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?

@GenderApostatemk2

Elbow - Open arms The moon is out looking for trouble The moon wants a scrap or a cuddle The moon is face down in a puddle And everyone's here.

Snow Patrol - Chasing cars
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

David Grey - This year’s love

'Cause it takes something more this time
Than sweet, sweet lies oh now
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
When ya kiss me on that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing, "ain't this life so sweet?"

The Killers - Smile like you mean it.

And someone is calling my name
From the back of the restaurant
And someone is playing a game
In the house that I grew up in
And someone will drive her around
Down the same streets that I did
On the same streets that I did

Smile like you mean it

Love david gray

good choices

… You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight…U2 sometimes

Surround me, body and soul
Pull me into your glow, make me blush
Unbound me, spin me in gold
As the story unfolds in your touch

Hypnotised, Years and Years

Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard
But I think "oh bondage, up yours!"

Xray Specs - Oh bondage, up yours!

The truth is harder than the pain inside

Erasure

Every night
You wrote another line
With a bloody, broken, bottle
And every day
You wish it away
Why don't you pull the pin
On that grenade
You cuddle

I wanted to believe
Bodies swinging from trees
Struggling to stand
With your head in your hands
A stoic last stand
Of a dying man

I wanted to believe
As I watched your world
Crumble in your hands
I wanted to believe
As you raised your glass
To your last stand
And I wanted to believe
You would win
The war in your head
That I did not understand
That I did not understand

Every night
The questions poured out
Of your wounded eyes
Damn dark things
Every day
You used to pray
Listen to the black raven sing
You wanted to believe
As you were falling to your knees
Struggling to stand
With your life in your hand
The sad last stand
Of a broken man

I wanted to believe
As I watched your world
Crumble in your hands
I wanted to believe
As you raised your glass
To your last stand
And I wanted to believe
You would win
The war in your head
That I did not understand
That I did not understand

I wanted to believe
As I watch your world
Crumble in your hands
I wanted to believe
As you raised your glass
To your last stand
And I wanted to believe
You would win
The war in your head
That I did not understand
That I did not understand

And the questions pour out
And the questions pour out
I did not understand
I did not understand
I did not understand
I did not understand
The sound of you falling
I did not understand
As the trembling heart of a man
Did not understand
The sound of a trembling heart

Suicide Note by Johnette Napolitano

@peridito bang ....love seepa / grindah 🙌🤣🤣

Nina Simone: I wish I could be everything I could be.

Makes me cry

I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine.

‘It’s not like I’m falling in love I just want you to do me no good and you look like you could.’

This brings to mind the regulars of a pub in my hometown in the late 70s..

And the women tug their hair
Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out
And all the men are gargoyles
Dipped long in Irish stout
The whole place is pickled
The people are pickles for sure
And no one knows if they've done more here
Than they ever would do in a jar

@Nowifi It's good to hear someone else loves this song as much as I do. It's incredibly poignant, heartbreaking, beautifully and delicately sung but not one of Bowie's best-known. If you haven't already seen the video I urge you to find it on YouTube.
My daughter was also born on a Thursday x

Yes it's a beautiful video too. Bowie wasn't born on a Thursday though, I checked 😂

You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark
What made it special
Made it dangerous
So I bury it And forget

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Eddie Vedder, I’ve always said he’s a poet first, lyricist and music after (that second line).

Daddy didn't give affection
And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

It's only forever
Not long at all

David Bowie - Underground (from Labyrinth)

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had.

Tears for Fears - Mad World

I'm the king of my own land
Facing tempests of dust, I'll fight until the end
Creatures of my dreams raise up and dance with me!
Now and forever, I'm your king!

M83 - Outro

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

I know somebody and they cry for you.
They lie awake at night and dream of you.
I bet you never even know they do, but somebody's crying.

I know somebody and they called your name.
A million times and still you never came.
They go on loving you just the same, I know that somebody's trying.

Chris Isaak - Somebody’s Crying

My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven
Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes
That boy's not right

Richard Marx - Hazard

You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away
Roll a number
Write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train

Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

So shave your face with some mace in the dark (later in the song)

Beck - Loser

Quite possibly the best song lyrics ever written, insanely clever songwriting, Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

I was down at the New Amsterdam
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
And we all want something beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful

So come dance this silence down through the morning
Shalalala la la la la, yeah..
Uh huh, yeah.. Cut up, Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me, help me believe in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone who believes, yeah

[Chorus for Verse 1]
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely.

[Verse 2]
Well, I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
Yeah, well, you know gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

[Chorus for Verse 2]
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight, I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

I'll never be lonely
Said I'm never gonna be lonely

[Verse 3]
I want to be a lion
Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big, big stars, yeah
But we got different reasons for that
Believe in me, 'cause I don't believe in anything
And I, I want to be someone to believe
To believe, to believe, yeah!

[Chorus for Verse 3]
Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I want to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, ah son
That's just about as funky as you can be

[Chorus]
Mr. Jones and me, staring at the video
When I look at the television, I want to see me
Staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars
But we don't know why, and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me
I want to be just about as happy as I can be

[Outro]
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars