Great lyrics.........

[Yanto]

'Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?'

[Kyle76]

"I used to worry about rich and skinny, until I wound up poor and fat"
--Delbert McClinton

[WordMan]

Originally Posted by The Beatles

She was just seventeen, you know what I mean

Originally Posted by Prince

I guess I shoulda known by the way she parked her car sidewaaaays, that it wouldn't last

Originally Posted by Robert Palmer

She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went

Originally Posted by Warren Zevon

I'm hiding in Honduras. I'm a desperate man. Send lawyers, guns and money

A few of my favorites

[kydave]

I got a tattoo with her name right through my soul

From Guy Clark's "Stuff That Works"...

Billy loves women like a junky loves dope

From Rodney Crowell's "Fate's Right Hand"...

[M19]

One of my favorites from Genesis' "Squonk"...If you don't stand up you don't stand a chance.

[RedJoker]

From Jimmy Buffett's "Migration":

"I'm gonna buy me a sweat stained Bogart suit and an African parakeet.
And then I'll sit him on my shoulder and open up my trusty old mind.
I'm gonna teach him how to fuss, teach him how to cuss, and pull the cork out of a bottle of wine."

[sad99]

Originally Posted by Yanto

'Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?'

+1

That whole verse is one of my favorites

[Mtn Man]

In light of some recent threads...

Taylor Swift
Regretting him was like wishing you never found out love could be that strong

Oh wait you said great lyrics. Sorry about that.

[wrbriggs]

Originally Posted by Yanto

'Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?'

+1, one of my favorites.

[YamaYairi]

John Prine: "There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today"
"Angels From Montgomery"

Eric Bogle - "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
"And when the ship pulled into Circular Key
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was no one there waiting for me
To grieve or to mourn or to pity."

[wrbriggs]

Dave Carter:

Do not worry for my comfort, do not sorrow for me so
All your diamond tears will rise up and adorn the sky beside me when I go

[robj144]

It's tough for me to choose. Picking two from songs I recently heard:

Bright Eyes:

"But me I'm a single cell
On a serpents tongue
There's a muddy field where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away
But I'm still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet
From your brother's tears"

Jack Johnson:

"When all of life
Is in one drop of the ocean
Waiting to go home
Just waiting to go home
And if the moon
Can turn the tides, it can pull the tears
And take them from our eyes
And turn them into monsoons

Make them into mon -
Sooner or later they'll weave their way back to the sea
Gonna finally be free
Yeah, free for a while
Until they break
Like waves of sorrow
Always break all in due time
Cause time never waits"

[cheap fretter]

The bottle had robbed him of all his rebel pride, so I sang Dixie as he died.

[jjtrain]

"And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made. And the sign flashed out it's warning, in the words it was forming. The sign said the words of the prophets re written on the Subway walls..."

Everyone knows that line, or lines.

From Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence"

"All the prophets are laughing, they way 'we told you so'. It's one thing to play guessing games, another to know..."

From John Denver's "Stonehaven Sunset"

"But ya ought to thank me, before I die, For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye Cause I'm the son-of-a-(BEEEEEP) that named you "Sue.'"

Probably one of the most recognizable lines from Johnny Cash.

Or how about:

"There's a battle outside and it is ragin'! It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changin'."

These are some of my favorite lines to come out of such great artists.

Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, John Denver, and Paul Simon aren't famous because of how they played, but they are very famous for what they said, and how they said it.

I agree, great thread!

--James

[Warren Gilmour]

One from a Pearl Jam song that I've always loved called I am Mine...

"I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in between is mine"

Another from Dylans Forever Young...

"May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young"