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

[fatness]

"I rode the Highball
I fired the Daylight
When I turned sixty-five
I couldn't see right

It was 'Mr. Jones
We've got to let you go
It's company policy
You've got a pension though' "

Southern Pacific
Neil Young

 

[Dr_Zaius]

In fifty years I will dream of this moment
from a bed, tired from lifting my legs,
tired from drifting around,
Through the dust, through the dust

Hollywood Park - The Airborne Toxic Event

Beautiful, bombastic song that my daughter introduced me to. The whole song tells the story about the writer's relationship with his flawed but loving father, with the old Hollywood Park racetrack that his dad used to take him to as a kid as the backdrop. When they released the song he talked about how that track was inextricably linked to cherished memories of his father, and thus the emotions he felt when it was torn down and buried.

 

[Parrothead]

Jim Croce could have his own thread-

5 short minutes of love
cost me 20 long years in jail-

She might be nasty
she might be fat
but I never meant a person
who would tell her that

She's livin in LA- with my best old ex-firend Ray

 

[Parrothead]

just heard this one on my playlist

I used her, she used me but neither one cared- we were gettin our share

 

[titusbramble]

It's not a bird, it's not a plane
It must be Dave, who's on the train

 

[AAABatteries]

You ain't gone far enough to say
At least I've tried
You ain't worked hard enough to say
"Well, I've done mine"
You ain't run far enough to say
"My legs have failed"
You ain't gone far enough
You ain't worked hard enough
You ain't run far enough to say
It ain't gonna get any better

 

[fatness]

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

Last to Know
Alejandro Escovedo

 

[northern exposure]

just heard this one on my playlist

I used her, she used me but neither one cared- we were gettin our share

Bob Seger - Night Moves

 

[drummer]

In these days of evil presidente

Working for the Clampdown

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Jim Croce could have his own thread-

Yeah, Jim Croce was such a great lyricist. I wish i could write like he did.

Hey tomorrow, I can't show you nothin'
You've seen it all pass by your door
So many times I said I been changin'
Then slipped into patterns of what happened before

 

[heckmanm]

I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

Anti-Hero, T Swift.

I don't really listen to her stuff (not being a woman under 30) but that's a great line.

 

[fatness]

The percentage you're paying is too high priced while you're living beyond all your means.
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your dreams.
But today you just read that the man was shot dead by a gun that didn't make any noise.
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest, was the low spark of high-heeled boys.

 

[Navin Johnson]

I love you more than the feeling when the bass hits the hook
When the boy gets the girl at the end of the book...

 

[The Longtime Lurker]

16 in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold