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?

Get outta my dreams.. Get into my car...

This is my kind of thread so I will have a proper look through now. But off the top of my head, it’s funnier at the minute rather than anything else.

Only child, where do you go / And are you coming back again cause no one wants to know.
The Raconteurs - Only Son, I just think it’s a slyly funny line.

You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you / But I don’t get bored I just see it through / Why wait for the best when I can have you?
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell again just a good put down.

The bit in Fourth Time Around by Bob Dylan where he tells her to spit out her gum but the line alone doesn’t make sense to quote on its own. It just makes me laugh.

Maybe I’m too / Busy being yours / To fall for somebody new
Do I wanna know? Arctic Monkeys

You probably think this song is about you, don’t you?

At the age of 37, she realised that she’d never drive through Paris, in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair

Check every cheque in my chequered history
Check it again against your list and see
Consistency
I never spent a cent that wasn't mine, you sent the dogs after my scent that's fine

From Hamilton. Just perfect word play.

Too many to remember but this currently sticks out:

*Come ride with me
Through the veins of history,

I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job

And how can we win,
When fools can be kings?

Don't waste your time
Or time will, waste, you*

It's not fair
And I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean

The lyrical genius of Lily Allen

…and also, this sticks out, quite fitting too:

Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They're going to destroy
Our casual joys

I found something crying; it was my soul
I fed it milk so it wouldn't grow old
We crossed the borderline at dawn
And woke up in a field of corn
My father told me I was late
I better start oiling the gate
Said that those that rush will fall
But I don't want to wait for waves
I don't want to wait at all

Annie, let's not wait
Let's cross the river now
We could sit for years
Staring at our fears
Oh they're such pretty things
They're so cute
But our dreams are all we really need
To grow

I found something dying; it was my light
It had resigned itself to night
So I threw it out a fishing line
And said catch your will and then catch mine

Annie, let's not wait
Let's cross the river now
We could sit for years
Staring at our fears
Oh they're such pretty things
They're so cute
But in the end they're just a suit

Oh annie let's not wait
Time's not on our side
Well it never was
You know that deep inside
Oh just look at you
With your ruffled hair
Oh I love you
And that's all you need to know

Annie annie

Bustin' makes me feel goooood

‘ Takes a tree to make a thousand matches takes a 1 match to burn time 1000 trees. ‘

Stereophonics

‘If I lay here would you lay here and forget the world’ snow patrol

you want to phone your mother and say
"Mother, I can never come home again
'cause I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere
Somewhere in a field in Hampshire".
(Pulp - sorted for E's and whizz)

The Onion Song - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

'The world is just a great big onion'

@Lemonsandlemonade

‘ Takes a tree to make a thousand matches takes a 1 match to burn time 1000 trees. ‘

Stereophonics

‘If I lay here would you lay here and forget the world’ snow patrol

Oooh yes that Phonics one is great, forgot that one. So poignant I think 🙂

A market town that lacks quintessence
That is Chatteris without your presence

"Why live in the world, when you can live in your head?" Jarvis Cocker

"Her face was my favourite magazine, her body was my favourite book to read" Holding on to you by Terence Trent D'Arby.

"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine" Black by Pearl

"Cause i'd give everything i have
Forget all the things that bring me joy
If you could have one day of
Pure and simple happiness
Until that moment comes
I'll be here where i've always been
I'm gonna be your friend
Until the day i die" Mary by the Scissor Sisters

@crayray

"Her face was my favourite magazine, her body was my favourite book to read" Holding on to you by Terence Trent D'Arby.

"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine" Black by Pearl

"Cause i'd give everything i have
Forget all the things that bring me joy
If you could have one day of
Pure and simple happiness
Until that moment comes
I'll be here where i've always been
I'm gonna be your friend
Until the day i die" Mary by the Scissor Sisters

Pearl Jam obvs

Beautiful South Need a little time - a brilliant job of demolishing “The Script”

(Man) I need a little time to think it over
I need a little space just on my own
I need a little time to find my freedom
I need a little

(Woman) Funny how quick the milk turns sour, isn't it, isn't it?
Your face has been looking like that for hours, hasn't it, hasn't it?
Promises, promises turn to dust
Wedding bells just turn to rust
Trust into mistrust

M: I need a little room to find myself
I need a little space to work it out
I need a little room all alone
I need a little

W: You need a little room for your big head, don't you, don't you?
You need a little space for a thousand beds, won't you, won't you?
Lips that promise, fear the worst
Tongue so sharp, the bubble burst
Just into unjust

M: I've had a little time to find the truth
Now I've had a little room to check what's wrong
I've had a little time, and I still love you
I've had a little

W: You had a little time and you had a little fun, didn't ya, didn't you?
While you had yours, do you think I had none, do you, do ya?
The freedom that you wanted bad
Is yours for good, I hope you're glad

Sad into unsad

"I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me. I'll be the actress, starring in your bad dream"

• look what you made me do, Taylor Swift

"Do you see my face in the neighbours lawn? Does she smile? Or does mouth 'fuck you, forever'?"

• Mad Woman, Taylor Swift (again)

"She would have made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head, they said"

• Champagne Problems, see above

(Taylor knows how to write a lyric )

I was looking for a job and I found a job. Heaven knows I'm miserable now.

A couple from Keane:

You think you've done your journey
Then you stumble and find that there's such a long way to go
Drag your heart up to the starting line
Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time

(The Starting Line)

The more we rush about, the less we do
I never saw you drift away
The more we spin around, the less we move
I never saw your spirit break
I wish that I could be a journey's end
But you are only passing through, yeah
It's not for me to try to steal your way
I wish you well in all you do

Just say you'll watch how you go
Be gracious with your light
And may the years be kind now
Just say you'll mind how you roam
The things that we have shared
Will soon be left behind now

(Watch How You Go)

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny
Rolling up the walls inside

Amy Winehouse, Back to Black

Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour!

Outcast, Hey Ya

Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Oasis, Champagne Supernova

Martha Wainwright - Bleeding All Over You

There are days, when the cage
Doesn't seem to open very wide at all
There are others that would shock, the most indiscriminate lovers of all
My heart was made for bleeding all over you
You got a girlfriend
And I can only talk about her, for so very long
Then my mind turns into my heart
And whispers into that dark cave, that I've been wrong
My heart was made for bleeding all over you
And I know you're married but I've got feelings too
And I still love you
You moved up North, you've got a farmhouse
There's cow shit in your brain and, love in your heart
I'm in the city and I'm trapped between two buildings
And having to start at the start
You've got a daughter, now you're a father
You have your pack and they are wild
I still love you

So many. Placemarking.
I see del amitri here so
I will add:-

"And if looks could kill I'd need a license for my face"

"Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet”

— Joni Mitchell, Case Of You