Don't take any wooden nickels
When you sell your soul
A devil of a time awaits you
When the party's over
You're on your own
*Wooden Nickels—Eels

Watch the road and memorize
This life that passed before my eyes
None of this is going my way
*Find the River—R.E.M.

Oh yeah, life goes on
Long after the thrill
Of living is gone
*Jack and Diane—John Melencamp

And I’d never be that close again,
to your lips and perfect skin.
As the tide receded into the unknown.

“Northern Lights”
Death Cab for Cutie

Anonymous wrote:Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!

The future's uncertain and the end is always near


The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

How apt

Lookin' at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
She's tired and lonely
Scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next

She's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of horses

Margie doesn't say anything all the way home
So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone

Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and
TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...

Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
Boys who can't tell one girl from another
So she takes her pills
Careful and round
One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down

Another Horsedreamer's Blues -Counting Crows

Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!

The future's uncertain and the end is always near


The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

I tell you how I feel, but you don't care
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bear
And I say gimme mine back and then go there, for all I care

I got my feet on the ground
And I don't go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds
You're not at all what you seem

This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled
By your deviant ways
So don't forget what I told you
Don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

I have never been so insulted in all my life
I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride
First you run like a fool just to be at my side
And now you run like a fool, but you just run to hide
And I can't abide

Sleep to Dream - Fiona Apple

Anonymous wrote:“I have spoke with a tongue of angels
I have held the hand of the devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as the snow.”

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2

“The seam is split
The coal face cracked
The lines are long
There's no going back
Through hands of steel
And heart of stone
Our labour day
Has come and gone”

Red Hill Mining Town - U2

It might be more the delivery than the lyrics but I LOVE this verse:

I believe in the Kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes, I'm still running

What's the greatest chapter in your book?
Are there pages where it hurts to look?
What's the one regret you can't work through?
You got it baby, mine would be you
Yeah you got it baby, mine would be you

Mine Would Be You, Blake Shelton

I can dig rappin', but a rapper with a ghostwriter?
What the f*ck happened?
I swore I wouldn't tell, but most of y'all sharing bars
Like you got the bottom bunk in a two-man cell

Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta

Love is a burning thing
And it makers a firery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire

The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like our's meet
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the fire went wild

-Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire

And when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven, even, no
And what am I going to do when the best part of me was always you? And
What am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK?
I'm falling to pieces, yeah
I'm falling to pieces, yeah

Breakeven by the Script

Anonymous wrote:So many great ones already listed. Here’s my contribution:

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day
Passed away in his sleep,
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days, and passed away
I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong,
That I know
That I am, I am, I am, the luckiest

The Luckiest by Ben Folds

Yesss! I love Ben Folds. He’s so underrated.

I love so many of these. But this verse is great:

Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

“Already Gone” Eagles

So many great ones already listed. Here’s my contribution:

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day
Passed away in his sleep,
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days, and passed away
I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong,
That I know
That I am, I am, I am, the luckiest

The Luckiest by Ben Folds

Remember the words you told me, love me 'til the day I die
Surrender my everything 'cause you made me believe you're mine
Yeah, you used to call me baby, now you calling me by name
Takes one to know one, yeah
You beat me at my own damn game
You push and you push and I'm pulling away
Pulling away from you
I give and I give and I give and you take, give and you take

—Youngblood