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Your Favourite Line or Verse from a song and why?

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    #92
    IrishGrimReaper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭IrishGrimReaper


    There's so many great lines I can think of. But if I had to pick it would be this.

    Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life Without You

    Life without you....
    All the love you passed my way
    The angels have waited for so long....
    Now they have their way
    Take your place....


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    #93
    Pints?
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Pints?


    If I could only turn back the clocks to when God and Her were born,
    "Come in", she said "I'll give you shelter from the storm".

    Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm

    Dylan just pours his heart and soul into this whole album.


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    #94
    music producer
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭music producer


    "All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"

    Simon & Garfunkel


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    #95
    MaxWig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭MaxWig


    I like a girl in satin, Who talks dirty in Latin
    A girl who's flirty, When she quotes Krishnamurti
    If she likes to be goosed
    While reciting from Proust
    I'll know she's my kind of creature
    Among her delectables,
    Her intellectables
    Must be her sexiest feature

    I've got The Hots For The Smarts
    The Hots For The Smarts
    IQ off the charts
    Give me brains over hearts
    I've got The Hots For The Smarts

    Richard Thompson - Hots for the Smarts
    (A true genius)


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    #96
    Rad!
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Rad!


    cocorosie lyrics from The Moon Asked The Crow

    I caught a glimpse out the window
    a Polish graveyard filled with widows.
    I coddle a bottle of warm beer,
    I see a pool of liquid tears
    Glimmering so sweet and mellow,
    A sea of lilting wilting willow,
    A secret book of forgotten wishes
    Drawn in ponds with broken dishes

    (The moon asked the crow for a little show/ In the hazy milk of twilight, no-one had to know)

    Man I wish I could write something like that. A lot of the stuff they write must have started out as poetry I reckon.


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    #97
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Now don't hang on
    Nothin' last forever but the earth and sky
    It slips away
    And all your money won't another minute buy


    Dust in the wind by Kansas


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    #98
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Something inside so strong.
    Sung by Labi Siffre


    The higher you build your barriers
    The taller I become
    The farther you take my rights away
    The faster I will run
    You can deny me
    You can decide to turn your face away
    No matter, cos there’s

    Something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it
    Though you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, there's something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong

    The more you refuse to hear my voice
    The louder I will sing
    You hide behind walls of Jericho
    Your lies will come tumbling
    Deny my place in time
    You squander wealth that’s mine
    My light will shine so brightly
    It will blind you
    because there’s

    Something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it
    Though you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, there's something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong

    Brothers and sisters
    When they insist we’re just not good enough
    Well we know better
    Just look ‘em in the eyes and say
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway
    There's

    Something inside so strong
    And I know that I can make it
    Though you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, there's something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong

    Brothers and sisters
    When they insist we’re just not good enough
    Well we know better
    Just look ‘em in the eyes and say
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway
    Because there’s

    Something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it
    Though you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, there's something inside so strong

    There's something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it
    Though you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, there's something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong
    Oh oh oh oh
    Something inside so strong
    ___


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    #99
    periodictable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    Now I see you standing
    With brown leaves falling around
    And snow in your hair
    Now you're smiling out the window
    Of that crummy hotel
    Over Washington Square
    Our breath comes out white clouds
    Mingles and hangs in the air
    Speaking strictly for me
    We both could have died then and there


    Joan Baez "Diamonds and Rust"


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    #100
    9959
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Rad! wrote: »
    cocorosie lyrics from The Moon Asked The Crow

    I caught a glimpse out the window
    a Polish graveyard filled with widows.
    I coddle a bottle of warm beer,
    I see a pool of liquid tears
    Glimmering so sweet and mellow,
    A sea of lilting wilting willow,
    A secret book of forgotten wishes
    Drawn in ponds with broken dishes

    (The moon asked the crow for a little show/ In the hazy milk of twilight, no-one had to know)

    Man I wish I could write something like that. A lot of the stuff they write must have started out as poetry I reckon.

    You could easily have written something like that when you were about 12, you just had to the good sense not to.

    'Drawn in ponds with broken dishes'...
    ....give me strength!


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    #101
    lizad2009
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭lizad2009


    I love this idea! It may make people wince that I picked my favourite line from a Bon Iver/Justin Vernon song, but mainstream/cult musician whatever you want to call him, the man writes great songs.

    "And at once I knew I was not magnificent..."

    I just think despite the fact this quote is only 9 words long, it almost captures our lifes, searching and searching for wealth, happiness, beauty and the inevitable sudden realisation that we are...not as magnificent as we had hoped and ours dreams and successes are as valuable and comparable to everyone elses.


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    #102
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I've been listening to a lot of counting crows lately and Mrs Potters Lullaby is fast becoming one of my favourite songs the final line is

    "You can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far"

    Pretty much sums up where i am at the moment!:mad:


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    #103
    MaxWig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭MaxWig


    well you're my friend
    (it's what you told me)
    and can you see
    (what's inside of me)
    many times
    we've been out drinking
    and many times
    we've shared our thoughts
    but did you ever, ever notice
    the kind of thoughts I got
    well you know I have a love
    a love for everyone I know
    and you know I have a drive
    to live I won't let go
    but can you see its opposition
    comes a-rising up sometimes
    that it's dreadful and position
    comes blacking in my mind

    and that I see a darkness
    and that I see a darkness
    and that I see a darkness
    and that I see a darkness
    and did you know how much I love you
    is a hope that somehow you you
    can save me from this darkness

    well I hope that someday, buddy
    we have peace in our lives
    together or apart
    alone or with our wives
    that we can stop our whoring
    and pull the smiles inside
    and light it up forever
    and never go to sleep
    my best unbeaten brother
    this isn't all I see

    Bonnie 'Prince' Billy


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    #104
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    2 quotes for everyday use:

    "When I am king you will be first against the wall"
    Radiohead

    "I did go from wanting to be someone
    Now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue O'Connell Street"
    Rufus Wainwright, Poses


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    #105
    centa
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭centa


    "In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.
    All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground.
    Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
    Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

    Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
    Gone to ground.
    See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
    And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees."


    Grantchester Meadows - Pink Floyd

    Always reminds me of summers in my youth.


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    #106
    LoonyLovegood
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 6,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Give me therapy, I'm a walking travesty
    But I'm smiling at everything
    Therapy, you were never a friend to me
    You can choke on your misery.

    Therapy, All Time Low.

    Meant a hell of a lot to me when I first heard it, even now it'll bring a tear to my eye.


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    #107
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    "For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool

    By making his world a little colder."

    (Hey Jude. As if a reference was needed :) )


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    #108
    Snatchy
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Snatchy


    "And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
    What can I possibly say?
    I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
    I'm glad you stood in my way.

    If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
    Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free"

    from Famous Blue Raincoat

    - L. Cohen.


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    #109
    brianh576
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭brianh576


    i let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
    and in time i've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
    i can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
    hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past
    all the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
    choosing the shiny ones instead
    i turned my back, now there's no turning back
    no matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead

    Thumbing my way banck to Heaven
    Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam


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