What are your favorite lines or lyrics from your favorite songs?

I think the lines from Ray LaMontagne's song "Jolene" are my favorite: "Jolene, I ain't about to go straight it's too late, I found myself facedown in the ditch booze in my hair, blood on my lips, and a picture of you holding a picture of me in the pocket of my blue jeans I still don't know what love means." I don't know why but these lyrics stick with me all of the time, I have this song in my mind quite often. I think Ray LaMontagne is a pretty talented singer-songwriter. He is one of my favorites.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Barrance on October 12, 2011 at 1:49pm
How do you keep love alive - Quality 'dark stuff' Other lines from 'Come pick me up ' also , steal all my records , f***  all my friends , cause they're full of shit..........etc
Permalink Reply by Scott Barrance on October 12, 2011 at 1:50pm
"Suck it Up , Tough it out and Be the Best you can" a great metaphor for life :)
Permalink Reply by Stina on October 13, 2011 at 5:31am
"We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill as the day begs the night for mercy love. The sun so bright it leaves no shadows only scars carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill. We see the sun go down in your eyes" - One Tree Hill - U2
Permalink Reply by Matt Milsark on October 13, 2011 at 1:24pm
"Getting all excited finding nothing that was never there before / Is like bringing flowers to your Mama and tracking dog sh!t all over the floor / Jesus made the flowers but it took a dog to make the story good / I think about you when I can and sometime when I don’t I probably should."  Cartoon Gold by Drive-By Truckers.
Permalink Reply by Jim Moulton on October 21, 2011 at 1:26pm

"Greatest Story Ever Told" - Bob Weir

 

"The One thing we need is a left handed monkey wrench"

Permalink Reply by Hugh MacDonald on November 10, 2011 at 12:26pm

"Every time he clicks his Kodak pix he steals a little bit of soul"....John Prine.  "Born in Spain and died in France, was not scared of baggy pants"....Guy Clark. " She's got an ass about 13 ax handles wide, to stay here with her would be suicide..." Billy Joe Shaver. All these work for me.

Permalink Reply by RP N10 on November 10, 2011 at 4:02pm

Jolie Holland's lyrics often reference mockingbirds. Two I've found striking are:

 

There's a mockingbird behind my house 
Who is a magician of the highest degree 
And I swear I heard him rip the world apart 
And sew it back again with his fiery melody, melody

"Mexican Blue" from "Springtime Can Kill You"

 and

 

Mockingbirds sing at the moon

And stars fall from the sky

If you don't catch me when I fall for you

I'm going to have to remember how to fly

"Remember" from "Pint Of Blood"

Permalink Reply by jim dean on November 11, 2011 at 5:02am

I was hers and you were his
The night we met out on that bridge
You knew then what I know now
That love put down comes back some how

The comet came, the comet went
And hid its face in the firmament
I looked once and then turned away
When I looked again it was much too late  

A summer wind, a cotton dress
This is how I remember you best
A glance held long and a stolen kiss
This is how I remember you best

The fool I was is the fool I am
I've got a wife, I'm a family man
But when I lay in our bed
I sometimes dream I'm holding you instead

The kids are fine
They're six and nine
I think you'd probably like my wife
But the kitchen light seems much too bright
For what I find myself thinking tonight

 

Richard Shindell - "A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress"

Permalink Reply by Rick Boardman on November 11, 2011 at 10:56am

"We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass"

 

Iris Dement

Wastleland of the Free

Permalink Reply by bob gale on November 8, 2012 at 12:42pm

I really like the lyrics from the Weight of Lies =- Avett Brothers.

Permalink Reply by Frank Kocher on November 20, 2012 at 1:24pm

I'm very fond of many of Dylan's verses. In addition to virtually all of Gates of Eden and Please Crawl Out Your Window, I've always particularly liked this verse from Masters of War:

You that never done nothin' But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

It has a certain universal truth to it. The ones that profit from the bloodshed are always cowards that flee from it.

Permalink Reply by Russ Cobe on November 23, 2012 at 11:29am

Two of my favorite song lyrics:

"If I should die in a car wreck, may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck." -- U-Li-LaLu by Poi Dog Pondering. (The song's a little dated now....)

"She said that she was working for the ABC news. It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use." -- Brilliant Mistake by Elvis Costello.

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