So many great song lyrics including the ones noted. I’ll add one line:
No changes are permanent but change is.
Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You?
For some reason, certain arrangements of basic parts of speech attached to pitch and cadence got themselves permanently attached to my (remaining) brain cells.
What are your favs?
Here's my Top 3.
#1:
"Her teeth were like the stars above because they come out every night." Homer and Jethro, Live at the Country Club (Side one)
#2:
"They'll never forgot you, until somebody new comes along." (I think you know this one)
#3:
I had an internal UFC level battle going on in my head for this position, with no less than 11 contenders duking it out. So, I just gave up, and passed the baton to you guys.
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@jpwarren58 - nope, unless you can point me to a specific show where they said 'Cadillac', as far as I know it's always been 'headlight', and that's why it goes 'I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain'. A 3-syllable word would sound wrong there. It's a traditional song that's been covered by a lot of people, including the Dead, Hot Tuna, and many others. |
By the shelter in the middle of a roundabout a Nurse is selling puppies from a tray and thought she feels as if she's in a play she is anyway. Penny Lane The Beatles. Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet. I feel like my soul has turned into steel , I've still got the scars that the Sun didn't heal. The skin on my body is so naked and tough , I can't even remember what I came here to get away from. |
- Hank Williams: "No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive." Hillbilly wisdom. - Loretta Lynn: "You ain’t woman enough to take my man." "Don’t come home a-drinkin’ (with lovin’ on your mind)." - Cornell Hurd: "If you play with my mind (you’re gonna get your hands dirty)." - "God Only Knows", music by Brian Wilson, lyrics by Tony Asher. Combined they create the most glorious song in the history of recorded music. Brian's use of inversion, modulation, and counterpoint in the song display his intuitive understanding of music theory. As close to J.S. Bach as anyone in Pop music has gotten.
- Iris DeMent: "Now I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening news There’s a half a dozen tragedies from which to pick and choose The baby that was missing was found in a ditch today And there’s bombs a-flying, and people dying, not so far away I’ll take a beer from the ’frigerator and go sit out in the yard And with a cold one in my hand I’m gonna bite down and swallow hard Because I’m older now, and I’ve got no time to cry."
Merle Haggard liked "No Time To Cry" enough to record it himself, the highest compliment one songwriter can pay another.
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