I didn't answer this question at Quora, and from the 7 answers available when preparing this post I recognised only one song.
What are some of your favourite one-liners or catchphrases from songs you've heard? Ones which pack a lot of meaning into few words or which are particularly punchy?
Later, I pondered on the question for possible use this Music Monday. I came up with a few lines from songs which have embedded themselves into my memory - no need for Google search. These come to the surface from time to time, unbidden, and do "pack a lot of meaning into a few words".
Our lives
Are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss
The dance.
(The Dance - Garth Brooks)
https://youtu.be/bpwdwbO1uvM
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
(Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson)
https://youtu.be/5COkfKywjJA
You don't know about lonely
Till it's chiseled in stone.
(Chiseled in Stone Vern Gosdin. Songwriters: Max Barnes / Vern Gosdin)
https://youtu.be/sTrPJvEzmwQ
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.
(National Brotherhood Week - Tom Lehrer)
https://youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way.
(My Way - Frank Sinatra. Songwriters: Claude Francois / Gilles Thibaut / Jacques Revaux / Paul Anka)
https://youtu.be/onWf4_yl-pY
And, on that note I shall put up the "Back Soon" sign and take a week off.
From "What Good Am I" by Bob Dylan:
ReplyDelete"What good am I, if I know and don't do
If I see and don't say, if I look straight through you
If I turn a deaf ear, to the thundering sky
What good am I?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGawnVcpzB4
Enjoy your break!
ReplyDeleteLB ~ Good one! Trust Bob Dylan to come up with something extra meaningful! :)
ReplyDeleteRJ Adams ~ Thank you RJ - will do! :)
ReplyDelete"Don't it always seem to go
ReplyDeleteThat you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell
"In darkness we cradled our sorrow
And stoked all our fires with fear
These bones that lie empty and hollow
Are ready for gladness to cheer" - Karine Polwart
Enjoy your time off, return renewed, health intact.
XO
WWW
Wisewebwoman ~ Thank you WWW! We did enjoy, health intact as it was before we left home, thankfully - so it's onward we go.
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