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LAST LINES
We’ve done First Notes and Opening Lines so
it’s time to do Last Lines. What are your most
memorable last lines of your fav songs? If
you’re so inclined, tell us why also 🎼💜
“And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make”
The End, Fab 4️⃣
The final lines from this song from the incredible Abbey Road Medley have always resonated
to me in the deepest way. To me they represent
equality, purity, love and religion all wrapped up in one. This stands as one of the best last lines ever, imo 🎼💜
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When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we’re all one
And life flows on within you and without you
Within You Without You - The Beatles
We must look beyond our own self-interest, and realize how connected we all are to be at peace with ourselves and each other. A pretty good summation of Harrison’s life philosophy after his studies in India, as well as a good one to live by. It dovetails nicely with Lennon’s All You Need Is Love.
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The people on the street came runnin’ in
to join in song
Just to hearing the opera singers singing
rock and roll so pure
I thought I saw the Mayor there
But I wasn’t really sure
But it’s alright
Rockaria! ELO
Just such an infectious song celebrating
the joy of rock and roll 🎼💜
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I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I’ll show you a good time
The Joker, Steve Miller Band
Such a cute and flirty song with clever lyrics
that was ahead of it’s time. Love the peaches
line 🎼💜
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This is another two-parter that ends on the refrain:
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
You better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
You better stop
Now, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
You better stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Either way it rings as true (perhaps even more true) today as it did when it was released 55 years ago...maybe the sense of futility expressed by the haphazard indifference of the title speaks to a major contributing factor.
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Whoo and baby, baby, I’d rather be blind, boy
Then to see you walk away, see you walk
away from me, yeah
Whoo, baby, baby, baby, I’d rather be blind
I’d rather go blind, Etta James
She knows she lost her man and she can’t
bear to even see anymore. What a scorching
song about being cheated on 🎼💜
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Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Vincent - Don McLean
Besides being one of my favorite artists, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Vincent Van Gogh. As an artist, he was well undervalued and under appreciated during his lifetime, and as a person, so misunderstood, given his struggles with mental health. His life story is nothing short of heartbreaking. Don McLean paints beautiful, yet sad, portrait of the man who gave the world so many great works of art. It’s one of my favorite songs of all time.
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”Don’t you know that things gonna change
Oh, but you gotta be a man
You gotta take a stand
Don’t ever feel that
Like you can’t make it baby”
Only the strong survive, Jerry Butler
Although written from a man’s perspective,
I get inspiration from this song during
these troubled times 🎼💜
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Now the lines have all been read
And you knew them all by heart
Now you move toward the door
Here it comes, the hardest part
Try the handle of the road
Feeling different, feeling strange
This can never be arranged
As the light fades from the screen
From the famous final scene
The Famous Final Scene - Bob Seger
”Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” - Oscar Wilde
Bob Seger writes a heartbreaking story about life as seen through the lens of a camera for a movie screen. Beautifully done, too. 💛
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"It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share?
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother"
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies
Just a reminder, we're all in this together.
Sartre said 'Hell is other people,' and The Epicureans believed, 'There's no fate but what we make for ourselves,' Reality probably falls somewhere in between.
Dystopia is just another word for Utopia...from an Antisocial point of view.
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”Everybody walkin’ by the river now,
everyday, everybody laughin’
Shake your hand, share the land
Everybody singin’ and talkin’, smilin’,
laughin’, diggin’ each other”
Share the land, Guess Who
The upbeat lyrics tell a tale where
everything is perfect and everyone
is there for each other. How I wish
it could still be that way 🎼💜
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"One Song At a Time" - Mark Knopfler (2018)
"And I'll be out of this place
Down the road wherever
There but for the grace, et cetera
I'll see you later somewhere down the line
I'll be picking my way out of here
One song at a time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMd5cEf6HQo
It is about him wanting to get out of the place he grew up and music was that way. The title of the song he got from his good friend Chet Akins who once said to him when talking about their childhoods that "he took his guitar and worked his way out of poverty one song at a time". Nice song. They performed together live several times. 1987 they did Secret Policeman's Ball and Chet Akins and Friends. They recorded an album together ("Neck and Neck" 1990).
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And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary path and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I
Kathy’s Song - Paul Simon / S & G
Paul Simon wrote it for his girlfriend, Kathy, who was back in England at the time. The use of rain at the beginning and end so beautifully describes how he is feeling as he writes the song. It’s a beautiful song, and one of his best.
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"Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you
Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion
As I see a new day in me, I can also show it you and you may follow"
Or since the song ends on a Refrain
"Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways"
Starship Trooper - Yes
Either way it seems to suggest that although the framework of our existence may be made up of empirically quantifiable and understandable elements, the quality of our existence is determined by the altruistic/prosocial results of our decisions and actions.
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”I was lifted up again
I said I was lifted up, by the Lord
Lifted up again, lifted up again, lifted up again
By the Lord”
Full Force Gale, Van Morrison
I’m not overly religious but this song has
always moved me and lifted me up in my
darkest of times 🎼💜
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"Man of passion rise again, we won't cross you out:
For we do love you like a son, of that there's no doubt
Tell us: is it you who are here for our good cheer?
Or are we here for the glory, for the story, for the gory satisfaction
Of telling you how absolutely awful you really are?
There was a rush along the Fulham Road
There was a hush in the Passion Play"
Passion Play - Jethro Tull
Pretty much the same sentiment as the end of Godzilla...Just a wee bit more long winded because it addresses a particular human shortcoming that keeps repeating and repeating.
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“From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
That you’ll never know”
For a Dancer, Jackson Browne
His lyrics are reflective and deep
in this amazing song from the iconic
Late for the Sky album 🎼💜
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