What Couplet Encompasses Your Philosophy? [Archive]

David

11-17-2005, 10:05 PM

Which couplet from a song encompasses everything you could say in a nutshell about life?

Mine is from "Under Pressure":

It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends scream, "Let me out!"

SteveMacD

11-17-2005, 10:12 PM

I have two (oddly, the popular versions of both songs feature harmony vocals from David Crosby, who's not necessarily a favorite):

To everything...there is a season -Turn! Turn! Turn!

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart -Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

dissention

11-17-2005, 10:13 PM

From "Youth Nabbed As Sniper":

Fear causes some to live
Others die real cool

The Tower

11-17-2005, 10:16 PM

From "Youth Nabbed As Sniper":

Fear causes some to live
Others die real cool
Couplets usually rhyme, honey. :p

I don't really have any. I'm more of a quatrain kinda guy.

dissention

11-17-2005, 10:17 PM

Couplets usually rhyme, honey. :p

I don't really have any. I'm more of a quatrain kinda guy.

I know, but that was the only thing I could think of. Sue me.

The Tower

11-17-2005, 10:18 PM

Sue me.
If you haven't seen the South Park scientology episode, you absolutely must. You will piss your Calvins....

dissention

11-17-2005, 10:19 PM

If you haven't seen the South Park scientology episode, you absolutely must. You will piss your Calvins....

I don't think I've seen an entire episode of that thing in my life. So ****ing obnoxious, I don't know if I can. :laugh: When is it on?

SteveMacD

11-17-2005, 10:20 PM

Couplets usually rhyme, honey. :p
Rhyming is so overrated...

But, if you're going to be a dick about it...(j/K)

On and on it will always be the rhythm, rhyme, and harmony
-Love Shines

SteveMacD

11-17-2005, 10:22 PM

I don't think I've seen an entire episode of that thing in my life. So ****ing obnoxious, I don't know if I can.
What, afraid of the competition :p

dissention

11-17-2005, 10:31 PM

What, afraid of the competition :p

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/dissention_1/churchsign1.jpg

SteveMacD

11-17-2005, 10:34 PM

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/dissention_1/churchsign1.jpg
:thumbsup:

The Tower

11-17-2005, 10:34 PM

I don't think I've seen an entire episode of that thing in my life. So ****ing obnoxious, I don't know if I can. :laugh: When is it on?
If you're not a South Park fan, it's still worth it for the slamming they give to those crraaazzy mo-fos.

Here's the schedule

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_schedule/index.jhtml?seriesId=11600

Even if you can't handle their base humor, it's nice just to see the brutally frank commentary on those idiot scientologists.

Rhyming is so overrated...

But, if you're going to be a dick about it...(j/K)

On and on it will always be the rhythm, rhyme, and harmony
-Love Shines
I am always a dick. A couplet is usually two successive lines, not one. :p

dissention

11-17-2005, 10:39 PM

If you're not a South Park fan, it's still worth it for the slamming they give to those crraaazzy mo-fos.

Here's the schedule

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_schedule/index.jhtml?seriesId=11600

Even if you can't handle their base humor, it's nice just to see the brutally frank commentary on those idiot scientologists.

Is it the episode called "Trapped In the Closet"? I'm always up for Scientology bashing. Those crazy crackers.

irishgrl

11-17-2005, 10:51 PM

Im not sure this encompasses my philosophy, but I think it a very clever lyric:
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis

and this for a finish, sublime!
I will turn your face to alabaster
Then you'll find your servant is your master

ontheEdgeof17

11-17-2005, 10:53 PM

Love is a word...some entertain it
If you find it...you have won the game

That ok?

heyjupiter678

11-17-2005, 11:06 PM

It's grim but never dubious as motives go
No matter what it takes she promises a show

irishgrl

11-17-2005, 11:08 PM

an oldie but a goodie:

row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream

GateandGarden

11-17-2005, 11:11 PM

macfanken

11-17-2005, 11:20 PM

GateandGarden

11-17-2005, 11:21 PM

Awww... :xoxo:Well, I know how to pick 'em. :laugh: :rolleyes:

ontheEdgeof17

11-17-2005, 11:24 PM

Well, I know how to pick 'em. :laugh: :rolleyes:

For real.

Depress me more whydontcha? :p I'm already depressed that Pride and Prejudice is coming out next week and I have no date to watch it with....This thought has been engraved in my brain since the previews come out. All I want is a nice romantic dinner and a movie....dammit. :rolleyes:

GateandGarden

11-17-2005, 11:25 PM

For real.

Depress me more whydontcha? :p I'm already depressed that Pride and Prejudice is coming out next week and I have no date to watch it with....This thought has been engraved in my brain since the previews come out. All I want is a nice romantic dinner and a movie....dammit. :rolleyes:Hey I've never had a girlfriend! :laugh:

We'll be okay. :xoxo:

ontheEdgeof17

11-17-2005, 11:26 PM

Hey I've never had a girlfriend! :laugh:

We'll be okay. :xoxo:

I guess it will be cheaper to go alone.

:::cries:::

macfanken

11-17-2005, 11:31 PM

I guess it will be cheaper to go alone.

:::cries:::

I'm going to a concert by myself tomorrow... I guess I'm getting used to it. :(

catinthedark

11-18-2005, 12:52 AM

I'm going to a concert by myself tomorrow... I guess I'm getting used to it. :(

I go to Stevie and FM concerts alone all the time.

And my best friend is moving away in 2 weeks.

And Hillary's couplet? Yeah, that would work pretty fine for my relationship history.

*pulls out razor blades*

amber

11-18-2005, 01:07 AM

"Oh i have seen
Such madness in the air
Just like a dream
It makes no sense anywhere"

Duh.

David

11-18-2005, 01:14 AM

"Oh i have seen
Such madness in the air
Just like a dream
It makes no sense anywhere"

Duh.I like that one! That made me start humming the song. I'll post the chords later.

ontheEdgeof17

11-18-2005, 01:15 AM

It's dark and cold and I'm lonley.

Someone hold me.

macfanken

11-18-2005, 01:39 AM

It's dark and cold and I'm lonley.

Someone hold me.

I don't know if that's a couplet or if you're really asking? :shrug: :xoxo:

SuzeQuze

11-18-2005, 08:35 AM

I think that's the right one

It ends with

"For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright
Who art as black as hell and dark as night"

That has applied to my relationships far, far too many times.

:nod: Good one. That reminds me of the movie Beautiful Girls where at the high school reunion a guy tells Lauren Holly's character how she was really something else in high school - beautiful. "But you were as mean as a snake." I knew plenty of girls like that. And boys.

irishgrl

11-18-2005, 09:03 AM

How about the Sounds of Silence? its chockFULL of couplets:
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Ive come to talk with you again
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"

Josh2003

11-18-2005, 10:21 AM

Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.

irishgrl

11-18-2005, 11:45 AM

Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.

hey now! where have I heard THAT one before :eek: :thumbsup:

chiliD

11-18-2005, 12:25 PM

Don't ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.

SuzeQuze

11-18-2005, 02:56 PM

God forbid ya had to walk a mile in his (her) shoes.
Cuz then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues (have to choose).

snowman

11-18-2005, 11:26 PM

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/dissention_1/churchsign1.jpg

Or Stevie might say...

5019 :laugh:

snowman

11-18-2005, 11:30 PM

Im not sure this encompasses my philosophy, but I think it a very clever lyric:

and this for a finish, sublime!

You'll be wrapped around my finger... Great song!!

macfanken

11-19-2005, 01:59 AM

I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

gldstwmn

11-19-2005, 01:17 PM

I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Yeah baby! The Smiths! :blob2:

ragandbone

11-19-2005, 01:28 PM

Yeah baby! The Smiths! :blob2:

I know, I had to go and listen to them just after seeing the couplet. Just those two lines and immediately the guitar at the beginning of the song went through my head, along with all of the memories from the time in my life when I listened to the Smiths incessantly.

Great choice of philosophy-embodying couplet!

sasja

11-19-2005, 03:13 PM

From Dar William's "Iowa"

Way back where I come from we never mean to bother
We never make our passions other people's concerns
And we walk in a world of safe people and at night
we go into our houses, and burn....

Sasja

SteveMacD

11-20-2005, 06:10 PM

Here are a few from one of my favorite Dylan tunes, Chimes Of Freedom:

Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight

Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale

Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse

LikeAWillow

11-20-2005, 08:06 PM

I watched you die, I heard you cry everynight in your sleep
I was so young you should have known better than to lean on me

That was my life up until about 3 months ago.

catinthedark

11-21-2005, 01:20 AM

I watched you die, I heard you cry everynight in your sleep
I was so young you should have known better than to lean on me

That was my life up until about 3 months ago.

I'm happy for you that it is no longer. I can symapthize. That entire song IS my life. I actually got choked up the first time I heard it.

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

I think I just veered WAY off topic. Sorry.