Great lines in music....

Bee Gees:

An apple is a fool but lemons never do forget.

 

Bruce Cockburn:

Picture on magazine boardroom pop star
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed
- Trickle Down

 

Simon and Garfunkel:

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again

 

I am always confused by the line Took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana. Shouldn’t it be took my harp out my dirty red bandana.

 

“In another time’s forgotten space, your eyes looked from your mother’s face.”
Franklin’s Tower-Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

 

we would zigzag our way thru the boredom and pain

 

There's a tall skinny girl in the booth in the back
Wearin' jeans and a second hand fur
She's been to the doctor then called up her man
And now wonders just where she could turn.

She stares at her coffee then looks toward the ceiling
But Lord it's a strange place to pray
At two in the morning on Saturday night
At Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe.

 

I think it should be "I took my harp on out of my red bandana"

after all they were signing the blues so a blues harp would be the correct instrument to be playing.
I can't see that they were going to be shooting whales.

 

elvis costello - "oh, i used to be disgusted, now i try to be amused" - awwmrs
hal david- several lines from alfie. not least of which is "Without true love we just exist,"

but the king of all is:

"Excuse me while I disappear" from angel eyes - sinatra (brent-dennis) reading it has less impact but the vibe and feel he gets when he says it at the end of the song is stronger than almost any passage i have heard yet.

 

"The wires in the walls are humming.....
Some song,
Some mysterious song".
Joni Mitchell....`Edith and the Kingpin`.

 

Timothy B. Schmit:

When the sun creeps in and the fog rolls out
And the trees stretch up beyond a shadow's doubt
Some make a wish and some like to pray
But everybody just wants to have a good day

 

He's acting innocent and proud, still you know what he's after
Like a matador with his pork sword, while we all die of laughter

Elvis Costello
"I Hope You're Happy Now"

 

The ashtray says
You were up all night

"Shot in the Arm"
Wilco

 

I deserve nothing more than I get
'cause nothing I have is truly mine

 

Red Best Is Yet to Come

Wanting all we left behind
Like its the answer

 

Let's get serious...

God knows what he's doin'

He wrote this book here

An' the book says:


"He made us all to be just like Him," so...


If we're dumb...


Then God is dumb...


(An' maybe even a little ugly on the side)

~Frank

 

I am the rain, he is the sun
And now we've made a rainbow
I think it's beautiful
It's really beautiful

 

Cream's Tales of Brave Ulysses last lines have always stuck with me, referring back to the earlier mention of the encounter with Aphrodite:

Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

Says it all.

 

Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss.

Pete Townshend, The Who

 

Well I went through a great big hassle
Just to teach myself to float
Cause every time I stormed your castle
I'd wind up in your moat
But I wouldn't mind the water if I thought I was gaining ground
Well honey one day your walls must come tumbling down

Joe Ely

 

10cc - Dont Hang Up

 

"It's better to burn out than to fade away" - Neil Young and Crazy Horse (acoustic version of "My My, Hey Hey" and the Human Highway film recording)

 

I always thought that the following lines by Lorenz Hart (from Rodgers & Hart's "Why Cant I") are very proto-Morrissey
Only my book in bed Knows how I look in bed.
Nobody hears when I cry. Everybody has someone;
Why can't I?

 

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here

 

Steely Dan's " What A Shame About Me"

I said babe you look delicious
And you're standing very close
But like this is Lower Broadway
And you're talking to a ghost
Take a good look it's easy to see
What a shame about me