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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 20:29:21 GMT -5
The Chicks have some great ones:
Two days past eighteen/He was watin' for the bus in his Army green
Travelin' Solider
I mistook the warnings for wisdom/From so called friends quick to advise/though your touch was telling me otherwise
A Home
Dragon tails and the water is white/pirate sails and lost boys fly Godspeed
I can't find a reason to let go/even though you've found a new love/And she's what your dreams are made of
You Were Mine
I said I wanna touch the Earth/I wanna break it in my hands
Cowboy Take Me Away
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 28, 2014 23:09:33 GMT -5
Who would've guessed that Aqua Net Could start a fire with a single cigarette?
LeAnn Rimes - "Crazy Women"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2014 12:55:24 GMT -5
Ain't no rain as cold as the look she just gave him
100 Proof- Kellie Pickler
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Post by someguy on Jul 30, 2014 1:19:38 GMT -5
"I ain't gonna get dressed up just to be your clown; ain't gonna paint this pretty face like you paint the town" - Miranda Lambert, "Two Rings Shy"
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Post by josh on Jul 30, 2014 23:02:45 GMT -5
"One of my fondest memories was sittin' on my daddy's knee, listenin' to the stories that he told" VLR, Loretta
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Post by Andy on Aug 13, 2014 14:23:34 GMT -5
"I was just out of the service thumbing through the classifieds When an ad that said, "Old Chevy" somehow caught my eye." -David Ball, "Riding With Private Malone"
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Post by someguy on Aug 13, 2014 14:46:08 GMT -5
"The keeper of the gates of wisdom, please let me in 'cause I just can't go through another heartache again".
Wynonna, "My Strongest Weakness"
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 13, 2014 14:55:47 GMT -5
"If I hadn't dropped the ball, I would've took it all the way. Homecoming '89, with ten seconds left to play"
James Otto - "The Ball"
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Post by jferstler on Aug 13, 2014 18:47:05 GMT -5
"If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band That lead guitar is hot but not for "Louisiana Man" So rosin up that bow for "Faded Love" and let's all dance If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band" If You're Gonna Play In Texas by Alabama
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Post by phil1996 on Aug 13, 2014 21:35:12 GMT -5
When I was fourteen I was falling fast For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom class Trying to find the courage to ask her out Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout What she would have said I can't say I never did ask and she moved away But I learned something from my blue eyed girl Sink or swim you gotta give it a whirl
- John Michael Montgomery - "Lifes' a Dance"
One of the best country songs ever written.
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Post by Andy on Aug 16, 2014 21:31:13 GMT -5
"Scarecrows and devils are the only things out this late. What that says about me, is probably true." - Gary Allan, "Along the Way"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 22:28:58 GMT -5
Lookin' back on the memory of the dance we shared/Beneath the stars above
Garth- The Dance
I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons/Finally at peace with past I regret
Rascal Flatts "I'm Movin' On"
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Post by Andy on Aug 21, 2014 19:01:36 GMT -5
"Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, there was someone killed 'neath the town hall light..." -Lefty Frizzell, "Long Black Veil"
"Memories and drinks don't mix too well And jukebox records don't play those wedding bells Looking at the world through the bottom of a glass All I see is a man who's fadin' fast." -Merle Haggard, "Misery and Gin"
"I woke up cryin' late at night when I was very young I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone." -Conway Twitty, "That's My Job"
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Post by Andy on Aug 27, 2014 19:53:29 GMT -5
"A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher Ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico One was headin' for vacation, one for higher education And two of them were searchin' for lost souls." -Randy Travis, "Three Wooden Crosses"
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Post by josh on Aug 28, 2014 8:25:59 GMT -5
"I stay torn between killin' him and lovin' him/he stays torn between neon lights and home" Pickler - "Where's Tammy Wynette"
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.indulgecountry
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"You left a mark on my face // And brought a dozen red flags in a vase"
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 25, 2014 1:00:06 GMT -5
Dad used to own the hardware store But now it and him ain’t around no more Don’t know the whole story but I’ve overheard some I know he’s who I got my drinking from
- Lee Ann Womack, "Send It on Down"
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Post by someguy on Sept 28, 2014 0:35:54 GMT -5
"She loved him like he was the last man on Earth, gave him everything she ever had"
Martina McBride - "A Broken Wing"
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 24, 2014 18:56:16 GMT -5
I know somebody in jail For growin' somethin' in his windowsill He was tryin' to make a livin' Now he's tryin' to be forgivin' Oh well
- Sunny Sweeney, "Front Row Seats"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2014 23:32:21 GMT -5
Gary Allan- "Tough All Over" "Well things are tough all over and I'm losing badly, I wish you were still here and i say it sadly..."
Steve Earle- "Ain't Ever Satisified" "I was born by the railroad tracks Well the train whistle wailed and i wailed right back, well papa left mama when i was quite young, he said "now one of these days you're gonna follow me son""
Tim McGraw- "Nashville Without You" "It'd be just another river town, streets would have a different sound, there'd be no honkytonks with whiskey rounds, no dreamers chasing dreams down.."
Montgomery Gentry- "Cold One Comin On" "Weatherman says it might hit 95, Septembers gonna feel more like July, hes calling for a night thats warm and mild, i think he missed it by a mile, he just don't know that you're gone, I feel a cold one comin' on"
Jake Owen- "What We Ain't Got" "We all want what we ain't got, our favorite doors are always locked"
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Dec 26, 2014 16:24:11 GMT -5
Everything on Kacey Musgraves's album, but particularly "Follow Your Arrow" and "Merry Go Round"
MGR: "If you ain't got two kids by 21, you're probably gonna die alone, at least that's what tradition told you" FYA: "If you save yourself for marriage you're a bore, if you don't save yourself for marriage you're a hor...rible person."
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Post by Andy on Sept 27, 2015 21:19:44 GMT -5
I always thought the opening lyrics to Pam Tillis' "Let That Pony Run" really suck the listener in:
"Mary was married with children Had the perfect suburban life 'Til her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam And confessed all his sins one night"
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 27, 2015 23:00:18 GMT -5
"Life's tough, and then you die."
George Strait - Let It Go
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 30, 2015 22:33:57 GMT -5
"Hey girl. 'Sup?" Old Dominion - Break Up With Him
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2015 18:18:09 GMT -5
Looks like an angel, so picturesque Looks like she walked right out of the wild, wild west.
Renegade Runaway-Carrie Underwood
This is probably my favorite part of this incredible song.
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Post by jesster on Oct 17, 2015 13:10:07 GMT -5
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you please don't take my man
I'll bet you've never heard ol' Marshall Dillon say, Miss Kitty have you ever thought of running away ...
Like a honeybee beatin on my screen door
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 17, 2015 13:30:58 GMT -5
"It's like the most amazing sunset you've ever seen / There's never another quite the same / Just falls into some eternal sea / Like the end of a movie that makes you cry / You're sad when it's over but you're glad you had / That moment that moved you deep inside" - Jennifer Hanson, "Beautiful Goodbye"
"Jessie Taylor said he saw you yesterday / He said you look great, as if I care" - Shane McAnally, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue"
"Peter built a truck for a man to drive / It's a real good livin' but it ain't no life" - David Lynn Jones, "Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)"
"We were half a mile high on the ferris wheel / At our own county fair / I didn't even know we had trouble until / She told me way up there" - Wade Hayes, "The Day That She Left Tulsa (In a Chevy)"
"In spite of the name, Independence, Kansas didn't grow any wild roses" - Wade Hayes, "Up North (Down South, Back East, Out West)"
"The joke's on me and it ain't funny / Everybody but me could see the punchline coming a mile away" - Tyler Farr, "A Guy Walks Into a Bar"
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Post by keelhauled on Oct 19, 2015 22:24:02 GMT -5
"Standing here on this cold ground/tears falling down in the dirt" - Dierks Bentley, "Here on Earth"
"In the rain in the mud in July in Cheyanne/they had to carry away that brave young man" - Aaron Watson, "July in Cheyanne"
"I wished I was smarter, I wished I was stronger/I wished I loved Jesus, the way my wife does/I wished it had been easier, instead of any longer" - Top of the World, Dixie Chicks
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Post by bksouthga on Oct 27, 2015 21:54:55 GMT -5
Here are some I enjoy:
My name's John Lee Pettimore, same as my daddy and his daddy before. - Steve Earle "Copperhead Road"
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died. - John Prine "Please Don't Bury Me"
She turned up her nose as she walked by my Cadillac, from the corner of my eye I saw you and you laughed. - Sawyer Brown "Some Girls Do"
Cold Fort Worth beer just ain't no good for jealous, I've tried it night after night. George Strait "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind"
Well excuse me, but I think you've got my chair. George Strait "The Chair"
In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky, that's the place where I trace my bloodline, it was there I read on a hillside gravestone, 'You'll never leave Harlan alive'. Darrell Scott "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive", also recorded by Brad Paisley and Patty Loveless (both versions awesome!)
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Post by bksouthga on Oct 27, 2015 22:32:10 GMT -5
Thinking about this a little more. BTW i only just discovered the sub-folder for non-singles discussions, thats why I've been replying to some older threads. This is great! Anyway, I think some of the most compelling opening lyrics are ones that start a one-sided conversation, particularly where the listener is the other person and doesn't yet know who they are. Then you just have to listen to find out. I had mentioned "The Chair" in my post above. Some others like this: "Wanted" by Alan Jackson, "Mama, Don't Forget to Pray for Me" by Diamond Rio, "Sad Songs and Waltzes" by Willie Nelson, "I Told You So" by Randy Travis, "I Drive Your Truck" by Lee Brice, even the maligned "Break Up With Him" by Old Dominion. Some others mentioned by other posters: "1982" by Randy Travis, "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert, "The Grand Tour" by George Jones. Randy seems to sort of have a knack for these, as I would also include "Digging Up Bones" and "On the Other Hand".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2015 13:17:09 GMT -5
"Storyteller" has a few of my favorite opening lines in recent memory, particularly the more I listen to the album.
Jenny grew up wild like a blackfoot daisy/ out in the shack with the blue-tick hounds. Broke as hell/ but blessed with beauty/the kind that a rich man can't turn down
Church Bells
That lipstick on your collar well it ain't my shade of pink/and I can tell by the smell of that perfume/it's like 40 dollars too cheap/and there's a little wine stain on the pocket of your white cotton thread/you drink beer and whiskey boy/And you know I don't drink red
Dirty Laundry
Well life's been kinda trippy down here in Mississippi/since Cassie O' Grady disappeared/And me and Bobby Shaver been in all the newspapers everyday for nigh on a year/They say we got tangled in a love triangle/A fatal game of truth or dare/But the truth remains a mystery/ and now it's ancient history/ It's a Choctaw County affair
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