Favourite L.C line...

[lizzytysh]

Hi Tom ~

Welcome from me, too . Yes, too, on the lines you've chosen.

~ Lizzy

[YankovicGretzky]

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom

[Quasand]

My very sweet companion she's the angel of compassion she's rubbing half the world against her thigh

[david birkett]

One contender is

"And you treated my woman
To a flake of your life".

I also love the deliberate bathos of

"But you don't really care for music, do ya?"

[infinitejest]

"You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave..."

[songbird]

I can't pick one...
This one was always special to me cause it reminded me of my old bf.
"I loved you for your beauty that doesn't make a fool of me, you were in it for your beauty too."

"It's lonley here there's no one left to torture."

"I have seen the future brother, it is murder"

"There are no letters in the mailbox,
there are no grapes upon the vine,
there are no chocolates in the boxes any more,
and there are no diamons in the mine."

"You say I took the name in vain, I don't even know the name
and if I did tell me really whats it to you."

"I loved when our loved was blessed and I love you now there's nothing left."

[jpx]

"hoist your memory on the ship of state like a pirate's flag, and aim yourself at the tinkley present."

[lizzytysh]

jpx ~ Where were you?

~ Lizzy

[a22catcher]

Hello:
here are my favorite lines:

"Ah baby, let's get married,
we've been alone too long.
Let's be alone together.
Let's see if we're that strong."

The idea of 2 people being alone but (physically) together touches me.

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"looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess "

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"
I bite my lip.
I buy what I’m told:
From the latest hit,
To the wisdom of old.
But I’m always alone.
And my heart is like ice.
And it’s crowded and cold
In My Secret Life.
"
I don't know why, but I get very sad and depressed every time I listen to these lines. (The troubles is that I listen to it often)
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Yes you who must lose everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family, but soon it comes round to your soul

Again, so short but yet, so deep.

[lizzytysh]

Thank you, 22.....I really like it when people give the 'why's of their favourite lines. It means so much more than simply quoting the lines, which we've all heard and, truthfully, are hard-pressed to not consider them amongst our favourites. With our all being so similar in our love of Leonard's words, yet different in our applications of them, it lends meaning to all of it to hear why.

Thanks.

~ Lizzy

[a22catcher]

Thanks Lizzy
btw, I forgot to add
"Stick another turtle on the fire
Guys like me are mad for turtle meat"
- I laugh every time I hear it

[ForYourSmile]

Steps In The Life.

I have tried in my way to be free.

But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine, will be fine.

Yes I rise up from her arms, she says:
"I guess you call this love I call it service".

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play.

And I miss you so much
There’s no one in sight
And we’re still making love
In My Secret Life.

[TheOriginalF]

Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

[Lily_Marlene]

I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned." "When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned."


"And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water. He spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower. And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him, he said all men will be sailors, then, until the sea shall free them. But he himself was broken long before the sky would open. Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone".


"I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert. You're living for nothing now. I hope you're keeping some kind of record."


"And thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good, so I never tried"


"From the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat".

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

"I met a lady. She was playing with her soldiers in the dark. One by one she had to tell them that her name was Joan of Arc. I was in that army, yes I stayed a little while. I want to thank you, Joan of Arc, for treating me so well. And though I wear a uniform, I was not born to fight. All these wounded boys you lie beside, good night, my friends, good night"

These are just a few lines from songs that I find very powerful.


I would love to post more on this subject right now, but when speaking the language of Cohen, time escapes very easily.

I must force myself to get back to work!!!!

Have a nice day!

[MessiahCarey]

Hmmm.

Best L.C. line, or for that matter best line in any song (if one can accurately determine "best" in that sort of capacity) would have to be, in my humble opinion:

"He taught that the duty of lovers was to tarnish the golden rule."

- Shane