Most evocative line from a song...

[queenofthehours]

Not a single line but all the lines from this song -

[jrmugz]

"The good ol'days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel "Keepin' the Faith".

Jim

[Deleted]

"You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way."

Bob Dylan

This one's fun to use as a retort at the checkout counter 😎

[Chippa]

From The Kinks song "Working at the Factory"- "But now the corporations and the big combines/turned musicians into factory workers/on assembly lines".

[nickheynes]

I love this line from Sting's All this Time"
The song is about the Tyne .his father's death etc.

"Two priests came 'round our house tonight,
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying to serve the final rite.
One to learn, one to teach which way the cold wind blows.
And fussing and flapping in priestly black like a murder of crows"

[88keys]

I just recently discovered this song while browsing YouTube. OMG. This whole song. Not just a single line or two. Amazeballs!

[dillwyn]

there are so many to list for this topic but the one that fell into my mind immediately was from another Eagles song - after the thrill is gone.
this entire song is best summarised in the last line.. simple yet brilliant

You don't care about winning but you don't want to lose

[BSJ]

88keys, ...his hand took hers away.

[88keys]

Aug 15, 2017 19:22:18 GMT BSJ said:

88keys , ...his hand took hers away.

It kills me! How have I not known of that song until the last couple of weeks? Google tells me it was a fairly big hit in the 70's. 

[fourlittlediamonds]

Going way back, I've always admired the lines in Ol' Man River, from Showboat, sung by Paul Robeson:

I get weary and sick of tryin'/I'm tired of Iivin' and scared of dyin'!



Or  The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again':

Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss.

[fourlittlediamonds]

And alternatively, to go from the sublime etc...... the man who gave us "Yesterday"  and "Eleanor Rigby" also gave us:

Some one's knocking at the door
Somebody's ringing the bell
Do me a favour
Open the door and let 'em in (!)

lol

[BSJ]

And then a line of flute players march through the door dragging in Paulie's famn damily behind them!

[vlogdance]

Speaking of Eleanor, from an early age I was struck by the lines:

"Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave/No one was saved"

These were far from the usual words you'd hear in pop songs on the radio in those days.

[fourlittlediamonds]

Aug 18, 2017 18:33:08 GMT vlogdance said:

Speaking of Eleanor, from an early age I was struck by the lines:

"Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave/No one was saved"

These were far from the usual words you'd hear in pop songs on the radio in those days...

Indeed. One of the bleakest and most depressing "pop" songs ever written and by the world's most successful pop group and not a guitar, drum or keyboard in sight, just vocals and a string quartet.

(Don't tell me a certain young songwriter from Shard End wasn't influenced  by the sheer  genius and daring audacity of it either!)

[Deleted]

"Sometimes I wonder if I ever saw the signs..."

Indeed. It's a recurring theme of the old man's it seems.
Saw them- paid attention- heeded. One of life's mysteries.