W hat is your favourite song lyric, and why?

The Backwards Man · 13-05-2015 02:55PM

Melancholic lyrics are best lyrics

Let him sing me back home with the song I used to hear
And make my old memories come alive
Take me away, and turn back the years,
Sing me back home before I die

SuperGrover · 13-05-2015 03:48PM

Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.

Chancer3001 · 13-05-2015 04:05PM

Better wear that latex
Cos you don't want that late text
Them " I think I'm late" text

Lil wayne absolute genius lyrics in fairness.

Keyzer · 13-05-2015 04:10PM

"There ain't nothing like regret to remind you you're alive"

Sheryl Crow, The Difficult Kind

Great song about a relationship falling apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiu2IfCCTJQ

Turtyturd · 13-05-2015 04:14PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BiDN5B8ck

Duggy747 · 13-05-2015 04:21PM

I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news

Life - Des'ree

Wellyd · 13-05-2015 04:39PM

Told me you loved me,
That I'd never die alone,
Hand over your heart,
Let's go home.

Cold Desert- KOL
It reminds me of falling in love with someone all over again.

cianf123 · 13-05-2015 05:58PM

Down the lane way sniffin’ petrol
I thought pebbledash was snow
As I stumbled in a blizzard
The pain inside me disappeared
Cross the city down the alleys
A thousand kids like me
They are watching through red eyes
The flock of little birds gracefully gliding by

Damien Dempsey

Mesrine65 · 13-05-2015 06:44PM

Zac Brown Band - Toes

"I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today. Life is good today."

Speaks for itself :cool:

nathang20 · 13-05-2015 07:46PM

Very apt for the upcoming referendum:

"It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming, "Let me out!"
Tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets"

(Under pressure: Queen)

Mam of 4 · 13-05-2015 07:52PM

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done,
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed..

Linkin Park Leave Out All The Rest.

brummytom · 13-05-2015 07:55PM

The song might be mostly nonsense, but I've always liked the last line of the last version of Mr Tambourine Man,

'Let me forget about today until tomorrow.'

GerB40 · 13-05-2015 08:03PM

"They collected the crippled, the wounded the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless the legless, the blind the insane. Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla (sp?)
And when the ship pulled in to circular Quay, I looked at the place where my legs used to be and thank christ there was no one there waiting for me. To grieve and to mourn and to pity.

Also

"And now every April I sit on me porch, and watch the parade pass before me.
I see me ould comrades, how proudly they march, renewing their dreams of past glory.
I see the old men, all tired stiff and sore. The weary old heroes of a forgotten war. And the young people ask, "what are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question.
And the band played waltzing Mathilda.
And the old men still answer the call.
But year after year, the numbers get fewer.
Someday no one will March there at all.

From "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda", written by Eric Bogle, performed by countless trad bands. One of the few songs that can make me cry.

GerB40 · 13-05-2015 08:11PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Barefoot girl, sitting on the hood of a dodge,
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain.

From Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen

It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win.

Thunder Road, also the boss.
Particularly apt now considering young people who don't want to emigrate and aren't tied down are looked on suspiciously by some people..

ofcork · 13-05-2015 08:11PM

Have you come here to play jesus to the lepers in your head, One by U2 such a great line.

Magenta · 13-05-2015 08:14PM

Princess Laika wrote: »

"It's OK to eat fish cos they don't have any feelings."

-Barry White.

Don't you mean Nirvana?

The Pheasant2 · 13-05-2015 08:18PM

"She had the face of an angel smiling with sin; the body of Venus with arms"

From "Touch too much" by AC/DC

To Elland Back · 13-05-2015 08:19PM

You'll know heartache
Still more crying
When you're thinking of your mother's only son

Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero

strobe · 13-05-2015 08:21PM

"a simple prop, to occupy my time" REM - The One I Love.

It's just such a good dig to take at someone. Cold as fvck. But you've got to admire the craftmanship. If you ever happen to find yourself in the unfortunate situation of breaking up with someone, and they choose to pull the gloves off and get nasty, and you feel the need to retaliate, you could do a lot worse than paraphrasing that line, "ah here, look, you're just something I do when I'm bored, so don't go running away with yourself". Ouch...

"you do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts" Radiohead - Just.

It just encapsulates that realisation that it's not everyone else, or external factors, or anything like that that has you in the situation you keep finding yourself in, it's your own doing. It's not poetically imaginative or anything, just straight down the line and quite plain, but there's a sort of dull honesty to it that's right up my street.

"and if it makes you happy, then why are you so sad" Sheryl Crowe - If It Makes You Happy.

Again it's just a sort of a 'a bit too on the nose' kind of line, that almost seems lazy, in song writing terms. But I dunno, I think if there was a little more to it it'd lose something.

"please don't take him even though you can" Jolene - Dolly Parton

I seem to be on a bit of a theme, with the honesty thing, but how and ever. It's just such a heartbreakingly honest sentiment. That someone could be so aware that if this other person wanted it, the one they love would leave them for them, but they love them so much that they are reduced to pleading with the other person not to take them. White Stripes do an awesome live version of that song btw, go youtube that.

"face down, ass up, that's the way we like to fvck" 2 Live Crew - Face Down, Ass Up.

Again, honesty I guess. But also it holds a special place in my heart for the fact that when I was in first year in school all the girls in my year developed a spontaneous liking for running around and singing the song. Which being a 13 year old lad was awesome for obvious reasons, but it was also awesome due to the reactions that passerbys had from witnessing the occurence. Shock and awe, is probably the best description.

GerB40 · 13-05-2015 08:26PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Remember what the dormouse said

Anti-draft message or drug addled kid's story, the jury is out.

Well the next line is "Feed your head" so I'm fairly certain it's the drug addled kids story.

Junkyard Tom · 13-05-2015 08:30PM

'Slowly walking down the hall - faster than a cannonball'.

Oasis.

I think it succinctly captures the Zeitgeist of the weeks leading up to The Bloshevik Revolution in early 19th Century Russia.

Dozen Wicked Words · 13-05-2015 08:32PM

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them, but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care.

Billy Bragg - New England.

Couldn't give a damn about
The friends of mine she'll scare
Some people just can't see past studs
And bleached blond spiky hair
I say 'a' for Abba
She says 'a' for Anarchy
In the morning she says "Never mind the bollocks,
Here's your cup of tea"

Darren Hanlon - Punks not dead.

Andy - The Front Lawn (won't list lyrics but whole song is very poignant)

I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste
A flannel for my face
Pyjamas, a hairbrush
New shoes and a case
I said to my reflection
Let's get out of this place

Squeeze - Tempted

All have great, clever lyrics and Andy is just moving.

blackcard · 13-05-2015 08:34PM

You come home late
And you come home early
You come home straight
And you come home curly
Sometimes you don't come home at all

'The Sound of Loneliness'

13-05-2015 08:37PM

"But the soft words,
They are spoke so gentle,
It makes it easier, easier to bear..."

Otis Redding, Try A Little Tenderness

The Backwards Man · 13-05-2015 08:38PM

GerB40 wrote: »

Well the next line is "Feed your head" so I'm fairly certain it's the drug added kids story.

Feed your head > inform/educate yourself?

strobe, that was Patrick Batemanesque I have to say.

Slicemeister · 13-05-2015 08:41PM

Arms raised in a V,
the dead lay in pools of maroon below.

Jeremy, Pearl Jam.

Why? Shows the monster he may become if he's kept constantly being bullied.

GalwayGrrrrrl · 13-05-2015 08:48PM

"Even through her tears, I never saw her come undone. What's so good about goodbye, when the best is yet to come". Bryan Adams, best is yet to come. Hope I've remembered the lyrics correctly.

GalwayGrrrrrl · 13-05-2015 08:50PM

Sorry, forgot to say why. Played it all the time through a difficult break-up. Think it cured me of my heartbreak.

13-05-2015 08:52PM

'If I was my heart
I'd rather be restless
The second I stop the sleep catches up and I'm breathless
This ache in my chest
As my day is done now
The dark covers me and I cannot run now
My blood running cold
I stand before him
It's all I can do to assure him
When he comes to me
I drip for him tonight
Drowning in me we bathe under blue light'

From 'Wake Up Alone', though I always thought the last line was 'Drowning in need we bathe in the blue light' until I looked it up just there.

Aidric · 13-05-2015 08:55PM

Gordon Lightfoot 'If You Could Read My Mind'. This lyric sums up the heartbreak of a dying relationship.

I never thought I could act this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.

W hat is your favourite song lyric, and why?

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