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?

You and I are victims of a love that lost a lot in the translation -
Billy Bragg A Lover Sings (in fact all the lyrics from that song)

Also pretty much any lyrics from The Smiths songs but particularly:

Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?

This thread is making me rather nostalgic

Rufus....
from the same song?
'if you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend'
Stone Temple Pilots

And I tried to hard
To resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And of why I should be leaving

Marlene on the Wall - Suzanne Vega

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking

Of all the things I should've said,
That I never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things I should've given,
But I didn't

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

"And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning."

Pink Floyd, Echoes

"Nothing gets so bad,
A whisper from your father couldn't fix it.
He whispers like a bridge, it's a river spanned."

Brand New, Sowing Season

And on and on from the moment I wake,
To the moment I sleep,
I'll be there by your side,
Just you try and stop me,
I'll be waiting in line,
Just to see if you care.

Did you want me to change?
Well I changed for good
And I want you to know.
That you'll always get your way
I wanted to say,
Don't you shiver...

Coldplay - shiver

Love that song so much

"i used to think that you were all that kept me sane when all else failed, now i think you were probably what drove me off the rails"

You can not kill what you did not create - slipknott duality

Here's a marker, here's my naked skin, out exhibit A, put a small x where I lot my way

When all your friends and sedatives meanwell but make it worse

What was simple in the evening, by the morning seems insane

YouTheCat

Many have been the times I've belted out

And her arse is the size of a small Countrrrrrrrrreeeeeeey

And only then realised the windows are open.

#thank fuck for tolerant good humoured neighbours.

"As you turn to walk away
As the door behind you closes
The only thing I have to say
It's been a good year for the roses"

Elvis Costello

"How wonderful life is, now you're in the world"

Your song Elton John

Reminds me of sitting up in the night nursing my babies.

I used to / still whisper the song to my little ones as they drift off to sleep.

"Got so much clit she don't need no balls" L7- Fast and frightening

"The grass is always greener where the dogs are shitting" Soundgarden -outshined

"Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you" Nirvana - territorial pissings

Quite a few.

"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me. Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me. Don't you wish your girl friend was raw like me. Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me."
Don't cha

Precious little angel won't you spread your light on me. I was locked up in the darkness and you've come to set me free. I was covered up with sadness. I was drowned in my own tears. I've been cynical and twisted. I've been bitter all these years, and. I was lost until you came. (Precocious little angel)

Just stand up tall look them in the face and say. I'm that star up in the sky. I'm that mountain peak up high.Hey I made it. I'm the world's greatest. I'm that little bit if hope when your back's is against the wall.
(The world's greatest)

I don't need to win/ You don't have to lose/We can choose/Happiness is an option

Do you need what I need?/Boundaries overthrown/Look inside/ To each, his own/Do you trust what I trust?/Me, myself and I/Penetrate the smokescreen I see through the selfish lie

It doesn't speak a plan or any secret thing/No unseen sign or untold truth in anything/ But living on in others, in memories and dreams/ Is not enough/
You want everything/Another world /Where the sun always shines/And the birds always sing

They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, But it's better than drinking alone - from Piano Man by Billy Joel.

Whattheseith -

"I've no time to sit comfortable down
But I still need armchairs in my home
To put carrier bags on."
The Fall, Carrier Bag Man

Just pretend, I'm holding you
And whispering things soft and low
And think of me, how it's gonna be,
Just pretend I didn't go

From one of my favorite Elvis songs. I have the first line tattooed around my arm in memory of my son, and all 4 lines on my bedroom wall

They pulled in just behind the bridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I
still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

Two more

I remember the day you appeared on this earth
Eyes like the ocean, I got blood on my shirt
From my camera angle it looked like it hurt
But your mamma had a big old smile

And

Karen I'm not taking sides, I don't think I'll ever do that again I'll end up winning and I won't know why

And its always you and me, always and forever, you and me, and we'll always be together.

The Wannadies

I can't say any more than "I love you"
Everything else is a waste of breath

Elvis Costello, I Want You.

So many Elbow songs:
"You are the only thing in every room you're ever in."

"But there isn't words yet for the gentle lunette
At the top of the nape
Of the neck that I wake to.
And where are the words
For the leap in my chest,
When mischief appears either side of the scar
On the nose
Made by a rose thorn.
So you claim, by a rose thorn."

sad but horribly accurate :

losing love is like a window in your heart, everyone can see you're blown apart - Graceland Paul Simon

and very funny but no less accurate

You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in !. - the snake, Oscar Brown Jr.

I love this thread! A lot of these lyrics I've never heard. You're all cooler than me

My favourites are -

'Never let your conscience be harmful to your health' - Prefab Sprout

The whole of Abba Chiquitita but especially 'the sun is still in the sky and shining above you'

Ellie Goulding Explosions - all the song especially 'you left my soul bleeding in the dark so you could be king, the rules you set are still untold to me and I lost my faith in everything' and 'I'll love you another time'

And I also love Britney - in Baby One More Time her loneliness is killing her and in Stronger 'my loneliness ain't killing me no more'

Agree with the PJ and Duncan lyric also