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?

My wife Mary made a lovely shepherds pie & peas
With carrots and gravy, oh and cabbage as an additional
green
I said that looks fantastic love and I tucked in
hungrily
My daughter Karen didn't, something I wish I'd seen
For soon my plate was empty, I said ?Mary, is there any
more??
She said ?No, love, but its treacle sponge for afters?
and I said ?phwoar?
I'd had a couple of mouthfuls, when I heard Karen
declare
?I can't eat any more of this shepherds pie mum?
Well it filled me with despair.
(because if I'd known that I wouldn't have started my
sweet)
Chorus.
But I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm, halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
(?caus you can't can you?)
My tummy was in turmoil, I was panicked and confused
And as Karen's dinner grew colder, so did my sweet
For my pleasure in that treacle sponge was now
massively reduced
By the sight of fluffy potato, and glistening meat
Take this plate from me Oh Lord, before I go insane
Should I press on with my afters, or go back to my
main?
Oh I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm, halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now, Oh No
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
I can't go back, I won't go back
I'd love to go back but I mustn't do that
I can't go back, I won't go back
I'd love to go back obviously, but I mustn't do that
At that moment I heard a sound, a scrape of knife on
plate
As I watched Karen's dinner go in the dog's dish
My appetite now gone, my pudding suffered the same fate
I can only assume this appalling outcome,
Was God's wish
?Cause I can't go back to savoury now
I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm, halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
I can't go back to savoury? now

Has anyone mentioned hozier yet!?

Take me to church and I'll worship like a dog
At the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good god, let me give you my life "danh danh dang (drums)"

My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She said boys like a little more booty to hold at night.
You know I won't be stick thin silicone barbie doll, so if that's what you're in to then go head and move along.
(All about the bass)

The grabbing hands grab all they can, all for themselves after all. It's a competitive world. Everything counts in large amounts.(Everything counts)

And when your plans unravel in the sand what would you wish for if you had one Chance,
(Airplanes)

So tell that someone that you love just what you're thinking of if tommorow never comes
(If tommorow never comes)

Raahh and the other "New England"ers, I've always loved that song, especially Kirsty MacColl's version. Can't resist "though I put you on a pedestal you put me on the pill".

Also, this verse really resonates with that sinking feeling that someone isn't the person you hoped they'd be:

Once upon a time at home
I sat beside the telephone
Waiting for someone to pull me through
When at last it didn’t ring I knew it wasn’t you

There's only us,
there's only this.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

No other road
no other way...
No day but today.

~ RENT

And I'll be there forever and a day - Always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and
The words don't rhyme
And I know when I die, you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you - Always

Those last two are both great Morloth and Call - others too of course ....

why does no one seem to understand
that it's more than love i need
it's so hard to keep your faith alive
when nobody else believes
oh i need someone there for me
need someone who can see
need someone to show me
ohhhh, that they are there to help me fight
if i fall, to set me right
someone there to hold the light
won't someone say

i believe in you

it's so hard to do it all yourself
fighting for your dreams alone
when the toy's upon the highest shelf
a child's tears soon become stone
oh why does no one lend a hand
why does no one understand
why i need to make a stand
ohhhh,it's so hard to carry on
when all your hope is gone
all your dreams have come undone
i need to hear

i believe in you

why won't someone say these words
are they really so absurd?
must they always go unheard?
ohhhh, if someone needed the light
i'd be there to help them fight
if they fell, i'd set them right
and then i'd say

i believe in you

(Twisted Sister - I Believe In You Lyrics)

I've been out walking for hours
I've got something on my mind
How did we get here? Where are we going?
And why is life so hard?

I read the stories, see the photographs
World's in a crazy space
I've got to hold on to my dreams
There's just no other place, there's just no other place

I believe we can change anything
I believe we can rise above this
I believe there's a reason for everything
I believe in my dream

I've seen the shadows of the living
I've seen them turn and walk away
And I keep searching for the right words
To send these thoughts away

There's a picture I like to look at
A picture of a beautiful face
And I see something in her eyes
Sends me to a better place, sends me to a better place

I believe we can change anything
I believe we can rise above this
I believe there's a reason for everything
I believe in my dream

I believe we can change anything
I believe in my dream

(Joe Satriani - I Believe)

mrssnodge - you quote Elvis Costello "The lipstick on the hair filled cup of coffee" - it's half-filled cup of coffee, not hair filled!!

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there ain't nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there'll be a radio playing
And you'll hear me sing this song
Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between
And I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen, Bobby Jean

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take

Encore Lincoln Park and Jay Z

Listening to this resonated with me so much when I was in a horribly toxic relationship.

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends

Bruce Springsteen, Backstreets

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...

My grandma and your grandma
Sitting by the fire
My grandma said to your grandma
Gonna set your flag on fire
Talkin' about hey now
Hey now
Iko iko undy
Jockomo fi no a ne ne
Jockomo fi na ne

(I think !)

Things in common there just aint one, but when we get together we have nothing but fun.
(Opposites Attract)

Alina Baraz and Fantasy

This is a song for Spring...!

I wont post the whole song, just the track. But I looooove the way she delivers this bit.....

So you say you wanna get so high?
Breath me in like air tonight
Let yourself unwind, get lost
In the garden of my mind
I could be your private island
Underneath the palm trees
You could leave your worries
Listen to the waves
Let them wash away your pain

When your life’s just a breeze in eternity
Why not take this one chance and come fly with me
Just this once
Just this second that soon will be gone

London Elektricity Just One Second

Great thread! I'm happy to see Pulp have had a few mentions. I would nominate Pulp's 'I Spy' for lyrical genius:

'It's just like in the old days
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head:
"The crowd gasps at Cocker's masterful control of the bicycle
Skilfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop
Imagining a blue plaque above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest
But hold on
You've got to wait for the best"

You see you should take me seriously
Very seriously indeed
'Cos I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks
Smoking your cigarettes
Drinking your brandy
Messing up the bed you chose together
And in all that time
I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon
And catch us at it in the front room

You see I spy for a living
and I specialise in revenge
On taking the things I know will cause you pain
I can't help it
I was dragged up
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
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, oh yeah
With roach burns in designer dresses
Skin stretched tight over high cheekbones
And thousands of tiny dryness lines
Beating a path
Beating a path to the corners of your eyes'

There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher-boy
And there is a barber who's cutting and cutting away at my only joy
I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick
And I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick
Held her there kicking and mewling, upended, unspooling, unsung and blue
Told her "wherever you go, little runaway bunny I will find you"
And then she ran
As they're liable to do
Be at peace, baby, and begone

From Baby Birch by Joanna Newsom, a song apparently about abortion.

This thread has got me listening to my music.
Not my favourite but just heard this simple bit, well delivered.....

Surround me like an ocean
Protect me like I'm broken

Vanessa Elisha - Ocean

Its gonna be an expensive I-Tunes weekend...!! Haha

One of my favourite crap lines is in Bros's masterpiece: " You've read Karl Marx and you've taught yourself to dance".

"I did go from wanting to be someone / Now I'm drunk and wearing flip flops on Fifth Avenue"

Poses - Rufus Wainwright

I'm having this on my gravestone. I have been drunk, wearing flip flops on Fifth Avenue and know exactly what he means...

Lovely reading through this thread. If I can have one more (my third try...)

Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign faces
All the people I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams
You'd be sitting somewhere here with me.

Pet Shop Boys, Being Boring