Best advice you ever got from a song?

[Enrique]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMwni9RwO4g

from Chris DeBurgh:

Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even fix a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to the other side

[insanity]

1. Why don't we get drunk and screw

[gmoney]

5. or "15 will get you 20..."

from the same auteur

[tigereye]

78. yup, that was college...

:rofl:

[petronius]

2. Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5W9G8s9YQ

"Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

[Enrique]

3. I didn't even know that verse

Kenny is even wiser than I thought. :wow:

[Mike 03]

13. Yes, that is a great song. NT

[gmoney]

4. "When you ain't got nothin' you got nothin' to lose..."

Along with "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone."

[Rising Phoenix]

20. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Janis

[gmoney]

34. Well, Kris actually...

[NightWatcher]

6. watch out where the huskies go and dont you eat that yellow snow

that John Denver was a national treasure

[MorningGlow]

7. You can't always get what you want

but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need.

[Brigid]

24. Rats! You beat me to it.

:)

[Gormy Cuss]

36. Exactly. n/t

[Patiod]

70. True Story

(which happened some years before "The Big Chill" came out)

My college roommate and I were at our friends wedding which we knew even then wouldn't work out.

The organ started playing something we didn't recognize, and I leaned over and said "Is that 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'?"

Kept us giggling until the bride arrived.

[MorningGlow]

79. ROFL you were ahead of your time!

Are you sure Kasdan wasn't sitting behind you or anything?

[taterguy]

8. How the fuck are you supposed to get from Ocracoke to Swan Quarter?

The fucking ferry is reservation only and you have to pay with a fucking credit card when you make your fucking reservation.

Fuck you Chris DeBurgh and your dumbass advice

[Enrique]

37. don't do it!

too many men have failed before! :scared:

[Morning Dew]

9. Maybe not the best but on my mind lately

From:
Built To Last
Hunter/Garcia

There are times when you get hit upon
Try hard but you can't give
Other times you'd gladly part
With what you need to live


Don't waste your breath to save your face
When you have done your best
And even more is asked of you
Fate will decide the rest

[Mike 03]

10. "If you act as you think

The missing link.

Synchronicity."

The Police.

Just a restatement of Gandhi and Buddha, I suppose.

And I'm not even a huge Police fan. But that lyric is wisdom.

Or this one, from U2:

"I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love."

From "So Cruel"

[Arugula Latte]

11. "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

Just kidding! :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

56. That's the one I was thinking, too.

Are we bad?

[MrSlayer]

Double post.

Though it is worth saying twice.

[MrSlayer]

12. "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets"

Metallica "Damage Inc."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. "When a sin goes too far it's like a runaway car it cannot be controlled"

Lou Reed, "The Blue Mask"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ4LW87L9nE

:toast:

[WinkyDink]

15. "Gotta know when to..." You know.

[mzteris]

16. slip out the back, jack

make a new plan, stan. . .

. . . just get yourself free

[mykpart]

28. Hop on the bus, Gus.

No need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
Get yourself free.

[triguy46]

17. "Love is like oxygen...

You get too much you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Beware - Louis Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owqLjzTu3SA

[abq e streeter]

19. From The Jamies

Well shut them books and throw em away
And say goodbye to dull school days
Look alive and change your ways
Because its summertime

Its time to head straight for them hills
Its time to live and have some thrills
Come along and have a ball
A regular free for all.....


We'll go swimmin' every day
No time to work just time to play
If your folks complain , just say
Its summerstime

[Lyric]

21. Don't mess around with Jim.

:thumbsup:

[astonamous]

50. I had to learn the hard way not to "spit into the wind"...

There is a lot of good advice in that song.

[AllenVanAllen]

22. More than this

- there is nothing

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

[Arugula Latte]

26. I looooove that song.

:thumbsup:

[S n o w b a l l]

30. Me too!!!

Love, love, love it!

Anything by Bryan Ferry.

[MissMillie]

61. "When things are really great....

....it just means everything's in its place"

[abq e streeter]

23. And from Taj Mahal--if its love you want, then you got to be lovable

If its smiles you want, you got to get to smilin
If its good times you want,
Baby get your good times now...
But baby don't you wait too long
No mama don't wait too long...
Cuz tomorrow may not be your day

[Captain Hilts]

25. Peggy Lee: Why don't you do right? Get outta here and get me some money, too. nt

[Inchworm]

27. Don't fear the reaper

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

I'm beginning to question the logic ;)

:hi:

[astral]

29. It's all optional what you may or may not lose . . .

in this pattern we call time.



I poured my soul in Santa Cruz
I ached all night next day I lost my shoes
It's all optional what you may or may not lose
in this pattern we time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rksSFGhcls&feature=PlayList&p=B3CA799B1A6866E1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24
Ferron -- Shadows on a dime

[InvisibleTouch]

31. "You can't please everyone...

...so you've got to please yourself."

[Patiod]

71. Ooo! Excellent

I haven't heard that one in years

[S n o w b a l l]

32. Winter in July - Sarah Brightman

Look around wonder why
we can live a life that's never satisfied
Lonely hearts troubled minds
looking for a way that we can never find
Many roads are ahead of us
with choices to be made
But life's just one of the
games we play
There is no special way
Make the best of what's given you
everything will come in time
why deny yourself
don't just let life pass you by
like winter in July

Future dreams can never last
when you find yourself still living in the past
Keep moving on to higher ground
looking for the way you thought could not be found
We may not know the reason why
we're born into this world
where a man only lives to die
his story left untold
Make the best of what's given you
everything will come in time
why deny yourself
don't just let life pass you by
like winter in July

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. I found the simple life ain't so simple

when I jumped out on that road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E3zUyGzq2k

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

35. If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!

:toast:

[flvegan]

38. D.I.Y. That Means Do It Yourself

Don't Sit Around Waiting For Someone's Help
Don't Sit Back And Say Good Enough
Keep On Striving, Reinventing But Keeping It Off The Cuff

So Kick The Level Up Cahootnified
Mackadocius Vibes Positively Fortified

From "The Scoop"

The last two lines are likely nonsense to most.

[Richardo]

39. "You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em both together..."

"...Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better" :thumbsup:

[pamela]

40. Good news always sleeps till noon

Telephone rings
But I don't answer it
Because everybody knows that
Good news always sleeps till noon

-Cowboy Junkies

[Enrique]

55. bad news comes knocking at your garden gate

knocking for yoooooooou...

Joni Mitchell

[Initech]

41. I got tons of great advice from Frank Zappa:

"Just remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

"Watch out where the huskies go and dont you eat that yellow snow."

"You can be absolutely free only if you want to be."

[Jamastiene]

42. "Everybody must get stoned."

:evilgrin:

[abq e streeter]

43. Knew there was one more I was gonna list, but I like spaced it out , man

as I always say ( when I remember to) about short-term memory loss: I paid good money for it; might as well use it.

[AllenVanAllen]

44. Nothing lasts forever

- even cold November rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0txMAXbHXw0

[fNord]

45. Ride The Snake........

[blogslut]

46. Out of the Blue (Into the) Fire - theThe

I was trying so hard to be myself
I was turning into somebody else.

and

Home of the Brave - The Nails:

Forget about London
Forget about Spain
Get out of New York
Take the Train to the Plane
Hong Kong smells like dying fish
And Berlin still stinks of Auschwitz
I wanna go where the wild things play
I wanna go to the Home of the Brave

[semillama]

47. "Don't Kill Your Idols"

"Let them kill themselves - they never miss."

-The Muldoons

[Tuesday Afternoon]

48. You gotta go where you wanta go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfS58h6v-U&feature=related

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You don't understand
That a girl like me can love just one man
Three thousand miles, that's how far you'll go
And you said to me "Please don't follow"

'cause you gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You don't understand
That a girl like me can love just one man
You've been gone a week, and I tried so hard
Not to be the cryin' kind
Not to be the girl you left behind

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

You gotta go where you wanna go
Do what you wanna do
With whoever you wanna do it with

[mitchum]

49. You know, some people got no choice...

And they cant never find a voice
To talk with that they can even call their own
So the first thing that they see
That allows them the right to be
Why they follow it, you know, its called bad luck

L. Reed

[gbate]

51. "you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."

[HERVEPA]

52. From the Palm Wine Boys

Lots of good advice here. Especially the chorus (though not always applicable)


Hold On by Richard Linley


Jackie wants to dig a hole
he wants to find out what's below
and he digs and digs for days and days
in the hot hot sun
one thing he did not know
is when he got down in the hole
he wouldn't get back out again

Jackie tried to climb the walls
he'd climb a little bit and then he'd fall
and he climbed and climbed for days and days
in the hot hot sun
one thing he did not know
is when he got out of the hole
he wouldn't remember being there

(chorus)
hold on to what you can
there's not enough time to execute your plan
hold on to your belief
later on it just might bring some relief

Maddie wants to write a book
'cause her youth is gone and she's lost her looks
and she writes and writes for days and days
in her cold cold room
one thing she did not read
is when you battle time you must concede
that your memories won't make you young

Maddie put her pen down
she started walking out of town
and she walked and walked for days and days
in the hot hot sun
one thing she did not know
is that she would fall into a hole
and she'd remember being there

(chorus)

[HEyHEY]

53. Why is that good advice?

The ferryman doesn't exist. "Invest in Microsoft" or something would rock that.

[av8rdave]

54. Put the lime in the coconut

[PassingFair]

57. The Raspberries

Go All The Way.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BlZ9p4c5yk

[Tikki]

58. "You can be happy, if you've a mind to"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-8hst0bho
"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd"...Roger Miller


Tikki

[Fire Walk With Me]

59. You can beg and beg to be taken to Funkytown

yet no one will ever do so. Thanks for the time-saving lesson!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

60. fuck the pain away

[Doc_Technical]

62. "Today is only yesterday's tomorrow."

Uriah Heep- Circle of Hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDKd7gOqWE

[Z_I_Peevey]

63. Try a little tenderness.

Walk, Don't Run (well, that was more like advice from a title, but it still applies).

[mwooldri]

64. Two songs come to mind:

1) Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
2) Class of 99 - "Wear Sunscreen" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwVVpwBKUp0&feature=related

[mix]

65. "Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights" -Bob Marley

don't give up the fight

[Heidi]

66. "Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

From "Anthem," by Leonard Cohen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zKk76YkF1U

[hobbit709]

67. I wasn't born to follow.

Oh I'd rather go and journey where the diamond crest is flowing and
Run across the valley beneath the sacred mountain and
Wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms and break the light in colors
That no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and wait beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected in it's clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another

I will want to die beneath the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, she may argue with her logic
And then she'll know the things I learned
That really have no value in the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow

[raccoon]

73. I love that song! It was in EASY RIDER. nt

[carlyhippy]

68. "If you re going to san franciso, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

[Richardo]

69. Pass the dutchie on de left-hand side.

[Patiod]

72. Stay in touch with my insanity really is the only way

It's a jungle out there kiddies - have a very fruitful day!

[raccoon]

74. "Don't worry, baby, everything will turn out all right."--Beach Boys.

OK, I KNOW everything doesn't always turn out all right, but I find this song very reassuring.

[raccoon]

75. "There's things that'll knock you down you don't even see coming.."

Bruce Springsteen, "When You're Alone."

[kwassa]

76. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy"

Words to live by.

Hanzlick Randy

[tigereye]

77. All I can say is that love stinks, love stinks (well, in high school, anyway)

[BeachBaby]

80. "You can't always get what you want....

but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need". ~~ The Rolling Stones ~~

[BlueIris]

81. "You can't take me for granted and smile." (Sly and the Family Stone.) nt

[Orsino]

82. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. n/t