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Thread #114691 Message #2454885
Posted By: Jayto
01-Oct-08 - 12:13 PM
Thread Name: Favourite Phrases in Songs
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs
Pour the sun upon the ground
stand to form a shadow
watch it grow into a night
and fill a spinning sky --- Townes Van Zandt the highway kind
You know you can't hang yourself
if you don't have enough rope ---- Chris Knight Enough Rope
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours --- Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
I'm a rolling stone all alone and lost
for this life of sin I've paid the cost
when I pass by all the people say
just another guy on that lost highway --- Hank Williams Lost Highway
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain the only thing thats real
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and you can have it all my empire of dirt
I will let you down I will make you hurt ----- Trent Reznor Hurt
My daddy worked in the coal mine
until the company shut it down
then he sit around and drank himself blind
until they put him back underground --- Steve Earle Oxycontin Blues
We were bad for one another
but we were good at having fun --- Robert Earl Keen Corpus Christi Bay
Gotta keep moving
gotta keep moving
Blues falling down like hail --- Robert Johnson Hellhounds on my Trail
I always play Russian Roulette in my head
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I will always remember to forget about you --- Tom Waits My favorite Color is Red
She had that kind of razor sadness --- Tom Waits
It was the kind of place that smelled like kerosene and you took on the dreams of the ones that had slept there before --- Tom Waits
They drive along the pipeline
they tango till their sore
they take apart their nightmares
and they leave them by the door --- Tom Waits Tango till thier sore
Take you hatred out on me
make your victim my head
you never ever believed in me
I am your torniquet --- Marilyn Manson Torniquet
The wind was as steady as the throttle on a funeral train -- John Prine Mexican Home
I met her on the night of fire and noise -- Nick Cave Do you Love Me
A cheap hotel a long way from my home
so many people make you feel so alone
dreams die easy out here in these streets
while your heart grows cold in the city heat --- Steve Earle Angry Young Man