Painting with Words - Rock Quotes

Beyond the rock clichés there's real beauty in the words -

In the misty crystal glitter of the wild and windward spray.
The Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie

Crickets call, courtin' their ladies in star-dappled green
I Don't know Where I stand - Joni Mitchell

Feel so bad
Like a ball game on a rainy day
Feel So Bad (Chuck Willis) by Elvis Presley

Call her Moonchild
Dancing in the shallows of a river
Moonchild - pete Sinfield - King Crimson

Like magazines in dusty grey attics
Marcie - Joni Mitchell

There's oil in the puddles in Taffeta patterns
Michael from the Mountains - Joni Mitchell

In my white room with black curtains near the station
Black roofed country, no gold pavement, tired starlings
Silver horses run down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on your leaving my contentment.
White Room - Pete Brown - Cream

I'll stay with you to my seas are dried up...
In the Sunshine of your love.
Sunshine of your Love - Pete Brown - Cream

Playing hide and seek with the ghosts of dawn
Moonchild - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson

My love she speaks like silence
without ideals or violence
she doesn't have to say she's faithful
yet she's true like ice,like fire.
Love minus Zero / No Limit - Bob Dylan

Take me disappearin' throught the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

When the night is cold and the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we see.
Stand by Me - Ben E King

Floating down, the sound resound
Around the icy waters underground.
Astronomy Domini - Pink Floyd.

Silk and diamond gilded gauntlet
Intersteller Soul - March Bolan - T. Rex

My sandled feet are fleet like water
Elemental Child - T. Rex

Hot chilli peppers in the blistering sun
Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan (with Jacques Levy)

Freeze dried romance
Drops of Jupiter - Train

No that she's back in the atmosphere
with drops of Jupiter in her hair
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change...
She listens like Spring and she talks like June.
Drops of Jupiter - Train

The width of a room that can hold so much pleasure inside
Night Porter - Japan

Still life in mobile homes
Still Life in Mobile Homes - Japan

My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale
Islands - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson

Well he threw a Readers' Digest at my head and I did run
Motorpsycho Nightmare - Bob Dylan

With your mercury mouth in the missionary times
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes
and your silver cross and your voice like chimes.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Bob Dylan

Sunlight bright upon my pillow
Lighter than an eiderdown
Will she let the weeping willow
Wind his branches round
Julia Dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams
Julia Dreams - Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd

Her hair of floating sky is shimmering, glimmering,
In the sun.
Julia - John Lennon - Beatles

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane.
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles

Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I Am the Walrus - The Beatles

Its a still life water colour,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
The Dangling Conversation - Paul Simon - Simon and Garfunkle

Taking to the trees of the cobwebbed strange
Moonchild - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson

When the sun turns traitor cold
The Urge for Going - Joni Mitchell

Darkly ghostish host
Haggard vizer of the moats
Seeks the sandled shores of Gods
Baby of the moors
She was Born to be my Unicorn - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Night stood erect with broken haunches
Salamander Palaganda - Tyrannosaurus Rex

A mesh of jade I shyly laid
Root of Star - T. Rex

Saw a face in a conical of lace
Strange Orchestra - T. Rex

A broken god from a rusty world
Teenage Dream - T. Rex

I chased the wind of a prism ship
To taste the sweet and sour.
The Court of the Crimson King - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson

Charted seas of your skin
Like a White Star, tangled and far you are -
Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dropping circle stones on a sundial
Moonchild - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson

It's another Tequila Sunrise
Starin' slowly 'cross the sky
Said Goodbye
Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles

Let tears of joy baptise the crowd
Crying in the Discotheque - Alcazas

The purple piper plays his tune
The Court of the Crimson King - Pete Sinfield - King Crimson