Post a song lyric (not all the lyrics, just one line or two) that you absolutely love (1 Viewer)

[jon_mx]

Three of my favorites: 

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

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Doesn't mean that much to me
To mean that much to you

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We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year Running over the same old ground And how we found The same old fears Wish you were here

 

[fatness]

One time, friends, I had a ma. I even had a pa.
He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried.
She told him to take care of me, headed down to Tennessee
It's easier than just waitin' around to die

 

[fatness]

There’s salt on the meadow, a rise on the coast
down at the harbor, they've hauled all the boats
the boys at the firehouse are sliding on their coats
we can hear her coming, she’s just clearing her throat

 

[fatness]

Tumbledown shack in Bigfoot county, snowed so hard that the roof caved in.
Delilah Jones went to meet her God and the old man never was the same again.

 

[fatness]

I guess I'll call it sickness gone
It's hard to say the meaning of this song
An ambulance can only go so fast

 

[Osaurus]

No, thanks No party lights
It's Christmas Eve, gonna relax
Turn down all of my invites

 

[McBokonon]

I drank until my bones shook and gathered all my pay
I stood outside the locked up bar along the bachelors quay
I had absolutely forgotten that it was Christmas day
And now there's nothing open and there's nothing left to say

 

[Leroy Hoard]

You were pretty

Queen of New York City

When the band finished playing

They howled out for more

Sinatra was swinging

All the drunks they were singing

We kissed on a corner 

Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir

Were singing 'Galway Bay'

And the bells were ringing out

For Christmas Day

 

[fatness]

She's got a man on the side
Yeah, she's with him today
And I probably won't die
But it sure feels that way
I used to be strong
I used to be tough
And she used to be pretty
But now she's just pretty ####ed up

 

[rockaction]

Lad's gal is all he has
Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad
The love of lad
Some things gal says to lad aren't meant as bad 
but cause a little pain

they'll need a crane 

 

[dickey moe]

Cool's eternal but it's always dated

 

[worrierking]

The preacher asked her and she said "I do."

The preacher asked me and she said "yes, he does too."

The preacher said, "I pronounce you, 99 to life.

Son, she's no lady, she's your wife."

 

[fatness]

Never seem to get far enough
Staying in between the lines
Hold on to what you can
Waiting for the end
Not knowing when

Windfall, Son Volt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIQFwLkNv1Q

 

[Leroy Hoard]

You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

 

[Ghost Rider]

“So have a good drown as you go down, all alone, dragged down by the stone…”

 

[zamboni]

“So have a good drown as you go down, all alone, dragged down by the stone…”

Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Hey you! Don't you know who I think I am!?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Now that I'm out of touch with anger
Now I have nothing to live up to
I don't know when to stop joking
When I stop
I hope I am with you

 

[Ghost Rider]

"And if I wasn't so ****ed up, I think I'd **** you all the time."

 

[rockaction]

Now that I'm out of touch with anger
Now I have nothing to live up to
I don't know when to stop joking
When I stop
I hope I am with you

Who's this? I Googled it and it didn't come up as lyrics to anything. Weird.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Now that I'm out of touch with anger
Now I have nothing to live up to
I don't know when to stop joking
When I stop
I hope I am with you

Who's this? I Googled it and it didn't come up as lyrics to anything. Weird.

Magazine - Parade

 

[rockaction]

Magazine - Parade

Great lyric, and a sentiment I often thought about in my twenties. Who is going to be there at the end of the day when **** gets real and you cannot laugh everything off?

 

[Snoopy]

Sometimes I don't speak right, alright
But yet I know what I'm talking about

 

[Pip's Invitation]

When you base your love on credit
And your loving days are done
Checks you signed with a-love and kisses
Later come back signed "insufficient funds"

 

[cosjobs]

Casey Jones you better watch your speed

 

[fatness]

Just like Mary Shelley, just like Frankenstein.
Clank your chains and count your change and try to walk the line.

 

[fatness]

Half of my life I spent doin' time for some other ****er's crime
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine

 

[fatness]

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead.
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand,
"no" was all he said.

 

[fatness]

I just spent 60 days in the jailhouse
for the crime of having no dough.
Now here I am back out on the street
for the crime of having nowhere to go.
Save your neck or save your brother,
looks like it's one or the other

 

[Ridgeback]

What good is living if you can't write your ending?

You're always in doubt of the truth you're defending.

Damien Jurado

 

[Terminalxylem]

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race

 

[rockaction]

Have a cup of tea...have a cup of tea
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Rosalie!

 

[brun]

Crying won't help you,
praying won't do you no good.

 

[fatness]

Without your love I'm nothing at all
Like an empty hall, it's a lonely fall
Since you've gone it's a losing battle
Stampeding cattle, they rattle the walls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBqWNFOVo8&t=0m55s

 

[coyote5]

But life still goes on
I can't get used to living without, living without
Living without you by my side
I don't want to live alone, hey
God knows, got to make it on my own
So, baby, can't you see I've got to break free?

 

[fatness]

Now I work down at the car wash
where all it ever does is rain.
Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train?

 

[fatness]

More miles than money.
Look at out lives and it's oh so funny.
More miles than money.
We fall in love and it's never funny.
We're the last, the very last to know.

 

[fatness]

The years just flowed by
like a broken-down dam.
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go

 

[Bracie Smathers]

If it were easy as fishin'
You could be a musician
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TCOB BTO

 

[Osaurus]

Up, down, turn around
Please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight, I think I'll walk alone
I'll find my soul as I go home

 

[Da Guru]

Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

 

[Leroy Hoard]

For fans of Luna & Galaxy 500

I was the arrow
I was the bow
I loved it, yeah
But I'm ready to go
Now that we're here
I'm ready to leave
The whole wide world behind
Bring back the magic
And light the match
There is a train that I'm hoping to catch
Now that we're here
I'm ready to leave
This whole wide world behind
Now in the twilight
Of the psychedelic years
Roll back the highlights
Till the dancer disappears

 

[CletiusMaximus]

You damn right I've got the blues

 

[Atomic Punk]

Not sure how I missed this thread. Here are my faves:

1. Oh, I'm a lucky man
To count on both hands
The ones I love
Some folks just have one
Yeah, others they got none

2. Now the thing that I call living
Is just being satisfied
With knowing I got no one left to blame

3. I wonder about the love you can't find
And I wonder about the loneliness that's mine
I wonder how much going have you got
And I wonder about your friends that are not

 

[Chaz McNulty]

1. Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight,
Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight

2. I'm still angry at my parents for what their parents did to them.

 

[beer 30]

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Used to be sixteen lanes
Used to be Nuevo Spain
Used to be Juan Wayne
Used to be Mexico
Used to be Navajo
Used to be yippy-ay-I-don't-know

 

[CGRdrJoe]

i knew a girl
her name was truth
she was a horrible liar

 

[CGRdrJoe]

They say if you love somebody
Than you have got to set them free
But I would rather be locked to you
Than live in this pain and misery

They say time will
Make all this go away
But it's time that has taken my tomorrows
And turned them into yesterdays

 

[Bogart]

Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She'll hear me out
And won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact, she'll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me