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CaptHowdy99 Member Posts: 3 |
posted February 07, 2002 03:17 PM
  
"And All Those Alcoholic Afternoons Are Getting In The Way" ... I find myself sreaming those words when i listen to " Alibi " IP: Logged |
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sweetsnail Senior Member Posts: 1274 |
posted February 07, 2002 05:27 PM
Hi CaptHowdy, welcome to the boards.  (btw, that is an interesting screenname you have at AOL)ah, I like those lines as well. Some others I like (not including the ones on Phantom Moon because those aren't his lyrics ):"IN the wildest mythology/were the gods and goddesses ever so in love" (Days Go By) "I'm here by myself, but I know I'm not alone" (Home) "As long as there's no witness/ how can there be a crime" (Varying Degrees of Con-Artistry) "I am the snake that bites his own tail" (Nothing Special) "No matter what we get/We never find our happiness/ Ain't that a crime?/ Maybe that's why I've been told/ Since I was six years old, to compromise" (oh that's got to be my favorite...from That Says It All) -stephanie IP: Logged |
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Tammy Senior Member Posts: 32 |
posted February 07, 2002 11:32 PM
There are so many meaningful lines... one that comes right to mind, those, is, "None of it does compare to her eyes" from Out of Order. It says so much about the difficulties of a relationship that is ending. Just for its cleverness, I've always liked, "It must have been that yesterday was the day that I was born" from Barely Breathing. IP: Logged |
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sweetsnail Senior Member Posts: 1274 |
posted February 08, 2002 02:07 AM
Yeah Tammy, I agree with both of those as well. Those were just the ones I thought of off the top of my head. I could list more!-steph IP: Logged |
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Damion123 Senior Member Posts: 120 |
posted February 08, 2002 10:36 AM
There are a lot of quotes that mean a lot to me, but I'll give you three that mean the most to me. The first describes me truthfully and the second descirbes how I feel about some current events. The third is probably like the best advice I could ever give someone. "Somewhere in this heart of mine/ demons are working overtime/ would be I were ruled by sweet sweet fate/ never facing the choice I made." House full of Riches. "I forgot the taste fears of fears and how they haunt the lips you're kissing/ and how loves just a waste of tears on someone who is missing/ and how I should shed such tears that kiss goodbye, this is how I want her" How my heart heard "Tell me all your wildest dreams/ I don't really care if you don't know what they mean/ we're raiding the closet with skeleton keys/ you know it's easier than you think/ Even my wonder, even my fear, only aomount to a couple of tears" Reasons for living Til I can think of more, I'll chat later. Much love my friends, and have a wonderful weekend. Adam, the mighty bishop <***************> IP: Logged |
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Leon Senior Member Posts: 44 |
posted February 08, 2002 11:26 AM
From Wishful Thinking: "little breakdowns in coastal towns It was 2 or 3 in the morning when I first heard the song, and I just connected with the song, so to speak. IP: Logged |
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Mangotigerlily Senior Member Posts: 356 |
posted February 10, 2002 11:27 PM
Ok these aren't Duncan's persay, but anyway: "Singer, will the singing say it? Singer, would such singing change it? A whole life spent tuning strings, And will it now mean anything But empty chords that only bring An endless, voiceless sorrowing?" And my favorite that are all Duncan: Crystal ~~~~++++~~~~ IP: Logged |
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Ember Senior Member Posts: 107 |
posted February 11, 2002 03:27 AM
"it isn't what she talks about...it's just the way she is..." IP: Logged |
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thehelm Member Posts: 1 |
posted February 11, 2002 07:47 PM
"I've come to find, I may never know Your changing mind, is it friend or foe?" Michael IP: Logged |
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Wildsea Senior Member Posts: 114 |
posted February 11, 2002 09:45 PM
No matter what we get we never find our happiness ain't that a crime That Says It All (doesn't it?) IP: Logged |
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cadence Senior Member Posts: 53 |
posted February 11, 2002 09:58 PM
I had to jump on the "favourite line" thing, I just couldn't help myself. "Lookin' at me with one of those sideways glances" --Out of Order "It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair, humming like the air" --In Between ((popular choice, and with good reason!!)) "And now I shed such tears but never cry" --This is How My Heart Heard Michael! Hey hey, welcome to the board!!! xoxo, IP: Logged |
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Lisaws Senior Member Posts: 173 |
posted February 12, 2002 01:10 PM
Ah, so many, can't decide!! Here's just a few... "You play guitar for perfect strangers/Write some words they try to sell/ Then you sing these things in public/ Sometimes not very well/ You get paid to go to parties/Drinking colors, talking trash/ You get laid because you're arty/ Then wonder why it never lasts" "Sometimes the more you wonder why, the worse it seems to get" "Feel the blades of grass, how it brings you back. It will always be, only as green as you can see" IP: Logged |
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BrunetteJuliette Senior Member Posts: 189 |
posted February 12, 2002 11:44 PM
Home : I look through the darkness into the sky the moon up above me brilliantly shines I've never been happier watching it glow I'm here by myself but I know I'm not alone. The End Of Outside: Reasons For Living: That Says It All: House Full Of Riches: IP: Logged |
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lipglossarsonist658 Member Posts: 8 |
posted February 13, 2002 12:23 AM
well any line from "reasons for living" ... "even my wonder, even my fear omly amount to a couple of tears... your reason for living are all very fine but they're leaving me cold, they're not really mine" that song just changed my life lipglossarsonits IP: Logged |
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wolfspirit Senior Member Posts: 1101 |
posted February 14, 2002 01:10 AM
Weird!! I just chose this thread to see what was up with it, and as I opened it I was kinda thinking - 1. Is Candice "Cadence" going to email me her address? Please just email me regarding what you want, etc - and I'd be happy to send what I have; it just might take a little longer at this point, but no problem. 2. I wonder what's been up with Julie lately, I haven't seen her around for awhile, and I kinda miss her.... And much to my amazement, you have both posted here! Very bizarre, because my husband and son are out for the evening and I have been getting some stuff done on the computer, and thought I'd log on here for a minute...and I really was thinking about the two of you as I opened this! I'll answer the thread question while I'm here... I like to chew on that one. My intrepretation (for what it's worth :0} - When you've analyzed yourself to death trying to figure out why you "are" a certain way, you can drive yourself insane trying to figure it out - because you can't. Someone once said to me (it's so simple, it hardly makes sense) "You cannot solve your own thinking - with your own thinking." Oh. I see. [This message has been edited by wolfspirit (edited February 14, 2002).] IP: Logged |
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duncangirl69 Senior Member Posts: 109 |
posted February 15, 2002 02:44 PM
so much better when you run your fingers through my hair i feel a little undefined but i want to let you in sme may fear committed lives
these are some of my duncan favorites right now. this is mainly because i am such a sap and my bf and i right now are doing grrreat after 1yr and 4 months.
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shillbilly Member Posts: 28 |
posted February 15, 2002 08:14 PM
What a great topic. here's mine: "when i'm with you, it feels like i'm home" anywho, thanks for the topic. its gives a glimpse into the people on this board. IP: Logged |
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Carly Senior Member Posts: 483 |
posted February 16, 2002 05:09 PM
"And yes I'll smile as I burn the self-help section of my local book store" Bite Your Tongue rocks! Carly IP: Logged |
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ferraricameron Member Posts: 9 |
posted February 20, 2002 11:30 PM
"Something about hotel rooms and horses." -from Rubbed Out This is my favorite line from a Duncan song because of the way he says it in concert, with such power and emotion. And he's right: There IS something about hotel rooms and horses. (-seen Duncan 4 times) IP: Logged |
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eliza11 Member Posts: 10 |
posted April 07, 2002 06:20 PM
hi! i love the line "i thought i understood what i was to you" from In The Absence Of Sun. i also love " everyone's looking,everyone hides everyone's telling,but everyone lies we're changing the subject,we're turning away away from the heart of it all." and "Welcome to another day. it doesn't seem that different'cause nothig has changed" from Reasons For Living. it lot to write ,but i love his lyrics. they're so beautiful. IP: Logged |
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treespirit713 Senior Member Posts: 55 |
posted April 07, 2002 07:48 PM
Hey Steph, "no matter what we get we never find our happiness...." one of my favorites as well. I find that in the 3 albums I have, I cannot pick out my favorites straight away. There are soo so many good ones. oooh, a good one "light the candle and we're shown" (mirror in the heart) my friend wrote this really awesome poem/story, about the battle between spring and winter nad then after reading it, i was listening to duncan sheik and a line reminded me of the story. The line being, "you were the sword at my side through all ghe winds that blow..." It reminded me of my friends story because he speaks of a sword coming from the sun's energy and he uses this sword to fight off winter. And in that line, he speaks of a sword being at his side through winds, winds often bringing cold(winter). IP: Logged |
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CloudyEden Member Posts: 25 |
posted April 08, 2002 11:08 PM
''...A sorrow borne, and borne for evermore, a sorrow borne with a howl, thou'lt come no more, no more for evermore, no more for evermore, now...'' - 'Requiescat' This is one I've always turned to for some reason. I never could really decipher the meaning, but I thought the words had an earthy rhythm to them, so I always considered them my favorite. I wrote these same words on the liner notes of a mixed cd I burned for a girl I was deeply in love with (properly referenced to Mr. Sater of course), along with a drawing I made of a person crying. I thought she'd like it, and she did (enough to where she basically professed her love to me shortly thereafter). Sadly, after brief on-again, off-again stints with her, this love could never be, and I was left with these words. And now they've taken apon a whole new meaning for me. Thank you, Duncan and Steven, for bringing these words to life. - Matthew IP: Logged |
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cafEnax Member Posts: 1 |
posted April 10, 2002 10:09 PM
so hard to pick just one.. "Bite your to-o-o-o-o-ngue; you're not the only o-o-o-o-o-ne who's been let down smart words .. .fantastic melody... great to hear him using his tenor vox forte-style i like the line about the horses and hotels, too, but what does it MEAN? Peace! - Edward IP: Logged |
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kadienblues Senior Member Posts: 43 |
posted April 12, 2002 12:02 AM
um..... "but there wouldnt be so many beggars if there werent so many thieves."-sunrise to sunset "saints and sinners, losers, winners, masters and their slaves. the more you hide one or the other, the earlier your grave."-in between nick IP: Logged |
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Mohannad Senior Member Posts: 34 |
posted April 13, 2002 10:17 AM
"Such an annoying conversation" I love that line, sounds like something I'd say. Mohannad IP: Logged |
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endsoftheworld Member Posts: 6 |
posted April 15, 2002 12:38 AM
I'm right there with CafEnax. "Bite your tongue/you're not the only one/who's been let down/Bite your tongue/maybe it's good for you/to hit the ground" also: "Are you still wondering/what I mean/'cause I'm in-between" I adore in-between. IP: Logged |
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Damion123 Senior Member Posts: 120 |
posted May 06, 2002 10:17 AM
I love in between too. Maybe that's because me and my close friends and my ex are really in between. I like this quote too cause it reminds me of the fun my ex and I had when we were still together as an item and sort of like we are now all at once. It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair, humming like the air/ I wish that I can hold you, I'm sorry if I seem...so in between IP: Logged |
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Andrew Poe Member Posts: 18 |
posted May 06, 2002 08:13 PM
I have one... "I want to see my future/I want to know my past/The everlasting present/Is that so much to ask?" From "End of Outside" IP: Logged |
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lilacwine Member Posts: 10 |
posted May 10, 2002 02:08 AM
"You say you are happy do you think this if fun? But it's only a firefly to the light of the sun." -Reasons For Living- IP: Logged |
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boobaloo Member Posts: 13 |
posted May 10, 2002 10:25 AM
I just wonder what Duncan really meant when he said "the girls and the boys, and everything in between" but my favorite line of all time is "somewhere within this heart of mine, demons are working overtime, and would that I were ruled by sweet, sweet fate, never facing the choice I had made....she comes to me only in the hours before I wake" IP: Logged |
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wissywacki Member Posts: 10 |
posted May 15, 2002 10:43 AM
...happiness is never how you think it should be so ~alissa IP: Logged |
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Logan Member Posts: 6 |
posted May 22, 2002 02:47 PM
The one's I like are: Will you struggle to realize this earthly paradise is it so far above us, to put away the poisonous ideas. you know it's just isdeas, they're the only enemies around here. IP: Logged |
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sunday's child Senior Member Posts: 718 |
posted May 27, 2002 05:41 PM
"Uh, darling, don't you know, the darkness comes and the darkness goes" - She Runs Away IP: Logged |
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CoralOracles Member Posts: 2 |
posted May 29, 2002 08:23 PM
"I guess it's way beyond me, to sleep with yesterday." I LOVE that line! It means so many different things. And sometimes, I'm just like, yeah! it's way beyond me to sleep with yesterday. It's become my life phrase for GET OVER IT, ha ha! ~jeana IP: Logged |
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big john Member Posts: 9 |
posted June 16, 2002 10:30 PM
"Did you come down to take me or give me away?" It makes me think of being in a situation where you know what you feel but you don't know what the other person is feeling. And every time they're about to say something you're terrified of what it's going to be. Are you going to take me away, or give me away? When I heard that lyric for the first time, I knew it would always be my favorite Duncan lyric. IP: Logged |
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MsDMeanor Senior Member Posts: 112 |
posted June 18, 2002 05:58 AM
hard to narrow it down when the man is poetry in motion...but, it always "gets" me in an inspirational tone when I hear: "ooh babe why don't you let it go? IP: Logged |
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j.r.piskorski Senior Member Posts: 42 |
posted June 30, 2002 09:37 PM
I guess the ones I like the most are: "you say you are happy / do you think this is fun? /well it's only a firefly to the light of the sun / you say this is living, you feel so alive / well you know everything dies" that's exactly what I feel when someone happy is around me when I'm depressed "somewhere whithin this heart of mine / demons are working overtime" I feel this way all the time. and the beatiful and unforgetable: Rodolfo [This message has been edited by j.r.piskorski (edited June 30, 2002).] IP: Logged |
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TaintedOphelia Member Posts: 4 |
posted July 18, 2002 05:58 PM
"What is this attraction? I only feel the pain/There�s nothing left to reason and only you to blame/Will it ever change?" -- Barely Breathing "Nothing's clear.../I've come to no conclusions/Said and done/Is it all said and done?" -- November "How long 'til you understand/The last thing that I need is another man/Didn't you promise to give it a rest/Right now I need a lover/Like a hole, like a hole in the head" -- Little Hands "Somewhere within this heart of mine/Demons are working overtime/Would that I were ruled by sweet, sweet fate/Never facing the choice I made..../I threw it all away" -- House Full of Riches "Twilight descends so blue, so brown,/And longing begins in this longing town." -- Longing Town --Melissa-- IP: Logged |
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Rina316 Senior Member Posts: 64 |
posted July 23, 2002 03:00 AM
Some of my favorites line from Duncan's albums: �Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire.
�Such an annoying conversation?� Taster of the poetry, Somewhere within this heart of mine IP: Logged |
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Brazil Senior Member Posts: 63 |
posted July 26, 2002 09:33 PM
"I don't want to feel this way I don't want to say I'm just a friend I don't want to wait around here 'Cos you don't want to feel no pain again" "When I'm with you it feels like I'm home" It's the story of my life Siliva IP: Logged |
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