Your Favourite Musical Lines Or Lyrics?

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I’m gonna find me a reckless woman/ with razor blades and dice in her eyes/ just a touch of sadness in her fingers/ thunder and lightning in her thighs

Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas/ she got 80ft of waterline/ nicely making way

I knew her smile in an instant/ I knew the curve of her face/ it was my own lovely lady/
And she said, oh it’s you/ tben we laughed for a moment/ and I said, I never knew

Stood alone on a mountain top/
Starin’ out at the Great Divide/
I could go east, I could go west
It was all up to me to decide/
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’/And my soul began to rise/And pretty soon/My heart was singin’

I cast my spell of love on you, a woman from a child/But try to understand/try to understand/
Oh, oh, try, try, try to understand/He’s a magic man/ he’s got the magic hands

From somewhere outside/ I hear the street vendor cry/ Filé gumbo

Fifteen cars/ and Fifteen restless riders/three conductors/ and twenty sacks or mail

We fired our cannons till the barrels melted down/ then we grabbed an alligator up and fought another round/ we filled his head with cannonballs/ and powered his behind/ and when we set the powder off/ the gator lost his mind

You have a way of doing little things that turn me on/ like standing in the kitchen/ in your faded cotton gown/ with your hair all up in curlers/ I’d still love to lay you down.

And the silent bell/ of truth for me/ will soon be dead ringing/ in this cold and lonely/ New York City snow

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There are a ton of memorable one liners from rock and roll songs but a few songs that always stood out as me as amazing songwriting/storytelling as well as lyrically and musically beautiful were:

“Fade to Black” by Metallica
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot
and “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” by Eric Bogle but John McDermott’s version was my favorite

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God of Thunder

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“The grave that they dug him had flowers, gathered from the hillside in bright summer colors, with the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone. He’s gone. But eternity knows him, and it knows what we’ve done.”

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I just know the Pogue’s version, which I always liked a lot. Any particular lines to your songs that you find especially deep?

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Hard to pick just one line but here goes

the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

“Does anyone know
where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours””

Fade to Black

“Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me but now he’s gone”

The band played waltzing Matilda

“ So they collected the crippled, the wounded the Maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
Those proud wounded heroes of suvla
And as our ship pulled into circular quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity”

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Love Will Tear us Apart - Joy Division / swans

Try not to cry

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There’s a feelin’ in the first step
I’m losin’ my mind
But the further I go west
I’m feelin’ alright
Out in Culberson County
Can hear those coyotes cry
Won’t be long before they’re all gone
Just the highway’s whine Let’s keep the lonely places lonely as long as we can
Let’s keep it out of reach from anyone who doesn’t understand
Burn all the alibis, the bridges that won’t give in
Let’s keep the lonely places lonely as long as we can

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Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for the train, and was feeling as nearly faded as my jeans

And feeling good was good enough for me

All the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone , they were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on

You can say that I’ve grown bitter but of this you may be sure, the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet , but I hear him coughing all night long

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly

That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away then sinply pretend that you can build them again

Let me hold you tight like rain and sunshine on a rainy day; let me hold you tight and arms, tight and arms you lost your chance, come so close that I might see the crash of light come down on me

Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white

She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothes off, says she’s close to understanding Jesus

Love is a temple, love the higher law, you ask me to enter but then you make me crawl, and I can’t be holding on