"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"

pinksoir · 21-02-2009 03:28PM #1

What is your single favourite lyric, just one line, that perfectly sums up an element of the human condition? It can be based on the lyric itself, or the delivery of that lyric.

In my opinion, the quoted lyric from Nature Boy by Nat King Cole is congrous of both lyric and delivery. It is a simple truth. Romantic or familial love is the most fundamental thing for human happiness. To need and be needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw

thebigcheese22 · 21-02-2009 04:30PM

'No matter how cold the winter, theres a springtime ahead'
- Thumbing my Way by Pearl Jam.

I could quote hundreds of great PJ lines like!!!

Tristram · 21-02-2009 04:31PM

"Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore"

karen3212 · 21-02-2009 08:10PM

''And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night''.

Leonard Cohen - Closing Time

cautioner · 22-02-2009 03:55AM

Modest Mouse - Lives

"It's our lives - it's hard to remember we're alive for the first time. It's hard to remember we're alive for the last time. It's hard to remember to live before you die. It's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time. It's hard to remember when it takes such a long time."

im_invisible · 22-02-2009 05:00AM

"Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow"

Nailz · 22-02-2009 09:52AM

"You're perfect, yes it's true - but without me you're only you!"

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis

deadhead13 · 22-02-2009 10:21AM

"We're just two lost souls swimmimg in a fish bowl,
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears."

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here.

Photi · 22-02-2009 10:25AM

Do something pretty while you can
Don't be afraid
Skating a pirouette on ice is cool

Belle & Sebastian - We Rule The School

thebigcheese22 · 22-02-2009 10:37AM

deadhead13 wrote: »

"We're just two lost souls swimmimg in a fish bowl,
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears."

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here.

+ 1. Masterpiece of a song.

Apparantly Syd Barrett was at the recording for that and the other band members couldnt recognise him, and it made him cry...

GLaDOS · 22-02-2009 10:51AM

"And he was always much more human then he wished to be
But there is a logic to his world,
If they could only see"

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 22-02-2009 10:57AM

"up and down, up and down and up and down and up and down"

vengaboys - up and down

Rigsby · 22-02-2009 11:52AM

"Honosty is such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue. Honosty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from you".

Billy Joel.

"Like a castle in it's corner in a medieval game, I foresee terrible trouble, but I stay here just the same".

Steely Dan.

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"

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