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[khyber]

[the1andonly]

Then I'll take you home
And with wild abandon
Make love to you just like a true companion
You are my true companion

[yingwenlaoshi]

[kimchi story]

Sled dogs after dinner close their eyes on the howlin' wastes
Kurt Cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face
Then they drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of Sleepy Hollow too
You can pause in wonder, they paused in wonder and yea, I paused in wonder too

[Sincinnatislink]

I couldn't wait to breathe your breath.
I cut in line,
I bled to death.
I got to you there was nothing left.

Now, no googling.
If you can name this and you're a guy, I'll buy you a beer sometime.

If you're a girl, wait a couple days and I'll make out with you.

pm's accepted . . .
now.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you
(Dylan)

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.
(Dylan)

Thunder Road

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
(Springsteen)

Roll Away

Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City
stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks
and I told her what I'd decided to do
She looked out the window a long long moment
then she looked into my eyes
She didn't have to say a thing,
I knew what she was thinkin'

Roll, roll me away,
won't you roll me away tonight
I too am lost, I feel double-crossed
and I'm sick of what's wrong and what's right
We never even said a word,
we just walked out and got on that bike
And we rolled
And we rolled clean out of sight
(Bob Segar)

[CAN'T believe this thread made it to page 3 without a mention of Dylan, the premier lyricist of the last 50 years.]

[khyber]

Ya-Ta....what was the best set of lyrics in that song.
That was too much for me to read....

[Sister Ray]

[Jizzo T. Clown]

Have a round and remember

Things we did that weren't so tender

Let the train blow the whistle when I go

[Anyong Bluth]

I know I stand in line until you think you have the time to spend an evening with me/
and if we go some place to dance I know that there's a chance you won't be leaving with me/
and afterwards we stop into a quiet little place to have a drink or two/
and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I love you."

[Anyong Bluth]

It's another back-door, sneakin'-in, Where-you-been? midnight
Quiet as a mack truck, lotsa luck thinkin' up an alibi
But every light in the house is on
Everything is gone

[Ya-ta Boy]

[BobbyTeenager]

Right Where it Belongs is my favorite song off that album...


The TV's gone and you've been half an hour paid
And your punkrock band still sucks anyway
I was talking to Jesus through a hole in the floor
He said our time is up, we can't stay anymore

--Monster Magnet (See You in Hell)


The gods told me to relax
They said I'm gonna be fixed up right
I'm never gonna work another day in my life
I'm way too busy powertripping

--Monster Magnet (Powertrip)

[SuperFly]

Leavin texas, fourth day of july,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky.
Catch the detroit lightnin out of sante fe,
The great northern out of cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.

*or*

Jack straw from wichita cut his buddy down,
And dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down.
Half a mile from tucson, by the morning light,
One man gone and another to go, my old buddy youre moving much too slow.

Grateful Dead - Jack Straw

[Woland]

John Wesley Harding is another great source of little lyric snippets. Here's some samples:

There's some rifle sites high on the Eiffel Tower
Trying to pick off anyone who's French.
You're spoiled for choice; a voice calls down from heaven,
"So shoot someone or get back on the bench."

-- It's All My Fault

I'm going to fill myself with coffee just to drown the nicotine.
I'll do a slow striptease then wash my body clean.
I'm gonna go to bed to early just to keep me still
And I'll lie there quiet, try to write my will.

-- You So & So

Bob Dylan is my father, Joan Baez is my mother
And I'm their bastard son
Though my roots show through I'm just 22
I don't belong to anyone

-- Bastard Son

And so mother brings me heiresses, the weak-chinned and the widowed
The simpering and whimpering, they queue to be my wife
And I treat them all with diffidence, even feign an interest
But I regret I didn't save my elder brother's life

-- The Fall of the House of Harding

And I recall the last time that I saw you
We were going to lead such different lives
Yes, and it was me who sent you packing
For the woman who til lately was my wife

-- For an Actress

The newsagent grinned, he said yes you'd been in
You'd bought a local paper and some shades
The washroom attendant said that you'd freshened up
That you'd left but you hadn't paid

-- The Red Rose and the Briar

You know they can i.d. someone
From one cell of skin
But they couldn't spot a crime scene
If the killer went and let 'em in

-- Where the Bodies Are (Written presciently three years before the OJ trial)

And it's very nearly showtime, the magicians warm up backstage
And the sound effects so loud that no-one hears
As one tiger turns to the other and says: "you wanna see some magic?
Tonight it's the magicians disappear!"

-- Darwin (or I Told You So) (also prescient, hence the addition to the original title)

I was living free up the stairs from a mortuary
He could hear me bring the bodies home at night
He tried to say "I was just like you"
I shouted back "you're an old fool"
He said "listen" and I told him "I'd rather die"
But I changed my mind

-- Things Snowball