What's your favorite lyric from a song?

@johnto ,

It used to puzzle me why that song used to get so much flak in the first couple of decades after the release of Pepper.


I guess gradually the world is finally catching up with George:


"We were talking about the space between us all

And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion

Never glimpse the truth, then it’s far too late, when they pass away"

Even in 2021 it’s heavy stuff indeed.

Back in ’67 it was probably a little too much for most listeners.

"She was filing her nails
 while they're dragging the lake..."

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives...

Cod ee say oo pay a loto   
My zeta prestige toupay a floored   
Ray indee pako a gammon   
Solar prestige a pako can nord

Are You Lonesome Tonight originally written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 became through Presley's rendition a good an illustration of a soul in trouble as anything else we have seen

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I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each of us must play a part
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart

Act one was where we met
I loved you at first glance
You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue

Then came act two, you seemed to change, you acted strange
And why I've never known

Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you

Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around

And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down
 

Not the most uplifting but it creates a clear visual, from Aqualung by Jethro Tull:

"Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze
When the ice that clings on to your beard
Was screaming agony
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
With deep-sea diver sounds
And the flowers bloom
Like madness in the spring"

Some life lessons, from It Ain't Whatcha Eat But the Way How You Chew It, by Delbert McClinton:

"My Daddy told me once he said 'Listen, Son'

You gotta learn to be a man, you can't just be one.

Some people cheating, and other people lyin',

Laughing ain't a pleasure til you know 'bout crying."

Delbert has some great lyrics..."I ain't old, but I've been around a long time" is hitting home as I just turned 65.