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.)