Favorite Song Lyrics

[iamahexagon]

What are some of your favorite song lyrics? There is the Favorite Quotations thread, but my list of lyrics may hijack the thread, so I started a new thread for all of us to share favorite song lyrics!
Here are some of my favorites:

"And you choose to break our families/ Tell me you've used all precautions known/ And I'll stand beside the ones who stood alone/
How long will we have to sing until you finally bring our sons, our daughters home?" Kangaroo Cry by Blue October

"When I looked at the man who would be king/ the man who would be king goes to the desert, the same war his dad rehearsed/ Came back with flags on coffins and said 'We won, oh we won.'" 20 Dollar Nose Bleed by Fall Out Boy

"I don't care what you think as long as it's about me." I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy

[Silva]

Very long, mine are... I'm sure I have more somewhere...

“Love is but the song we sing,
And fear's the way we die
You can make mountains ring
Or make angels cry
Know the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why”

--“Get Together” by the Youngbloods

“How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Something that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Telling us the same old story
Knowing time is growing old”

--“Wonderful Remark” by Van Morrison

“How can we listen to you
When we know your talk is cheap?
How can we ever question
Why we give more and you keep?
How can your empty laughter
Fill a room like ours with joy
When you're only playing with us
Like a child does with a toy?
How can we ever feel the freedom
Or the flame lit by the spark
How can we ever come out even
When reality is stark?”

--“Wonderful Remark” by Van Morrison

“And this bitter desert wind
Will come ripping through your skin
And everything that's calm will turn to madness
And all of your fake tears
Will come whirling down the years
And what was kind and warm will come to sadness

And the sun and the moon
Will come begging at your door
The stars will turn to rust
And drop from the skies
And everybody will soon be asking you for more
And everybody will be telling lies”

--“The Sun And The Moon” by the Pogues

“Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in Yesterday

Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh Yesterday came suddenly”

--“Yesterday” by the Beatles

“Your only rivers run cold
These city lights
They shine as silver and gold
Dug from the night
Your eyes as black as coal
Walk on by
Walk on through
Walk 'til you run
And don't look back
For here I am

Carnival
The wheels fly and the colors spin
Through alcohol,
Red wine that punctures the skin
Face to face
In a dry and waterless place”

--“The Unforgettable Fire” by U2

[cyanea]

"Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores,
Where we danced just to please the gods that only ask for more,
So it goes
But still we give ourselves to this
We can't spend our lives waiting to live"
- Rise Against, "The Dirt Whispered"

And pretty much all of The Beatles - Hey Jude. That's probably my favorite song.

[onlyaworkingtitle]

DON MCLEAN. "American Pie" is, obviously, his most famous, but has anyone heard the rest of his stuff? "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)," in particular, is great songwriting. Same for "The Grave."

[Silva]

Jun 19, 2011 19:34:34 GMT -5 onlyaworkingtitle said:

DON MCLEAN. "American Pie" is, obviously, his most famous, but has anyone heard the rest of his stuff? "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)," in particular, is great songwriting. Same for "The Grave."

EEE! I love "American Pie." Did you hear about the thing in Grand Rapids, Michigan where a few thousand people sang "American Pie" because the city got named one of the top ten dying cities by some important website that I can't remember?

[Sabazius]

I could post page after page after page in this thread, but I'll try to contain myself. No promises though


"And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind."
- Leonard Cohen, Suzanne

Leonard Cohen generally is an amazing songwriter, but this is one of my favourite images. Chelsea Hotel No. 2 and Hallelujah are also great.

"For what it's worth
It was the sky on his shoulders
Not the earth
But Atlas just shrugged
He's going back on the drugs
Oh man I'm back on the drugs"
- Holcombe Waller, Atlas Shrugged

This one deserves a video. Holcombe Waller is one of my favourite artists, and he deserves to be far more famous than he is.

Jun 19, 2011 19:34:34 GMT -5 onlyaworkingtitle said:

DON MCLEAN. "American Pie" is, obviously, his most famous, but has anyone heard the rest of his stuff? "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)," in particular, is great songwriting. Same for "The Grave."

Vincent is one of my favourite songs. My dad used to sing it to me, along with Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle, when I was a kid. He's got a rather twisted sense of humour.

[Annie Ozone]

I suppose my ultimate favorite lyric is pretty obvious, right? The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever (Always, no, sometimes think it's me/but you know I know when it's a dream/I think I know I mean, ah yes/but it's all wrong/that is, I think I disagree). I also could quote the entirety of Revolution, but I'll spare you.

Also! Lily Allen is my home-fucking-girl. The Fear (Life's about film stars and less about mothers/it's all about fast cars and cussing each other/But it doesn't matter 'cause I'm packing plastic/and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic.), Him (Do you think He'd drive in his car without insurance?/ Now is He interesting or do you think He'd bore us?/ Do you think His favorite type of human's Caucasian?/ Do you reckon He's ever been done for tax evasion?// Do you think He's any good at remembering people's names?/ Do you think He's ever taken smack or cocaine?/ I don't imagine He's ever been suicidal/ His favorite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival.), and Everything's Just Wonderful, particularly.

Florence + the Machine, the Dixie Chicks, Mumford & Sons, and the Cardigans get special mention, because they all sound like poems. Particularly the Cardigans: I love Please Sister and You're the Storm (I'm an angel bored like hell/and you're a devil meaning well/ you steal my lines and you strike me down/come raise your flag upon me).

Not a day goes by without some version of the immortal line, "I bust in dudes' mouths like gushers, motherfucker," coming out of my mouth.

[devilishlybookish]

Pretty much anything by The Mountain Goats.

[Zeffy]

I have oh so many...most are from one song.

"One last perfect verse
Is still the same old song
Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become"

"Tuck me in beneath the blue
Beneath the pain, beneath the rain
Goodnight kiss for a child in time
Swaying blade my lullaby"

"The morning dawned upon this altar
Remains of the dark passion play
Performed by his friends without shame
Spitting on his grave as they came"

"Be still, my son
You're home
Oh when did you become so cold?
The blade will keep on descending
All you need is to feel my love
Search for beauty, find your shore
Try to save them all, bleed no more
You have such oceans within
In the end
I will always love you"
All from Nightwish's The Poet and the Pendulum.

"May my weary soul find release for a while
At the moment of death I will smile" -And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian

[thestrangewinston]

"Hemingway never seemed to mind the banalities of a normal life
and I find, it gets harder every time
So he aimed the shotgun into the blue
Placed his face in between the two
and sighed, "Here's To Life!""Favorite section in Streetlight Manifesto's Here's To Life!