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Old 07-08-2013, 10:17 PM
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Default 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

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Old 07-08-2013, 10:20 PM
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I'll toss in:

"And I answer them most mysteriously
Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"
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Old 07-08-2013, 10:45 PM
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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
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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.
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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.

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Old 07-08-2013, 11:11 PM
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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?
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"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...

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Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching-
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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
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Old 07-08-2013, 11:25 PM
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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.
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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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