“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
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
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
“…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
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…