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Brucebubs 07-08-2013 10:17 PM

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

estayton 07-08-2013 10:20 PM

I'll toss in:

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

slewis 07-08-2013 10:45 PM

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.

Thrillhouse 07-08-2013 10:49 PM

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

- Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm

aknow 07-08-2013 10:53 PM

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

J. Hendrix

Glennwillow 07-08-2013 11:02 PM

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

Misifus 07-08-2013 11:09 PM

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

Scorgie 07-08-2013 11:11 PM

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?

lone eskimo 07-08-2013 11:11 PM

"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

DjFuzzyMcPickle 07-08-2013 11:13 PM

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

Bono

Michael-Robert 07-08-2013 11:17 PM

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

slimey 07-08-2013 11:19 PM

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

Jeff56 07-08-2013 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brucebubs (Post 3539283)
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"
"I can`t help about the shape I`m in, I can`t sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin".
"One day I will paint the sky, get a ladder, find a roller that can reach that high"

"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

slimey 07-08-2013 11:25 PM

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.

bobby b 07-08-2013 11:28 PM

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


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