LIRunerr wrote:
Also big Dylan fan, so here are a couple of other great lines of his;
I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul...
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
You could do a whole thread just on great Dylan lyrics.
I'll add:
"I used to care, but things have changed."
johnny99 wrote:
LIRunerr wrote:
Also big Dylan fan, so here are a couple of other great lines of his;
I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul...
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
You could do a whole thread just on great Dylan lyrics.
I'll add:
"I used to care, but things have changed."
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright ma,
Everybody must get stoned
A Simple Desultory philippic by Paul Simon
a great parody of Dylan
"yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!"
The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again
coach wrote:
johnny99 wrote:
You could do a whole thread just on great Dylan lyrics.
I'll add:
"I used to care, but things have changed."
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright ma,
Everybody must get stoned
A Simple Desultory philippic by Paul Simon
a great parody of Dylan
"He's so unhip that when you say Dylan,
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was."
johnny99 wrote:
coach wrote:
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright ma,
Everybody must get stoned
A Simple Desultory philippic by Paul Simon
a great parody of Dylan
"He's so unhip that when you say Dylan,
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was."
I've been Ayn Randed nearly branded
Communist cause I'm left handed
That's the hand I use for...nevermind
I was cutting the rug
Down at place called The Jug
With a girl named Linda Lou
When in walked a man
With a gun in his hand
And he was looking for you know who
He said, "Hey there, fellow
With the hair colored yellow
Whatcha tryin' to prove?
'Cause that's my woman there
And I'm a man who cares
And this might be all for you
I said, excuse me
I was scared and fearing for my life
I was shaking like a leaf on a tree
'Cause he was lean, mean
Big and bad, Lord
Pointin' that gun on me
"Oh, wait a minute, mister
I didn't even kiss her
Don't want no trouble with you
And I know you don't owe me
But I wish you'd let me
Ask one favor from you"
"Oh, won't you
Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister
Gimme three steps toward the door?
Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister
And you'll never see me no more"
and from the same band -
Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you
"Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they've all come to look for America..."
-Paul Simon, from Simon and Garfunkel's "America".
alpha lobster wrote:
Opinionated guy wrote:
Eagles:
Some rich men came and raped the land
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
And Jesus people bought 'em
It must be so depressing to be a defeatist loser liberal. So negative about life.
So, my choice of line from rock history that I feel is descriptive and worth sharing tells you I am 1)A defeatist 2)Loser 3)Liberal 4)Negative about life? You got all that from sharing a line from a rock song?
That says one hell of lot more about you than anything! Good luck with that.
“You know you’re semi good lookin’”
Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love, Van Halen
A couple Social Distortion gems:
Well I'll pass the bar on the way
To my dingy hotel room
I spent all my money
I've been drinkin' since half past noon
Well I'll wake there in the mornin'
Or maybe in the county jail
Times are hard getting harder
I'm born to lose and destined to fail
---------------------------------
Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right.
Close your eyes and then it's past;
Story of my life
My Maserati does 185.
I got pulled over.
Now I don't drive.
You're my blue sky you're my sunny day
Lord you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way
Blue Sky
Stuck at home wrote:
A couple Social Distortion gems:
Well I'll pass the bar on the way
To my dingy hotel room
I spent all my money
I've been drinkin' since half past noon
Well I'll wake there in the mornin'
Or maybe in the county jail
Times are hard getting harder
I'm born to lose and destined to fail
---------------------------------
Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right.
Close your eyes and then it's past;
Story of my life
Those and so many others:
He doesn't wanna be a doctor
Or a lawyer, get fat and rich
He's twenty years old, he quit his job
Unemployment pays his rent
......
You're eighteen wanna be a man
Your granddaddy's in the Ku Klux Klan
Taking two steps forward
And four steps back
Gonna go to the White House
And paint it black
.....
I was absent from class,
My daddy spanked my bare ass,
But I sure tried hard to be cool.
Paul Westerberg needs a shout-out:
Jesus rides beside me, he never buys any smokes
Pretty girl, keep growing up, playing makeup, wearing guitar
Growing old in a bar ...
God, what a mess on the ladder of success
You take one step and miss the whole first rung
You're still in love with nobody, and I used to be nobody
With your eyes like sparks, and my heart like gasoline
You may be safe in your hemisphere
But there's so much junk in the stratosphere
We got our eyes on the firmament, hands on the armaments
Heads full of arguments, and words for our monuments
Progress. Midnight Oil
""An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school report
"He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught"
So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive
To notify your parents of the manner in which you died"
This song is just a masterpiece. both in lyrics and in the virtuoso piano playing.
And from that riveting opening, it works to a haunting conclusion:
"Oh they pleaded to your sanity for the sake of those inside
"Throw out your gun, walk out slow just keep your hands held high"
But they pumped you full of rifle shells as you stepped out the door
Oh you danced in death like a marionette on the vengeance of the law"
Bernie Taupin in the songwriter in partnership with Elton John, on his song "Ticking"
* and a heartfelt expression of deepest sympathy to the victims and their families of the recent Oxford High School shootings in Michigan.
Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, the end is always near
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
We're time Nazi's.
We strip our tunes.
We jam econo.
It makes us stench.
MINUTEMEN
"You can't run away forever, but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start."
Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell