To find you, I'd stand naked, stoned, and stabbed - I'd call that a bargain, the best I ever had!

The Who - "Bargain"

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

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The young they can lose hope because they can't see beyond today, the wisdom the old can't give away

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This one hits hard as a father of three young men dealing with their first real struggles…

"you'll come walking barefoot through this cowboy mind……selling yesterdays dreams wrapped in tomorrows paper…..wishing for a dog named Kindness that you'll never find"

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I'll follow the rule, even though it's the entire verse that really shines:

'And points of her own, sittin' way up high'

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Good to see people recognizing the greatness of Bob Seger!

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Crossed the border to Morocco
Kashmir to Marrakesh
The lengths we had to go to then
To find a place Trump hadn't ****ed up yet

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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse they forged the north and west
Then you got Sitting Bull**** as our sitting President
Oh, talking to his mirror, what's he say? What's it say back?
A tragedy of errors, who'll be the last to have a laugh?

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Crossed the border to Morocco
Kashmir to Marrakesh
The lengths we had to go to then
To find a place Trump hadn't ****ed up yet

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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse they forged the north and west
Then you got Sitting Bull**** as our sitting President
Oh, talking to his mirror, what's he say? What's it say back?
A tragedy of errors, who'll be the last to have a laugh?

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Well the writer of these, his "Uncle" is Neil Young.

I tried all night not to breakdown and cry, as the tears rolled down my face- Poison

I thought i was her Daddy, but she had five more- J. Cash

He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!" -Johnny Cash

Danny O'Keefe, Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
"Ya play around, ya lose your wife,
Ya play too long, you lose your life."

Going with an old band that played at A&M quite a bit.
"Save your sorrows, I'm better off worse.
I'd say I'm sorry, but I forgot the words."

He spent all night staring down at the lights of L.A.
Wondering if he could ever go home

Some Pearl Jam....

"Caught a bolt of lightning. Cursed the day he let it go."

"He who forgets will be destined to remember"

"I know I was born and I know thet I'll die. The in-between is mine. I am mine."

"How I choose to feel, is how I am"

My favorite REK line....

"And I wanted you to see them all I wished that you were there. I looked across the room and saw you standing on the stair. And when I caught your eye, I saw you break into a grin. It feels so good, feelin' good again"

A couple Jay-Z lines....

"I invented swag. Poppin' bottles, putting super models in the cab"

"I'm not a business man. I'm a business, man."

And I leave you with this underappreciated great....

"I go crazy when I hear a cymbal....and a hi-hat with a souped up tempo....I'm on a roll, it's time to go solo"

Maybe not the greatest ever, but well done and perfect in the context of the song.

"The pilot of Enola Gay
Flying out of a shock wave
On that August day"

From "Manhattan Project" by Rush

It's easy to see that you'll get where you're going
But the hard part is letting you go

"I've got bruises on my memory"


Someone already mentioned "I'm a thousand miles from nowhere" which is also great line. "I've got heartaches in my pocket" is another one. It's a great song.

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And oh, the crowd will always love you
But as for me, I've come to know
Everything that glitters is not gold

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and all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade...away...again

And my favorite line from a favorite band

There are days when I know that I've traveled so far
That I'll never find the road leading back to the start,

Picture of my face
On the window pane
Is it tears I see or is it rain?

You came upon me, wave on wave.
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah.
Am I the one you were sent to save?
You came upon me, wave on wave.

Little more than a line but don't care

Any of his songs really, but these three stand out but the entire song is lyrical genius.

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They say sixty-five percent of all statistics
Are made up right there on the spot
Eighty-two-point-four percent of people believe 'em
Whether they're accurate statistics or not

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Now to fit in on the Seattle scene
You've gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen
So thinkin' up a gimmick one day
We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note
Under any circumstances
Silence
Music's original alternative
Root's grunge

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Be -double E double are you-N-beer run
Be -double E double are you-N-beer run
All we need is a ten and five-er,
Car and key and a sober driver,
Be -double E double are you-N-beer run

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Max Stalling - "Dad's chair empty - that still hits me."

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Great line. There are 3 or 4 lines just from "Probably Corsicana" that are absolutely incredible.

On a different note, from Son Volt's "Windfall":
"Switching it over to AM, searching for a truer sound"

Gary P Nunn (Willie's cover is probably better) - "but the last thing I needed, the first thing this morning, was to have you walk out on me"

REK - "I reached into my pocket found 3 twenties and a ten, feels so good feelin'n good again"

Ricky Skaggs: "I'll pull up my collar, walk into the night, I'll be looking an answer"