Ideally Bob Dylan lyric but anything goes

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    Did they get you to trade

    Your heroes for ghosts?

    Hot ashes for trees?

    Hot air for a cool breeze?

    Cold comfort for change?

    Did you exchange

    A walk-on part in the war

    For a lead role in a cage?

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    NIN Hurt - " I hurt myself today To see if I still feel, I Focus on the pain The only thing that’s real…"

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    Can’t really choose a favorite, but it would have to be something from Leonard Cohen -

    Ring the bells that still can ring,
    Forget your perfect offering,
    There is a crack, a crack in everything,
    That’s how the light gets in.

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    My ‘favorites’ change daily, so here’s today’s: That’s the Way That the World Goes Round -John Prine

    I know a guy that’s got a lot to lose. He’s a pretty nice fellow but he’s kind of confused. He’s got muscles in his head that ain’t never been used. Thinks he own half of this town.

    Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose. Beats his old lady with a rubber hose, Then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes. That’s the way that the world goes 'round.

    That’s the way that the world goes 'round. You’re up one day and the next you’re down. It’s half an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown. That’s the way that the world goes 'round.

    I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes, When the radiator broke, water all froze. I got stuck in the ice without my clothes, Naked as the eyes of a clown. I was crying ice cubes hoping I’d croak, When the sun come through the window, the ice all broke. I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke That’s the way that the world goes 'round.

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    Streetlight Manifesto - Here’s to Life

    Hemingway never seemed to mind
    The banalities of a normal life
    And I find
    It get’s harder every time

    So he aimed the shotgun into the blue
    Placed his face in between the two and sighed:
    “Here’s to life”

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    There is a road, no simple highway

    Between the dawn and the dark of night

    And if you go, no one may follow

    That path is for your steps alone

    Ripple in still water

    When there is no pebble tossed

    Nor wind to blow

    You who choose to lead must follow

    But if you fall you fall alone

    If you should stand then who’s to guide you?

    If I knew the way I would take you home

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      What song is this? It reminded me of ‘when you leave that way you can never come back’. You should give that a go, the ollie austin version is my preferred take.

      Edit: oooooh thats ripple

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    From BNL,

    I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve

    I have a history of taking off my shirt

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    Now I understand

    What you tried to say to me

    And how you suffered for your sanity

    And how you tried to set them free

    They would not listen, they did not know how

    Perhaps they’ll listen now

    For they could not love you

    But still your love was true

    And when no hope was left in sight

    On that starry, starry night

    You took your life, as lovers often do

    But I could have told you, Vincent

    This world was never meant for one

    As beautiful as you

    • Vincent by Don McLean
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    He looked beneath his shirt today

    There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide

    From the wound a lovely flower grew

    From somewhere deep inside

    He turned around to face his mother

    To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand

    But the sword that cut him open

    Was the sword in his mother’s hand

    The Lazarus Heart - Sting

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    Jimmy Webb’s song “Wichita Lineman” made famous by Glen Campbell, ….“And I need you more than want you, And I want you for all time”.

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    Come on, baby, now throw me a right to the chin. Don’t just stare like you never cared, I know you did. But you just smile like a bank teller Politely telling me, “have a nice life”

    -Ben Folds

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    I can’t say how poetic it is since I suck at that type of stuff, but:

    Somewhere out there beneath the pail moonlight

    Someone’s thinking of me and loving me tonight

    • Linda Ronstadt (or whoever voiced Fievel because I absolutely love the version used in the movie)
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    Oh one more:

    An Amazon girl lives in Dumfries

    Hey-oh, chicken on a raft

    She only has kids in twos and threes

    Hey-oh, chicken on a raft

    Her sister lives in Maryhill

    Hey-oh, chicken on a raft

    She says she won’t but I think she will

    Hey-oh, chicken on a raft

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    My dreams are not unlike yours

    They long for the safety

    And break like a glass chandelier

    But there’s laughter and oh, there is love

    Just past the edge of our fears

    And there’s chaos when push comes to shove

    But it’s music to my ears

    Rise Against - People Live Here