Lines from songs that you think are brilliant

[FleetwoodRaincoat]

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've never told a lie
And that makes me a liar
I've never made a bet, but we gamble with desire
I've never lit a match with intent to start a fire
But recently the flames are getting out of control

All Time Low - Jasey Rae

Tweenage me loved those lyrics and now at nearly thirty they still get me when I hear them!

"Tell me are you a Christian child?
Ma'm I am tonight"

But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too

Fleetwood mac Landslide

Aerosmith - Falling in Love (is hard on the knees) Steven Tyler singing:

Don't give me no lip, I got enough of my own

I don't understand what these haters about/ how you goin' sick your mans dick with my name in your mouth?

Cardi B inspired!

"Your gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" - Jar Of Hearts, Christina Perri.

What I am to you is not real
What I am to you, you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me
You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I'll ask for the sea

Damien Rice Volcano

You throw your head back, and you spit in the wind
Let the walls crack, 'cause it lets the light in
Let 'em drag you through hell
They can't tell you to change who you are
That's all I know so far
And when the storm's out, you run in the rain
Put your sword down, dive right into the pain
Stay unfiltered and loud, you'll be proud of that skin full of scars

pink all i know

love all the lyrics but when i hear this i think of my dd who is 13 and came out as gay last year

The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Oh I can read between the lines
Rain come down forgive this dirty town
Rain come down and give this dirty town
A drink of water a drink of wine
If I've been hard on you I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand like lovers are supposed to
As you'd sleep I'd think my heart would break in two
I'd kiss your cheek I'd stop myself from waking you
But in the dark you'd speek my name
You'd say baby what's wrong
Oh, here I am baby I'm coming back for more
I'm like a wave that's going to roll into the shore
Yes and if my love's in vain how come my love is so strong?
Now you and me go parallel together and apart
And you keep your perfect distance and it's tearing at my heart
Did you never feel the distance?
You never tried to cross no line
Now it's another dirty river and another dirty scar
And I don't know who's kissing you and I don't know where you are
So far from home don't you think of me sometimes

Another one from the peerless Mark Knopfler

What about me, well
I’ll find someone
That’s not going cheap
In the sales

Soft Cell - say hello wave goodbye

And the line that makes me cry everytime I hear it:

'Would you know my name?
If I saw you in heaven"

Eric Clapton

@ZimZamZoom

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

You heat me to it. Beautiful.

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever.

(High Hopes - Pink Floyd)

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And there's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

(Brain Damage - also Pink Floyd)

And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

(Eclipse - Pink Floyd are the best band in the world.)

@Herecomesthesun1976
I love that too. Used to hit a nerve when the boy I loved didnt love me back and I tried to make him jealous by kissing someone else...it just put him off me even more sadly.

i loved que sara sara doris knew how to sing a song

no regrets they dont work

my fave robbie song

'And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time'

Just sums up love perfectly.
(Wichita lineman, Glen Campbell)

All of the lyrics in George Bensons Greatest Love of All.

I was five years old when I first heard this song and made my father explain all of the lyrics to me as it had made me feel emotional and I needed to understand why. It is still one of my most cherished memories, that my strapping 6ft4 pop sat down with me on the kitchen floor and explained it line by line answering aaalllllll of my many many questions.

35 years later and this song is still helping me through life.

So tell me am I looking better?
Have you forgot
Whatever it was that you couldn't stand
About me about me about me?
Because
Yes I do feel better
Yes I do I feel alright
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
To offer

Yes - Mcalmont & Butler

@PalacesOfMontezuma

So tell me am I looking better? Have you forgot Whatever it was that you couldn't stand About me about me about me? Because Yes I do feel better Yes I do I feel alright I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got To offer

Yes - Mcalmont & Butler

So satisfying to sing very loudly!

“Don’t go for second best baby, put your love to the test,
You’ve got to make him express how he feels then you know your love is real.”

• Madonna, Express Yourself

“If he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster”

• Beyoncé, Formation

“Anyway, I fuck better than you, give head better than you, pussy get wetter than you.”

• Lil Kim, Would You Die For Me?

“I am bored by your apocalyptic obsessions.”

• Bjork, Black Lake

“You said something. You said something that was really important. You said something I’ve never forgotten.”
PJ Harvey, You Said Something

“Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to. Go on, take everything, take everything, I dare you to.”
Hole, Violet

If six of y'all went out, then four of you were really cheap, cos only two of you had dinner, I found your credit card receipt

Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to nought or half a page of scribbled rhymes. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English Way. The Time has come, the story's over - thought I'd something more to say.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Hey, for what I’ve lived, the time I’ve wasted
You thought I was dead and then I was born again

I mean, all of this song's lyrics but particulary:

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts