Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[Argonne69]

OK, so what are some of your favorite lyrics? Not looking for the whole enchilada, but lines or verses that have stuck with you over the years. Made you laugh, or made you think about a significant event in your life. Might be poignant, or simply catchy. 

 

Mommy's alright, 

Daddy's alright,

They just seem a little little weird.

- Cheap Trick, Surrender 

 

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, 

Year after year 

- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 

 

So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains, 

And we never even know we have the key

- The Eagles, Already Gone 

 

And there will always be a space in my parking lot, 

When you need a little Coke and sympathy 

- Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed 

 

Edited February 20, 2023 by Argonne69

[Cwing]

I like the way the line runs up the back of their stockings
I've always liked those kind of high heels too. You know, I...
No no no no, don't take 'em off, don't take... Leave 'em on, leave 'em on
Yeah, that's it, a little more to the right, a little more....

 

[Petethreeput]

“Old man look at me now

I’m a lot like you were”

Old Man, Neil Young

 

“Littered campgrounds, folding chairs

feed Doritos to the bears

Honey quick the polaroid”

Winnebago Warrior, Dead Kennedys

(if you live where I do, it’s a must hear)

“It’s such a perfect day

You made me forget myself

I thought i was someone else

Someone good”

Perfect Day, Lou Reed

 

So many that resonate based on mood, but for now, these come to mind.

[Fellaheen51]

"Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."

 

"You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."  

 

"I'm older now but still runnin' against the wind."

 

"I did not believe the information

Just had to trust imagination

My heart going boom-boom-boom

Son, he said

Grab your things, I've come to take you home."

 

"I wish for just one time you could stand inside my shoes

You'd know what a drag it is to see you."

 

"There's something happening here

But what it is ain't exactly clear."

 

"You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometime you'll find

You get what you need."

 

"And now I wanna be your dog."

 

 

 

 

[bscinstnct]

“Her bikini small, heels tall, she said…she liked…the ocean” 🤣

 

“Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream”

 

 

“And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone”

 

 

”I’m slammin ***** like Shaquille

The ****  is real

When it’s time to eat a meal 

I rob and steal!”

 

 

Great topic, enjoy seeing these from everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 21, 2023 by bscinstnct

[Triple Lindy]

Best lines in music - my opinion of course:

 

”Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” - The Who

 

”I need a drink and a quick decision” - Hall and Oates

 

”Hike up your skirt a little more and show the world to me” - Dave Matthews Band

[touch]

Great idea for a thread Argonne69   👍

 

 

 

Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
I ain't got me nobody
I don't carry me no load

Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

 

Then you gazed up at me
And the answer was plain to see
'Cause I saw the light
In your eyes (in your eyes)

In your eyes (in your eyes)

But I tried to run (I tried to run)

Though I knew it wouldn't help me none (not help me none)
'Cause I couldn't ever love no one
Or so I said

But my feelings for you
Were just something I never knew
'Til I saw the light
In your eyes (in your eyes)

In your eyes (in your eyes)

But I love you best
It's not something that I say in jest
'Cause you're different, girl, from all the rest
In my eyes

Todd Rundgren

 

 

 

The meanings get lost, and the teachings get tossed
And you don't know what you're gonna do next
You wait for the sun but it never quite comes
Some kind of message comes through to you
Some kind of message comes through

And it says to you
Love when you can
Cry when you have to
Be who you must
That's a part of the plan
Await your arrival
With simple survival and
One day, we'll all understand

Dan Fogelberg

 

 

You just call out my name
And you know, wherever I am
I'll come runnin'
To see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a friend

James Taylor 

 

 

[Argonne69]

Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision 

- Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond 

 

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?! 

- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall 

 

[Hawkeye77]

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

 

I'm in love with her and I feel fine.

 

I get high with a little help from my friends.

 

She sure fine lookin' man, she's something' else.

 

Momma's got a squeezebox . . .

 

We love to work at nothing all day.

 

She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes, 

And points of her own, sittin' way up high.

 

 

[Triple Lindy]

And based on my 87 today in 25 mph winds:

 

”I can’t get no…satisfaction” - The Rolling Stones

 

At least my score matched the temperature today in the DFW area.

 

More Rolling Stones:

 

”She blew my nose and then she blew my mind”

”Send me dead flowers by the mail”

“…. girls just want to get f’d all night - I just don’t have that much jam”

 

 

[ThinkingPlus]

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

[bscinstnct]

11 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision 

- Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond 

 

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?! 

- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall 

 

 

Oh don’t even start with the PF ; )

 

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

[Argonne69]

Those who know what's best for us,

Must rise and save us from ourselves

 

Quick to judge, quick to anger,

Slow to understand

Ignorance and prejudice

And fear walk hand in hand

 

- Rush, Witch Hunt (with a healthy dose of sarcasm in the first line)

 

[Fellaheen51]

That's the way that the world goes 'round
You're up one day, the next you're down
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown
That's the way that the world goes 'round

 

Looks like I had my fill
Guess I better pay my bill
When I started out, I only meant to have a few
Someone just said that you left town

I better get a double round
And yes, I guess they oughta name a drink after you

 

 

 

[DoubleDrops]

From the main man, Tyler Childers:

 

I'm a stone's throw from the mill
And I'm a good walk to the river
When my workin' day is over
We'll go swim our cares away
Put your toes down in the water
And a smile across your face
And tell me that you love me
Lovely Lady May

 

Now I ain't the sharpest chisel
That your hands have ever held
But darlin' I could love you well
Til' the roll is called on high
I've seen my share of trouble
And I've held my weight in shame
But I'm baptized in your name
Lovely Lady May

 

Lord the wind can leave you shiverin'
As it waltzes o'er the leaves
It's been rushin' through my timber
Til' your love brought on the spring
Now the mountains all are blushin'
And they don't know what to say
'Cept a good long line of praises
For my lovely Lady May

 

Now I ain't the toughest hickory
That your ax has ever fell
But I'm a hickory just as well
I'm a hickory all the same
I came crashin' through the forest
As you cut my roots away
And I fell a good long ways
For my lovely Lady May

[bscinstnct]

So baby give me just one kiss
And let me take a long last look
Before we say good bye
Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair fall all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence

 

 

 

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
 

 

 

[ThinkingPlus]

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles, it's a very, very
Mad world, mad world

 

[ThinkingPlus]

I'll get over you, I know I will
I'll pretend my ship's not sinking
And I'll tell myself I'm over you
'Cause I'm the king of wishful thinking
(King of wishful thinking)
I am the king of wishful thinking

 

[ThinkingPlus]

THEY MET IN A HURRICANE
STANDING IN THE SHELTER OUT OF THE RAIN
SHE TUCKED A NOTE INTO HIS HAND
LATER ON THEY TOOK HIS CAR
DROVE ON DOWN WHERE THE BEACHES ARE
HE WROTE HER NAME IN THE SAND
NEVER EVEN LET GO OF HER HAND

SOMEHOW THEY STAYED THAT WAY
FOR THOSE 5 DAYS IN MAY
MADE ALL THE STARS AROUND THEM SHINE
FUNNY HOW YOU CAN LOOK IN VAIN
LIVING ON NERVES AND SUCH SWEET PAIN
THE LONELINESS THAT CUTS SO FINE
TO FIND THE FACE YOU’VE SEEN A THOUSAND TIMES

[miamistomp]

Built like she was
She had the nerve to ask me
If I planned to do her any harm

  Prince

 

Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen

   Woody Guthrie

 

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight

    Robert Hunter

 

 

 

I want to love you
Every day and every night
We'll be together
With a roof right over our heads
We’ll share the shelter
Of my single bed

 

Bob Marley

 

 

And I've seen you at the corners and cafes, it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme"

 Richard Thompson

Edited February 23, 2023 by miamistomp

[iBanesto]

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter

 

--- Linkin Park

 

Pack yourself a toothbrush, dear
Pack yourself a favorite blouse
Take a withdrawal slip
Take all of your savings out
'Cause if we don't leave this town
We might never make it out

 

--- The Lumineers

Edited February 23, 2023 by iBanesto

[Argonne69]

Well, I'm running down the road tryin to loosen my load

I've got seven women on my mind

Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me

One says she's a friend of mine

 

Well, I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona

And such a fine sight to see

It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed ford

Slowin down to take a look at me

 

- The Eagles, Take It Easy

 

[miamistomp]

But to live outside the law, you must be honest

  Bob Dylan

 

All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him slip away, out of kindness, I suppose

 

 

Townes Van Zandt

[miamistomp]

I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the russians, too?
 

 

 

On his white horse, Mescalito
He come breezin' through town
I'll bet your woman's up in bed with
ol' Panama Red

 

Here's a quarter, call someone who cares
 

 

 

 

[Bloom]

"No dress rehearsal, this is our life".  -  Tragically Hip

[miamistomp]

Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right

 

 Robert Hunter

 

She says, "Honey, don't worry 'bout Judgement Day
All these people goin' to heaven
They're just in our way"

 

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

 

Well the men don't know, but little girls understand

 

Howlin' Wolf/Willie Dixon

 

 

I got to find a reason, a reason things went wrong
I got to find a reason why my money's all gone
I got a dalmatian, I can still get high
And I can play the guitar like a mother*****g riot

 

 

Sublime

[mizuno player]

Poor man wanna be rich 

Rich man wanna be king 

King ain't satisfied till he rules everything. 

 

Bruce Springsteen. 

 

 

I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver when the switch broke cause it's old. 

 

Elvis Costello. 

 

A whole streets belief in Sundays roast beef 

Gets smashed against the co-op 

To cut down on beer or the kids new gear 

It's a big decision on a town called malice. 

 

The Jam 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by mizuno player

[DArnie]

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads    J.Denver

 

You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done        K. Rogers

 

Smile an everlasting smile
A smile can bring you near to me

This world has lost its glory
Let's start a brand new story now, my love
Right now, there'll be no other time
And I can show you how, my love   BGs

 

Oh my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long lonely time,
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much,
Are you still mine?
I need your love,
I need your love
God speed your love to me.    Righteous Brothers

[touch]

Oh, I love my Rosie child
You got the way to make me happy
You and me, we go in style
Cracklin' Rose you're a store-bought woman
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'
So hang on to me, girl our song keeps runnin' on

Play it now, play it now
Play it now, my baby

 

Neil Diamond

Edited February 24, 2023 by touch

[sharkiesj]

She’ll lead you down the path 

They’ll be tenderness in the air

She’ll let you come just far enough

So you, know she’s really there

Then she’ll look at you smile

And her eyes will say

She’s got a secret garden

Where everything you want

Where everything you need

Will always stay, a million miles away..

 

B. Springsteen

 

Just remember in the winter

far beneath the bitter snow

Lies a seed that with the sun’s love

In the spring becomes the rose. 
 

B. Midler 

 

 

We’re always somewhere inbetween

we never taste the sweet, extreme. 
We’re crystallized we stand alone

Conviction holds us like a stone

 

S. Hagar