Post a line from a Simon and Garfunkel song

[cherish44]

"All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..."
The Boxer

[XemaSab]

1. "I have no need for friendship, for friendship causes pain."

:P

[Iggo]

28. That one's my favorite.

:thumbsup:

[Sky Masterson]

2. ..

I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles, Such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

[HopeHoops]

3. "Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping."

[cherish44]

4. I'm empty and aching and I don't why...

counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike, they've all come to look for America...

(that's a GREAT tune!)

[Richardo]

40. ...and the moon rose over an open field...

All those long o's in a line about the moon. Just perfect.

[HopeHoops]

5. "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"

Obvious, I know.

[pokerfan]

6. Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages

[Captain Hilts]

7. ...counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike....nt

[surrealAmerican]

8. "But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity."

from Homeward Bound.

[InvisibleTouch]

9. "Hello darkness, my old friend..." n/t

[Brother Buzz]

10. The monkeys stand for honesty,

Giraffes are insincere, and the elephants are kindly but there dumb.

[Moondog]

11. "Now the years are rolling by me

... they are rockin' even me
I am older than I once was, and younger than Ill be, thats not unusual
No it isnt strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same."

The Boxer

[triguy46]

12. "I'm such a dubious soul,"

And a walk in the garden
Wears me down.
Tangled in the fallen vines,
Pickin up the punch lines,
Ive just been fakin it,
Not really makin it.

[NMDemDist2]

13. Celia, youre breaking my heart

Youre shaking my confidence daily
Oh, cecilia, Im down on my knees
Im begging you please to come home

[NMDemDist2]

14. Celia, youre breaking my heart

Youre shaking my confidence daily
Oh, cecilia, Im down on my knees
Im begging you please to come home

[DontBlameMe]

15. Ok, I'll play

I knew a man, his brain so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
He's not the same as you and me.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Half of the time we're gone

and we don't know where
we don't know where

[DontBlameMe]

19. The Only Lliving boy in New York

courtesy of my wife!!!

[Arugula Latte]

17. When the radical priest come to get me released

We was all on the cover of Newsweek.

(Okay -- I know it's Paul Simon, not S&G, but I love that line.)

[Jade Fox]

21. I love that line (lines) too.....

Simon has such a subtle sense of humor......

[EastTennesseeDem]

18. "Hey, let your honesty shine shine shine now, like it shines on me"

[Jade Fox]

20. "The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls....

tenement halls."

When I first heard that line from Sound of Silence I thought it was profoundly original and creative. Still do.

[rurallib]

22. that was at a time when writers wrote songs and singers sang

and every line rhymed. Then rock hit a major growth spurt with the likes of S&G

From "Emily wherever I may find her"

"We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight"

From American Tune:

"we come at the nation's most uncertain hour"

[Doc_Technical]

23. Dangling Conversation

Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time.

[astral]

24. Many's the time I've been mistaken and many times confused

[donheld]

25. Someone's taken my place

[donheld]

26. Someone's taken my place

[Iggo]

27. A winter's day...

...in a deep and dark December.

I am alone.

Gazing through my window

to the street below

on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

I am a rock. I am an Island.

[kwassa]

29. Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

You can call me Al.

[cherish44]

30. Koo koo ka choo Mrs. Robinson....

Jesus loves you more than you will know...wo wo wo...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

31. sail on silver girl

[AllenVanAllen]

32. I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.

Yes I would.

If I could,

I surely would.

[unpossibles]

33. "I've got some real estate here in my bag" nt

[peekaloo]

34. "...and when it rains there's a rainbow, but all of the colors are black

it's not that the colors aren't there, it's just imagination they lack....everything's the same back in my little town.

Ouch.

I made it one big run on line. :-)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

35. Three lines actrually

Just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue.
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome,
I took some comfort there.

[Bertha Venation]

36. I said, "be careful, his bow tie is really a camera"

[Burma Jones]

37. Let your honesty shine, shine, shine.......

- The Only Living Boy in New York

[merh]

38. Slow down, you move too fast, you've got to make the morning last

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVxSZDDL3Q&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc

[hamsterjill]

39. When the singer's gone, let the song go on...

Okay, that's only Garfunkel, but I like the line!

[Richardo]

41. "We come in the ages' most uncertain hours, and sing an American tune."

The bitterwseet melancholy in that song makes me tear up every time.

[ZombieHorde]

42. I cut his balls of with my knife, I make him eat them right there In front of his pregnant wife

slug bait

[susanr516]

43. Long ago, it must be

I have a photograph. Preserve your memories; they're all that's left you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOR6p1o2hPI

edit to correct link

[LeftishBrit]

44. When times get rough,

And friends just can’t be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

[mikeytherat]

45. Hello Grandpa my old friend. Your busy day is at an end.

Your exploits have been sad and boring.
They tell a tale that's worth ignoring.
When you're alone, the words of your stories will echo down the rest home walls,
'cuz no one at all,
can stand the sound
of Grandpa.

mikey_the_rat

[gbate]

46. We walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight.

[KamaAina]

47. "I'm a Citizens for Boysenberry Jam fan..."

:-)