# Pithy song lyrics you wish you'd written?... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312 "2001-11-08T23:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Fogglethorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Fogglethorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fogglethorpe)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/121 "2001-11-23T21:02:54Z")
“Tell me, did you sail across the sun? Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded, and that Heaven is over-rated?” -Train “I don’t want your drugs, I don’t want your money, I just wanna steal your love…” -Lucinda Williams “I’m so green, it’s really amazing I’m so clean, too bad I can’t get all this dirt off of me I’m so sane, it’s driving me crazy It’s so strange, I can’t believe it Feels just like I’m falling for the first time” -Barenaked Ladies “It’s a long way down when all the knots we’ve tied have come undone” -Gin Blossoms “All said and done I stand alone Amongst remains of a life I should not own It takes all I am to believe In the mercy that covers me” -Jars of clay “It may sound absurd, but don’t be naive Even heroes have the right to bleed I may be disturbed, but won’t you concede Even heroes have the right to dream” -Five for Fighting ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/122 "2001-11-23T22:53:26Z")
We’ve had a number of lyrics from his dad, but how about some from **Jacob Dylan** as well? It’s where I’m from That lets them think I’m a whore; I’m an educated virgin - from _Sleepwalker_ It may take two to tango, But boy, it’s one to let go - from _Letters From the Wasteland_ And others… But you just smiled like a bank teller Blankly telling me, “Have a nice life” - **Ben Folds Five** , _Selfless, Cold and Composed_ I don’t know what I should do With my hands when I talk to you And you don’t know where you should look So you look at my hands - **The Weakerthans** , _Pamphleteer_ ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/123 "2001-11-23T22:55:07Z")
Jeez, how could I have forgotten? I used this as a yearbook quote senior year: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” – Bob Dylan, _Subterranean (sp?) Homesick Blues_ ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/124 "2001-11-23T23:00:40Z")
and in the darkened underpass i thought oh god my chance as come at last but then a strange fear gripped me and i just couldn’t ask -the smiths, there is a light and it never goes out that’s great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid -rem …with their nine inch nails little facist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl -tori amos ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/125 "2001-11-23T23:08:02Z")
pithy’s fine, but… “are we lovers or just friends, is the begining or is this the end, when will I see you again” ---
**Author:** ![Fogglethorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Fogglethorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fogglethorpe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/126 "2001-11-24T16:59:58Z")
“…like waking up from the longest dream, how real it seemed until your love broke through… I was lost in a fantasy that blinded me until your love broke through…” -Keith Green ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/127 "2001-11-24T18:18:17Z")
She burned her biscuits and her gravy is strange; Can’t fry a chicken in a microwave range; Her salt’s tasty; Her sugar’s sweet; No she can’t cook but she’s got something to eat… “Amanda Ruth” - Rank and File [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312.md?page=6)