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?

He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays
I caught him once, and he was sniffin' my undies
He ain't too sharp, but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen
He's my baby, and I'm his honey
Never gonna let him go

From Big Door Prize by John Prine, a songwriting genius

Agony
Far more painful than yours
When you know she would go with you
If there only were doors

Agony from Into the Woods

@Charteta - I agree with the Walking in Memphis lyric!

If tomorrow is judgment day
And I'm standing on the front line
And the Lord asks me what I did with my life
I will say I spent it with you

-Whitney Houston
My Love is Your Love

A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Counting Crows

Queen's - Thank god it's Christmas resonates with the pandemic:

Oh, my love, we've had our share of tears
Oh, my friend, we've had our hopes and fears
Oh, my friends, it's been a long hard year

But now it's Christmas
Yes, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas

The moon and stars seem awful cold and bright
Let's hope the snow will make this Christmas right
My friend, the world will share this special night

Because it's Christmas
Yes, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas
For one night

Thank God, it's Christmas, yeah
Thank God, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas
Can it be Christmas?
Let it be Christmas
Every day

Oh, my love, we live in troubled days
Oh, my friend, we have the strangest ways
Oh, my friends, on this one day of days

Thank God, it's Christmas
Yes, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas
For one day

Thank God, it's Christmas
Yes, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas (Ooh, yeah)
Thank God, it's Christmas
Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's Christmas
Thank God, it's Christmas
For one day

The days
Are ghosts that pass right through us
In my eyes
You're like an evergreen
Untouched
By the hours that fly around us
My love
Is that how you see me?
Remember when
Remember when we were the diamonds in the coal
Lovers know
There's no age upon your soul
It's all okay, you give me young blood
It's coursing through my veins, it's real love
Here inside my heart it's crystallised
Like it's framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it's alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There'll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Somehow
I never saw it coming
I'm caught
And it has set me free
Remember when
Remember when we used to talk of growing old
Lovers know
There's no age upon your soul
Yeah, it's okay, you give me young blood
It's coursing through my veins, it's real love
Here inside my heart it's crystallised
Like it's framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it's alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There'll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Oh
On and on you give me young blood
It's coursing through my veins, it's real love
And here inside my heart it's crystallised
Just like it's framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it's alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There'll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood

You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes
Trying to learn from what's behind you
Never knowing what's in store
That makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shore.
Garth Brooks The River

You say you stand
By your man
Tell me something
I don't understand
You said you loved me
And that's a fact
And then you left me
Said you felt trapped
Well some things you can't explain away
But the heart aches in me 'til this day
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
All the times
When we were close
I'll remember
These things the most
I see all my dreams come tumbling down
I can't be happy
Without you around
So alone I keep the wolves at bay
And there is only one thing that I can say
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You must explain
Why this must be
Did you lie
When you spoke to me?
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Now I got a job
But it don't pay
I need new clothes
I need somewhere to stay
But without all of these things I can do
But without your love
I won't make it through
But you don't understand my point of view
I suppose there's nothing I can do
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
You must explain
Why this must be
Did you lie
When you spoke to me?
Did you stand by me?
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Did you stand by me?
No way
Did you stand by me?
No, not at all
Did you stand by me?
No way

Did you think I would leave you dying
When there’s room on my horse for two?
Climb up here, Joe, we’ll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with two.

What a shame Rolf Harris turned out to be a revolting pervert and spoilt the song.

I'm a creep.
I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here. (Radiohead)

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
I am the son and heir, of.... nothing in particular........ (The Smiths)
Also, same song - I am human and I need to be loved! Just like everybody else does.

Don't talk of love
Well I've heard the words before
It's sleeping In my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried

I am a Rock Simon and Garfunkle

Oh yes! Brilliant song.

I must be hallucinating
Watching Angels celebrating
Could this be activating
All my senses dislocating?
This must be a strange deception
By celestial intervention
Leaving me the recollection
Of your Heavenly connection

Masterpiece

It's the same old theme
Since nineteen-sixteen
In your head, in your head, they're still fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head, they are dying

Zombie by The Cranberries
It's about the IRA bombing in Warrington

@amatsip @Bookaholic73 you know Johnny cash didn’t write that?
It’s by Trent Reznor / NineInch Nails

I’ve walked a mile in your shoes, now I’m a mile away and I’ve got your shoes.

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze a while
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

Fields of Gold - Sting

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song

@LowbrowVictoriana

Oh, and (must get a bit of Leonard Cohen in):

You know that my love goes with you, as your love stays with me
It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea.

Was just about to write that! And also, all of 'dance me to the end of love'...

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much? More than a lot
You gave me nothin' now it's all I got
We're one but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other then we do it again
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holdin' on to what you got
When all you got is hurt

One - U2

Pray God you can cope
I stand outside this woman's work
This woman's world
Ooh, it's hard on the man
Now his part is over
Now starts the craft of the father

I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left
I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be

Someday you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn to be
Brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher

And though it did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die

But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war on
Our brothers in arms

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die

How Soon Is Now - The Smiths

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin, is this your chin, or is that war you're waging?

Californication RHCP

Oh another favourite!

With a cool, cool breeze and dirty knees
I rest on childhood memories
We all got old at breakneck speed
Slow it down, go easy on me

Don't start me on the rum
Just because it makes me numb
Start me on the whisky
I know whisky is his drink
You never drank it with me
But now you drink it with him
I'm not good enough for whisky
I'm not good enough for you

Hefner, Hymn for the Alcohol

Mary Jo, no one can see
What you've been through
Now you've got love to burn

It's someone else's turn to go through Hell
Now you can see them come from twenty yards
Yeah you can tell
It's someone else's turn to take a fall
And now you are the one who's strong enough to help them
The one who's strong enough to help them
The one who's strong enough to help them all

Mary Jo, you're looking thin
You're reading a book, "The State I Am In"
But oh, it doesn't help at all
What you want is a cigarette
And a thespian with a caravanette in Hull

Mary Jo, Belle & Sebastian

(Isn't that what all of us really want?)