"Well, the crowd cleared away And I began to pray And the water fell on the floor And I'm telling you son Well, it ain't no fun Staring straight down a forty-four.Well, he turned and screamed at Linda Lou And that's the break I was looking for. And you could hear me screaming a mile away, As I was headed out towards the door."

"I was scared and fearing for my life, I was shakin' like a leaf on a tree. 'Cause he was lean, mean, Big and bad, Lord Pointin' that gun at me.Oh, wait a minute, Mister I didn't even kiss her Don't want no trouble with you And I know you don't owe me But I wish you would let me Ask one favor from you."

"Train roll on, on down the line, Won't you please take me far away? Now I feel the wind blow outside my door, Means I'm, I'm leaving my woman at home. Lord yeah, Tuesday's gone with the wind. My baby's gone with the wind, the wind."

"Well, when I first met you, baby, you was a red light girl. But I tried to take you to a better world. But you would not listen. Still you think I am a fool. Well, you had it made in the shade, baby. Don't let that tree fall down on you."

"It's the Saturday night special Got a barrel that's blue and cold. Ain't good for nothin' But put a man six feet in a hole."

"Well now, they call me the breeze I keep blowin' down the road. I ain't got me nobody I don't carry me no load. Ain't no change in the weather Ain't no changes in me."

"I've seen a lot of people who thought they were cool. But then again, Lord I've seen a lot of fools. Well, I hope you people, Lord can hear what I say. You'll have your chance to hit it some day.Don't mess with the needle or a spoon Or any trip to the moon. It'll take you away."

"Play me a song Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew. Well I got your drinking money, tune up your Dobro. People said he was useless, them people are the fools. 'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues."

"Well, every time that I come home nobody wants to let me be. It seems that all the friends I've got, just got to come, interrogate me. Well, I appreciate your feelings and I don't want to pass you by. But I don't ask you about your business, don't ask me about mine."

"Sweet Home Alabama, Where the skies are so blue. Sweet Home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you."

"In Birmingham, they love the governor (Boo boo boo) Now we all did what we could do Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth"

"Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her. Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down. Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow."

"Big wheels keep on turning Carry me home to see my kin. Singing songs about the Southland I miss Alabamy once again."

"If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on, now 'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.But, if I stayed here with you, girl Things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now. And this bird, you cannot change."

"Well, have you ever lived down in the ghetto? Have you ever felt that cold wind blow? Well, if you don't know what I mean Won't you stand up and scream? Cause there's things goin' on that you don't know."

"Boy, don't you worry you'll find yourself Follow your heart and nothing else And you can do this, oh baby, if you try All that I want for you my son is to be satisfied."

"Well, I've been ridin' a winning horse for a long, long time. And sometimes I wonder, is this the end of the line? No one should take advantage of who they are. No man has got it made; if he thinks he does, he's wrong.Every mother's son Better hear what I say. Every mother's son Will rise and fall someday"

"Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere There ain't no place I ain't never gone But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times Well there just ain't no place like home."

"And Lord I can't make any changes; All I can do is write 'em in a song. 'Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin'. Lord take me and mine before that comes."

"Until her eyes crossed over Until her mind crossed over Until her soul fell next to me"

"I like them, but I don't see how they're in any way a manifestation of the blues."

"The White Stripes were part of a wave of retro-minded young bands who gave rock music a much-needed jolt in the first few years of the 21st century, but they're less nostalgic bashers than a brilliant conceptual creation: a divorced Detroit couple who masqueraded as brother and sister, named themselves after their band (or vice versa), wore alternating white-and-red outfits, and rewired the blues for the new generation."

"That would break up the thing of vocals, guitar and drums. Somebody else there would bring this fourth component. If you're going to have four components, you might as well have 20, y'know?"

"Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. Tons of skyscrapers with nothing in them. [The flag] is the idea of rooting for the underdog, because Detroit has such a bad reputation."

"Well, in every complicated situation there's a human relation Making sense of it all takes a whole lot of concentration Well, you can blame the baby for her pregnant ma And if there's one of these unavoidable laws It's just that you can't just take the effect and make it the cause"

"Now my mind is filled with rubber tires and forest fires and whether I'm a liar and lots of other situations where I don't know what to do, at which time God screams to me, "There's nothing left for me to tell you""

"I travel backwards in ecstasy"

"One sound can hold back a thousand hands when the pipe plays a tune forlorn"

"Well, Americans, what? Nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant, too!"

"Icky thump with the lump in my throat Grabbed my coat and I was freaking, I was ready to go Yeah, I swear, beside the hair she had one white eye One blank stare, lookin' up, lyin' there"

"I go down to the river Filled with regret I go down and I wonder If there was any reason left I left just before my lungs could get wet I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet"

"You wanna take away from me Things that are mine and it's not your right It's odd that you wouldn't expect a fight Can it be that I don't want what you want?"

"Can you believe some things are not Appealing as a spot On the ceiling of my childhood bedroom?"

"I am as ugly as I seem Worse than all your dreams"

"My friends are all dying And death can't be lying It's the truth and it don't make a noise"

"I blew it And if I knew what to do, then I'd do it But the point that I have, I'll get to it That forever for her is over for me "Forever"—just the word that she said that means never To be with another together And with the weight of a feather it tore into me"

"The nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds But it's always with trust that the poison is fed with a spoon"

"Love really bores me"

"I've got your phone number written in the back of my bible"

"Well strip the bark right off a tree and just hand it this way Don't even need a drink of water to make the headache go away Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street Acetaminophen—you see the medicine—oh, girl You have no faith in medicine"

"Well, don't you remember? You told me in December That a boy is not a man until he makes a stand Will, I'm not a genius, But maybe you'll remember this: I never said I ever wanted to be a man"

"Life is so boring It's really got me snoring"

"I wanna hold your little hand if I can be so bold And be your right-hand man 'til your hands get old And then when all the feeling's gone Just decide if you want to keep holding on I want to hold your little hand if I can be so bold If I can be so bold If I can be so bold"

"I had opinions that didn't matter I had a brain that felt like pancake batter"

"Don't wanna hear about it Every single one's got a story to tell Everyone knows about it from the Queen of England to the Hounds of Hell"

"I'm afraid to even open my eyes"

"I need the fuel to make my fire bright"

"You make me feel a little older Like a full grown woman might But when you're gone I grow colder Come to me again in the cold, cold night"

"I saw you standing in the corner On the edge of a burning light"

"Listen, master, can I ask you a question? Is it the fingers or the brain that you're teaching this lesson?"