Folk Singers

"Who cleared the path for Presley to sing Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King"

"Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his ax."

"Long before the First Crusade, way back before England or America was made."

"He bent in the middle like a twisted pin"

"Another politician pumpin' out the piss."

"It's soon after midnight, and I got a date with a fairy queen"

"She left one too many a boy behind He committed suicide"

"Just give to me my gravestone With it clearly carved upon: "I'm a long time a-comin' An' I'll be a long time gone""

"The door has closed for evermore, If indeed there ever was a door."

"I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver And I'm reading James Joyce Some people they tell me I've got the blood of the land in my voice"

"If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie."

"Some people never work a day in their lives, don't know what work even means."

"The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paperwork."

"Feel like my soul is beginning to expand. Look into my heart and you will sort of understand."

"Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need."

"Last night across the alley there was a pounding on the wall It must have been Don Pascuale making a two a.m. booty call"

"Don’t reach out for me, she said. Can’t you see I’m drowning too?"

"As great as you are, man, you’ll never be greater than yourself."

"I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind."

"Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard."

"My old man he's like some feudal lord, got more lives than a cat."

"Down over the window Comes the dazzling sunlit rays Through the back alleys, through the blinds Another one of them endless days"

"I'm gonna spare the defeated—I'm gonna speak to the crowd I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered I'm gonna tame the proud"

"Funny how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least."

"I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more."

"The future for me is already a thing of the past."

"I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time."

"Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose"

"Things should start to get interesting right about now."

"Everybody movin', if they ain't already there. Everyboy got to move somewhere."

"But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me."

"I'm drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past."

"So many things that we never will undo I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too."

"I'm walking through the leaves falling from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees."

"You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way."

"My clothes are wet, tight on my skin. Not as tight as the corner that I've painted myself in."

"I been walkin forty miles of bad road. If the Bible is right the world will explode. I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can"

"You can hurt someone and not even know it"

"People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range, I used to care, but things have changed."

"Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet... Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street."

"Insanity is crashing up against my soul."

"She says, you don’t read women authors do you?... I said, You’re way wrong. She says, Which ones have you read then? I say, I read Erica Jong!"

"When you think that you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more."

"I could hold you for a million years"

"Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there."

"I been down on the bottom of a whirlpool of lies"

"I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from."

"Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain"

"Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one."

"I'm sick of love, and I'm in the thick of it."