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One that most people probably would never have heard of is a song by Barenaked Ladies called Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel.
The first verse is:
Driving home to be with you
The highway's divided, the city's in view
As usual I'm almost on time
You're the last thing that's on my mind
then the crash is described, then the last verse is:
In all the confusion there's something serene
I'm just a posthumous part of the scene
Now I'm floating above looking in
As the radio blares and wheels spin
I can see my face slumped with a grin
And you, you're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind.
I always loved how different the meaning of "you're the last thing on my mind" is in the two verses.
Wait til you hear this one called "don't take the girl"
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Way more than a closing line, but one of my favorites.  Lynnville Train by REK.  When he says he reaches into his coat, you always wonder if he has a gun in there and is going to shoot them.  To me, it is his best job of writing.  

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Steel wheels scream, the whistle blows,
His heart is breaking
She steps onto the platform, her new love by her side
He reaches in his coat, his had is shaking
The time has finally come, this really is goodbye
 
His story is he's changed his mind, 
He just can't help himself
So he's getting on board the Lynnville train
And moving on to someplace else
As the train pulls out he watches them both
Standing in the pouring rain
He's headed for a new life down the line
On the Lynnville Train
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On 2/6/2019 at 8:55 PM, ou97cpa said:

Close your eyes and remember this. It won't be back again, it's almost gone.
Even times that don't seem like much will be your only crutch when you're alone.
Time moves slow when you're seventeen and then it picks up steam at twenty-one.
Pretty soon you'll remember when you could remember when you loved someone

Jason Isbell, Streetlights
 

This is what I thought of first.  The thing that makes that last verse so perfect is that all through the song, it is just about a drunk dude in a bar.  Seeming down on his luck.  Then Isbell pulls out a fucking sledgehammer and hits you right in the nuts with this verse.  To me, it is easily his best song.  I'm bummed that he never plays it anymore.  

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On 2/6/2019 at 8:48 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

From what I've read/heard, no.  At least on the drummer's part.  Allegedly, Adler (drummer) told the gal that she wasn't his GF, so she went down to the studio and fucked Axl, who had been wanting to record sex noises for the part anyhow.  Then he (Adler) got pissed after the fact.

and that's when he decided to move to Austin and run for Mayor

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Paul and John were pretty good at this 

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
 

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

 

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On 2/9/2019 at 1:49 PM, Neonmoon said:

Paul and John were pretty good at this 

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
 

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

 

o-verrrr raaaay-ted. o-verrr raaaaaay-ted.  Or so we've been told on a similar thread

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My first love was a wicked twisted road
I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old
I never saw the rainbow, much less a pot of gold
Yeah, my first love was a wicked twisted road

A couple of pretty flowers is what I brought to you
I saw you through a broken window
With a different point of view

Can I light a candle?
And kiss you in the places light won't show
I'll take my time and do it slow
I'll do my oral exercises
Right between your thighs
It's all very pleasurable, I'll go places he won't go
Lets keep it on the low-low
So he won't know
Now lets take it to the floor

Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

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"Meat is Murder" was released 34 years ago yesterday...

 

Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools
Spineless swines, cemented minds

 

I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
I am a man of means, of slender means

 

On the day that your mentality
Decides to try to catch up with your biology

 

Unruly boys
Who will not grow up Must be taken in hand

 

 

 

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All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon


Have no idea why this hasn’t been repped more.
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Uh, there are only two perfect closing lines in song.

The first is obviously “And she is buying a stairway....to heaven”.

The second is controversial, but has a great finishing line.

Not to mention he is also the University of Texas’ very own, Jim Heath. 

Cowboy Love. 

That's why each night by the campfire
I thank my lucky stars above
For inter-racial cowboy homo kind of love
Kind of love
Kind of love”

The perfect fuck it song, to cover those times when the cab driver decides to fuck with you when you tell him to just take you to a bar. And only after you order do you notice that you may have ended up at the wrong venue on a Friday night, but rather then act like an asshole and get upset, you just go with it.

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yes to above.  I always really liked the whole ending :
 
 
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown the dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb
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Left my niggas house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelfth grade
It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep so deep so deep put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp (yeah)
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day

 

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