Yeah that’s right up there with:
“Woke up this mornin,”
Best for the current situation:
Oh my
Life has passed me by
The country I was brought up in
Fell apart and died
Chicago, Lowdown
America where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster
Steppenwolf, Monster
That brought to mind a Jenny Lewis line:
“Because you are what you love, and not what loves you back”
Dang, gonna have to listen to that a few times in a row now.
Alternately:
Bike by Sid Barret
“I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like” is the ultimate love song.
And, whilst really Ken Graham’s not Floyds, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is a wonderful evocative image
Which brings up a worthy addition here:
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died.
John Prine, Please Don’t Bury Me
Listening to you I get the music
Gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet
- The Who
Which brings up a worthy addition here:
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died.
John Prine, Please Don’t Bury Me
Which brings up Hendrix’s Woke up this morning and found myself dead
Yes. The entire reason I mentioned “Woke up this mornin” is that it is such a cliched first line that it is a running joke.
Heck, the song @Dr.Winston_OBoogie mentioned isn’t even the only John Prine song that starts with that line.
There are entire reddit threads devoted to songs that start with that line. There must be hundreds.
*And you’re not worshiping me,
you’re worshipping yourself
And you will kill in my name and heaven knows what else
When you can’t prove I exist,
so get over yourself
“God Said”/Todd Rundgren
You may have got your silver, but I swear upon my life;
Your sister gave me diamonds, and I gave 'em to your wife.
Dire Straits - The Man’s Too Strong
Also from Pink Floyd:
One day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Cold Chisel - Bow River
‘The money I save won’t buy my youth again’
This always gets me…
And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
“Into The Mystic” - Van Morrison
And magnificently we will fall
Into the mystic
(from the live version on “It’s Too Late To Stop Now”)
I had it on Moondance. I think he said the rhyming version.
“And magnificently we will fold”
Did he sometimes say “float?”
It can also be “fold”, maybe I misheard.
Maybe he is one of those guys who would change it up. Fall, float, fold…who knows?
As someone who has had my words misrepresented in the past:
You took my word and pounded away
And wrote in the sand that you felt the same
Around The Block Again, by Drivin’ N’ Cryin’
I am reevaluating the Beatles. Some good single lines…
Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensembles
Man I was mean but I’m changing my scene
You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer
I’ve got no car and it’s breaking my heart
But I’ve found a driver and that’s a start
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
Show me round your snow packed mountains way down south
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder
You’re such a lovely audience we’d like to take you home with us… we’d love to take you home
Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book?
Sail the ship. Chop the tree. Skip the rope.
Look at me.
Some kind of innocence that’s measured out in years
Out of college money spent.
See no future pay no rent
When I think of all the times I tried to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry
And she promises me the world to me, and I believe her
After all this time I don’t know why