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"

I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes my hair my face
Man I ain't getting nowhere
I'm just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
Baby I just know there is

Hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Bodyform......Bodyform for yooouuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Now then mardy bum
I've seen your frown and it's like looking down the barrel of a gun

You made me smile mummybear68 . Mine is:

"He came like a hero from the factory floor,
With the sun and moon his gifts,
But the only sun you ever saw,
Were the two he left you with"

Big Country

(yes I have two sons, but I am pleased to say my Hero is still very much here )

Very fave:
I wander lonely streets
Behind where the old Thames does flow
And in every face I meet
Reminds me of what I have run from

In every man, in every hand
In every kiss, you understand
That living is for other men
I hope you two will understand

I've got to tell you my tale
Of how I loved and how I failed
I hope you understand

I've got to tell you my tale
Of how I loved and how I failed
I hope you understand
These feelings should not be in the man

In every child, in every eye
In every sky, above my head
I hope that I know
So come with me in bed
Because it's you and me, we're history
There ain't nothing left to say
When I will get you alone

Maybe we could find a room
Where we could see what we should do
Maybe you know it's true
Living with me is like keeping a fool

In every man, in every hand
In every kiss, you understand
That living is for other men
I hope you know that I am me so come on
I'm thinking about history
And I'm living for history
And I think you know about me
Cause I am

And one and one is two
But three is company
When you're thinking about the things you do
And you're thinking about the things you do
I want to tell you my tale
How I fell in love and jumped out on my bail
I hope you understand there's more in a smile than in a hand
In every sky, in every kiss
There's something that I might have missed

Why am I going to
A place that now belongs to you
But you were weak and so was I
Let's pick it up, let's even try
To live today, so why not smile
Don't dream away your life 'Cause it is mine
Is that a crime (repeat) this life is mine"

The Verve - History

"I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Every step that I take is another mistake to you"

Numb - Linkin Park

Also,

"Throw those curtains wide, one day like this a year will see me right, for life"

Elbow

The Beautiful South have written some clever lyrics too, particularly "A little time".

Finn77 - have you heard Placebo's cover of "Running up that hill"?

Best opening line from Elbow:

"I've been working on a cocktail, called 'grounds for divorce'..."

"Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket."

Loved this at university

I've been so happy since I walked away
I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today
'Cause you were nothing but a big mistake
And life is wonderful, now that I'm rid of you

Oh I must have been crazy to have stayed with you
I can't believe I thought I was in love with you
But now the scales have fallen I can really see
And I say go to hell, 'cause that's where you took me

Well, I've felt better since I slammed that door
You always cramped my style, I never noticed before
It's been a non-stop party since I flew the coop
I can't believe I fell for such a loser like you

And is it any wonder that I felt so blue
When I was always having to put up with you

Oh, here we go again, just lay the blame on me
Don't say another word, 'cause sweetheart, you're history

The broccoli boils in the pan on the gas stove where you stand
Won't you take this spatula in your hand?

But if I lived a thousand years
Everyday I'd think of you
A thousand years
Do you think I'll see them through

Ezio - Thousand years

Pull back the curtains
Let the sunlight stream in
And let it light up your eyes
And lay it's warmth upon your skin
Come over here
Just lay for a while
Let's do nothing
And let's do it with style
So run where you should be now tomorrow
So run where you should be now tomorrow
I could bring you some tea
And something to eat
Then we'll step over the bills
And into the street
And walk down the road
Or drive to the Sea
We'll do what you want
Please do it with me

Ezio - Cancel Today

trice - good choice

Just because you're paranoid Don't mean they're not after you - Nirvana, Territorial Pissings.

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it - Beach Boys, Wouldn't it be nice.

The lyrics to Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus make me cry!!! The girls aloud version however, makes me cry for a different reason

oooh and Starlings by Elbow is sooooo beautiful

How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?
He'll have to go
So, too, the bunch he luncheons with
It's second on my list of things to do
At the top I'm stopping by
Your place of work and acting like
I haven't dreamed of you and I
And marriage in an orange grove
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in
I'm stubborn, selfish and too old.
I sat you down and told you how
the truest love that's ever found
Is for oneself
You pulled apart my theory
With a weary and disinterested sigh
So yes I guess I'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue
And nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
Find a man that needs you more than I
Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about
your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings
Darling is this love?

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

So you wanna know me now,
How I've been.
Well you can't help someone recover,
After what you did.

So tell me,
Am I looking better?
Have you forgot,
Whatever it was, that you couldn't stand,
About me, about me, about me?

So pleased to see many mentions for Mr Bragg - a superb lyricist. My own favourites have already been mentioned so I'll add this (a worthy runner-up):

I'm celebrating my love for you
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo
And if you haven't noticed yet
I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet

Mr Bragg...bless him

I wish I'd done biology
cos some urge within me wanted to do it then

Gary Lightbody has been bending my head for a couple of weeks The boy (yep, I can say that, he's younger than my little DB) can write a song

I don't have time to stand here with you
Fighting about the size of my dick
I've a meeting to get to
And a gun to pick up first

Ballboy

"the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls" Simon and Garfunkel

"I took a chance, and changed your way of life" George Michael

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' walkin? down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

Bob Dylan

Oh I love this thread.
Dedicated to the god that is Eddie Vedder

i'm wishing you a-well
mind at peace within your cell
covers up, i cast you off
i'll be watching as you breathe
i lie still, you move
i send you off around the bend
i hold your head deep in my arms
my fingertips they close your eyes
off you dream, my little child
there's a sun around the bend (yes)
there's a sun around the bend
all the evenings close like this
all these moments that i've missed
please forgive me, won't you, dear?
please forgive and let me share...
with you around the bend
you're an angel when you sleep
how i want your soul to keep
on and on around the bend
Around the bend by Pearl Jam, written by Vedder about a band member's child.
And Vincent by Don mcLean
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

I never counted on this
guess that's the way that it goes yeah
you used to be someone I knew
somebody I could understand but
now I don't know what to do
and I don't know who you are no
all those things I hear you say
you talk that way you're a stranger and I
remember your voice
before this happened to us
and I could see and I was sure
and everything was young and new but
we lost it too many times
and that's the way that it is
lovers come and lovers go
when you think you know it just isn't true oh
I don't know where to begin
don't want to hear it again
I don't believe anymore
and this is all I know
I know I've heard it before
I don't believe anymore

Don't believe anymore - by Ice house

Pure heartbreak The album version is better than the re-mix for ambiance and mood

Ditto on the Smiths:

"Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg"

Definitely these two-

My life seems unreal, my crime an illusion
A scene badly written in which I must play

-Wednesday Morning 3am by Simon and Garfunkel

And

That kiss, it lasted too long
We probably shouldn't have danced to that song
-That Kiss by The Courteeners

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome

(Joan Osborne)

I look at my watch it says 9:25
and I think "Oh God I'm still alive"

(Bowie, of course)