Favorite line from a song

[slowlybutsurely]

Rock and roll means well but it can't help telling young boys lies.
-Drive By Truckers


I can't get to sleep at night. The parking lot's so loud and bright.
The a/c hasn't worked in twenty years.
Probably never made a single person cold,
but I can't say the same for me. I've done it many times.
-Jason Isbell "Alabama Pines"

[string1399]

The window's accusin' the door of abusin' the wall.

Be Here to Love Me - Townes Van Zandt

[Rosewood99]

God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of

Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen

[JimC1702]

"Music, when you're alone, is like a companion
for your lonely soul."

Beach Boys

[macmoondoggie]

"And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming"
Al Stewart.

[Bluepoet]

"...I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way..."--Jewel

"Give me not facts, figures and logic,
fain would I hear lore, legend, and magic.." -- Donovan

"When I'm sad, she comes to me,
with a thousand smiles she gives to me, free..." -- Jimi Hendrix

"you came into my hotel life, made my room a home,
oh, now momma, can't you see what you've done?" -- Tim Buckley

[jfletcher67]

"Well you can put me out on the street,
put me out with no shoes on my feet,
but put me out, put me out, put me out of misery"

[montydog]

"It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're waving from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind"

John Hartford - Gentle On My Mind

[KevWind]

Wow so so many, how does one choose just a few or one.

"Love is but a song we sing, fear's the way die"

"On an oasis in an ocean of stars , sharing the earth with our fears and dreams, more alike than it sometimes may seem"


"The price of peace is not the cost of war, it just hasn't worked that way, still today"

[BluesBelly]

Queen.........."Fat Bottom Girls you make the rocking world go round"

5 Man Electrical Band............."So I took off my hat and said Imagine that, me workin' for you''.

[Norml]

"Lend me your ear while I call you a fool."

Opening line of Wiitches Promise by Jethro Tull.

[Diamond Dave]

"Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I...decline!" - REM, It's the End of the World as We Know It

"They say you got to stay hungry...hey baby, I'm just about starving tonight." - Bruce Springsteen, Dancing in the Dark

[Opa John]

"They call me a bummer and a ginsot too, but what cares I for praise?". Bob Dylan's "Days of 49".

"He ain't wrong, he's just different, and his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right". From "Mama's, don't let your children grow up to be cowboys".

"Where the mornin' rain don't fall and the sun always shines". Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Mornin' Rain".

"It's knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk". John Hartford's "Gently On My Mind".

[kydave]

"I've got a tattoo with her name right through my soul..." Guy Clark from "Stuff that Works".

"I don't drink as much as I ought to..." Rodney Crowell from "Song for Life".

"He used to take acid and now he loves god, but he's still got that look in his eye..." Jim Ringer from "Still Got That Look".

"They're cowboys, drunks & Christians, mostly white and black and blue..." Thom Schuyler from "16 Avenue".

"I've never met a god, as yet, who wants a child to cry..." David Trabue from "A Child's Cry".

[JimC1702]

"Why don't we get drunk and screw?"

Jimmy Buffett