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?

Remember days of skipping school
Racing cars and being cool
With a six pack and the radio
We didn't need no place to go

Rememberin' when we used to park
On Butler Street, out in the dark
Remember when we lost the keys and
You lost more than that in my backseat, baby

'Never say goodbye' - Bon Jovi

Can you still have any famous last words
If you're somebody nobody knows
I don't know
Somebody go and ask Clair
She's been dead twenty years just look at her hair
Strawberry blonde with curls
She gets hair done then she gossips
With the younger waitress girls at the bar
The old Irish rose
Drinking strawberry wine
Until it comes out her nose

Strawberry Wine by Ryan Adams

Also love this:

didn't know what I was in for
When I signed up for that run
There's no way I'm curing cancer
But I'll sweat it out
I feel so proud now for all the good I've done

Didn't know what I was in for by Better Oblivion Community Centre

I love you from the bottom of my pencil case - Beautiful South

I’m sure it has some deep meaning but it just makes me chuckle.

She acts like summer and walks like rain, reminds me that there's a time to change-Train, drops of Jupiter
I'd rather be lonely,than wrapped around your body too tight-jonas brothers and marshmellow,leave before you love me

"I've tried walking sideways, and walking to the front, but people just stop and say "It's a publicity stunt""
"I'm walking backwards to Christmas" by the Goons.

@Jellybubbamama0987 Aw what a song that is,gets me every time

How long will I love you?
As long as stars are above you
And longer if I may
The Waterboys - How long Will I love you

Flags rags ferryboats
Scimitars and scarves
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars

You climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Well you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The The - This is The Day

Someone captured your heart - just like a thief in the night
& squeezed all juice out - until it ran dry
The The - Soul Mining

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand... -Werewolves of London- Warren Zevon

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man, but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man. And so is Lola. -Lola- The Kinks

But how was I to know one kiss would turn my frog into a cow -Frog Princess- Divine Comedy

But tell me, does she kiss like I used to kiss you? Does it feel the same when she calls your name? -The Winner Takes It All- ABBA

But my dreams aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be -Behind Blue Eyes- The Who

She's every place that I've never been
She's makin love on rainy nights
She's a stroll through Christmas lights
And she's everything I want to do again

Garth Brooks, She's Every Woman

Once upon a time at home
I sat beside the telephone
Waiting for someone to pull me through
When at last it didn’t ring, I knew it wasn’t you
A New England, written by Billy Bragg, sung by Kirsty McColl
And:
Man I feel like mould, it’s prom night and I am lonely
Lo and behold, she’s walking over to me

Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus. Great teen angst song

She said as long as there's no price on love I'll stay
And I wouldn't want it any other way.

But she only comes when she’s on top

And now you tell me that you’re having my baby,
I’ll tell you that I’m happy if you want me to,
But one step further and my back will break,
If my best isn’t good enough, then how can it be good enough for two?

Everything she wants - Wham

You’ve got his heart and my heart and none of the pain,
You took the suitcase and I took the blame.

Break Even - The Script

"my mind must be free
To learn all I can about me......"
Young hearts run free Candi Staton

I know it's over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me and said
If you're so funny, why are you on your own tonight?
And if you're so very entertaining, why are you on your own tonight?
With your triumphs and your charms, while they're in each others' arms tonight?

Then the amazing bit quoted upthread etc etc it takes guts to be gentle & kind.

So what with I know its over, plus to die by your side, you can pin and mount me like a butterfly, heaven knows I'm miserable now - Morissey has the absolute undisputed crown for lyrics.

The problem is he has turned out to be such a CUNT and it has genuinely wrecked quite a lot of my inner emotional world.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why (why whyyyy) can't it be mine?

With his Valium, his sick notes and phoney prescriptions……

I’m a 90s girl and loved Carter USM 🙂

And my father told me, "Son
It's not his fault he doesn't know your face
And you're not the only one"
Although my grandma used to say
That he used to sing
Darlin', hold me in your arms the way you did last night
And we'll lie inside for a little while here, oh
I could look into your eyes until the sun comes up
And we're wrapped in light and life and love
Put your open lips on mine and slowly let them shut
For they're designed to be together, oh
With your body next to mine, our hearts will beat as one
And we're set alight, we're afire love
Love, love

Afire Love - Ed Sheeran

Oh, and, The sun shines out of our behinds, no, it's not like any other love, this one is different, because it's us -Hand In Glove- The Smiths.

“…We are all we need when we are holding each other ..”

2002

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you’d be true
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you

(Kirsty MacColl)

'She is the film of the book of the story of the smell of her hair' counting crows. An amazing lyricist

@ZimZamZoom

No I can't forget this evening Or your face as you were leaving But I guess that's just the way the story goes You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows Yes it shows

Without You - Harry Nilsson

I'm 15 again. Properly breaking my heart over some boy, this on a mixed tape (yep I'm that old!!) that he'd made me