Greatest Line Eddie Ever Wrote

March to Fuzz

"People who can be trusted/can change their minds"

Shadow: Flag

"Memories like fingerprints."

I just find the comparison of the two amazing. Something only a genius would imagine.

Anduril

i think these lyrics are right...

"i'm not dying, i'm not alone....mind is not a celestial state w/idle hymns of praise, time is short, i have an appt at noon - at noon in Hell"
"Oh please please think of me, cause i'm-i'm by your side"

"if just once i could feel love stare back at me"
"i walked in line when you held me close at night, i paid the price...never held you in real life"

"take me for a ride before we leave....circumstance - clapping hands, a drivin' winds - happenstance, off the track - in the mud, thats the moss - in the aforementioned verse"

"enmity gaged, united by fear, sposed to endure, what i could not forgive"

"i've understood feelings and i've understood words, but how could you be taken away?"

of course, all of parting ways - i think b/t this and betterman - who needs other break-up songs...these two hit home!!

Coming back to life

March to Fuzz wrote:

"People who can be trusted/can change their minds"

Which song?

Shadow: Flag

It actually goes "Those who can be trusted can change their minds" I think.

Anyway, it's in B Girl. A song Ed and Jeff played on a radio show I believe.

Being Enlightened

"some words when spoken...can't be taken back" from Nothingman

PEARLJAM4EVA

"And he still gives his love,
he just gives it away,
the love he recieves is the love that is saved"

"I Change by not changing at all"
elderly woman

"Cant buy what I wanyt because its free"
Courdroy

i am mine, you are

I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in between is mine
I am mine

Best line of all times!!!

cellophane_star

Most meaningful to me:
It makes much more sense to live in the Present Tense

Other greats:
No matter how cold a winter, there's a springtime ahead

Up here so high the boughs they break/ up here so high the sky I scrape/ and my eyes feel both wide open/ and I got a glimpse/ of my inner sense/ got back my innocence/ still got it/ still got it

Even flow... thoughts arrive like butterflies

All of "All or None"

phungi

and the cross I'm bearing home ain't indicative of my place... left the porch.

moe

"Some die just to live" Immortality

loveboat captain

Progress, taste it, invest it all
Champagne breakfast for everyone

rustedsign

" once you hold the hand of love, it's all surmountable"
" are you woman enough to be my man?"
" all the rusted signs, we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"
" how to be happy and true, is a quest we're taking on together"
"

Stardog Champion

"Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land"
- Man of the Hour

"Can you see them...... Out on the porch......Yeah but they don't wave"
-Yellow Ledbetter

"I'm at peace, with my lust........ I can kill cause in god i trust"
-Do the Evolution

spilled_my_tincture

a lot to choose from, so I'll list a few

"everything has chains
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture"
- Corduroy

"i know someday you'll have a beautiful life
i know you'll be a star
in somebody else's sky
but why, why, WHY
why can't it be, why can't it be mine?"
-Black

"let the ocean dissolve way my past
four days and not much longer
let my spirit pass
this is, this is, this is my last exit"
-Last Exit

"I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name"
-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

"We can scream,.. out our doors
Behind the wall a fat man snores
In his dreams he's,...
Choking on leaves"
-Green Disease

"Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin' harder
To find an approach and a way to live...
Are we gettin' something out of this all-encompassing trip?"
-Present Tense

"cannot stop the thought
of running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign
all good truants must decide"
-Immortality

there's more but that's what jumps to mind right now

splukin

My personal favorites:
"Clouds roll by, reeling is what they say,
or is it just my way?" -Lowlight

Maybe I'm wrong--but didn't Jeff write this song?

My fav line--all time is offa Breathe, "If I knew where it was, I would take you there, there's much more than this!"

Chills bro, wrote that to a girl in a love letter in high school, and she was mine.

Boom The Cat

Id say the whole Yellow Ledbetter song


"Small town predicts my faith" from elderly woman behind a counter in a small town (acoustic) no idea why I like it, but I do.

And "Lemon Yellow Sun" from jeremy of course I think I like it so much because its so decriptive of how people draw suns.

Mohab

Where do you walk when your not around? I don't see you...


In my mind theirs a clearing black clouds blow through grey steel skies, the birds don't even whisper...


Feel the resonance of distance, in the blood the iron lies...

Memoman

"It's like she lost her invitation to the party on earth and she's standing outside hating everyone here." - Breakerfall

I've felt like this... I think PJ's catalogue so extense and of such quality that somehow it get's to us all deeply on various emotions.

"Once divided...nothing left to subtract..."[...]"Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking..." - Nothingman

Me turned into the rambling upset freaky monster that resourfaces with every heartbreak...

EDIT: to quote Mohab's "Feel the resonance of distance, in the blood the iron lies.." - Insignificance

Still Here

So, I posted on this awhile ago [2004 to be more exact]...and my tastes have changed somewhat...or matured, grown, evolved, or whatever you like. I'm gonna give it another go-round, since I'm definitely in another place, and almost certainly in another state of mind. Also, it's such a great thread that hasn't been posted on since before the "avocado"...and I'm curious to know if anyone else has new favorites too?

'The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here, and I'm a mess.' -- Corduroy

'Just you and me and nothing more...if not for love I would be drowning...I've seen it work both ways, but I am up riding high amongst the waves...I can feel like I have a soul that has been saved...I can feel like I put away my early grave.' -- Amongst The Waves

'All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead...' -- Thumbing My Way

'You're warm with negativity, but comfort is an energy, so why let the sad song play? [fuck it]' -- Life Wasted

'I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine.' -- I Am Mine

'I gather speed from you fuckin' with me...' -- Rear View Mirror

'And I listen for the voice inside my head...nothing...I'll do this one myself...and the barrel waits...trigger shakes...aimed at my [fuckin'] head...won't you help me...help me from myself' -- State of Love & Trust

'Caught a bolt of lightning...cursed the day he let it go.' -- Nothingman

'See the path cut by the moon for you to walk on... See the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival...'
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'Dream the dreams other men, you'll be no-one's rival...dream the dreams of others then, you will be no-one's rival...' -- Unthought Known

'She said to me, over the phone...she wanted to see other people... I thought: "Well then, look around. They're everywhere." Said that she was confused... I thought: "Darlin', join the club." 24 years old, mid-life crisis...nowadays hits you when you're young...' -- I'm Still Here

'I did what I had to do, and if there was a reason...it was you.' -- Footsteps

And, like everyone else, there's about a gazillion others...so I'll leave my favorite:

'Be Sound.' -- I'm Still Here