favorite lines in songs
Last night I started thinking about what a fabulous line this is:
She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
I think that may be the most perfect line in a song. So, I started thinking about my favorite lines and this what I came up with:
She killed his past
With her kiss
All past was but a lie
She killed his head
She killed his mouth
And opened up the sky
Now all I've got for you,
Is the kind of love
that cuts clean through.
All I got for you is razor love
It cuts clean through.
I saw Elvis Presley walk out of a 7-11
And a woman gave birth to a baby and then bowled 257
Now the excess of fat on your American bones
Will cushion the impact as you sink like a stone
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself - Well... How did I get here?
And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light's in the distance
It's time the tale were told
Of how you took a child
And you made him old
You made him old
I found some blood I wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered by the sympathy you bleed.
I noticed that all of these are old songs, they're all stuff I've been listening to since college. They are better if you know the song and can sing it in your head, I think.
How many do you recognize? What are your favorites?
