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  1. #21
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    There must be some kind of way out of here
    Said the joker to the thief
    Theres too much confusion
    I cant get no relief
    Businessman they drink my wine
    Plow men dig my earth
    None will level on the line
    Nobody of it is worth

  2. #22
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    West of The Mississippi
    Great one, feldspar. The opening riff to that Hendrix song has to be one of the best ever.

    Here's a couple:

    Blue Spanish eyes
    teardrops are falling from your Spanish eyes
    Please please don't cry,
    this is just adios and not good-bye

    *** *** ***

    You get a shiver in the dark
    Its been raining in the park but meantime
    South of the river you stop and you hold everything
    A band is blowing dixie double four time
    You feel all right when you hear that music ring

    *** *** ***

  3. #23
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    New Orleans
    Got to throw one more Simon & Garfunkel in. At freshman orientation, Duke Gardens, 1968, a time when people were a bit more inclined to reflect on the nature of American culture, the emcee picked up a guitar and asked people to join in singing:

    Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
    I've got some real estate here in my bag

  4. #24
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    I listened to that song today...possibly the best breakup song ever (but no, I didn't break up today).
    Wilson, you made my day. Was wondering if someone would know those lines. Glad you didn't break up today.

    One of my other favorites lines from this artist is:

    "There's just too much to see waiting in front of me,
    and I know that I just can't go wrong"

    Used that song to recover from break ups and other "things didn't go my way" times in my life.

    Okay, I am not liking where my thought process is.

    Next post of a stanza/verse/line will be much cheerier.

  5. #25
    "I'm growing older but not up
    My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck
    So let the winds of change blow over my head
    I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead"

  6. #26
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    This isn't an opening stanza, just a line, but I've always loved, "Everyone here is just more than contented to be livin' and dyin' in three quarter time."

  7. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    This isn't an opening stanza, just a line, but I've always loved, "Everyone here is just more than contented to be livin' and dyin' in three quarter time."
    That is a great line. Would you happen to be a Parrothead?

  8. #28
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    Quote Originally Posted by TillyGalore View Post
    That is a great line. Would you happen to be a Parrothead?
    Wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call myself a Parrothead, but I do like Jimmy Buffett. I listen to him regularly (especially in the warmer months), and he is one of the best songwriters around (though he oddly gets little credit for that). He's also one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

  9. #29

    opening lines

    Maybe I've been the problem, maybe I'm the one to blame
    But even when I turn it off and blame myself, the outcome feels the same
    I've been thinkin maybe I've been partly cloudy, maybe I'm the chance of rain
    Maybe I'm overcast, and maybe all my lucks washed down the drain


    or another by this same group


    She told him she'd rather fix her makeup
    Than try to fix what's going on
    But the problem keeps on calling
    Even with the cellphone gone

  10. #30
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    How about -

    Why try? I know why
    The feeling inside me says it's time I was gone
    Clear head, new life ahead
    It's time I was king now -- not just one more pawn
    ------------------------------------------------------

    "And the men in High places
    must be the ones to start.
    To mold a new reality
    Closer to the heart

    --------------------------------------------

    Some more later

    Exiled

  11. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Devil View Post

    "And the men in High places
    must be the ones to start.
    To mold a new reality
    Closer to the heart

    --------------------------------------------

    Some more later

    Exiled
    That's "And the men who hold high places"

    I would also accept:

    "Living on a lighted stage
    approaches the unreal
    for those who think and feel
    In touch with some reality
    Beyond the gilded cage"

  12. #32
    I went home with a waitress,
    Just like I always do.
    How was I to know,
    She was with the Russians too?



    And a little more obscure:

    Strap them kids in
    Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke
    We're going to Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years
    It's up at uncle Slayton's cause he's getting on in years
    You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry
    He's not much on talking and he's just too mean to die

  13. #33
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Clearwater, FL
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    This isn't an opening stanza, just a line, but I've always loved, "Everyone here is just more than contented to be livin' and dyin' in three quarter time."
    One of my favorite all time song lyrics! Along with "some of it's magic, some of it's tragic but I've had a good life all the same"

    yes, I am a parrothead
    Windsor (aka Loni)

    a wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age

  14. #34
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    New Jersey
    "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street"
    Rich
    "Failure is Not a Destination"
    Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016

  15. #35
    Quote Originally Posted by Windsor View Post
    showing my age (and my geographical heritage)


    The Rangers had a homecoming
    In Harlem late last night
    And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
    Over the Jersey state line
    Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
    Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
    Eh - I'm only 21 and I immediately thought of:

    The screen door slams
    Mary's dress waves
    Like a vision she dances across the porch
    As the radio plays

    but my favorite would be:

    One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
    Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
    Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
    Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat

  16. #36
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    How about

    "Look out of any window
    any morning, any evening, any day.
    Maybe the sun is shining
    birds are winging or
    rain is falling from a heavy sky -
    What do you want me to do,
    to do for you to see you through?
    this is all a dream we dreamed
    one afternoon long ago."

  17. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by allenmurray View Post
    I went home with a waitress,
    Just like I always do.
    How was I to know,
    She was with the Russians too?
    More obscure still:

    I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
    I was staring in my empty coffee cup
    I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
    All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles--I'm gonna drink 'em up

    And if California slides into the ocean
    Like the mystics and statistics say it will
    I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill

  18. #38
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA

    I'm surprised no one's added:

    When some loud braggart tries to put me down
    and says his school is great,
    I tell him right away,
    Now what's the matter, buddy
    Ain't you heard of my school,
    it's Number 1 in the state?


  19. #39
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    Quote Originally Posted by DevilAlumna View Post
    When some loud braggart tries to put me down
    and says his school is great,
    I tell him right away,
    Now what's the matter, buddy
    Ain't you heard of my school,
    it's Number 1 in the state?

    SO BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL NOW! (rah, rah, rah, rah sis-boom-bah)
    Just like you would to your girl or guy!
    Be true to your school,
    And let your colors fly!

    I love the Beach Boys. Lots of people don't realize they were much more than just the "surf's up" confections for which they're best known. "Pet Sounds" is a masterpiece.

  20. #40
    There was a guy
    An underwater guy who controlled the sea
    Got killed by 10 million pounds of sludge
    From New York and New Jersey

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