Favorite Westerberg Line

[epm]

This thread keeps coming back up...which is totally groovy. Here's a few more goodies...

 

"Try and free a slave from ignorance, try and teach a whore about romance"

 

"How do you say I miss you to an answering machine"

 

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[Niall G. Pendry]

"I ain't got no idols

I ain't got much taste

I'm shiftless when I'm idle

And i got time to waste."

[Golden Smoghead]

I love these lines, though I'll admit it's partly because I love the different musical tack, on this track:

 

So dont pin your hopes

Or pin your dreams

To misanthropes or guys like me

The truth is overrated

I suppose

[myboyblue]

Stereo:

"Baby learns to crawl

Watching daddy's skin

Learns to fall

Get up again

Baby learns to cry

Watching mama's smile

in the mirror

Can you hear her"

 

Mono:"

From a distance you look peaceful

And so far away up close"

[seeyatonite]

Come and feel me tremble

Feel my marrow in the bone

 

 

 

Summers past, it's too late to cut the grass.

There ain't much to rake anyway in the fall.

[hardwood floor]

some great entries in this thread

 

this line devastates me every time:

 

In my stupid hat and gloves, at night I lie awake

Wonderin' if I'll sleep

Wonderin' if we'll meet out in the street

 

the whole song is crushing

 

Oh, then one day, I saw you walkin' down that little one-way

Where ... the place I'd catch my ride most everyday

There wasn't a damn thing I could do or say

Up in the skyway

 

what are these from? love'em

 

 

"Hush was the first word you were taught" -- first line of merry go round from 14 songs

 

"ADD, PCP, F-U-C-K-E-D, that's me" -- from the hilarious psychopharmacology, a great grandpa boy track

 

"We'll tell the ones who ask and the hell to those who laugh" -- from when will we arrive from folker

[larryt]

I've often wondered what this line means.....can anyone help me?

 

 

from 'Crackle and Drag'

 

 

'now they're zippin her up in a bag, can you hear her blacks cracle and drag'..................

[parisisstale]

I've often wondered what this line means.....can anyone help me?

 

 

from 'Crackle and Drag'

 

 

'now they're zippin her up in a bag, can you hear her blacks cracle and drag'..................

 

"Crackle & Drag"

[kidsmoke]

"Crackle & Drag"

[larryt]

Thanks to both of you. I forgot is was Sylvia Plath...........larryt

 

 

Thanks! I had always wondered about that line too. Here's the Plath poem:

 

Edge

The woman is perfected.

Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment,

The illusion of a Greek necessity

Flows in the scrolls of her toga,

Her bare

Feet seem to be saying:

We have come so far, it is over.

Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,

One at each little

Pitcher of milk, now empty.

She has folded

Them back into her body as petals

Of a rose close when the garden

Stiffens and odors bleed

From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.

The moon has nothing to be sad about,

Staring from her hood of bone.

She is used to this sort of thing.

Her blacks crackle and drag.

[dondoboy]

"Well, I s'pose your guess, is more or less as bad as mine"

[telescopic poems]

is this your name or a doctor's eye chart? - dyslexic heart

i'm in love with someone who doesn't exist - as far as i know

and the best opening line ever, though technically not a westerberg lyric......hellooooooo minneapolis police department, the party is over........the party is over with, grab yer stuff and go and nobody goes to jail. still cracks me up