The Line You Wish You'd Written

[Pablo]

"There'll be no stampede on the Pearly Gates.  I'll say "after you,"  you'll say "I don't mind the wait."  One of the many lyrics that I love from Paddy McAloon - Pearly Gates.  It's such a beautiful sentiment!

[Rachel Cockburn]

"your heart's a thousand colours but they're all shades of blue"

 

Gregory Alan Isakov - Dreams on a Windowsill

[tunesforyou]

I would like to ressurect this post with my original line from Melissa Ethridge: I would dial the numbers just to listen to your breath.

 

[BigBubbaBrown]

I forgot about this thread until I was email notificated about a new reply.

 

I've been digging around on YouTube looking for Genesis songs I haven't heard before and I came across the one line I am kicking myself for not thinking up. It goes:

 

"Naminanu naminanu naminu naminanu. Naminanu naminanu naminanu naminanu." I can't remember the title of the song. I think it's called "Naminanu" but I could be wrong. And yes, this is a real song by Genesis. Fortunately it was only ever released as a B side to the best of my knowledge.

 

In all seriousness, after going on a Meat Loaf bender I'm wishing I could have beaten Jim Steinman to the lines "Baby you're the only thing in this whole world that's pure and good and right/And wherever you are and wherever you go there's always gonna be some light"

 

Unfortunately that album was written and released a good 4 or 5 years before I was born.

[Kel]

I forgot about this thread until I was email notificated about a new reply.

 

I've been digging around on YouTube looking for Genesis songs I haven't heard before and I came across the one line I am kicking myself for not thinking up. It goes:

 

"Naminanu naminanu naminu naminanu. Naminanu naminanu naminanu naminanu." I can't remember the title of the song. I think it's called "Naminanu" but I could be wrong. And yes, this is a real song by Genesis. Fortunately it was only ever released as a B side to the best of my knowledge.

 

 

That ranks right up there with "Obli di, obla da..." and "Da do run run run, da do run run"

[BigBubbaBrown]

That ranks right up there with "Obli di, obla da..." and "Da do run run run, da do run run"

 

The difference is those songs had actual lyrics. The only thing that was ever said throughout the entire song was "naminanu." No other words.

[mrun213]

"Searching for that one who is going to make me whole
Help me make these mysteries unfold" - One More Chance - Michael Jackson

 

It's a simple but effective line. I feel like I like it most just because of how he sang it.

[SmokeyJoe]

I'd be remiss if I didn't throw in a few by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

 

Where is Mona?

She's long gone.

Where is Mary?

She's taken her along.

But they forgot to put their mittens on,

And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow.

 

- Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

 

Heartbreaking in it's simplicity, and captures the tone of the entire song in just that opening verse.

 

Then there's this one:

 

There's a devil waitin' outside your door

How much longer?

There's a devil waitin' outside your door

How much longer?

And he's buckin' an' brayin' and pawin' at the floor

How much longer?

And he's howlin' with pain and crawlin' up the wall

How much longer?

He's weak with evil and broken by the world

How much longer?

He's shoutin' your name and he's askin' for more

How much longer

Give him more, give him more

There's a devil waitin' outside your door

 

- Loverman

 

...and of course, perhaps the most insightful lyric of all time:

 

People just 'aint no good.

[Steve]

Singing songs and drinking wine
While your eyes played games with mine

[GocartMoz]

Not 1 line, but my favorite group of lines:

 

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

 

"Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland"

[GocartMoz]

Another ... for grins ... Long Black Veil ... done by many, but my fave is The Band's version 

 

"The scaffold was high and eternity neared
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries over my bones"

[JesseDaniels]

Mine would have to be

" I was alone, I was all by myself, no one was looking, ...I was thinking of you. Oh yea did I mention I was all by myself? All by myself. All by myself."

-"all by myself" by Green Day

Can't believe I didn't think of that:/

[teek]

wow this thread started in 2012  , i only recognize 4 or 5 names , 

 

One of my fave's is -   "  Who needs all that sentimental bullshit anyway " - Cold Chisel .  

[Rudi]

goo goo g' joob

 

From 'I am the Walrus' by J Lennon

 

In protest to all the verses posted here instead of lines. You know who you are!

[GocartMoz]

Can't limit it to a line ... the whole verse gets me everytime

 

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night, they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

 

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland 

 

Bruce Springsteen, Jungleland

Edited November 1, 2016 by GocartMoz

[teek]

That's an old word "Sprangle "  ( Smokey Mountain Magic 1910 )  ,  i like it .

 

But who mows the lawn at dawn ?   that wouldn't be a forced rhyme would it ?  or is it a metaphor i don't understand .

 

 

[Steve]

On 29/10/2016 at 2:58 AM, teek said:

wow this thread started in 2012  , i only recognize 4 or 5 names , 

 

One of my fave's is -   "  Who needs all that sentimental bullshit anyway " - Cold Chisel .  

 

We're all in disguise!

[Steve]

Quote

And it all feels like yesterday! It's amazing how the time just drifts away.

 

 

 

Ray Wilson, 'Song for a friend'

Edited November 13, 2016 by Steve

[Rudi]

Even a clown knows when to strike

 

Elvis Costello - Clown Strike

[Steve]

"Forever, is a long way. Forever, takes your breath away!"

 

 

It's getting to the point. ELO