What are some of your favourite lines from songs?

[overmydeadbody]

One of mine that is going round and round my head right now:

"Shine on you crazy diamond"

HAve to correct myself...

"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."

Get up in the mornin,
Go into the kitchen,
Pour myself,
A cup of ambition

Eels...

"There's something about you. There's something about spending the afternoon, asleep in your arms...I hate you. Fucker."

I have decided to leave you forever.
I have decided to start things from here.
Thunder and lightning won't change,
What I'm feeling and the daffodils look lovely today,

Cranberries Daffodil Lament

It is not personal to me, I should add. I just like the certainty of it

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be mine?"

Pearl Jam, Black

"Years have proved to offer nothing since you moved"

EBTG, Missing

All the words to Song to the Siren, in Tim Buckley's original

But there are so many more!

And this one

Sister Rose take your mother's place. Trade your homeand your maiden name. For a list of vows nad a veil of lace made a wife of you today, but you're my sister Rose the same.

10,000 maniacs

Jimmy Choos - I used to use The Whole Of Tne Moon to teach Sense And Sensibility!

A few non-Smiths ones:

Well, I'm sure it suits him
I'm not trying to be anything
I just can't bare to imagine you
sharing a bed with him

Give My Love To Kevin - The Wedding Present: I love the way that David Gedge manages to make 'Kevin' sound like an insult.

Love ain't like the movies
It blisters and bruises
And knocks you about with its fists
It lives you a wreckage all postaged and packaged
And sealed with a Glasgow kiss

Carter USM

"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid"

So true...i must stop being afraid...

Love Natalie Merchant prosecco .

Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side
Rainbow's are visions
They're only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some chose to
Believe it
But I know they're wrong wait and see

Someday we'll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
And look what it's done so far
What's so amazing
That keeps us star gazing
What so we think we might see

Someday we'll find it
That Rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me

Have you been half asleep
And have you heard voices
I've heard them calling my name
Are these the sweet sounds that called
The young sailors
I think they're one and the same
I've heard it too many times to ignore it
There's something that I'm supposed to be

Someday we'll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

Great! You bring in the Muppets and you kill a fab thread

LynetteScarvo interesting that you love Portofino's lines from Billy Bragg's "A new England" but go on to imply that it is Kirsty McColl's version you like.

Would be interested to know which one you like. They are quite different.

"I put you on a pedestal. You put me on the pill." - KM

"I put you on a pedestal. They put you on the pill" - BB

"I wish you cared" - KM

"I wish I cared" - BB

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Deathcab For Cutie

I would go out tonight
But I haven't gt a stitch to wear

The Smiths

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein

makes me smile every time

you used to call me up from time to time
and it would be so hard for me not to cross the line

the words of love lay on my lips just like a curse
and I knew oh yes I knew they'd only make it worse

"What do you get when you kiss a girl?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
And after you do, she'll never phone ya.
I'll never fall in love again."

I know you belong inside my aching heart
and can't you see my faded levis bursting apart
and don't you hear me crying oh babe don't go

~~ for crying out loud you know I love you ~~

What a fab thread!

"Nightswimming deserves a quiet night,
I'm not sure all these people understand...
September's coming soon,
I'm pining for the moon,
And what if there were two, side by side in orbit, around the fairest sun?"

I love REM and Michael Stipe so much, I would happily leave DP and marry him tomorrow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx9br5ISRpo

"Dance me to your beauty when the witnesses are gone.
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon,
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of,
Dance me to the end of love."
Who would have thought that the mumbled words of a melancholy Canadian Jew could have reduced me to tears?

"See you as as a descant soul in the setting sun
You as the sound just as silent as none" Dream Catch Me.

Mykonos by Fleet Foxes is an incomprihensible dirge but I like all the lyrics.

Every Day Is Like Sunday, Morrissey - "Trudging back, over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hand
And on your face.." - that, combined with the music, is my favourite.

show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright

Thunder road - Bruce

and

And tell me where're you gonna hide
when the whole world is ugly and strange?

Outskirts by Blue Rodeo

People say I'm crazy
Wearing diamonds on the soles of my shoes
Well thats one way to beat these walking blues

Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - it always cheers me up

Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalised
To lift up the lids of your eyes

got to be Stevie Wonder:

As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving,
and the rosebuds know to bloom in early May.
Just as hate knows love's the cure
You can rest your mind assured
That I'll be loving you always.

This is stupid but I love:

'To the alter of evil like lambs to the slaughter we're led'!

Nice to see some Stone Roses here but I love them for the tunes far more than the lyrics: don't know what they're going on about half the time!