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Best last lines

ScigattScigatt Posts: 37
edited January 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
What do you think are some of the best closing lines? Here's some of mine:

I'm Open:
"Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
he decides to dream...
Dream up a new self... for himself"
(Do more spoken word, guys!)

Army Reserve:
"I'm not frantic,
I can see it coming.
Darling you'll save me,
if you save yourself."

Unemployable:
"Near to death,
Here to die,
Scared alive"

Oh, and of course, Black:
"I know someday have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's life
but why, why, why...
can't it be, can't it be
mine..."
Ab Pbqr
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  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Posts: 12,158
    man of the hour:

    Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    As the curtain comes down
    I feel that this is just goodbye for now.

    one of ed's best written, and most moving, songs.
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • ymerejymerej Posts: 70
    Scigatt wrote:
    Oh, and of course, Black:
    "I know someday have a beautiful life,
    I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's life
    but why, why, why...
    can't it be, can't it be
    mine..."

    For me, the best closing lines I've ever seen.
    I just want to scream...
    ...hello!!!
    My god its been six years...
    never dreamed...
    ...you'd return.
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    Dirty frank

    Ok, I think that's enough !

    ;)

    European ten version
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • prodacakeprodacake Posts: 319
    so simple but oh so true, its my favourite song at the moment, quite fitting for new years eve time for a new start


    Youve got time, youve got time to escape
    Theres still time, its no crime to escape
    Its no crime to escape, its no crime to escape
    Theres still time, so escape
    Its no crime, crime..
    All those yesterdays
  • BrezBrez Posts: 570
    And before his first step,
    He's off again...
    And before his first step... He's off again...
  • StellaStella Posts: 283
    This is, This is
    my... last exit

    i always enjoy that line
    I have no signature
  • jordn6971jordn6971 Posts: 675
    Obvious one would be

    I know it's already been sung
    Can't be said enough
    Love is all you need...all you need is love
    love...love...love
    "There was a band playing in my head, and I felt like getting high"
  • CharliePCharlieP Posts: 1,035
    If I had known then what I know now

    Just perfect

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  • JamalJamal Posts: 2,115
    Brez wrote:
    And before his first step,
    He's off again...
    Very nice
    I second that
    Surf little waves big... Charge big waves hard

    - Antwerp '06, Nijmegen '07, Werchter '07
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    aBoxOfFear wrote:
    man of the hour:

    one of ed's best written, and most moving, songs.

    I'd have to agree on one of his most moving songs. I had heard it once or twice from listening to Benaroya, and had watched Big Fish and the song as the credits rolled. But when I heard it live, I was completely overcome with the emotional element of this song. It was very powerful, now I love this song everytime I hear it.
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • thelowlightargentinathelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    we...we belong...together
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 Posts: 28,499
    some die just to live.....................

    one of my all time top 3 favorite pj songs. wish they would play this one like they used to.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • PJSEMPREPJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    I will feel alive as long as I am free...(Grievance)
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    PJSEMPRE wrote:
    I will feel alive as long as I am free...(Grievance)
    I love that one too!

    Here is another I like:

    he's stiffening, we're all whistling
    a man we'll soon forget
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • threecrookedhearts6threecrookedhearts6 Posts: 82
    gotta say my pick is the last line of Parting Ways...

    Drifting away...Drifting away...Drifting away...

    exactly what i do when i hear that song (or album, for that matter)
    “I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything.”
    -Eddie Vedder
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Wow, this is a difficult thread to respond to!! I'm just gonna say the whole catalogue and I'll post later!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • Androgynous MindAndrogynous Mind Posts: 520
    "How he makes his getaway, getaway." -Of the Girl
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • YieldedYielded Posts: 839
    All those posted already are excellent!

    Here's another one:

    Just be darling and I will be too
    Faithful... to you
    "We get these pills to swallow... how they stick in your throat... Tastes like gold..."
  • GirlOnALedgeGirlOnALedge Posts: 13
    One more ...

    Breath:
    "Oh, if I knew where it was I would take you there but there's much more
    than this.
    Ooh. Whoa, much more than this. Woh see the world. Much more than ...
    Oh, much more than. Why?"
  • YieldedYielded Posts: 839
    And of course:

    I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up...
    "We get these pills to swallow... how they stick in your throat... Tastes like gold..."
  • Sugar RaySugar Ray Posts: 56
    if he's truly out of sight
    is he truly out of mind?

    I love Fatal... great song... Ed has reveresed the lines as well which makes this sound equally cool.

    Cheers,

    R3
    ...can't touch the bottom....
  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Tough to say. For me it's either Breath or Leash.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Not my favourite last lines, but I thought they deserved a mention.

    Ghost:
    I've seen it all before,..
    Bring it on cause I'm no victim
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • mnarob3mnarob3 Posts: 235
    guess which one:

    I thought you were my friend ...but I guess...I guess I (hate you)
    *~~bologna 14.9.2006~~*~~vienna 25.9.2006~~*~~zagreb 26.9.2006~~
    *~~munich 12.6.2007~~*~~chorzow 13.6.2007~~*
  • brainof_Qbrainof_Q Posts: 1
    It struck me recently that the lyrics to "Wishlist" are beautiful. I guess the realization had something to do with my growing older and having made some mistakes some mistakes. Anyhow, I'd like to submit to all of you the last true, in my opinion, lyric of "Wishlist": I wish I was the verb to trust, and never let you down.

    When the realization hit me I realized that Vedder (in my opinion) intended for the verb to be "love". Hello! Darned song gets me misty-eyed at times--reminding me of how I'd like to be a better man (pun intended) than I am.
  • Sugar RaySugar Ray Posts: 56
    mnarob3 wrote:
    guess which one:

    I thought you were my friend ...but I guess...I guess I (hate you)

    Courdoroy... and a damn fine song I might add...although I am sure that I spelled it wrong.

    Cheers,

    R3
    ...can't touch the bottom....
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    aBoxOfFear wrote:
    man of the hour:

    Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    As the curtain comes down
    I feel that this is just goodbye for now.

    one of ed's best written, and most moving, songs.
    Absolutely.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org

    Oh my, they dropped the leash.



    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"
  • dissident31dissident31 Posts: 92
    How 'bout these three:

    "Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?"
    Green Disease
    And: "Ask, I'm an ear...Fuck it, we'll disappear"
    mfc
    "Delight in our youth...get out of my fuckin' face"
    Leash
    Change don't come at once, it's a wave, building before it breaks.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    ^ MFC has always been one of my very favorites. :)

    Also 'untitled',... "With you I could never be alone..". Seems the effect of MFC is multiplied several times when that improv preceeds it. To me at least... spent a lot of time thinking about those 2.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org

    Oh my, they dropped the leash.



    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"
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