Favorite lyric

Most everybody has a favorite lyric if they think about it. My favorite would be from Chuck Berry's "Reelin' And Rockin'"-

"Well I looked at my watch and to my surprise...I was dancing with a woman that was twice my size."

That line just seems to catch the essence of the old school Rock & Roll from so long ago that got my attention in the first place.

 

"With arms like a chameleon she changes with the jewelry" -Concrete Hands
"Here Us Pray, Sisters Slay Their Brothers, Mothers Slay Their Sons, Heaven Isn't Waiting Anymore", -Firegun, been on a OMD kick lately

 

But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’

 

There are lots that I love, but I have a special affection for

The newspapers said
She's gone to his head
They look just like two gurus in drag

 

If you were a pill, I'd take a handful at my will
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong

 

"In the end there is one dance you'll do alone"

I'm a sucker for the sappy stuff!

 

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

Just beautiful from Famous Blue Raincoat.

 

When I'm lying in my bed,
I think about life and I think about death,
And neither one particularly appeals to me

The Smiths, Nowhere Fast

Always found it completely hilarious.

 

Morrissey wrote some awesome lyrics

I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make
A shy, bald, buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder

 

I'm in the know
You've got to go
The cake is all dough

Not my all-time favorite lyric, but a really good one!

 

Now I won't be back till later on,
if I do come back at all.
But you know me,
and I miss you now.

- by Neil Young, in "On The Way Home"

 

You can't even remember
What I'm trying to forget

Dirty Day from Zooropa U2
That's a nasty line right there.

 

'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.'

Paul Westerberg - Bastards of Young

 

So many to choose from. First lyric that comes to mind is:

What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.

With a Little Help from My Friends by someone....umm...

 

I really like the lyrics to Marc Cohn's song Walking In Memphis.

"Now, Muriel plays the piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if I would
Do a little number
And I sang with all my might
She said, 'Tell me are you a Christian, child?'
And I said, 'Ma'am, I am tonight!"

 

"I can't complain
But some times I still do"

 

"I don't like you, but I love you"

-Smokey Robinson

 

Need to examine uncritical times

 

"Make love in the microwave; think of all the time you´ll save..." - "Happy Birthday"/Carly Simon

 

Two of my favorites are here already. Here's another:

"You said you loved me. Or were you just being kind?" - Stephen Sondheim "Losing My Mind

 

"I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together"


"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream"



"You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows...

The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles."

.

 

I've always found this rhyme scheme utterly charming:

The touch of your cheeks
When they're rosy and cold
Feels so cozy to hold

The Beach Boys - Time To Get Alone

 

These are some kick-ass lines from Elvis Costello's "Tokyo Storm Warning"

"The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery
And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery
I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell
So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are
While the KKK convention are all stranded in the bar
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery
But they're helpless here as babies 'cause they're only here on holiday"

 

Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain

 

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.