Favorite Lines from Favorite Songs

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blunthead

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Your multilingual business friend
Has packed her bags and fled
Leaving only ash-filled ashtrays
And the lipsticked unmade bed
The mirror on reflection
Has climbed back upon the wall
For the floor she found descended
And the ceiling was too tall

Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You'd better take off your homburg
'Cause your overcoat is too long

The town clock in the market square
Stands waiting for the hour
When its hands they both turn backwards
And on meeting will devour
Both themselves and also any fool
Who dares to tell the time
And the sun and moon will shatter
And the signposts cease to sign

Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You'd better take off your homburg
'Cause your overcoat is too long

"Homburg" - Procol Harum
 

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All hands on deck, we've run a float,
I heard the Captain cry.
Explore the ship, replace the cook,
Let no one leave alive.
Across the straits, around the horn,
How far can sailors fly?
A twisted path, our tortured course,
And no one left alive.

We sailed for parts unknown to man,
Where ships come home to die.
No lofty peak, nor fortress bold,
Could match our captain's eye.
Upon the seventh seasick day,
We made our port of call.
A sand so white, and sea so blue,
No mortal place at all.

We fired the guns, and burned the mast,
And rowed from ship to shore.
The captain cried, we sailors wept,
Our tears were tears of joy!
Now many moons and many Junes,
Have passed since we made land.
A Salty Dog, the seaman's log,
Your witness, my own hand.

"A Salty Dog" - Procol Harum
 

KingAHolic

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In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

(Roundabout - YES)
 

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"Owner Of A Lonely Heart"

Move yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser

See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you - and that's the only way

Shake - shake yourself
You're every move you make
So the story goes

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than - a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Say - you don't want to chance it
You've been hurt so before

Watch it now
The eagle in the sky
How he dancin' one and only
You - lose yourself
No not for pity's sake
There's no real reason to be lonely
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than - a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart

After my own decision
They confused me so
My love said never question your will at all
In the end you've got to go
Look before you leap
And don't you hesitate at all - no no
Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than - a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart
[repeat]

Owner of a lonely heart

Sooner or later each conclusion
Will decide the lonely heart
It will excite it will delight
It will give a better start

Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart

Don't deceive your free will at all
Don't deceive your free will at all
Don't deceive your free will at all
Just receive it

- Yes
 

EMARX

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I can see her lyin back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess

Sundown you better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs

Gordon Lightfoot
 

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The monkeys stand for honesty
Giraffes are insincere
The elephants are kindly but they're dumb
Orangutangs are skiptical of changes in their cages
And the zookeeper is fond of rum
Zebras are reactionaries
Antelopes are missionaries
Pidgeons plot in secrecy
And hamsters turn on frequently

(At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel)
 
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I was singing the aforementioned Bob Seger's "Roll Me Away" in the shower and realized there's another part I really like.

She didn't have to say a thing. I knew what she was thinking: "Roll, roll me away, won't you roll me away tonight. I too am lost, I feel double-crossed, and I'm sick of what's wrong and what's right." We never even said a word. We just walked out and got on that bike. And we rolled... and we rolled clean out of sight!

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Bob Seger made me think of Pete Seeger, which made me think of Woodie Guthrie. Here's the next-to-last verse of "This Land Is Your Land." We don't usually hear the last two verses:

In the shadow of the steeple, I saw my people. By the relief office, I seen my people. As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking: Is this land made for you and me?
 

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Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock, I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.


(I Am A Rock - Simon & Garfunkel)
 

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You can add up the parts, you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march, there is no drum
Every heart, every heart to love will come
But like a refugee

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Anthem-Leonard Cohen
 

EMARX

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in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorways to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the heat
the heat I see in your eyes

I Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
 

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Treating today as though it was
The last, the final show
Get to sixty and feel no regret
It may take a little time
A lonely path, an uphill climb
Success or failure will not alter it
And do you feel scared, I do
And I won't stop and falter
And if we threw it all away
Things can only get better
(Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones)
 

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You can look at the menu but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushions but you can't have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool but you can't have a swim
You can feel the punishment but you can't commit the sin (.. I particularly like this line ..)
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her, and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
(No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones)
 
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I don't go on this thread very often because I love so many songs I think I would fill it up all on my own. No One Is To Blame is one of my favourites of his too.

One more go,
To keep in silence, I resigned. My friends would think I was a nut.
Turning water into wine, open doors would soon be shut. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel.