Post four lines of perfect lyrics from first verse

[blueg33]

Sound of Silence. Paul Simon.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[Crackie]

I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys



Read some Kerouac and it put me on the tracks to burn a little brighter now
Something about roman candles fizzing out, shine a little light on me now
Found a strange fascination with a liquid fixation, alcohol can thrill me now
It's getting late in the game to show any pride or shame

[easytiger123]

Not sure if we've had this yet, but there's an entire novel in the opening 2 lines never mind 4...

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

Hungry Heart, Bruce Springsteen.

[zooky]

No milk today; my love is gone away.
The bottle stands forlorn; a symbol of the dawn.
No milk today; it seems a common sight.
But people passing by don't know the reason why.

[dandarez]

zooky said:

No milk today; my love is gone away.
The bottle stands forlorn; a symbol of the dawn.
No milk today; it seems a common sight.
But people passing by don't know the reason why.

Can't let this go without a mention of Graham Gouldman (10cc) who wrote the lyrics.
Only for those who don't realise.
Great story behind it too.
It was Graham's dad who gave him the idea after he'd been to visit a friend and noted a note stuck in an empty milk bottle on a doorstep: 'No milk today'. When he got back home he said to Graham: 'You should write a song called No Milk Today.'
Graham said: 'Why, what's so interesting about milk?'
His dad replied: 'It's nothing to do with milk! There's nobody in the house. The house is empty. The love has left the house.'

This let Graham see the message in a different light.
So, another 'love' record was penned, just after his earlier 'For Your Love' he wrote at 19 while playing with the Mockingbirds.
The Yardbirds got that song and the rest is history.

Great talent, Graham, and still is.

[TheGroover]

She unscrews the top from her new whiskey bottle
Shuffles about in her candle lit hovel
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers and mittens
She smells like a cat and the neighbors she sickens

[tdm34]

Sorry it's seven lines, the first four are ok but it scans better with seven.....

Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for.
Far below, where shadows fester as they grow,
An army thousands strong, obsessed by right and wrong,
They sense their time is coming near.

So they turn towards the light from their region of the night,
Marching on and on,
They near the air, it won't be long.

[anonymous-user]

The sky is red, I don't understand
Past midnight I still see the land
People are sayin' the woman is damned
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand

Burn Deep Purple 1974

High noon oh I'd sell my soul for water
Nine years worth of breaking my back
There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard
See how he glides why he's lighter than air

Rainbow Stargazer 1977

I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel
I can roll, I can feel
And you can't stop me turning
'cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun

Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain 1975

But ironically despite my love of Heavy Metal. Pink Floyd etc etc I believe these lines are from the greatest song of all time

I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire,

Wichita Lineman to me is simply brilliant

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 27th January 14:50

[Dinlowgoon]

My daddy was a bank robber
But he never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money

[P5BNij]

techiedave said:

But ironically despite my love of Heavy Metal. Pink Floyd etc etc I believe these lines are from the greatest song of all time

I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire,

Wichita Lineman to me is simply brilliant

Edited by techiedave on Sunday 27th January 14:50

Apologies for snipping your post Dave, spot on - Jimmy Webb was a genius but Campell's delivery of his lyrics, the instrumentation and arrangement make this one of the greatest popular recordings of all time. The best songs / records somehow manage to take the individual ingredients, mix them up and paint a picture. Just perfect.

[Dinlowgoon]

He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He drives home pissed at night
And he listens to his stereo

[anonymous-user]

Charlie Freak had but one thing to call his own
Three weighed ounce pure golden ring, no precious stone
Five nights without a bite, no place to lay his head
And if nobody takes him in he'll soon be dead

[rlw]

All along the ancient wastes the thin reflections spin
That gather all the times and tides at once we love within
That build the edges round the shrouds that cloud the setting sun
And carry us to other days and other days to one.

Roy Harper - The same old rock

Edited by rlw on Tuesday 29th January 18:32

[rlw]

P5BNij said:

Apologies for snipping your post Dave, spot on - Jimmy Webb was a genius but Campell's delivery of his lyrics, the instrumentation and arrangement make this one of the greatest popular recordings of all time. The best songs / records somehow manage to take the individual ingredients, mix them up and paint a picture. Just perfect.

This.

Edited by rlw on Tuesday 29th January 18:47

[ATG]

Wichita lineman is a wonderful song.

A different genre:

Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank sixteen beers
And I started up a fight

[Chimune]

Marie has set up home,
With a man who's half my age.
A halfwit in a leotard,
stands on my stage.

[dandarez]

(not perfect lyrics, but this song always makes me chuckle!)

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
Now she's a swinger dating a singer
I can't decide which is worse

[anonymous-user]

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones

This song was the one that got me really interested in the stones at a time when I was mired in Heavy Metal

[anonymous-user]

You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much

I know this may be schmaltz to many but my Mum loved Andy Williams and two of his recordings to me are perfect the above
"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxahtnSAzgU

And Home Lovin' Man

The harbor lights were shining
The moon was in its high
The captain said, thank God we're home!
We've drunk the barrels dry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNAZs6P3eU

[Frank7]

techiedave said:

You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much

I know this may be schmaltz to many but my Mum loved Andy Williams and two of his recordings to me are perfect the above
"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxahtnSAzgU

And Home Lovin' Man

The harbor lights were shining
The moon was in its high
The captain said, thank God we're home!
We've drunk the barrels dry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNAZs6P3eU

“Can’t take my eyes off of you”, always evokes an image of Frankie Valli’s version in the bar scene in the “Deerhunter”, with Christopher Walken rocking back and forth, chewing gum, while de Niro cleans up the pool game, then takes Walken’s $5? bill.