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What is your favorite single line ever?

I was listening to Grant Lee Buffalo tonight and this one line always knocks me to the ground, so I decided to make this thread.

My fave:

"Could you learn to read minds, and in the case of mine, do you read in the dark"

:drool:
 
It very well could be:

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."

I don't know, that's a good one for today.
 
This may be a tad longer than what you intend, but I don't really want to single out the last line as my favourite without context.

This song leaks out onto the pavement
It could be a joke, it could be a statement
The more that I fake it and pretend not to care
The more you can read into what isn't there

- Stop Swimming by Porcupine Tree

A bit shorter, I am also very fond of this line:

I don't pretend to know what you want, but I offer love
- Distant Sun by Crowded House
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:

"Could you learn to read minds, and in the case of mine, do you read in the dark"

:drool:

:drool: You just reminded me of how awesome GLB were (still love Grant Lee Phillips :) ) Amaaazing song-writer ..

I love in 'Fuzzy'

We hunger for a bit of faith/to replace the fear/
We water like a dead bouquet/ It does no good does it dear

and in 'Stars n'stripes' (one of my fave GLB songs :drool: )

I can hide in you
In your chesnut hair :drool:
I confide in you
Whisper in your ear
When the earth is ripe
All the worms wake up ...
 
"In my life why do i smile at people i'd much rather spit in the eye?"

The Smiths - Heaven knows i'm miserable now

Morrissey is a veritable treasure chest when it comes to great lines :drool:
 
elevation2u said:

"Can you still have any famous last words
if you're somebody nobody knows?"
Strawberry Wine - Ryan Adams

That whole song...wow...:drool:...but I especially love that line.

This is a hard question. :hmm: Two other Ryan Adams ones instantly popped into my mind, so I'll put those for now:

"And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get" (Miss Sunflower)

"The sunset's just my light bulb burning out" (Oh My Sweet Carolina)
 
"He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he don't know what it means"
Nirvana, in bloom
(I dont know why i like it so much. I just do)
 
This is one that has been stuck in my head for the last week...it just so sums up my belief in individualism and that trying to fit in with anything or anyone is a waste of time:

"If I can't be my own/I'd feel better dead"

Alice In Chains - Nutshell
 
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right now:

"took you two years to win my heart and two words to break it"

"Took you two years to win my heart" by Final Fantasy
 
for me, for my own reasons:

"it's ok, don't need to say it..."

the last line on when the pawn...

i know - fiona apple.
 
Bonochick said:


"The sunset's just my light bulb burning out" (Oh My Sweet Carolina)

He has so many...

"And I'll hold you close in the back of my mind"

and then right after that another brilliant line:

"It feels so good, but damn it makes me hurt"


*runs to pick up guitar and play 'La Cienega Just Smiled'*
 
I man, I don't know if I can pick just one line yet, let me get back to you with that.

But here's probably my favorite verse of all time, from what may be my favorite song.

"They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win."

-Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen
 
:drool:

you're my new best friend

though you forgot a pivotal line [at least for me]

"you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that youuuuuuuuung anymore"

his voice is so perfectly haunting in this song

everything, the opening harmonica, the piano, guitar...
 
elevation2u said:
:drool:

you're my new best friend

though you forgot a pivotal line [at least for me]

"you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that youuuuuuuuung anymore"

his voice is so perfectly haunting in this song

everything, the opening harmonica, the piano, guitar...

Yes, totally. The whole song is really unearthly. There isn't a single line in the whole thing that isn't fantastic, but that final verse just really speaks to me. I'm at a point in my life where I'm getting ready to leave home and move away to college. There are dozens of close friends I'll probably never see again, but the road ahead has never been more open. It's exciting and frightening, and though maybe the song isn't speaking directly to a guy like me, I can't help but be moved. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. Brilliant.

Edit: Oh my God, forgot to mention how unreal the Hammersmith Odin version of this song is. :drool: x1000
 
You can't always get what you want;
but if you try sometimes you might find,
you get what you need....

Rolling Stones-



You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one...

John Lennon-


People are strange
When your a stranger...

The Doors



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

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
 
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I've never been the praying kind, but lately i've been down on my knees
not looking for a miracle
just a reason to believe
-Hold Me, Savage Garden

I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not
- OOTS , U2

and half of this song :wink:

How can they see the Love in our eyes
And still they don't believe us ?
And after all this time
They don't want to believe us
And if they don't believe us now
Will they ever believe us ?
And when you want to Live
How do you start ?
Where do you go ?
Who do you need to know?
- The boy with the thorn in his side, The Smiths
 
Lancemc said:


Yes, totally. The whole song is really unearthly. There isn't a single line in the whole thing that isn't fantastic, but that final verse just really speaks to me. I'm at a point in my life where I'm getting ready to leave home and move away to college. There are dozens of close friends I'll probably never see again, but the road ahead has never been more open. It's exciting and frightening, and though maybe the song isn't speaking directly to a guy like me, I can't help but be moved. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. Brilliant.

Edit: Oh my God, forgot to mention how unreal the Hammersmith Odin version of this song is. :drool: x1000

the whole dvd is mindblowing! I'm so glad I also got the cd, which I wasn't interested at first since I have the dvd and watch it constantly..and then one time at a record shop it was on sale for 10 bucks so I picked up. Unbelievable! Same concert but it's a different experience on headphones, I've had it on constant play on my ipod. I can't get enough it, all of it from the beginning of Thunder Road to 10th Ave, Spirits, Backstreets, Jungleland [big man's solo sends shivers down my spine every time], Kitty's Back, Saint, She's the One yada yada yada

it's the best listening experience I've had in a long time
 
Screwtape2 said:
"The jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the iron clock"
-Night & Day

Man, Cole Porter could really write them.

This is a song that's been covered so many times. An amazing song.

The original lyric is "stately clock". Now the original U2 recording on the Red Hot and Blue CD shows the original lyric, but Bono sings something completely different. The interpretation most recognized is "eye of the clock" or "ivory clock"...I've never seen iron clock, but who knows.

Many covers don't even include the first verse, including one of Sinatra's famous covers of this song.
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:


This is a song that's been covered so many times. An amazing song.

The original lyric is "stately clock". Now the original U2 recording on the Red Hot and Blue CD shows the original lyric, but Bono sings something completely different. The interpretation most recognized is "eye of the clock" or "ivory clock"...I've never seen iron clock, but who knows.

Many covers don't even include the first verse, including one of Sinatra's famous covers of this song.

In truth, I was listening to the live version by U2 at the Music Cares thing. You know how Bono is with lyrics.
 
LemonMacPhisto said:
It very well could be:

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."

I don't know, that's a good one for today.

:drool:

JCOSTER said:
You can't always get what you want;
but if you try sometimes you might find,
you get what you need....

Rolling Stones-

another good one!

JCOSTER said:
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one...

John Lennon-

:love: :love: :love:



There are so many, but the one that comes to mind at the moment ('cuz I just heard the song) is:

"And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
Tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel"

Elvis Costello Radio Radio
 
Two favorite single lyrics

"She can drag me over the rainbow or send me away."
Down by the River

"You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eye
And I'm getting blown away.
Somewhere safer where the feelings stay.
I want to love you, but I'm getting blown away"

Like a Hurricane

I like this thread. No more Neil Young references, though, I promise.
 
i sit and watch your flowers wilting in the kitchen
i felt like i was one of them gasping for air


get you in - better than ezra


she eyes me like a pisces when i am weak

heart shaped box - nirvana


the photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
turned around backwards so the windshield shows
every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse


nightswimming - REM


really, though, you could fill this entire thread with REM lyrics.
 
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