16 Oct 01 - 01:58 AM (#573115) Subject: Your OWN best lines From: Bert Come on you song writers! This one's for you. I'll start with a line of mine. "The mountains are carrying the clouds on their backs" Your turn... |
16 Oct 01 - 02:11 AM (#573116) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Ebbie "And we sit here on your birthday with no one to surprise" |
16 Oct 01 - 02:24 AM (#573118) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: BlueJay "I don't see anything wrong with the Internet, Everybody ought to have one". |
16 Oct 01 - 02:29 AM (#573120) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Mudlark "I slide between cool sheets, and fall asleep in the brilliant embrace of the moon." Ebbie...would love to hear the rest of THAT song! |
16 Oct 01 - 02:36 AM (#573121) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Bert We've got some great ones already, perhaps you're right Mudlark, we should post the whole song. You first! |
16 Oct 01 - 03:39 AM (#573138) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Steve Parkes "Trees everywhere, with blossom in their hair" Actually, that's Leslie Bricusse, but I wish I'd written it! Of my own modest efforts, I like this: "The trolleybus rolls on its route, be they straightly roads or bendily, No noise and no pollut-i-on, environment'lly friendily." Steve |
16 Oct 01 - 03:46 AM (#573140) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Micca "Folds back the blanket and clasps me to her The way the River can embrace the lake" |
16 Oct 01 - 04:34 AM (#573158) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: KingBrilliant "I met an old man, he told me something, He told me nothing now could keep him sober. His lover left him, his wife has gone away, He's missing teeth and he's missing mother." Kris |
16 Oct 01 - 05:42 AM (#573176) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Morticia couple of Gomez' lyrics: "virtues are desirable, but they don't make very good pets" and
"I see that you're beside yourself, |
16 Oct 01 - 07:56 AM (#573242) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Troll "She touches the strings and the cares of a lifetime, Fade away like the rays of the now-setting sun. She cradles the Harp like a child to her shoulder, And the soul of the Harp and the Harper are one." The Song In The Wood circa 1993 troll |
16 Oct 01 - 08:37 AM (#573272) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Midchuck She would stand on the line for the start of a meet, And you'd know that's the look that they saw In the eyes of the man waiting there in the street Until some poor damn fool tried to draw... From Gunfighter's Eyes It's true, too! Peter. |
16 Oct 01 - 08:52 AM (#573282) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Scabby Douglas When you are grown, you'll be a princess When you are grown, you'll be a fine man When you are grown, and wise as I wish you I'll be as proud of you as anyone can from "When" Cheers
Steven |
16 Oct 01 - 09:44 AM (#573303) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Jack the Sailor I wanna see you naked |
16 Oct 01 - 09:57 AM (#573311) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Kim C I dreamed about a man last night Upon a pale horse he did ride And hell was close behind his heels But I was sure it wasn't real
This morning when the daylight broke The Black Flower, 1999, inspired by Howard Bahr's novel of the same name |
16 Oct 01 - 10:42 AM (#573358) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: LR Mole "Pirates sad in defeat, Devoured by crocodiles and time." from "Latter Days of Peter Pan" |
16 Oct 01 - 12:53 PM (#573450) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Jerry Rasmussen "Somewhere inside her, there's still that young girl, with a tortoise-shell comb in her hair." The complete verse: "She remembers the sweet smell of reshly-baked apples That came from the woodburning stove And the songs that her Mother would sing to herself And the laughter, when Father came home And somewhere inside her, there's still that young girl With a tortoise-shell comb in her hair And sometimes the memories come back with a song Just as surely as if she were there."
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16 Oct 01 - 01:07 PM (#573460) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: InOBU I kinda always like the last one I wrote, though, I always was partial to the line in the song Yvette's song, about the forced assimilation of Canadian natives, (on returning to her grandmother's house... There I remembered I was Innu again Not a Montainaise* and not your Indian * The "tribal name" for Innu in Qubecouis. To see my latest lines... check out the posts "Otway's Latest, a Quaker Song 4 Today" and "EVEN ANOTHER! Quaker Song (from Larry)" Cheers Larry |
16 Oct 01 - 01:08 PM (#573462) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: mousethief I am told that one of my better lines comes from my song Existential Sheep, "Here I sit in silence, I'm just waiting to be sheared." But perhaps it works better in context (blicky. I can't judge my own stuff; I'm too close to it. For a few brief seconds for each song, I think it's the greatest song I've ever written, then I despise it. Alex |
16 Oct 01 - 01:19 PM (#573473) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Ebbie Thanks, Mudlark.
"It's been close on a year now that you're gone, I realize
We sing of you and think of you and share each other's pain
Chorus:
It's your laughing and loving in the living of your life
Long years will trail each other as healing time goes by
Tell me, boy, Why??"
Ebbie |
16 Oct 01 - 01:24 PM (#573476) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Amergin Drunkenness is my only virtue The pub is my second home The taps and bottles are my subjects The barstool is my throne
From The Drunkard King
Oh, their voices rang and the coyotes sang,
From Silent Voices
Now he sits alone upon the barstool From Solace
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16 Oct 01 - 01:33 PM (#573483) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk Life's a magnificent calling That goes way beyond buy and sell Life's a magnificent calling Far greater than heaven and hell For life is the endless unfolding Of all that the heart can perceive Like the waves that keep constantly rolling ashore Like the wind as it blows through the trees
And life is not hoarded or purchased
And they tread upon life in the valley
For life is the end and beginning - LH |
16 Oct 01 - 01:52 PM (#573497) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: jeffp If you'll just step into my arms We'll waltz all around this hall And no matter what the future brings I'll be there each time you call From Would You Like to Dance? jeffp |
16 Oct 01 - 02:50 PM (#573545) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: CapriUni Okay -- this isn't from a song (yet -- who knows? I may write a song around it). It's from a term paper I wrote for a world religions class in college. But it is still my best line ever: "Laughter is the sound of the soul's wings beating"
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16 Oct 01 - 02:51 PM (#573546) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Donuel This ol violin of 200 years was in pieces and plays like new, I wish I could do that too. |
16 Oct 01 - 03:05 PM (#573552) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Donuel A scar like a star , shines from long ago. |
16 Oct 01 - 03:33 PM (#573566) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: kendall On picking up a hiker... She found a station that was playing that stuff Some call Country, that was bad enough, Then she started singing along HAD A VOICE THAT WOULD SHATTER TUPPERWARE...
And, ..she had one of them damn Walkmen stuck in her ear |
16 Oct 01 - 03:44 PM (#573583) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Ebbie "Laughter is to the soul what sex is to the body" *BG* Not a song but it came up in a late night discussion. Ebbie |
16 Oct 01 - 04:04 PM (#573597) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Metchosin Salal bush wind clipp'd and bent By the western wind is rent Into bonsai gardens of the rain and storm. Sparkling silver sea and mist Has constant, held and kissed This wild topiary landscape's sculpted form.
0r maybe
On a windswept grassy knoll |
16 Oct 01 - 05:10 PM (#573653) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST "Hotel Song," c.1965 The, bass, the bass sings--beat, beat The bass from the bar at the bottom of the building, Beat, beat--the rhythm, rhythm. Outside the window, wires tap together; Trolley-wires tap on a tin, tin banjo: Jing jing-a-jing, jing-a-jing jing-a-jing-a Horn trumpets and airbrake trombones Blow in the street, in the street below Every horn has a time to solo-- Off key, off time, they all blow. Above the building, high, alive Winged piccolos scream and dive. The radiator plays a mean sax. CC |
16 Oct 01 - 05:26 PM (#573668) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: John Hardly Tonight...I'll sing you to sleep for the first time knowing We'll be sharing this space for a while. I'll sing and play and you'll do the growing. Hey, can you feel it when I smile? And I'll hold you against my rosewood guitar While I sing from my newly blessed soul And you'll have the best seat in the house by far. My heart, my life, this sound---so full. So I'll sing the high notes (a nice way to start) This guitar will fill in the low, Between you, and me, and this guitar, Tonight...I'll sing to you this lulla-hello I just had a funny thought. If some day you should learn to play the guitar like me, And you press your ear against its top as you play…like all guitar players do… Will you suddenly remember this time together? |
16 Oct 01 - 06:55 PM (#573729) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk "I never met a boy scout yet who was fully prepared" - LH |
16 Oct 01 - 07:47 PM (#573773) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Mudlark What a great collection of lines and songs! |
16 Oct 01 - 07:59 PM (#573780) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Joe_F They never can be good; they never dare be wise. How they must thirst for honor while they swill us with our lies! "East Coast Sunrise Hymn", 1973 |
17 Oct 01 - 08:21 AM (#574094) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: mkebenn On the hunt I was attracted to most anything wearin' skirts. And I smoked an' coked an' drank myself to a full flame out alert. "Big Flattop Guitar" 1977 Mike |
17 Oct 01 - 10:34 AM (#574161) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: BluesMojo "Love comes with the wind and it ain't disciplined and you never intend it to go." |
17 Oct 01 - 10:52 AM (#574178) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Donuel It was something so strange that I Really can never explain , it simply Happened as I watched, and can't Just expect you to blindly believe. This globe of white light passed my Way through the walls and my eyes
I was alone with my cat and could
I had read flatland and at its heart it
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17 Oct 01 - 10:55 AM (#574182) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: dorareever mmm..I think I'm pretty good at songwriting,but I'm a little shy...and I write in english even if it isn't my native language...so please be kind with my lyrics :) ...falling and crashing,the lovely decay sprinkling spring in chill the sun with cold ray roses still lingering,still sweeping off breathe the white air,it's sure that you'll cough bombs of the Soviet,the blackened window pane you're gonna cheat someone for easing your pain ('tis from a song I wrote about Prague) She sits on shiny pianos/her legs like priceless dreams/her eyes with cinder blackened/the moon glad with sweet beams/he tries to fight the boredom/the boys all curse the clown (a "before Hitler" Berlin kinda song...) All the bug eyes that I have all for crying they were made and I never ever come back home I fear (I'm into spooky alien atomic folk songs.This one is bug eyed monster emigrant lament.) |
17 Oct 01 - 11:16 AM (#574196) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk "I know I've seen the end of something fine that I cannot name. When men live just for money that's when life goes down the drain." (refers to the passing of the open range, the buffalo, and the free roaming people of the old West, before the towns, railroads, and ranches came in...but it's the same old problem right now in 2001, only worse) - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 11:20 AM (#574199) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk "While your generals and your presidents make a football game of war Go ask Crazy Horse and Sittng Bull, they know what you're fighting for City of Fools, you think you run the whole world City of Fools, you think you run the whole world City of Fools, you think you run the whole world You're a City of Fools." - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 11:28 AM (#574201) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Willie-O There's something I like about a legion hall Somewhere on a Friday night They're drinkin Blue and Ex and even 50 there, Or real bad coffee like chewin on dynamite Something just right about a pockmarked guitar That just won't get in tune And the five-eleven highway takin you home Underneath a summertime moon. |
17 Oct 01 - 12:47 PM (#574237) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk I was traveling with this girl one time In another century (It might even've been a Buick, I'm not sure) We were suffering from the same disease They call it "modern life" So we headed for the hills to find a cure Like maybe a Yaqui sorcerer or a mystid from Peru Or a crystal ball from distant Mandalay Now I can't recall her name, but I will not forget her eyes They were lookin' at me from a million miles away
Cold is the road as autumn slips away
She had come out of some mining town
Cold is the road as autumn slips away [that's part of the story...] - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 12:54 PM (#574242) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk that's "mystic" from Peru, not mystid... - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 03:48 PM (#574337) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST,mkebenn@work The reservation was Cornplanter's home for as long as the sun filled the sky. But the Army Corps of Engineers played God while the waters rise. Kinzua 1969 Mike |
17 Oct 01 - 03:56 PM (#574341) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk Ah, yes, Buffy used to sing about Kinzua Dam in "Now That The Buffalo's Gone"... - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 05:36 PM (#574400) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk "He flies a long-nosed Swallow, Kawasaki Hien Tony Type 61 244th Squadron on the tailfin 20 millimeter guns She's got stripes on the main wing Stars around the gunports Lightning down the fuselage side 24 kill marks underneath the cockpit It's a wonder he's still alive! That's Jiro Ariake in his silver Kawasaki Over '45 Tokyo!" (possibly the only song ever written about a Japanese fighter ace in WWII, based on the actual exploits of the legendary Akamatsu, who flew not a Kawasaki Hien, but a Mitsubishi Raiden fighter. The Hien was an army plane, the Raiden flew for the Navy. Hiens were sometimes decorated in a very fancy way, as in this song. The above is one of the 4 verses.) - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 05:43 PM (#574404) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST,mkebenn@work When the chill winds bring October they lay down the frost at night. And all of North America is spellbound by their flight Great Canada 1971 Mike |
17 Oct 01 - 05:55 PM (#574411) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk Very nice! - LH |
17 Oct 01 - 06:31 PM (#574435) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST,mkebenn@work okay, if you like,LH What is there in my whole life more sacred to my soul than the call of the wild geese inviting me to go? Fly, Great Canada, high above the worl of men Fly, Great Canada, I'll be alone 'till you come back again. Mike |
18 Oct 01 - 11:01 AM (#574869) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST,Claymore DIADELPHOUS (1972) I've left to go find myself, But if he returns before they get back, Please ask me to stay, Until we return... |
18 Oct 01 - 11:15 AM (#574872) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Pseudolus ....written for my sister-in-law and her husband for their Wedding Day..... It might just be that in God's plan, A woman falls in live with a man, It's no mistake I'm standing here today.....
Frank |
18 Oct 01 - 03:20 PM (#574955) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: GUEST,Dan Brown Is your life a hopeless tangle of confusion, pain, and grief. Does your purpose lack a reason, are you sure what you believe. |
18 Oct 01 - 05:11 PM (#575036) Subject: RE: BS: Your OWN best lines From: Little Hawk I said "Well, this is it" And she said "Is that what you want?" I said "Want's a word I'm seldom heard to use." She replied "Then don't wait up for me" And turned to walk away I said "You go right ahead, I'll light the fuse..." - LH |