What's your favorite Pink Floyd lyric line ?

Marigolds are very much in love but he doesn't mind...

 

"Who cares what it's about as long as the kids go"

 

Careful...
Careful...
Careful with that axe, Eugene.


AAAAAARGH.....

 

distorted view, see throu baby blue

 

run rabbit run dig that hole in the sun
when, at last the work is done
don't sit down, it's time to dig another one.

 

pig stain on your fat chin

 

we are just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl
year after year

 

"You shout in your sleep.
Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?
You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.
Just one man beneath the sky,
Just two ears, just two eyes."

 

but now he's resigned to his fate,
cause lifes not unkind, he dosn't mind

 

That's my favorite, too.

 

And as I rise above the tree lines and the clouds
I look down, hearing the sound of the things you've said today.

 

On the wall hung a tall mirror
Distorted view, see through baby blue
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes two to know
Two to know, two to know

 

Oh, another of my favorites:

The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more

 

"Mother do you'll think they'll try and break........my balls?"

 

Not a single line per se but a bunch from "Sheep"


The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

 

All of Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

 

"Together we stand, divided we fall"

 

"Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snap shot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy what d'ya leave behind for me?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall"

 

"Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.

There's a kid who had a big hallucination
Making love to girls in magazines.
He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.
Could anybody love him
Or is it just a crazy dream?

And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
And leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
As you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing?
Or would you take me home?

Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut."

 

Two Suns in the Sunset, love it.

"The wire that holds the cork
That keeps the anger in"

 

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.

Or

And the sea isn't green
And I love the Queen
And what exactly is a dream
And what exactly is a joke.

 

While I've always consider Waters a top (and confessional) lyricist, I'm not sure the words to this song have ever resonated as clearly as when reading them this very moment. Thank you for sharing what might be his most personal song. Strangely, I also never realized how much this song smartly references his other material.

 

"Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
He won it in the war
In 1944"

 

Echoes in general is my favorite but particularly what you quoted.

 

When I first heard Echoes I thought the line was "By chance two separate classes meet."