Favorite Lines from Favorite Songs

[not_nadine]

Spoiler

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me, as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul, as the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn........


And twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?


(Pearl Jam - Black)

 

[Autumn Gust]

I don't so much love these lines as appreciate how applicable they are to some folks I've met along the way.


You've been telling me you're a genius since you've were seventeen
In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean

Reeling in the Years, Steely Dan

 

[HollyGolightly]

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

You crack me up with your goats, sisterwife!

Spoiler

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?


(Pearl Jam - Black)

I love this! Eddie's my guy. Don't tell the Ogre.

Neesy and Autumn Gust - I love Steely Dan. Eons ago, it may have been in the 80s, I saw Chevy Chase on David Letterman and he made a comment about being the drummer in a really bad jazz band in college that eventually turned out to be Steely Dan. I've never looked on google to see if it's true - you never know with Crazy Man Chevy. But I like the story.

fljoe0 I'm a Zevon fan too - "Keep me in your heart for a while"

 

[HollyGolightly]

"Can it be that it was all so simple then, or has time rewritten every line? If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me would we? Could we?"
Makes me cry, every darn time. Like Gilda singing it as Lisa Loopner. If you've never seen Gilda Live, you really should.

 

[CriticAndProud]

"What have I become, my sweetest friend": Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (This song was NOT written by Johnny Cash)

"I wanna f**k you like an animal, my whole existence is flawed": Closer - Nine Inch Nails

"A Pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb, a pill to make you anybody else, all the drugs in this world, won't save her from herself": Marilyn Manson - Coma White

"Now I'm finding truth is a ruin, nauseous end that nobody is pursuing": Mr.Bungle - Retrovertigo

 

[Grandpa]

"It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me."

It's a ferocious song. And Alanis had one of the best album titles of all time: Jagged Little Pill.

 

[blunthead]

Still There'll Be More - Procol Harum

I'll bathe my eyes in a river of salt
I'll grow myself right up to the sky
I'll sing in the forest, tear down the trees
I'll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves

I'll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You'll cry out for mercy, still there'll be more

I'll put a blight in the orchard
I'll run wild through the fields
I'll waylay your daughter and kidnap your wife
Savage her sexless and burn out her eyes

I'll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You'll cry out for mercy, still there'll be more

I'll bathe my eyes in a river of salt
I'll grow myself right up to the sky
I'll sing in the forest, tear down the trees
I'll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves

I'll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You'll cry out for mercy, still there'll be more, still there'll be more

Just turn back and see, you'll get what's coming from me
I'll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You'll cry out for mercy, still there'll be more, still there'll be more
Mercy, mercy, mercy, still there'll be more, still there'll be more

 

[blunthead]

Piggy Pig Pig - Procol Harum

Wash yourself and see your sorrow
Make every pitcher clean
Take a mop to swab the floor
And destroy the evil dream

Counting houses full of lead
The evil eye on high
The streets awash with blood and pus
The new moon's in the sky

God's aloft, the winds are raging
God's aloft, the winds are cold

After leaving I was weeping
Count it out in tolls
Watch the book, the page is turning
How the tale unfolds

Inside every cankered specter
Inside, outside find your own
God's aloft, the winds are raging
God's aloft, the winds are cold
God's aloft, the winds are raging
God's aloft, the winds are cold

God's aloft, the winds are raging
God's aloft, the winds are cold
God's aloft, the winds are rage, raging
God's aloft, the winds are cold

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Won't let you be my god
Won't let you be my slave
What else is there left to be

Conditional- Burden Brothers

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Life goes by so fast
You only wanna do what you think is right
Close your eyes and it's past
Story of my life

Story of My Life- Social Distortion

 

[swiftdog2.0]

I want to love but it comes out wrong
I want to live but I don't belong
I close my eyes and I see
Blood and roses

Blood and Roses- Smithereens

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Free speech has been reduced to a 20% off coupon

Caged- Coaster Thieves (Yes, some shameless self-promotion)

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Well I love you so much, I love you so hard
It's like I don't have a name
And still my love is not enough
And I'm to blame

You're So Goddamn Beautiful- Burden Brothers

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Why don't you listen to me when I try to talk to you
Stop thinking of yourself for just a second, fool
Shut up, shut up, I don't wanna hear your mouth
Your mother made a monster, now get the hell out of my house

Caught In A Mosh- Anthrax

 

[swiftdog2.0]

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

Everlong- Foo Fighters

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you
She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch"


Surrender- Cheap Trick

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Everybody wants some!
I want some too, whoa
Everybody wants some! Hey hey
How 'bout you?

Everybody Wants Some- Van Halen

 

[swiftdog2.0]

1 2 3 4
Cretins wanna have some more
4 5 6 7
All dead Cretins go to heaven.....

Cretin Hop- Ramones

 

[swiftdog2.0]

In the Bible, mamma, Cain slew Abel and East of Eden, mamma, he was cast
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past
Well Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain
Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame
But you inherit the sins, you inherit the flames

Adam Raised A Cain- Bruce Springsteen

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Five in one
One in five
No one here
Gets out alive

Five in One- The Doors