# Moving lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 23, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421 "2023-07-23T18:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/21 "2023-07-25T14:32:06Z")
**Tom Waits**. _Heartattack And Vine_. I’d like to quote the entire song, but that’s not allowed. So, here’s a tiny taste: Boney’s high on china white, Shorty found a punk Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, there’s just God when he’s drunk Well this stuff will probably kill you, let’s do another line What you say you meet me down on heartattack and vine See that little Jersey girl in the see-through top With the peddle pushers sucking on a soda pop Well I bet she’s still a virgin but it’s only twenty-five 'til nine You can see a million of 'em on heartattack and vine ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/22 "2023-07-25T14:47:15Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/23 "2023-07-25T14:49:12Z")
Paradise, by John Prine. The whole song, actually. _And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County_ _Down by the Green River where Paradise lay_ _Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking_ _Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away_ ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/24 "2023-07-25T16:33:36Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away I like to sing it: “Mr. Coltrane’s pea body has hauled it away.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/25 "2023-07-25T17:25:37Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > “Peace on earth” was all it said. > > 😁 You are tempting me to go ahead and hate my neighbor. mmm ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/26 "2023-07-25T17:26:15Z")
Tom Waits again. > [@Kentucky Avenue](#): > > I’ll take the spokes from your wheelchair > And a magpie’s wings > And I’ll tie 'em to your shoulders > And your feet > > I’ll steal a hacksaw from my dad > Cut the braces off your legs > And we’ll bury them tonight > Out in the cornfield ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/27 "2023-07-25T17:41:57Z")
I know it’s almost a cliché by now, and many people have quoted it, but there’s this line from Leonard Cohen that’s oh so true: _There is a crack, a crack in everything_ _That’s how the light gets in_ Speaks to every damaged person in the world, and aren’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/28 "2023-07-25T18:20:44Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Tom Waits again. **Kentucky Avenue** and **Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)** are two of Wait’s songs that have incredibly intense lyrics. In an interview, Waits explained that all the kids mentioned in Kentucky Avenue were real friends he had growing up, the kid in the wheelchair and with leg braces had polio. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/29 "2023-07-26T01:45:20Z")
I think the first few lines of “The Rose” are quite moving. > Some say love, it is a river > That drowns the tender reed > Some say love, it is a razor > That leaves your soul to bleed > Some say love, it is a hunger > An endless aching need > I say love, it is a flower > And you, its only seed ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/30 "2023-07-26T14:02:44Z")
Actually, **ThelmaLou** , the whole lyric to that song is quite touching. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/31 "2023-07-26T15:32:39Z")
You are so right, but I understand we’re not permitted to quote all the lyrics of a song on the board. I did that once in the past and got a mod note. Maybe that’s changed now? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/32 "2023-07-26T15:35:51Z")
No. Quote short snippets that won’t get the SDMB in trouble for copyright issues. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421/33 "2023-07-29T14:14:49Z")
Now, some guys, they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece Some guys come home from work and wash up Then go racing in the street Perhaps Springsteen’s greatest song… [Racing In The Street (London Calling: Live In Hyde Park, 2009) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j1aCBRWlc8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-lyrics/987421.md?page=1)