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Favorite Lines from songs....

Your childhood eyes were so intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
The grown-up wings
You needed

But when you had to add them up
You found that there were not enough
To get you in
Pay for sins
Repeated

And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you cried
And for all the fears you had to keep inside
Yeah

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe, yeah

Savatage - Believe
 
Well he took little Susie to the junior prom
Excitable Boy they all said,
And he raped her and killed her when he took her home
Excitable Boy they all said.
He was just an Excitable Boy.

-Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon
 
She takes you down easy
Going down to her knees
Going down to the devil
Down down to ninety degrees
Oh, she's blowing me crazy
'Til my ammunition is dry
Oh, She's using her head again
She's using her head
Oh, She's using her head again
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone

AC/DC
 
It's Friday I'm in love
The Cure

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Over the Rainbow Arlen and Harburg

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin

But I love you in a place where there's no space and time
I love you for my life, you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you.
A Song For You, Leon Russell

"How much are them candies?" they asked her.
"How much have you got?" she replied.
"We've only a penny between us."
"Them's two for a penny," she lied.
Here Comes That Rainbow Again, The Highwaymen

The hill that I live on is steep
And the road's full of ruts
And the people who live in the flatlands
Think we folks are nuts
But the ruts in my road and the curves
Keep the tourists at bay
And it's lonesome and peaceful
And you know I like it that way
Ridgetop Jesse Colin Young
 
And I shall drive my chariot down your streets and cry
hey its me, i'm dynamite, and i don't know why.
And you shall take me strongly in your arms again
And I will not remember that i even felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain
And I will never, never, never grow so old again.

- Van Morrison, Sweet Thing
 
was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye.
 
was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes
Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. Janice
 
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
or is it something worse?
- the boss
Springsteen has a million different lines that could be thrown in here. I once spent an entire evening (like, 8 hours) in a bar and at a post-bar gathering discussing that particular line.
 
Here are the entire lyrics that create the exact image they’re trying to from Paul Westerberg’s great Eyes Like Sparks.

Just stay where you are
Baby stay away from me
With your eyes like sparks
And my heart like gasoline
 
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"Bring back The Boston Rag, tell all your buddies that it ain't no drag" Steely Dan

My intramural team in multiple sports at Geneva College - The Boston Rag
 
was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.....year after year"
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

"Breathe out so I can breathe you in"
Foo Fighters - Everlong

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss"
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

Those are good.
I have a few...

The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever...living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

Peter Gabriel's Biko... You can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire, once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher.

They Might Be Giants...You and your Racist Friend...He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding

And pretty much this entire song and yea it is genius
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-positively-4th-street-lyrics
 
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Seems like I was just a kid not so long ago
So many arrivals
So many lows
Now my time behind is greater than my time ahead

All Be Gone - Buffalo Tom
 
Stephen Day - Sour Inside

Verse 1:
Well, Mama told me not to mess around
And watch out for that candy type they can take your thinking out
Though she may look real sweet that might not be the case
A good personality ain't bought with a pretty face

Hook:
She'll pull you in and then, pretty soon you'll find
She may look like sugar but she's sour inside

Verse 2:
A crafted confection on the scene
She hides behind that mask of hers that looks to be so sweet
She sits there cute like candy wrapped up on a shelf
The truth of the matter is she's wrapped up in herself

Hook:
She'll pull you in and then, pretty soon you'll find
She may look like sugar but she's sour inside


Beastie Boys - Long Burn the Fire

"Proof is in the pudding, and the puddings in my pants... you heard me RAP now watch me dance!"

Yeah, I listen to all types of music except Country.
 
was thinking about this last night....because you know, it's not like I can go anywhere....and do anything...


"lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door"
Live - LIghtning Crashes

"Lightning Crashes" utterly ruined by use of the word placenta. That word has no place in a rock and roll song.
 
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Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
LOLA lola, la la la la Lola
 
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"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer (twice for emphasis...maybe it was 2 beers) ... the future's uncertain and the end is always near."

- The Lizard King
 
from the Hillbilly Shakespeare

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
 
Not as deep but I thought this was a great twist of words"

Body like a back road, drivin' with my eyes closed
I know every curve like the back of my hand
Doin' 15 in a 30, I ain't in no hurry
I'mma take it slow just as fast as I can
 
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"Don't call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear
Makin the tears rain down like a monsoon"

LLCool J - Momma said Knock You Out


"Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true."

Neil Young - Old Man
 
Another favorite of mine is Stan Ridgeway, he tells a great song. ;)

I wanna be a boss...I'll be more famous than Howard Hughes
I'll grow a long beard and watch
Ice Station Zebra in the nude
 
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Another favorite of mine is Stan Ridgeway, he tells a great song. ;)

I wanna be a boss...I'll be more famous than Howard Hughes
I'll grow a long beard and watch
Ice Station Zebra in the nude
ha...watched ice station zebra this week. Tell me, why did "Jones" kill Jim Brown?
 
I'm hiding in honduras, I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan HA!

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey
 
All of Candy Mountain.

Two broken tigers on fire in the night
Flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
It’s been almost four years since I’ve carried a gun
At home it will almost be spring
The flames of the tigers are lighting the roads to Berlin

Roads to Moscow by Al Stewart.
 
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
I killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank, held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
 
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