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?

Juliet; the dice was loaded from the start. And I bet, and you exploded in my heart.
Dire Straights. Love this song.

Oooh Engeika I bloody love that song!

I am, of course, a Sultan of Swing

Many beautiful lyrics here. Some I know, many I don't - but will follow up. Thank you for a lovely thread.

so glad you said that. I think it is absolutely brilliant. Thanks

oh fuck, how could I forget?

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
Amen and Hallelujiah

(Paul Simon)

I love this too. The whole album is beautifully written.
A man I loved gave it to me.

Later I remember trying to explain to another man, ( I was young and drunk) how the future of modern poetry lay in song lyrics. (pretentious...sorry) and quoted these exact words, along with "incidents and accidents, there were hints and allegations"

I love this too - about father and son - via a car. (Marc Cohn)

Great big fins and painted steel
Man it looked just like the bat mobile
With my old man behind the wheel
Well you could hardly even see him in all of that chrome
The man with the plan and the pocket comb
But every night it carried him home

'Looking at you now, you would never know' from wires by athlete. Reminds me of my son who was a sick baby in neonatal, but is now a big strong healthy nearly 5 year old.

Glad he is strong and healthy Penguito. My ds was very ill at 2 and he too is fine now, (although a bit on the small side). But I understand that feeling - you'd never know.

Not pretentious, true! A man I loved and lost gave it to me, too.

Paul Simon is a true poet, a storyteller at his finest. He reminds me of Dylan in a way.

She makes the sign of a teaspoon
He makes the sign of a wave
The poor boy changes clothes
And puts on after-shave
To compensate for his ordinary shoes

And she said honey take me dancing
But they ended up by sleeping
In a doorway
By the bodegas and the lights on
Upper Broadway
Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes

Agh, I'm getting carried away now, look at this for storytelling:

The last train is nearly due
The underground is closing soon
And in the dark deserted station
Restless in anticipation
A man waits in the shadows
His restless eyes leap and scratch
At all that they can touch or catch
And hidden deep within his pocket
Safe within his silent socket
He holds a colored crayon
Now from the tunnel’s stony womb
The carriage rides to meet the groom
And opens wide and welcome doors
But he hesitates, then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows
And the train is gone suddenly
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand
Now from his pocket quick he flashes
The crayon on the wall he slashes
Deep upon the advertising
A single-worded poem comprised
Of four letters
And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding
The poem across the tracks rebounding
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night

Show a little faith there's magic in the night, you ain't a beauty but hey you're alright - from Thunder Road

And Softly as I leave you ' softly, I will leave you softly for my heart would break if you should wake and see me go'

Is that Paul Simon or Bob Dylan, Lemon?

How did I miss this thread?!

I think Graceland is a near perfect album, musically and lyrically.
'It was a slow day, and the sun was beating on the soldiers on the side of the road'

'After the dream of falling and calling your name out...'

For a storytelling yomp, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts is hard to beat.

Love also 'Most of the time, she ain't even in my mind, I wouldn't know her if I saw her, she's that far behind. Most of the time, I can't even be sure if she was ever with me, or I was ever with her.'

Also 'But I'd trade all my tomorrows, for one single yesterday...' Kris Kristofferson

I wondered when someone would mention Bruce Springsteen.

I always liked "My Hometown" and there are lines of many of his songs that just stick somehow.

And yeslemon both the songs you quote are good. You and I obviously love the same sort of music.

Should go to bed really but have got music in my head now.

Billy Bragg wrote New England though!

Indeed he did paulapantsdown and lots of other good stuff

'England, Half English', 'Sexuality', 'Levi Stubb's Tears', 'I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night', ,Northern Industrial Town', 'A13 Trunk Road To The Sea' and so many others...

Gah. Tempted to stay up all night with a bottle of red and listen to ALL the music and get emotional

unfortunately I don't bounce back like I used to

"No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue".

Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

"Thinking about home and all that means"

Dignity by deacon blue. I'm an expat and I love this lyric, home has lots of different meanings for us....

Yes love Thunder Road!

If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you
Mountains crumble to the sea there would still be you and me-Led Zep

I can't sleep either

I have a glass of white and also tempted to stay up for hours but DS will have to dragged out of bed tomorrow and I don't bounce back like I used to either.

Goodnight all - and thank you for a lovely few hours. Was feeling a bit down and this thread has made me realise that there's a lot to enjoy.
x

Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside.

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes.

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah..

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side...

Just Breathe - Pearl Jam

Sublime.

Last night I danced with a stranger but she just reminded me you were the one - Bob Dylan

Looking back and asking myself
'What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?'
You know, their lives ran in circles so small
Ah, they thought they'd seen it all
And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean

"And we'll die in the class we were born, and that's a class of our own my love" Time for Heroes, The Libertines

"Sweetheart you'll find mediocre people do exceptional things all the time" What to Do, OKgo

You've got it easy you don't know when you've got it good.
(Wouldn't it be good)

In the future can't wait to see if you open up the gates for me.
(I'll be missing you)