Greatest Song Lyric of All Time

lucrecia · 20-12-2005 05:50AM #1

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 · 20-12-2005 06:16AM

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 · 20-12-2005 07:33AM

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

NoDayBut2Day · 20-12-2005 07:46AM

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 · 20-12-2005 09:49AM

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

Kersh · 20-12-2005 09:55AM

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 · 20-12-2005 09:57AM

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 · 20-12-2005 10:40AM

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 · 20-12-2005 10:44AM

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

Beruthiel · 20-12-2005 11:08AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:17AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:27AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:32AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:33AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:35AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:41AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:45AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:47AM

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

-Bloodhound Gang

JamesM · 20-12-2005 11:54AM

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 · 20-12-2005 11:56AM

Faith no More - Ricochet

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

biko · 20-12-2005 12:24PM

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 · 20-12-2005 12:29PM

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 · 20-12-2005 12:36PM

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 · 20-12-2005 12:51PM

"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 · 20-12-2005 12:57PM

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

TheVan · 20-12-2005 01:03PM

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

"My family tree's
losing all its leaves"

Dave! · 20-12-2005 01:05PM

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 · 20-12-2005 01:12PM

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 · 20-12-2005 01:12PM

Nirvana, Scentless Apprentice:

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

melekalikimaka · 20-12-2005 01:16PM

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 · 20-12-2005 01:19PM

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

Greatest Song Lyric of All Time

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