Your favorite line

I think there was a topic about this awhile back but I've tried and tried to find it but can't. So, I'll just restart it. What is your favorite line(s) from a Gord song?

[Gaby]

We tried the handle of the house upon the shore and found the open door
Once inside we found a curious moonbeam doing dances on the floor

I adore this – so surreal – it conjures up beautiful, sensual images; a facet of GL’s writing integral to so many of his songs. Listening to Now And Then, I can just float and totally lose myself in the luxurious texture of his lyrics.

[BILLW]

I'm on my second cup of coffee and I still can't face the dawn.

Bill

(since I can only pick one line)

[Oma]

"I would be happy just to hold the hands I love"

From "Song for a Winter's Night"

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

"Only twenty-one, she was a young girl just in from somewhere
He's playin' up in Michigan with a group they call The Intended"

Hence, my username: SomewhereupinMichigan

[Gaby]

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
(since I can only pick one line)

Gosh! Have I just been told off? I must have been accepted as a full board member. Thanks, Bill.

[brink]

Welcome back Oma, your line is my favorite line too. Must be that Deb thing again.

[Iron]

I remember a similar post too,might be on pg.11,5-20-03.I think I'll still have to stick to"the thing that I call living is just being satisfied",although that is just about as tough as picking a favorite G.L. song......Kinda like Lay's potato chips ya can't eat just one.......

[Rob1956]

"...and I bought you a dime diamond ring..."
great rememberances of being a kid with a crush...

"How can you find your fortune if you cannot find yourself" hit me like a ton of bricks when I was in my 20's.

[BILLW]

Gaby,

Actually I was just being a smart ass to DMD3 but I see why you might have thought that. Sorry. And of course you're a full board member, I notice your dues are all paid up.

Bill

These days this would be my favorite quote. I live on a mountain top and the sound of the wind coming up the mountain always enchants and amazes me.

Whispers of the wind
I will feel it sting
I will see it rise and fall
I will hear it sing
The sound is like a song to me
It takes away the pain
The river is the melody
And sky is the refrain



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Born once - Got it right the first time. )O(

[Jim Nasium]

Is there someone sewing seams through all my hopes, through all my dreams? You know, living a life of ease, don't make your meals taste better, if you please.

"The road is paved with moonbeams as there are faces that I knew
They all came back to haunt me, and that ain't fair to the folks like me and you"

[Oma]

quote:Originally posted by brink:
Welcome back Oma, your line is my favorite line too. Must be that Deb thing again.

Hi brink!

Good to be here...I read the posts a lot, but just never seem to find a topic that I have any business replying to!!! At least with this topic, I could reply because I KNOW my favorite GL line..."Song for a Winter's Night" is my favorite song and it contains my favorite line. I used to listen to that song off of the GG record, on an old "Early American" style console AM/FM stereo-phonograph, with my big cushy headphones (remember those?), in my bentwood rocker, in my first apartment! I listened to that song over and over...lifting the needle up and setting it down ever so carefully, so I wouldn't scratch the record. I spent many happy hours listening to that song...livingroom dark, except for my 2 kerosene lamps on the mantle, rocking on my chair, eyes closed, tethered to the stereo. Sometimes I really wish I could recapture those days!

Of course, that GG album is the famous album that I melted in the trunk of my car a short time later. I am thinking now that I must have melted it when I was 21 instead of 17, as I originally stated, because I didn't get my first apartment until I was 20...almost 21...and I know I had that record then!

It's amazing and scary how fuzzy the memory starts to get in your 40's!

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
Gaby,

Actually I was just being a smart ass to DMD3 but I see why you might have thought that. Sorry. And of course you're a full board member, I notice your dues are all paid up.

Bill

More like dumb ass .

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Iron:
I remember a similar post too,might be on pg.11,5-20-03.I think I'll still have to stick to"the thing that I call living is just being satisfied",although that is just about as tough as picking a favorite G.L. song......Kinda like Lay's potato chips ya can't eat just one.......
Well there was also an extensive listing on the Newsgroup last year:-
in a delightful thread in November 2002 entitled
"favorite Lightfoot songs and favorite lines?" http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...54c0bfc&rnum=1

See what you miss if you ignore the Newsgroup!!
It was so good that I even reorganised the whole lot into a digest and added it to my own lightfoot page at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...etelisting.htm


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited January 13, 2004).]

Through the blue Canadian sky i'll say a prayer for the world out there.


Greetings from Victoria.

[Iron]

Thank You Sir John
I enjoyed that. I think Melissa Joe's husband pretty well summ'd it up..

[Restless]

Please kiss me gently darlin'
Where the river runs away
From the mountains in the springtime
On a blue and windy day

[superiorsings]

Other than the obvious ("Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion...") I rather like the line in "Did She Mention My Name" that goes:

Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all their games?"

Could be any sport but it reminds me of baseball.

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings:
Other than the obvious ("Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion...") I rather like the line in "Did She Mention My Name" that goes:

Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all their games?"

Could be any sport but it reminds me of baseball.

I've always thought football. I guess it's up to the listener to decide.

[powersofanordinary]

From "The Minstrel of the Dawn"
"Look into his shining eyes
And if you see a ghost don't be surprised"

"It'll be murder in the first degree if you ever lay your hands on me"

[BILLW]

DMD3,

I think you might want to ask the school nurse for some Valium, again. What's up with this line ?

Bill