Best lines in a song

Peter Gabriel -Biko

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher

Billy Joel-Only the Good Die Young

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"

Father, I want to kill you.
Mother, I want to... AAAAYYYEEEEEAAAAAAIIIII

This is the end/ my only friend, the end.

Doors: The End

She left a lipstick letter on the mirror, shattered on the bathroom floor.
All I could put back together was '...never see me no more".

Delbert McClinton: When Rita Leaves

Welcome to truth custom made, come in and have some lemonade
Reality will re-adjust while we evade (77's - Ba Ba Ba Ba)

Professor Longhair - "Hey Now Baby"

Tell me pretty baby where did you stay last night
Tell me pretty baby where did you stay last night
When you come home this morning honey, your clothes didn't fit your right

Whats up!!

"Isis"- Bob Dylan. This song has a lot of great lines but as a cyclist this one comes to me often.
" I came in from the east with the sun in my eyes. I cursed it one time and I rode on ahead."

"History will teach us nothing" - sting

"I was born when I met you
Now I'm dying to forget you"

Brandi Carlile - Cannonball

DIRE STRAITS - Money For Nothing

Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That ain't workin thats the way you do it
".... Money for nothin and chicks for free ...."

T Bone Burnett, Hefner and Disney 1983

Somewhere between Never Neverland and Wonderland
In a land called Never Wonderland
There lived a beautiful wealthy young divorcee'
With a checkered past and a bad memory
Who should probably remain nameless

And men traveled from far and wide and try to win her hand
And she took in stragglers from all over the known world
Her newest guests were as her mother called them
"The latest Russians to defect"
One's name was Hefner the other's name was Disney

Disney smoked a pipe and was very philosophical
He was constantly surrounded by go go girls
He used to take pictures of them without any clothes on
And sell them to the neighborhood children

Hefner on the other hand was not so introspective
He loved a good story just like anybody else
In fact he loved the myths of Never Wonderland so much
That he made elaborate molded plastic sculptures
Of the characters in the myths

And then he'd set them out in the garden
Until he had built a whole 'nother land in Never Wonderland
Which he called Hefnerland

The neighborhood children loved them
They had lots of fun playing in Hefnerland
And looking at all Disney's go go pictures
Because they didn't know any better
And they didn't know any worse

But the beautiful, wealthy, young divorce thought
That they were only after her money
Sometimes she even wished they would go back to Russia
But between you and me they were really dupes of the Wicked King
Who wanted to rob the children of their dreams

Read more: T Bone Burnett - Hefner And Disney Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Well I was bled, I was dried, all wrapped up in my pride
This is the way it is when you're on the wrong side

This is the way love is. (77's - Sticks and Stones)

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine.

"All The Things You Are" Song composed by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Regards,
-- Al

She ain't goin' nowhere, she's just leavin' - Guy Clark

We were young and strong and running against the wind.

Michael Stanley " Thank god for the man who put the white line on the highway "

Mose Allison: Your mind is on vacation but your mouth is working overtime.

I rather be tied on the delta in the falling rain.MUDDY WATERS !!!

Led Zep: no one heard a single word you said, but you keep on talking to your dying day!

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"But listen baby, I’m sticking with you ’til the money runs out."

Tom Waits

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

Pink Floyd - Lost For Words

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?"

Pearl Jam - Black

"Your daddy works in porno
Now that mommy's not around
She used to love her heroin
But now she's underground
So you stay out late at night
And you do your coke for free
Drivin' your friends crazy
With your life's insanity"

GnR - My Michelle

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Pull into the driveway, toss it in park
Stare out of the windshield, out into the world
It was all for the love of a wayward girl
Who left you with a second-place smile and a broken heart

There’s nothing, really, that you can do
Put your hands in your pockets and try to get through
the distance between the daylight and the dark

Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight and the Dark
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"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me"
THE WHO / WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT

"A little indian brave before he was ten,
Played wargames in the woods with his indian friends
And he built up a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fearless warrior indian chief
Many moons past and more the dream grew strong until
Tomorrow he would sing his first warsong and fight his first battle
But something went wrong, surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually"
JIMI HENDRIX / CASTLES MADE OF SAND

I heard this by chance earlier this week and it stuck with me. The song is For These Times, Martina Mcbride:

And freedom is a word
Some cry out and some whisper