Favourite Lyric Line?

[Bassmanmike1]

I know - no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

Joni Mitchell-Hejira

I can go on and on with Joni's lyrics but this is one of my favorites.

 

[edpal]

"She's filing her nails as they're dragging the lake" ~ Elvis Costello, Watching the Detectives

 

[thunderstation]

Janie said when she was just five years old - there ain't nothing going down at all
Two tv sets, two Cadillac cars ain't doing nothing for us at all
then one fine morning she turned on a new York station
couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancing to that fine fine music
her iife was changed by rock & roll...rock & roll
Lou Reed -"Rock & Roll"

 

[ErikW]

You can't fence time and you can't stop love

 

[fhm555]

Shallow your cares, in vain your industry
So says the wide blue sea
I never burden God on your account
Don’t waste your prayers on me

"I'll Trade You Money For Wine" Robbie Fulks (Pronounced folks)

 

[DanAleks]

Now there's only two things in life
But I forget what they are
It seems we're either hangin' on a moonbeam's coattails
Or wishing on stars

Just when you think that you've been gyped
The bearded lady comes and does a double back flip
And you run off and join the circus
Yeah you just let that pony ride

Buffalo River Home - John Hiatt

 

[aquamentus]

Pearl Jam's "Black"...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?

 

[Hypnotaize]

"And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits" (Wheels, CAKE)

"Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?" (Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles) The imagery on that line is just haunting to me.

"I'm good at repairs, and I'm under each snare." (Clint Eastwood, Gorillaz)

"And the Christians gave me comic books as if I would be scared
of burning in Hell, well I was already there." (The Beer, Kimya Dawson)

 

[spanndrew]

I saved my money but it can't save me

-The chariot

The ghosts in my head, the won't talk to me. And the demons that I used to drink with, won't listen when I think

-Captain, we're sinking


No punk song ever changed the world, but I know a few that changed me

-Wingnut dishwashers union

 

[Spectrum]

"I'm the F-ing man and you're the F-ing man as well,
so you can point that F-ing finger up your asssssssssssssss!" ~ Tool

 

[FilterFunk]

"But if there is a God, we need Him now - where is your God?"
That's what my friends ask me
And I say it's taken Him so long 'cause we've got so far to come

Stevie Wonder, "Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away"

 

[bass12]

"From the very first time I placed my eyes on you
My wood get stiff in hand"

- Derrick Morgan (to the tune of Bob Marley's "Waiting In Vain")

 

[Unprofessional]

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them
The Replacements

Classic Westerberg. Well played, sir.

 

[Big John66]

I ended up with the Preacher
Full of lies and hate
I seemed to scare him a little
So he showed me to the Golden gate

The Real Me- The Who

 

[tangentmusic]

Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco and the East
Fly by morning light
Were on the train to Bangkok aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way - We only stop for the best

-A Passage to Bangkok - Rush

 

[HolmeBass]

"one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"
bob marley

My favorite appears below:
While the firelight's aglow, strange shadows in the flames will grow, 'til things we've never seen, will seem familiar.

All of "Lady With A Fan" is great, this part of it is a particular fave of mine:

Eyes alight with glowing hair
all that fancy paints as fair
she takes her fan and throws it
in the lion's den

"Which of you to gain me, tell
will risk uncertain pains of Hell?
I will not forgive you
if you will not take the chance"

The sailor gave at least a try
the soldier being much too wise
strategy was his strength
and not disaster

The sailor coming out again
the lady fairly lept at him
that's how it stands today
you decide if he was wise

Too hard to have one favorite, a current is this, from Joe Strummer of The Clash:

'n every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n roll,
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold,
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research,
He, who f**ks nuns, will later join the church.

 

[The_Lucek]

"Together we stand, divided we fall"

Hey you-Pink Floyd

 

[Funky Ghost]

They say that these are not the best of times,
But they're the only times I've ever known,
And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes,
And I can only stand apart and sympathize.
For we are always what our situations hand us...

It's either sadness or euphoria.

And so we argue and we compromise, and realize, that nothing's ever changed.
For all our mutual experience, our separate conclusions are the same.
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity,
Our reason co-exists with our insanity.
And though we choose between reality and madness...

It's either sadness or euphoria.

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each others fantasies.
And so we'll stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...

It's either sadness or euphoria.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan
and the whinin' dog pigeons by the steeple bell rope
and the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night
and there's always construction work bothering you

in the neighborhood

Well, Friday's a funeral and Saturday's a bride
and Sey's got a pistol on the register side
and the goddam delivery trucks, they make too much noise
and we don't get our butter delivered no more

in the neighborhood

Well, Big Mambo's kickin' his old greyhound
and the kids can't get ice cream, cause the market burned down
and the newspaper sleeping bags blow down the lane
and that goddam flatbed's got me pinned in again

in the neighborhood

There's a couple Filipina girls gigglin' by the church
and the window is busted and the landlord ain't home
and Butch joined the army, yeah, that's where he's been
and the jackhammer's digging up the sidewalks again

in the neighborhood

 

[Funky Ghost]

Back and forth up and down
I feel my way around
Finding everything but you
My view of you has grown soft
Got grace but something’s lost
It’s probably the truth

I’m candy coated salt and I’m a dimming light
My fuzzy logic is skewed confusing wrong with right

Throw me a line I’m sinking down
Submerging further, further from you
But I’m doing fine making my way
Further and further
Further from you

Black or white hard to tell
Grey’s a much easier sell
And you give it away for free
So watered down homogenized
That the truth becomes the lie
That you’re starting to believe

I’m candy coated salt, I find it bittersweet
The lack of comfort when not everybody agrees