I like the way your sparkling earrings lay, against your skin so brown
OK, put on your musical thinking caps and tell me what is, in your opinion, the greatest lyrical line ever written. And if not the greatest, then a pretty damn good one. Multiple answers encouraged.
I'll wait here.
posted by punky @ 12:48 PM
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"I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar
She asked me if I'd beat her
I took her back to the Hyatt House...
I don't wanna talk about it..."
Warren Zevon.
Lately I've been listening a lot to Little Feat, who note:
There's a fat man
In the bathtub
With the blues...
Jamester
"Why don't we get drunk and screw . . ."
from, Why Don't We Get Drunk
as sung by Jimmy Buffet
also w.z., for sheer alliteration:
"little old lady got mutilated late last night" from 'werewolves of london'
and ...
"God have mercy on the man, who doubts what he's sure of" ~ Springsteen (at the end of Brilliant Disguise ... it gives me chills)
"there is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night and if you go no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone" ~ Grateful Dead "Ripple"
"she wore a pearl necklace"?
"doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you" Neil Young
...Anna Nicole's mama said that I don't wanna see Anna fall down again
And the wizard
On Aleve, a Gump I know
I said I don't want a whale in a box or a bag
Ayeaaaaaah
Can you see dems?
Out on the porch
Potato wave
(ok, seriously now... this one always kills me)
One November
Spawned a monster
In the shape of this child
Who must remain
A hostage to kindness
And the wheels underneath her
A hostage to kindness
And the wheels underneath her
A symbol of where mad, mad lovers
Must pause and draw the line.
"take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true." Neil Young
"in the clearing stands a boxer,
a fighter by his trade,
and he carries the reminder
of every glove that laid him down
or cut him 'til he cried out,
in his anger and his shame,
'i am leaving, i am leaving
but the fighter still remains'"
- simon and garfunkel, the boxer
"i downshifted as i pulled into the driveway,
the motor screaming out stuck in second gear,
the scene ended badly, as you might imagine,
in a calvacade of anger and fear...
i am gonna make it, through this year, if it kills me.
- mountain goats, this year
ps - i snagged yr simmons ;) thanks, i havent laughed that hard too long
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone
- REM "Everybody Hurts"
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