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?

Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars

And

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free
At night I lock the door when no one else can see

Throw those curtains wide, one day like this a year would see me right. (Elbow)

So many favourites already mentioned…to add
Pink Floyd:
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine

Lennon:
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me…
I was the walrus, but now I’m just John

Smiths/Marr/Morr:
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now

I dreamed about you last night and I fell out of bed twice, you can pin and mount me like a butterfly

Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down

Bowie/Alomar/Lennon:
Fame - What you want is a new limo
Fame - What you get is no tomorrow

Chevy brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road
But the day breaks instead so you hurry home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk float ride your mind

Pulp:
The lift is always full of piss
The fifth floor landing smells of fish
Not just on Friday
every single other day

Radiohead:
Karma police
Arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio

Streets
Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take, but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea

Dizzee Rascal:
I'm just sitting here, I ain't saying much I just think
And my eyes don't move left or right they just blink
I think too deep, and I think too long
Plus I think I'm getting weak 'cause my thoughts are too strong

And so many more…

She was caught in a mudslide
Eaten by a lion
Got run over by a crappy purple Scion
Help me, help me, I'm no good at goodbyes!
She dried up in the desert
Drowned in a hot tub
Danced to death at an east side night club
Help me, help me, I'm all out of lies
And ways to say you died

(Train)

There ain't no point in moving on
'Till you've got somewhere to go
And the road that I have walked upon
Well it filled my pockets
And emptied out my soul

Waiting by George Michael

Love is the law - Seahorses

'Strap on Sally chased us down the alley, we feared for our behinds '

Don't look back in anger ..

I’m unclean a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
You're slipping slowly from my reach
You grow me like an evergreen
You've never seen the lonely me at all

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done.

Nobody has written about alienation and desolation as well as Morrissey.

@Empressofthemundane

You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, And know when to run. You never count your money When you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin' When the dealing's done.

The gambler is a fabulous song ! All about life

'The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face'
And
'I said "I'm so happy I could die", she said "drop dead" and left with another guy'

@DuesToTheDirt

Nobody has written about alienation and desolation as well as Morrissey.

He spoke to me as a depressed 17 year old, I've never fitted in anywhere ..

And
'Tall building shake, voices escape, singing sad, sad songs, tuned to chords strung down your cheeks, bitter melodies turning your orbit around'

I'm talking about love now,
And how the lights of love go down.
You're in the back room washing his clothes; love's like that you know
It's like a tidal flow
And the past, with It's fierce undertow
Won't ever let us go
Won't ever let you go.

Nick Cave - Ghosteen.

So many lyrics from the Darkness. This is ‘Bald’:

It would appear that male pattern
Baldness has set in
His hair, at an alarming pace
Running away from his face
He's losing his virility
And now his masculinity
Has been compromised
And his libido down-sized
Not for me, not for me, not for me, uh-uh
Not for me, not for me, heaven forbid
It's not for me you understand
Bald, slap headed and hairless
Bald he is destined to be
Bald, well tonight thank God it's him instead of me.

Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

I can’t say which is my favourite line.

Also, I love that some of you love ‘The Gambler’.

'Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness, where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar"'
And
'Am I the one you think about when you're sitting in your fainting chair drinking pink rabbits'

The revolution will not be televised by Gil Scott Heron
Still complete relevant today
You probably need the whole thing for the full effect but these are my favourite lines

'The revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado
White lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat
The revolution will not be televised'

Check out the popular kids
You'll never guess what Jessica did!
And how did Mary Kate lose all that weight?
And Katie had a baby so I guess Tom's straight!
And the only thing that matters
Is climbing up that social ladder
Still care about your hair and the car you drive
Doesn't matter if you're 16 or 35
Reese Witherspoon, she's the prom queen
Bill Gates, captain of the chess team
Jack Black, the clown, Brad Pitt, the quarterback
Seen it all before
I want my money back!

The whole damned world is just as obsessed
With who's the best dressed and who's having sex
Who's in the club and who's on the drugs
Who's throwing up before they digest
And you still don't have the right look
And you don't have the right friends
And you still listen to the same shit you did back then
High school never ends

Bowling for Soup

'Waiting for god to end this, up to your neck in darkness'
Robbie Williams Advertising Space - made me cry when I was sat with my dad as he was dying 🥲

Cornered, the boy kicked out at the world
The world kicked back a lot fucking harder

• Libertines

I have become comfortably numb

• Pink Floyd

And I know I'm not the one who is habitually optimistic,
But I'm the one who's got the microphone here so just remember this:
Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings,
About fire in our bellies and furtive little feelings,
And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering,
And help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is live.

Frank Turner: I knew Prufrock before he got famous.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. But the race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself.

Remember that your circumstances are half chance, so don't congratulate yourself or berate yourself too much either.

Both baz Lurhman, everybody should wear sunscreen. Lessons for life in that song!

I kissed you in the morning, your kisses sweet and warm, your hair across the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,

Hey that's no way to say goodbye by Leonard Cohen. Beautiful.