My two favorite lines…one early, one late:
“Inside the museums, infinity goes up on rial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after awhile”
“My clothes are wet, tight on my skin
Not as tight as the corner that I’ve painted myself in”
And then there was my father’s favorite verse:
“Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said, “Jump right in”
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin
And like a fool I mixed them
And it strangled up my mind
And now people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time”
I had a friend whose favorite Dylan line was “Give me a string-bean I’m a hungry man...” I’m serious... he loved that line.
I had another friend who wrote his Master’s Thesis in English at Sac. State on the line “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.” I’m serious, he wrote a whole Master’s thesis on just that line.
“You hurt the ones that I loved best
And covered up the truth with lies
One day you’ll be in the ditch
Flies buzzing around your eyes
Blood on your saddle” - Idiot Wind 1982