re: Best Line

quote:

---

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.

---

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

"And I think I know what my father meant
when he sang about a lost highway"

quote:

---

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.

---

I don't know why you want to tell me
when I'm right or when I'm wrong.
It's the same thing, in your mind-the only time
I'm right is when I play along.

Husker Du.

Or,


Momma sells eggs at the grocery store.
My oldest sister is a first-rate whore.
Dad says she can't come home anymore,
and he means it.

Tried to stay, tried to run
Never been enough reason to believe in anyone
This trickle down theory, has left all these pockets empty

Uncle Tupelo - Postcard

when the bible is a bottle
and the hardwood floor is home
when morning comes twice a day or not at all
if I break in two will you put me back together
when this puzzle's figured out will you still be around

Uncle Tupelo - Still be around

crawling back to you now
I sold my guitar to the girl next door
she asked me if I knew how
I told her I don't think so anymore

Uncle Tupelo - Gun

quote:

---

"Two degrees in be-bop, a PHD in swing
He's the master of rhythm he's a rock and roll king" - Rock n Roll Doctor - Little Feat

---

great song

quote:

---

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

Graceland, Paul Simon

---

quote:

---

Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.

---

northwest passage, stan rogers

Robert Eark Keen has quite a few.

From Dreadful Selfish Crime:

"I had a little place just up the block
Had me a French girlfriend I loved the way she talked
We spent our afternoons watchin' the TV
Findin' things to do that we could do for free
When we split up she said you don't do enough for me"


From Front Porch Song:

"This old porch is like a weathered grey haired seventy years of Texas
Who’s doin' all he can not to give in to the city
And he always takes my rent late so long as I run his cattle
He picks me up at dinner time and I listen to him rattle

He says the Brazos still runs muddy like she's run all along
There’s never been no cane to grind and the cotton's all but gone
You know this Chevrolet pickup truck, hell she was somethin' back in '60
But now there won't nobody listen to him 'cause they all think he's crazy

This old porch is just a long time of waiting and forgetting
Remembering the coming back and not crying about the leaving
And remembering the falling down and the laughter of the curse of luck
From all those son's of bitches who said we'd never get back up"

quote:

---

From Front Porch Song:

"This old porch is like a weathered grey haired seventy years of Texas
Who’s doin' all he can not to give in to the city
And he always takes my rent late so long as I run his cattle
He picks me up at dinner time and I listen to him rattle

He says the Brazos still runs muddy like she's run all along
There’s never been no cane to grind and the cotton's all but gone
You know this Chevrolet pickup truck, hell she was somethin' back in '60
But now there won't nobody listen to him 'cause they all think he's crazy

This old porch is just a long time of waiting and forgetting
Remembering the coming back and not crying about the leaving
And remembering the falling down and the laughter of the curse of luck
From all those son's of bitches who said we'd never get back up"

---

Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl wrote this one together. Lyle's version is one of my favorite songs in the world.

"And this old porch is like a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas
With lots of cheese and onions
And a guacamole salad
And you can get'em down at the lasalle hotel
In old downtown
With iced tea and a waitress
And she will smile every time

And this old porch is the palace walk-in
On the main street of texas
That's never seen the day
Of g and r and xs
With that '62 poster
That's almost faded down
And a screen without a picture
Since giant came to town"

"Whiskey's harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but women without whiskey, women without whiskey, whiskey's hard to beat"

-Mike Cooley