Unheralded lines

[troublkepnyerhedup]

Smorgasberg pointed out that the "Rebel without a clue" line in "I'll Be You" tends to draw a lot of attention, while the line right before it deserves more:

"A dream, too tired to come true"

Other unheralded lines?

I'd nominate:

"I ain't deservin'/Just feel so disconcerted" (but then any line from Nowhere is My Home would be unheralded)

[mrblasty]

A handful of friends-one needs a match and one needs some ice- Answering Machine

The friends?
A cigarette(needs a match) and a drink(needs some ice).

[Christy]

it seems to me that the unheralded lines are the mumbled ones that come directly after the well enunciated standouts....
then, when you figure them out (or look them up), they seem that much more crucial to the song.

[kgp]

Christy said:

it seems to me that the unheralded lines are the mumbled ones that come directly after the well enunciated standouts....
then, when you figure them out (or look them up), they seem that much more crucial to the song.

Like "or the pain" after "Am I the only one who feels ashamed?" in "Here Comes A regular"? I really want that to be the next line, even though I still can't hear it.

Runner up(s): any tossed-off, ad-libbed line done live that makes you hear the song in a completely new way.

[Monkey]

troublkepnyerhedup said:

I'd nominate:

"I ain't deservin'/Just feel so disconcerted" (but then any line from Nowhere is My Home would be unheralded)

I will second this nomination and add "nowhere ain't too far from here."

[Smorgasberg]

MrBlasty said:

A handful of friends-one needs a match and one needs some ice- Answering Machine

The friends?
A cigarette(needs a match) and a drink(needs some ice).

I know the line now, but I never could understand it! That is pretty good.

[Smorgasberg]

kgp said:

Like "or the pain" after "Am I the only one who feels ashamed?" in "Here Comes A regular"? I really want that to be the next line, even though I still can't hear it.

Runner up(s): any tossed-off, ad-libbed line done live that makes you hear the song in a compleley new way.

I always heard that as "save a lane." I thought it was a bowling reference.

[ClamsCasino]

troublkepnyerhedup said:

I'd nominate:

"I ain't deservin'/Just feel so disconcerted"

Actually, I think it's "I ain't deservin'/to feel so disconcerted"

[troublkepnyerhedup]

ClamsCasino said:

Actually, I think it's "I ain't deservin'/to feel so disconcerted"

Hmmm. I'll have to mull that over and try to find my tape. That does make slightly more sense.

Either way, that's the greatest use of the word "disconcerted" in any rock song ever. Maybe any song ever. He sings it so emphatically and it's such a weak word, like the mildest form of "unsatisfied." (Is unsatisfied a real word by the way? ... you usually hear dissatisfied.)

[ClamsCasino]

troublkepnyerhedup said:

Hmmm. I'll have to mull that over and try to find my tape. That does make slightly more sense.

Either way, that's the greatest use of the word "disconcerted" in any rock song ever. Maybe any song ever. He sings it so emphatically and it's such a weak word, like the mildest form of "unsatisfied." (Is unsatisfied a real word by the way? ... you usually hear dissatisfied.)

I don't know what interview this exchange is from, but I always thought it was funny:

Interviewer: "I don't think 'unsatisfied' is a word."
Paul: "I guess that makes me unliterate."

By the way, "unsatisfied" is a word according to my dictionary.

[mrblasty]

ClamsCasino said:

Actually, I think it's "I ain't deservin'/to feel so disconcerted"

I always heard it as "I aint deserted- just feel so disconcerted"

[troublkepnyerhedup]

Paul un-Heralded this one from the get-go:

"Give my regards to Broadway/Tell 'em I don't even care"

I think that line cinched the deal with me and the Mats

[kgp]

troublkepnyerhedup said:

Paul un-Heralded this one from the get-go:

"Give my regards to Broadway/Tell 'em I don't even care"

I think that line cinched the deal with me and the Mats

my clincher was 'Down on all fives, let me crawl".

[troublkepnyerhedup]

kgp said:

my clincher was 'Down on all fives, let me crawl".

i like that one too, though could never quite make out the crawl part
simple math + common phrase = brilliant lyric
(what's that line, dressing to the eights?)

[scoOter]

ClamsCasino said:

I don't know what interview this exchange is from, but I always thought it was funny:

Interviewer: "I don't think 'unsatisfied' is a word."
Paul: "I guess that makes me unliterate."

By the way, "unsatisfied" is a word according to my dictionary.

me fail english? that's unpossible!

[kgp]

troublkepnyerhedup said:

i like that one too, though could never quite make out the crawl part
simple math + common phrase = brilliant lyric
(what's that line, dressing to the eights?)

"You can dress to the eights, you can dress to maim"- brilliant.

Another one from "Hold My Life": "Razzle Dazzle Drazzle Drone, time for this one to go home". I love that even more since I discovered it was copped from a cartoon. I think that is one of Paul's most unheralded songs in general.

[A Regular]

You press your luck
Up against his body...

Yet another westerbergian twisted cliche, and does a great job of setting the tone for the rest of the song.

[paulie]

"You can dress to the eights, you can dress to maim"- brilliant.
-kgp

i never caught that entire line. its just became one of my favorites

p.s. the other paul (paul simon) will never be accused of not having a boatload of amazing lyrics.

[kgp]

"...they put the checkbook to my head".

A said:

Yet another westerbergian twisted cliche, and does a great job of setting the tone for the rest of the song.

"He knows you like the back of his hand". The twist to that cliché: read like as an active verb. Maybe that's not really his intent, but after about a year I started hearing it that way.

[A Regular]

kgp said:

"...they put the checkbook to my head".



"He knows you like the back of his hand". The twist to that cliché: read like as an active verb. Maybe that's not really his intent, but after about a year I started hearing it that way.

I think that is one of his more chilling twists....from the friendliness of "palm of his hand" to getting backhanded. Ouch. That's how i hear it at least.