# The best closing lines/stanzas in songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878 "2022-02-04T00:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/21 "2022-02-04T03:24:11Z")
_While she’s livin’ like a queen_ _On alimony_ _I’m workin’ two shifts_ _Eatin’ baloney_ _Askin’ myself, “Why didn’t you just learn how to cook?”_ Goes to refrain. She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) - Jimmy Dean ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/22 "2022-02-04T03:29:13Z")
And the world will be better for this, that one man, scorned and covered with scars, still strove, with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars. Leigh Mitch / Darion Joseph _Man of La Mancha_ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/23 "2022-02-04T03:33:44Z")
But I love you in a place Where there’s no space and time I love you for my life You are a friend of mine And when my life is over Remember when we were together We were alone and I was singing this song for you. A Song For You - Leon Russell ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/24 "2022-02-04T03:57:17Z")
Four dead in Ohio. Enforced by Crosby crying _Why_ and _How many more?_ beneath the chorus. _Ohio_ by CSNY ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/25 "2022-02-04T05:34:53Z")
_So leave your world behind you,_ _you can come with me._ _Sing a song I’ll teach you,_ _live your fantasy._ _Love you in a natural way._ _Doesn’t matter what time of day_ _you and I play._ _You can come with me._ _Won’tcha come with me?_ _You can come with me!_ —_ **You Can Come with Me** _ (Theme from _ **Hawaii Five-O** _), Don Ho ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/26 "2022-02-04T05:51:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) - Jimmy Dean Jerry Reed? ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/27 "2022-02-04T06:14:41Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > And the three men I admire most > The father, son, and the Holy Ghost > They caught the last train for the coast > The day, the music died. > > (To refrain) And the Jedi I admire most Met up with Darth Maul and now he’s toast Well, I’m still here and he’s a ghost I guess I’ll train this boy (To refrain) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/28 "2022-02-04T06:37:43Z")
More Dylan: _I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I could be you Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You’d know what a drag it is to see you_ - Positively 4th Street ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/29 "2022-02-04T07:19:30Z")
Two from Joni Mitchell: _They paved paradise and put up a parking lot_ (which is also the great opening line of "Big Yellow Taxi) and _I’ve looked at life from both sides now_ _From win and lose and still somehow_ _It’s life’s illusions I recall_ _I really don’t know life at all_ “Both Sides Now” ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/30 "2022-02-04T12:15:26Z")
Vernon Dalhart’s “The Prisoner’s Song” from 1925: Now if I had wings like an angel Over these prison walls I would fly And I’d fly to the arms of my darlin’ And there I’d be willing to die ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/31 "2022-02-04T13:11:57Z")
“Age of Aquarius” Let the sun shine in ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/32 "2022-02-04T13:42:50Z")
Mine were stolen by @terenti and @Kent_Clark so I’m going see who remembers these . . . Now they stood beside the treasure On the mountain, dark and red Turned the stone and looked beneath it “Peace on Earth” was all it said **One Tin Soldier** - Coven I heard his fiancee got a letter That told how Billy died that day The letter said that he was a hero She should be proud he died that way I heard she threw that letter away … **Billy Don’t be a Hero** - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/33 "2022-02-04T13:49:10Z")
Now there’s no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe and saw **The Trees** - Rush ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/34 "2022-02-04T14:13:01Z")
I knew Jimmy Dean was wrong when I wrote it, but couldn’t figure out why. ---
**Author:** ![Jaydubba77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Jaydubba77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaydubba77)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/35 "2022-02-04T14:39:10Z")
They gaped upon me with their mouths As a ravening and a roaring lion I am poured out like water And all my bones are out of joint My heart is like wax It is melted in the midst of my bowels My strength is dried up like a potsherd And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws And thou has brought me into the dust of death. From The Guess Who, Hang on to Your Life. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/36 "2022-02-04T15:09:52Z")
> And I think that I just fell in love with you **I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You** Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/37 "2022-02-04T15:13:52Z")
1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson “Well he reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys. He said, “I’ve got no further use for these. I see Angels on Ariels in leather and chrome, Swoopin’ down from Heaven to carry me home.” And he gave her one last kiss and died. And he gave her his Vincent To ride.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/38 "2022-02-04T16:26:00Z")
Maybe not the ‘best’ closing stanza but a nice dark twist, I always thought-- The first 3 verses of The Doors’ “Moonlight Drive” sounds like a fairly conventional love song, then Jim hits you with the outro: _Come on baby, gonna take a little ride_ _Down, down by the ocean side_ _Gonna get real close_ _Get real tight_ _Baby gonna drown tonight_ _Goin’ down, down, down_ ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/39 "2022-02-04T16:50:00Z")
A little Dire Straits? And a lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something like, “You and me babe, how about it?” “You and me babe, how about it?” or Now the sun’s gone to hell And the moon riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it’s written in the starlight And every line of your palm We’re fools to make war On our brothers in arms j ---
**Author:** ![Jaydubba77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Jaydubba77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaydubba77)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878/40 "2022-02-04T17:57:28Z")
In my youth we considered this to be one of the finest endings ever, though it actually closes out an album. Some of us did consider Days Of Future Past to be one long song though. The Moody Blues: Breathe deep the gathering gloom Watch lights fade from every room Bedsitter people look back and lament Another day’s useless energy spent Impassioned lovers wrestle as one Lonely man cries for love and has none New mother picks up and suckles her son Senior citizens wish they were young Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is grey and yellow, white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-closing-lines-stanzas-in-songs/958878.md?page=3)