Goat Finally Had a Good Idea - Best Single Lyric in a Song
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"You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin yeah
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him."
Mark Knopfler,
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him."
Mark Knopfler,
Sometimes at night I think of old lovers I've known
I remember how holding them, helped me not feel so alone
Then I feel you beside me and even their memories are gone
Like stars in the night, lost in the sweet light of dawn
I remember how holding them, helped me not feel so alone
Then I feel you beside me and even their memories are gone
Like stars in the night, lost in the sweet light of dawn
"As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan"
Jackson Browne, "For America"
from a teen of the Vietnam era, start to finish, the greatest war protest song ever written.
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As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan
I went off looking for the promise
Believing in the Motherland
And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed
And the safety of my own head
I went on speaking of the future
While other people fought and bled
The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
It's in my blood and in my bones
By the dawn's early light
By all I know is right
We're going to reap what we have sown
As if freedom was a question of might
As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time-
"My country wrong or right"
I want to know what that's got to do
With what it takes to find out what's true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you
The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms
Who send their sons to the Vietnams
Will they really think their way of life
Has been protected as the next war comes?
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
Her shining dream plays in my mind
By the rockets red glare
A generation's blank stare
We better wake her up this time
The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
I can't let go till she comes around
Until the land of the free
Is awake and can see
And until her conscience has been found
That I was just another part of their plan"
Jackson Browne, "For America"
from a teen of the Vietnam era, start to finish, the greatest war protest song ever written.
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As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan
I went off looking for the promise
Believing in the Motherland
And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed
And the safety of my own head
I went on speaking of the future
While other people fought and bled
The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
It's in my blood and in my bones
By the dawn's early light
By all I know is right
We're going to reap what we have sown
As if freedom was a question of might
As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time-
"My country wrong or right"
I want to know what that's got to do
With what it takes to find out what's true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you
The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms
Who send their sons to the Vietnams
Will they really think their way of life
Has been protected as the next war comes?
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
Her shining dream plays in my mind
By the rockets red glare
A generation's blank stare
We better wake her up this time
The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
I can't let go till she comes around
Until the land of the free
Is awake and can see
And until her conscience has been found
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Another that hits home for me:
"There's been a load of compromis'n on the road to my horizon"
I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Yeah, but Martians/Barsoomians are cool. Commies, not so much.
Now you've done it. Boris and Natasha are gonna be pissed. You are next on their hit list after moose and squirrel!
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I’m good. Got the on-line degree from Wossamotta U.
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive, that you'll never know...
Yeah, Jackson Browne, he of the “She‘s got to be somebody’s baby. She’s so fine.”
We could do a separate thread on the brilliance of JB's lyrics ,and still barely scratch the surface...
Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care
Still when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere
Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear
Some people are having a very difficult time grasping the basic concept of this thread.
....Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade, says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it?"
Counting stars by candlelight
all are dim but one is bright
The spiral light of Venus
rising first and shining best
On, from the northwest corner
of a brand new crescent moon
While crickets and cicadas sing
a rare and different tune
all are dim but one is bright
The spiral light of Venus
rising first and shining best
On, from the northwest corner
of a brand new crescent moon
While crickets and cicadas sing
a rare and different tune
I don't recognize the song that line is from, but, wow, does it ever apply.
I recognize it. It’s from the song about internet mods.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?
“Shanghai Lil never used the pill. She claimed that it just ain’t natural.”
A little Townes:
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
You better hope and pray, there never comes a day, that momma goes drinkin with you.
In the deep, dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
"You will never leave Harlan alive"
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
"You will never leave Harlan alive"
Line is from How High the Moon. Les Paul and Mary Ford put down 24 tracks in recording that in 1953, topped the charts and changed music forever. You can find it on YouTube.
