Lyrics

[WickerBill]

It's been almost two years since this thread: http://www.offcamber.net/forums/printthread.php?t=10845


Wanted to revive it with a little twist...

Best single (two, tops) line from a song lyric you've ever heard. Made you think, made you laugh, made you emotional... something.



Plus, I'm ... working on something. And you'll help with it. And I won't have to pay you for it.

[High Sided]

if i coulda wrote a song for my daughter, this would be it....

Tell Her This
(Currie, Harvie)

Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time

Tell her not to cry
I just got scared that's all
Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do is call

Tell her the chips are down
I drank too much and shouted it aloud
Tell her something in my heart
Needs her more than even clowns need the laughter of the crowd

Tell her what was wrong
I sometimes think to much
But say nothing at all
And tell her from this high terrain, I am ready now to fall

Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her nothing if not this; all I want to do is kiss her

Tell her something in my mind
Freezes up from time to time.

[Sean Malone]

There's a conversation
We're about to have
And it's full of twists and turns
Half truths and vague concerns
From one who never learns
To one who never learns
And I never learn


-Jon Brion from the song Trouble


Curtain opens, spotlights the gentleman
Signing his love letter best wishes Simpleton
Dialog swam from his pen like pollywogs

He knew better that perfume was gravity
Pulling him closer to what could be tragedy
Love is blind, deaf and dumb, but never mind.

-Jellyfish from the song New Mistake

[WickerBill]

Let me clarify...

One or two lines, tops. Help a brother out.


"I don't want to meet your friend
And I don't want to start over again" -- Everclear, Wonderful
(I swear I'm one of 7 people on the planet who understand this lyric... every stupid lyric site on the tubes says "friends"... gah)

"I do things my way, and I pay a high price" -- John Mellencamp, Minutes to Memories

[nrc]

"Best" is tough and I'll probably think of others.

But for me the music from Warren Zevon's final album, written while he was fighting terminal cancer, has a lot of emotional impact. The final song "Keep Me In Your Heart" has a couple of lines that are beautiful and painful.

"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less."

and

"There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done."

[Cam]

If you leave me can I come too?

:D

[nrc]

If you leave me can I come too?

:D

Um. I'm hoping to stay for a while. :saywhat:

[Sean Malone]

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name.
Nobody came.

[STD]

They break their backs for sweat and gold
And all the things in which they buy

[anait]

Can't pick only one; these came to my mind first:

Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot

still looking for the face I had before the world was made

You hurt yourself you hurt your lover, then you discover
What you thought was freedom was just greed

You're in my mind all of the time...I know that's not enough


(btw, SeanO - I like your choice, that song hits its mark perfectly)

[grungex]

Everybody hear, everybody here.

-- CT, Gonna Raise Hell

[Cam]

Um. I'm hoping to stay for a while. :saywhat:

Mentals. (http://www.mldb.org/song-182931-if-you-leave-me-can-i-come-too.html) :)

[chop456]

"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less."

That's pretty close to a Sarah McLachlan lyric, isn't it?

As far as somewhat cool and in the unexpected rhyme category, I'd have to say:

"You struck me dumb - like Radium".

And in the more than one line category:

He liked to watch an evening pass
Clinking the ice in his bourbon glass while you played your scales
With eyes that burned right through
He would say he always knew you were bound to fail.

[nrc]

That's pretty close to a Sarah McLachlan lyric, isn't it?
Yes, from "Wait", Sarah MacLachlan's lyric is "You know if I leave you now
it doesn't mean that I love you any less". Funny, I know the song but had never really associated the two. Different context, I suppose.

[Michaelhatesfans]

London is drowning and I live by the river

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

[Andrew Longman]

God have Mercy on a man who doubts what he is sure of

Springsteen

and

The thing I call livin' is having no one else to blame

Lightfoot

[sadams]

Sometimes you're the windshield.
Sometimes you're the bug.

Dire Straits

[anait]

In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
My sorrows they learned to swim

[IlliniRacer]

Well, you can't be fond of livin' in the past,
If you are, there's no way you're going to last.

Tragically Hip "Wheat Kings"

Is there vengeance up in heaven?
Or are those things left behind.
Maybe everyday in Saturday morning,
two daughters and a wife,
two daughters and a beautiful wife.

Drive-By Truckers "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife"

I don't know God but I fear His wrath,
Tryin' to stay focused on the righteous path.

Drive-By Truckers "Righteous Path"

I guess you heard about original sin.
I heard the dude blamed the chick,
the chick blamed the snake.
And I heard they were naked when they got busted
and things haven't been the same sense.

The Hold Steady "Cattle and the Creeping Things"

[emjaya]

"And it's really got me worried
I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry"

[Sean Malone]

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated


anait, you can call me SeanO anytime. ;) But only you.:D

[extramundane]

Is there vengeance up in heaven?
Or are those things left behind.
Maybe everyday in Saturday morning,
two daughters and a wife,
two daughters and a beautiful wife.

Drive-By Truckers "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife"

That song is about some twisted crap that went down about 2 miles down the road from me. I can't listen to it.

But since we're on DBT:
We've been this close to death before, we were just too drunk to know it
Guess the price of being sober's being scared out of your mind

[devilmaster]

I know you said a couple lines WB, but i need to write the whole verse to make sense....

the line I like is about cigarettes..

So you've got to be real careful, and always on your guard
Falling in love, you know it's harmful to your heart
It's worse than they suspected, it's as bad as it gets
The surgeon general says you're better off with cigarettes
If you must have your bad habits, why don't you stick to booze
'Cause love's been linked to the blues

[Michaelhatesfans]

Big bottom drive me out of my mind,
How could I leave this behind?

David St. Hubbins


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Cam]

That song is about some twisted crap that went down about 2 miles down the road from me. I can't listen to it.

But since we're on DBT:
We've been this close to death before, we were just too drunk to know it
Guess the price of being sober's being scared out of your mind

That one reminds me...

What's the use of getting sober
When you're gonna get drunk again

Joe Jackson - Jump and Jive. Remake of Louis Jordan.

[JLMannin]

On the big screen they showed us the sun
But not as bright in life as the real one
It's never quite the same as the real one

[Sean Malone]

Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

[Spicoli]

Homophobia at its best. :D


And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, oh
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
Oh ...

[Sean Malone]

I'm rolling thunder, pouring rain
[I'm] coming on like a hurricane

[extramundane]

Tramps like us...and we like tramps
Charlemagne's got something in his sweatpants

[TravelGal]

Freedom's just another word for nothing else to lose.

You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em

[ChampcarShark]

Forever is gonna start tonight.

Bonnie Tyler
Total eclipse of the heart

[Andrew Longman]

Three separate compact lines from the same song, but to me they conjure up tremendous imagery in a few short words. Maybe it's just a Jersey Shore thing. :gomer:


The screen door slams. Mary, your dress waves


You ain't a beauty, hey you're alright... And that's alright with me.


What else can we do now except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair?

[Sean Malone]

Three separate compact lines from the same song, but to me they conjure up tremendous imagery in a few short words. Maybe it's just a Jersey Shore thing. :gomer:


The screen door slams. Mary, your dress waves


You ain't a beauty, hey you're alright... And that's alright with me.


What else can we do now except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair?

Bon Jovi?


:D :D

[G.]

Nah, Andrew, that translates to the midwest as well.:thumbup:

Two men say they're Jesus,
one of them must be wrong.
-Dires Straits, Industrial Disease

Well now they come in twos,
So hard to chose,
Your favorite t*t.:p
- Joe Walsh, ILBT's

more later. This could turn into an Airbus link if we're not careful.

[Andrew Longman]

Bon Jovi?


:D :D

Don't make me come down there. :mad:

;)

[Sean Malone]

Preacher stands with his bible, groom stands waitin' for his bride
Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly

[dando]

I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Aint it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

[dando]

Three separate compact lines from the same song, but to me they conjure up tremendous imagery in a few short words. Maybe it's just a Jersey Shore thing. :gomer:


The screen door slams. Mary, your dress waves


You ain't a beauty, hey you're alright... And that's alright with me.


What else can we do now except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair?


Bestest. Song. Evar. :thumbup: :thumbup:

If I ever had the guts to Karaoke, this is the song I would do (ain't ever gonna happen, tho). :gomer:

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

[dando]

Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow

:D :thumbup: :thumbup:

[Andrew Longman]

Bestest. Song. Evar. :thumbup: :thumbup:


I'm glad I'm not alone.

I know the thread is calling for single lines, but that song doesn't have a single throw away line. Each is a tight little story/image unto itself that together tell a story of teen angst and hope in a typical summer at the Shore (and elsewhere)

[Elmo T]

One of my favorite few lines from BNL's Intermittently:

She's a lot like you but she don't look like you
Okay, she's not you
But she'll do fine

[dando]

I'm glad I'm not alone.

I know the thread is calling for single lines, but that song doesn't have a single throw away line. Each is a tight little story/image unto itself that together tell a story of teen angst and hope in a typical summer at the Shore (and elsewhere)

Pink Houses comes close to the same imagery (for me).

There's a black man with a black cat
Living in a black neighbourhood
He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard
You know, he thinks, that he's got it so good
And there's a woman in the kitchen cleanin' up the evening slop
And he looks at her and says: "Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock"

[IlliniRacer]

Tramps like us...and we like tramps
Charlemagne's got something in his sweatpants

:thumbup:

I was waitn' for my ride when I got jumped from behind
I got punctured
I got stopped by the cops and they found it in my sock
I got probed

[grungex]

Big bottom drive me out of my mind,
How could I leave this behind?

David St. Hubbins

:thumbup:

Fat bottom girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round...

[Easy]

Yeah, i got enemies, but they don't know
They won't get no glory on that side of the hole

[Sean Malone]

Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands ?

[Michaelhatesfans]

It's worry worry all of the time, you don't know how to laugh
They'll think up something funny when they write your epitaph.

Todd Snider

[oddlycalm]

Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow

:D :thumbup: :thumbup: Nice, and along the same lines....

She was the daughter of a wealthy
Florentine pogen
Read em n weep
Was her adjustable slogan

[WickerBill]

Now my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name

Oasis, Gas Panic

[Mr. Vengeance]

More from Warren, (in his happier days):

Send lawyers, guns and money
The s**** has hit the fan

And a tossup between:

The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow

-and-

There ain't much to country livin'
Sweat, piss, jizz and blood

[TKGAngel]

Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah. - Leonard Cohen.

To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing, the need to express to communicate, to going against the grain, going insane, going mad. - Jonathan Larson.

They make pre-wrapped sausages, but they don't make pre-wrapped bacon. Well, can you blame them? Yeah! - BNL

Never trust a fellow with with a helmet on his head. - Great Big Sea.

[dando]

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank

:thumbup: :thumbup: :D

-Kevin

[chop456]

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank

:thumbup: :thumbup: :D

-Kevin


Bring 6 pounds of California weed.

[oddlycalm]

If silence was golden
You couldnt raise a dime
Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime

Mose Allison

[TravelGal]

Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah. - Leonard Cohen.



Good one TKG. I was thinking of posting almost all of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

I don't know if anyone saw the R&R Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year but the guy who sang it there for Cohen's induction sent chills down my spine.

edit: maybe I should add that it fits the original premise: it makes me think but that's where the association ends. :)

[Tony George]

I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey
Hey
I am everything I want
I got everything I need
Know exactly what to do cause I am Indy
Hey
And I love the way I feel
To be me is something real cause I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey
I am everything I want
I got everything I need
Know exactly what to do cause I am Indy
Hey
And I love the way I feel
When I get behind the wheel
Cause I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey

:tony: :tony: :tony:

[WickerBill]

My waistline's 48, my inseam only 30
I'm taller layin' down

John Fox, Fat and Forty

[anait]

I blew out my flip flop,
Stepped on a pop top;
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.

:cool: Laid-back summer, coming up.

[Andrew Longman]

I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey
Hey
I am everything I want
I got everything I need
Know exactly what to do cause I am Indy
Hey
And I love the way I feel
To be me is something real cause I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey
I am everything I want
I got everything I need
Know exactly what to do cause I am Indy
Hey
And I love the way I feel
When I get behind the wheel
Cause I am Indy
I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey I am Indy
Hey

:tony: :tony: :tony:

That is a truly moronic song.

[Classic Apex]

Servants all we ebb and flow
Remindless as we come and go
Changes as we die and grow.

Cold dead moon the children see
Resonate in sympathy
I know one day you'll come to me.


- Steve Kilbey

[Classic Apex]

Forgot. This one too...


Stone cold, I think I'm taking you home, so
I can be broken in two
Just like you

Sexy eyes and c'est la vie, I'll call you sometime
When I'm blue

Say so, I'm getting under your skin, so soft
I can't help but pursue
Til I'm screwed

Sunset, everything's fire
But I can't get any higher
Come get this lightning and rain all over me


'The Lure Would Prove Too Much' - The Twilight Singers

[dando]

I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Aint it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

Rocking to some Seger right now, I've always been drawn to Night Moves:


was a little too tall
Couldve used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly reknown
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my 60 chevy
Workin on mysteries without any clues
Workin on our night moves
Tryin to make some front page drive-in news
Workin on our night moves
In the summertime
In the sweet summertime

We werent in love, oh no, far from it
We werent searchin for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Livin by the sword
And wed steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods
I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin our share
Workin on our night moves
Tryin to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin on our night moves
And it was summertime

And oh the wonder
We felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder

I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Aint it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

:thumbup: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[nrc]

"From my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety" - Tanita Tikaram

Some from Tori Amos -

"I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets"

"I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear"

"I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again"

"So you can make me ***
That doesnt make you jesus"

A bit more than the two line limit...
"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you?"

[G.]

Well it's true that I stole your lighter.
It's also true that I lost the map.
But when you told me I wasn't worth talking to
I had to take your word on that.

-Liz Phair.

[IlliniRacer]

The preacher asked her, she said "I do,"
The preacher asked me, she said "he does too,"
The preacher told me "I now pronounce you 99 to life,"
"Son she's no lady, she's your wife,"

Lyle Lovett - She's No Lady

[WickerBill]

Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone than I ever have before

Brick, Ben Folds Five

[datachicane]

Gone are the days when the ox fall down, he'd
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said "please,
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me?"

Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on

Thanks, Jerry.

[Al Czervik]

Now there's only two things in life, but I forget what they are - John Hiatt

I didn't sell my soul, but I guess I took out a loan - Bruce Hornsby

Sorrow is an angel that comes to you in blue light, and shows you what is wrong just to see if you'll get it right - Poi Dog Pondering

Sometimes, I wish I were Catholic. I don't know why. - Cracker

I ain't drunk, I'm just drinkin' - Albert Collins

[Ankf00]

you spend the first 5 years trying to get with the plan
and the next 5 years trying to be with your friends again

[WickerBill]

Running down by the lakeshore, she did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin, now it's washing her away, once again...

- Bruce Hornsby, Mandolin Rain

[Indy]

For Davey Evans, from Rain, by Lennon:

Rain, I don't mind.
Shine, the weather's fine.
Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines,
It's just a state of mind?

[IlliniRacer]

Just got listening to it on my iPod -

Patience is like bread I say,
I ran out of that yesterday.

"It's About Time" - Lemonheads

[Elmo T]

Another from Warren Zevon:

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

[Michaelhatesfans]

But my dreams they aren't as empty
as my conscience seems to be...
:thumbup:

I was playing that the other day and thought I'd dig up this thread.:cool:

[stroker]

they put Jesus on a cross
they put a hole in JFK
they put Hitler in the driver's seat
and looked the other way

now they got poison in the water
and the whole world's in a trance

Now don't that make you wanna jump up and start to dance?