For me, the couplet that just tickles me the most is from Old Dan's Records:
"We're all here. We've all got dates. We'll dance all night to the 78s" Genius. What strikes you? The Rez |
For me, the couplet that just tickles me the most is from Old Dan's Records:
"We're all here. We've all got dates. We'll dance all night to the 78s" Genius. What strikes you? The Rez |
"My mother said with the life that I led I'd be broke. Holy smoke" From Welcome To Try
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"He shouts across the ocean to the shore
Till he can shout no more" from Don Quixote |
"He shouts across the ocean to the shore
Till he can shout no more" from Don Quixote |
"I'd like to take things one at a time
Forget about reason--forget about rhyme" Drink Your Glasses Empty |
"I don't want to own the key - to some ghostly mansion, where souls are set free."
On the High Seas |
Yesterday is gone, yesterday’s alright
Yesterday belongs in my dreams at night Yesterday is swell, yesterday is great Yesterday is strong, remembering can wait -- Painter Passing Through Reminds me to live in the moment... [ May 06, 2005, 10:16: Message edited by: bjb ] |
"The answer's in the forest carved upon a tree. 'John loves Mary'. Does anyone love me?"
from Sit Down Young Stranger. |
Affair on 8th Ave. the part where he sings she brushed it down, referring to her hair, when i was small i though he meant she brushed her hair and it fell down to the ground.
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Affair on 8th Ave. the part where he sings she brushed it down, referring to her hair, when i was small i though he meant she brushed her hair and it fell down to the ground.
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"The House You Live In" has a poignant couplet . I think it goes something like:
" Poison your wife, and bash all your children Don't forget all their nasty traits ..." Just joking Corfiders. Must cut down on my AC/DC quotient - its killing off my feel for the "love stuff"! With "Star Wars" looming I must remember "Never underestimate the power of the dark Side of the Force ". More seriously this is a tough question and requires serious thought...( back to you with a real one later). The cause? Blatant jealousy has turned me. (Well its the "blame generation" after all !) I read of these gigs many of you are attending , the set lists and how wonderful they are. Another few reviews and set lists and I'll be biting the heads off chickens too! |
One of my faves ..
'If there's a friend who needs me, I'll do my best to help somehow'. And I try to live those words in my own life. The genius of Lightfoot! |
Good topic, Rez. Could I also suggest that people explain a little about why they chose the couplet they did?
There are too many to mention, of course, but off the top of my head, there are two very different favorites of mine. I chose them because I like how they speak volumes with just a few simple words. 1) From "Sixteen Miles": "So knock me down and pick me up and knock me down again/Break my heart, steal my gold and slander my good name". How many (negative) adjectives could you come up with to describe this woman and this relationship? If you stop at 10, you're not trying. You could make a short story, or a film, out of those two verses. 2) From "Don Quixote" (or, Rez, is it "Don Kemosabe"?), since this song has been prominent on the forum lately: "See the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire/See the soldier with his gun, who must be dead to be admired". The first part of the couple is surprisingly complex, the second chillingly simple, and the internal rhyme (ones/gun) sews them together. The first verse has two separate patterns of alliteration, the "w's" of "wise and wicked ones", and the subtler "f's" of "feed...life's... fire" that are in opposition to the "w's". Although there is no specification about who these "wise and wicked ones" are, it isn't hard to imagine lots who fit into the category: those who use religion, patriotism, love, family, charity and the like for their own twisted purposes: money, power, status, fulfillment of base desires. You can make up your own list: pedophile priests, gingoistic warmongers who themselves have never served in the military (no, of course I'm not talking about anybody we know), athletes, politicians and others who have affair after affair and then hide behind their spouses who pose for the reporters and say how much they love and support their guys...well, the list could go on forever. It becomes a full-blown fight of good against evil: the wicked against the sacred, the wicked hiding behind sacred pretexts to do their dirty deeds. The second verse of the couplet, of course, is simpler, and is the result of the first--nameless soldiers who slog through the horrors of war because of the greed and hunger for power by those who are in command of those who are appreciated only when they're killed. I'm sure lots of us will think of lots of other couplets in the days ahead. Nice job, Rez. |
My favorite GL couplet without question is:
"Then in a blaze of tangled hooves, He gallops off across the dusty plain," Th imagery of the first line is nothing short of brilliant. Fire (smoke?) and tangled hooves. Are the tangled hooves causing the fire (smoke?)? The 'screwed upness' of the tangled hooves and the last line seem to me the essence of DQ. There are more couplets I love but I am pressed for time. Wonderful idea Rez. |
When I first logged on to this board - a few days ago - and read some of the more recent posts, I had the idea that members share what they thought were the most powerful metaphors in Lightfoot's poetry. Perhaps sometime soon it might be fun to do that. This favorite couplet topic is a great one. I really like the following, particularly when Gord sings it:
there's a warm wind tonight and the moon turns the tide when the stars take their ride she'll be leaving |
When I first logged on to this board - a few days ago - and read some of the more recent posts, I had the idea that members share what they thought were the most powerful metaphors in Lightfoot's poetry. Perhaps sometime soon it might be fun to do that. This favorite couplet topic is a great one. I really like the following, particularly when Gord sings it:
there's a warm wind tonight and the moon turns the tide when the stars take their ride she'll be leaving |
Each and every bad dream will be hammered into dust / When we get back where we belong
[I'll Tag Along] Whatever you think of me I'm still your friend So other than nothin' what's new [Tattoo] Sorry, can't pick just one :D |
Each and every bad dream will be hammered into dust / When we get back where we belong
[I'll Tag Along] Whatever you think of me I'm still your friend So other than nothin' what's new [Tattoo] Sorry, can't pick just one :D |
Whatever you think of me
I'm still your friend So other than nothin' what's new [ Annie, I like that one too. Can't just pick one either. Impossible. :) |
"Bless you all and keep you on the road to tenderness, Heaven can be yours just for now." From All the Lovely Ladies.
A blessing from Gordon to us all. |
"Bless you all and keep you on the road to tenderness, Heaven can be yours just for now." From All the Lovely Ladies.
A blessing from Gordon to us all. |
I just came up with a couple more couplets -= they don't compare to the first one.
In order of preference: "The bow and the wave never wait for tomorrow, They just keep on rollin' straight as an arrow" I love the inevitability of this couplet. "An East Coast lady lit my flame, All on a summer day." Don't need to explain this one. |
Too many and I'm not sure I did this in the context of couplets:
I'm lost with no road signs to guide me A slave to my whiskey and dreams I have felt this next one so many times: Bells of the evening, oh bells that I love I've got some feelings I long to be rid of Kimberly |
Will you be one who passed through but never saw?
Never knowing, never feeling anything? Will you live your whole life through never knowing what to do? Will you be one who passed through but never saw? -- In a Windowpane Thanks for this topic, Rez! Unbelievable how many times he nails it for us... |
Ah, this will drive us nuts! Please add the song that the quote is from.
Turning back the pages to the times that I love best. I wonder if she'll ever do the same. Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied with knowing I got no one left to blame Carefree Highway. Edited because Sir John is right, I did not finish. [ May 02, 2005, 20:18: Message edited by: brink ] |
Ah, this will drive us nuts! Please add the song that the quote is from.
Turning back the pages to the times that I love best. I wonder if she'll ever do the same. Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied with knowing I got no one left to blame Carefree Highway. Edited because Sir John is right, I did not finish. [ May 02, 2005, 20:18: Message edited by: brink ] |
Having heard Never Too Close several times in California and Nevada recently these two lines (I am not sure if they qualify as a "couplet" which I read is "A verse unit consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter" whatever that means when it is at home!!
Anyway the following lyrics have as Smokey wrote and the Beatles sang "really got a hold on me" i just love the sound these words make:- especially the second line "And so we cried but that is alright We meant no one no harm " and Listening to "Triangle" brought back the pleasure of trying to visualise this couplet "A tuna fish turned to a mermaid in bed and said "There goes another sandbar"" John Fowles thinks I am going to compile a collection of my favo(u)rite lines (even one liners) to use in future as my signature |
Having heard Never Too Close several times in California and Nevada recently these two lines (I am not sure if they qualify as a "couplet" which I read is "A verse unit consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter" whatever that means when it is at home!!
Anyway the following lyrics have as Smokey wrote and the Beatles sang "really got a hold on me" i just love the sound these words make:- especially the second line "And so we cried but that is alright We meant no one no harm " and Listening to "Triangle" brought back the pleasure of trying to visualise this couplet "A tuna fish turned to a mermaid in bed and said "There goes another sandbar"" John Fowles thinks I am going to compile a collection of my favo(u)rite lines (even one liners) to use in future as my signature |
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I do not think Deb that that qualifies as a couplet with iambic parameters or anything else as it sure looks like a singlet/one liner to my old eyes (perhaps I am too tall??) John Fowles Now I get another go!!! Is this a quadruplet??? Apologies if it is!! "Then I remembered everything I've learned about survival Having walked with fools and kings, I've even read the bible There I came upon some lines giving me direction Gather not your gold on earth, it will not pass inspection" |
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I do not think Deb that that qualifies as a couplet with iambic parameters or anything else as it sure looks like a singlet/one liner to my old eyes (perhaps I am too tall??) John Fowles Now I get another go!!! Is this a quadruplet??? Apologies if it is!! "Then I remembered everything I've learned about survival Having walked with fools and kings, I've even read the bible There I came upon some lines giving me direction Gather not your gold on earth, it will not pass inspection" |
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[/QB][/QUOTE]and another "Apology" John Fowles "The rustle of her hair upon his skin I made a grab at anything, the earth was gone and I was on a vicious circle then" |
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[/QB][/QUOTE]and another "Apology" John Fowles "The rustle of her hair upon his skin I made a grab at anything, the earth was gone and I was on a vicious circle then" |
Your coat of green will protect her
Her wings will grow your love will too But all too soon your mighty branches Will cease to hold her she'll fly from you The Way I Feel.... |
Your coat of green will protect her
Her wings will grow your love will too But all too soon your mighty branches Will cease to hold her she'll fly from you The Way I Feel.... |
"I'm sailing down a summer wind,
I've got whiskers on my chin and I like the mood I'm in..." Oh, to be on a small boat on fresh or salt water, with your hand on the tiller and the sun and spray in your face. Now, that's better'n sex....or at least rarer and longer-lasting. |
"I'm sailing down a summer wind,
I've got whiskers on my chin and I like the mood I'm in..." Oh, to be on a small boat on fresh or salt water, with your hand on the tiller and the sun and spray in your face. Now, that's better'n sex....or at least rarer and longer-lasting. |
Hi Rez,
How about: "I was stone cold sober that day last October When you reached across the table and put your hand upon my shoulder" To me the bleak mood in that song is reflected in those lines; listen to it....I think you'll see what I mean. |
Hi Rez,
How about: "I was stone cold sober that day last October When you reached across the table and put your hand upon my shoulder" To me the bleak mood in that song is reflected in those lines; listen to it....I think you'll see what I mean. |
"Triangle, triangle,
Oh see my ship dangle" |
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