W hat is your favourite song lyric, and why?

Turtyturd

If I recall the last thing you said the me before it broke up, before it took you from me.
You said 'I love you more than the stars in the sky but your name just escapes me tonight.'

Used to think the lyric was 'before he took you from me' and it was just another lost love song but read something recently where the writer explained that it was 'it' and the song was about his grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's. Such a small but significant change that adds a lot to the song.

AlexisM

You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy fagg0t...

ger vallely

Why is my arse the perfect height for kicking.

Deedsie

On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.

If there is a lyric/stanza to better describe unrequited love I have never heard it.

And in this one I think Bono describes a conflicted father son relationship absolutely perfectly....


We fight all the time
You and I...that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need...I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me...

Where are we now?
I've still got to let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...

SaveOurLyric

"When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
...when I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery"

Funny.




But the winner is :

"Contessa, perdono. Perdono, perdono.
Piu docile io sono, e dico di si."

There is simply no finer moment in the whole of lyric music.
None more searing, more real, or more succinctly accurate, capturing in a few words, the essence of human existence that moves you to your core.

Yamanoto

God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away.

tastyt

tastyt wrote: »

"Hot dog
jumping frog, Albuquerque"

So true.

I always thought it was "I want cookie" instead of Albuquerque.

Summer wind

Id trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holdin Bobbys body next to mine.

This is from "Me and Bobby Magee"

Eutow

Forever after us
Carrying an equation
It's like I'm Asian
You heard fantastic
We cross the Atlantic
They say I'm not normal
I'm the kid with the formula
It must be my mind reign
I'll make your back break
And your knees bend
Your sucking me friend
What do we do?
We do the voodoo
I send the energy
To a enemy
And ****ing Ronald Reagan
It's 'cause I'm pagan
Is that you, boy?
I see your decoy
Enter the arena
I'm full of schizophrenia
I lop 'em in a minute
And do the schizofrantic
Stop them poses
'Cause this is what a flow is
Stop them poses
'Cause this is what a flow is
I'm bombing bastards

anncoates

Sunday morning
Praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling
By my side

Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years
So close behind

- Sunday Morning: The Velvet Underground

JFlah

I was flat on my back with my feet in the thorns
I was in between the apples and the chloroform
She came to me often, I was sure I was dying
It was always hard to tell if she was laughing or crying

I thought I heard somebody calling
In the dark I thought I heard somebody call

Joan never cared about the in-betweens
Combed her hair with a blade did the Maid of Orleans
Said Christ walked on water we can wade through the war
You don't need to tell me who the fire is for

Oh bring me the love that can sweeten a sword
A boat that can love the rocks or the shore
The love of the iceberg reaching out for a wreck
Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of the neck?

Notorious97

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records
Well I do, so f*ck him and f*ck you too!

Eminem

Free Hat

"She's sweet but she's just four feet and she's still got her baby teeth"

Spinal Tap. Its very inappropriate but it does make me laugh quite a lot.

Summer wind

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you talking in my head
I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the first time
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
Your the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams.

This is from A Rainy Night In Soho.

KCC

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes...

agent graves

Talking that, walking that, spitting at hoes
Smoking this, drinking that, hitting at hoes
Fcuk this I'm hitting that I'm hitting em both
Have one riding dick, one licking my toes

The rap phase at the age of 13/14.

tastyt

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I always thought it was "I want cookie" instead of Albuquerque.

ha well it makes an equal amount of sense I suppose!!

Robsweezie

''why you comin' home, five in the morn'
somethin's goin' on, can I smell yo dick?''

just for pure inventiveness of detecting infidelity by smelling your partners penis, it gets my vote.

sunbeam

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrapped my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.


From Closer to Fine by The Indigo Girls

Potential-Monke

If only life were as easy as you, i would still get screwed!

Zipp101

"Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel. As every fairytale comes real. I've looked at love that way"

- Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

MRnotlob606

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes with curiosity

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind



Kansas - Dust In The Wind Lyrics |

sheesh

It doesn't matter the color of the car
But what goes on beneath the bonnet
Is there a flag that flies above your heart
And is my name writ there upon it


A lover Sings billy Brag

5star02707

Burn

"I'm twisted cause one side of me is tellin' me that I need to move on
On the other side I wanna break down and cry"

Classic song!

MRnotlob606

The Nina, OH, the Pinta, OH, the santa maria, OH, I'll do you in the bottom while you're drinking Sangria.

whatawaster

To me this is absolute perfection from The Magnetic Fields:


A pretty girl is like a minstrel show
It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, you go
It just isn't the same on radio
It's all about the makeup and the dancing and the oh!

A pretty girl is like a violent crime
If you do it wrong you could do time
But if you do it right it is sublime

I'm so in love with you girl
It's like I'm on the moon
I can't really breathe but I feel lighter

A melody is like a pretty girl
Who cares if it's the dumbest in the world
It's all about the way that it unfurls

A pretty girl is like . . . a pretty girl

gimmick

Massive Attack - Safe From Harm

I was looking at you to see you looking back at me looking back at you.

Why? Its a very cool line and I can remember doing similar in early dates years ago. Looking back at her hoping to see her looking back at you. Looking back at her because you wanted to, and looking back at her knowing she would be looking back at you looking at her.

Also, its a bit of a mindfúck of a line.

Earthhorse

Techno, techno, techno, techno!

I would explain the reason I love this lyric but it's quite technical.

hatrickpatrick

Few different ones. Couple of verses which have really resonated with me during a protracted period of social drama and exile:

Did you come here for forgiveness?
Or did you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?
Did I ask too much? More than a lot?
You gave me nothing, now it's all I've got.
We're one, but we're not the same
No we just hurt eachother, then we do it again.

One - U2.

Also, the following from Losing Touch by The Killers:

I ain't in no hurry, you go run and tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill the night with stories, the legend grows…
Of how you got lost, but you made your way back home
You sold your soul, like a roaming vagabond…
Heard about how you got lost, but you made your way back home
You sold your soul, an allegiance dead and gone…
I'm losing touch.

Et finalment (one of the best lyrics ever in my view):

Sucker love, a box I choose
No other box I choose to use.
Another love I, would abuse
No circumstances could excuse.
In the shape of things to come -
Too much poison, come undone.
'Cause there's nothing else to do -
Every me and every you.

Like the naked leads the blind,
I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind.
Sucker love I always find,
Someone to bruise and leave behind.
All alone in space and time,
There's nothing here but what's here's mine.
Something borrowed, something blue -
Every me and every you.

Placebo - Every Me Every You

Love the way this and One by U2 initially sound to the casual listener like love songs, and then you actually pay attention to the lyrics and they're both about extremely nasty, bitter relationships.

Knex*

"Its a long road to wisdom, but its a short wind to being ignored"