Lines from songs that you think are brilliant

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My absolute favourite is "We don't need no education", followed closely by "You're dressed to kill ... and guess who's dying?"

What are your favourites?

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned, I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon

Waterboys

Also agree with Dire Straits and Romeo & Juliet

You never question when you get the blessings, so don't get vexed when your life is stressed.
And I promise I'll be with you, no matter what the issue.
But there will be some issues to address

Rose Garden by Shad

Janis Ian, a lesser know seventies singer-songwriter. Especially her album 'Between the Lines':

Those people who surround you
Only want to see you weak enough to crawl
They'll lie for you decide for you
And buy up all your rights and all your wrongs
And they'll try to stop your singing
In the middle of your song
For they do not want you free
And they do not make you strong
But only drag you down
In the hole they're coming from.

They say you are foolish in wanting the sun
Say you are selfish in learning to run
And they'll tell you that the darkness
Is a blessing in disguise
For you never have to notice
If you're sighted or you're blind
And they'll do their best
To keep you from the light.

I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. (The Night We Met - Lord Huron)

Our love is a ghost that the others can't see. It's a danger. (Familiar - Agnes Obel)

I don't even like modern music, but these are exceptions to my rule and both well worth a listen.

Fairground attraction, from the 'first of a million kisses' album:

I remember when we used to walk by the Thames
The lights on the embankment like jewels on chains
I'll never forget what you said at the start
You said "I'll put a string of lights 'round your heart"

“ Deep so deep, the number one I hope to reap
Depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovey cry, cry, cry, cry”

A Song For Whoever - The Beautiful South

The whole song is so clever, cutting and witty

All the rain came down
On a cold new town
As he carried you away
From your father's hand
That always seemed like a fist
Reaching out to make you pay

He came like a hero from the factory floor
With the sun and moon as gifts
But the only son you ever saw
Were the two he left you with

Oh Lord where did the feeling go
Oh Lord I never felt so low

Now the skirts hang so heavy around your head
That you never knew you were young
Because you played chance with a lifetime's romance
And the price was far too long

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be

Doris Day

I want something good to die for
To make it beautiful to live

• Go With The Flow, Queens of The Stone Age

Been walking my mind to an easy time
My back turned towards the sun
Lord knows, when the cold wind blows
It'll turn your head around
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

• Fire and Rain, James Taylor

Lord, it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometime
Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine
Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside
Sit back and watch the world go by.
Happy to lie back watch it burn and rust
We tried the world, good God, it wasn't for us.

• Jackie and Wilson, Hozier

Where were you when I was burned and broken?
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless?
'Cause the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside, the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight into the shining sun

Coming back to life - Pink Floyd

The storm is breaking, or so it seems
We're too young to reason
Too grown up to dream

Slave to love - Bryan Ferry

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Brings tears to me eyes everytime

@Doubleraspberry @IncorrigibleTitmouse

And if I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars)
Well I'd buy you some art
A Picasso or a Garfunkel.

So many great lines I couldn't pick a song let alone a line. Such clever writing.

'She came out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolour in the rain'.
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

I could be here all day with Paul Heaton lyrics but a couple of favourites here

Lets take a look at these crows feet, just look
Sitting on the prettiest eyes
Sixty 25th of Decembers
Fifty-nine 4th of Julys
You can't have too many good times, children
You can't have too many lines
Take a good look at these crows feet
Sitting on the prettiest eyes

What I want from life
Is not a rollercoaster dip
What I want from love
Is not a ramp up to a skip
All I want is compliment
Occasionally made
For a life of pure simplicity
Unlike these soaps I'd trade
Till then, I am just
That sundial in the shade...

And the wonderful Prefab Sprout

Life's not complete till your heart's missed a beat
And you'll never make it up, or turn back the clock

So, so many great lyrics by John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats that I can't choose.

And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones
'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs
Setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
The lovers that went wrong

Youth by Daughter

All sparks will go out in the end- The Editors

When you held onto me like I was your little life raft Please know that you were mine as well - Snow Patrol

I stay up, clean the house, at least I'm not drinking
Run around just so I don't have to think about thinking
That silent sense of content that everyone gets
Just disappears soon as the sun sets

Wake Up Alone - Amy Winehouse

Why do you come here when you know I've got troubles enough
Why do you call me when you know I can't answer the phone
Make me lie when I don't want to
And make someone else some kind of unknowing fool
You make me stay when I should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?

The Weakness In Me - Joan Armatrading

And when the sun descended and the night arose
I heard my father cursing everyone he knows
He was dangerous and drunk and defeated
And corroded by failure and envy and hate

Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
Meat Loaf

"Learn to work the saxophone
I play just what I feel
Drink scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama, "The Crimson Tide"
Call me, "Deacon Blues"

"Deacon Blues"-Steely Dan

Time it was
And what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

She can hear in the distance
The sound of the cars
And she sees the snow falling down on the hill
Now the trees and the houses
Are white as the stars
And she doesn't wanna cry
But she probably will
As she thinks about all of life's mystery
And how slowly the answers unfold
She's becoming gold
She's becoming gold
Marc Cohn

Till it eats the heart from your soul
Keeps down the sound of your
Silent sigh