Best closing lyric of all time

[Trey3216 15350]

Will they have Mogen David in Heaven?

Sweet Jesus?! 

If they don’t, who the hell wants to go?

[Al_4_ISU 12473]

I got 350 heads on a 305 engine
I get ten miles to the gallon
I ain't got no good intentions

"Zip City" Drive-By Truckers (Mike Cooley)

[gsoda3 3274]

One that most people probably would never have heard of is a song by Barenaked Ladies called Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel.
The first verse is:
Driving home to be with you
The highway's divided, the city's in view
As usual I'm almost on time
You're the last thing that's on my mind
then the crash is described, then the last verse is:
In all the confusion there's something serene
I'm just a posthumous part of the scene
Now I'm floating above looking in
As the radio blares and wheels spin
I can see my face slumped with a grin
And you, you're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind.
I always loved how different the meaning of "you're the last thing on my mind" is in the two verses.

Wait til you hear this one called "don't take the girl"

[BurntOrangeCrush 1011]

And maybe you've fallen down

And maybe you just took the long road home

But baby you will never love you...like me

And one day this will fade away

In the mirror you'll see a smiling face

And standing next to you will always be me

 

"A Day to Be Alone" - One Less Reason

 

 

 

[BoomMF 1399]

Everyone considered him the coward of the county.

[hullabelew 3724]

Way more than a closing line, but one of my favorites.  Lynnville Train by REK.  When he says he reaches into his coat, you always wonder if he has a gun in there and is going to shoot them.  To me, it is his best job of writing.  

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Steel wheels scream, the whistle blows,
His heart is breaking
She steps onto the platform, her new love by her side
He reaches in his coat, his had is shaking
The time has finally come, this really is goodbye

 

His story is he's changed his mind, 
He just can't help himself
So he's getting on board the Lynnville train
And moving on to someplace else
As the train pulls out he watches them both
Standing in the pouring rain
He's headed for a new life down the line
On the Lynnville Train

[hullabelew 3724]

The light keeps coming on,
I've got water in the fuel.
My brakes are gone,
I've got a left front tire throwing thread.
By tomorrow morning, I could be dead.
Baby, maybe you were right all along.

"Water In The Fuel" by Fred Eaglesmith

[hullabelew 3724]

On 2/6/2019 at 8:55 PM, ou97cpa said:

Close your eyes and remember this. It won't be back again, it's almost gone.
Even times that don't seem like much will be your only crutch when you're alone.
Time moves slow when you're seventeen and then it picks up steam at twenty-one.
Pretty soon you'll remember when you could remember when you loved someone

Jason Isbell, Streetlights
 

This is what I thought of first.  The thing that makes that last verse so perfect is that all through the song, it is just about a drunk dude in a bar.  Seeming down on his luck.  Then Isbell pulls out a fucking sledgehammer and hits you right in the nuts with this verse.  To me, it is easily his best song.  I'm bummed that he never plays it anymore.  

[Seger78 258]

On 2/6/2019 at 8:48 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

From what I've read/heard, no.  At least on the drummer's part.  Allegedly, Adler (drummer) told the gal that she wasn't his GF, so she went down to the studio and fucked Axl, who had been wanting to record sex noises for the part anyhow.  Then he (Adler) got pissed after the fact.

and that's when he decided to move to Austin and run for Mayor

[Liteitup 138]

That the answer my friend is just pissin' in the wind
The answer is pissin' in the sink

[Neonmoon 38129]

Paul and John were pretty good at this 

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
 

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

 

[Seger78 258]

He always said that heaven

was just a Dallas whore

[HiggyBaby 2543]

Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea

[tejas60 3534]

you're breaking my heart

you're tearing it apart

so fuck you

 

[Papa Johnny Road 1]

I’ll second Zip City and add Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room:

In the dark morning silence 
I placed the gun to her head
'Cause, She wore red dresses, 
but now she lay dead...

[Richard Kimball 1496]

And my dad said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."

 

[noharleyyet 2838]

Opening and closing lines....

We were standin' on a mountain top
Where the cactus flowers grow
I was wishin' that the world would stop
When you said we'd better go

[Paul Wesley 3287]

Thought I ought to bare my naked feelings.

Thought I ought to tear the curtain down.

I held the blade in trembling hands, prepared to make it... but

Just then the phone rang.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

Edited February 10, 2019 by Paul Wesley

[Dennis Taylor 18847]

I tell you to enjoy life

I wish I could but it's too late

[Guest]

I Used to Love Her

G&R

I used to love her, but I had to kill her, and I can still hear her complain

[Ollie Slatt 289]

So I started this damn country band
Cause punk rock was too hard to sing

[harold 81]

"then he cocked both his pistols, spit in the dirt, and walked out in that street..."

[Pato del Muerto 52534]

But I ain’t jacked my lumber, baby

since my chain saw you. 

-The lumberjack, Jackyl

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

On 2/9/2019 at 1:49 PM, Neonmoon said:

Paul and John were pretty good at this 

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
 

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

 

o-verrrr raaaay-ted. o-verrr raaaaaay-ted.  Or so we've been told on a similar thread

[EMAWesome 101]

Best lines that both open and close a song.

 

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar

[Llano Estacado 1257]

Ah living is sighing
Dying ain’t flying so high
Babe and I lying here
Watching the day go by

-TVZ



And the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, well, I have really good days.
-RWH

[Whatever 700]

My first love was a wicked twisted road
I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old
I never saw the rainbow, much less a pot of gold
Yeah, my first love was a wicked twisted road

A couple of pretty flowers is what I brought to you
I saw you through a broken window
With a different point of view

Can I light a candle?
And kiss you in the places light won't show
I'll take my time and do it slow
I'll do my oral exercises
Right between your thighs
It's all very pleasurable, I'll go places he won't go
Lets keep it on the low-low
So he won't know
Now lets take it to the floor

Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

[Ths71 472]

"Meat is Murder" was released 34 years ago yesterday...

 

Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools
Spineless swines, cemented minds

 

I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
I am a man of means, of slender means

 

On the day that your mentality
Decides to try to catch up with your biology

 

Unruly boys
Who will not grow up Must be taken in hand

 

 

 

[Ths71 472]

I'm an idoit. Wrong lyrics thread.😑

[Pescado_Rojo 19427]

The scaffold was high and eternity neared
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries over my bones

Long Black Veil - The Band

[Dennis Taylor 18847]

My doughnuts,  God damn!!!

[Litig8r 414]

The high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high

[noharleyyet 2838]

If I were you, I'd turn around and run
Cause you ain't done everything that they
want done
Doesn't matter what you do to survive
There's always something that will eat you alive

[Homercles 10206]

All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

Have no idea why this hasn’t been repped more.

[Trey3216 15350]

39 minutes ago, Homercles said:

 

Have no idea why this hasn’t been repped more.

 

I’m convinced it cannot be played loud enough.  

[Scooter Monzingo 821]

Uh, there are only two perfect closing lines in song.

The first is obviously “And she is buying a stairway....to heaven”.

The second is controversial, but has a great finishing line.

Not to mention he is also the University of Texas’ very own, Jim Heath. 

Cowboy Love. 

“That's why each night by the campfire
I thank my lucky stars above
For inter-racial cowboy homo kind of love
Kind of love
Kind of love”

The perfect fuck it song, to cover those times when the cab driver decides to fuck with you when you tell him to just take you to a bar. And only after you order do you notice that you may have ended up at the wrong venue on a Friday night, but rather then act like an asshole and get upset, you just go with it.

[hookem48 4701]

The child is grown, the dream is gone.

[hookem48 4701]

Mother, did it need to be so high...?

[Mach 1 1677]

yes to above.  I always really liked the whole ending :

 

 

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown the dream is gone

I have become comfortably numb

Edited March 1, 2019 by Mach 1
paragraph not right word for lyrics

[davidg 4038]

Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

Goodbye, all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye. 

 

[MyWifeIsBi.....Polar 6]

Left my niggas house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelfth grade
It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep so deep so deep put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp (yeah)
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day

 

[DoobieWah 1452]

As a former single parent, I can attest that the best closing line in history is:

 

"Take one down, pass it around,

ZERO BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL!"

[Richard Kimball 1496]

As I hung up the phone it occurred to me

My boy was just like me, my boy was just like me.

[Druggist 303]

Mike D grabbed the money

MCA snatched the gold

I grabbed two girlies and a beer that’s cold

[tbone_ 14134]

Chuck Klosterman once argued that the coda (if that's the correct term) to "Rocket Queen" was the greatest 1:30 of rock and roll recorded in the 80's.
I can't argue.

All of rocket queen probably fits that description.

[tbone_ 14134]

Chuck Klosterman once argued that the coda (if that's the correct term) to "Rocket Queen" was the greatest 1:30 of rock and roll recorded in the 80's.
I can't argue.

All of rocket queen probably fits that description.