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?

Pretty much anything written by bloc party or kele okereke.
For the thread, I’ll go with the song “Ion Square”

Who said ‘unbroken happiness is a bore’?
Who said it, my love?
I don’t mind it anymore.

And i reach out a hand over your side of the bed,
Pull that blanket over your shoulders exposed to the night.
And the hunger of those early years will never return,
But I don’t mind, I don’t mind.

Alone here in the kitchen, I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness, but begging’s not my business

Up the junction

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.

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.,,..

(Drugs)

Focus?
We didn't even notice
We awake in a place
We can barely recognize
Yeah, hypnosis
And you can justify it all
Your back was up against the wall again

So, what are you waiting for?
You got what you asked for
Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than?
Go and look what you gone done
Welcome oblivion
Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than?

Shut up, silence
Add a little violence
And offend and pretend and defend and demand my compliance
And you can always justify
The missile trails across the sky again

So, what are you waiting for?
You got what you asked for
Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than?
Go and look what you gone done
Welcome oblivion
Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than?

@doadeer

Mother, mother Everybody thinks we're wrong Oh, but who are they to judge us Simply 'cause our hair is long Oh, you know we've got to find a way To bring some understanding here today Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Come on talk to me So you can see What's going on (What's going on)

Oh sorry this is Marvyn Gaye, what's going on... Whole song is so poignant.

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next

Manic Street Preacher

"You were licking your lips with your lipstick shining, I was dying just to ask for a taste"
Meatloaf - Took the words right out of my mouth
"I'm so happy that I can't stop crying " Sting

Metallica Nothing Else Matters

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words, I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

There's still a little bit of your taste in my mouth

Damien Rice - Cannonball

I think a lot of Ani DiFranco's lyrics are awesome as well.

Gravel
I heard the sound of your bike as your wheels hit the gravel
And your engine in the driveway, cutting off
And I pushed through the screen door and I stood out on the porch
Thinking fight, fight, fight, at all costs

But instead I let you in, just like I've always done
And I sat you down and offered you a beer
And across the kitchen table I fired several rounds
But you were still sitting there when the smoke cleared

Not a Pretty Girl
I am not an angry girl
But it seems like I've got everyone fooled
Every time I say something they find hard to hear
They chalk it up to my anger
And never to their own fear
Imagine you're a girl
Just trying to finally come clean
Knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty
And smiling

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their dreams of past glory
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "what are they Marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question

“I would beg to disagree, but begging disagrees with me. “
Fiona apple
“It took him minutes, it took her nowhere.”
Bowie.
“My mistakes are no worse than yours just because I’m a woman”
Dolly
And I waste so much time, thinking about time
And I should be out there, claiming what's mine
'Cause any day I could die, just like I was born
And this bit in the middle is what I'm here for
And I just want to fill it all with joy
Guillemots

And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me
You'd hold me until you died
'Til you died, but you're still alive

QOSA: " Life is hard that's why no one survives"

If I hide myself wherever I go
Am I ever really there?

Barenaked Ladies - For You

My mama don't like you, and she likes everyone.

Bit harsh there, Justin Bieber!

From Be More Chill

And there are voices all around
And you can never mute the sound
They scream and shout
I tune 'em out
And make up my own mind
Might still have voices in my head
But now, they're just the normal kind
Voices in my head, but now they're
The normal kind!

The future’s dead, fundamentally (Manic Street Preachers)

Let there be, let there always be, never ending light” (VNV Nation)

We are too young,
Too innocent to see what is right before our eyes
Nothing before, nothing will end, we never truly die
Like a spark of energy cries for life and ignites
One day we'll realise that all worlds must collide
(Collide, VNV Nation)

“Turn a different corner and we never would have met. Would you care?” George Michael

@ShowOfHands

I'm sick of this town, it's blind man's forage They take your dreams down and they stick them in storage You can have 'em back son, when you've paid off your mortgage and loans Well to hell with this place, I'll go it my own way I'll stick out my thumb and I'll trudge down the highway Some day, someone must be going my way home Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car with a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars And I stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread

Life's For The Living, Passenger

He's a brilliant lyricist.

Finally. .someone agrees with me!

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time, Glen Campbell Whiticha Lineman.
Act your age not your shoe size, Kiss by Prince
She walked like a woman but talked like a man, Lola The Kinks

It's not having what you want, it wanting what you have.

Soak up the Sun by Cheryl Crow

Someone should put a playlist together on Spotify of all these. I’d do it but have too much work to do!

"You can check out any time you like but you can never leave" - Eagles, Hotel California

"For the want of the price of tea and a slice the old man died" - Pink Floyd, Us and Them from Dark Side of the Moon

"Turn down the light, turn down the bed" and almost any line - Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt which is almost unbearably sad

"Yes there are two paths you can go by but in the long gun there's still time to change the road you're on" Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

@JamieFrasersSassenach

Dire straits - Romeo & Juliet

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat, the bad company
All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme

Pulp - I spy

My favourite parks are car parks
Grass is something you smoke
Birds are something you shag
Take your "Year in Provence" and shove it up your ass

Ah you beat me to it - love that Dire Straits line