Best Lines - keep it to one or two lines

Got a feeling '21
Is going to be a good year
Especially if you and me
See it in together
I had no reason to be over-optimistic
But somehow, when you smiled
I could brave bad weather

–Pete Townshend (“1921”)

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"Ensanguining the skies

How heavily it dies

Into the west away;

Past touch and sight and sound

Not further to be found,

How hopeless under ground

Falls the remorseful day. "

A. E. Housman.

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I’m just a dog in the street at night,
You’d throw me something, if you’d only sleep tight.
Blue, blue love.

Amor Azul by Tim Easton on Break Your Mother’s Heart

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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil,
there’s just God when he’s drunk.

Tom Waits

Peace
Bruce in Philly

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Well I don’t drink as much as I ought to
Lately that just ain’t my style
And the hard times don’t cut like they used to
They pass quicker, like when I was a child

Jerry Jeff Walker, “Song for the life”

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When recording the song, many people, from Jonathan Edwards to the Seldom Scene, have changed that line to the much less interesting “I don’t drink as much as I used to.”

“Don’t try.”

Bukowski

“We’re gonna be SOOOO HAPPY together!!!
We’re gonna be together for—EVER!!!”

Every girl I’ve ever dated.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail,
steal a lot and they make you king.

Bob Dylan on the album Infidels and so up-to-date

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Boy have you got that right. Sad day in the good ole USA.

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Sad day for the country and our democracy.

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Political comment redacted out of courtesy to Elk.

Not only now it’s crazy how a whole party can destroy its credibility so effectively with little chance to be ever over and done with. Democracy yes, everything lies on the floor, politicians…they were elected, without that they’re nothing…for me the most disappointing is the part of the population and how many still fully and blindly support, absolutely no matter what happens. Also not easy to forget again.

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It’s a bus stop, a street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum
It’s fright and rejected
Neglected, and blind, deaf and dumb
But you look in the mirror
And you’re still hanging in
It’s there to remind you how lucky you’ve been

It’s a lonely feeling, now and again
It’s only a feeling that comes now and then…

REK

The kid will live and learn
As he watches his bridges burn
From the point of no return

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Old friends, they shine like diamonds
Old friends, you can always call
Old friends Lord, you can’t buy 'em
You know it’s old friends after all.

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Guy Clark?

Indeed :smiley:

And while the future’s there for anyone to change, you know it seems
It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

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Hand me down my bottle of corn
I’m gonna get drunk as sure as you’re born
My sins they have overtaken me

REK

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