Heartland

No doubt this has been done before but thought I'd run it up the flagpole (as Lemmy once said).

Come on then.

I've had trouble with mine. Possibly "Words are just dust, in deserts of sound."

It HAS to be "Valentine"...

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:It HAS to be "Valentine"...

I was talking more specifics, rather than whole songs. Like the things that send a shiver down your spine. Which bit of Valentine?

"Out there the snipers work the ridges, building bombs and blowing bridges"

from Good Things

and

"You can set the controls for the heart or the knees
and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please"

from Under the Gun

"Some wild idea on a big white bed, now you know better than that I said ...."

Good memories

or just maybe...

"My heartland, heartland, heartland
My heartland, heartland, heartland"



in all honesty there's so many it's very hard to choose

I'll go for:

"Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence."

Whether it is supposed to or not, to me it sums up politics rather well.

"Give me something fast".

Because it's very moving and also very clever as it can read a few ways.

"Across the floor, across the tiles,
The man is dead, and the razor smiles"

*shiver*

Iz.

I Don't Sleep So I Don't Dream So I Don't Wake Up Frightened - OTW
oh! and all of Neverland (a fragment) of course

regards
Blast

"Give me ever the years you wept inside when cold
All the sins and secrets never cried
All the dreams you kept and the tears you sold.."

I have to agree with QB as there are so many to choose from but Neverland ( a fragment) is a top choice as well Blast

My personal gems - there are many !

My top one is from FLOOD II

"Like a million voices call my name,
Like a million voices calling,
Not now, not never again"

I always figured these words to mean 'No Tour Now' but there 'Will Be' in the future, which did turn out to be the case!

It would appear, that at the time, VON did have a "Masterplan" - shame it would appear to have gone off the rails since 1993!

We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel

you reap what you sow
put your face to the ground
here come the marching men, your colours wrapped around



in the heat of the night
in the heat of the day
when I close my eyes
when I look your way
when I meet the fear that lies inside
when I hear you say
in the heat of the moment
say, say, say:

Cheers Angel, help yourself to a pint..... Oops! Planet's is closed, I forgot

regards
former Barman Blast of PP&G

Red Sunsets wrote:Cheers Angel, help yourself to a pint..... Oops! Planet's is closed, I forgot

regards
former Barman Blast of PP&G

Yep, but we can still dream of happy times there..I nearly typed "of the dead days" (the old brain cells still on the lyric tracks here)
BTW it's groovy you have a Mac..only a select gathering of folks do and you're in good company

I is Mac since iBorn Angel, iMac when iDie

regards
iBlast

Red Sunsets wrote:I Don't Sleep So I Don't Dream So I Don't Wake Up Frightened - OTW
oh! and all of Neverland (a fragment) of course

agree with both of them
other favourites of mine:

"pain looks great on other people
that's what they're for"

"I can love my fellow man
but I'm damned if I'll love yours"

"Life is short and love is always over in the morning"

"I tried to tell her
about Marx and Engels, God and angels
I don't really know what for
but she looked good in ribbons"

"come with me
like a little child
like another gun"

"a long train held up by page on page
a hard reign held up by rage
once a railroad
now it's done"

"I don't go there now but I hear they sung their
f**k me and marry me young"

"and all I know for sure
all I know for real
is knowing doesn't mean so much
when placed against the feeling
the heat inside
when bodies meet
when fingers touch

all my words are secondhand and
useless in the face of this
rationale and rhyme and reason
pale beside a single kiss"

"the time to choose
but time to think
is time to lose"

"I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more"

and last but not least:

entire FIX and HOME OF THE HIT-MEN

OK Pik Wins!
ah gie in

I notice no Neverland (a fragment)
One - Nil!
Blast hehehehehe

Red Sunsets wrote:

I notice no Neverland (a fragment)

I said: entire NEVERLAND
and
"I don't sleep so I don't dream
so I don't wake up frightened"
belong to my favourites (particularly the last of them).
No doubt.
No competition intended, that's rather the list of my weaknesses

forgive me Father, I know not what I do

soz Pik
Blast

Red Sunsets wrote:and all of Neverland (a fragment) of course

regards
Blast

I agree about Neverland.
it is the ultimate Sisters lyric.

simple but beautiful, straightforward but enigmatic (?!)

I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
Ticket to syria

I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall

it sends shivers up my spine just thinking about it.

it's also a fantastic 'closing' track (though the effect is ruined a bit by the fact that WEA plonked 'Torch' and 'Colours' on the end of Floodland.)

too much contact not enough feeling

Red Sunsets wrote:I Don't Sleep So I Don't Dream So I Don't Wake Up Frightened

gets my vote too. And "In illusion comfort lies" and "I can love my fellow man, but I'm damned if I'll love yours"

Kiss The Carpet's a goodie too. In fact, Von really outdid himself on all of The Reptile House.