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In honor of my latest concert, I submit 2

Oh! Whiskey, gin and brandy,
With a glass I'm pretty handy,
I'm trying to walk a straight line,
On sour mash and cheap wine,

She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen

Gonna testify to some of the lesser known lyricists.

Brother's runnin' powder money/Daddy's somewhere on a drunk/In the hours after washing/I do my dreamin' with a gun

Miss Christina drives a 9-4-4/Satisfaction ooozes from her pores/She keeps rings on her fingers/Marble on her floors/Cocaine in her dresser/Bars on her doors

 

 

Well, my baby, she don't want me around.
She said she's tired of watchin' me fall down.
She wants the good life, only the best.
But I like that bottle better than the rest.

 

Might not even be the best opening lines on that album, or from that lyricist, but I've always loved em.

Edited by Rimbo

You shootin' glances and they're so hard to read / I misconstrue what you mean / Slip me a napkin and now that's a start / Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart?

Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it out of sight

 

Caroline laughs and it's raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
Where nothing is ever put straight

 

My Maria
Don't you know I have come a long, long way?
I've been longin' to see her, when she's around she takes my blues away

 

Where it began
I can't begin to know when
But then I know it's growin' strong
Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believe you'd come along?

 

In the mornin' you go gunnin' for the man who stole your water

I hear you're driving someone else's car now
She said you came and took your stuff away
All the poetry, and the trunk you kept your life in
I knew that it would come to that someday

Edited by Iceman

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

On 4/17/2025 at 1:29 PM, Goredho said:

I mean, he's up there behind maybe only Iommi and Page as far as someone who could come up with guitar riffs as song hooks, imo

the rolling stones GIF

Well, the hurricane party's winding down and we're all waiting for the end 

And I don't want another drink, I only want that last one again 

Ignorance of youth. First time I heard this, thought it was drugs. Then heard the rest of the song 😂

See this needle
Oh, see my hand
Drop, drop, dropping it down
Oh, so gently

Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night, and wouldn’t you love to love her 

Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait
Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well will be the one

Tonight I feel so weak

But all in love is fair

I turn the other cheek

But I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air

On 3/19/2019 at 2:41 PM, tbone_ said:

Honey don’t walk out, cuz I’m too drunk to follow...

 

On 4/17/2025 at 11:29 AM, tbone_ said:

Honey don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow

Well, which is it?

On 2/2/2019 at 3:26 PM, mr. sunshine said:

Honey don’t walk out. I’m too drunk to follow 

Oh, it was on page 1. 

My mother was a witch 
She was burned alive 
Thankless little bitch 
Oh, the tears I cried

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

 

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again

 

In the day we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run

 

Holly came from Miami, F-L-A
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows along the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side"
 
he was drunk depressed and crazy when he bought himself the gun
over the counter in some pawn shop on south main
one feel of that cold steel and he gratefully unwadded
the last fifty dollars to his name
  • 2 weeks later...

I'm gonna rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
Gonna pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again

On 4/21/2025 at 7:50 AM, Post Oak said:

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

I get that they were huge - but the older I get and the more repetitions of their stuff I'm subjected to the more I start to think that they're kind of an underrated band. 

On 5/11/2025 at 8:36 PM, ztejas said:

I get that they were huge - but the older I get and the more repetitions of their stuff I'm subjected to the more I start to think that they're kind of an underrated band. 

Welcome. They are. The later stuff isnt that great but the early stuff is really good. 

I kind of feel like the top ten spots should just be ceded to the Rolling Stones.

I’ve always liked “Born down in a dead man’s town.” Especially since Stephen King quoted it to kick off IT.

Remember when our songs were just like prayers
Like gospel hymns that you caught in the air
Come down, come down sweet reverence
Unto my simple house and ring
And ring

On 5/16/2025 at 7:04 AM, South Austin said:

I’ve always liked “Born down in a dead man’s town.” Especially since Stephen King quoted it to kick off IT.

To me it's the second line --"the first kick I took was when I hit the ground"--that reveals the character's lot in life. The world's been beating this guy since day one, and it ain't letting up. 

8 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

To me it's the second line --"the first kick I took was when I hit the ground"--that reveals the character's lot in life. The world's been beating this guy since day one, and it ain't letting up. 

Still remarkable that Ronald Reagan had no fucking clue what the song was about when he used it on the campaign trail. #nocloakroom

  • 2 weeks later...

Watchin TV with the sound turned off

I got water in my pipe I can't afford to call

Poised and Ready Got my Crack Pipe Loaded

Gotta use matches cause my lighter exploded

 

 

On 5/17/2025 at 9:23 AM, South Austin said:

Still remarkable that Ronald Reagan had no fucking clue what the song was about when he used it on the campaign trail. #nocloakroom

 

  • 3 weeks later...

You can take all the tea in China

Put it in a big brown bag for me

Sail right 'round all the seven oceans

Drop it straight into the deep blue sea

 

 

I was passed out cold

Face down on the floor

 

 

Don't believe the devil
I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up

 

 

Edited by HiggyBaby

  • 2 weeks later...

Elton and Bernie together were greater  than the sum of their parts. 
 

nttawwt

Probably the shortest on the list but I've always loved the build and crescendo. 

 

 

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way. 

Amarillo by morning up from San Antone. / Everything that I got is just what I’ve got on.

Leroy, boy, is that you? / I thought your post-hangin' days were through

I probably already posted this, but what the hell:

Hey pretty baby, are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee
I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town
But no local yokel gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town

We can share the women, we can share the wine

We can share what we got of yours, cause we done shared all of mine

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