Favorite line from a song
 

OK, so it`s not about guitars or strings or tonewoods or tuners or stores etc, etc.
Quite simple; what is/are some of your favorite lines/lyrics?
They can be clever, dumb, sad, uplifting, thought-provoking, nostalgic or funny. They can be from a verse or a chorus, it doesn`t matter.
"I read the news today, oh boy"- The Beatles
"I can`t help about the shape I`m in, I can`t sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin".- Fleetwood Mac, the real one before they went soft.
"One day I will paint the sky, get a ladder, find a roller that can reach that high"- John Gorka

I'll toss in:

"And I answer them most mysteriously
Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

For some reason -- it fits the band and the song and the delivery and the whole vibe so well -- I've always loved this line from Southern Culture on the Skids' song, Voodoo Cadillac:

I met my baby in a used car lot;
A-drinkin' cheap wine and a-throwing' rocks.

Hardly lyrical genius... I guess it's just me. It it came to mind.

Also, I've always loved the line from Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians' song What I Am:
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box;
Religion is a smile on a dog.

If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born...

- Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm

"We'll hold hands and watch the sunrise, from the bottom of the sea.
But first, Are you Experienced?"

J. Hendrix

"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..." Paul Simon

A line from a song by the Spanish songwriter, Joan Manuel Serrat,

"Porque no se acaba, ni mi amor, ni mi amada."

I could translate the words, but the poetry would be lost.

-Raf

Current favorite:

Little red bird
Under a chair
Waitin' for the crumbs to fall
Daddy said "get a job"
But don't you see daddy,
how good I am at catchin' crumbs?

"I heard 10,000 whispering and nobody listening- I heard one person starve I heard many people laughing"- "It's A Hard Rain A Gonna Fall" Bob Dylan

"I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from" - "Not Dark Yet"- also Dylan...

Give me some time
I feel like I'm losing mine
Out here on this horizon line
With the earth spinning
And the sky forever rushing
No one knows
They can never get that close
Guesses at most
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching-
"Sweet Bird" Joni Mitchell

"Well the God I believe in isn't short of cash Mister"

Bono

"But now I laugh, oh so hard, she's swingin' on my gallows pole"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5fUvwdX0SQ#t=2m57s

And in the end,
the love you take
is equal to
the love you make

"I'm a walkin' down the street like Lucky Larue
Got my hand in my pocket I'm thinkin' 'bout you
I ain't hurtin' nobody
I ain't hurtin' no one" - John Prine

now the conductress on the number 19,
she was a honey, she was a queen.
pink toe nails and hands all dirty from the money.




For me as an older Englishman living in America I can picture these women on the busses we took to school. Listening to " Walking in the wild west end " shoots me back to England in a blink of an eye. You've got to love the line " got a pickup for my steel guitar " as well.

It wasn't very large
There was just enough room to cram the drums
In the corner over by the Dodge
It was a fifty-four
With a mashed up door
And a cheesy little amp
With a sign on the front said "Fender Champ"
And a second hand guitar
It was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar

Down in Joe's Garage
We didn't have no dope or LSD
But a coupla quartsa beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear

I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
The way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
Brian Wilson-"Good Vibrations"

Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse
And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Bob Dylan.....Chimes of Freedom

"Then as it was, then again it will be
An' though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea"

zeppelin

Go ahead, make my day....punk.

Oh, thats another genre ...

In a land there's a town, and in that town there's a house
And in that house there's a woman
And in that woman there's a heart I love
I'm gonna take it with me when I go.

Tom Waits - Take It With Me

"My girlfriend's run off with my car,
and gone back to her ma and pa,
telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty."

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

"Learn to work the saxophone
I play just what I feel
Drink scotch whiskey all night long
and die behind the wheel."

Deacon Blues - Steely Dan

@Misifus;

Serrat is an amazing artist.

"It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your *** out all day long"
The Notorious Cherry Bombs

She had a well-schooled strut
that was sweet as molasses
but what really knocked me out
was her cheap sunglasses

zztop

And I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
And she was practised that the art of deception
I could tell by her blood-stained hands

ROLLING STONES

Life has no limit when you're not afraid to get in it

Mason Jennings

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Would you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain

Dave Matthews

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
 

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy praise
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet
Taught by flaming tongues above

Praise His name, I'm fixed upon it
The name of God's redeeming love.....

Ok, I'll play. The Replacements, "Alex Chilton"

Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round
They sing "I'm in love. What's that song?
I'm in love with that song."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSJYZyouek