Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[bscinstnct]

I've been thinking about the way you walk
Baby.  I like the way you talk
Tell you something I really can't hide
Heaven must have sent you to be by my side
Fresh and lovely 
Like a dream come true
I'll give anything to spend the night with you
What a feeling and I can't stop it baby
Miss frisky lady take me away

 

-Kool and the Gang!

 

[Argonne69]

I can't drive 55.

 

- Sammy

 

[Fellaheen51]

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down

I had the radio on, I was drivin'

Trees flew by, me and Del were singin' Little Runaway

I was flyin'

[DArnie]

I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home    J. Buffett

 

You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips.  R. Brothers

I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone's taken my place  S.& Garfunkel

 

So, barmaid, bring a pitcher
Another round of brew
Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?   J. Buffett

 

 

 

[AZ_JHWK]

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw

 

Rush-Trees

[Mitchell]

Now I’m walking in the park

and all the birds they dance below me,

maybe when things turn green again,

you can tell your friends it’s good to know me.

 

John Mayer

Edited February 25, 2023 by nochrome

[Mitchell]

I tear my heart open,

I sew myself shut,

my weakness is that I care too much.

Our scars remind us, the past is real.

I tear my heart open, just to feel.

 

Papa Roach

 

[touch]

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. 

 

Jimmy Buffett

[touch]

 

 

She knows she got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, yeah, yeah
How can she lose with the stuff she use
Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-six oh what a winning hand

'Cause she's a brick house
She's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house
Ow, that lady stacked and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back

 

 

Commodores

Edited February 25, 2023 by touch

[Jayjay_theweim_guy]

(The best parts of these threads is when you can hear the song start in your head, just by reading a few lines.)

 

"Did you light the candle?

Did you put on, "Kind of Blue,"?

Did you use that Ivy League voodoo on him too?

He thinks he'll be all right, but he doesn't know for sure.

Like every other unindicted co-conspirator."

 

(An oldie but a goodie.)

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don’t do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things."

 

"We parachute in.

We parachute out.

Death from above

We're screaming now."

 

"Big gorilla at the LA Zoo

Snatched the glasses right off my face

Took the keys to my BMW

Left me here to take his place

I wish the ape a lot of success

I'm sorry my apartment's a mess

Most of all, I'm sorry if I made you blue

I'm betting the gorilla will too"

 

(I could fill this thread with nothing but Zevon lyrics---I pretty much did here---but I'll end after this one.)

 

"And if California should slide into the ocean,

Like the mystics and statistics say it will, 

I predict this motel will be standing,

Until I pay my bill."

 

[Argonne69]

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out to be a pain in the a--

 

- Blondie, Heart of Glass
 

Edited February 25, 2023 by Argonne69

[miamistomp]

 Give me oysters and beer for dinner every day of the year,
And I'll feel fine, I'll feel fine.

Jimmy Buffett

 

She got the gold mine, I got the shaft

 

Jerry Reed

 

 

 

I am no better and neither are you
We are the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah

 

Sly Stone

 

 

[touch]

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind
He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then, dad
We're gonna have a good time then

 

 Harry Chapin

[Triple Lindy]

“There’s battle lines bein’ drawn.

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.”

 

Buffalo Springfield 

[Malvern]

A few from the Bard of Barking.

 

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team.

Billy Bragg: Greetings to the New Brunette

 

I said there is no justice as they led me out the door, and the Judge said "this isn't a court of justice son, this is a court of law"

Billy Bragg: Rotting on Remand

 

So join the struggle while you may the revolution is just a T-shirt away.

Billy Bragg: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

[touch]

 

Ah, but ain't that America for you and me?
Ain't that America? Somethin' to see, baby
Ain't that America? Home of the free, yeah
Little pink houses for you and me, ooh
Ooh yeah

 

John Mellencamp

Edited February 26, 2023 by touch

[DArnie]

I see the bad moon risin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life    CCR!!

 

I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds

 

She was a black-haired beauty with big, dark eyes
And points on their own sittin' way up high
Way up firm and high               Bob Seger

 

Rooster hits the washboard
People just gotta smile
Blinky thumps a gut bass
And solos for a while     CCR!!

 

I don't care if you never come home
I don't mind if you just keep on rowin' away on a distant sea
'Cause I don't love you and you don't love me     Eric Clapton

[touch]

… I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
I wanna be free
Just me, oh babe
Ooh

… That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, whoa
'Cause I'm easy, woo
Easy like Sunday morning, yeah
'Cause I'm easy
Easy like Sunday morning, whoa

 

Commodores

[touch]

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
And it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance, I'd ask the world to dance
And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh

Dancing with myself, ah, oh (oh-oh)
Dancing with myself (ah, oh, oh-oh)
If I had the chance, I'd ask the world to dance (ah, oh, oh-oh)
And I'd be dancing with myself, ah, oh, oh-oh, yeah

 

 Billy Idol 

[NCLancer]

On 2/22/2023 at 11:06 PM, ThinkingPlus said:

THEY MET IN A HURRICANE
STANDING IN THE SHELTER OUT OF THE RAIN
SHE TUCKED A NOTE INTO HIS HAND
LATER ON THEY TOOK HIS CAR
DROVE ON DOWN WHERE THE BEACHES ARE
HE WROTE HER NAME IN THE SAND
NEVER EVEN LET GO OF HER HAND

SOMEHOW THEY STAYED THAT WAY
FOR THOSE 5 DAYS IN MAY
MADE ALL THE STARS AROUND THEM SHINE
FUNNY HOW YOU CAN LOOK IN VAIN
LIVING ON NERVES AND SUCH SWEET PAIN
THE LONELINESS THAT CUTS SO FINE
TO FIND THE FACE YOU’VE SEEN A THOUSAND TIMES

I absolutely love this song by Blue Rodeo!  Thank you for posting this.

 

[NCLancer]

It took a while, but she looked in the mirror
And she glanced at the license for my name
A smile seemed to come to her slowly
It was a sad smile, just the same

And she said, "How are you, Harry?"
I said, "How are you, Sue?
Through the too many miles and the too little smiles
I still remember you"

Harry Chapin

[NCLancer]

I left your house this mornin'
About a quarter after nine
Could have been the Willie Nelson
Could have been the wine

 

When I left your house this mornin'
It was a little after nine
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time

 

Tragically Hip

[touch]

My love is the evenin' breeze touchin' your skin
The gentle, sweet singin' of leaves in the wind
The whisper that calls after you in the night
And kisses your ear in the early moonlight
And you don't need to wonder, you're doing fine
My love, the pleasure's mine

Let me go crazy on you
Crazy on you
Let me go crazy, crazy on you, oh

 Heart

 

 

[Argonne69]

"My name is Sue, how do you do? Now you gonna die!" 

 

- Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue 

 

[Triple Lindy]

“I woke up in a SoHo doorway, a policeman knew my name.

He said, “You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away.””

 

The Who

[ThinkingPlus]

Well, I woke up Sunday mornin'
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

 

I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playin' with a can that he was kickin'
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's fryin' chicken
And Lord, it took me back to somethin' that I'd lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way

 

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk
I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short a' dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down

 

 

[TiScape]

[DArnie]

Great thread  Argonne69!!

 

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am stuck in the middle with you    Stealers Wheel

 

The mama pajama rolled out of bed   S&G  LOL!

 

Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time but I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona   S.& Garfunkle

 

Open up the window, let some air into this room
I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death
Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath    3 Dog

 

 

 

 

[Triple Lindy]

Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
You oughta know not to stand by the window
Somebody see you up there
 

The Talking Heads

Life During Wartime

[DArnie]

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel      Mungo Jerry

 

I got a freaky old lady
Named Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders all my jeans.
Got my poor old grey-haired daddy
Drivin' my limousine.              Dr. Hook

 

 

You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money              Hall & Oates

 

Money talks
But it can't sing and dance
And it can't walk              N. Diamond