Best Song Lyric NOT about Love.

[Yetmorebeanstocount]

Just that - most songs are about love, so what is the best line you know which is about something else?

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

Pink Floyd - 'Time'. The whole song is brilliant, so it is hard to pick the best lines.

The Mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar - Paul Simon

Another favourite (also grim but jangly guitars), We're all bourgeois now by McCarthy:

There's something wrong somewhere here
So through unclean streets
I made my way
With holes in my shoes and my children asleep at my feet
I paid my way

In every town on the way
The people looked grey, the buildings looked healthy
But one day I met a man
With money to spare
He said he will tell me how it is

The state" - he began
"Has been propping up people too long
For far too long
We all got lazy and couldn't be bothered
To make our way through the world"

But we are all bourgeois now
Once there was class war
But not any longer because baby we are all bourgeois now
So go out and make your way in the world
We're free to choose

We're all free to choose x2
We're free to choose

In booming Britain, we all work together to raise ourselves in the world
Each of us know someone who has done well for themselves
So well for themselves
"Thank you" I said as I left
I'll be on my way
I see how it is
We are all bourgeois now and somehow I'll raise myself through the world
I'm free to choose

We're all free to choose x2
I'm free to choose
We're all bourgeois now x2
We're bourgeois now

@Darklane I love the Beautiful South!

My favourite is A Little Time but I guess it's about the end of love.

One you might recognise @ReflectiveRogue1001 -
They say I'm just misguided
I don't agree
I think I'm wonderful!

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

American Idiot - Green Day

"You're such an inspiration for the ways that I will never, ever choose to be."

Judith - A Perfect Circle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing
And
Always look on the bright side of life
(Come on)
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow
So always look on the bright side of death
A just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
(C'mon Brian, cheer up)
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
I mean, what have you got to lose?
You know, you come from nothing
You're going back to nothing
What have you lost? Nothing!

Interesting thread. Belle & Sebastian have some great storytelling songs. Love all these:

Being a rebel’s fine
But you go all the way to being brutal
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Colour my life with the chaos of trouble Cause anything’s better than posh isolation

I put my arm around her waist, She put me on the ground with Judo, She didn't recognize my face, She wasn't even looking

Oh, Get me away from here I'm dying Play me a song to set me free Nobody writes them like they used to So it may as well be me

Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
And for once in your life you have nothing to say
And could this be the time when somebody will come
To say, "Look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone"

Oh wow! The strawberries album.

Thank you so much @Puppylucky

There are VERY few damned fans on mn I've noticed

I'm an orange moon / I'm an orange moon / Reflecting the light of the sun

Erykah Badu Orange Moon.

You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know we've always been taught to rely
Upon those in authority
But you never know until you try
How things just might be
If we came together so strongly
.
.
.
Are you gonna be threatened by
The public enemies No. 10
Those who play the power game
They take the profits, you take the blame
When they tell you there's no rise in pay

"Walls come Tumbling Down" by The Style Council.

As relevant now as it was in 1985. Sadly.