Ten of Top 100 Song Lines and Lyrics Part VII

Ten of Top 100 Song Lines and Lyrics Part VII by Roxanne McDonald

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel/you were famous, your heart was a legend./You told me again you preferred handsome men/but for me you would make an exception./And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty/you fixed yourself, you said, “Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.” “Chelsea Hotel No. 2”; Leonard Cohen; The Essential Leonard Cohen

61. Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been/Lives in a dream/Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door/Who is it for?/All the lonely people/Where do they all come from?/All the lonely people/Where do they all belong?
“Eleanor Rigby;” The Beatles; The Beatles 1

62. oh babe/he wants you/but he just can’t get it on as you planned/and i guess a girl just can’t understand/how much a guy goes through/all she has to do is let herself/she doesn’t have to get herself up/on cue/like a performing seal/in a zoo/how was last night’s/performance babe?/was it better than/the night before?/are the old credentials/any good any good any good any more/or is the act beginning to bore you?/he can sing!/he can dance!/he can juggle!/he’s a regular one-man band/his costume’s a little tattered/his label says made in japan/but he beats his battered drum/and he rattles his empty can/and he somehow gets/his flag to fly/looka him/looka him/he’s a man!
“Don’t Put Him Down;” Dory Previn; Live at Carnegie Hall

63. You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’/You keep losing when you oughta not bet/You keep samin’ when you oughta be a’changin’/What’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet/These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do/One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
“These Boots are Made for Walkin’;” Nancy Sinatra; Boots

64. Now if there’s a smile on my face/It’s only there trying to fool the public/But when it comes down to fooling you/Now honey that’s quite a different subject/But don’t let my glad expression/Give you the wrong impression/Really I’m sad, oh I’m sadder than sad/You’re gone and I’m hurtin’ so bad/Like a clown I pretend to be glad/Now there’s some sad things known to man/But aint too much sadder than/The tears of a clown, when there’s no one around….
“Tears of a Clown;” Smokey Robinson

65. When tears come down like falling rain/You’ll toss around, and call my name/You’ll walk the floor the way I do/Your cheatin’ heart, will tell on you.
“Your Cheatin’ Heart”; Hank Williams

66. Now in darkness, world stops turning/Ashes where the bodies burning/ No more war pigs have the power/Hand of God has struck the hour/Day of judgement, God is calling/On their knees, the war pigs crawling/Begging mercies for their sins/Satan laughing, spreads his wings.
“War Pigs”; Black Sabbath; Paranoid

67. I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off/I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on/I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on/The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top/I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds/For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky/I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me/I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me/I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good/I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood….
“Wishlist”; Pearl Jam; Yield

68. You may say I’m a dreamer/But I’m not the only one/I hope someday you’ll join us/And the world will live as one.
“Imagine”; John Lennon; Imagine

69. Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band/Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man/Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand/And now she’s in mine, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand/Jesus freaks out in the street/Handing tickets out for God/Turning back she just laughs/The boulevard is not that bad…./But, oh, how it feels so real/ Lying here with no one near/Only you and you can hear me/When I say softly, slowly/Hold me closer tiny dancer/Count the headlights on the highway/Lay me down in sheets of linen/You had a busy day today.
“Tiny Dancer”; Elton John; Elton John Collection

70. There she stood in the doorway/I heard the mission bell/And I was thinking to myself, “This could be Heaven or this could be Hell”…./ Her mind is Tiffany-twisted/She got the Mercedes Benz/She’s got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends/How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat/Some dance to remember, some dance to forget…./Last thing I remember, I was running for the door/I had to find the passage back to the place I was before/“Relax,” said the nightman, “We are programmed to receive./You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
“Hotel California”; The Eagles; Hotel California

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