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?

There'll be no time to sing a Te Deum
When they fire that ICBM...

Yes we'll all go together when we go.

Honesty - last one. For all the parents on Mumsnet
"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'" Bob Dylan

‘I see babies cry, I watch them grow. They’ll learn so much more, than I’ll ever know’
Always gets me emotional!!

‘Sweet dreams til sunbeams find you’
I just think is a gorgeous lyric

‘Youve got the power over me (my my)
Everything I hold dear resides in those eyes’
Loving Dermot Kennedy at the mo

My son is loving Vivo soundtrack at the moment so a recent guilt pleasure….
‘ All I can do when the road bends
Is lean into the curve’

Another one for parents...

'Oh, you pretty things,
Don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane...'

Oh You Pretty Things - David Bowie

“I’ve seen your frown and it’s like staring down the barrel of a gun”

“Who’d have thought, that after all
Something as simple as rock and roll would save us all?
Who’d have thought, after all
It was rock and roll”

Frank Turner “ I still believe”

I love: September's coming soon, Pining for the moon ( Nightswimming, REM) and:

The devil came and took me, from bar, to street, to bookie (Squeeze, Up the Junction).

little Robin red breast sitting on a pole stuck he's head between he's legs and whistled up he's bole

I will go out tonight but I haven't got a thing to wear. morrisey

"The big light came through my window and it opened up my eyelids
And it snapped them up like roller blinds and told me things that I did
I can't face another day and night of good ideas and complications
And I'm thankful that I didn't open another bottle of inspiration

When the hangover this morning had a personality
And I cast my shattered mind over selected memories
I didn't even touch the light switch so I knew I'd never see
The Haggard face that would be staring back at me"

Elvis Costello 'The Big Light' but he has so many fabulous lines.

We are young
Wandering the face of the earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time

Neil Peart

Loving these! The Mountain Goats saved my life, always incredible lyrics. Thus is a favourite:

It's okay to find the faith to saunter forward
There's no fear of shadows spreading where you stand
And you'll breathe easier just knowing that the worst is all behind you
And the waves that tossed the raft all night have set you on dry land

Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

@MorriseysGladioli

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.

Skewerrrrrrrrrrrrrrs

Sorry. Bob Dylan. Positively 4th Street

When I think back on all the crap I learned in highschool, it's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, it's a wonder I can think at all...

Paul Simon pens some mighty lyrics, but this one always makes me smile.

I’m a notch on your bedpost but you’re just a line in a song.

Haven't RTFT so these may have been said already

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
(Fix You by Coldplay)

So let the light guide your way
Hold every memory as you go
And every road you take
Will always lead you home
(See You Again by Wiz Khalifa)

The entirety of My Colouring Book (covered by many). But especially:
This is the room that I sleep in
And walk in
And weep in
And hide in...
That nobody sees.
Colour it lonely please.

I'll think of more later

@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.

The smiths had such wonderful lyrics!

You don't need no friends
Get back your faith again
You have the power to believe
Another dissident
Take back your evidence
It has no power to deceive

And the message today is how to die ..
( I don't like Mondays, the boom town rats )

-And I believe in some kind of path, that we can walk down- me and you.

• I'm a colt in your stable, i'm what Cain was to Abel, mister catch-me-if-you-can.

-I'll be there as soon as I can, but I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before.

So come all ye full-time small -town heroes
Cast away your in-bread fears of
Standing out from all the rest
The cynics and the pessimists

It’s hard to get by when your arse is the size of a small country

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says, "we walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
And death and birth
He says, "bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty, mighty, thirst"

Joni Mitchell - Don't interrupt the sorrow