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Cathal  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Simple question tonight: favorite lyric?

Two days and no Dylan? Okay, I'll be that guy:

Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child’s balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn Plays wasted words, proves to warn That he not busy being born is busy dying

(It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding)

Incidentally, I came across a potential source for the opening image the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Englands_Dark_Day

And for fun, here's my favourite of my own lyrics:

I feel this way, though it's no fun For you don't give a flying fee-fie-foe-fum So I won't act like I've got the facts wholly Some monopoly on melancholy Coz love is heedless, not convenient It's only for the needlessly extravagant





user-inactivated  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't count, he's also the greatest poet of the twentieth century. It's just not really fair.

Cathal  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, and he's got some nerve still writing and touring on into the 21st too. I derive immense satisfaction evry time I glean some nugget that might shed a light on the genesis of one of his lines. Even though he probably just strung it together out of thin air because it fit a rhyme scheme.