Never held emotion in the palm of my hand, or felt sweet brezzes in the top of a tree.
There's room at the top they're telling you still,
But first you must learn to smile as you kill,
Then you can be like the folks on the hill.
Future- Leonard ohen
Gimme back the Berlin Wall,
gimme Stalin and St. Paul,
I've seen the future,
brother, it is murder.
Leonard Cohen - Future
The bridge to Skylark as sung by K.D. Lang:
And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night,
Wonderful music,
Faint as a will o' the wisp, crazy as a loon,
Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
Me And Bobby McGee
Now I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday,
Holdin Bobby's body next to mine.
...I just like it
Kris has written some good ones, Rod.
This line from Bobby McGee is profound as well:
"Freedom's just another word for nothing else to lose."
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere,
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed"
She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown
So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood.
Love that, Ragman.
"if I were a carpenter and you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway. Would you have my baby."
Joan Baez.
I have no idea why these words popped into mind, but...
"Well the weeks went by and
Spring turned to summer
And summer faded into fall
And it turns out he was a missing
person who nobody missed at all"
"Goodbye Earl" Dixie Chicks
(I will give this question some serious thought)
As a kid, I would read this aloud (the poem that it is) and it moved me to tears. Try reading it aloud yourself.
This song still echoes in my head:
Urge for Going (sung by Tom Rush)
I woke up today and found snow perched on the ground
It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down
So when the leaves were trembling
Frozen trees were standing in a lonely row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
And I get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is falling down and winter's moving in
I had a love in summertime with summer-colored skin
And not another one in town my darling's heart could win
But when the sky turned traitor cold
And bully winds did rub their noses in the snow
She got the urge for going and I had to let her go
And she got the urge for going when the meadow grass was turning brown
Summertime was falling down and winter's moving in
The warriors of winter gave a cold triumphant shout
Now all that dies is staying and all that lives is getting out
See the geese in chevron flight
Flurrying and flapping through the naked sky
They got the urge for going
They've got the wings to fly
They get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is falling down and winter's moving in
I'll ply the fire with kindling and pull the blankets to my chin
I'll lock the vagrant winter out and bolt my wandering in
I'd like to call back summertime
And ask her just to stay another month or so
But she got the urge for going
I guess she'll have to go
And she got the urge for going when the meadow grass was turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter's moving in
And she got the urge for going when the meadow grass was turning brown
All my empires are fallen down and winter's moving in
Letty wrote:Love that, Ragman.
"if I were a carpenter and you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway. Would you have my baby."
Joan Baez.
Yeah. Letty. Thanks for that. Here are some more incredible lyrics from that song. Tim Hardin wrote it. As well as Baez, Bobby Darrin (hit) and Harry Belafonte also sang it.
Save my love through loneliness
Save my love for sorrow
I've given you my onliness
Come and give me your tomorrows
msolga posted these lyrics the other day in another thread
they ring more true everyday
"So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war"
I'd rather go nowhere than not know where it's at.
Skid Row, "Riot Act"
"You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming"
"Dreaming" Blondie
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Run rabbit run dig that hole, forget the sun. When at last the work is done, don't sit down,it's time to dig another one
from: Time, by Pink Floyd, Dark side of the Moon. Actually, the whole song is full of great lines!
from the song drag me down, by the boomtown rats
And when the record is over
The passion's been spent
The movie winds down and says "The End" in French
When I Win the Lottery
Camper Van Beethoven
And when I win the lottery, gonna buy all the girls on my block
Silver-plated six shooters and a quart of the finest highland scotch
I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say youve gone away from me,
But I can feel you when you breathe.
Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
You dont love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure,
It is your turn, beloved,
It is your flesh that I wear.
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
