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 can give you 2 good reasons,
To show you love's not blind.
He's 2 and she's 4 and you know they adore you,
So how can I tell them you changed your mind?

The Chicks, When you were Mine. The emotion in her voice tears through me

"In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind, be more kind my friends, try to be more kind".

Frank Turner, Be More Kind (2018).

Loving the Taylor Swift love...she's amazing

I love Counting Crows... Anna begins and Mrs Potters lullaby are just genius

Between the Wars, Billy Bragg.

Call up the craftsmen
Bring me the draftsmen
Build me a path
From cradle to grave

And I'll give my consent
To any government
That does not deny a man
A living wage

1. Do you know about her strength of convictions?
   Or how she puts all her faith in religion?
   Did we take the time to really discover how little we know about each other?

2. How can you have a day without a night?

3. We're the engine's mechanics, we've got the tools. This is Animal Farm. We're the pigs, we rule.

Love all the lyrics of all three songs, but these are my favourite sections.

@Blobgummy

I'm drunk for your love Speed into my life Speak to me now Oh, just speak to me someone For I know your taste And I can supply

Gene, Speak to me someone

Yes!

@Herecomesthesun1976 I love Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. Those have to be some of the most cutting words in any pop song I know.

What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie

"It's hard enough remembering my opinions without remembering my reasons for them." Makes me smile every time I hear it.

Those who feel the breath of sadness, sit down next to me.
Those who's lives are touched by madness, sit down next to me.
Those who's lives are touched by sadness, sit down next to me
Those who find themselves ridiculous sit down next to me

Sit Down - by James

Home is a love that I miss very much
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

And

He became drinker and she became mother
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other

Both from Labelled With Love by Squeeze

Glasvegas - Geraldine

‘When your sparkle evades your soul
I'll be at your side to console
When your standing on the window ledge
I'll talk you back, back from the edge
I will turn, I will turn your tide
Be your Sheppard and your guide
When you're lost in the deep and darkest place around
May my words walk you home safe and sound
When you say that I'm no good and you feel like walking
I need to make sure you know that's just the prescription talking
When your feet decide to walk you on the wayward side
Up upon the stairs and down the downward slide
I will turn, I will turn your tide
Do all that I can to heal you inside
I will be the angel on your shoulder
My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker’

My body aches the time is here
It's lonely in this place where I'm lying
Our baby has been born but something's wrong
It's too still I hear no crying
I guess in some strange way she knew
She'd never have a father's arms to hold her
So dying was her way of telling me
He wasn't coming down from Dover

Down from Dover Dolly Parton

Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now
For a shallow piece of dignity

Design for Life - Manics ❤

"They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong
He was my brother
Tears can't bring him back to me
He was my brother
And he died so his brothers could be free"

Paul Simon "He was my brother".

I will sit like a bird on a fence
Sing you songs with a happy ending
Swoop down and tell you that it don't make much sense
To attack the very thing you're defending
Didn't I just buy that dress for you?
That pink paper pinafore that you keep mending
Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals
Well sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten
But I'm glad you've come around
Here with your animals
And your heart that is banging and beating
And banging like a gong

Nick Cave and the bad seeds Cannibal Hymn

The lights in the harbor
Don't shine for me
I'm like a lost ship
Adrift on the sea

You fell asleep in my car I drove the whole time
But that's okay I'll just avoid the holes so you sleep fine
I'm driving here I sit
Cursing my government
For not using my taxes to fill holes with more cement

Wholeheartedly agree with this!
Tear in my heart twenty one pilots

I love the lyrics to’Took a pill in Ibiza’. I know, I know, it’s a dance/pop song, but Mike Posner wrote it thinking he’d peaked and his 15 minutes of fame were ending. It’s quite melancholy and self aware:

I'm just a singer who already blew his shot
I get along with old timers
'Cause my name's a reminder of a pop song people forgot
And I can't keep a girl, no
'Cause as soon as the sun comes up
I cut 'em all loose and work's my excuse
But the truth is I can't open up

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay
Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow

But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me..

Carly Simon..

Always invokes poignancy when I hear that song.

@Chikapu

And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side well the pleasure the privilege is mine.

This song will forever more be Doris singing in again and Stacey

Oh, here I go
It's coming for me through the trees
Oh, help me someone, help me please
Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake
And I'll be two steps on the water

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love

So many of my favourites here. Also:

Picking out all the stars that we like
Between finger and thumb
You laugh as you pass me the night
As if it's too fragile to hold
And I hold it so close to my chest
With your hands in my hands
You say this is just how we'll rest
Until light turns to sound

Snow Patrol - Dark Roman Wine

Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow
Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you are sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry, but you're not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending

Joni Mitchell - Little Green

China decorates our table
Funny how the cracks don't seem to show
Pour the wine, dear, you say we'll take vacation
But we never can agree on where to go
And sometimes I think you want to me to touch you
But how can I when you build the Great Wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
Oh you just look away in the distance

Tori Amos - China

I don't pretend to know what you want
But I offer love

Crowded House - Distant Sun

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear, walk hand in hand

Rush - Witch Hunt

Put your face to my window
Breathe a night full of treasure
The wind is delicious
Sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure

The Waterboys - The Pan Within