best ever line(s) from a song

The entire song...the Eagles...The Last Resort, of corse there are MANY more.

I wonder wonder wonder wonder WHO who wrote the book of love.

Now THERE'S a classic!

Just heard this song on WA2K:

Madman drummers brummers indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat.
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round.
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing,
the caliope crashed to the ground.

what I remember is

wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the night.

steely dan

"they got a name for the winners in the world
i want a name when i lose"

That line always made me snicker a little. Perhaps I didn't get it? I mean, there is a name for when you lose.

All of Dan's lyrics are pretty obscure but they make a little nest in my brain and seem to pop up every now and then...even if they don't make literal sense.

so true

Springsteen wrote the original, right?

Now, everybody knows it sounds like he's saying, "Wrapped up like a douche."

But I swear there's a line that goes, "And little birdy-wirdy gave my anus curly-wurly."

I haven't googled the lyrics because I think it's funnier that way. I have no idea what curly-wurly is, but it doesn't sound good, especially in one's anus.

some simon and garfunkel

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night.
We walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight,


I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles,
Such are promises, all lies and jest,
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm


The Dangling Conversation
Simon and Garfunkel

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our lives.

And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.

lol, i always thought it was "douche" for the longest time as well

and yes springsteen wrote it, 2 of manferd mann's big hits were bruce songs, and both from the same album "greetings from asbury park", the songs "blinded by the light" and "for you"

From Lost for Words (Gilmour, Samson)


So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fukc myself
You know you just can't win

when I was 16 I wanted to write like Paul Simon

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I.

The Crystal Ship - The Doors

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line

and

Cheek To Cheek - Irving Berlin

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Speaking of ol' Irv. This one makes me chuckle:

"Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning,
Oh! How I'd love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call:
'You've got to get up, you've got to get up,
You've got to get up this morning!'"

Someday I'm going to murder the bugler
Someday they're going to find him dead
I'll amputate his reveille and stomp upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed!

"There may be trouble ahead
But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance"

I remember driving all the way from Alabama to Chicago with an old girlfriend and playing that Old Friends anthology somewhere in Gary, Indiana when it was dark and I was half asleep from driving all day (she didn't have a driver's license). Some of those songs are like little lullabies.

A favorite verse from a favorite song:

Hey sunshine
I haven't seen you in a long time.
Why don't you show your face and bend my mind?
These clouds stick to the sky
Like floating questions, why?
And they linger there to die.
They don't know where they are going, and, my friend, neither do i.

Cloudy,
Cloudy.

Here are a few memorable lines.....
"And it didn't take long to decide
That Earl had to die
Goodbye Earl" Dixie Chicks 1999

"We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more" Procol Harum 1967

"And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat." Lyle Lovett 1999

"The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away."
The Beach Boys 1965

"I need to laugh and when the sun is out
I've got something I can laugh about." Beatles 1966

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early." Gordon Lightfoot 1976

"Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop" The Doors 1967

"I've been saving all my money just to take you there.
I smell the garden in your hair.
Take the train from Casablanca going south,
blowing smoke rings from the corners of my m m m m mouth."
Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969

"So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down" Bob Marley 1972

Re: Here are a few memorable lines.....


Jim Morrison was a very good poet