Favourite Lyric Line?

[Funky Ghost]

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

Tom Waits is a crazy good lyricist

 

[Tom Bomb]

Tom Waits is a crazy good lyricist

Too right, hand in hand with the dreamy and delightfully poetical Kathleen Brennan

 

[Funky Ghost]

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life and today is all you've got now
And today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?

This is your life
Is it everything you've dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over

And this is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?

This is your life
Is everything you've dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be? Yeah

This is your life
Are you who you want to be, who you want to be? Yeah
This is your life
Are you who you want to be, who you want to be?

This is your life
Is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?
You had everything to lose?

 

[KPJ]

All this science - I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.

 

[Rickengeezer]

All this science - I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.

Particularly when delivered by William Shatner....

 

[frnjplayer]

When the truck dont run, the bread dont come , have a hard time finding petrol
Water aint runnin in the city no more do hold any precious metal
Can you gut the fish, can you read the sky, whats that about over crowdin'
You ever seen a man who's kids aint ate for 17 days and countin'

Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain
Dont wanna be around when the poopie goes down
I'll be gettin' on down the mountain

-Corb Lund


So if you find someone
Someone to have, someone to hold
Don't trade it for silver
Don't trade it for gold
I have all of life's treasures
And they are fine and they are good
They remind me that houses
Are just made of wood
What makes a house grand
Ain't the roof or the doors
If there's love in a house
It's a palace for sure
Without love...
It ain't nothin but a house
A house where nobody lives
Without love it ain't nothin
But a house, a house where
Nobody lives.

-Tom Waits

All of "Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel

 

[cronker]

When I leave I don't know what I'm hoping to find
And when I leave I don't know what I'm leaving behind

 

[cronker]

Too many hands on my time
Too many feelings

 

[MegaSwing]

All of my life I've been searching for a girl
Who loves me like I love you.
But every girl I've ever had
Breaks my heart and leaves me sad.
Tell me, what am I supposed to do?

—Arthur Alexander, "Anna"

 

[tmdazed]

A line from Becks Sissyneck,
the chorus actually:

"I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time"

and from fell on black days by Soundgarden:
"So what you wanted to see good has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours has made it mine
So don't you lock up something that you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
Not tying, no not tying"

 

[FilterFunk]

"I got nothing to do and all day to do it"

Styx - "Too Much Time On My Hands"

 

[Smooth_bass88]

You're on your honor
'Cause I'm a goner
And you haven't even begun
So do me a favor
If I should waver
Be my savior
And get out the gun

from "Deathly" by Aimee Mann

 

[Tom Bomb]

Inside

Inside the doors are sealed to love
Inside my heart is sleeping
Inside the fingers of my glove
Inside the bones of my right hand
Inside it's colder than the stars
Inside the dogs are weeping
Inside the circus of the wind
Inside the clocks are filled with sand
Inside she'll never hurt me
Inside the winter's creeping
Inside the compass of the night
Inside the folding of the land

Outside the stars are turning
Outside the world's still burning

Inside my head's a box of stars I never dared to open
Inside the wounded hide their scars, inside this lonesome sparrow's fall
Inside the songs of our defeat, they sing of treaties broken
Inside this army's in retreat, we hide beneath the thunder's call

Outside the rain keeps falling
Outside the drums are calling
Outside the flood won't wait
Outside they're hammering down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war
Love is an open wound still raw
Love is a shameless banner unfurled
Love's an explosion,
Love is the fire of the world
Love is a violent star
A tide of destruction
Love is an angry scar
A violation, a mutilation, capitulation, love is annihilation.

Inside the failures of the light, the night is wrapped around me
Inside my eyes deny their sight, you'd never find me in this place
Inside we're hidden from the moonlight, we shift between the shadows
Inside the compass of the night, inside the memory of your face

Outside the walls are shaking
Inside the dogs are waking
Outside the hurricane won't wait
Inside they're howling down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war
Love is an open wound still raw
Love is a shameless banner unfurled
Love's an explosion,
Love is the fire at the end of the world
Love is a violent star
A tide of destruction
Love is an angry scar
The pain of instruction
Love is a violation, a mutilation, capitulation,
Love is annihilation.

I climb this tower inside my head
A spiral stair above my bed
I dream the stairs don't ask me why,
I throw myself into the sky

Love me like a baby, love me like an only child
Love me like an ocean; love me like a mother mild
Love me like a father, love me like a prodigal son
Love me like a sister, love me like the world has just begun
Love me like a prodigy, love me like an idiot boy,
Love me like an innocent, love me like your favorite toy
Love me like a virgin, love me like a courtesan,
Love me like a sinner, love me like a dying man.

Annihilate me, infiltrate me, incinerate me, accelerate me, mutilate me, inundate me, violate me, implicate me, vindicate me, devastate me

Love me like a parasite, love me like a dying sun
Love me like a criminal, love me like a man on the run

Radiate me, subjugate me, incubate me, recreate me, demarcate me, educate me, punctuate me, evaluate me, conjugate me, impregnate me, designate me, humiliate me, segregate me, opiate me, calibrate me, replicate me

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sting - sacred love​

 

[mandohack]

Really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree.

Someone called out to you and it sounded just like cryin'.

Everybody has to fight to be free.

 

[cnltb]

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,

Tochter aus Elysium,

Wir betreten feuertrunken,

Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.

Deine Zauber binden wieder,

Was die Mode streng geteilt,

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,

Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

 

[Clef_de_fa]

"I must have stood for hours
The mist of dawn still rising
Brushing from my face
Cold tears of finally knowing
The world that we had twisted
The years of strength and glory
Were wicked and obscene
And there we stood so proud
What legends we must be"

and

"The wind blows cold tonight
No lamplights from no windows
I am sure enough alone
And I am sure enough alive
So through eternity
The gift of light gets passed along
to those of us who saw
What the rest could never see"
Shadow Gallery : Don't Cry Just Remember

I also like :

"tear down these walls for me,
stop me from going under,
you're not the only one who knows i'm,
holding back.
it's not too late for me,
to keep from sinking further,
i'm trying to find my way out,
tear down these walls for me now."
Dream Theater : These Walls

 

[MartinG1957]

"I have fallen for another, she can find her own way home."

The Saw Doctors, "I Used To Love Her"

 

[knumbskull]

just to continue the Tom Waits love-in...

Well, things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars
And splash into the street
And when she's on a roll she pulls a razor
From her boot and a thousand
Pigeons fall around her feet

 

[PimasterPearson]

Soaked in a blanket's warm ebb and flow
Freer now? I just don't know
Slate-gray sky meets musty green
Can you smell the mossy world machine?
~Carbon Leaf, Wolftrap & Fireflies

Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end, or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
~Carbon Leaf, The Sea

Under the wire, I'm a train down the line
With nothing left to lose or gain but distance over time
Under the wire, over all that we've been through
Tell me what to do to get to you
~Carbon Leaf, Under The Wire

Yep, I'm a bit obsessed...

 

[Silver Blues]

"She's the worst thing I've been addicted to" Black Keys, Run Right Back. I love this song, can relate all too well to it...