Favorite Lines I

No, these aren't my favorite pick-up lines! They're a few of my favorite lines from songs that I've heard over the years.

I won't leave you 'til I turn to find you gone.

Cock Robin

I was either standing in your shadow
or blocking your light--
though I kept on trying
I could not get it right.
For you, girl,
there's just not enough love in the world.

Don Henley

We're too young to reason,
and too grown up to dream.

Bryan Ferry

Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for Thy courts above.

"Come Thou Fount"

When you're lovers in a dangerous time,
sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime.
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight;
gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Bruce Cockburn

When I was a kid, Uncle Remus, he put me to bed,
with a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my head;
then Daddy came in to kiss his little man;
with gin on his breath and a Bible in his hand,
he talked about honor and things I should know,
then he'd stagger a little as he went out the door.

I can still hear the soft southern wind in the live oak trees;
and those Williams boys, they still mean a lot to me,
Hank and Tennessee.
I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be.
So what do you do with good ole boys like me?

Bob McDill

More later, as I think of them. . . .


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