Ideally Bob Dylan lyric but anything goes
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
Oh my god yes, this would be my top non dylan lyric
NIN Hurt - " I hurt myself today To see if I still feel, I Focus on the pain The only thing that’s real…"
Can’t really choose a favorite, but it would have to be something from Leonard Cohen -
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There is a crack, a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
- Vincent by Don McLean
I think I like this better than American Pie, TBH. Not as catchy but overall a better song.
From BNL,
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt
My ‘favorites’ change daily, so here’s today’s: That’s the Way That the World Goes Round -John Prine
I know a guy that’s got a lot to lose. He’s a pretty nice fellow but he’s kind of confused. He’s got muscles in his head that ain’t never been used. Thinks he own half of this town.
Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose. Beats his old lady with a rubber hose, Then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes. That’s the way that the world goes 'round.
That’s the way that the world goes 'round. You’re up one day and the next you’re down. It’s half an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown. That’s the way that the world goes 'round.
I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes, When the radiator broke, water all froze. I got stuck in the ice without my clothes, Naked as the eyes of a clown. I was crying ice cubes hoping I’d croak, When the sun come through the window, the ice all broke. I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke That’s the way that the world goes 'round.
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who’s to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home
What song is this? It reminded me of ‘when you leave that way you can never come back’. You should give that a go, the ollie austin version is my preferred take.
Edit: oooooh thats ripple
Streetlight Manifesto - Here’s to Life
Hemingway never seemed to mind
The banalities of a normal life
And I find
It get’s harder every timeSo he aimed the shotgun into the blue
Placed his face in between the two and sighed:
“Here’s to life”I like this too
My dreams are not unlike yours
They long for the safety
And break like a glass chandelier
But there’s laughter and oh, there is love
Just past the edge of our fears
And there’s chaos when push comes to shove
But it’s music to my ears
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Rise Against - People Live Here
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Fossilized Apostle and I comb it with a rake. Soul Coughing
not sure if this is very ‘poetic’ but here’s my favorite
Hated by life itself
In the end, we’ll die anyway
You will, I will, one day all of us will rot away like fallen leaves
But regardless, we live on frantically–
Shouldering our lives, frantically, we live–
Killing, struggling, laughing, shouldering it all
Living, living, living, living-- just live
(song is hated by life itself, original is in japanese so this is a translation)
Oh one more:
An Amazon girl lives in Dumfries
Hey-oh, chicken on a raft
She only has kids in twos and threes
Hey-oh, chicken on a raft
Her sister lives in Maryhill
Hey-oh, chicken on a raft
She says she won’t but I think she will
Hey-oh, chicken on a raft
Come on, baby, now throw me a right to the chin. Don’t just stare like you never cared, I know you did. But you just smile like a bank teller Politely telling me, “have a nice life”
-Ben Folds
Jimmy Webb’s song “Wichita Lineman” made famous by Glen Campbell, ….“And I need you more than want you, And I want you for all time”.
He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother’s hand
The Lazarus Heart - Sting
That’s a yes
