Favorite line from a song

[D. Shelton]

He sends me strange transmissions
Full of dangerous advice
I reply 'well, thank you, God
But I think I'll keep those thoughts on ice'

Bill Nelson 'Ordinary Idiots'

[IanHenry]

Not exactly a line, more a paragraph from Chris DeBurgh's Last Night:

Last night i was walking through the shadows
Far away from all the music and the girls,
When i saw a soldier with a woman in black,
And they stood without any word,
Just staring at a photograph of someone, and she began to cry.
For a boy left behind in the war,
Some boy left behind in the war

Ian.

[Lefty Guy]

"Time is just our small tracks in the melting snow"

from the chorus to Tift Merritt's "Too soon to go"

[sonicland]

So I went up to ask of the owl if he's there
How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear.

"House At Pooh Corner" by Kenny Loggins

[philjs]

I've always liked:

"Tomorrow I might go as far as suicide,
But I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight"
Buie, Nix, Daughtry (Atlanta Rhythm Section)

My current favorite line is:

"Without your sweet voice,
All the world is noise"
Jesse Terry

But since '91 or so the words that I've lived by are:

"Just let imagination lead,
Reality will follow through"
Michael Hedges

Phil

[bandit59]

You wore out your welcome with random precision...

[leatherguy]

Wish I didn't know now
what I didn't know then

Bob Seger

[D. Shelton]

"Just let imagination lead,
Reality will follow through"
Michael Hedges

Yep....


More Bill Nelson :

My left hand holds a key
My right hand holds another
My mind defines the center
And all extraneous thoughts are dim
My left hand beats the drum
My right hand calls the thunder
Here comes the Magic
Here comes the sparkling idea
here it comes

[prender]

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?

[Steve DeRosa]

Had a student in my class this year who lives in my old apartment - did a little gender-bending and sang her this song:

...Does some pretty young girl come home to my room;
Does she dream what I did as she sits by my window,
and looks out on those Brooklyn roads...?

- Neil Diamond, "Brooklyn Roads"

[MissouriPicker]

From a song in the early 60's, by the folk trio The Poco Seco Singers. The song was "Time."

Some people never get, some never give
Some people never die and some never live

[Basalt Beach]

" I used to order just to watch her float across the floor"

"The chrome and steel she rides
Collidin' with the very air she breathes"

both from Unknown Legend - Neil Young

[JLed79]

"Take my eyes, take my heart, Ill need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one I so adore"
Dave Matthews.

[tifosi62]

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl. Year after year.
Running over the same old ground. Have we found... The same old fear...
Wish you were here.

and about a hundred other Pink Floyd lyrics...

[Bluside]

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun