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?

"And if the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car down town"
And from the same song -
"Don't pick fights with the bullies and the cads, cos I'm not much cop at punching other people's dads"

Great life advice from Bowie - Kooks

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.

This is lovely. What song is this?

It’s ‘There is a light that never goes out’ by The Smiths.
Morrisey wrote loads of wonderful lyrics.

In a couple of days they come to take me away but the press let the story leak/and when the radical priest come to get me released we was all on the cover of Newsweek
Paul Simon, me and Julio

And I dreamed I was flying/ and far up above my eyes could clearly see/the Statue of Liberty/and I dreamed I was dying
Paul Simon, American Tune

The whole of Stagger Lee by Nick Cave; I'd single some lines out but I don't want to lower the tone...

@thoughtcontagion I could do so many muse songs. Amazing lyrics but uprising is the one that I think of all the time when I hear anything political
"The green belts wrapped around our minds, and endless red tape to keep the truth confined..."

I'm sure I hear his echo in baby's newborn tears

I thought, thought that I could find a way
To beat the system to make a deal have no debts to pay

I gotta make so calls so keep it down low
She has was like I can't believe you want to talk instead of making love to me

But in this green and pleasant land
Where I make my home, I make my stand
Make it cool just to be a man
A uniform's a traitor

Love is international
And if you stand or if you fall
Just let them know you gave your all
Worry about it later

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning Britain

Aztec Camera - Good Morning Britain.

Paul Simon is also a master of lyrics...

I said "Hi", she said, "Yeah, I guess I am"
Ariel, Ariel

Ariel from Dean Friedman

He ducked back down the alleyway with some Roly poly little bat faced girl

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem
Baby girl, respect is just the minimum.

Lauryn Hill - Do Wop (that thing)

I love the whole song, but thats my favorite line

'So I broke into the Palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said: "Eh, I know and you cannot sing!"
I said: "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano' Smiths again, always makes me smile. And this always makes me cry - Jonathan Richman 'And our time is right now, now we can do anything we really want to.
Our time is now, here in the morning of our lives'

I know a woman, became a wife. These are the very words she uses to describe her life: she says a good day ain't got no rain. She says a bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been

Slip Sliding Away by Simon & Garfunkel

'Hell hath no fury like a human born.'

Instant History by Biffy Clyro. I just think it's such a clever play on the saying (and so true!).

He sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity, and he says hallelujah.

@LowbrowVictoriana thankyou and thankyou to everyone who has put the artist and song title.

‘ pulling that silent disappointment face, the one that I can’t bear…’

Mardy Bum, Arctic Monkeys

I'm five years old
It's getting cold
I've got my big coat on
I hear your laugh
And look up smiling at you
I run and run
Past the pumpkin patch
And the tractor rides
Look now, the sky is gold
I hug your legs
And fall asleep on the way home
I don't know why all the trees change in the fall
But I know you're not scared of anything at all
Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away
But I know I had the best day with you today

Ohhhh jonathan Richman...

When you've things to do, not because you gotta
When you run for love not because you gotta
When you trust your friends with no reason notta

(Summer feeling)

@WhenSheWasBad

It’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Smiths

The irony...

Faiths Song - Amy Wadge:

Gave you all that you needed
You cut but I'm bleeding
And all of my strength that I gave to you
I loved completely
You lose then you leave me
And all of my hope
I left with you too
But I gave my heart whole I did
I gave my heart
And although it's lost
It is still beating
And I gave my whole soul I did
I gave my soul
And although I'm broken
I am still breathing
I will sleep through the moments
All the moments you've stolen
All for my love
I'll learn the truth
That I gave my heart whole I did
I gave my heart
And although it's lost
It is still beating
And I gave my whole soul I did
I gave my soul
And although I'm broken
I am still breathing

The lyrics are a very clever construct - but “I gave my soul” and “I love completely” are the lines that resonate the most

@billydilly

The whole of Stagger Lee by Nick Cave; I'd single some lines out but I don't want to lower the tone...

Love that song

Brendan Benson,

Well I don't know what I'm looking for
But I know that I just want to look some more
And I won't be satisfied
'Til there's nothing left that I haven't tried
For some people it's an easy choice
But for me there's a devil and an angel's voice
Well I don't know what I am looking for
But I know that I just want to look some more

Genius

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me...I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you ... you'll never get away from the sound of the woman who loves

Silver Springs by Stevie Nicks ❤

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

All your perfect imperfections - John Legend