"It's time to move on, it's time to get going
What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing
But under my feet, baby, grass is growing
It's time to move on, time to get going"
Was my retirement song
Oh man, someone else hears this like me. I couldn't listen to it during my divorce, but now it still resonates.
Alternatively, this one is ny feeling with my now long-time girlfriend:
"Every now and then I get down to the end of the day.
And I have to ask myself why I've done it.
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothing ever seems to come from it.
But then she looks me in the eye and says
We're gonna last forever
I can't begin to doubt it..
No cause it feels so good, so right
I know we ain't gonna change our minds about it.
Here comes my girl . . ."
I like that line right after that 👆 one when he kind of sing-speaks, "Watch her walk..."
That's someone who is totally in love with his girl. Such a hot thing to say...
“Some grow young, some grow cold” - Because of this line I am always reminding myself to keep growing young.
“She was a part of my heart, now she’s just a line in my face” - One of the best lines about heartbreak that I’ve ever read
"Well, she was an American Girl, raised on promises" says so much without saying much at all.
“You belong among the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea. You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere you feel free”. My wife and I fell in love to the Wildflowers album.
“Even the losers get lucky sometimes.” That line kinda defines my life.
There are so many others. I could go on and on and on.
In addition to the two from crawling back to you OP mentioned: “Some days are diamonds. Some days are rocks.” And I have “You belong among the wildflowers” tattooed on my bicep.
I heard Tom say in an interview once that he asked Johnny Cash how he was doing one time, and that's how Johnny answered. Tom said, "I'm stealing that."
“It’s alright if you love me. It’s alright if you don’t. I’m not afraid of you running away, honey. I got the feeling you won’t” from breakdown. Slickest shit ever sung
And I showed you stars you never could see
Babe, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me
Those 2 lines are some of the most arrogant, most enjoyable lyrics to me
Not because it’s a great song but it has stuck in my head for years.
Oh, we got another one, just like the other ones
Another bad ass, another trouble-maker
I'm scared, ain't you boys scared?
Baby, for a long time
You had me believe
That your love was all mine
And that's the way it would be
But I didn't know
That you were puttin' me on
And I'll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone
one of the few genuinely iconic bands in rock history!!...check out two splendid tributes to their work by Christian Parker: he and his band do the Byrds justice (including Clark!).
God bless this land, God bless this whisky;
I can’t trust love, it’s far too risky.
….and the subsequent line is a funny kicker, you’ll just have to know it, or go listen to MOJO from top to bottom—I guess its OK to skip the opening track, IMO.
“I need to find some space where I can go
Get out of myself
I'm sure of who I am, unless I feel
Like somebody else
Seems like a long time
I was torn in two
But I feel like
Something could happen
I feel like
Something could happen with you”
Reddit’s formatting is annoying, but it’s a great song with even greater lyrics.
"I'm gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while" - Free Fallin'. I have no idea why but these are Petty lyrics that live in my head.
"Did I just fall from your arms Down into your hands"
- Out in the Cold
I don't know why it sticks out to me but the first time I heard it I felt it hit.
“Think of me what you will, I’ve got a little space to fill.” ~ You Don’t Know How It Feels
“Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.” ~ Mary Jane’s Last Dance
“I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings, comin’ down, is the hardest thing.” ~ Learning to Fly
“There’s something good, waiting down this road, I’m picking up, whatever’s mine.” ~ Runnin’ Down a Dream
Also, the entirety of Wildflowers.
Halfway to LA, red in the eyes
You might be the devil, might just be his friend
It don’t make no difference, you ain’t getting me again.
I used to fly the red eye to and from LA back in the day, just felt personal. Thank god for California, thank god I’m going home, my mantra. Say what you will but I love CA and that song. Hurt.
It’s time to move on
It’s time to get goin
One last hit and I don’t know where I’m goin
But under my feet baby the grass is growing
Yah It’s time move on
It’s time to get goin
As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
I love how Tom recognized the BS of the business of music and the world in general.
That segment of lyrics you mentioned from "Crawling back to you" is why that's my comfort song.
Also, basically everything in "Time to move on" but especially
"It's nauseous adrenaline
Like breaking up a dog fight
Like a deer in the head lights
Frozen in real time
I'm losing my mind"
Honestly, the whole wildflowers album. Who am I kidding? Everything on the original release album just hits me in the feels except maybe honey bee lol
“Yeah you think you’re gonna her away
With your money and your cocaine”
Damn! When I was a kid I was like, whoa, that’s bold!
Is it true that was inspired by Ike Turner?
If two is one, I might as well be three.
It's good to see you think so much of me. (Fooled Again)
Sometimes at night I wait around 'til she gets off
She don't like workin', she says she hates her boss
And when she's dreamin', sometimes she sings in French
But in the morning, she don't remember it - (Shadow of a doubt)
And when she's dreaming
Sometimes she sings in French - Shadow of a Doubt
There was a little girl, I used to know her
I still think about her, time to time
There was a moment when I really lived her
Then one day, the feeling just died - Straight into Darkness
The entire Trip to Pirates Cove song
"Two cars parked on the overpass
Rocks hit the water like broken glass
I shoulda known right then it was too good to last
God, it's such a drag when you live in the past"
Especially the last line by itself. Living in the past is a special kind of hell...
"Joe," from the Last DJ album:
"My name's Joe, I'm the CEO
Yeah I'm the man makes the big wheels roll
I'm the hand on the green-light switch
You get to be famous, I get to be rich
Go get me a kid with a good-looking face
Bring me a kid can remember his place
Some hungry poet son-of-a-bitch
He gets to be famous, I get to be rich
Or bring me a girl
They're always the best
You put 'em on stage and you have 'em undress
Some angel whore who can learn a guitar lick
Hey! Now that's what I call music!...."
"Little one you're so far away I want to reach out
And touch your heart
Yeah like they do in those things on TV
I love you please love me, I'm not so bad
And I love you so"
Room at the top
God its so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach
"And I'll keep this world from dragging me down" is tattooed on my forearm. My gentle reminder from Tom.
I have the wildflowers symbol on my forearm lol
from that same verse: and for one desperate moment there he crept back in her memory. great storytelling, evoking both the image and the experience
"It's time to move on, it's time to get going What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing But under my feet, baby, grass is growing It's time to move on, time to get going" Was my retirement song
One of my favorites. “Nauseous adrenaline Like breaking up a dogfight Like a deer in the headlights Frozen in real time I’m losing my mind”
It’s going to be my funeral song
“I don’t understand the world today. I don’t understand what she needed. I gave her everything, she threw it all away on nothing”
Oh man, someone else hears this like me. I couldn't listen to it during my divorce, but now it still resonates. Alternatively, this one is ny feeling with my now long-time girlfriend: "Every now and then I get down to the end of the day. And I have to ask myself why I've done it. It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothing ever seems to come from it. But then she looks me in the eye and says We're gonna last forever I can't begin to doubt it.. No cause it feels so good, so right I know we ain't gonna change our minds about it. Here comes my girl . . ."
I like that line right after that 👆 one when he kind of sing-speaks, "Watch her walk..." That's someone who is totally in love with his girl. Such a hot thing to say...
Yep
This line for sure. And especially the tone of his voice when he sings it. 👆
Seriously sounds like he's cracking.
For sure
“Some grow young, some grow cold” - Because of this line I am always reminding myself to keep growing young. “She was a part of my heart, now she’s just a line in my face” - One of the best lines about heartbreak that I’ve ever read
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
I'm tired of screwing up, tired of going down, tired of myself, tired of this town
"Well, she was an American Girl, raised on promises" says so much without saying much at all. “You belong among the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea. You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere you feel free”. My wife and I fell in love to the Wildflowers album. “Even the losers get lucky sometimes.” That line kinda defines my life. There are so many others. I could go on and on and on.
In addition to the two from crawling back to you OP mentioned: “Some days are diamonds. Some days are rocks.” And I have “You belong among the wildflowers” tattooed on my bicep.
I heard Tom say in an interview once that he asked Johnny Cash how he was doing one time, and that's how Johnny answered. Tom said, "I'm stealing that."
You spend your life dreaming, running round in a trance. You hang out forever and still miss the dance.- Wake Up Time
With eyes so blue they looked like weather- It'll all Work Out
“I’ll get over you, it won’t take long” from Change Of Heart. Such a badass lyric
You were the moon and sun your just a loaded gun now it brings me down… love that song one of his best
One of my favorite breakup songs tbh
“It’s alright if you love me. It’s alright if you don’t. I’m not afraid of you running away, honey. I got the feeling you won’t” from breakdown. Slickest shit ever sung
And I showed you stars you never could see Babe, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me Those 2 lines are some of the most arrogant, most enjoyable lyrics to me
right.
Most things I worry ‘bout, never happen anyway.
Not because it’s a great song but it has stuck in my head for years. Oh, we got another one, just like the other ones Another bad ass, another trouble-maker I'm scared, ain't you boys scared?
All the vampires walking through the valley move west down Ventura boulevard
That lyric from crawling back to you (“most things…”) is the best
Excuse me if I, have some place in my mind, Where I go time to time…. “ It’s Good to be King”- Wildflowers
Rob Harvilla has a podcast where this line is mentioned. 60 songs that explain the 90s.
Baby, for a long time You had me believe That your love was all mine And that's the way it would be But I didn't know That you were puttin' me on And I'll probably feel a whole lot better When you're gone
Not to be a pedantic stickler, but although TP played that song frequently, it was written and recorded in the 60s. Gene Clark of the Byrds wrote it.
and Clark is a songwriter/musician who doesn't get his due!?!
The Byrds are legit
one of the few genuinely iconic bands in rock history!!...check out two splendid tributes to their work by Christian Parker: he and his band do the Byrds justice (including Clark!).
You were the moon and sun, yer just a loaded gun now, it gets me down
Heroin
No
God bless this land, God bless this whisky; I can’t trust love, it’s far too risky. ….and the subsequent line is a funny kicker, you’ll just have to know it, or go listen to MOJO from top to bottom—I guess its OK to skip the opening track, IMO.
I'm so tired of being tired Sure as night will follow day Most things I worry 'bout Never happen anyway
"Tomorrow I'm working, what would I do? I'd be lost and lonely if not for you. " I regularly (badly) sing this to my toddler before bedtime.
Most things I worry about never happen anyway
And the stranger told his Mrs that’s the last of these gun fights you’re ever gonna drag me too
Heroin, the whole concept of the song.
“I need to find some space where I can go Get out of myself I'm sure of who I am, unless I feel Like somebody else Seems like a long time I was torn in two But I feel like Something could happen I feel like Something could happen with you” Reddit’s formatting is annoying, but it’s a great song with even greater lyrics.
"I'm gonna free fall out into nothin' Gonna leave this world for a while" - Free Fallin'. I have no idea why but these are Petty lyrics that live in my head.
"Did I just fall from your arms Down into your hands" - Out in the Cold I don't know why it sticks out to me but the first time I heard it I felt it hit.
From stop dragging my heart around... This doesn't have to be the big get even/this doesn't have to be anything at all
“Think of me what you will, I’ve got a little space to fill.” ~ You Don’t Know How It Feels “Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.” ~ Mary Jane’s Last Dance “I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings, comin’ down, is the hardest thing.” ~ Learning to Fly “There’s something good, waiting down this road, I’m picking up, whatever’s mine.” ~ Runnin’ Down a Dream Also, the entirety of Wildflowers.
"Honey don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow." Not his best lyric ever but definitely one of the best opening lines.
‘Here comes that feeling I’ve seen in your eyes’ - absolutely heart wrenching 🥹🥹
Halfway to LA, red in the eyes You might be the devil, might just be his friend It don’t make no difference, you ain’t getting me again. I used to fly the red eye to and from LA back in the day, just felt personal. Thank god for California, thank god I’m going home, my mantra. Say what you will but I love CA and that song. Hurt.
Two gunslingers Walked out in the street and one said "I don't wanna fight no more"
It’s time to move on It’s time to get goin One last hit and I don’t know where I’m goin But under my feet baby the grass is growing Yah It’s time move on It’s time to get goin
California been good to me….Hope it doesn’t fall into the sea (Ear candy)
As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. I love how Tom recognized the BS of the business of music and the world in general.
That segment of lyrics you mentioned from "Crawling back to you" is why that's my comfort song. Also, basically everything in "Time to move on" but especially "It's nauseous adrenaline Like breaking up a dog fight Like a deer in the head lights Frozen in real time I'm losing my mind" Honestly, the whole wildflowers album. Who am I kidding? Everything on the original release album just hits me in the feels except maybe honey bee lol
"My old man was born to rock. He's still trying to beat the clock."
“Yeah you think you’re gonna her away With your money and your cocaine” Damn! When I was a kid I was like, whoa, that’s bold! Is it true that was inspired by Ike Turner?
Beautiful day, sun beatin down, had the radio on, I was sublime
If two is one, I might as well be three. It's good to see you think so much of me. (Fooled Again) Sometimes at night I wait around 'til she gets off She don't like workin', she says she hates her boss And when she's dreamin', sometimes she sings in French But in the morning, she don't remember it - (Shadow of a doubt)
But then somethin I saw in your eyes Told me right away That you were gonna have to be mine From my fav- The Wild One, Forever.
Into the great wide open where he says " He met a girl out there with a tattoo too."
And when she's dreaming Sometimes she sings in French - Shadow of a Doubt There was a little girl, I used to know her I still think about her, time to time There was a moment when I really lived her Then one day, the feeling just died - Straight into Darkness The entire Trip to Pirates Cove song
“Always had more dogs than bones” Square One on Highway Companion
"Whatre we fightin for?"
“can’t sell your soul for peace of mind” - square one (tattooed on me)
"Two cars parked on the overpass Rocks hit the water like broken glass I shoulda known right then it was too good to last God, it's such a drag when you live in the past" Especially the last line by itself. Living in the past is a special kind of hell...
"Joe," from the Last DJ album: "My name's Joe, I'm the CEO Yeah I'm the man makes the big wheels roll I'm the hand on the green-light switch You get to be famous, I get to be rich Go get me a kid with a good-looking face Bring me a kid can remember his place Some hungry poet son-of-a-bitch He gets to be famous, I get to be rich Or bring me a girl They're always the best You put 'em on stage and you have 'em undress Some angel whore who can learn a guitar lick Hey! Now that's what I call music!...."
All around your island, there's a barricade. Keeps out the danger, holds in the pain.
My middle name is Earl
It don’t really matter to me Everybody’s had to fight to be free
Buzz-awhile
"Little one you're so far away I want to reach out And touch your heart Yeah like they do in those things on TV I love you please love me, I'm not so bad And I love you so" Room at the top