby]

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief / All kill their inspiration, and sing about the grief."

-- U2 - The Fly

 

[GNTLGNT]

Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind
That's running wild
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairly tales

That's all she ever thinks about

Riding the wind

When I'm sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free

It's alright, she says
It's alright
Take anything you want from me
Anything

Fly on, little wing....Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix(a personal favorite)

 

[Grandpa]

Morning fields of amber grain, weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Actually, the whole song, "Vincent," by Don McLean. It's beautiful, poignant, and not a wasted line in there.