(Don Chance)
Rock music is full of great lines. These are my personal favorites, an expanding set, of course. I can't say why I like these. They're just lines that for some reason I tend to remember and enjoy.
| The show is over, say goodbye. "Take a Bow" Madonna |
All the boys think she's a spy She's got Bette Davis eyes "Bette Davis Eyes" Kim Carnes |
| Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes ‘round the moon "Save the Best for Last" Vanessa Williams |
Rose he knows he's such a credit to the game
(how ironic) But the Yankees grab the headlines every time "Road to Zanzibar" Billy Joel |
| And whatever road you choose I'm right behind you, win or lose Forever young "Forever Young" Rod Stewart |
My momma prayed the night Chicago died "The Night Chicago Died" Paper Lace |
| Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio A nation turns its lonely eyes to you "Mrs. Robinson" Simon and Garfunkle |
Yoko brought a walrus There was magic in the air "Garden Party" Rick Nelson |
| I've been this way since 1956 "Love Potion Number Nine" The Searchers |
Teach your children well "Teach Your Children" Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Seems to me you've lived your life Like a candle in the wind. "Goodbye Norma Jean." Elton John |
I saw a dead-head sticker on a Cadillac "The Boys of Summer" Don Henley |
| Well I've never been to heaven But I been to Oklahoma "Never Been to Spain" Three Dog Night |
Everyone keeps telling me You're not a kid at 33. "Good Time Charley's Got the Blues" Danny O'Keefe |
| Hit me with your best shot Fire away "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Pat Benatar |
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind "Honky Tonk Women" Rolling Stones |
| The pleasures of a journey to the center of your mind "Journey to the Center of Your Mind" Amboy Dukes |
Hello, is there anbody in there? Just nod if you can hear me "Comfortably Numb" Pink Floyd |
| ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky "Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix |
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school "Kodachrome" Simon and Garfunkle |
| I like smoke and lightning. Heavy metal thunder "Born to Be Wild" Steppenwolfe |
The albatross and the whale they are my brothers "Cool Change" Little River Band |
| He ain't heavy, he's my brother "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" Hollies |
Mother earth will swallow you, Lay your body down "Find the Cost of Freedom" Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Someone painted ‘April Fool' in big black letters on a dead end sign "Just Dropped In" The First Edition |
If you believe in forever Then life is just a one-night stand "Rock and Roll Heaven" The Righteous Brothers |
| He's a well respected man about town Doing the best things so conservatively "A Well-Respected Man" The Kinks |
And the three men I admire the most The Father, Son and Holy Ghost They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died "American Pie" Don McLean |
| You can check out any time you like But you can never leave "Hotel California" The Eagles |
It's not for lack of bread Like the Grateful Dead "Hair" The Cowsills |
| He said to her 'How'd you like to be a star? You're a girl who could go far Specially dressed the way you are' "Lady Godiva" Peter and Gordon |
A hunka-hunka burnin' love "Burnin' Love" Elvis Presley |
| I got a big fat momma trying to break me "Sunny Afternoon" The Kinks |
And no one's getting fat ‘Cept Momma Cass "Creque Alley" Mamas & the Papas |
| I keep your picture upon the wall It hides a nasty stain that's lying there "I'm not in Love" 10CC |
Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Gordon Lightfoot |
| I thought it might be nice to visit my grave See what kind of tombstone I might have "The Frozen Man" James Taylor |
Long time ago when we was fab "When We Was Fab" George Harrison |
| Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" John Lennon |
I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool "Glory Days" Bruce Springsteen |
| But time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of Glory days "Glory Days" Bruce Springsteen |
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter Eight miles high and fallin fast "American Pie" Don McLean |
| And somewhere in the darkness The gambler he broke even But in his final words I found An ace that I could keep "The Gambler" Kenny Rogers |
Marconi plays the mamba Listen to the radio "We Built This City" Starship |
| We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall Starring in our own late, late show Sailing away to Key Largo "Key Largo" Bertie Higgins |
Skippin' over the ocean like a storm "Everybody's Talkin'" Harry Nilsson |
| Just like an old time movie Bout a ghost from a wishing well "If You Could Read My Mind" Gordon Lightfoot |
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind "Colors of the Wind" Vanessa Williams |
| Beyond the door, there's peace I'm sure And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven "Tears in Heaven" Eric Clapton |
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile The girl with kaleidoscope eyes "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" The Beatles |
| Just a pawn outplayed by dominating queen "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" Elton John |
My love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone "The Boys of Summer" Don Henley |
| Rainy days and Mondays always get me down "Rainy Days and Mondays" The Carpenters |
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" Jan and Dean |
| All we are is dust in the wind "Dust in the Wind" Kansas |
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have "Tin Man" America |
| I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive "Free Man in Paris" Joni Mitchell |
My life has been a tapestry Of rich and royal hue "Tapestry" Carole King |
| And the jailor man and sailor Sam Were searching everyone "Band on the Run" Paul McCartney and Wings |
Oh no one ever left alive In nineteen-hundred eighty-five Will ever do "Nineteen-hundred Eighty-Five" Paul McCartney and Wings |
| About how I catched the devil's snatch And outran the hounds of hell "Hello Old Friend" James Taylor |
Moving in silent desperation Keeping an eye on the Holy Land "Walking Man" James Taylor |
| I get by with a little help from my friends "With a Little Help From My Friends" The Beatles | Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever "Strawberry Fields" The Beatles |
| I read the news today oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire "A Day in the Life" The Beatles |
You can get married in Gibraltor near Spain "The Ballad of John and Oko" The Beatles |
| I got the Presidential Seal I'm up on the Presidential Podium "Loves Me Like a Rock" Paul Simon |
You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don't need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon |
| Kathy I said as I boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh 'Michigan seems like a dream to me now' "America" Simon and Garfunkle |
Then you flew your Learjet to Nova Scotia To see a total eclipse of the sun "You're So Vain" Carly Simon |
| Put me in coach, I'm ready to play. Today Look at me, I can be Centerfield "Centerfield" John Fogerty |
She helped me with my suitcase She stands before my eyes Drivin' me to the airport And to the friendly skies "Just a Song Before I Go" Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Sometimes even now when I'm feelin lonely and beat I drift back in time and I find my feet Down on Main Street "Main Street" Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Bank |
Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow "Broken Arrow" Rod Stewart |
| If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation "My Boyfriend's Back" The Angels |
Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news. "Roll Over Beethoven" Chuck Berry (and later, the Beatles) |