Whats everyones favourite lyric?

JohnButler

Hi,

just had a conversation with a buddy today about our favourite lyric ever and was just wondering what people on here would choose as their favourite lyric? Like what one lyric struck a chord with you, made you smile or just cause it was so good you remembered it?

Anyway my most recent one was Bell X1's Great Defector "Your the chocolate at the end of my, Cornetto", thought it was brilliant!

So would love to hear peoples choices!!

Also sorry if this was done before or anything similar to it!!:D

niallon

Pretty sure this was done already but who cares, it's fun!

Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues - "I've lost my St.Christopher, now that I've kissed her"

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run - "The highway's filled with broken heroes, on a last chance power drive"

John Prine - Angel From Montgomery - "If dreams were lightning, and thunder were desire, this old house would've burned down, a long time ago"

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me - "He starts to shake and cough, just like the, old man in, that book by Nabakov"

Shortest list I could possibly do, there's just so many!!

mike65

Another one? :pac:

"Whats the story in Balamory, wouldn't you like to know?"

Says it all really.

Latchy

God only knows

I may not always love you
as long as there are stars above you
you'll never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
god only knows what I'll be without you .

Each to their own but you cant get more simple than that

allthedoyles

This is mine : 'Friends Forever' by Vitamin C .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWitXo2sgJ0

oldyouth

Chris Rea - I ain't the fool here

'The muscles in your mouth must be stronger than steel'

Could never work out if he meant she was a nagging bit$h or the best friend a bloke could have:D

padraig_f

"Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive"

- opening line of 'There is a Light That Never Goes Out' by The Smiths

glennb

h.i.m-song name join me in death "wont you die tonight for love"
i dont know why but it was the first i thaught of and 1 that i think is so great aswell is
50 cent-song name 21 questions"i love you like a fat kid loves cake " the first time i heard that line ......

chupacabra

"Split your lungs with blood and thunder
When you see the white whale
Break your backs and crack your oars men
If you wish to prevail

This ivory leg is what propels me
Harpoons thrust in the sky
Aim directly for his crooked brow
And look him straight in the eye

White whale - holy grail"

joeybloggs

"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down'


Gets me every time....

Mac Masters

Hands down it has to be:

Spinal Tap:Big Bottoms.

"My baby suits me like a flesh tuxedo, I'm gonna sink her with my pink torpedo."

No line in all of music is funnier I think!

Taz86

Oh so many. Here's a snippet of a few:

This because it's so true. So many thrive on sniping, bitching, back stabbing. It takes strength to be a decent person -

The Smiths "It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate/It takes guts to be gentle and kind" (I Know It's Over)

In live concerts Bowie often alters this line to be:
"Who wants to be alive when they're twenty-five" (All the Young Dudes)

"Oh I look at my watch it says 9.25 and I think 'Oh God, I'm still alive'" (Time)

Arctic Monkeys "That Bloody Mary's lacking a Tabasco" (Florescent Adolescent) (people look back on the past with rose tinted specs and forget. The Tabasco would be adding the sour in. I fink that's what it means)

silent sage

Tool - Schism

"cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion... between supposed lovers"*

I think the build up to, and delivery of this lyric is immense.

*Watch from 4mins onwards, or preferably the whole video (if you're mildly interested or bored )

demakinz

THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL-PHIL COULTER
"Whats done is done, and whats won is won, and whats gone is gone,and lost forever",
The way LUKE KELLY sings it TRUE CLASS

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS-METALLICA
"Life is ours we live it our way!

tech77

Taz86 wrote: »

The Smiths "It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate/It takes guts to be gentle and kind" (I Know It's Over)

One of my favourite Smiths' songs.

Xavi6

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

Genius

jethro081

"It's turning morning all the birds sing/ I'm not complicating anything/ So i'll have another and i'll goo to bed' And i'll dream of you." (Ryan Adams, Sweet Illusion)


or

And i toyed with you
and you toyed with me
can we stop it please
(Ryan adams These Girls)

or

I guess by the dim light in your eyes
and to you all things come as a surprise
i should set the steel trap of your thighs
and dive right in
(Two gallants Despite what you've been told.

Could go on for days really

yevveh

Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart

"I hope you die in a decent pair of shoes
You've got a lotta long walkin to do"

brummytom

"Don't give up 'til it's over, don't quit if you can; the weight upon your shoulders will make you a stronger man" - The Dubliners

That song always makes me feel more posiitive

Nolanger

Isn't he cute? No he ain't. He's just another burden on the welfare state.

Creamy Goodness

too many to mention but at the moment.

"repeat your cowardly behavior, running over your anger, constant so unequal" - sucioperro - conception theory

yarglags

You said I wasn't cheap. You paid me twenty pounds.
You promised to put me in a magazine on every table in every lounge.

Dj Stiggie

"F**k elitist, we don't need this, we're the elite of just alright"
-Sum 41, Underclass Hero

Not my favorite, but I like it

craiginireland

We always did feel the same we just saw it from a diffirent point of view.

Dylan

TiGeR KiNgS

muse-meglomania

''paradise comes at a price......... she cant have babies''



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv7Q6YaV1R8

murpheous81

Prodigy - "F**k 'Em and their Law"

sub-x

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?


Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here.

MrMojoRisin

JohnButler wrote: »

Hi,

just had a conversation with a buddy today about our favourite lyric ever and was just wondering what people on here would choose as their favourite lyric? Like what one lyric struck a chord with you, made you smile or just cause it was so good you remembered it? ...

christ, I could reel off loads but two just popped into my head now.. First one, it's from 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette.

'Did you forget about me, Mr Duplicity ? I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner. It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced, and are u thinkin of me when u fcuk her?' very very clever, she really goes to psycho-nasty town on that but it's great

Second one that came into my head is from Gang Of Four's 'I Love A Man In Uniform'.

'To have ambition was my ambition but I had nothing to show for my dreams'. Just makes me laugh.

MrMojoRisin

Also love this line from NWA's 'Express Yourself'

I'm expressin' with my full capabilities
And now I'm livin' in correctional facilities

HalloweenJack

"Sometimes the price is sixty-five dollars,
prices like that make a grown man holler,
'specially when it's sold by a kid who's only fifteen."
3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane

"I knew a girl named Nikki, I guess you could say she was a sex fiend.
I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine."
Darling Nikki - Prince

"I punched his lights out and stole his dough.
I bought some heroin and brought it to school,
I don't know how I'm so unbelievably cool."
The Steady Song - Republic of Loose

Hermy

I hurt myself today to see if I still feel.

lordgoat

Prayers laced with fear - beware. CD

Crooked spin can't some to rest, i'm damaged bad at best. ES

Poor old johnny ray, sounded sad upon the radio moved a million hearts in mono. KR

I'm a cherry ghost. JT (well i want to end up as one)

kingsley16

every single lyric on this song :pac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8aIC8lKr0

Dlite

So far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door. - Carol King

lucky that my breast are small and humble
So you don't confuse them for mountains. - Shakira

Without your love, it's tearing me apart,
Without your love, I'm doused in madness
Can't lose this sadness. - Archive

corcaigh07

id hate to see a ghost.
Its the sight I fear most.
Rather have a piece of toast.
Watch the evening news.

Life oh life ooooooohhhhhh liiiiiiffffe oh life do do do.


its just so ridiculous, it works!

lordgoat

corcaigh07 wrote: »

id hate to see a ghost.
Its the sight I fear most.
Rather have a piece of toast.
Watch the evening news.

Life oh life ooooooohhhhhh liiiiiiffffe oh life do do do.


its just so ridiculous, it works!

Ya it's up there with:

a mole,
diggin in a hole.

awesome to the max

niallon

How could I forget GMC feat State of Jay - "We need a politician with a mind like McGyver" from their rap promoting some candidate in the election. Seriously, I have to hand it to them for having the bottle!

Dan Dare

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Pink Floyd-Time

Even though I'm Irish hearing those words brings a lump to my throat every time.:)

Lynskey

"I'll take a quiet life, a handshake, some carbon monoxide,
With no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises please"
-No Surprises (Radiohead)

One of the few lyrics out there that fuses simplicity with complexity in an underlying message that trancends description...brilliant stuff

I'm also fond of this from The Beatles:

"I read the news today, oh boy,
About a lucky man who made the grade
And thought the news was rather sad,
i just had to laugh
i saw the photograph
he blew his mind out in a car
he didn't notice that the lights had changed"

Kevster

"Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back"

IrishCian

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

tech77

IrishCian wrote: »

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

Yeah Eels have some decent lyrics alright.
First one's great- what's it from again?

4zn76tysfajdxp

I'm not really into lyrics but this example from Strawberry Fields Forever really does it for me:

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.

What adds to it, I think, is the dramatic orchestration. Really hammers the point home imo.

niallon

IrishCian wrote: »

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

Only Eels song I'm familiar with I'm guessing is "the commercial one" as it's from Shrek 2 but:

"I need some sleep, can't go on like this
I tried counting sheep, but there's one I always miss"

Always loved that lyric.

Another I forgot initially:

"Come down of the cross, we can use the wood"

Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House

IrishCian

tech77 wrote: »

Yeah Eels have some decent lyrics alright.
First one's great- what's it from again?

Its the first line from Friendly Ghost, of Souljacker Disc 1.
i kinda misquoted it, its "If you're scared" not if you're afraid...Forgive me, Mr. E!

Aglomerado

niallon wrote: »

"Come down of the cross, we can use the wood"
Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House[/I]

Agreed - this song is fantastic. Another great lyric in it is;
"The world is not my home I'm just passin' through."

JP Liz

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed.
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all.

MonicaBing

Some of you guys might find this a bit schmaltzy, but it works for me,
BON JOVI- '' With an Iron clad fist, i wake up and french kiss the morning''....

METALLICA from The Unforgiven-''Lay beside me, tell me what they've done, speak the words i want to hear, to make my demons run, the door is locked now, but its open if your true, if you can understand the me, then i can understand the you'', Legend!

Soul Cake Duck

Not my favourite but can't think of any right now....

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape, broken branches trip me as I speak, just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there...

Soul Cake Duck

Oh and I know you said line/lyric but this song it just brilliant.....Love conquers and is unaffected by death..brilliant lyrics imo anyway

TV On the Radio - Stork & Owl

Faceless fall. From this. Life and ah.
If you can't. See the stars.
You've probably gone too far.
Like the voice that cried.
On the lonesome tide.
Like the wave was
the only love it ever saw.

"What's this dying for"?
Asks the Stork that soars.
With the Owl. High above.
Canyons mighty walls.
Owl said "Death's a door,
That love walks through.
In and out. In and
out.
Back and forth. Back and forth".

Turn from the fear.
Of the storms that might be.
Oh let it free.
That caged on fire thing.
Oh hold its hands.
It'll feel like lightening.
Oh in your arms safe
from the storms.

Sky bends. The moon's dress's slung low,
slung low.
Dogstar taught a dance.
It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes.
Arms out. Knees bend.
The motion flows.
Like the soft. Open petals.
Of a Jessica Rose.

So Sirius.
So it falls apart?
Just reveals the perfect nothing.
Of everything you are.
Of everything we are!

Candle of life.
Lights the blights and bruises.
Oh lay it down.
In the night.
Let it soothe this.
Oh hold its hands.
And we'll know what truth is.
Oh in its arms safe from the storms.

Mr. Presentable

"Silver star studs on my duds, like a Harley in heat"