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Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die - Mr. Cash / Folsom Prison Blues
 
Nothing I can say when I'm in your thighs - Violent Femmes / Add It Up
 
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Man i really, really think, really think that i think
I like being scared
 
 
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20 yrs for nothing, well thats nothing new. Besides no ones interested in something ya didnt do. Wheat Kings by Tragically Hip

I fear that I am ordinary, just like everyone - Muzzle by Smashing Pumpkins

If you're tryin to stay high, then you're bound to stay low. You want God but you can't deflate your ego - King Without a Crown by Matisyahu

You were sittin home whatchin your tv, while I was participatin in some anarchy - April 26 1992 by Sublime (may require context that its a song about the LA riots)

Love of God make a man at odds, see God and Allah aint scrappin in the backyahd - Never Enough by Sweatshop Union


 
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The greatest single line thats ever been written came from Bob Dylan's Anti-War masterpiece "Masters of War"...


Even Jesus would never forgive what you do



 
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Quote Originally Posted by AJPierzynski:

The greatest single line thats ever been written came from Bob Dylan's Anti-War masterpiece "Masters of War"...


Even Jesus would never forgive what you do





Theres so many great lines in that song. Another is...

I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
 
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I kinda like this one that I was just listening to:

When you run about without precautions

You get diseases, need abortions

And up 'til now no vaccination

Can give you back your reputation

"The Body" - P.I.L.

 
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COME WITH US, WE'LL SAIL THE SEAS OF CHEESE - Primus
Bagel Sandwiches Suck
 
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Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

Tool - "aenima"
Bagel Sandwiches Suck
 
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Actually it is more than one line but,  just love this first verse from
What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding written by
Nick Lowe and made famous by Elvis Costello.
 
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
 
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I used to love her,
but I had to kill her,
I used to love her,
but it had to kill her,
 
I had to put her, six feet under,
And I can still hear her complain.
 
GNR  -  Used to Love Her
 
 
 
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Rush - Freewill
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Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I've said it all

R.E.M. - Losing my Religion
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When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Lennon / McCartney - Let it Be
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When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side, when times get rough
And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Paul Simon - Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Great choices, you fellas really know your music...
 
 
If there's a goal that everyone remembers,
it was back in ol' 72
we all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger
and all I remember is sitting beside you

you said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
and I never saw someone say that before
you held my hand and we walked home the long way
you were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr
 
Tragically Hip ~ Fireworks
 
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"The world is full of Kings and Queens, who blind your eyes, and steal your dreams, It's Heaven and Hell"
 
Black Sabbath, 1980
 
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Lordy, I have loved some ladies
 
And I have loved Jim Beam
 
And they both tried to kill me
 
Back in 1973   ------   Hank
 
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"if somewhere I could taste the salt of the sea, there's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze, I wonder whats gonna happen to you, you wonder what has happened to me."
 
-one of the many, many genious lyrics from BONO.
 
(not sonny bono )
 
 
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Two from songs with the same title both very powerful.


 "And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make"

Lennon / McCartney - The End
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This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again

Jim Morrison - The End

And I hope this is not the end
 
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Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my lola, lo-lo-lo-lo lola. lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Kinks ~ Lola
 
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Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six
You could say she's got it all

AC/DC ~ Whole Lotta Rosie


 
 
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No one knows what it's like to be the bad man
To be the sad man behind blue eyes

Pete Townshend - Behind Blue Eyes
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"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"

Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow


 
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"She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
I thought you'd never say hello she said, you look like the silent type
then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true 
and glowed like burning coal
Pourin off of every page
like it was written from my soul from me to you
tangeled up in blue

Bob Dylan -- Tangled up in blue
 
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"My daddy stopped talking the day the farm was auctioned 
there was nothing left to say"

30 years of farming by Fred J. Eaglesmith.
Song about a faimly losing their farm to an auction.
 
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He'd go out and plow
but the tractors broken down
and the daylight is almost spent anyway.
So he pours himself a drink
sits on the porch to think
whatever are the neighbors gonna say.
Drinking don't take the place 
the banker does with an empty face
as he tells you about a job up the road.
Leave the keys in the mailbox when you go.

Go out and Plow by Fred J. Eaglesmith.  Another song about a farmer losing his land.
 
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man I can go on and on.  I like this topic.  I love music and in particular I am a lyric fan.
 
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A good verse from some old Dylan - "My Back Pages"
 
"Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect -
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect.
Good & bad, I define these terms -
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then -
I'm younger than that now"
 
 
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Lady Gaga - LoveGame

Line - > I want to take a ride on your disco stick


 
 
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