What are the truest lyrics you ever read?

[katyseagull]

The original?

[revots33]

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Springsteen has a ton, but one of my favorites currently (mostly because of the way he sings it):

[After an encounter with a prostitute, while lamenting a past love:]

She bought me another whiskey
Said "here's to the best you ever had"
We laughed and made a toast
It wasn't the best I ever had
It wasn't even close

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Yes, that's such a great ending to that song!


Apologies for the Bruce hijack but here's a few of my other favorite Springsteen lyrics:

"Living Proof"
Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
I found living proof

"Long Time Comin'"
Well my daddy he was just a stranger
Lived in a hotel downtown
When I was a kid he was just somebody
Somebody I'd see around
Somebody I'd see around
Now down below and pullin' on my shirt
I got some kids of my own
Well if I had one wish in this god forsaken world, kids
It'd be that your mistakes would be your own
Yea your sins would be your own

"Used Cars"
Now, mister, the day the lottery I win I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again

"Straight Time"
Eight years in, it feels like you're gonna die
But you get used to anything
Sooner or later it becomes your life

"Cautious Man"
One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin' his wife's name
She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep, a thousand miles away
He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode
When he got there he didn't find nothing but road

"Factory"
Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
It's the working, the working, just the working life.
Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the working life.

"Walk Like a Man"
By Our Lady Of The Roses
We lived in the shadow of the elms
I remember ma draggin' me and my sister up the street to the church
Whenever she heard those wedding bells
Well would they ever look so happy again
The handsome groom and his bride
As they stepped into that long black limousine
For their mystery ride
Well tonight you step away from me
And alone at the alter I stand
And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray
For the strength to walk like a man

[gila]

And once we had meaning
but now we're just hollow

And once we felt pain
but now we're just numb

And once there were words
but now there's just glances

And once we were smart
but now we're just dumb

-Slobberbone

[Dominic]

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"Cautious Man"
One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin' his wife's name
She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep, a thousand miles away
He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode
When he got there he didn't find nothing but road


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thi is probably my favorite Springsteen song and for some reason the most moving lyric I've ever heard. It moved me so much I actually made a short film that was inspired by it and shares the title name.

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The original?

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I fought the law and the law one.

[katyseagull]

Of all of the people that i used to know
Most never adjusted to the great big world
I see them lurking in book stores
Working for the public radio
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
Moving careful and slow

(chorus)
It's money that matters
Hear what i say
It's money that matters
In the usa

All of these people are much brighter than i
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
But they barely survive
They eke out a living and they barely survive

- Randy Newman


(I'm listening to this one right now. Anyone else love cleaning to this song or is it just me? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] )

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The original?

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I fought the law and the law one.

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LOL, won. I can't believe I did that.

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Love and cleaning just don't go together for me. I usually have to get severely soused to have any hope of doing serious cleaning.

[whiskeytown]

being born is going blind
and bowing down a thousand times
to echos strung on pure temptation

Townes Van Zandt

[sip]

Arab Strap - Packet of three:
It was the biggest [censored] you'd ever seen
But you've no idea where that [censored] has been