Perfect Lines

I think this has been done before, heck I think I've posted in threads like this. Can't find any threads, so I'll start a new one.

ONE RULE: Only one line.

Heres mine:

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Bob Seger. Against the Wind.

Its a simple line, no big words. However, it is perfect. You'd be more likely to see it in a poem than a rock song.

Whatchy'all got?

I can see two little pictures of me, one in each of your eyes.

Can't remember who wrote it - female singer, late eighties?

I think this has been done before, heck I think I've posted in threads like this. Can't find any threads, so I'll start a new one.

ONE RULE: Only one line.

Heres mine:

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Bob Seger. Against the Wind.

Its a simple line, no big words. However, it is perfect. You'd be more likely to see it in a poem than a rock song.

Whatchy'all got?

Along the same lines:
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. - Bob Dylan My Back Pages

If you cant be with the one you love, love the one your with.

wallflowers - one headlight

man i aint changed...but i know i aint the same

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Robert Palmer - She's so fine there's no telling where the money went.

Cool thread!


Isn't that Stills lyric profoundly depressing? It is to me anyway.


Yeah, that'll do, just got force myself to feel a certain way since my life didn't go the way I planned.


Am I wrong?

Oh, and for my 1st pick, it's gotta be the Boss.





"Maybe you gotta kid, maybe you got a pretty wife, the only thing that I got,
been bothering me my whole life"

social distortion - story of my life

i went downtown to look for a job
i had no training no experience to speak of
i looked at the holes in my jeans and turned and headed back

"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine."

Patti Smith

The Smiths-Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now


"I was looking for a job, and then I found a job. Heaven knows I'm miserable now"

Amy Mann:

I wish you: belief in life
Belief in fate
Belief you are lucky
And worth the wait
'cause life could be lovely
Or life could be f**king great.

And Peter Gabriel:

My heart going boom, boom, boom,
"Hey", I said, "You can keep my things they've come to take me home"

Amy Mann:

I wish you: belief in life
Belief in fate
Belief you are lucky
And worth the wait
'cause life could be lovely
Or life could be f**king great.

And Peter Gabriel:

My heart going boom, boom, boom,
"Hey", I said, "You can keep my things they've come to take me home"

Eh, sorry, I didn't see the "one line" stipulation.

Eh, sorry, I didn't see the "one line" stipulation.

i messed up too with the social distortion post

I'm the world's forgotten boy, the one who searches to destroy.

People are strange when your a stranger.

Now the years are rolling by me
They are rockin' evenly
I am older than I once was
And younger than I'll be and that's not unusual.
No it isn't strange
After changes upon changes
We are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same Paul Simon from "The Boxer" (called the missing verse, because it's not on the original recording, but he sings it live ...)

I have had my fun, even if I don't get well no more.
Jimmy Oden

Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day.

Joni Mitchell

"I am a good man... by an account"
-The Walkmen (Juveniles)

there's a road in oklahoma,straighter than a preacher,longer than a memory.
nowhere road-steve earle.

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy."

Seriously, though, this:

"And you know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill."

Little Feat - Old Folk's Boogie

"Take a sad song, and make it better."

Paul McCartney

"She holds the hand that holds her down"

Pearl Jam

"Nothing touched the trigger but the Devil's right hand"

Steve Earle

"i know someday youll have a beautiful life, I know youll be a star"
-eddie veddar

"When you wake up it's a new morning."

-"Baker Street"


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Out of all those kinds of people you've gat a face with a view- Talking Heads- Naive Melody

There's no money-back guarantee on future happiness
Elvis Costello - Long Honeymoon

"We can't even think of a word that rhymes." - Cooper

The more you ignore me, the closer I get, you're wasting your time.
Morrissey

First the sun and then the moon, one of them will be 'round soon...

Keith Richards

The saddest words I've ever spoken were the words "It might have been"

Standing in line at the Bank of America nobody spoke, they were in the house of God

A Beehive's laying with her head in his lap I don't believe she was taking a nap

And I still dream I will walk on the moon If the moon isn't holding me down.

john stewart

Be bop a lula, she's my baby.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
--Robert Hunter

No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

The Dawn will break, right in time with my heart,
The Sun will shine, But I'm still in the dark.

Chris Wall

A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop, a-lop-bam-boo - Little Richard

I said, "You know, they refused Jesus too." He said, "You're not Him." -- Bob Dylan

I think this has been done before, heck I think I've posted in threads like this. Can't find any threads, so I'll start a new one.

ONE RULE: Only one line.

Heres mine:

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Bob Seger. Against the Wind.

Its a simple line, no big words. However, it is perfect. You'd be more likely to see it in a poem than a rock song.

Whatchy'all got?



OLD EYES in a young childs face,
watching as the shadows race.
..through walls and cracks that leave no trace,
and daylight brightly shone.

Song -"days of pearly Spencer" by D Mcwilliams.

Is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?

"He came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan"

the devil made me do it the first time...the second time i done it on my own.
black rose-waylon jennings

I got a '69 Chevy

Sent from my iPad using TDPRI

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.

Bob Dylan

I'm so pilled up that I rattle.

The Clash

[Edit:] Revolution Rock wasn't actually written by the Clash; it was written by Jackie Edwards and Danny Ray. I did not know that. :idea:

No gems from Mike Cooley of the Drive By Truckers yet? Here's one of my favorites...

The bottle ain't to blame, and I'm not tryin' to
It don't make you do a thing, it just lets you.

I can see two little pictures of me, one in each of your eyes.

Can't remember who wrote it - female singer, late eighties?

Laurie Anderson. I'm a big fan.

....And, in the end...the Love you take, is equal to the Love you make....

The Beatles

The preacher said, "You always have the Lord by your side."

And I was so pleased to be informed of this, I ran 20 red lights in his honor.
Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord.


from Far Away Eyes - The Rolling Stones

"Oak tree you're in my way" - That Smell -Lynryd Skynyrd

"If you won't leave me, I'll find somebody who will." Warren Zevon

"Only fools rush in , where angels fear to tread"
Bob Dylan

I used to care, but things have changed.

When Rita leaves, Rita's Gone.

Delbert McClinton

No line rolls off the tongue better than

Little ol' lady got mutilated late last night.

D.H.

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

And now the old man's gone, and i'd give all i own
To hear what he said when i wasn't listening
To my old man

Steve Goodman - "My Old Man"

Can't listen to that one without tearing up.

I'll look for you in old Honolulu, San Francisco, Ashtabula...
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Robert Zimmerman

Billy Dee was seventeen when he turned twenty-one

Nobody loves me but my mother,
And she could be jivin' too...

colder than a gut shot bitch wolf dog
with 9 sucking pups pullin' a 4 trap
up a hill in the dead of winter
in the middle of a snowstorm
with a mouth full of porcupine quills

(said in one breath)

I wish God would send me a word, send me something I'm afraid to lose.

Springsteen - Drive All Night

Oh man, there's a thousand ...

How about some Westerberg "how do you say "I love you" to an answering machine?"

How about some Craig Finn "heaven is whenever we can get together, sit down on your floor and listen to some records"

Tim

"A derelict in your duct tape shoes"

I would do anything for love, but i won't do that

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the man has standards

You told your momma I'd get you home, but you didn't say that I had no car.

i saw a lion he was standing alone

I'm a man.

"Talkin' tough's easy when it's other people's evil and you're judgin' what they do or don't believe."

-Mike Cooley, DBT

afghan whigs - gentlemen

let me in im cold...all messed up and no where to go

With a tadpole in a jar

I'm just talkin' to myself man to man.
---- Merle Haggard

I trade this hard love for a sad song. I trade this sad song for a good time. I trade this good time for a hard love, and that all I got for you.

--Hollerado

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row.

Swear there aint no heaven, and pray there ain't no hell.

-And When I Die by Blood, Sweat and Tears


Rangercaster, I heard Scarborough Fair last night at my daughter's school's recital. And I've been hearing The Boxer rolling around in my head since.

Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row.

So which line is the perfect one?

Oh, the night came undone like a party dress and fell at her feet in a beautiful mess...

Gillian Welch

i got a star on my car and one on my chest,a gun on my hip and the right to arrest...
highway patrol-junior brown

Aw, elihu, why'd you have to go and mention Gillian Welch? I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure which one of here lines was the most perfect one.

"They threw me out of Sunday school when I was nine, and the Sisters said I did just as I pleased"

You can't hang a man for killin' a woman who's tryin' to steal your horse.
Red Head Stranger
Willie Nelson

Don't pick up that phone you ain't callin' the law on me.

And

Wear somethin' pretty if you're gonna talk.

Both by the King of the Country-Western Troubadours.

Sent from my Telecaster through my AC15

Sunlight brings the rage out in your eyes

"I wish I was in Austin, mmm-hmmm, in the Chili Parlor bar, drinking Mad Dog margaritas and not wondering where you are."
Guy Clark - Dublin Blues

"Easy money, faithless women, red-eye whiskey for the pain" -Eagles, Doolin & Dalton

the years just flow by like a broken down dam- John Prine -Angel From Montgomery

The worst crime that I ever did, was play some rock'n'roll.

- The Stranglers, Get A Grip On Yourself

Faster horses, younger women, older whisky, and more money. - Tom T. Hall

I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

Willie Dixon

"I'm just tryin' to live, so when I die, the preacher won't have to lie"

Lee Ann Womack

"I know you got another man, but I could love you better than him!" - Black Crowes (who nicked it from Otis Reading)

"Well I guess that's why I've always got the Blues" - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Little ol' lady got mutilated late last night.

AGREED!

I wish God would send me a word, send me something I'm afraid to lose.

I sang that last night :cool:

How about, "I don't know if you've been loving some body, I only know it isn't mine"?

Elvis, Alison.

open your window baby so i can ease out soft and slow...
one way out-allman brothers