To ask you what your favourite Song Lyric is?

[YouBetterWerk]

Sitting here thinking about mine when I should be working and thought I would throw it out to the MN masses.

After much deliberation, it is a tie for me between:

'Jonnys in the Basement mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement thinking 'bout the government' - Dylan

And

'Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty'

Anything that pulls you up? Makes you laugh? Breaks your heart? Has great memories?

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

Evanescence, My Immortal

"For a minute, I lost myself"

Radiohead

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die

The Smiths (again) - There is a Light that Never Goes Out

Reminds me of being in love for the first time and the pleasure of it but also the terrible pain.....

When I lived in Manchester and was hacked off with all the London hype I loved Catatonia's Londinium:

London never sleeps
It just sucks
The life out of me

(but ahem, now I live in London and love it).

Oh god so many, but off the top of my head:

The Killing of Georgie Part II, Rod Stewart

Because youth's a mask but it don't last
Live it long and live it fast
Georgie was a friend of mine...

Or, These Are The Days of Our Lives, Queen

You can't turn back the clock, you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame?
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately I just don't know
Better sit back and go - with the flow
Cos these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but some things remain
When I look and I find - no change
Those were the days of our lives yeah
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing's still true
When I look and I find, I still love you,
I still love you.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe.

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No, I won't be afraid
No, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me

makes me cry every time.

Agree with lots of these. My two additions:

"Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup" - in my low moments.

and the next one ways used to make me think of my ex- boyfriend, we drifted apart & broke up when I went to university.

"Because of you
I forgot the smart ways to lie
Because of you
I'm running out of reasons to cry
When the friends are gone
When the party's over
We will still belong to each other "

I called him one day & we've been married nearly 7 years.

The Jam

"They smelt of pubs and Wormwood scrubs and too many right wing meetings "

Fucking love this song.
I was 13 years old and it has never failed me.

Oh won't you stay with me?
'Cause you're all I need
This ain't love, it's clear to see
But darling, stay with me

Why am I so emotional?
No it's not a good look: gain some self control
Deep down I know this'll never work
But you can lay with me so it doesn't hurt

This song sums up my student days.

If my heart can't stop. I'll find a way to block it.
(La la la)

We can't go nowhere exotic. It don't matter cause I'm the one who loves you best
(The way I are)

I've been countries and cities I can't pronounce, and the places on the globe. I didn't know existed.
In Romania she pulled me to the side and told me Pitt you can have me and my sister.
In Lebenon yeah the women are bomb
And it Greece, yeah you guessed if the women are sweet. Ive been all around the world but I ain't gonna lie. There I nothing like Miami's heat.
(International love)

'I can kill a deer or buffalo with just an arrow and my hickory bow, from a hundred yards don'tcha know, I do it all the time' Indian Outlaw-Tim McGraw, for some reason it just cracks me up!

Kirst McColl, A New England.

I loved you then and I love you still, I put you on a pedestal, you put me on the pill.

They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark,
She looked at him and he felt a spark
tingle to his bones.

EbwyIsUpTheDuff
Prince Charming by Adam and the ants (without googling)

Because you are mine, I walk the line - Johnny Cash

Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park
You read me Shakespeare on the rolling Thames
That old river poet that never, ever ends
Our thumping hearts hold the ravens in
And keep the tower from tumbling

Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
I don't want to go

Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge
Give me one kiss in apple-blossom
Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing
In the orchard, my English rose
Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home

Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
I don't want to go
Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
Oh! England, my Lionheart
I don't want to go

And I'm not even english!

Housemartins - Five Get Over Excited:

I am mad from Scandinavia
I want a guy in the London area
He must be crazy and Sagittarius
'Cause I'm Leo and I'm hilarious

Pretty much any Divine Comedy songs has just about the most perfect lyrics.

thatsn0tmyname

any Kirsty MacColl song really - as great a loss to British songwriting as Ian Dury IMO

This whole song sums up my entire relationship with my DH. Both large fans of the Weakerthans, great lyrics all round!

The Reasons

How I don't know how to sing,
I can barely play this thing,
But you never seem to mind,
And you tell me to fuck off,
When I need somebody to,
How you make me laugh so hard,
How whole years refuse to stay,
Where we told them to, bad dog,
Locked up whining in a word,
Or a misplaced souvenir,
How the past chews on your shoes,
And these memories lick my ear.

I know,
You might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so,
Glad that you exist.

How we waste our precious time,
Marching in the picket line,
That surround those striking hearts,
And the time is never now,
And we know who we should love,
But we're never certain how.

I know,
You might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so,
Glad that you exist.

I was JUST going to say that TheCatAteMyTaxReturn, I really miss Kirsty McColl.

Billy Bragg wrote NewEngland though!

I have left instructions for her version of Days to be played at my funeral.

Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days, you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you, believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me

Not vicious or malicious
Just de-lovely and delicious
(Deee-Lite, Groove Is In The Heart)

Oh God could it be the weather
Oh God why am I here
If love isn't forever
And its not the weather
Hand me my leather
(Tori Amos - Leather)

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
(Blur, Girls and Boys)

Some day, when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
(Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight)

Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
So let's sing while we still can
While the sun hangs high up above
Wonderful songs of love
Beautiful songs of love
(Divine Comedy, Songs of Love)

"Take a look at these crow's feet - just look, sitting on the prettiest eyes, 60 25th of Decembers, 59 4th of Julys..."

• The Beautiful South

I hope you dance by Leanne Womack in it's entirety.

"I never will forget those nights, I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream?" - Don Henley, Boys of Summer

"He was a hard-headed man, he was brutally handsome
And she was terminally pretty
She held him up and he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city" - The Eagles, Life in the Fast Lane

"They say I'm up and coming like I'm fucking in an elevator" by Ed Sheeran always makes me .

'Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow'

my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

(tear as in crying, not ripping!)