God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it’s sown
The The-- Armageddon days are here(again)
“Livin’ on the road my friend was gonna make you free and clean,
Now you wear your skin like iron and your breath’s as hard as kerosene”
Townes Van Zandt
“When the world is too dark, and I need the light inside of me
I’ll walk into a bar and drink fifteen pints of beer”
The Pogues
Well played.
I made it through 2006 with the help of this song. Although I feel it might have been better described by the Hold Steady
"It was song number 3 on John’s last CD - Going to make it through this year if it kills me
And it almost killed me…"
Any promise we make is as easy to break
As the plastic people on a wedding cake
– Concrete Blonde, Little Conversations
I don’t pretend to know what you want
But I offer love.
– Crowded House, It’s Only Natural
‘They say we are endowed with Free Will -
at least that justifies our need for indecision’
from The Comet, the Course, the Tail
‘The heart is a secret garden
to which there are no short cuts’
Green Fingers
both by Peter Hammill.
Other fans will know that his lyrics are littered with other exampes…
Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools
–World Party, Ship of Fools
I feel like this lyric all the time.
“Too young to die,
and too old to believe in promises.”
-Amanda Marshall
“And the waves crash around me, the sand slips out to sea.
And the winds that blow remind me of what has been and what can never be.”
-Nickel Creek
"Music, it never goes, but I told you, I hate that shit,
when people say “Well, you know - you got a song out of it.”
Shawn Colvin
“The things that scare us today,
what if they happen someday?”
Regina Spektor
And one more:
“Don’t tell me I’m a dreamer/
'cuz I don’t wanna know.”
The rain falls down without my help, I’m afraid,
And the lawn gets wet, though I’ve withheld my consent.
They Might Be Giants
Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free–Dire Straits
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps
It’s time we put the flame torch to their keep
Elton John - Burn Down the Mission
And if there’s one thing I can’t stand,
It’s up
Mercury Rev - Downs Are Feminine Balloons
Big city women,…got a hand full of gimme,
and a mouth full of much obliged.
Jesse Winchester
Keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheels…
for the future is uncertain and the end is always near.
The Doors
Send in the clowns . . .
Don’t bother, they’re here.
by Stephen Sondheim
“Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”
“Adam and Eve and Lucy and Ricky, bit the big apple and got a little sticky
Esmeralda and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, they humped each other like they had no shame”
“An old man sleeps with his conscience at night, young kids sleep with their dreams
While the mentally ill sit perfectly still and live through life’s in-betweens”
-John Prine
“But the music make her wanna be the story
And the story was whatever was the song what it was” - MK, DS
“I couldn’t have one conversation
if it wasn’t for the lies, lies, lies.” Freedy Johnston
:dubious:
Wal dis mah illusions! I’ve played that song for years, always thought it said the men on the hill sit perfectly still. I know that doesn’t make a great deal of sense, but then a lot of JP’s songs don’t seem to make sense at first glimpse.:smack:
SS
“You see I’ve gotta live my life here with some pretty scary brethren
But now I’m a rebel on a mission, baby, to live and die by my smile”
Live, Like a Soldier