Favorite Rock Lyrics 4

Hope you all are having a good week…happy Wednesday!

Rock Hall: Warren Zevon's Posthumous Nom Is a Teary Family Celebration – Billboard

And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bonesExcitable boy, they all said well, he’s just an excitable boy …. Warren Zevon

Rolling Stones

I’ll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoonAnd another girl can take my pain away…Rolling Stones

Who

We were the first band to vomit at the bar and find the distance to the stage too far meanwhile it’s getting late at ten o’clock rock is dead they say Long Live Rock…The Who

Grateful Dead

Cause when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door… The Grateful Dead

band

Then here come a man with a paper and a pen tellin’ us our hard times are about to end… The Band

Springsteen

I could walk like Brando right into the sun then dance just like a Casanova… Bruce Springsteen

Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe …The Beatles

John Lennon

Mother, you had me but I never had you I, I wanted youYou didn’t want me so, I just got to tell you goodbye … John Lennon

Replacements

Exchanging “good luck”s face to face checkin’ his stash by the trash at St. Mark’s place …The Replacements

Led Zeppelin 1976

We come from the land of the ice and snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow… Led Zeppelin

Kinks

Every day, I look at the world from my window but chilly, chilly is the evening timeWaterloo sunset’s fine… The Kinks

Queen

I don’t wanna be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate… Queen

van morrison almost independence day

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream… Van Morrison

neil young after the goldrush

I am just a dreamer but you are just a dream and you could have been anyone to me… Neil Young

Simon and Garfunkel concert Ohio University 10-29-1968

So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner piesand walked off to look for America…Simon and Garfunkel

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

55 thoughts on “Favorite Rock Lyrics 4”

  2. Thanx for those good slice of folk and rock poetry. I’m adding mine :
    “A dreaded sunny day
    So let’s go where we’re wanted
    And I meet you at the cemetery gates
    Keats and Yeats are on your side
    But you lose
    ‘Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
    Sure”
    The Smiths

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  4. More cool lyrics as you always do with that feature Max. It occurred to me I’d never seen the lyrics to ‘I am the Walrus’…had no idea what most of them are really!

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  5. I enjoy these favorite lyrics installments. My fave of the ones in this list is probably from The Band. There’s a reason so many groups wrote a song about their manager or record company. Grrr. That could be its own genre or theme to explore. Then I always try to think of my own fave lyrics; aka those lines that may me think, ‘Oh wow”, but when I try to think of them, I draw a blank. But this is one, from The Actor, written by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues.

    The curtain rises on the scene
    With someone shouting to be free
    The play unfolds before my eyes
    There stands the actor who is me.

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    1. I’m always fascinated by lyrics. From the real life to the abstract like I Am The Walrus. Thanks for that…I will include those on the next one!

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      4. You may know this…you probably do but he wrote it for his old school to decode because they were doing it to all Beatle songs so he threw one in that would be a challenge.

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      5. I hadn’t heard it that way, but I’ve seen some purported decodings. I try to avoid exposing myself to other people’s interpretations of songs, so I made a point to not remember it.

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  7. I like that you chose individual lines, though many great lyrics don’t fit that model. (I can’t think of anything that short from Muswell Hillbillies, though it is full of great lyrics.) What I could come up with: “Sing me back home before I die.” – Merle Haggard. “Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore”. – John Prine. “There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.” – John Prine. “Tired souls with empty hands asking to themselves, ‘is this all there is?'” – Los Lobos (Hidalgo/Perez). “It’s always the old to lead us to the wars, always the young to fall.” – Phil Ochs. “If love was a train I think I’d ride a slow one.” – Michelle Shocked. “The same people you misuse on the way up, you might meet up on the way down.” – Allen Toussaint. “Eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue”. – Lowell George.

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  10. Great topic, Max. In high school I noticed how, in interviews, George Harrison always accented a point by quoting Dylan lyrics, so, I picked up on that and continue that habit to this day, … whether people like it or not. (Though, in my case, it can be any song at all)

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    2. I do that on occasion…the lyric I quote the most is Meet the new boss…Same as the old boss.
      That one never goes out of style.

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  12. Lyrics can add so much to a song. Jeez, musos spend a moment or two getting the words to work, rather than ‘I met her in June, Better get gone soon,’ all too easy half rhymes. (I can’t listen to Steve Miller’s ‘Take The Money And Run’ without screaming at the slipshod half-assed lyrics.)
    I always like a touch of irony or humour as well, and since you’re just up the road I’ll throw in Jason And The Scorchers ‘Greetings From Nashville.’ ‘Big lawsuits and bathroom toots, we’re all getting Dixie fried / Somewhere Hank and Lefty are rolling in their graves / While Kudzu vines grow over signs that read ‘Jesus Saves.” And Jason and his boys fairly burn the barn down on that song!

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    1. Time out obbverse! You know Jason And The Scorchers music? I posted about them a few times before I met you. Absolutely NO one knew them but me. Of course I grew up in their era in Nashville. I saw them once…them and Webb Wilder.
      They also did a great version of “The Race Is On”
      I like clever phrases… like “She knows there’s no success like failure and that failure’s no success at all.”

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      1. Yeah, way back I used to work night shi- shift at the Post Office- BOreING- and used to hit the library on the way to purga- work, grab a music cassette at random. At work, I’d sigh, slip on the walkman sit down at my pigeon hole, put my brain into slow idle mode, grab a tray full of junk mail bills and birthday cards to missort and listen to something, anything new rather than those eternal late-night radio/bitchfests. And I got lucky in the pick’n’mix the day I grabbed the Scorchers album. Soon became a favourite and I bought whatever I could. ‘Broken Whiskey Glass’ and ‘Still Tied’ and, well, damn most of the stuff they put out was incendiary.
        I’ll listen to ‘The Race Is On,’ thanks.
        Some nice writing on his solo album too, if I recall. ‘Life Of the Party’- and I had to grab the CD to remember ‘Letter Of Love.’ Oh, now I see ‘I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water.’ Well, I found my driving music for the next few days I guess…

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      2. I tried to get on at the Post Office when I was 22 or so…didn’t get it but I’ve heard the same from other people on how boring it can get. The rash of Post Office shootups happened also back then.

        The reason I was so surprised is because they were mostly a regional band in the southeast but cool…I’m glad they traveled around the world…they deserved that…they had one song I would call a minor hit in America…Golden Ball and Chain.
        Thanks obbverse I like hearing peoples personal connection to music…I’m glad they helped you through those boring times.
        Well now I’m going to post another now that someone else knows!

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    1. The Kinks one I love…but most of all my favorite is The Who…”We were the first band to vomit in teh bar”…. that line just hits me for some reason.

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      2. What i’m hoping is some people will google them and listen… You know more of the songs they came from…you just don’t know those lyrics

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  17. My entry: “You can’t even remember what I’m trying to forget.” — U2

    Lots of familiar good’ns and lots of new good’ns. Way behind on reading. But! I did start watching the 2nd half of ST TOS last night: The Trouble with Tribbles. I’ll be caught up and commenting in no time.

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    1. Like you told me…don’t worry about it Lisa…as you have seen I’ve been living behind since I got back from our mini vacation

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    2. Another one I love:
      “Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
      It’s bad for your health, he said
      Yes, I disobeyed his orders
      I came to see you
      But I found him there instead”
      –Bob Dylan from “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”

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