Your favorite one line...from any song...ever

[Tars]

I realized what mine is tonight. It was a learning experience...about myself. My current favorite one (and only one) line from any piece of music ever made?

Shel Silverstein, in the album "Freakers' Ball", in the song, "Polly In A Pornie"; and the line was:

'I saw Polly in a pornie with a pony....and the pony seemed a little bored!"


Heh....Guess I wished I had one of those religiously profound songs' line stuck in my head. (Something from LedZep?...Th' Dead? Beck?)

But nope. Shel's what sticks out in my mind.

I'm just wondering what one line, from any song ever, is most prominent in your mind? Which songs do you sing or whistle, without thought, when it's just you & you alone?


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Tars

[Dixon]

Fun stuff.

It's hard to answer your question, only partly because it's a little unclear what the question is. You mention our "favorite one...line from any piece of music ever made", and then it turns into something about what line is most often stuck in my head, which seems very different, as the qualities that make lines stick in our heads are not the same qualities that make a great line.

So for me the easiest way to answer is to tune into my mental "jingle channel" and see what's playing in the background of my consciousness right now: It's a melody from the soundtrack of some movie I saw long ago. I think maybe the movie was "Zardoz". I don't know the name of the melody, but it sounds like some classical piece.

The psychologist Martin Seligman uses the term "jingle channel" for this "channel" that nearly everyone has in their mind, so anytime you tune into it you can "hear" what song is playing. For me, it could be a favorite song, or a song I hate but which I happend to hear on somebody's radio recently, or a song lyric cued by the use of a particular word in conversation, or whatever. I've gotten into the habit of checking my jingle channel occasionally and it's kinda fun.

Dixon

[Tars]

The psychologist Martin Seligman uses the term "jingle channel" for this "channel" that nearly everyone has in their mind, so anytime you tune into it you can "hear" what song is playing.

My "jingle channel" runs almost continuously. It must be annoying to other people too, because I'm also one of those obnoxious subconcious whistlers. I'm on-key maybe 20% of the time?

Thankfully "Pollie In A Pornie" has apparently receded. Today it's almost exclusively Paul Simon's "The Boxer" - mainly, "I told her I was lost, and she told me all about the Pentecost".



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[hapahaole]

“Jingle Channel”... great description; and, like most, it’s ever-present and (for me) closer to the surface than is sometimes socially desirable. “I’m sorry, I was just thinking about the first eight bars to Miles Davis’ ‘So What,’” usually isn’t met with “I completely understand why you weren’t listening to me.”

Is there something to be interpreted by the identification of the current “jingle”? Does it necessarily reflect some deep seated condition. If I launch into John Hiatt’s “...but right now I need a Telecaster through a Vibrolux turned up to ten,” does that mean I gotta hankerin’ to rock ‘n’ roll? Not unusual, anyway.

One morning I woke up with the line, “Oh well they often call me ‘Speedo’ but my real name is ‘Mr. Earl.’” Go figure... don’t know why it appeared other than my guardian doo-wop angel saw the need to start my day that way. Not complaining, mind you, it could have been the theme from “Gilligan’s Island.” Sorry, now you’re humming it, too.

- - - Patrick

[shanasia]

"There's a train, there's a train, there's a train comin'.... people get ready"
Shana

[watchin]

From a Cowboy Junke tune, Escape is so Simple".."I remember, when we said forever, was the craziest word we ever knew...But I think that I like much better, than I do "Goodbye".

[mediatorguy]

Jackson Browne, "Fountain Of Sorrow (https://www.sinteticor.com/artist_j/jackson_browne_lyrics/fountain_of_sorrow_lyrics.html)"

"Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer


I was taken by a photograph of you"

[dreamer]

From a Cowboy Junke tune, Escape is so Simple".."I remember, when we said forever, was the craziest word we ever knew...But I think that I like much better, than I do "Goodbye".

"if Love were a train I'd take a long one" or was it a "slow one"........kd lang.....well long AND slow works for me.

[psaltz]

I've got several:

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." The Beatles, Abbey Road

"You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you get what you need" The Stones (This sounds like a perfect motto for Wacco; opening the daily digest is like Christmas sometimes!)

The whole song "Frank Mills" from "Hair" - I know all the words, if anyone's interested . . . one of those things that sticks in my mind like B I N G O Bingo was his name-oh (sorry . . . ;=} ), and I celebrate it every September 12 . . .

Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," sung to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway."

There are more. I have many favorites. I use them against each other; if one gets annoyingly stuck in my mind, I can substitute another for it.

[Canadian Wendy]

"Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've every known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to those
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone"
Jackson Browne, For a Dancer

"I bow to your magic
I fall into your grace
I move toward a prayer
Your fields and rivers waiting
For the dawn, the shadows breaking
To dream again
To dream again
To dream"
Wendy DeMos, To Dream Again


Jackson Browne, "Fountain Of Sorrow (https://www.sinteticor.com/artist_j/jackson_browne_lyrics/fountain_of_sorrow_lyrics.html)"

"Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer


I was taken by a photograph of you"

[Moon]

I realized what mine is tonight. It was a learning experience...about myself. My current favorite one (and only one) line from any piece of music ever made?
Shel Silverstein, in the album "Freakers' Ball", in the song, "Polly In A Pornie"; and the line was:
'I saw Polly in a pornie with a pony....and the pony seemed a little bored!"
Heh....Guess I wished I had one of those religiously profound songs' line stuck in my head. (Something from LedZep?...Th' Dead? Beck?)
But nope. Shel's what sticks out in my mind.
I'm just wondering what one line, from any song ever, is most prominent in your mind? Which songs do you sing or whistle, without thought, when it's just you & you alone?
Tars

My all-time favorite lyric is that of Ferron's "It Won't Take Long."
I can't pick one favorite line ever, but the single line i find the sexiest is from "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" by the Shangri-Las: [Line right before it, "Well i heard he's bad."] "He's good bad, but he's not evil." Yeah, baby!

[Moon]

I'm just wondering what one line, from any song ever, is most prominent in your mind? Which songs do you sing or whistle, without thought, when it's just you & you alone?

"At noon on one day coming, human strength will fill the streets of every city on our planet, hear the sound of angry feet,"
from Ferron's "It Won't Take Long" on "Shadows on a Dime"

[spaceforart]

One of my favorites:
"I'm as solid as a rock...throw me at the powers that be.
I'm a heaving, moving, burning mass of love...rebel rock me."
I'm as heavy as a crowd in East L.A.... frame me let the others run free...
...rebel rock me.
From Pretenders
of course its even better with music!-A

[Dixon]

I have lotsa faves. Two that pop into my mind frequently are:

"When I was deep in poverty, you taught me how to give." (from "Dirge" by Bob Dylan), and

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!" (from "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"--I don't know who the lyricist is).

Dixon

[Sonomamark]

Yeah, one of mine is Pretenders, too:

I shot my mouth off
And you showed me what that hole is for.


--"Precious"


Another current favorite...

You're not that social
Just a good drinker.

--"Not That Social", Von Bondies



But probably the best, most beautifully rhythmed lyric ever is Irving Berlin:

Come let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts--
Puttin' on the Ritz.

[ThePhiant]

he's never early, he's always late
first thing you learn is that you always got to wait

lou reed

I'm waiting for my man

[SuziL]

I think the late, great, singer/songwriter Dave Carter may have been one of this country's finest poets, so I'm throwing in my two cents:

"I was born in a fork-tongued story, raised up by merchants and drug-store liars... now I walk on the path of glory, one foot in ice, one in fire."

- The Mountain, recorded by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer (also, I think, by Joan Baez)

Suzi

[tomcat]

I've been thinking about this since the question was asked last fall, and I've realized that I hear music all the time (who needs an ipod). Any little thing will send it off in a new direction, but sometimes a song will stick around WAY too long! Hopefully it's not Snoopy and the Red Baron or Henry the Eighth or Mrs. Brown...
One of my favorites lines is from Bruce Cockburn, Pacing The Cage. "Sooner or later, you'll wind up pacing the cage."




I realized what mine is tonight. It was a learning experience...about myself. My current favorite one (and only one) line from any piece of music ever made?

Shel Silverstein, in the album "Freakers' Ball", in the song, "Polly In A Pornie"; and the line was:

'I saw Polly in a pornie with a pony....and the pony seemed a little bored!"


Heh....Guess I wished I had one of those religiously profound songs' line stuck in my head. (Something from LedZep?...Th' Dead? Beck?)

But nope. Shel's what sticks out in my mind.

I'm just wondering what one line, from any song ever, is most prominent in your mind? Which songs do you sing or whistle, without thought, when it's just you & you alone?


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Tars

[Tars]

One of my favorites lines is from Bruce Cockburn, Pacing The Cage. "Sooner or later, you'll wind up pacing the cage."
Ah...Bruce is God....er...I mean good! I sometimes find myself whistling "Pacing the Cage" too!

Tars
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[Sara S]

The line that comes first to mind is: Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a mdnight choir, I have tried, in my own way, to be free,

[Vet-To-Pet]

There's a song by Mary Chapin Carpenter (1994) titled "Why Walk When You Can Fly?". The entire song is uplifting, and every line is excellent, but I guess the last part of the first stanza is my favorite: "Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by? It's a hard enough life to be living---why walk when you can fly?" The first time I heard this song, I cried from the beauty of it...still do.
Smiles,
Paula (Vet-To-Pet)

[M.Klein, LAc]

A song from James Taylor " The Secret of Life" and the quote is:
"try not to try too hard, it's just a lovely ride" :yinyang:

[alanora]

There are two currently...any one remember mose allison with "your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime" ? and when lost "christopher robin and I walk along the road" my age and lack of current musical awareness is surely showing........

[laurie lynn]

OK, I don't live by this or anything, but every time I see this thread come up, I think of posting it:

"And when I say you sucked my brain out, the English translation is I am in love with you and it is no fun."

Oh that Ani DiFranco, she always knows just how to get right down to it. I guess this resonates with me because I have lived by this in the past. It's nice to be in a place where there are choices in love that don't involve brain suckage.

:wink:
LL

[Philip Tymon]

Oh, but I may as well try to catch the wind.

[tomcat]

Oh, I heard a good one today... so it's todays favorite. : )

In loyalty to their kind
they cannot tolerate our minds.
In loyalty to our kind
we cannot tolerate their obstruction.

From: The Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation.



I realized what mine is tonight. It was a learning experience...about myself. My current favorite one (and only one) line from any piece of music ever made?

Shel Silverstein, in the album "Freakers' Ball", in the song, "Polly In A Pornie"; and the line was:

'I saw Polly in a pornie with a pony....and the pony seemed a little bored!"


Heh....Guess I wished I had one of those religiously profound songs' line stuck in my head. (Something from LedZep?...Th' Dead? Beck?)

But nope. Shel's what sticks out in my mind.

I'm just wondering what one line, from any song ever, is most prominent in your mind? Which songs do you sing or whistle, without thought, when it's just you & you alone?


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Tars

[RecycleSonomaCounty]

That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh. KC and the Sunshine Band.

She's a super freak, super freak
She's super-freaky, yow
Rick James

Did I just date myself or what?

Also, little embarassed to say I sing aloud to myself and often times it is a tacky Xmas song.

Ann:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

[Sewing Goddess]

"Hey Pig, hey pig, piggy, pig pig..." (Nine inch Nails)

I have 3 guinea pigs so whenever I come home I always say "hi pig" so that line comes into my head a lot. It's not really my fave line though. I can't think of my favorite line right now.

I really like Journey though (old school with Steve Perry) "Open Arms" has been stuck in my mind for the last couple days but I can't recall one specific line.

[aShulamiteWoman]

Easy ...

There are places I remember
Some have gone/and some remain
I know I'll always think about them
The people and friends who went before
I know I'll always think about them
In my life/I loved you more

Oh, single line :idea: heh

Hallelujah

[decterlove]

I'll go with...

With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row,
And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go,
And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show,
Who among them do you think would employ you?

runners up:

Sunday morning
and I'm falling
I've got a feeling
I don't want to know

Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed
not so long ago

[Photo Consultant]

Great lines decterlove...who penned them?


I'll go with...

With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row,
And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go,
And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show,
Who among them do you think would employ you?

runners up:

Sunday morning
and I'm falling
I've got a feeling
I don't want to know

Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed
not so long ago

[gr8fulfred]

Mine would have to be from Michael Franti's song "Hey Now Now":

"Be who you are nothing more nothing less
and let the beauty that you love be the very best.
Sing praises to the highest with your feet on the ground,
and reach for your brothers with the words that you sound and

Don't let mistakes be so monunental and
Don't let your love be so confidential and
Don't let your mind be so darn judgemental and
Please let your heart be more influential.

Be thankful for all that you see without eyes and
Be thankful for all that the Spirit provides and
Give thanks to the music that keeps us alive and
Give thanks to all DJ's WORLDWIDE!"

But mostly it's that first line... Good words to live by.

[mykil]

I was watching a movie on the IFC. I never did get the name of the movie, Christopher Walkens says, "Adventure, Adventure, you can't have and Adventure without a gun"! I was laughing so hard!!! Great movie if anyone knows the name, please let me know so I can watch the whole movie.

[smithers]

"Nick of Time", with Johnny Depp?


I was watching a movie on the IFC. I never did get the name of the movie, Christopher Walkens says, "Adventure, Adventure, you can't have and Adventure without a gun"! I was laughing so hard!!! Great movie if anyone knows the name, please let me know so I can watch the whole movie.

[smithers]

Sorry, but "favorite" is always tough. I just can't commit to "favorite". You could say I'm agnostic about it :)

I do really like the following from "Dear Mr President", by P!nk:

"What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine"

[smithers]

I did a little more digging and it appears to be a flick called "Search and Destroy".



"Nick of Time", with Johnny Depp?

[Sara S]

:mj:

"My hair looks like pasta; I must be a Rasta!"

from Skankin' Pickles' song "Fakin' Jamaican". I doubt that I will ever in my life be able to not hear this line when I see a whitey with dreads.

[Roland Jacopetti]

Oh! Mama! Can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again?

Bob Dylan

Roland

[lilmatty]

"Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been..."

[Barry]

"Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been..."

For you youngin's out there, the immediate preceding lyrics are:

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been...

A sentiment I certainly share!

from Truckin (https://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/truckin.html)' by The Grateful Dead, Lyrics by Robert Hunter

[lilmatty]

For you youngin's out there, the immediate preceding lyrics are:

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been...

A sentiment I certainly share!

from Truckin (https://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/truckin.html)' by The Grateful Dead, Lyrics by Robert Hunter

Awe, Barry, I was hoping no one would say anything. Think of all the Waccovians out there saying "gads, I know I heard that line somewhere before..."

[Larissad]

This is a fun question.
Well, as for what song sticks out most to me...I most frequently have "The Limbo" stuck in my head...first you take a limbo girl...then give her a limbo whirl...this stems back to my childhood years to days I spent at the rollerskating rink limboing and hokey-pokeying on hot pink and purple wheels.
As for my favorite song ever, that's the Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes..Sometimes I feel so happy...sometimes I feel so sad...sometimes I feel so happy, but mostly you just make me mad. Baby you just make me mad.
However, the song line that has been sticking out most to me lately, that I have been relating to most lately is from an Ani diFranco song. I don't know the name of the song off the top of my head, but the line is: More and more there is this animal...looking out through my eyes. Then it goes on to say: cause and animal only takes from this world...what she needs to survive.
Wow, how deep of me. (a little sarcasm here.) Jack be nimble Jack be quick. Jack go under limbo stick...
:snoopydance:

[Valley Oak]

¨...take these broken wings and fly...¨

-- an excerpt from a song by the Beatles

[Tinque]

That is a very hard question , but one of my favorites is "come on darlin' put a pretty dress on , were going to go out tonight." But like I said that is a difficult question because it truly depends on ones mood. Several Beatles songs come to mind as well as Jesse' Collin Young. As well as Pearl Jam and Jefferson Starship and I could go on .. Thanks for asking ,. It is definetely food for thought ! Tinque..

[Vet-To-Pet]

I just thought of one from an old Jethro Tull song ("Inside"):
"Can you cook? Can you sew? Well I don't want to know...
That is not what it takes on the inside to make the time go."
Vet-To-Pet/Paula

[Lorrie]

"I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I want to be loved by you"

[Nancylynna]

"I'm not beautiful like you, I'm beautiful like me."

[wildflower]

Bob Dylan's One Too Many Mornings....
"You're just one too many mornin's
and a thousand miles behind."

I've been listening to old Roger Miller songs lately, jus cuz the lyrics are so much fun....
DO-WACKA-DO
"Yeah, I see you goin' down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, and got girls in the back
Yeah, and way in the back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel, and your shoulders right back
I hear tell you're doin' well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your happiness
And you had a do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do"

and from KING OF THE ROAD(I LOVE the whole song!)

"Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found, short but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

I know every engineer on every train
All the children and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no-one's around
I sing...
Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road
Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys a
Eight by twelve four-bit room........"
"

[Tracy Carnahan]

Funny how life changes the jingles in our heads. In my first, very short 3 yr. marriage it was a nursery rhyme.
"Run, Run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!
I ran a childcare and had a young son so everything in my head was child oriented.
Now in my second marriage and 6 year relationship it is:
I'd like to see you, out in the moonlite
I'd like to kiss you, way back in the sticks
I'd like to walk you through a field of wild flowers
I'd like to check you for ticks!

Isn't life grand?!!!
Tracy

[ganeshafv]

For me that would be a tough choice from many lines from Dylan songs. Here are two:

"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and its Eastertime, too.
And your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through."

"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (which pulled ME through my time in the USAF in the late 60's)
-----------------------------

"But to live outside the law you must be honest." from "Absolutely Sweet Marie" Seems like those words seem more important all the time.

Craig

[ahimsa]

"Been lookin all over, for a girl like you,
can't find nobody, so you'll have to do.
Just one kind favor I ask of you,
allow me just one more chance"

Dylan


"Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial...
This is what salvation must be like...after awhile"

Dylan

[paulhenrys]

I have a few:

"It felt like we'd been fighting,
though we'd only said, 'Hello'."
- from "a house of strangers"

And, pardon the language, but:

"I've got big balls. Big ol' balls.
Big as grapefruit, big as pumpkins,
yes sir, yes sir,
and on my really good days,
they swell to the size of small dogs..."
-from "Tiger Woods"

"Every sense and mind agrees
an Artist lives in all of these,
one who knows intrinsically,
such things are finely done."
- from "Such Things are Finely Done"

That's 3 out of many many...

[saysni]

So many songs...so little time - of which i spend WAY too much looking at computer screens! I'll tweak (not crank/meth) the topic a bit to fit my agenda/mood.

Perhaps the line that pops up most frequently in my head is from The Police:
"When the world is running down you make the best of what's still around."
And it only gets more so everyday.

In that same vein Meredith ("Bitch") Brooks pops up nearly as often :
"I hate the world today."
Gets my nod for best opening line in a song.

It's not a line but the entire lyrics to a song by the inimitable Carlos Santana Band ("Transcendance" - something i'm greatly looking forward to experiencing, either consciously or otherwise) and which definitely makes my Top 10 List of All Time Songs:
"Hello. I'm back again to share with you my heart and soul. Are you surprised? I said I would so here I am.
It's time for us to say goodbye. So long. Until we meet again, keep smiling."

Tomorrow it likely will be something(s) completely different:
Such as the "Lumberjack Song" by Eric Idle/Monty Python.

[saysni]

Got it!

"...You make me feel like the Amazon River is running between my thighs..."

-Paula Cole

[RiverChase]

"All the worlds indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage" -Neil Peart

or
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart