Best single lines PART TWO

Subject: Best single lines PART TWO
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 May 99 - 01:34 PM

This Best Single Lines (1)>/a> was getting a bit long.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 May 99 - 10:30 PM

"women seem wicked when you're unwanted - streets are uneven when you're down"

"the cars hiss by my window - like the waves down on the beach"

" I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer- The future's uncertain and the end is always near"

"The old get old and the young get stronger- may take a week and it may take longer- they got the guns but we got the numbers"

"let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen- woman lend me your gentle soul- turn me out in the morning- stumbling in the neon glow"

All above by James Douglas Morrison

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 12:57 AM

But trust me on the sunscreen

I couldn't resist!

kat

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Doug
Date: 07 May 99 - 01:02 AM

okay, it's two lines. Still . . .

I'm a big fat mama, got the meat shakin' on my bones And every time I shake, some skinny gal loses her home

--Ida Cox, "Four Day Creep" (1939)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Frank Of Toledo
Date: 07 May 99 - 01:52 PM

YOU CANNOT COUNT THE MILES UNTIL YOU FEEL THEM ............YOU CANNOT HOLD A LOVER THAT IS GONE...... ........TOWNES VAN ZANDT........................

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 May 99 - 05:33 PM

What'll DO to make you love me?

The Corrs.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 May 99 - 09:19 PM

I was talking to Art and another of my favorite lines from a song popped into my head.

Depression's not a million laughs
but suicide's too dangerous

from the song "Take Her In Your Arms"

Mick

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: WyoWoman
Date: 12 May 99 - 11:45 PM

Doug -- those are a couple of my favorite lines, too. I have them on a House of Blues "Essential Women of the Blues" compilation tape. Sort of the female version of, "Baby, I'm built for comfort, I ain't built for speed..." (Willy Dixon?)

kc

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: maddy
Date: 13 May 99 - 12:09 PM

my favorite line is not from a song. in the opening pages of alan paton's (no relation) 'cry, the beloved country' he refers to a place where '... the land is lovely beyond any singing of it.'

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: LEJ
Date: 13 May 99 - 02:05 PM

This one from Dire Straits The Waterline :

"No money in our pockets and our jeans are torn

your hands are cold, but your lips are warm"

A stretch for the rhyme, but it sure is REAL .

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Håvard
Date: 13 May 99 - 05:08 PM

"There's no use to pretend - you'll ever need the cork again, when you've broken oot a bottle of the best"
"Away we'll run from the exciseman"

Håvard (who's going abroad today)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 99 - 01:29 PM

Joni Mitchell

You've got to shake your fists at lighting now
You've got to roar like a forest fire.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Bert
Date: 17 May 99 - 03:30 PM

From Jake Thackray's "On Again, On Again"
I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day
and...She could bore the balls off a buffalo

It's funny how these could fit equally well on "The worst single lines" thread.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Easy Rider
Date: 18 May 99 - 01:59 PM

It's the same story the crow told me. It's the only one he knows. Like the morning sun you come, And with the wind you go. Aint no time to hate, Barely time to wait. Woa Ho, what I want to know, Is are you kind?

("Uncle John's Band,R. Hunter, The Grateful Dead)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: LEJ
Date: 18 May 99 - 02:41 PM

Thanks ER. Never knew what the first verse of that was til now.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: John Wood
Date: 18 May 99 - 09:03 PM

I pulled my big boots on
I walked out on the Mesa
And I stumbled on this song.

From James Taylor's ``Enough To Be On Your Way´´,from CD--Hour Glass.

John

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Philippa
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 07:22 PM

"You say it better when you say nothing at all"

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: DonMeixner
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 10:43 PM

"See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been so long, it wasn't big." "Honey" as sund by Bobby Goldsboro"

"bow, bow bow, Bow? No! Bow Bow, Bubba Bow, bow bow." "Hey Mr. Bassman"

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 15 Jun 99 - 11:45 PM

Having been there:
"Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minuits to hours"
Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Peter T.
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 09:24 AM

"My eyes could clearly see,
The Statue of Liberty,
sailing away to sea."
-- hard, visionary line. Paul Simon.
Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Easy Rider
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 09:44 AM

Woa Ho, what I want to know is "Are you kind?"

(Uncle John's Band, by Robt. Hunter)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Sophie
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:03 AM

This straight from the truly magnificent date-base is on of my favourite lines (well verses)of any folksong. The young men singing the song asks the girl if he can walk out with her. She replies, rather catty: "Were I to say yea, I would say 'gainst my mind, And for to say no, you would think I was unkind For to sit and say nothing, you would say I was dumb, So take that for your answer and go as you come."

Auch! I swear I will try this answer in a pub one day...

Sophie

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: emily rain
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:17 AM

Karen, she's a silver sun
You'd best walk her way and watch it shinin'

"Carolina On My Mind" -JT

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:32 AM

From Scott Cameron Smith's "Greentown":

"unfettered by wisdom and fueled by youth".

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Fadac
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 11:03 AM

Don't wait for the shrimpboats Ma, your boy comming home with the crabs.

Never put your life on a single fuse. Commador Grims (Rimworld series.)

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: reggie miles
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 12:09 PM

From Vasectomy, a song by Larry Heagle,

Like a navel orange I've been freed, it's all juice and there's no seed.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Herge
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 02:30 PM

Didn't wake up this morning cause I didn't go to bed, I was watching the whites of my eyes turn red.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Marion
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 04:57 PM

A childhood ditty:

Everybody's doing it,
Picking their nose and chewing it,
Thinking that it's ice cream but it's not...

(If you don't get it, say the last few words out loud and stretch out the S)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: LEJ
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 08:44 PM

"These fragile bodies of touch and taste,

this vibrant skin, this hair like lace-

Spirits open to the thrust of grace,

never a breath you can afford to waste"-Bruce Cockburn Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Max
Date: 16 Jun 99 - 08:45 PM

Charlie Drake had a good one
"I've lost the end of my yodel - Yodelay E A E ....(silence)"

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 12:21 PM

Not a lot of trad here. Time for some research later.

Contemporary: -

Boss man boss man what do you say/gonna get you alone in the mine some day/It'll be murder in the first degree/If you ever lay your hands on me. GOrdin Lightfoot.

Don't marry her, fuck me (recent pop song - the real words from the album nad the live gigs not the version on the hit songle and probably on MTV too

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Jack (who is called Jack)
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 06:51 PM

Here are five that never fail to move me.

#1 Merle Travis Dark as a Dungeon He doesn't load up on the adjectives, he gives six simple details, the meter and melody are simple and light, and strips away any romantic notion of

Where its dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew, Where the danger is double, the pleasures are few, Where the rain never comes and the sun never shines Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

#2 traditional from How Can I Keep from Singing.

No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I'm clinging, since love is lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing.

#3 traditional (??) from The Parting Glass

And since it falls unto my lot that I should rise and you should not, I'll gently rise and I'll softly call, goodinight and joy be with you all.

My contemporary vote

Randy Newman-- Broken windows, empty hallways, Pale dead moon in a sky filled with gray Human kindess is overflowing, and I think its going to rain today

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Mikey joe
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 09:25 AM

How canI live at the top of a mountain

Mj

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 01:12 PM

Most of the time It's well understood, Most of the time I wouldn't change it if I could, I can't make it all match up, I can hold my own, I can deal with the situation right down to the bone, I can survive, I can endure And I don't even think about her Most of the time.

Bob Dylan, Most of the time

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: heric
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:14 PM

My house is on fire
It's burning to the sky
I thought it might rain
but the clouds passed by

Bob Dylan, 'Til I Fell in Love With You

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Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: heric
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:15 PM

dang that html

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: iamjohnne
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:25 PM

Gee this one is easy for me

"goin where the weather suits my clothes"

from "Everybody's talkin" by Fred Neil

Johnne

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: dougboywonder
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:27 PM

"Warm summer days spent indoors writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in luxemburg."

- Morrisey

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: alanabit
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 03:07 PM

Two of my favourites are from Dylan,"You're gonna make me wonder what I'm saying/You're gonna make me give myself a good talking to" (from You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go) and Joni Mitchell's "Woman of Heart and Mind", which ends with the devastating put down,"You know the times when you impress me most are the times when you don't even try". I hope that none of the women in my life have ever thought that about me - but that's probably just wishful thinking on my part!

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 03:39 PM

"She loves you yeah yeah yeah"

The Beatles...

Just kidding. But it was pretty durned funny when Peter Sellers did it.

How about

I gave you seven children Now you wanna give 'em back. - - -B.B. King.

Like a water colour in the rain. -----Al Stewart, The year of the cat.

A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated ---- Jim Croce , Operator

I just made you say underwear ---- BNL, Pinch Me

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 03:41 PM

Just one of many from Dylan's latest.

... I'm sittin' on my watch, so I can be on time...

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: GUEST,JanetCT
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 03:56 AM

"The ways of man are passing strange; he buys his freedom and he counts his change..." I don't know who wrote it but Anne Mayo Muir recorded it with Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett.

"If they ever drop the bomb, you said, I'll find you in the flames..." Jimmy Webb? Art Garfunkel recorded it.

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 05:35 AM

From a scottish ballad called 'The Bonny Birdie' which is a little Matty-Groves-ish

Then he's darked her windows up secure wi' muckle sugar stane

This is while the lord is bricking the wife into her room after killing her lover. To 'dark' a window is a brilliant invented verb, IMHO

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Kaleea
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 12:44 AM

"How can I miss you if you won't go away?" But seriously, one of my alltime favorite snippets from a song is from the English translation of Silent Night" (although I prefer the German as our "translation" does not do it justice, but hey, it rhymes): ". . . Son of God, Love's pure Light. Radiant beams from Thy Holy face . . ."

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Mudlark
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 11:42 PM

From a blues singer I heard a long time ago..."Telephone's ringing...Sounds like a long DIStance call..."

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:56 AM

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys

Alas! It was to none but me

Amid these dark Satanic mills

And here comes the chopper to chop off your head

And if ever you heard a little dog bark

And it's awfully awkward for the queen when she has to blow her nose

And lives on Beacon Street in all the style that she can swing

And mother catechises me till I want to go out and swear

And now I have lived, I know not how long

And she said, "No I don't, but you kiss just fine"

And so far, no dead ends

And some of them will marry, and one will marry me

And turns to set the mirror, gently, face down by the stove

And underneath the napkin left a thousand-dollar bill

And we had to make do with gin

As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My Grace shall deal

Beshaato hayiti gam ani tsodek

Brave bracelets strong, sweet whips ding-dong

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning

Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod

But the spread of infidelity was checked in camp that day

Change and decay in all around I see

Chickens crowing on Sourwood Mountain

Featherbeds are soft, and painted rooms are bonny

First flower of their wilderness, star of their night

Follow me, follow me home

From the great big world outside

Give motherlove and lumpytums

Greasy rails, red clay trails

Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun

He was born on land, but he sure enjoys the skies

I'd have another string for my bow

I'd shine my light on cool Colorado rain

If there were no poor, and the rich were content

I hear the noise of wings

I'll get myself up in some right high degree

I'll pack my suitcase and make my getaway

I'll pass the time like some machine

I'll show you something to make you change your mind

I'm going there to meet my mother

I'm tired of living and scared of dying

In the dead of winter, if springtime never comes

I think of you often, I like you a lot

It will all come right by tomorrow night

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land.

Let the 2:19 ease my troubled mind

Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel.

Married girl, married girl, rocks the cradle and cries

May she defend our laws

Mud, mud, glorious mud!

Nor mettled hound nor managed hawk nor palfrey fresh and fair

Oh, when will we ever learn?

Put my boots on tall, read the writing on the wall

Rechka dvizhitsa i ne dvizhitsa

Say, don't you remember, they called me Al

Seduced a maid who hanged herself one Monday in her garters

See what the boys in the backroom will have

She makes a small hole in the frost on the window

Since love is lord of heaven and earth

So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed

So we'll live on hope and songs instead

Than the crossties on the railroad or the stars in the skies

The silent stars go by

The sun shines o'er the westlin hills by the lamplicht o' the moon

Though hundreds worship at his word

Tie my bones to his back, turn our faces to the west

Till the rain comes tumbling down

To memory now I can't recall

Too late, but never mind.

To the glow of friendly faces and the glance of loving eyes

We've no less days to sing God's praise

We weren't lovers like that, and besides, it would still be all right

When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall

Where many a rooster like himself sat waiting for his tea

While Joseph stood around

With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go

You'd think that it was Satan coming down the aisle

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

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Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: GUEST,julie s.
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:46 PM

the actual lyrics from soul kitchen are:
let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
warm my mind to your gentle stove
turn me out in a while now baby,
stumbling in the neon glow

still awesome lyrics, just thought you ought to know the real ones :)

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: allanwill
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:13 AM

"Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use to the dead" (NGDB)

"I met a man whose name was time - he said I must be going; but just how long ago that was, I have no way of knowing." (probably, puncuation rearranged to make it one sentence). (ISB)

Allan

Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:06 AM

Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound (ISB)