Favorite Single Line in a Song ver. I am he as you are he

"She's filin' her nails while they're draggin' the lake." Watching the Detectives, Elvis Costello
 
it's not really a line but in Black Peter by the Grateful Dead, right after the hook where he sings(is it Jerry Garcia singing?) 'See here how everything...' 'come around' and then he moans and the harmonica comes in in Eb minor. That's really groovy, man. Like harmonicas are alright but it sounded fucking amazing in that song.

Also there's Pink Floyd's Shine on you Crazy Diamond. I really like the Piper at the Gates of Dawn so an entire album dedicated to Syd Barrett sounds pretty good to me but the line in pts. I-V where Waters sings 'Come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!' is like, empowering, or something.

And from second best album of Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde, in Just like a Woman, where he sings 'With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls' and another line from that song 'It was raining from the first, and I was dying there of thirst, so I came in here'. He sings it with a really nice tone live at the Concert for Bangladesh, he also does a really good performance of 'It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry' there, too.
 
^Bob Dylan has habitually wielded some lyrical magic, indeed.


We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel
...


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"Heaven's a distance not a place" - Iron and Wine, Two Hungry Blackbirds.
 
^ love that! :) <3

'The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns'

 
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Peter Gabriel - SledgeHammer

"I get it right
I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I go dancing in (we go dancing in)
Oh, won't you show for me (show for me)
And I will show for you (show for you)"
 
Lana Del Ray~ Summertime Sadness
https://youtu.be/mGH19_KjWY0

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime Sadness
I just wanted you to know
That Baby your the best

I got my red dress on tonight
Dancing in the dark
In the pale moonlight

Done my hair up real big
Beauty queen style
High heels off
Im feeling alive

Oh my god I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above sizzling like a snare

Honey I’m on fire?
I feel it everywhere
Nothing Scared Me Anymore
 
"Don't waste your breath, don't waste your heart, don't blister your heals walking in the dark" - Daniel Lanois -Where will I be.

"I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again" Bill Callahan - Jim Cain

And I can't possibly get any Steely Dan down to one line. I LOVE this verse though -Steely Dan. Deacon Blues

I'll learn to work the saxophone
I'll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues
 
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure he drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn, his spirit continues to drool.
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L. Cohen. One of us can not be wrong
 
Cause when you love someone, illusion has begun
No way to prepare, impending despair

But otherwise, this whole damn song...
 
cell phone keep ringing , it must be some money - jeezy
 
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Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
The days drip slowly on the page
And you catch yourself
Pacing the cage

I've proved who I am so many times
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in
Hours chatter in high places
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Set me to pacing the cage

That's half the song but I'll stop there for now. I discovered this song on a Jimmy Buffett record but later found out it was written by Bruce Cockburn. Always loved it's ability to paint a mental picture with words
 
They came and put me on Dead Row, of which I am nearly wholly innocent

--Nick Cave/Bad Seeds, Mercy Seat
 
Edit: “All I wanted was a fucking Pepsi and they wouldn’t give it to me. One fucking Pepsi!”
If you get institutionalized for wanting a Pepsi; do they give you the firing squad over a coke?...I wonder?
 
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Hard to really single out just one. I'll try to narrow it down to three...

Killing for religion, something I don't understand - Dave Mustaine

Ain't no sunshine when shes gone and this house just ain't no home, anytime she goes away - Bill withers

You're the only one who really knew me at all - Phil Collins
 
FlawedByDesign said:
Edit: “All I wanted was a fucking Pepsi and they wouldn’t give it to me. One fucking Pepsi!”
If you get institutionalized for wanting a Pepsi; do they give you the firing squad over a coke?...I wonder?
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Haha, that's not exactly right but close enough. It's funny when his mom says, "No you're not thinking, you're on drugs!
Normal people don't act that way."
 
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