Taken from the “Best Single Lines in Rock Music” thread, can you identify the song and group of any of these fairly popular songs (mostly rock or pop) over many decades?
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Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in you head? -
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world? -
Elvis was a hero to most
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You don’t need to be a Weather Man
To know which way the wind blows -
The only girl I’ve ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes -
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain’t locked
When no one’s around -
I played the pump and took the hump
And watered whiskey down -
I was once like you are now/ and I know that it’s not easy/ To be calm when you’ve found/ Something going on
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Did they get you to trade/ Your heroes for ghosts?
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His Majesty signed/ With his own rubber stamp
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Take a sad song and make it better
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Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies -
We sick and tired of your ism-schism game
Dyin’ an’ goin’ to Heaven in a Jesus name -
We used to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark
And when it kicks in you can hardly talk -
Adolph builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it
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To love another person is to see the face of God
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
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But you don’t really care for music, do ya?
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Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard -
Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped into the room
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It was the myth of fingerprints, that’s what that old army base was for
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Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
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It smelled like turpentine it looked like India ink
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Don’t know about you, but I am une Chien Andalusia
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Little did I know that you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles
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Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller’s store
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No you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone -
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in -
And leaning on your window sill
He’ll say one day you caused his will
To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter -
Daylight come an’ I wanna go home
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I’ve been to Hollywood, I’ve been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold -
Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
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Or in the parking lot, circling, screaming, “I don’t give a fuck!”/ With his windows down and his system up
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And found my cleanest dirty shirt
35, To die by your side us such a heavenly way to die
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Standin’ in the sunlight laughing’ hiding’ behind a rainbow wall
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The buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees
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And the wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
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Don’t go changing to try to please me
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And I wondered how the same moon outside this chinatown fair; could look down on Illinois and find you there
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Just a stranger on the bus ,trying to make his way home.
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I dreamed I saw Ray Charles last night and he could see just fine
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Take another shot of courage, wonder why the right words never come
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A band is blowing Dixie double-four time, you feel alright when you hear that music ring
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I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song, I just can’t remember who to send it to
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Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages, and the Zookeeper is very fond of rum
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She said it’s really not my habit to intrude, furthermore I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued
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But she wants to be sure, ‘cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
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And you wanna grow up to be just like them: Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even panhandlers -
I’ve been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out
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How I would push my fingers through your mouth to make those muscles move that made your voice so smooth and sweet
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You know that I have from the start, so build me up, Buttercup
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Wherever he laid his hat, was his home
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
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Never badder than bad 'cause the brother is madder than mad at the fact that’s corrupt like a senator
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It’s a monumental big screen kiss, it’s so deep it’s meaningless
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I may be mad, I may be blind, I may be viciously unkind, but I can still read what you’re thinking
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Then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, oh responsible, practical
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Work very hard, but I’m lazy, I’ve got a lot of songs but they’re all in my head / I’ll get a guitar and a lover who pays me
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When he knew for certain only dying men could see him he said all men would be sailors then
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My thoughts are many miles away, they lie with you when you’re asleep, and kiss you when you start your day
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I drank forty cups of coffee just waiting for you to get home
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And you won’t make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night, we weren’t lovers like that and besides, it would still be alright
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I walk through her hills 'cause she knows who I am, she sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy
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I’ve just seen a face I can’t forget the time or place
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And it’s hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain -
And Superman unrolls a suit before he lifts
But I’m not the kind of person that it fits -
Hush my darling, don’t fear my darling, the lion sleeps tonight
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Moon lights up the night, I light up when you call my name
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Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules, then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
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Sippin’ on gin and juice (laid back), with my mind on my money and my money on my mind)
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You can’t start a fire without a spark
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When the drinks finally hit her, she said, "I’m no quitter” but I finally quit living on dreams
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I’m not big on social graces, think I’ll slip on down to the oasis
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And I loved you when our love was blessed, and I love you now there’s nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime
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He will speak these words of wisdom like a sage, a man of vision though he knows he’s really nothing but the brief elaboration of a tune
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Everybody talkin’ to their pockets, everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stem rose
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Well, the mouse ate the crumb then the cat ate the crust, now they’ve fallen in love and they’re talking in tongues
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and she gave you tea and oranges that came all the way from China
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Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa, or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
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Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for the train, and was feeling as nearly faded as my jeans
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And feeling good was good enough for me
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All the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone , they were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on
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You can say that I’ve grown bitter but of this you may be sure, the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
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Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet , but I hear him coughing all night long
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Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly -
That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away then sinply pretend that you can build them again
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Let me hold you tight like rain and sunshine on a rainy day; let me hold you tight and arms, tight and arms you lost your chance, come so close that I might see the crash of light come down on me
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Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white
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She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothes off, says she’s close to understanding Jesus
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Love is a temple, love the higher law, you ask me to enter but then you make me crawl, and I can’t be holding on
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We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when…
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I can be handy mending a fuse when the lights have gone
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Will you read my book, it took me years to write - will you take a look?
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When you say she’s looking good she acts as if it’s understood
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Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
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Another day breaks and the last one’s gone, you dig deep just to carry on
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Dark eyes and careless hair, you were fashionably sensitive but too cool to care
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So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways
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Do you listen to music or do you just skim through it?
(Some tougher Canadian songs)
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The girls are out to bingo and the boys are getting stinko and we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa down of the big lake that they call Gitchi Gumee
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And that’s awful close but that’s not why I’m so hard done by
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I’ve had to give way and dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers, their manners are fine, but their feet are of clay for there’s none with the style of my log driver
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You with the jaundiced eyes, drunk on your own reflection propped up with desks and flags
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You’ll have to excuse me I’m not at my best, I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left