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"

"take off that gloomy mask of tragedy, it's not your style!"

Put on a happy face - Tony Bennett

Joshad... HMHB!!! Ha! Ha! dh wooed me with HMHB songs specifically... Dodgey Transformer... or whatever it was called... !! Very mad and shouty song!!!

Take just a minute, come and rest here by my side.
Let me tell you your own story, let me walk you through your lives.
Only a second, that's all it takes to realize,
There's 100,000 angels by your side.

-- Bliss, 100,000 Angels

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 cared

Kirsty McColl - New England

I've got a pocketful of words in my brain
I pull something out when I think I should

Versimilitude - Teenage Fanclub

and the entire American Idiot album by Green Day.

Oooh Choccy, loving the Deacon Blue.
What about Chocolate Girl (your alter ego maybe?)

He calls her the chocolate girl, because he thinks she melts when he touches her,
She knows she's the chocolate girl, because she's broken up and swallowed, and wrapped in bits of silver.

And I have just remebered, I use to think that James' "She's a Star" was written about ME (I have never met any of James). The first verse describes a very acrimonius split with ex perfectly. Bizzarely, years and years later, I won an award through work and was presented with it at a dinner dance thing, and they played it as I went up to get it. Totally inappropriate lyrics for the occassion, apart from "She's a Star"

Whenever she's feeling empty
Whenever she's feeling insecure
Whenever her face is frozen
Unable to fake it anymore
Her shadow is always with her
Her shadow will always keep her small
So frightened that he wont love her
She builds up a wall

" Ive got my hushpuppies on I guess I was never meant for glitter rock & roll " Jimmy Buffet

Bea - HMHB track All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit? Definitely has line
"It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
A dodgy transformer, again and again" in it. It is a shouty song.

I wear black on the outside
because black is how I feel on the inside

I can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible

Dancing at the disco bumper to bumper
Wait a minute - where's me jumper?

How much is the fish?

Many of my favourites have already been mentioned. I love the Smiths, but the Beautiful South can also be wonderfully cutting:

"Funny how quick the milk turns sour isn't it?
Your face has been looking like that for hours.
Promises, promises turn to dust,
Wedding bells just turn to rust
Trust into mistrust."

And something completely different:

"If you go, furious angels will bring you back to me" - Rob Dougan

Upafrozenhill i love 'bless my cotton socks Im in the news' too.

You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife

etc
Talking Heads Once in a life time

And pointydig I have had that 'wheres me jumper' going round my head recently, since it came on a podcast I was running to - getting a bit annoying now but it IS funny I admit

it is indeed a funny old song

Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully

Got your lipstick mark still on my coffee cup....

"I hurt myself today, to see if I still hurt"

Beware! I bear more grudges than lonely high court judges.

OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOO.....Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

Toy Dolls

Not my favorite but can't get it out of my head for some reason!

The Placebo version (from 'covers') of the sinead o connor song 'Jackie'
Sinead o connor version is crap, give Placebo a listen- Just Haunting...I live by a remote beach and its very dark! and it gives me goosebumps when I listen to it...

p.s. saw someone quoted lyrics from 'meds' brilliant!

Jackie left on a cold, dark night
Telling me he'd be home
Sailed the seas for a hundred years
and left me all alone
And I've been dead for twenty years
I've been washing the sand
With my ghostly tears
Searching the shores for my Jackie-oh
I remember the day the young man came
He said, "your Jackie's gone
We got lost in the rain"
And I ran to the beach
And laid me down "You're all wrong", I said
And they stared to the sand
"That man knows that sea
Like the back of his hand
He'll be back some time
laughing at you"
And I've been waiting all this time
For my man to come
Take his hand in mine
And lead me away
To unseen shores
I've been washing the sand
With my salty tears
Searching the shore
these long years
And I'll walk the seas forever more
Till I find my Jackie oh
Jackie oh
Jackie oh
Jackie oh

"How can you lie back and think of England
When you don't even know who is in the team?"

(Billy Bragg)

"I said "pretend you've got no money"
She just laughed and said "you're so funny"
(I don't see anyone else laughing,though)

(Pulp)

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,
Please,darlin,don't let me be misunderstood"

(Nina Simone)

"You gotta tell me, brave Captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves his porchlight on?"

Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal"

Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with? (Buzzcocks)

I said "In these shoes?
I don't think so"
(Kirsty MacColl - sadly missed)

"You know you cannot hide, from what's inside"

(Reef: Place Your Hands)

"The grabbing hands
Grab all they can"

(Depeche Mode: Everything Counts)

"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"

(The Smiths: How Soon is Now)

Nnow is the time to find out why you're buying everything
Now is the time to find out why you sigh at everything
You dress your self up to the top of your knickers
And you smell so good it's like a box of chocolates
But no one takes you home
No one takes you home
You've watched all the romance on the television
It's too much to bear you've got to get a new sort of vision
You've done your best at the gym you've got your lip-gloss on
You're going to the doctors to see if it's a medical problem
'Cause no one takes you home
No one takes you home

The lovely Kathryn Williams
It's breakfast, it's lunchtime, it's dinnertime
Spent with all those women's magazines
That tell you you're not as fine as you look
To yourself in the mirror
In the morning when you smile
To get yourself out of the door
To give life why can't life give you some more?
'Cause no one takes you home

All of 'Lola' by the Kinks.

and "there won't be snow in africa this christmas". Really? I'd never of guessed...