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?

Apologies if this is already upthread: Bright Eyes - S&G

Is it a kind of dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?

There's a fog along the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go,
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?

Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.

Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?

There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air,
And nobody ever knows when you go,
And where do you start,
Oh, into the dark.

Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
bright eyes.

'They'll burn down the synagogues at 6 o'clock and we'll all go along like before. And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely Tomorrow' From Del Amitri's 'Nothing Ever Happens'

And Lou Reed ' I thought I was someone else, someone good'.

I'll try and think of some happy/ funny ones too ...

The stranglers - in heaven she walks

I always dreamed to meet you in such unexpected places
We seem to shift together with some strange reaction
Your smile is almost wasted on a world of basics
I'll always look for you in unexpected places

"She poors herself another cup of coffee, as she contemplates the stain upon the wall". Mike and the Mechanics.

Also adore thesomewhat inaccurate kinda haunting Spanish Bombs byThe Clash

Spanish songs in Andalucia
The shooting sites in the days of '39
Oh, please, leave the ventana open
Fredrico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight

Spanish weeks in my disco casino
The freedom fighters died upon the hill
They sang the red flag
They wore the black one
But after they died it was Mockingbird Hill
Back home the buses went up in flashes
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood
Spanish bombs shatter the hotels
My senorita's rose was nipped in the bud

[Chorus]

The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets
The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
Spanish bombs rock the province
I'm hearing music from another time
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight.

Also have a penchant for Bony M's Rasputin

Cornered, the boy kicked out at the world, the world kicked back a lot fucking harder - Libertines

Pours not poors.

This has possibly been mentioned already, but from How Soon Is Now, the Smiths. Sublime

There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die

And:

The lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart - The The

great name AvonCallingBarksdale

MeganChips woo-hoo, somebody else who likes The The!

"Crossing the central reservation of my imagination
Searching for the world I left behind
A shadow hunting shadows of childhood life
It's all I want, and all I miss
But how can I return
To a place that don't exist" Twilight of a Champion.

"In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath."

Love is Stronger than Death

Another of my favourites - Catatonia 'Lost Cat'

Lost cat in Arthur Street, black and white
If you go, I'll come without a fight
I'm sick of hearing damning words
Of you come cursing through my head
And I'm too proud to sit here,
Chasing time, wasting things we shared,
Or thought we had.

You said, I'm you digging a home
Truth is, you left a long time ago
But you can turn it on and play the innocent, Though you've been caught.
And I'm too proud to sit here,
Saying everything is how it was.
Never been this sure.
Take it from where you want to grow,
There's always tomorrow.
I'd rather have you smile than have you fall,
No matter where you go.

Ten men in trial of love succeed
All those in Arthur Street will walk free.
And you can turn it on and play
At anything you ever wanted to.
Cause you're not dull and I'm not strong
Enough to carry on wondering
How we're gonna see this through.

Oh yes yes yes to Wichita Lineman and especially that line. It just makes me melt...

So many lyrics I love :)

"Maybe you're the same as me, we'll see things they'll never see, you and I we're going to live forever" (Oasis)

"I wrestle with an outlook on life that shifts between darkness and shadowy light" (David Sylvian)

"Still so young to travel so far; Old enough to know who you are
Wise enough to carry the scars without any blame, there's no one to blame
It's easy to forget what you learned; Waiting for the thrill to return
Feeling your desire burn and drawn to the flame" (Crowded House)

"If I were France, and you were Germany, what an alliance that would be!" (Julian Cope)

Loads more, but I'll finish with The Bluetones, Slight Return -

"You don't have to have the solution, you've got to understand the problem, and don't go hoping for a miracle"

This was on the radio in the hospital when DH was told he had Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and potentially 6 years left to live. That was 20 years ago and he's still with us. We got our miracle :)

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

In fact all of the Galaxy Song - it's my go to when everything is getting too much - puts everything into perspective.

"After changes upon changes we are more or less the same" - Simon and Garfunkel.

"And you, you knew the hands of the devil, And you, kept us awake with wolf teeth, Sharing different heartbeats, In one night" - Jose Gonzalez.

And I said I know it well
That secret that we know that we don't know how to tell
I'm in love with your honor, I'm in love with your cheeks
What's that noise up the stairs, babe?
Is that Christmas morning creaks?

Bon Iver, blood bank.

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it cuz it happens too fast
And it feels so good, it's like walking on glass
It's so cool, it's so hip, it's alright
It's so groovy, it's outta sight
You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet
But it makes no difference cuz it knocks you off your feet

Epic by faith no more.

"I may be fat but I'm gonna be big some day"
The Wombles!

Think I know,
I mean er 'yes', but it's all wrong.
That is i think I disagree..
Beatles - Strawberry Fields

The whole *slipping through my fingers'

Made me cry actually posting this.

Going to hug dd3 now.

'I have become comfortably numb' Pink Floydd.

Yes to any lyric in Neil Young's Needle and the damage done.

'I see a red door and I want to paint it black' - Rolling Stones

The whole of 'Life on Mars' which I sing at high volume if it comes on the radio. I am quite a happy person really but my selection makes me sound as it I need some support.

Yes 'Slipping through my fingers' gets me every time - the mention of planning adventures and not getting round to doing it.

Each of my children have a song that's 'theirs' and this is my eldest DD's.

Is it my turn to wish you were lying here
I tend to dream you when I'm not sleeping
Is it my turn to fictionalize my world
Or even imagine your emotions. Tell myself anything
Is it my turn to hold you by your hands
Tell you I love you and you not hear me
Is it my turn to totally understand
To watch you walk out of my life and not do a damn thing

PM Dawn - I'd Die Without You

On a slightly morbid note :
When the Angel of Death comes down after you
Can you smile and say that you have been true
Can you truthfully say with your dying breath
That you're ready to meet with the Angel of Death?

Oh so many...
"Remember when you were young? You shone like the sun. Shiiiinneeee on you crazy diamond!"
Pink Floyd. Makes me so sad.

I'd been thinking pink Floyd too
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain