Great Musical Lines?
 

Just drove up the east Coast listening to my IPhone music for a good deal of the time.

Occupying my mind were some of the best lines in songs ever written:

- "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" Folsom Prison Bues - Johnny Cash
- "We are all prisoners of our own devices" Hotel California - The Eagles
- ”Cause I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere's a better place to be.
Anywhere's a better place to be.” Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin
- "I'm getting paid by the hour and older by the minute" 5 O'clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson
"They sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and 'man what are you doin here?' - Piano Man - Billy Joel

Got any to add?

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make -- The Beatles

There's a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours -- Elton John

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself
And make a change. -- Michael Jackson

Love all of these! :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

"Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah" ,,,,Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass they slip away across the universe.

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind possessing and caressing me.

Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box, they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe.

Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure?

Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you

She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you

You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
You think she needs you

You stay home, she goes out
She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him

Your day breaks, your mind aches
There will be time when all the things she said will fil your head
You won't forget her

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!


And so it's true, pride comes before a fall
I'm telling you so that you won't lose all


When I cannot sing my heart I can only speak my mind

Get born, keep born, short pants romance, learn to dance get dressed, get blessed in time to be a success - don't wanna be a bum you better chew gum the pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle. Subterranean Homesick Blues, the incomparable Bobby Zimmerman (Dylan)

"He had it comin' "from musical, Chicago.

I hope you dance
 

Lee Ann Womack

"I Hope You Dance"

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)

:a20:

"I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control..."
and
"I've gotta go where its warm."
Thanks to Jimmy Buffet

"When you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose" -- Bob Dylan

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" -- Janis Joplin

"Freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talking;
Your prison is walking through this world all alone" -- The Eagles

"If you stay I'd subtract twenty years from my life"--Billy Vera & The Beaters

More...
 

More Dylan......

Not politics; just music...

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall

More Beatles .......

Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four? She did/she does.

Did anyone out there end up with Grandchildren named Vera, Chuck & Dave???

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground,

Lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground.

http://youtu.be/tMwhl4IrPNc

I know a woman who named her kids James, Richard, George and John. (FYI: James is Pauls first real name and Richard is Ringo.)

I talked to a guy a few days ago who named his son McCartney.

Right you are! That is why I said somewhere here that "Across the Universe" best describes my life. The "Pools of sorrow..." like just does it for me.

Not only that, but "Pools of sorrow Waves of Joy" is so descriptive of both of those emotions.

Desiderata
 

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

And from the mind of the man who wrote about the 60's teenage experience better than just about anyone else, Brian Wilson:

There's a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In my room In my room

In this world I lock out
All my worries and my fears
In my room In my room

Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday

Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room In my room

Brian Wilson's father was abusive. In his room was the place he went to get away from him. I feel it was more than just drugs that played with Brian's head. I'm sure his father had a lot to do his his fragile mind. So sad.

"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest" -- Simon and Garfunkle

"He not busy being born is busy dying" -- Bob Dylan

I've been cursed by dreams crawling out of my head
So black and pure and gleeming - laughing from the devil that's within
Then there's you
Who can rationalize her feelings any time
It's something I find appealing
Like your lips as they form the word -
"No."

I wrote that...good tune as well

she takes just like a woman
she wakes just like a woman
she aches just like a woman
but she breaks just like a little girl.....Dylan

The leader of the band is tired
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I'm just a living legacy
To the leader of the band....Dan Foegelberg

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife
baby edgy and dull
and cut a six inch valley
through the middle of my soul
At night I wake up with the sheets
soaking wet and
a freight train running
through the middle of my head -
only you can cool my desire
oooh I'm on fire...... Springstein

PHONY’S


Don’t claim that your brave, when your full of fear
Don’t act like a worrywart, if you really don’t care
Don’t pretend to enjoy a crowded atmosphere
And go in the corner and play solitaire

Don’t put on a laugh, when inside your cryin’
Don’t make a statement, you might later be denying
Don’t say it’s your best, when you’re not trying
Don’t purr like a cat and roar like a lion

You’ve gotta be yourself, don’t be a phony
Don’t be led around, like a small pony
If you’re yourself, you’ll be honest and true
Than people will respect you in whatever you do


Don’t go twisting the truth with self-made lies
Don’t start making excuses and crazy alibis
Don’t put on a mask and wear a disguise
Don’t walk in the shoes that aren’t your size

Don’t be a sore loser, if you don’t always win
Before you can finish, you have to begin
You must be confident before you jump in
Don’t go overboard, if you can’t swim


There are things you can do, things that you can’t
Don’t get the feeling, that your superman
Just be who you are, that’s no great a task
And they’ll be nothing impossible people will ask

Tom Hannon
1969

Did you ever try to get it published Tom? Good work.

I Hope You Dance is my son and my song. When he went into the Navy I gave him the CD and we danced to it at his wedding last March. I love the song.

Thanks Ed. I actually put it to music. My friends had a popular band and they tried to record it but it was all screwed up. It sounded like Grand Funk Railroad with heavy drums and screaming guitars. I wanted it played like "Blowing in The Wind" or "You Got To Hide Your Love Away."

My musician friends said my writing was a cross between Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Unfortunately, I didn't go anywhere with my song writing but did manage to have a collection of short stories published. I am working on a novel soon and I hope to have that published.

My house
Is a very, very very nice house

Crosby, Stills and etc.

Allan Clarke's finest lyrics -

Saturday night I was downtown
Working for the FBI
Sitting in a nest of bad men
Whisky bottles piling high

Bootlegging boozer on the west side
Full of people who are doing wrong
Just about to call up the DA man
When I heard this woman singing a song

A pair of 45's made me open my eyes
My temperature started to rise
She was a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5'9, beautiful tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
'Cos that long cool woman had it all

I saw her headin' to the table
With a tall walking big black cat
Well Charlie said I hope that you're able boy
'COS I'm telling you she knows where it's at

When suddenly we heard the sirens
And everybody started to run
Jumpin out of doors under tables
When I heard somebody shooting a gun

Well the DA was pumping my left hand
And then she was a-holding my right
Well I told her don't get scared
'Cos you're gonna be spared
Well I've gotta be forgiven
If I wanna spend my living
With a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5'9 beautiful tall
Well, with just one look I was a bad mess
'Cos that long cool woman had it all

From the gutter to you, Babe, ain't up.

Um, it was:

"Our House
Is a very, very, very fine house"

... just for the, get this-- "record". :girlneener:

Okay, fine then!

lines
 

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late

ONce upon a time you dressed so fine
ya gave the bums a dime
in your prime

Didn't you?



You went to the finest school
Miss Lonely
But you only got juiced in it.
Nobody tought you to live on the streets
but you gotta get used to it!

Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't act so proud
About..
Scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel.....
How does it feel....
to be all alone.....
with no direction home.....
like a complete unknown

Like a Rolling Stone.....

Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I'm in your garden, fading fast in your arms.
The soldiers soften, the war is over.
The air raid shelters are blooming clover.
Flapping umbrellas fill the lanes--
My London Bridge in rain again.

Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park.
You read me Shakespeare on the rolling Thames--
That old river poet that never, ever ends.
Our thumping hearts hold the ravens in,
And keep the tower from tumbling.

Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I don't want to go.

Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge.
Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.
Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing
In the orchard, my English rose,
Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home.

Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I don't want to go.

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now."
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

Tom Lehrer in Vatican Rag:

Get in line in that processional
step into that small confessional
there the guy who's got religion'll
tell you if your sin's original
if it is try playin it safer
drink the wine and chew the wafer
two four six eight
time to transubstantiate....

poisoning pidgeons in the Park:

We gained noteriety and cause much anxietey
in the Audobon Society with our games
they called it inpiety and lack of propriety
and quite a variety of unpleasant names
but it's not against any religion
to want to dispose of a pidgeon

Those are both from memory to prove what a geek I am

I don't want to spoil the party so I'll go
I would hate my disappointment to show
There's nothing for me here
So I will disappear

If she turns up while I'm gone,
please let me know
I've had a drink or two and I don't care
There's no fun in what I do if she's not there
I wonder what went wrong
I've waited far too long

I think I'll take a walk and look for her

Woman, I can hardly express
My mixed emotions and my thoughtlessness
After all, I'm forever in your debt
And woman, I will try to express my inner feelings and thankfulness
For showing me the meaning of success

Ooh, well, doo doo doo doo doo.
Ooh, well, well, doo doo doo doo doo

Woman, I know you understand the little child inside a man
Please remember, my life is in your hands, and woman
Hold me close to your heart, however distant don't keep us apart
After all it is written in the stars

Ooh, well

Woman, please let me explain
I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain
So let me tell you again and again and again
I love you, yeah, yeah, yeah, now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah, yeah, now and forever