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"I can't stand the beats, I'm asking for the check.
Girl with crimson nails, has Jesus round the neck "
 
Right now:

"Tough... you think you've got the stuff. You're telling me and everyone your hard enough".

and (the one I've been singing all day):

"I like the sound of my own voice, never gave anyone else a choice, intellectual tortoise".
 
Although I am really not the biggest fan of a man and a woman, I love the last seconds: ""How can I hurt when I'm holding you."

I just see a double meaning to this sentence:

1- He hurts even though he is holding her and wonders how is that?

2-when he holds her, nothing can hurt him!

Am I the only one who sees this like that...I am not sure which one it is...but I like not knowing! :)
 
You can run from love
but if it's really love it will find you
catch you by the heel
But you can't be numb from love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
 
RademR said:
wanted to add
"I can't stand the beats, I'm asking for the check.
Girl with crimson nails, has Jesus round the neck "

That's a tremendous lyric. Unfortunately it loses its double meaning when he sings "Jesus 'round HER neck" instead of Jesus 'round THE neck."
 
As you enter this life, I pray you depart
with a wrinkled face and a brand new heart


On a personal note, I love the fragment:

Of science and the human heart
 
"the night is full of holes, as bullets rip the sky of ink with gold"

"I want a trip inside your head, spend the day there"

"can you hear me when I sing, you're the reason I sing, you're the reason why the opera is in me"

"time won't leave me as I am, but time won't take the boy out of this man"

"I saw you in the curve of the moon, in the shadow cast across my room, you heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion"

"the only pain is to feel nothing at all, how can I hurt when I'm holding you?"

"would you deny from others what you demand for yourself?"

"well a heart that hurts is a heart that beats, can you hear the drummer slowing?"

"you are the first one of your kind"

"the sun is coming up, the sun is coming up in the ocean"
 
"Some things you shouldn’t get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby"

It's a humble moment on the album, and I love the way he says it to this phantom "baby" that appears on many tracks. Definately my favourite line, but there are many great ones. "Freedom smells like..." even sounds a lot better than it looks written down.
 
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit…


Meaningful to me anyway...surprised on one else mentioned it...
 
Turn it up loud, captain.:wink:

actually, my favorite changes daily...right now it's:

"I'm not broke but you can see the cracks, you can make me perfect again."

My newborn son needed open heart surgery back on Thanksgiving. he is doing well now, but at the time, my favorite lyrics were:

"Of science and the human heart, there is no limit":bow:
 
I don't there are that many memorable lines in this one. I only hear attempts here and ther. They're all not bad lines but they aren't universal. They only apply to certai circumstances.
 
korczykp said:
all of those listed have been great ones so far..

and I'd like to add

"I miss you when you're not around, I'm getting ready to leave the ground"

and

"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"

Spot on!! This is one of my favourite parts...i recite it every time i hear it
 
U2girl said:
"the night is full of holes, as bullets rip the sky of ink with gold"

"I want a trip inside your head, spend the day there"

"can you hear me when I sing, you're the reason I sing, you're the reason why the opera is in me"

"time won't leave me as I am, but time won't take the boy out of this man"

"I saw you in the curve of the moon, in the shadow cast across my room, you heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion"

"the only pain is to feel nothing at all, how can I hurt when I'm holding you?"

"would you deny from others what you demand for yourself?"

"well a heart that hurts is a heart that beats, can you hear the drummer slowing?"

"you are the first one of your kind"

"the sun is coming up, the sun is coming up in the ocean"

good girl...
 
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