Thank you so much for posting this - I had been thinking of it myself. Now I don't have to (unless I want to YART! but I've had enough of that for now.....
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I keep thinking of not only lines from songs, but also lines from movies and poems, as relevant to my life at specific moments in time. These days I'm playing Bruce Cockburn's excellent
Charity of Night CD in the car and different lines keep on appealing to me. In particular at the moment these lines resonate for me:
Some will run and some will stand
Everything is bullshit but the open hand
as do the lines in Jewel's song "Only Kindness Matters" (think that's what it's called?):
In the end, only kindness matters
Songwriters and poets have a way of distilling the most important things in life, to get the very essence of those things, which they present to us in all their concentrated, powerful, intoxicating form.
I also really like Bruce's song "Pacing the Cage" - let me see if I can remember it without having to trek out to the car in the dark to get the liner notes....
Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
Days drip slowly on the page
You catch yourself pacing the cage
I've proven who I am so many times
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in
Powers chatter in high places
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Set me to pacing the cage
I never knew what you all wanted
So I gave you everything
All that I could pillage
All the spells that I could sing
It's as if the thing were written
In the constitution of the age
Sooner or later you'll wind up
Pacing the cage
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
Today these eyes scan bleached-out land
For the coming of the outbound stage
Pacing the cage
Pacing the cage
damn, had to go out to the car after all!
but remembered most of it.....All of Bruce's songs are enhanced by the instrumentals that accompany them.
