Favorite line from a song

[stardot]

"I went down to the pawn shop on sunset boulevard,
And I gave the man my Gibson and my watch.
He said "You were just another cowboy who was trying
Way too hard, and in a month or two then none of this
Will matter very much.""


The King of Oklahoma - Michael Franks


"Ran out of gas down the road a piece
Now the battery's dead,
And the cables won't reach"

The Last Chance Texaco - Ricky Lee Jones

[topographic]

That's easy:

"There's a killer on the road;
his brain is squirmin' like a toad.

[Thorby Bislam]

"I whiskied up my coffee cup
sitting here trying not to call you up"

Something 'Bout You

or

"She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College"

and practically every other line in Common People.

[Neal Pert]

"Dreams they seem to cost money
But money costs some dreams."

-- the Hold Steady, "Yeah Sapphire"

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"These days I'm feeling all right
'Cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation."

-- Bruce Springsteen, "Local Hero"

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"Tramps like us
and we like tramps."

-- the Hold Steady, "Charlemagne in Sweatpants."

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"The ghost of electricity
howls in the bones of her face."

-- Bob Dylan, "Visions of Johanna"

Those jumped quickly to mind.

[ukejon]

Out on the road today
Saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac.
A little voice inside my head said:
"Don't look back, you can never look back."

[$ongWriter]

I could write volumes on this subject...but one of my favorite is from writer Russell Smith of the Amazing Rhythm Aces....he's from my hometown of Lafayette, Tn....from the hit Third Rate Romance

"I've never really done this kind of thing before...have you?"

And another is from Good Ole Boys Like Me
"Those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me...Hank & Tennessee"

This song has a bunch of great lines....
"It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that binds me"

[Fngrstyl]

"Say can I have some of your purple berries....yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now, haven't got sick once..probably keep us both alive"

CSN of course. Love these dudes! Amazing tunes, amazing harmony's.

[$ongWriter]

"Once there was this...spider in my bed...got caught up in her web..of love and lies"..Dwight Yoakam

"Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash..they stayed up all night selling Cocaine and Hash..to an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan...for reasons unexplained..she loved the Monkey Man"....
written by the famous Bob Dylan

[DaveKell]

"I'll say that and I'll say this, I been watchin' the way you been watchin' my miss and I'm about to leave your head in the shape of a stamp" / Elvis The US Male.

"Her love has no strings, shackles or chains
But I'm holding on for dear life
She's like a rolling seven
Everytime I roll the dice " / Delbert Mc Clinton Every Time I Roll The Dice

"I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You've got a brand new key" / Melanie Brand New Roller Skates

"And you, of the tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die." / CSN&Y Teach Your Children

[$ongWriter]

Here's one of mine...always wanted to get this line in a song and finally did it..hey, I'm from a small town...

"Drive by that liquor store just outside of town
circle the block and pull in when there's no one around
Hose' or Jim Bean hell either one will work
You beg God that you don't see a single soul from church"

from the soon to be big smash hit..."What Ever Gets You Thru The Day"

[JimC1702]

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

John Lennon

[guitarjamman]

"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"

[The Old Gaffer]

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
The heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

-Eyes of the World (R. Hunter and J. Garcia)

[Rosewood99]

The wind has wept and the sky is slurred
But we slept through the sunrise, too
I'm dreaming still of who you were
Though, I may be miles away from her

- Song of 27 by Richard Buckner

[pstarr]

You know my character witness just went down for perjury--Thea Gilmore