Lyrics: Your favourite line!

[POP-ROMANCER]

Roadhouse blues, the doors:

'I woke up this morning and I get myself a beer, the future's uncertain and the end is always near'

A thousand trees, stereophonics:

'It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches, it only takes one match, to burn a thousand trees'

What do you thinks of these?
And what are your favourite lines?

 

[Aardvark747]

I'm too obvious guys. I apologise! But these are my fave lines of all time, from my fave. SONG of all time.....

See the sun rise over her skin
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love
Like a burning spear
And the poison rain
Brings a flood of fear
Through the ghost-ranch hills
Death valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on

U2 - 'Heartland'

 

[GibsonGirl]

I'm too obvious guys. I apologise! But these are my fave lines of all time, from my fave. SONG of all time.....

See the sun rise over her skin
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love
Like a burning spear
And the poison rain
Brings a flood of fear
Through the ghost-ranch hills
Death valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on

U2 - 'Heartland'

land!

 

[WinnieThePoo]

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

 

[Aardvark747]

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

 

[GibsonGirl]

This might be long.



"Dislocated, suffocated, the land grows weary of its own"

"Investments and dealers, investments and dealers, cold wives and mistresses, cold wives and Sunday papers, city boys in first class don't know they're born just know, someone else is gonna come and clean it up, born and raised for the job, someone always does"

"Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see, if you'd just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy"

"This desperation, dislocation, separation, condemnation, revelation, in temptation, isolation, desolation, let it go"

"Either way you turn, I'll be there, open up your skull, I'll be there, climbing up the walls"

"There is no pain, you are receding, a distant ship's smoke on the horizon, you are only coming through in waves, your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying"

"And you wound yourself, and your loved one bleeds, and your habits grow, and your conscience feeds on all that you thought you should be, I never thought this could happen to me"

"Don't believe in what they tell me, there ain't no cure, the rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor, I, I believe in love"

"Caviar and cigarattes, well-versed in etiquette, extraordinarily nice, she's a killer queen"

"Beneath the noise, below the din, I hear your voice it's whispering, in science and in medicine I was a stranger, you took me in"

"This, this is our new song, just like the last one, a total waste of time, my iron lung"

"Night after night, going round and round my brain, this dream is driving me insane" (It's more so the delivery for this one)

"I see the dust cloud disappear without a trace, I wanna take shelter from the poison rain, where the streets have no name"

"Time is a train, makes the future the past, leaves you standing in the station, your face pressed up against the glass"

 

[Zoots]

Lots of good ones mentioned already!

But if I must think of one... all of U2's Acrobat comes to mind.

Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy.
When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul.
What happened t'your face of melting snow
Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow or you can spit
You can throw it up, or choke on it
And you can dream, so dream out loud
You know that your time is coming round
So don't let the bastards grind you down.

No, nothing makes sense, nothing seems to fit.
I know you'd hit out if you only knew who to hit.
And I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah, I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in.
'Cause I need it now.
To take the cup
To fill it up, to drink it slow.
I can't let you go.

And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this and act like that.
And you can dream, so dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down.

What are we going to do now it's all been said?
No new ideas in the house, and every book's been read.

And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this and act like that.
And you can dream, so dream out loud
And you can find your own way out.
And you can build, and I can will
And you can call, I can't wait until
You can stash and you can seize
In dreams begin responsibilities
And I can love, and I can love
And I know that the tide is turning 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down.

 

[elevatedmole]

This will definitely be long. I have so many favourite lyrics.

Like a whipcrack sending me shivers (Beck - The New Pollution)

One more robot learns to be/something more than a machine (The Flaming Lips - One More Robot/Sympathy 3000)

Community service and I'm still the mack (Beck - Hotwax)

And I guess we all fit into that slogan on the fast food marquee/ red blooded white skinned and the blues (Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves)

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse/so you understand less as the pages turn/or a movie so crass and awkwardly cast that even I could be the star (The Shins - Pink Bullets)

Gentle as a scorpion sting (Of Montreal - Chrissy Kiss the Corpse)

Neptune's lips taste like fermented wine (Beck - Mixed Bizness)

Buried animals call your name/you keep on sleeping through the poignant rain (Beck - Nicotine & Gravy)

I can't pick any particular lyric from Wilco's I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.. the entire song is perfect.

 

[typhoon]

I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find.

It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out.

We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view.

It seems there's more to life than just to live it.

I know what I want, but I just don't know.

I am he as you are he as you are me, and we are all together.

I wish it was the sixties, I wish we could be happy.

You're making me feel like I've never been born.

She never really belonged to me.

Doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

The time you ran was too insane.

If I get old, I will not give in.

Whatever's in my head won't go away.

My balls are always bouncing to the left and to the right.

Fuck the universe.

 

[Jack In The Box]

"you're a tragedy starting to happen" Red by Elbow

"I've seen it all, I have seen the trees,
I've seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze
I've seen a man killed by his best friend,
And lives that were over before they were spent.
I've seen what I was - I know what I'll be
I've seen it all - there is no more to see!" I've Seen It All by Bjork

"You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun" Jesus, Etc. by Wilco

and many more

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I don't believe in the existence of angels
but looking at you I wonder if that's true
but if I did I would summon them together
and ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
to make bright and clear your path
and to walk like, like Christ, in grace and love
and guide you into my arms

 

[elevation2u]

theres waaaaaaay to many, im one of those that cant decide one favorite line from one artist...and i like too many bands so picking one line is nearly impossbile... ill just put ONE whole song that i like a lot ...

If you hate the taste of wine
Why do you drink it until you’re blind?
And if you swear that there’s no truth and who cares
How come you say it like you’re right?
Why are you scared to dream of god
When it’s salvation that you want?
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on

We are wheels that roll around
As we move over the ground
And all day it seems we’ve been in between the past and future town

We are nowhere, and it’s now
We are nowhere, and it’s now
You took a ten-minute dream in the passengers seat
While the world it was flying by
I haven’t been gone very long
But it feels like a lifetime

I’ve been sleeping so strange at night
Side effects they don’t advertise
I’ve been sleeping so strange
With a head full of pesticide

I got no plans and too much time
I feel to restless to unwind
I’m always lost in thought
As I walk a block to my favourite neon sign
Where the waitress looks concerned
But she never says a word
Just turns the jukebox on
And we hum along
And I smile back at her

And my friend comes after work
When the features start to blur
She says these bars are filled with things that kill
And you probably should have learned

Did you forget that yellow bird?
How could you forget that yellow bird?

She took a small silver wreathe and pinned it onto me
She said this one will bring you love
I don’t know if it’s true but I keep it for good luck

 

[GibsonGirl]

I wish it was the sixties, I wish we could be happy.

The Bends.

 

[timothius]

And the world, and the world... is a tangled up necklace of pearls.

 

[Saracene]

"I don't pretend to know what you want, but I offer love." (Crowded House)

Nick Cave's lyrics are amazing. Here' some from the "Mercy Seat""

"I hear stories from the chamber
How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that's what I'm told

Like my good hand I
tatooed E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist
That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.

In Heaven His throne is made of gold
The ark of his Testament is stowed
A throne from which I'm told
All history does unfold.
Down here it's made of wood and wire
And my body is on fire
And God is never far away.

Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And like a moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
I go shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied."


From Pulp's "Common People":

"You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do."

 

[timothius]

"I don't pretend to know what you want, but I offer love." (Crowded House)

All of Distant Sun is bliss. Infact Together Alone is an amazing album lyrically.

My life is a house
you crawl through the window
slip across the floor and into the reception room
you enter the place of endless persuasion
like a knock on the door
when there's ten or more things to do
Who is that calling?
you my companion
run to the water on a burning beach
and it brings me relief

Pass through the walls
to find my intentions
circle 'round in a strange, hypnotic state
I look into space
there is no connection
a million points of light
and a conversation I can't face

Cast me off one day
to lose my inhibition
sit like a lap dog on a matron's knee
wear the nails on your feet

I woke up the house
stumbled in sideways
the lights went on and everybody screamed "Surprise!"
the savage review
it left me gasping
but it warms my heart to see that you can do it too

Total surrender
your touch is so tender
your skin is like water on a burning beach
and it brings me relief

Like a night in your mind
it brings me relief
in the back door
under the stars
and the scenery is my floor
in the back room
under the stars
and the scenery is my floor

IMO the best lyrics ever written. Gets me... everytime.

 

[Lila64]

one of my fave songs by Midnight Oil: One Country

Who'd like to change the world?
Who wants to shoot the curl?
Who wants to work for bread?
Who wants to get ahead?

Who hands out equal rights?
Who starts and ends that fight?
And not rant and rave,
or end up a slave.

Who can make hard-won gains,
fall, like the summer rain?
Every man must be, what his life can be,
So don't, call, me,
the tune, i will walk away.

Who wants to please everyone?
Who says it all can be done?
Still sit up on that fence
no one i've heard of yet

Don't call me baby,
Don't talk in maybe's,
Don't talk like has-beens,
Sing it like it should be.

Who laughs at their naggin doubts
Lying on a neon shroud, running around,
You've gotta touch someone,
i wanna be.......

So don't, call, me,
the tune, i will walk away

One......country One, country One, country
Who wants to sit around?
Turn it up, turn it down?
Only a man can be
what his life can be!

one vision
One people
One landmass
We are defenceless
we have a lifeline

one ocean, one policy, seebed lies,
one passion, one movement, one instant, one difference,
one life time, one understanding.

One country

Transgression, redemption
one island blue, our placemat
one firmament, one element,
one moment, one fusion,
Yes and one time

 

[Lila64]

also from U2 (numerous, but the one I can type quickest)

take my shirt go on take it off me
you can tear it up
if you can tie me down......
........
with my fingers as you want them
with my nails under your hide
with my teeth at your back
and my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

let's see..

we're too young to reason
too grown up to dream
now spring is turning
your face to mine
i can hear your laughter
i can see your smile
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i've been to where you're coming from
but the postcards weren't so bad
the knife i carry's been sharpened
on the mouths that won't keep shut
i'll stab at you in the darkness
cuz i'm trying to shed some light
your point of view's so meaningless
if you ever had one at all
all you seem to care about
is who's going to take the fall
who's going to take the fall for you?
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now your feet are back on the ground
again she'll say the weather's dim
but relax my love...
relax and swing
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before the light of day reveals itself
i am assured she won't forget
but still i will console myself
should i lose something i could regret?
but now she turns to leave
exactly like she used to do
did nobody warn you boy
love's in vogue again my love?
how bitter the morning feels
exactly like it ought to do
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the cottage is windswept
now there's only sorrow here
follow evacuation signs
you're detached and broken
and so sentimental now
remembering how we passed our time
somebody waits for me
far beyond our halloween
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oh baby do it again and again
i can hear nothing
windswept is the sand
oh baby show me more
i can see nothing
windswept is the shore

heatwave to nightshade
oh i'm feeling swept away
oh baby don't leave me there
with a low whisper
windswept on the air
you say it's nothing
but a game to play
oh i'm feeling swept away

slow baby you can take your time
i can hear nothing
windswept is on the tide
a feeling only or state of mind
you can take me high mama
mama take me high

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

wise on a birthday party
in a world
full of surprising fireworks
and sudden silence
lies on a stranger's bed
the new day breaks
like a speeding train
on an old friend
ever expected,
but never knocking

holding your own
in a battered car
all night parties
cocktail bars
and smile
when the butterfly escapes
the killing jar

sure eyes awake
before the dancing is over
wise or naked in
secret oktober

freefall
on a windy morning shore
nothing but a fading track
of footsteps, to prove
that you'd ever been there

spoken
on a cotton cloud
like the sound of gunshot
taken by the wind
and lost in distant thunder

racing
on a shining plane
tomorrow won't be content
to watch as the lightning
plays along the wires,
and you'll wonder...

sure eyes awake
before the dancing is over
wise or naked in
secret oktober

sure eyes awake
before the dancing is over
wise or naked in
secret oktober
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well it's been a long time
how should i feel?
what can i say?

with fantastic stories
you present yourself
in different ways

some particular places
remembered so well
are hard to forget

we've travelled so far now
then we were so young
hard to impress

but she comes and goes
the other side of life
sheltering only
the other side of life

these singular occasions
we seem to share
stumble and fall

if you could remember to wave a sign of life my way
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just when i think i'm winning
when i've broken every door
the ghosts of my life
blow wilder than before
just when i thought i could not be stopped
when my chance came to be king
the ghosts of my life
blew wilder than the wind
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he's sinking faster than a drowning man
he'll grab a hold of anyone he can
gun in his pocket and a heart of ham
uncle sam
he's dying faster than a rabid dog
infect us all now he's losing blood
nose for trouble and a soul of rock
smokey's man

don't drag me down
i don't wanna drown
you're going down
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hey boy
give your dreams a rest
if you're tired of searching
this is where it ends
there's nothing left to lose
nothing to protest
learn to love your anger now
anger here is all you possess
welcome to the age
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friends of mine
they said they were friends of mine
said they were passing time
more like a waste of time
close the door
i said close the door
i've told you twice before
what are you waiting for
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maybe your heart is aching
i wouldn't know, now would i?
maybe your spirit's breaking up
i shouldn't care, now should i?
maybe you're thinking of me
i wouldn't know, now would i?
if only you knew how i feel
wish i could die, now don't i?
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and sometimes i'm caught in a landslide
my beats so in time, can you look at me
i'm out of reach, i'll talk if it feels right
so nervous to say, tell me, can't you see
if you want, i fall out forever
i can't say no more... bebe dance with me
and please don't say leave it till later
i've had my last chance on the stairway

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

at the end of the rainbow
found each other there
strange, we never thought the colours would fade
be easy to walk
but it's much harder to stay
why, oh why, are we reckless today?
you and i
got to hold on together
because in this life
maybe the sun doesn't shine forever
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the afternoon it's one maybe two
sipping away my last gold star not so much to do
dream away the sunny day until it's time to leave
i'll just watch you pass on by when i'm on my own in tel aviv
with the blocks to one side
the beach to the other
and the trees and the leaves
on my own in tel aviv
and the trees all the leaves
on my own in tel aviv
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walking out of nowhere
and i let you in
till my imagination went for a spin
i seen you every night
been making out since then
and still i wonder why everybody's saying
that ice is thin.
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what if it's real, what if you're just faking
what if you knew you could
what if you get off on manipulating
why does it feel so good
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watch the world argue
argue with itself
who's gonna teach you
peace and happiness
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freedom is intoxicating
it's a lizard in your hand
don't you worry about the future
i need some in my plan
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tuesday she works
in the library uptown
some useful knowledge
can always be found
don't burn the library
till you've read all the books
sometimes in life
you get a second look
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well just the other day
while alone in my room
i said to myself
i need something new
i've cut a new life slice
and feed the lions twice
and they'll shake their manes
in confusion
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playing in the dirt
we find the seeds of doubt
don't water them with your tears
don't think about all the years
you'd rather be without

eden lets me in
i find the seeds of love
and climb upon the highwire
i kiss and tell all my fears

falling down the mountain
end up kissing dirt
look a little closer
sometimes it wouldn't hurt

playing in the dirt
we find the seeds of fun
and we scream like alleycats
tearing down what we attack
to prove that we are one

cutting through the night
and we find the seeds of lust
and lose our minds on one intent
these passions never seem to end
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tilt my hat at the sun
and the shadows they burn dark
light me and i'll burn for you
and the love song never stops

i like the look in your eyes
when you talk that certain way
i love the day in the life
when you know that lovers way
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in the dark of night
those small hours
uncertain and anxious
i need to call you

rooms full of strangers
some call me friend
but i wish you were
so close to me

in the dark of night
those small hours
i drift away
when i'm with you
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and i was lost for words
in your arms
attempting to make sense
of my aching heart
if i could just be
everything and everyone to you
this life would just be so easy
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promises are carved out of lust
with the fire in the heart
that burns with no regret
i vow to play the part

in this a meeting of the soul
my feelings are unknown
i learn with no regret
i'm getting what i get

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

one more...

when your nine day feed is up
and you've drained your loving cup
come stands reeling to the shore
when the brave are coming out
the dry fight and the dusty shout
see you crawling on the floor
and diamond stars shine glitter bright
gorging your sanhedralite
words are falling to the floor
glands stand pouring fruit tree
now they glisten on the water line
see how you are at the shore
i'm moving chrissie pretty flowers in the shutter maze
haul up all your petty desires
leave it lying down before
wash away the rusty disease
of your brown town days in our silver sea

leave it dying at the door
feather yell you've time to leave
open out your arms and breathe

 

[Lila64]

what's so funny about peace, love and understanding

 

[typhoon]

Thread over, Lila64 wins.

 

[Zoots]

Thread over, Lila64 wins.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Thread over, Lila64 wins.

you're telling me i spent half an hour typing everything for nothing!

 

[Lila64]

(thanks!)

 

[timothius]

My Random Allotment of favourite lines/verses:
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The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I'm more than willing to offer myself
Do you want my presence or need my help
Who knows where that might lead
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anei ra maua (here we are together)
e piri tahi nei (in a very close embrace)
e noha tahi nei (being together)
ko maua anake (just us alone)
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No time, no place to talk about the weather
the promise of love is hard to ignore
who said the chance wasn't getting any better
the labor of love is ours to endure
the highest branch on the apple tree
it was my favorite place to be
I could hear them breaking free
but they could not see me
I will run for shelter
endless summer lift the curse
it feels like nothing matters
in our private universe
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would cause me pain
if we were to end it
but I could start again
you can depend on it

I know I'm right
for the first time in my life
that's why I tell you
you'd better be home soon
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You act as though
You are a blind man who's crying
Crying `bout all the virgins that are dying
In your habitual dreams
You know, seems you need more sleep
But like a parrot in a flaming tree
I know, it's pretty hard to see
I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change
But still you try like a fat boy
Dancing Gershwin's blues
But you'd rather sit at home and watch the news
And I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change
I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change
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Make a move, get off your spine
Shake your leg, tow the line
Mum's the word, the doctor said
Try your hand at this instead
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I love lyrics!

 

[Aardvark747]

"Night after night, going round and round my brain, this dream is driving me insane" (It's more so the delivery for this one)

Great choice.

 

[alia612]

If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
If being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line

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Here's a scene:
You're in the backseat laying down
The windows wrap around to the sound
Of the travel and the engine
All you hear is time stand still in travel
And you feel such peace and absolute
The stillness stills but doesn't end
But slowly drifts into sleep
The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen
And they're there for you
For you alone, you are the everything