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red headed stanger- willie nelson

" Don't cross him, don't boss him.
He's wild in his sorrow:
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain.
Don't fight him, don't spite him;
Just wait till tomorrow,
Maybe he'll ride on again."

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I just love not only lyrics but the entire construct of this song.

The Gin-Soaked Boy - Divine Comedy


Im the darkness in the light
Im the leftness in the right
Im the rightness in the wrong
Im the shortness in the long
Im the goodness in the bad
Im the saneness in the mad
Im the sadness in the joy
Im the gin in the gin-soaked boy

Im the ghost in the machine
Im the genius in the gene
Im the beauty in the beast
Im the sunset in the east
Im the ruby in the dust
Im the trust in the mistrust
Im the trojan horse in troy
Im the gin in the gin-soaked boy

Im the tigers empty cage
Im the mysterys final page
Im the strangers lonely glance
Im the heros only chance
Im the undiscovered land
Im the single grain of sand
Im the christmas morning toy
Im the gin in the gin-soaked boy

Im the world youll never see
Im the slave youll never free
Im the truth youll never know
Im the place youll never go
Im the sound youll never hear
Im the course youll never steer
Im the will youll not destroy
Im the gin in the gin-soaked boy

Im the half-truth in the lie
Im the why not in the why
Im the last roll of the die
Im the old school in the tie
Im the spirit in the sky
Im the catcher in the rye
Im the twinkle in her eye
Im the jeff goldblum in the fly

Who am i?

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When threads like this come up, I feel compelled to say that Dylan has literally 100s of songs that I would consider to be lyrically genius. So I will submit my choices for non-Dylan tunes.

Pink Floyd, Free Four

"The memories of a man in his old age,
are the deeds of a man in his prime....
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest."

And my favourite Grateful Dead lyric, from Scarlet Begonias:

"Once in a while you get shown the light,
In the strangest of places if you look at it right"

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I like the alliteration in this lyric:

Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow


In the humor category, I get a kick out of "Bob Rules" by Keller Williams

And then of course there's the bungle/patton lyrical odyssey. Probably not suitable for the lounge.

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now the verses i've sang don't add much weight
to the story in my head
so i'm thinking i should go and write a punchline...

but they're so hard to find
in my cosmic mind
so i think i'll take a look out of the window...

--- Jon Anderson, YES, "Going for the One" 1975

just thought it was hilarious.

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Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I’ve got the will, Lord if you’ve got the toe.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Take all the brothers who’ve gone on before
And all of the sisters who’ve knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick’em up front in the offensive line.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

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When we grew up and went to school,
There were certain teachers who would hurt the children anyway they could,
By pouring their derision upon anything we did,
And exposing every weakness, however carefully hidden by the kids.
But in the town it was well-known when they got home at night,
Their fat, psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.

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Dead Can Dance
The Carnival is Over

Outside
The storm clouds gathering,
Moved silently along the dusty boulevard.
Where flowers turning crane their fragile necks
So they can in turn
Reach up and kiss the sky.

They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye
Someone is calling.

I remember when you held my hand
In the park we would play when the circus came to town.
Look! over here.

Outside
The circus gathering
Moved silently along the rainswept boulevard.
The procession moved on the shouting is over
The fabulous freaks are leaving town.

They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye.
The carinval is over.

We sat and watched
As the moon rose again
For the very first time.

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Simple, to the point, and guaranteed to make you run 50% faster over the course of a minute and a half.



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Have always loved this single line from Elton John

"live for each second, without hesitation"