Your Favorite Closing Lines of a Song
 

A couple years ago I started a thread about the best opening lines of a song that ended up getting over 10,000 page views and going on forever. At last count I think it had over 300 posts.

Now I'd like to do the opposite. Tell us your favorite ENDING lines of a song. A few guidelines to help everyone participate and enjoy this thread:

1) Try to limit it to one song, or two or three of your faves at most in a single post. Save other favorites for additional posts in the thread.

2) Be sure to give the title of the song and the songwriter and/or performer.

3) Try to limit it to the last couple lines of the song, or at most the final stanza.

4) If the artist/writer is lesson known, feel free to tell us a little about them.

I'll start. This is from John Prine's "Come back to us, Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard":

I gotta shake myself and wonder
Why she even bothers me
For if heartaches were commercials
We'd all be on TV

Can't wait to hear your choices!

Scott Memmer

"But I know what I am, and I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola".

"Lola" by the Kinks.


..............Mike

In my life I love you more " - In my life", The Beatles. My favourite song by a country mile !! :guitar:

Jason Isbell ... "Elephant"

There's one thing that's real clear to me,
no one dies with dignity.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.




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"I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes,
And just for that one moment, I could be you,
I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes,
You'd know what a drag it is to see you."

- Bob Dylan
"Positively 4th Street"

This week?

"There is nothing in this world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never be breaking apart
My pictures of you"

The Cure, Pictures of You

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If I knew the way/ I would take you home

and

It's a town full of losers/ I'm pullin' outta here to WIIIIIIIIN!

"I've never met a god, as yet, who wants a child to cry."

from "A Child's Cry" by David Alan Trabue

:)

"Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"

Semisonic, Closing Time. Waiters at places I played at would ask me to do that song late in the evening to make those last few patrons think it was time for them to leave.

"God have mercy on a man, who doubts what he's sure of." Brilliant Disguise Bruce Springsteen

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" - The Beatles, "The End"

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" - The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again"

Plus one on this!

This...

"Poor Boy you're bound to die". Tom Dooley, Kingston Trio

It'll change again in 20 minutes but for right now it's...

"Winter's comin' on and it's twenty below
And the river's froze over so where can he go
We'll chase him up the gully then we'll run him in the well
And shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell"

From Ol' Slew Foot.