Post Your Favorite Lyric Lines

[sheltjo6]

You said, “I would never leave you.”
And I said, “I think you’re crazy.”

Remember by Richie Kotzen.

 

[SasquatchDude]

Joni Mitchell, Woodstock

We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon (2nd time: we are caught in the devil's bargain)
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden

That seamless juxtaposition of Big Bang imagery with the biblical creation story intrigues me every time I hear it.

 

[Ghook]

I'm moving on alone over ground that no one owns
Past statues that atone for my sins
There's a guard on every door
And a drink on every floor
Overflowing with a thousand amens : T Petty

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I've got some friends inside: J Morrison

The rich get richer
The poor get poorer
Everyone knows
That's how it goes : L Cohen

 

[Hundred proof]

If I send for my baby, man and she don't come
All the doctors in West Memphis sure can't help her none
Hey hey baby, where you stay last night
Hey hey baby, where you stayed last night
You didn't come home until the sun was shinin bright
Ah boys, I just can't take my rest
Ah boys, I just can't take my rest
With this 32-20 layin up and down my breast

Robert Johnson 32 20 blues

 

[mapleglo]

"Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there."

Yes - Roundabout

 

[LUCE]

"There's fever in the funkhouse now"

 

[the_home]

Let there be songs to fill the air.
Hunter/Garcia

 

[Davebass77]

"Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
of every head he's had the pleasure to know.
And all the people that come and go stop and say hello.

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar.
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain...very strange."

Beatles

 

[the_home]

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Hunter/Garcia

 

[bobba66]

What do you mean he had bullet holes in his mirrors?

 

[beatlebass64]

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone, and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead, and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

 

[MynameisMe]

Rich Mullins - Calling Out Your Name. It was amazing watching him play this on a hammered dulcimer and sing it at the same time.
Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer
And a single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name
I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
And it tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith that can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring

 

[john_g]

Mmmm mmm mmm mmm Mmmm mmm mmm mmm
- Crash Test Dummies

 

[NathanDetroit]

A couple from Warren Zevon...

For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
I can saw a woman in two
But you won't want to look in the box when I'm through

My Sh!t's F*cked Up
I went to the doctor
I said, "I'm feeling kinda rough"
"Let me break it to you son,
Your sh!t's f*cked up."
I said, "My sh!t's f*cked up?
Well, I don't see how..."
He said, "The sh!t that used to work,
Won't work now."

 

[Bunk McNulty]

When the joker tried to tell me, I could cut it in this rube town,
When he tried to hang that sign on me, I said "Take it down."

 

[Double E]

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

 

[BassPilot]

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

- Cream

 

[ArtGuy9516]

As tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers


Cream

 

[Danny O Danny]

Genius by Warren Zevon. Every stanza is, well, genius (as is the music):

I've got a bitter pot of je ne sais quoi
Guess what, I'm stirring it with a monkey's paw
Since I saw you coming out of my barber's shop
In that skimpy little halter top

Did you light the candles? Did you put on "Kind of Blue?"
Did you use that Ivy League voodoo on him, too?
He thinks he'll be alright but he doesn't know for sure
Like every other unindicted co-conspirator

Mata Hari had a house in France
Where she worked on all her secret plans
Men were falling for her sight unseen
She was a genius

There's a a face in every window
Of the songwriters' neighborhood
Everybody's your best friend when you're doing well (I mean good)
The poet who lived next door
When you were young and poor
Grew up to be a backstabbing entrepreneur

Albert Einstein was a ladies' man
While he was working on his universal plan
He was making out like Charlie Sheen
He was a genius

When you dropped me and you staked your claim
On a V.I.P. who could make your name
You latched on to him and I became
A minor inconvenience

Your protege don't care about art
I'm the one who always told you you were smart
You broke my heart into smithereens
And that took genius

You and the barber make a handsome pair
Guess what, I never liked the way he cut your hair
I didn't like the way he turned your head
But there's nothing I can do or say that I haven't done or said

Everybody needs a place to stand
And a method for their schemes and scams
If I could only get my record clean
I'd be a genius.

 

[T-boneParish]

"Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing with wicked Felina, the girl that I loved."
Marty Robbins
El Paso

You could create whole movie around that line...