Post favorite lines from songs...

[BEVERLY56]

SO CRUEL:

We're cut adrift but still floating.
I'm only hangin on to watch you go down, my love.

(Just one of many...who could choose just one?)

 

[PopMart2005]

and the cartoon network
turns into the news

 

[annie_vox]

Lets see... This is going to be long... And probably I forgot something

"Only true love can keep beauty innocent" - A Man And A Woman

"Hold on, hold on tightly
Rise up, rise up
With wings like eagles" - Drawning Man

"And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down" - Acrobat

"The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for, others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel" - COBL

"Let’s see colours that have never been seen
Let’s go to places no one else has been" - Electrical Storm

"We need new dreams tonight" - In God's Country

"Goodbye, and it's emotional goodnight
I'll be up with the sun
Are you still holding on
I'm not coming down" - Gone

"Tonight the moon is playing tricks again
Yeah, I'm feeling seasick again
The world could just dissolve
Into a glass of water" - Velvet Dress

"Grace, it's the name for a girl
It's also a thought that could change the world" - Grace

"But a day will come in the dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage" - Ven Diemen's Land

"Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow" - Kite

"You’re gravity searching for the ground
You’re silence searching for a sound" - Mercy

"Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell" - Miss Sarajevo

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
Oh love" - The Fly

"Take this soul and make it sing" - Yahweh

"And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you" - Stay

"You got to cry with out weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice" - Running To stand Still

"'Cause there's no feeling that's so alone
As when the one you're hurting is your own" - Sorth And South Of the River

"Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart" - Original Of The Species

"And if the mountains should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I" - TUF

"All the secrets and no one to tell" - Love Is Blindness

And I can't choose a line of Bad, Please and One... I love every line of these three...

 

[SunBloc]

Dirty Day: " I don't know you, and you don't know the half of it."
"If you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the
air, you'll hit someone guilty."

(I think it's the attitude and passion that make all these quotes work so well!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

[bonofox]

SYCMIOYO-love thes lines...they give me chills evertime i hear them

We fight...all the time
You and I...
That's all right
We're the same soul...


With or Without You

Through the storm, we reach the shore
You gave it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

The Fly

Every artist is a cannibal every poet is a thief now kill their inspiration and sing about their grief

And of course so many more...

 

[YBORCITY]

Ones that just come to my mind quickly:
My sorrows they learned to swim
surrounding me
Going down on me
Spinning over the brim
Waves of Regret
Waves of Joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy


Turn away to face the cold
Enduring chill

I remember when we can sleep on stones
Now we lie together in whispers unkown

Love is a Temple
Love the Higher Law
You ask me to enter
Then you make me crawl

Cherry dance with me
Turn me around tonight
Up a spiral Staircase to the Higher Ground


I don't believe in Painted Roses or Bleeding Hearts


So She woke up
Woke up from where she was Laying still
Said I............Gotta do something about where I going
Stepped ona steam train..........


Neon Heart Dayglo Eyes
A city lit like fireflies


Man dreams one day to fly
Man sends a rocket ship into the Sky
Lives on a star dieing in the night..


Or if the mountains should crumble or Disapear in the sea
Not a taer no not I


You gotta cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice


I could go on and on..........

 

[edibleflowers]

Off the top of my head:

Hit an iceberg in my life
You know I'm still afloat
Lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat
You've gotta put the woman and children first
But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York...
--"New York" (I just love the first/thirst rhyme)

And the love, what's that you say to me
Does love light up your Christmas tree?
--"If God Will Send His Angels"

also from "If God...": It's the blind leading the blond
(just that line...)

All of "The Unforgettable Fire". I tried to pick out one or two lines but I can't do it, I love the whole song.

I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing you’re not
--"Original of the Species"

 

[c4veritas]

Pretty much all of Stay (Faraway, So Close!), but especially :

You say when it hits you, you don't mind,
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive,
Oh now, is that what it is?

Also The Wanderer, although I still haven't decided if I prefer it with the extra stanza from the soundtrack version yet
("I went out walking
down that winding road
where no one's trusting no one
and conscience a too heavy load")

 

[tabela]

Running to Stand Still:
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scram without raising your voice

Please:
So Love is hard, and love is tough, but love is not what you';re thinking of

Ultraviolet:
When I was all messed up and I had opera in my head, your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed

 

[jessi-ma-ca]

Have many a favorite line,
But here are a few that haven’t already been posted...

Walk On
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no - be strong


11 O’Clock Tick Tock
We thought we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong


NYD
So we are told this is the golden age
But gold is the reason for the wars we wage

Seconds
Like a thief in the night
See the world by candle light

Electrical Storm
Your kept awake dreaming someone else’s dream

The Hands That Built America
You gotta live in your dreams
Don’t make them so hard

Like A Song
Too right to be wrong

MLK
Sleep. Sleep tonight and may your dreams be realised

A Man and A Woman
The only pain is to feel nothing at all

Even Better than the real thing
My heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between

So Cruel
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted

 

[waynetravis]

Near the end of Electrical Storm:

"Baby don't cry, Baby don't cry"

ISHFWILF:

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

 

[Babydoll]

bono - the best poet, songwriter. i've always thought that he doesn't get as much credit as he should for being a great bard. he really doesn't. i'm glad all of us here see it and appreciate it!

 

[waynetravis]

Babydoll

I love this part from Acrobat:

And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this and act like that.
And you can dream, so dream out loud

 

[Babydoll]

almost every single song has some deep, philosophical meaning. at bono's talents!

 

[clifedge]

From Stay:

"You used to stay to watch the adverts,
You could lip-synch to the talk shows"

From Walk On:

"A place that has to be believed to be seen"

From WGRYWH:

Pretty much the whole song, but especially,

"Ah, the deeper I spin
Ah, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin.
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me.
Hallelujah! Heaven's white rose
The doors you open I just can't close."

 

[Swingn2thaMusic]

Zooropa:
"She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in, she's gonna dream out loud."

 

[katiebu21]

Please

Jesus never let me down, Jesus used to show me the score. Then they put Jesus in show business, now it's hard to get in the door.

 

[nightninja56]

im sure its been mentioned but this makes me wanna run around

BTBS
See the face of fear/ running scared in the valley below

 

[zepher25]

Beautiful Day:
"What you don't have, you don't need it now, what you don't know you can feel it somehow, what you dont have you dont need it, dont need it now, dont need it now, beautiful day"

One:
Well its too late, tonight, to drag the past out into the light, We're on but we're not the same, we get to carry eachother, Carry eachother, ONEEEEE!

Sunday Bloody Sunday:
"Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end street.
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall."

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

mind you i absolutely love all of theese songs in their entirity

 

[youvedonewhat]

One:

Is it getting better or do you feel the same.
Will it make it easier on you
Now you've got someone to blame.

Stay:

Just the bang and the clatter when you're angel hits the ground.

Velvet Dress:

We've been here before
Last time you scatched at my door

and

..it's private show
...no one else is gonna know....... I want you...

 

[lew07]

"so you never knew love until you crossed the line of grace....and you never felt wanted ntil someone slapped your face....so you never felt alive until you almost wasted away..."

Please-POP