"Her skirt it swayed as the guitar played / her mouth was watery and wet" - Bob Dylan I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (SHE ACTS LIKE WE NEVER HAVE MET) |
Yes...Crash. It's a great cd. Dave Matthews has so many great lines, but that one always sticks in my head. |
Mejames, the title of the song and the CD is "Crash". Really a terrific CD. |
ecruz what is the Dave Matthews song title? |
The Houston sky was changeless
We galloped through bluebonnets
I was wrestling with an angel
You were working on a sonnet
You said, 'I believe the seraphim
Will gather up my pinto
And carry us away, Jim
Across the San Jacinto
My ride's here...'
Warren Zevon |
How about:
wang dang sweet poontang
The Nuge
but seriously my favorite
So you think you can tell
heaven from hell
blue skies and pain
can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail
a smile from a vail
do you think you can tell
Pink Floyd, Wish you were here |
Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me. Dave Matthews Band
Running in to you like this without warning, is like, catching a sniff of tequilla in the morning. Crash Test Dummies
I'm only hanging on, to watch you go down, my love. U2 |
"And they drink to a friend they call lonlieness, and its better then drinking alone" (Billy Joel - Piano Man) |
"Oh, me so horny...me love you long time." 2 Live Crew |
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right
Bob Dylan
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Purple Haze! Excuse me while I kiss the Sky! |
"Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers"
You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers."
Billy Joel: It's Still Rock 'n Roll to Me
The perfect ironic lyric for 'goners! |
"I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then"
BoB Seger |
"Was that a raindrop or a tear in your eye,
Were you drying your nails or waving goodbye?"
Tom Waits - 2:19 |
"you cross a lawyer with a godfather baby and he'll make you an offer you can't understand"
Don Henley |
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A star moves north, a star moves south, a star is born a star burns out, the only thing that stays the same is everything changes, everything changes. |
But the thing that moved him most
And made him swear he'd never fail
If he made it to the White House
Think of all the chicks he'd nail
So he went into the Politics Game
Yes, he went into the politics game
Warren Beatty told him "looky"
You can get a lot of nookie
If you get into the politics game
-"The Ballad of Gary Hart" |
A little odd ditty that somehow I've not forgotten. And please excuse the R rated theme; no intention to insult anyone.
"My dick is a harley
You kick it to start
The moment it speaks
The heavens will part"
Frank Zappa, the Mothers from their Live @ the Fillmore LP.
Incidently, I saw them play this live at a gig in Vermont. Frank mentioned that he was so happy to be in VT with normal people. As they just got busted on a porn charge while performing this in Miami. Times were pretty different then. |
...looking for a lover who won't blow my cover....
Glen Frey |
I'd rather be dead than wet my bed Harry Nilsson |
"What time is it?" said the judge to Joey when they met.
"Five to ten," said Joey.
Judge said, "that's exactly what you get" Bob Dylan/Desire
The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down...look here brutha, who you jivin wit that cosmic debris... Zappa/Apostrophe |
Don't go mistakin' paradise as the house across the street. Bob Dylan |
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
And I second the Springsteen lone "You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright". I'm just not sure if I want to be the one who's saying that or who's told that! |
I could be wrong, but I'm not
Eagles - Victim of Love
Well, it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
And the Little Feat song that Sfar started this off with has one of the single lewdest lines in all of rock:
Hey, momma, hey, can I check your oil, allright?
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub |
"There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk"
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
the clouds will part and the sky cracks open
and god himself will reach his f'ing arm
through
just to push you down
just to hold you down
NIN - The Wretched
airstream is so shinny
and it's made out of aluminum
you can't tell if it's a '64
or an '81
The Vandals - Airstream |
"Half of me is me, the other half of me is you."
From the movie "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark"
Composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre.
Sung by Alexandra Brown |
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. |
"Accidents speak louder than words"
Annie Lennox - Medusa - Thin Line Between Love and Hate |
"pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.......I'm just an ordinary, average guy" - Joe Walsh
How close this hits home, since the acquisition of a couple of pups! |
Here are some of my favorites. (Ill probably think of more later!)
Fed up:
Stop this world; let me off.
Theres just too many pigs in the same trough.
Theres too many buzzards sittin on the fence.
Stop this world; its not makin sense.
Diana Kroll from The Girl in the Other Room
Lyrics to Stop this World by Mose Allison
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Philosophical:
I want to know what promises to keep.
I want to know how guilty people sleep
I want to know why the Devils not run dry
I want to know why politicians lie.
Lyrics to I Want to Know by Raul Malo
The Mavericks, from The Mavericks (2003)
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As for remembering the first time I heard a particular lyric, and exactly where I was and what I was doing at the time; Ill never forget the first time I heard the end of Jim Steinmans wonderfully developed story:
So now Im praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I dont think that I can really survive
Meat Loaf, from Bat out of Hell
Lyrics to Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Jim Steinman
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Humor (black?):
Favorite song title: "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
My favorite line from the song:
Patty Hurst heard the burst from Rolands Thompson gun and bought it.
Lyrics by Warren Zevon from the album Warren Zevon
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My all time favorite couplet (OK, I love Kathy Valentines work with the Go-Gos (with whom she plays bass) and, better yet, The Delphines (she is a killer guitarist):
Mary ate her little lamb,
And punk rock isnt dead.
Lyrics to The Whole Worlds Lost its Head by K. Valentine and J. Wiedlin
The Go-Gos, from Return to the Valley of the Go-Gos
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She had a chassis like an XJS
Skull necklace like a high priestess
I thought maybe just one caress
She said You dream too much
(Richard Thompson------You Dream Too Much)
Mary says she's worried about herself and the kids
She's never known anybody had a gun
and her daddy never did
but I think it should be up to me
'cause when it's all said and done
somebodys got to walk into the night
well I'm going to be that one
(Fred Eaglesmith ----------Time to get a Gun). |
"Don't you try the Queen of Diamonds boy, she beat you if she's able; you know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet" |
She came onto him like a slow-moving cold front.
His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes.
"Icy Blue Hear" by John Hiatt |
Maybe life is just put on for show
Oh but it's the only show in town
And it don't cost a nickel to get in
Oh but you'll pay dear to hang around
"The Only Show In Town" by Jesse Winchester
Let The Rough Side Drag (1976) |
"Hey, you! Don't tell me there's no hope at all. Together we stand. Divided we fall."
Hey You, Pink Floyd |
"No matter if your born to play the king or pawn
for the line is thinly drawn tween joy and sorrow.
And so my fantasy becomes reality
and I must be what I must be and face tommorrow"
Simon and Garfunkle "Flowers Never Bend" |
''Shake dreams from your hair my pretty child, choose the day, choose the sign of your day the days divinity...''
The Doors - An American Prayer |
Who's makin love to your old lady why you was out makin love? |
"The future is no place, to place your better days."
Song: Cry freedom
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Album: Crash |
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
Youd know what a drag it is
To see you
Bob Dylan-Positively 4th Street
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"Where's the sense in stealing without the grace to be it?"
Ian McCullough--Echo & the Bunnymen |
"Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips. Echoed voices in the night, she's a restless spirit on an endless flight." The Eagles: "Witchy Woman" |
temperature's dropping at the rottin' oasis
stealing kisses from the lepers faces
heads are hanging from the garbageman trees
mouthwash, jukebox, gasoline,
got a devil's haircut in my mind
got a devil's haircut in my mind
got a devil's haircut in my mind
got a devil's haircut in my mind
-- Beck, Devil's Haircut |
"If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."
-- Willie Dixon, Born Under a Bad Sign
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"I've been down so God damn long,It looks like up to me"
Doors (La Woman) |
"Well, I was drunk the day that Momma got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
Momma got runned over by a dang ol' train."
David Allen Coe |
"I'm sorry that you couldn't love me.
But I thank you for your time.
And I'm sure there will come a moment
when you won't be on my mind.
I hope I'll always be as honest
as you have always have been to me.
I just wish that you were feeling
that I was what you need."
Jim Lauderdale
Jeff |
A few by The Boss
Ond day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back....Working on a Highway
Is there a dream alive that don't come true or is there something worse...The River
Why is it at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe...Reason to Believe |
I turned 21 in prison doin life without parole...Momma Tried, Merle Haggard
Send lawyers guns and money...Warren Zevon |
