I've been working on a little project with my CD collection for the past week. I guess that means it's not such a "little" project. I've taken my entire collection of discs out of their variously filthy, cracked and broken jewel cases and filed them in several bulky, unweildy CD binders. Doing so has sparked a bunch of blog-worthy topics, such as best and worst of, most embarrassing, my "eclectic" tastes, passing fancies, etc. I may do a bunch of posts, or just a few. I would LOVE to get some comments/contributions, if anything comes to mind!
One of the topics I found myself contemplating recently was REALLY good lines from songs. I could only come up with two, but they're SO good, I just had to write about them. In fact, saying they're good, or even REALLY good, doesn't do these justice:
From "The Long December" by the Counting Crows: "All at once you look across a crowded room and see the way that light attaches to a girl..."
And, from Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat:" "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a watercolor in the rain..."
Both of these lines hit me right between the eyes with images so powerful I could paint a picture!
So, if anyone has anything to contribute, I'd love to read them. But keep it real! If anyone writes, "Our house, in the middle of our street," "I get knocked down, but I get up again" or anything from "My Sharona"...instant death. You get the picture!
And I'll keep thinking, too.
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Some of the most profound lyrics I know come from the song Good Company by Queen:
"...all through the years in the end it appears there was never really anyone but me..."
That IS good! I just looked up the lyrics and liked them a lot; oddly enough I don't think I've ever heard that song.
But it brought to mind another favorite line of mine from Elton JOhn's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight:" "So save your strength, and run the field you play alone..."
My favorite single lyric line of all time is actually in your collection:
"I cried when I wrote this song; sue me if I play too long..." - Steely Dan, Deacon Blues
Another excellent and poignant lyric in your collection:
"I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier/I know that the clubs are weapons of war/I know that diamonds mean money for this art/But that's not the shape of my heart..."
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