Greatest Song Lyric of All Time

lucrecia

What's your choice? At the moment I'm veering towards an N*E*R*D song that contains the line "her ass is a spaceship that I want to ride". Wordsworth eat your heart out.

funk-you

The Pogues- Fairytale in new york:

"i could have been someone" , "well so could anyone"

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Led Zeppelin-A Whole Lotta Love

"i wanna give you every inch of my lovin, oh, oh, what a whole lotta love...."

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Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

"i can't get no satisfaction, i can't get no curly action, but i try, and i try and i try and i try..."

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Patti Smith - Gloria

"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"

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The Beatles - Abbey Road

"and in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make"

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The Doors - People are Strange

People are Strange, when you're a stranger, faces look ugly, when you're alone"

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ive got plenty more but its 516 am and tbh i couldn't be arsed at this time.
Probably more suited to the music forum.:v:

-Funk

spurious

Springsteen "And my clothes don't fit me no more..."
('Streets of Philadelphia')

NoDayBut2Day

Death Cab for Cutie - "Soul Meets Body"

"I do believe it's true
that there are roads left in both of our shoes
but if the silence takes you
then I hope it takes me too"

And there are many more, but that one stands out to me now.

xzanti

Train... Drops of Jupiter, No lyric in particular, I love the whole song...

Kersh

Ministry - So What,
The line " I only kill to know Im alive, SO WHAT"

or Nirvana , the openng line to In utero, on the song Serve the Servants
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now im bored and old"
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finlma

Sultans of Ping FC:

My, brother, knows, Karl Marx,
He met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park,
He said 'What do you think about my manifesto?'
'I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o.'

LegacyUser

I have edited it as much as I can, but I think all the lyrics in this song are excellent:
Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels

She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company
Yes, she’ll tell you she’s an orphan
After you meet her family

She paints her eyes as black as night, now
Pulls those shades down tight
Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes,
The pain’s gonna make everything alright

Chorus -
Says she talks to angels,
They call her out by her name
She talks to angels,
Says they call her out by her name

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket
She wears a cross around her neck
Yes, the hair is from a little boy
And the cross is someone she has not met, not yet

Chorus-

She don’t know no lover,
None that I ever seen
Yes, to her that ain’t nothing
But to me, yeah me,
It’s everything

Chorus

Kernel

We are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls. Cheeky cheeky!

Beruthiel

And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum,
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
You'll find my favourite axe
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase
Just one of my bad days


from Pink Floyd - One of my Turns

Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
Night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.

And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum,
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
You'll find my favourite axe
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase
Just one of my bad days
Would you like to watch T. V.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?

Kolodny

funk-you wrote:

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

"i can't get no satisfaction, i can't get no curly action, but i try, and i try and i try and i try..."

I think it's "I can't get no girl with action" but that sounds much better in fairness!

RobertFoster

Pink Floyd - Time

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in a quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

joejoem

Maria McKee - If Love is a red dress (hang me in rags)

The whole song but the title is a great line and

"If love is shelter, I wanna walk in the rain"

Not that its my credo or anything, I just get serious goosepimples anytime I listen to that song. Amazing song, and most of you will know it from Pulp Fiction

iregk

These two from our own island I think are pretty special.

U2 -
"Slide of hand and twist of faith
on a bed of nails she makes me wait"

Aslan -
"This is the face of a teenage mother
this is the child she bears
this is the soul of her broken lover
searching for the smiles they shared."

joejoem

iregk wrote:

These two from our own island I think are pretty special.

U2 -
"Slide of hand and twist of faith
on a bed of nails she makes me wait"

Also one of my favorites but I would have had to quote most of the song.

iregk wrote:

Aslan -
"This is the face of a teenage mother
this is the child she bears
this is the soul of her broken lover
searching for the smiles they shared."

In all in anyways bleeding deadly

dahooligan

Can anyone forget the Vengaboys 1st hit.. with lyrics so meaningful and poignant.. sigh

up and down and up and down and up and down and up...

(Chorus)

up and down and up and down and up and down and up...

etc. :v:

fly_agaric

Lyrics of "Strange Fruit" always grabbed me.
Contrasts are just so extreme:

"Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh."

kittenkiller

You & Me baby ain't nothing but mammals,
Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel!

-Bloodhound Gang

JamesM

Kolodny wrote:

I think it's "I can't get no girl with action" but that sounds much better in fairness!

I think that it is "Girl reaction"

LegacyUser

Faith no More - Ricochet

"it's always funny until someone gets hurt, and then it's just hillarious"

biko

New Model Army
"I always drive like a madman, Eddie
But you'll soon get used to that
I believe if you're moving fast enough, Eddie
You don't ever have to watch your back"

Creamy Goodness

Dear Daddy,
I write you in spite of years of silence.
You've cleaned up, found Jesus,
things are good or so I hear.
This bottle of Steven's
awakens ancient feelings.
Like father, stepfather, the son is drowning in the flood.


got to be this,

Say it ain't so - Weezer

maximus02

Pink Floyd - Time (again)

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Judes

"Roll me in designer sheets, I never get enough........." - Blondie "CALL ME" - I just love that line (well at least that's the line I've been singing for years, so hope I haven't misheard it). There's an old song by Queen on the "Night at the Opera" album called "The Prophet's Song" - the lyrics are wonderful, you feel you're really listening to a story being told! (OK giving my age away a bit here). J

iregk

Miah he, miah hoo, miah ha, miah ha ha....

TheVan

Not the best line ever but def up there:
The Arcade Fire;

"My family tree's
losing all its leaves"

Dave!

Damien Rice - Older Chests

"Everybody needs the help, of someone else, to mend that shelf of too many books... read me your favourite line"

Nice work Damo...

Dermington

I would say lateralis/lateralus by tool.

With my feet upon the ground
I lose myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in
I feel it move across my skin
I'm reaching up and reaching out
I'm reaching for the random, for
Whatever will bewilder me
Whatever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind
We may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end
May just go where no one's been


It has no effect typed here but the way Maynard sings it after 9 minutes of music is awesome. It still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

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iregk wrote:

U2 -"Slide of hand and twist of faith
on a bed of nails she makes me wait"

Its "SLIGHT" of hand...not slide

Nala

Nirvana, Scentless Apprentice:

"Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen".

melekalikimaka

No Doubt - Oi To The World(Vandals cover but this version is better)

On the roof with the num-chucks,
Trevor broke alota bones,
But Hagi had a sword like the guy,
in Indiana Jones...

Christmas Carols at their best!!

Raiser

I'm as serious as cancer when I say......rhythm is a dancer

Ozzy

Hummmmmmm.... from Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat

"Just remember love is life
And hate is living death
Treat your life for what it's worth
And live for every breath
Looking back I've lived and learned
But now I'm wondering
Here I wait and only guess
What this next life will bring"

D

"...so I found me a whore with a face just like yours..."
Flogging Mollys

krinpit

JamesM wrote:

I think that it is "Girl reaction"

I always thought it was "Girly action"

Stephen

And the award for the most retarded lyric ever goes to: Lil' Jon, for his magnum opus, 'Get Low':

Lil'Jon wrote:

To the window, to the wall, (to dat wall)
To the sweat drop down my balls (MY BALLS)
To all these bitches crawl (crawl)
To all skeet skeet mother****er (mother****er!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)
To all skeet skeet mother****er (mother****er!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)

ahahahaha, its so stupid but so catchy... skeet skeet skeet!

Pigman II

The Hitchers

"You can only love someone so much, but you can hate them all the way to hell."

cournioni

There's something inside me
It's, it's coming out
I feel like killing you
Let loose the anger, held back too long
My blood runs cold

Through my anatomy, dwells another being
Rooted in my cortex, a servant to its bidding
Brutality now becomes my appetite
Violence is now a way of life
The sledge my tool to torture
As it pounds down on your forehead

Eyes bulging from their sockets
With every swing of my mallet
I smash your ****ing head in, until brains seep in
through the cracks, blood does leak
distorted beauty, catastrophe
Steaming slop, splattered all over me

Lifeless body, slouching dead
Lecherous abcess, where you once had a head

Avoiding the prophecy of my new found lust
You will never live again, soon your life will end
I'll see you die at my feet, eternally I smash your face
facial bones collapse as I crack your skull in half

Crushing, cranial, contents

Draining the snot, I rip out the eyes
Squeezing them in my hands nerves are incised
Peeling the flesh off the bottom of my weapon
Involuntarily pulpifying facial regions

Suffer, and then you die
Torture, pulverized

At one with my sixth sense, I feel free
To kill as I please, no one can stop me

Created to kill, the carnage continues
Violently reshaping human facial tissue

Brutality becomes my appetite
Violence is now a way of life
The sledge my tool to torture
As it pounds down on your forehead


Pure class.

Kernel

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Vitriole.

Dude, you have issues!

cournioni

Ah come on... Do you not like Ace Ventura?

Neil_Sedaka

Des'ree, Life

"I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in a park
When there's no one else around
Oh I get the shivers,
I don't wanna see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news

Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life"

All I can say is.....................................WOW!

ionapaul

The Brentmiester general probably agrees...

GLaDOS

"Every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there" System of a Down, Sugar

joejoem

your beautiful, your beautiful, your beautiful its true

Pighead

Fcuk off who do you think you are get out of my fcuking flat
What d'ya mean you live here don't talk to me like that.

besty

Another Des'ree classic,
"Money dont make the world go round, Im reaching out to a higher ground."

Nightwish

Forever shall the wolf in me desire the beast in you

joejoem

A monkey fart should smell like a banana,
An english fart should smell like cups of tea,
He said the fartin of a fairy
Should be fairly light and airy,
When a father farts I hope you think of me

By Mike Barrett

shifty sparrow

Fat bottom girls, they make the rocking world go round

Crucifix

"...And by the way,
Didn't I break your heart?" - Marillion's 'Kayleigh'

"I know, I know the nations past,
I know, I know they rust at last,
They tremble with the nervous thought;
Of having been, at last, forgot" - Sufjan Steven's wonderfully titled 'They are Night Zombies!! They are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!'

joejoem

Also by Mike Barrett

I was ten years of age when I learned about ****
with my hand in my pocket I took her to town
with the pushing and pulling and stroking and cranking
Once I picked her up, I couldn't put her down

I was wankin so much that my elbow got sore
my palms got all hairy and my eyesight got poor
and I said ah sure what could be better than this
except if I could give my Willie a kiss

My father once caught me pulling my toffee
and floggin my frog, while out in the bog
He said for this transgression you must go to confession
and tell all your sins to old Father McNab

I said Father I'm sorry for stretching my Larry
and for beating the Bishop to beat the old band
he said say ten Our Fathers and twenty Hail Marys
and an Act of Contrition for the sins of your hand

But as I was praying my hand started straying
and I felt the sensation vibratin' my rocks
and I reached for my ballocks and had one more frolic
before I vacated the confessional box

jebuz

"to think i might not see those eyes, makes it so hard not to cry"

Snow Patrol - Run