Tell me your favourite lyric line(s)...

I can't help about the shape I'm in

I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

But don't ask me what I think of you

I might not give the answer that you want me to

Oh well

She had the hottest lips since Hiroshima

I had to stand back for fear of being burned

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Think of black and black will think for you

It's covered Stan in bruises, of the darkness that he knew

For black has stolen half the moon away.

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar

Sam Cooke is on the radio,

And the night is filled with space.

Your fingertips touch my face,

And I'm real, real gone...

Oh, so many to choose!

I read your letters

Tears filled my eyes

All of your promises faded

To nothing but lies

So I turn the photograph over

Face to the wall

And when I dim the light

In my room tonight

Teardrops will fall............

You didn't have to be so nice

I would have liked you anyway.......

The last verse of Paper Airplane always gets me.....

Our love is like a paper airplane

Flying in the folded wind

Riding high, dipping low

But innocence is fair game,

I'm hoping I can hold it in

Our love will die, I know.....

but you do need to able to sing it like Ms Krauss

Regards,

Vlad

Shaved his legs

Then he was a she

Good choice PB

Candy came from out on the island.

In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'

But she never lost her head

Even when she was giving head

She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side"

He said, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side"

Just like 'Perfect Day' was about life on heroin, the BBC and others obviously just didn't understand the lyrics. When you consider songs like 'Relax' and 'Je t'aime' were banned, these Lou Reed songs were much racier.

Said the apple to the orange: "Oh I wanted you to come. Close to me and kiss me to the core. Then you might know me like no other orange. Has ever done before.

If you're travelin' in the North Country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

For she once was a true love of mine

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ken

this is the song i heard when i walked into a linn/naim room at a heathrow hifi show a long time ago. i think the system was lp12/ittok/assak/nait/kans. i was smitten...

sorry , off topic...

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ken

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ken

Oh yes Ken, superb! "Perfect Day"'s one of my favourite tracks Steve. Sad, profound.

If life is a river and your heart is a boat

And just like a water baby, baby born to float

And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high

And your heart is Amelia dying to fly

Heaven knows no frontiers

And I've seen heaven in your eyes.

My heart was just/

An open sore/

Which you picked at/

'Til it was raw

A Certain Ratio, "Do the Du (Casse)", 1979

...and then one day you find,

Ten years have got behind you.

No one told you when to run,

You missed the starting gun.

Oh Vlad...

its no use trying to sing it like her -- just listening is enough, i think!

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ken

which one is this from GML ?

actually, it would helpif we captioned the lyric line with artist/album/song title? or not?

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ken

Even better (and much sadder):

Every year is getting shorter/

Never seem to find the time/

Plans that either come to naught/

Or half a page of scribbled lines/

Hanging on in quiet desperation/

Is the English way/

The time is gone/

The song is over/

Thought I'd something more to say

The wrong side
Of a lifetime's drinking
It's where it seems I'm coming from
I took my demons by the hand
Bent them, twisted them
Until they scanned and rhymed

And I took your love
And all the hurt inside
Laid it out on the market stall
Agony at a knockdown price
Reduced to clear is what I cry

Here is my song for the asking
Ask me and I will play
So sweetly, I'll make you smile

This is my tune for the taking
Take it, don't turn away
I've been waiting all my life

Thinking it over, I've been sad
Thinking it over, I'd be more than glad
To change my ways for the asking

Ask me and I will play
All the love that I hold inside

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Simon and Garfunkel

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ken

Yes, ken, we should add a caption to our entries (though some need no introduction, I think).

So my first offering above is Dancing with the Moonlit Knight from Selling England by the Pound, Genesis.

The second is the title track No Frontiers, Mary Black

MDS  

The song, 'Anything That's Part Of You' was written by Don Robertson and recorded by Elvis Presley in 1961.

Even though I am the World's Worst Guitarist and Singer (TM), I can't help trying to sing along. It always causes me to choke up when she sings "I'm hoping I can hold it in....". Everyone else within earshot just feels ill!