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?

@FreedomAintWorthNothing

"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"

Nick Cave, into my arms

Oops you beat me to it

Such a great song

Poor old man, he had an accident with a three-bar fire
But that's okay, because he wasn't very happy anyway
A poor woman, strangled in her very own bed as she read
But that's okay, 'cause she was old
And she would have died anyway
Don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan, hooligan
Because he'll never, never, never, never
Never, never do it again, not until the next time

Chapter One, we didn't really get along
Chapter Two, I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five And Six

Elvis Costello Evwryday I Write The Book

I've come to smell the seasons change
And watch the city as the sun goes down again

The The Heartland

Well on the street where you live I could not hold up my head
For I put all I have in another bed
On another floor, in the back of a car,
In the cellar of a church with the door ajar
Well I guess we must be looking for another kind,
But we can't stop trying till we break up our minds
Till the sun drops blood on the seedy young knighrs
Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright
I guess we could cruise down one more time
With you by my side, it'll be fine
We'll buy some drugs and watch a band
And jump in the river holding hands.

David Bowie
Candidate

What's it gonna take to get your attention?
A gold chain, a tracksuit and a seven inch erection!
Goldie Lookin Chain You Knows I Loves You

You're the chocolate at the end of my Cornetto....

The Great Defector, Bell X1

Yeah, all alone I watch you watch her
She is the only thing you ever see
How is it you never notice
That you are slowly killing me?

Gnash, I love you, I hate you.
Listened to this song a million times during a pretty shit time in my marriage

I want our lips to kiss and our limbs to entwine
Let our bodies be twisted but never our minds

I'm just so vane I like to sit on a steeple

I love There is a Light That Never Goes Out is a real favourite of mine.

Also these lyrics from Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Follow You into the Dark, give me similar feelings:

If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

And I cant do this by myself
All of these problems theyre all in your head
And i cant be somebody else
You took something perfect and painted it red

Red-Daniel Merriweather

She knows they all want her to go
But that's ok man, she don't like them anyway

@Scones13

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you I don't care where you've been Or what you plan to do

Stone Roses I am the resurrection

Thank you for this! I’ve just been reliving the 90s on YouTube listening to this song. Never gets old

We are stardust, we are golden
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
(Woodstock by Joni Mitchell.)

@dementedma
Beautiful song - yes I guess I’m asking you, to back a horse that’s good for glue, and nothing else

@PalacesOfMontezuma

I was never cool in school I'm sure you don't remember me And now it's been 10 years I'm still wondering who to be But I'd love to mix in circles, cliques, and social coteries, that's me Hand me my nose ring (Can we be happy?) Show me the mosh pit (Can we be happy?) We can be happy underground

Underground by Ben Folds Five

Officer Friendly's little boy has got a Mohawk and he knows just where I'm comin from.

Neil Young and Cat Stevens are my fav for lyrics. Nick Cave is good too.

Off the top of my head I always think of Cat Stevens:
From the moment I could talk
I was ordered to listen

In the twist of separation you excelled at being free.

Has anyone said:

'Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet'

Joni Mitchell - A Case of You

At the same time, I wanna hug you
I wanna wrap my hands around your neck
You're an asshole but I love you
And you make me so mad, I ask myself
Why I'm still here, or where could I go
You're the only love I've ever known
But I hate you, I really hate you
So much I think it must be
True love, true love

True Love by Pink

Life with you Proclaimers

When I was a younger man
When I was a silly boy
I didn't need a thing
I was strong as anything
I viewed solitude as a joy
But since I met you I'm distraught
You wandered in and now I'm caught
I never thought I would see
Someone so truly good
Someone who's so everything I'm not
I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home
But what if, what if, what if, what
If it's not perfect then it's not?
But every care I take
Nothing I won't forsake
To dwell beside what you've got
Every time I think about you
I think I can't live without you
I tell you something I am nothing without you
I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home
I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home
Without you in our home

Absolutely love Ben folds and nick cave

Some great taste on this thread

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the drawer
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in women's clothes
Messed around with gender roles,
Lined my eyes and called me pretty- eeeeee!

James - laid.

And when a child is born into this world
It has no concept of the tone of skin it’s living in
7 seconds
Youssou n Dour and Neneh Cherry

Loving this thread so much!

"You've got to cry without weeping,
Talk without speaking,
Scream without raising your voice" U2 Running to standstill

"But you won't fool the children of the revolution" by T-rex (best sung under your breath when walking through the 'City' or similar corporate environment :-)

and I don't think there has been much Paul Weller on the thread - another amazing song writer
"stop apologizing for the things you've never done
'Cause time is short and life is cruel but it's up to us to change...

And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts
Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry
It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come fast and furious
In a town called malice, yeah"

And for when you need to cut loose
"Gonna free fall out into nothing
Gonna leave this world for a while" from Free Fallin' by Tom Petty

@hopeishere

He calls her the chocolate girl cause he thinks she melts when he touches her

Love DB!