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"

A song about thread killing may be appropriate

He was not that much older than I was
He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum
He asked us what our favorite work of art was,
But never could I tell it was him
Oh, I wish I could tell him --
Oh, I wish I could have told him
...
Here I am in this uniformish, pant-suit sort of thing,
Thinking of the art teacher
I was just a girl then;
Never have I loved since then

and lots more Rufus Wainwright

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"

There's a man I meet walks up our street
he's a worker for the council
has been twenty years
and he takes no lip off nobody
and litter off the gutter
puts it in a bag
and never seems to mutter
and he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag
the children call him "bogie"
he never lets on
but i know 'cause he once told me
he let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
he's gonna buy a dinghy
gonna call her dignity

and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

and i'm telling this story
in a faraway scene
sipping down raki
and reading maynard keynes
and i'm thinking about home and all that means
and a place in the winter for dignity
and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

and i'm thinking about home
and i'm thinking about faith
and i'm thinking about work
and i'm thinking about how good it would be
to be here some day

on a ship called dignity
a ship called dignity
that ship

"It started up in Fife
It ended up in tears"

and there's you... a little black cloud in a dress... Billy Bragg

I am the milkman of human kindeness I will leave an extra pint... - Billy Bragg

I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware,
I wish, I wish, I wish you would care...
Billy Bragg

Here we are in our summer years,
living on ice cream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
if I was your old man and you was my missus?
Billy Bragg

and loads and loads of Billy Bragg songs... sigh... oh I love Billy Bragg by the way!!!

I second and third "Wichita Lineman".

"Level Crossing"
Like a Prayer, Madonna

'Our conversations are like minefields
No-one's found a safe way through one yet'

'He was born in Spring
But I was born too late;
blame it on a simple twist of fate'

'I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm'

"Sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head"

In fact, pretty much any song by the Smiths has wonderful lyrics.

Soyabean-that's my all time favourite Rufus song! Lyrically, I also like 14th Street-

"But why'd you have to break all my heart
Couldn't you have saved a little bit of it?
Why'd you have to break all my heart?
Couldn't you have saved a minor part?
I could have clipped and saved and planted in the garden
Damn you guess I'll have to get a new one"

HinnyPet-I thought I was the only person who had ever misheard it in that way. DH still laughs at me every time it comes on the radio.

Winter Wind Blows
In from the North
Scratches your spine
Cold like the Forth

Editors

But that's because tweenytadpole got there first with "Sweetness.."

One of my favourite opening lines is
'Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news!!' -Reward by Teardrop explodes. Always makes me smile

'she could see from my face that I was fucking high'

'I cant stay on your life support, cause thers a shortage in the switch
can;t take no more of your morphine cause its making me itch
I tried to call the nurse again but she;s being a little bitch
I think I'll get outta here.where I can
RUN just as fast as I can .....'

"I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between, you know you wouldn't want it any other way!

oh yeah love that izzybiz and also
'I put horses heads in peoples beds cause I am the mob'

catatonia
love that me and neil bought that album when we borrowed his mates soft top for the weekend pre kids and cruised around in the sun
was lovely

Oh and the lyrics from a song on my ipod when DS3 was born. I was holding him and sniffing his lovely new born head to this..

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

Simon & Garfunkel, Kathy's Song

"The lawn could stand another mowing/
Funny I don't even care"

Elvis Costello

"But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers/
Still crazy after all these years"

Paul Simon

"Now you just say, 'Oh, Romeo, yeah/
You know I used to have a scene with him"

Dire Straits

"People ask me when will I grow up to understand/
Why the girls I knew at school are already pushing prams"

Kirsty

"Remembering the moon, on the water how she shines/
The taste of the sheets, and the feel of the wine/
Wasn't I glad that you were mine/
In the grand affair"

The Fureys

"...drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows have learnt how to swim"

U2

An old one (but a good one):

"Hey Ronnie Reagan, I'm black and I'm pagan
I'm gay and I'm left and I'm free
I'm a non-fundamentalist
Environmentalist
Please don't bother me"

but also (on a rather different note)

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz

Will go along with the many who have cited Billy Bragg's New England.

Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium
Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes

Also by HMHB:
Your're going on after Crispy Ambulance (Running Order Squabble Fest)

and
Supercalifragilistic Borussia Munchen Gladback
And you can thank your lucky starts that your're not
The bastard son of Dean Friedman

Oh very young,
What will you leave us this time?
You're only dancing on this earth for a short while,
And though your dreams may toss and turn you now,
They will vanish away like your dad's best jeans,
Denim blue, faded up to the sky.
And though you want them to last forever you know they never will,
And the patches make the goodbye harder still.

Cat Stevens, Oh Very Young.

This bed is on fire,
With passion and love.
The neighbours complain about the noises above,
But she only cums when she's on top.

James, Laid

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed,
Is here, in my arms.
Words are very unnecessary,
They can only do harm.

Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence.

And an entirely inappropriate one by Crust on the track Hard Stools:
...the woman next door had a prolapsed vagina
I know because I saw it on the floor there beside her

Sorry to lower the tone!