Great idea for a thread, Liddyminto. Just wondering, are you male or female? No more private info being sought, just curious. I am Billy - male! 50-something +!
I have twenty-somethings who have been at college, three of them, and I am always deeply touched when Mr H sings live Journey's End (A Father's Promise), especially:

"I'll be there, on the road, as the mystery unfolds,
I'll be there when you need a special friend,
I'll be there when you fear it's a never-ending road,
I'll be there at your Journey's End"

Pure simple magic. Put the way so many of us would want to put it, but never can.

Blue eyes, blue eyes,
How can you tell so many lies?

essexboybilly wrote:
Let's face it - nearly all of us are probably 50+ !! I'm female, and like you, have two at uni. I guess it counts as a mother's promise too!

Nice choice.

'I've seen half the world in the last seven years
seen a rainbow of beauty seen a waterfall of tears,
seen a millionaire heartbroken, beside a hobo with a grin......'

could have used any line from this song,'living in a rhapsody'.
just love it,and delivered with such emotion.

Agreed, great idea for a thread. Try this, which I always believed lives alongside Dylan's magnificent "I started out on Burgundy, but soon hit the harder stuff" line:

"I'd hide if I could, but I'm red in a yellow sea" - Understand from Timeless Flight

To be so exposed, so real, so true, so reliable, so honest.....I picture a sea of yellow and a small red dot, a human saying I can't hide, I am honest and true...to me lines like this (I guess I will return with more in the days or weeks to come) place Steve Harley among the great lyricists of his generation, or any of the rock world. And I mean any. Cohen, Dylan, Mitchell, Young, McCartney, Drake, Stevens (Yusef), Simon...the lot. Harley rates up there. This thread will run and run!!

God Liddy, great question. Good conversation starter. I really love hearing more personal stuff from people like this related to Steve's music. God, so many good ones to pick. I don't know about describing me though.

I'm not cool, I have a boring life, I don't have kids, or a significant other...I mean the music always touches me, but I don't know about describing me...

I think one could be:

You're like the elemental child
My crazy dancer, sexy wild


Don't think the sexy fits but, the rest sure.

and also:

Shift around this one-song town
Like a sparrow with a broken wing -feeling blue!
Terrified to step outside, it's so easy
To make a suicide come true