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 whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and forth!"

Life changing, so deep and really makes you stop and think.

This one kills me:

I remember I cried when my father died, never wishing to hide the tears
And at 65 years old my mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me no words were ever spoke
And when she passed away, I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally

Gilbert O'Sullivan 😢

If you say run I will run with you. And if you say hide we'll hide, Let's dance, David Bowie, that's what falling in love is

And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

Graceland - Paul Simon

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

"It's not always rainbows and butterflies, it's compromise that moves us along."
Can't remember the song, but Maroon 5.

Poignant, yet very sensible.

Ooh yes Elvis Costello
I have always found Good Year for the Roses very moving

I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lyin' cold the way you left 'em, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed
Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink
But at least you thought you wanted it, that's so much more than I can say for me

What a good year for the roses
Many blooms still linger there
The lawn could stand another mowin'
Funny I don't even care
As you turn to walk away
As the door behind you closes
The only thing I have to say
It's been a good year for the roses

"waits at the window, wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door" Eleanor Rigby - Beatles

"a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest" The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

"the holes were rather small, they had to count them all, now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" A Day in the Life - Beatles

"but hard as they try, there's a dream that won't die behind those..." Eyes of Blue - Paul Carrack - this makes my cry as it's very personal to me - I've had a truly crap decade - and his voice is so warm and mellow

"it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder" Hey Jude - Beatles

"call some place Paradise, kiss it goodbye" The Last Resort - Eagles

"cos I've been in love before and I know that love is more than just holding hands" If I Fell - Beatles

"I'm damaged, but I like it.
It made me what I am.
I'm damaged, but I like it.
The rest is just a sham!"

The lyrics describe me so well...

"No matter what you did, no matter who you are,
In the fading light of a middle aged star,
You've seen every blemish, every sign of age,
And it's useless to cry and it's useless to rage!"

Damaged and Cool Grey Light of Dawn, both by Blue Oyster Cult.

"Now I hate to ask, but are 'friends' electric?
Are they?
Mine's broken down. And now I've no one to love..."

"We have a random on the west side
Personality malfunction
He says, "I can't give you anything at all
Just a room with a bad view of you."

Are 'friends' electric and We Have a Technical. Both by the one and only Gary Numan.

Loving these! With special thanks for PPs' Paul Simon suggestions and Mark Knopfler's Romeo and Juliet.

But this is mine - Neil Finn, Crowded house

Hey, don't look now
But there goes God
In his sexy pants and his sausage dog
And he can't stand Beelzebub
'Cause he looks so good in black, in black

And a wee older Finn one, for nostalgia's sake:

Aotearoa
Rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl
At the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance
Didn't stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me
I'll conquer and stay free

@HotMess21

I love all of the lyrics to Prefab Sprout's album "Steve McQueen". Paddy McAloon is a genius.

YES - love love love Prefab Sprout! Haven't heard that album in an age, off to find it now!

So, Mr. Williamson, what have you done to find gainful employment
Since your last signing on date?
Fuck all
I've been sat around the house wanking,

Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack"
He's underneath the window, she's singing, "Hey, la, my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?"

Dire Straits

Oh gosh, yes, reading some of these -

Thank you @Gerwurtztraminer For

There's a small boat made of china
Going nowhere on the mantlepiece

Me too!

And if we're having Janis Joplin, then thanks also for Carly Simon and the inestimable You're so Vain (... the wife of a close friend.... and your horse naturally won). And a vote for Joni Mitchell and this:

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

She's a reckless lover with blood stained hands
'Round the neck of her, helpless man
She's the midnight silence, an outbound train
She's the glory of fallen names

Aya - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

@DistressedDamson is that Gavin? 😂

Ooh one of my favourite lines

Poetry has no place for a heart that’s a whore
And I’m young and strong but I feel tired, overfired.

Bloody mother fucking asshole, Martha wainwright, about her dad I believe

RJnomore1 - (sorry not sure how to quote you)….hahaha Like what you did there 🤪
Jobseeker by the sleaford mods 👍🏻

Perfectly catching the disillusionment and contempt in a broken relationship
Tom Waits..
Here comes the bride and there goes the groom
Looks like a hurricane went through this room
Smells like a pool hall, where's my other shoe?
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

Looks like you spent the night in a trench
And tell me, how long have you been combing
Your hair with a wrench?
Blue roses are dead and the violets are too
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

Well, I've told you before, I won't tell you again
You don't defrost the icebox with a ball point pen
This railroad apartment is held together with glue
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

Because I know, I'm being swindled, I never bargained for this
Once more, you never cared about me
Why don't you get your own place, so you can live like you do?
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

Take all your relatives and all of your shoes
Believe me, I'll really swing when you're gone
I'll be living on chicken and wine after we're through
With someone, I pick up after you

@AutistGoth

"I'm damaged, but I like it. It made me what I am. I'm damaged, but I like it. The rest is just a sham!" The lyrics describe me so well...

"No matter what you did, no matter who you are,
In the fading light of a middle aged star,
You've seen every blemish, every sign of age,
And it's useless to cry and it's useless to rage!"

Damaged and Cool Grey Light of Dawn, both by Blue Oyster Cult.

"Now I hate to ask, but are 'friends' electric?
Are they?
Mine's broken down. And now I've no one to love..."

"We have a random on the west side
Personality malfunction
He says, "I can't give you anything at all
Just a room with a bad view of you."

Are 'friends' electric and We Have a Technical. Both by the one and only Gary Numan.

I’m with you about the one and only Gary Numan, though technically it’s Tubeway Army…. Cracking lyrics on both songs, agreed 🙂

When you’re living on some astral plane
And will never feel the strain
Or the expectations of a community
Epistemology, cashpoint technology
Material dreams, yeah they won’t set you free…

Architecture in LA – Roddy Woomble

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered & all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.
But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak
"How could you believe that the life within the seed
that grew arms that reached
And a heart that beat.
And lips that smiled
And eyes that cried.
Could ever die

Love is stronger than death by The The

Listen
Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh John, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Edward, see those alluring lights?
Tonight will be your very last night
A woman said: "I know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head"

Suffer little children by Morrisey

Such a sad moving song, made me cry the first time I heard it.

Just being alive
It can really hurt
And these moments given
Are a gift from time
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive

Kate Bush -Moments of Pleasure

Hard to pick my favourite, she is a poet.

Mother nature isn't in it, three hundred million years
Goodbye in just a minute, gone forever, no more tears