re: Best or favorite or most moving lines from songs.

This is the night of the expanding man
I take one last drag as I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
I’ll be what I want to be.
Learn to work the saxophone
I’ll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They gotta name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

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"Hurt" by NIN

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best part about that song is that Trent Renzor’s lyrics about drug addiction perfectly fit Johnny Cash’s painful lament about the ravages of age and dementia

here’s one that always hit home with me, a simple two-line phrase from the Beatles’ John Lennon that perfectly sums up his entire life:

Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you, Julia

The Tragic Death of Julia Lennon

And so we watch the sun come up
From the edge of the deep green sea
And she listens like her head's on fire
Like she wants to believe in me
So I try
Put your hands in the sky
Surrender
Remember
We'll be here forever
And we'll never say goodbye



The Cure- From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea

I loved you from the get go and I'll love you till I die
I loved you on the Spanish Steps the day you said goodbye

Dublin Blues, Guy Clark

And in the end…the love you take
Is equal to the love you make.

I've got a pile of em, but I'll throw out a few james mcmurtry lines (got to see him love fri) that I absolutely love

Probably it'll be alright
If keep it all locked up tight
And wait til daylight comes

String of croaker makes a meal

We grew up hard
And our children don't know what that means
We turned into our parents
Before we got out of our teens
In a series of chevies and fords
With the occasional waltz round the floor
Of the copper canteen

So it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you anymore
I'm a-thinking and a-wonderin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

Bob Dylan
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As it I didn't know my own bed
As if I never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead

- Graceland
Paul Simon and Willie Nelson



And thanks
For the trouble you took . . from her eyes
I thought it was there . . . for good
So I never tried

- Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen