Lyrics that made a difference, for you!

[Sublab]

Hoping this becomes a long thread.
Post the lyrics that you can relive time and again just because they are the best you've heard. Post the sentences that got to you down deep, post entire lyrics if they really got it right, or stick to the essence, it may be a sentence, or maybe a row of words, whatever touched you. Post only those that have inspired you, those that have opened your deeper self which you may never have encountered otherwise.

'Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers.'

'My eyes have seen you, let them photograph your soul, memorize your alleys on an endless roll.'

'I feel them draw my name. So easy to know and forget with this kiss. I'm not afraid to go, but it goes so slow!'

'There's something about this wild, wild country... Takes a strong strong, breaks a strong strong mind.'

Let the poetry out bro's... we're musicians, we know.

Greetz

[JohnMCA72]

"It's Friday, Friday,
Gotta get down on Friday,
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend,
Friday, Friday,
Gettin' down on Friday,
Everybody's lookin forward to the weekend."

[packhowitzer]

"you have to trusted
by the people that you lie to
so that when they turn their backs on you
you'll get the chance to put the knife in"
Dogs/Animals/Pink Floyd 1977

[Spectrum]

How about the lyrics to Subdivisions?

"Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights..."

[BassNeo]

One of these days
the ground will drop out from beneath your feet

One of these days
your heart will stop and play its final beat

One of these days
the clocks will stop and time won't mean a thing

One of these days
their bombs will drop and silence everything

D. Grohl

[Doctor Boom]

"Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again,
Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men."
- Ripple, Grateful Dead

'Cause just like a tree planted - planted by the rivers of water
That bringeth forth fruits - bringeth forth fruits in due season;
Everything in life got it's purpose,
Find it's reason in every season,
Forever, yeah!"

-Forever Loving Jah, Bob Marley

[Munjibunga]

"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away."

"They have stars they don't have wishes for."

"Any man left on the Rio Grande is the king of the world as far as I know."

"Being without you has turned out to be so inconvenient."

[bassteban]

I'm not in love

[phatbass]

She ruled the toads of the Short Forest, and every newt in Idaho.

[pocketgroove]

"Why try? I know why - This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone - Clear head, new life ahead - It's time I was king now not just one more pawn."
...
"No fright or hindsight - Leaving behind that empty feeling inside"

"The change of a season's enough of a reason to want to get away - Quiet and pensive, my thoughts apprehensive - The hours drift away - Leaving my homeland, playing a lone hand - My life begins today"
...
"Keep on looking forward, no use in looking around - Carry your head above the crowd and they won't bring you down"
"Live for yourself, there's no one more worth living for"
...
"Growing up it all seems so one-sided - Opinions all provided - The future pre-decided - Detached and subdivided - In the mass production zone - Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions --
In the high school halls - In the shopping malls - Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions --
In the basement bars - In the backs of cars - Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth - The unattractive truth - But the suburbs have no charms to soothe - The restless dreams of youth"
...
"I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill"

I had a lot of trouble in school and in general, and I used to pull up Rush on my mp3 player and listen to it in class and walking in to the building. It helped a lot; it helped me to keep my head up and not get down-trodden. Musically, it inspired me to change my path, turn to music, and stay out of trouble. Lyrically, it brought back some of my faith and confidence in my own self-worth. Rush is a very powerful, encouraging band for those who don't fit in well and struggle with themselves and the world around them. Rush's material can be very uplifting.

This one stands out to me also. They played in when I saw them in Toledo, and it seemed to be a very touching moment for the audience as a whole.
"And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality, closer to the heart, closer to the heart"

[emdsd]

These are the first three that came to mind...

"There's three sides to every story, baby. Yours, Mine, and the cold hard truth."

"Some kinda man who can't do anything wrong, if I see him I'll tell him you're waiting."

"The trouble with you and me my friend is the trouble with this nation. Too many blessings, too little appreciation. Now I that kind of notion, well, it ain't cool. So send me back to Sunday School. Because it's been too long I've been waiting for reason to arrive. And it's too long we've been living, these unexamined lives.

[Schlyder]

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Studio Version + Lyrics) - YouTube

[EdHunter]

"You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been,
A place that has to be believed to be seen.
You could have flown away,
A singing bird in an open cage,
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom."
U2 - Walk On

"I've got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to."
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home

"Never say die!"
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die

[Ostrobothnian]

"Throw off those chains of reason, and your prison disappear" Hemispheres - Rush

"We are planets to each other, drifting in our orbits to a brief eclipse. Each of us a world apart, alone and yet together, like two passing ships."
Entre Nous - Rush

"Please tell Lucifer he can´t have this one, her spirit´s too strong"
Crack the Skye - Mastodon

"Im sure you´ll be much happier than if you´re stuck to the idea of doing what you´re expected to"
When something old dies - Kingston Wall

"It´s not as if this barricade blocks the only road. It´s not as if you´re all alone in wanting to explode"
The Pass - Rush

"He´s a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn´t have a point of view, knows not where he´s going to. Isn´t he a bit like you and me?"
Nowhere man - The Beatles

Was this too much?

[Gonzo476]

To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you. To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you. I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you. In a room with a window in the corner I found truth.

Joy Division-Shadowplay

A change of speed, a change of style, a change of scene with no regrets. A chance to watch, admire the distance, still occupied, though you forget. Different colours, different shades over which mistakes were made. I took the blame. Directionless, so plain to see, a loaded gun won't set you free. Or so they say.

Joy Division-New Dawn Fades

Tell me, come on tell me what you can. Even as you wait for death you're wiser than I am. Tell me, what does it mean to exist? I am not a scientist, I must believe in more than this. I cannot accept that everything that's real is only what our eyes can see and our hands can feel.

This Is Not The End-The Bravery

She cuts my skin and bruise my lips, she's everything to me. She tears my clothes and burns my eyes, she's all I wanna see. She brings the cold and scars my soul, she's heaven sent to me.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Love Burns

Words, like violence, break the silence, come crashing in, into my little world. Painful to me, tear right through me. Can't you understand, oh my little girl?

Repeche Mode-Enjoy The Silence

Sorry for the long post

[MooseLumps]

You ain't a has-been if you never was.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Periodic tableware
Psychotropic science fare

But who will - save the sane, Some beings - just can't change, Now - crawl on by - a fake - tear in your eye, And think - isn't he strange

Pseudogasmic chemistry
Necromorphic apathy

(Chorus)

When you ain't afraid of dying 'cause you're terrified of youth, must be getting pretty long in the tooth.
-Also-
I sold off my rebellion for a pocketful of cooth, Must be getting pretty long in the tooth.

The moon is disgusting: It's made out of cheese

[namllihs]

"If they were right, i'd agree"
Cat Stevens. Father & son.

"There are no words, but there's understanding"
Cloud Cult. Pretty voice.

"How do you know you can't swim, until you have drowned?"
Beautiful South. Window shopping for blinds.

[Aussie Player]

I often think about this topic. I have been playing 40 years and don't know the lyrics to any song I ever played. Vocals were always a constant drone in the foreground and not part of my bass world which is where my total concentration lays.

[colcifer]

I don't really care about lyrics but I'll add this:

Lyrics by ROBERT HUNTER | Grateful Dead

[HeadyVan Halen]

"My neck, my back, my ______ and my crack.."

Stunning imagery.