What's your favorite line or lyric?

[dindindin]

Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Ledbelly too
And all the good people who've traveled with you
Heres to the hearts and the hands of the Men
Who come with the Dust and are gone with the Wind
by Bob Dylan from "Song to Woody"
The song is a tribute to Woody Guthrie and his Enormous Spirit.
I like to recite this verse out loud every once in a while.
The words are noble and reassuring.
After this moment of introspection, I'm ready to seize the Day.
Hi Ho Silver, and AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

[kg211970]

The Cure
Alt. End

Yeah it's a big bright beautiful world
Just the other side of the door
Six billion beautiful faces
But I saw them all before...
No this is not about running out on you
Not a case of right or wrong
It's only that it's over and done for me
It's already been and gone
And I don't want another go around - I don't want to start again
No I don't want another go around - I want this to be the end
I want this to be the end - I don't want to start again
I want this to be the last thing we do
It for me and you...
For all my dreams came true
Yeah I know I should care if you come with me
Yeah and I should care if you go
Really should care about your love or your hate of me
Yeah I should care... but I don't
And it's not about giving up on you
It's not a case of do or die
It's simply that it's over and out for me
There's no more room inside
And I don't want another run around - I don't want to start again
No I don't want another run around - I want this to be the end
I want this to be the end - I don't want to start again
I want this to be the last thing we do
It for me and you...
Yeah it's a big bright beautiful world out there
Just the other side of this door
Six billion beautiful faces await
But I saw it all before...
No this is not about running out on you
Not a case of right or wrong
It's only that it's over and done for me
It's already been and gone
And I don't want another go around - I don't want to start again
No I don't want another go around - I want this to be the end
I want this to be the end - I don't want to start again
I want this to be the last thing we do - this to be it for me and you
This to be the last we go through
this to be the end
For all my dreams came true

[Bighuey]

What we cant cure, we endure.- Jules Verne

[kg211970]

Nice quote

[aymanbinmoshi]

My janu's feelings in a mobile sms.
"I intend you would be my friend,
A long time you grant.
Nothing so good ever happened."

[kg211970]

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand. - Dan Fogelberg, Part Of The Plan

[Tralala]

A little worse for wear,
She's a bit of a wreck.
With Made in Korea
Stamped on the back of her neck.
--Made in Korea...hasn't been recorded yet, so the lyrics might change some.

Sipping on whiskey it will make me say
A couple things that I might regret the next day
Hell, have another drink, it'll be okay,
I think got a shot at rolling with ya in the hay.
Sipping on whiskey it will make me say
A couple things that I might regret the next day.
Hell, have another drink, it'll be okay,
I think got a shot at rolling with you in the hay...
--Shelton (Hank) Williams (III), Don't Ya Wanna?

[Bighuey]

Ill be glad when youre dead you rascal you
Ill be glad when youre dead you rascal you,
Ill be standin on a corner high
When they bring your body by
Ill be gald when youre dead you rascal you.

Ill be glad when youre dead you rascal you
Ill be glad when youre dead you rascal you
Boy, what is it that you got
That makes my wife think youre so hot
Ill be glad when youre dead you rascal you.

Ill Be Glad When Youre Dead- Louis Armstrong

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Todd Snider's

Just Like Old Times


There's a Coke machine glowin' through the parking lot
Call it a room with a view
This was the best night of pool that I ever shot
I made a lot of money too
I was looking for some company
In the weekly Scene
Seen an ad it just had to be you
I hadn't seen you since New Orleans
And I never did figure out where you ran off to
I know I looked bad the last time you saw me
But lately I been doin' all right
I won a tournament last week in Oklahoma City
Hustled half of this town tonight
I got some cocaine if you want some
It's the best that I could find
Hey we could just sit here and talk all night
If that big ol' guy out in the car don't mind

Like old times
Screw off the top on a bottle of wine
Living out our own kind of American dream
Old times
Your goal was always the same as mine
You didn't want to throw a fishing line in that old main stream

You know I ain't expecting anybody but you
I don't know who this could be at the door
But I'm pretty sure that you got a clue
And I bet that you've been to this hotel before
Put the "you-know-what" - In the bathroom but
Don't flush it down just yet
Put your pager in my suitcase
I'll get the window
You light a cigarette
It'll be like...

Old times
Just like the old times
Living out our own kind of American dream
Old times
Your goal was always the same as mine
You didn't want to throw a fishing line in that old main stream

No sir officer you don't understand
We're just two old friends drinkin' wine
I'm sure she is but that's not all she is
She's also an old friend of mine
I got her high school picture right here in my wallet - 1982
No sir officer no offense taken
You have a good night, too

Good thing we didn't throw this away, baby
Turn up that radio
I'm pretty sure that cop knew what we were up to
I guess he just decided to let us go
Don't make such a thing about that picture
That was just something I kept
Don't get all sentimental on me now, girl
You haven't even told me what your new name is yet

Old times
Just like the old times
Living out our own kind of American dream
Old times
Your goal was always the same as mine
You didn't want to throw a fishing line in that old main stream
(and you didn't)

[DATo]

Lyrics - from 'Jazzman' by Carole King

Imagine you are at a bar and it is very very late at night. The place is getting ready to close. There are only a few people in the place now. The Jazzman now is playing, not for the audience, but for himself.

When the Jazzman's singifyin' and the band is windin' low
It's the late night side of morning in the darkness of his soul
He can fill the room with sadness as he fills his horn with tears
He can cry like a fallen Angel when risin' time is near

Poetry - from 'Ode To A Nightingale' by John Keats

The events of this poem actually happened to Keats. As he lounged in the gardens of a friend very late at night he listened to the song of a nightingale and mused upon the fact that this was the same song heard by ancient emperors. He thinks of the bird as an immortal fairy and wishes he could leave with it and leave his cares behind him (Keats himself was very sick at this time with the illness that would eventually kill him). In the following stanza he awakens from his reverie, bids adieu to the bird and resigns himself to his fate.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?

[Robert Wright]

How do I love thee...

[Fran]

Begin ..... by Brendan Kennelly

Begin again to the summoning birds
to the sight of light at the window,
begin to the roar of morning traffic
all along Pembroke Road.
Every beginning is a promise
born in light and dying in dark
determination and exaltation of springtime
flowering the way to work.
Begin to the pageant of queuing girls
the arrogant loneliness of swans in the canal
bridges linking the past and the future
old friends passing through with us still.
Begin to the loneliness that cannot end
since it perhaps is what makes us begin,
begin to wonder at unknown faces
at crying birds in the sudden rain
at branches stark in the willing sunlight
at seagulls foraging for bread
at couples sharing a sunny secret
alone together while making good.
Though we live in a world that dreams of ending
that always seems about to give in
something that will not acknowledge conclusion
insists that we forever begin.

I think this poem is an appropriate one for the season of Easter ... I love the hope and optimism of the last lines.

[Fdrix1]

I love several lyrics, the best one is My heart will go on..

[Bighuey]

It was down in old Joe's barroom
On the corner of the square
The drinks were served as usual
A goodly crowd was there.

Up stepped Big Joe McKenny
His eyes were bloodshot red
I listened to the tale he told me
And this is what he said.

I went down to St. James Infirmary
Saw my baby there
Streched out on a long white table
So sweet, so cold, so fair.

Sisteen coal black horses
Hitched to a rubber-tired hack
Seven women went to the graveyard
Only six are comin back.

When I die please bury me
In a brand new Stetson hat
Put a 20 dollar gold peice on my watchchain
So the boys will know I died standin pat.

I want six crap-shooters to be my pall bearers
Three pretty women to sing a song
Have a jazz band sitting on my coffin
Playin the blues as you carry me along.

Let her go let her go God bless her
Wherever she may be
She can search the wide world over
She'll never find a sweet man like me.

St. James Infirmary an old New Orleans funeral song. It was always one of my favorites.

[DATo]

I love several lyrics, the best one is My heart will go on..

I totally agree Fdrix1, My Heart Will Go On is like an exquisite poem set to music. Nice choice !