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?

@jeapurs54

Lean on Me - Mud If - Telly Savalas Ide Be the First - Scaffold Red Red Wine - UB40

Lean on Me is Bill Withers! It's beautiful (not heard the Mud cover)

I'm not the sort of person who falls
In and quickly out of love
But to you I gave my affection
Right from the start
I have a lover who loves me:
How could I break such a heart?
Yet still you gained my attention
Why do you come here
When you know I've got troubles enough?
Why do you call me
When you know I can't answer the phone?
Make me lie, when I don't want to
And make someone else some kind of an unknowin' fool
You make me stare, when I should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?

Weakness in me by Joan armatrading.

‘You know, they can have their universe. We’ll be in the dirt designing stats’ - So beautiful by Darren Hayes

And...

‘I know my voice can sound weird but singing is the way that I scream in this reality.’ Cure by Loïc Nottet

@GreenGordon

Please don’t confront me with my failures I have not forgotten them

And

You’re one microscopic cog in his
Catastrophic plan
Designed and directed
By his red right hand

Both of these are fantastic (and can't believe the first was written at 16)! What a great thread.

I adore the lyrics to this song, it's like a film, or a vivid dream

We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape
We drove around the fields until it started getting late
And I went back to my hotel room on the highway
And he just got back in his car and drove away

“My momma don’t like you and she likes everyone” could have been written to my son’s ex

“I am the rain, he is the sun
And now we've made a rainbow
I think it's beautiful
It's really beautiful”

@wetfloor

I'm not the sort of person who falls In and quickly out of love But to you I gave my affection Right from the start I have a lover who loves me: How could I break such a heart? Yet still you gained my attention Why do you come here When you know I've got troubles enough? Why do you call me When you know I can't answer the phone? Make me lie, when I don't want to And make someone else some kind of an unknowin' fool You make me stare, when I should not Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?

Weakness in me by Joan armatrading.

Oh this! I love this song! ♥️

@IncorrigibleTitmouse @Runningupthecurtains @cricketmum84

Waving to the BNL fans. If I had $1m dollars was the first thing that made me laugh after I lost my mum, and I’ve loved it now for almost 30 years (can it be that long?!). But I could pick hundreds of lyrics.

Anyway, just made you say underwear. 😁

Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
'Cause they're working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers

Billy Joel

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Bob Seger

we were runnin' against the wind
We were young and strong, we were runnin' against the wind
The years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home, and I
Guess I lost my way
There were oh-so-many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searching
Searching for shelter again and again
Against the wind
A little something against the wind
I found myself seeking shelter against the wind
Well those drifter's days are past me now
I've got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out
Against the wind
I'm still runnin' against the wind
I'm older now but still runnin' against the wind
Well I'm older now and still runnin'
Against the wind

Coldplay Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

"I'd rather be a comma than a full stop"

Why are you so petrified of silence?
Here can you handle this?

Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're going to die?

Alanis Morrisette - All I really want.

And I've been wrong, i've been down,
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream "are we having fun yet?"

Nickelback- How you remind me.

@Carriemac
That's a real belter! He's also partly responsible for one of the best ever trad albums: Molly Brady People's.
One lyric that is compulsive listening for me is this from the English version on Donal Og:

Black as the sloe is the heart inside me
Black as the coal with the grief that drives me
Black as the boot print on shining hallway
'Twas you that blackened it ever and always

For you took what's before me and what's behind me
You took east and west when you would not mind me
Sun, moon and stars from me you have taken
And Christ likewise if I'm not mistaken

Proper heartbreak song!

@wetfloor

I'm not the sort of person who falls In and quickly out of love But to you I gave my affection Right from the start I have a lover who loves me: How could I break such a heart? Yet still you gained my attention Why do you come here When you know I've got troubles enough? Why do you call me When you know I can't answer the phone? Make me lie, when I don't want to And make someone else some kind of an unknowin' fool You make me stare, when I should not Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?

Weakness in me by Joan armatrading.

One of my favourites too. Followed by ‘Willow’.

rainbowruthie

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose - Me and Bobby Mcgee

Yes! Though I think of Janis Joplin.

@Chikapu

The last girl that I loved she was a low and lusty liar She set my heart on fire, but made me choke Her beauty was a sight to see, but she didn't save it all for me I found other fires by following the smoke

Frank Turner - Substitute.

Yes! Also pretty much all the lyrics to "be more kind" "They've started raising walls around the world now Like hackles raised upon a cornered cat On the borders, in our heads Between things that can and can't be said We've stopped talking to each other And there's something wrong with that So before you go out searching Don't decide what you will find Be more kind, my friends Try to be more kind"

My favourite lyric ever "Anger is an Energy" Rise - Public Image Ltd

And when I asked for a separate room
It was late at night and we'd been driving since noon
But if I'd known how that would sound to you
I would have stayed in your bed for the rest of my life
Just to prove I was right

Ani di Franco - school night

she went over to his apartment
clutching her decision
and he said, did you come here to tell me goodbye?
so she built a skyscraper of procrastination
and then she leaned out the twenty-fifth floor window
of her reply
and she felt like an actress
just reading her lines
when she finally said
yes. it's really goodbye this time
and far below was the blacktop
and the tiny toy cars
and it all fell so fast
and it all fell so far
and she said:
you are a miracle but that is not all
you are also a stiff drink and i am on call
you are a party and i am a school night
and i'm lookin' for my door key
but you are my porch light
and you'll never know, dear
just how much i loved you
you'll probably think this was
just my big excuse
but i stand committed
to a love that came before you
and the fact that i adore you
is but one of my truths

“I wish I was in Tijuana,
Eating barbecued iguana”

From Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo

@MorriseysGladioli

Love how you remind me

Robbie Williams, Feel -- "I scare myself to death, that's why I keep on running, before I've arrived, I can see myself coming" "I don't wanna die, but I ain't keen on living either"

@KowhaiWhy

Life goes on , long after the thrill of living is gone

I do remember as a 20-something being horrified by this one. As a 50-something, I am starting to get it - which is ever so slightly horrifying.

I get this too..

Just a snippet, but the whole song is brilliant

Be mighty,
Be flighty come and melt the buttons on my flame-proof nightie!

Victoria Wood?
Fantastic song!

My all time favourite - especially the last line

My breath smells of a thousand fags
And when I'm drunk I dance like me Dad
I've started to dress a bit like him
Early morning when I wake up
I look like Kiss but without the make up