favourite quotes from song lyrics

Here are a couple of mine:

"Why can't we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same"
- 'Map Of The Problematique' by Muse

"And so I sent some men to fight, and one came back at dead of night.
Said he'd seen my enemy. Said he looked just like me,
So I set out to cut myself and here I go."
- 'Same Mistake' by James Blunt

"Your dream is over... or has it just begun?"
- 'Silent Lucidity' by Queensryche

"We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out in"
- 'Revolution' by the Beatles

I'll post more when I hear some of your guys' favourite quotes from song lyrics. =]

The Flame That Guides Us Home
Demon Hunter

"Sing now seraph, find the calm within your soul
Bring us closer to the flame that guides us home"

City of Blinding Lights
U2

"Time...time....time...time....time Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man
Oh you look so beautiful tonight"

One
U2

"Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame"

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Coldplay

"
Where do we go, nobody knows
I've got to say I'm on my way down
God give me style and give me grace
God put a smile upon my face"

The Tide Began To Rise
Demon Hunter

"If this is all the love my spirit can give
Just take it back tonight
There is not a reason more to live"

"We're waltzing in the wonder
of Why we're here
Time hurries by, we're here --
and gone."
-- Howard Deitz, "Dancing in the Dark"

This one always cracks me up:

"She'll see right through you with only one eye" from Fiona by Lyle Lovett.

There are more but that's the only one that comes to mind since I'm listening to that disc now.

"In tanto il tempo se ne va...e non ti senti piu bambina" by Adriano Celentano.In English it's translated:"And the time gos on and on...while you don't feel like a small girl anymore..."

"Oh, how I wish for soothing rain,
All I wish is to dream again".

From Nightwish's "Ever Dream"
Music: Tuomas Holopainen
Lyrics:Tuomas Holopainen

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Lights
Or just another lost angel-city of night?
Doors-LA Woman

Time-don't let it slip away,
Raise your drinking glass
Here's to yesterday.
In time-we're all going to trip away,
Don't piss Heaven off
We got Hell to pay.
Aerosmith- Full Circle

i gonna have to double toni here with the tide began to rise i love that song.

looking for angles by Skillet

Who can help protect the innocence of our children
Stolen on the internet with images they can't forget
We want it we want
We want a reason to live
We represent a generation that wants to turn back a nation
To let love be our light and salvation


Ghetto by POD

Whether you think I'm so confused
Or if you feel the way I do
So don't give in to this hate within
Living in this world of pain
Don't let it bring you down
The world is a ghetto


Goodbye for now by POD

We’re still smilin as the day goes by
and how come nobody
ever knows the reasons why
Burry you deep so far
you can't see
If you're like me
who wears a broken
heart on your sleeve
Pains is troubles that
you know so well
Either time don't
It can't or you just won't tell
I'm not the type to say
I told you so
I think the hardest part
of holding on is lettin it go

these are just scratching the surface of my fav lyrics i'll add more later

i have one;

the kids you used to love
but then we grew old


fall out boy, sophomore slump or comeback of the year

Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills

Fall Out Boy~ Hum Hallelujah

"Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimu-lation numbs me
and I wouldn't have
It any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive. "
Maynard James Keenan - Tool

Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice so strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, with
Someone who would die for me.

Will you? Will you now?
Would you die for me?
Don't you ****in lie.

"Eulogy" tool

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment,
We are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside
This holy reality, this holy experience.
Choosing to be here in

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.

Alive, I

In this holy reality, in this holy experience. Choosing to be here in

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.

Twirling round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.

"Parabola" -tool
(some amazing talent in that band. If your not familiar should check it out.
Hate to classify it with a genre for fear of discouraging others but i would say some of their songs are considered "heavy".) lol

"Passive"

“Dead as dead can be,” my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, ever the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…

^^APC! Nice!

You call this living a dream?
Well everything's not what it seems
To be
Grace, not glory,
Life, not a story.
----

They only want you when you're 17,
When you're 21,
You're no fun.
---- 17, Ladytron

When I was a kid I was profoundly impressed by...


I look at my watch. It says nine twenty-five
And I think, "Oh, God - I'm still alive."
We should be on by now.

David Bowie


...but now I'm old I prefer....


It's a hallmark of adulthood that our options diminish
As our faculties for choice increase
Until we choose everything, and nothing,
Too late at the finish,


Peter Hammill

…I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers … Simon and Garfunkel

"People say in your dreams
We can live our misbehavior"

Rebellion (Lies) by the Arcade Fire


"The Black Mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemes"

Black Mirror by The Arcade Fire

We all have a weakness
But some of ours are easier to identify.
Look me in the eye
And ask for forgiveness;
We'll make a pact to never speak that word again
Yes you are my friend.
We all have something that digs at us,
At least we dig each other
So when weakness turns my ego up
I know you'll count on the me from yesterday
If I turn into another
Dig me up from under what is covering
The better part of me
Sing this song
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.
We all have a sickness
That cleverly attaches and multiplies
No matter how hard we try.
We all have someone that digs at us,
At least we dig each other
So when sickness turns my ego up
I know you'll act as a clever medicine.
If I turn into another
Dig me up from under what is covering
The better part of me.
Sing this song!
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.
Oh each other....
When everything
Else is gone.

-Dig, Incubus

In Manhatten`s desert twilight in the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on Boadway like the first men on the moon.
Then "The Blackbird" broke the silence as you whistled it so sweet.
And in Brendan Behan`s footsteps we danced up & down the street.


"Thousands are sailing" by the Pogues.

The Red Death by Thrice (based on Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Masquerade and revel in your opulence
writhe unfettered by your stabs at ignorance
swim through hues and whispered tones of heresy
a dozen strokes to run your blood cold enough to believe
remember me
you look so surprised to see me here
with hells black wings did i over perch these walls
for stony limits cannot hold me out


Like Moths to Flame by Thrice

I've never been this cold, the fire's gravity compels
Like planets cling to sol, I feel my orbit start to fail
Like moths to flame I come, too close And all my oaths are burned
As stars begin to run, all my accusers take their turn
And calling curses down, from my lips lies like poison spill
And then that awful sound, the sound of prophesy fulfilled
And then I met your eyes, and I remember everything
And something in me dies, the night that I betrayed my king

"We'll fight, we'll fight for your music halls and dying cities
They'll fight, they'll fight for your neural walls and plasticities

and precious territories."

- Andrew Bird, "Plasticities"


"What a dream life would seem
if only we could see the whole world
from inside an etch-a-sketch."

- Andrew Bird, "Tea and Thorazine"

"'Cause it wasn't long ago,
just before the reign of Nero
we had no concept of zero."

- Andrew Bird, "Beware"

"'Cause after the fall
there'll be no more countries,
no currencies at all.
We're gonna live on our wits
throw away survival kits,
trade butterfly knives for adderal,
and that's not all,

there will be snacks."

- Andrew Bird, "Tables and Chairs"

"Fifty five and three-eighths years later
at the bottom of a gigantic crater
an armchair calls to you, an armchair calls to you
and says someday, we'll get back at them all
with epoxy and a pair of pliers
as ancient sea-slugs begin to crawl
through the ragweed and barbwire."

- Andrew Bird, "Armchair Apocrypha"

"there's no design, your flaws are fine"

- The Shins, "Young Pilgrims"

"Here comes Ezy, Ezy Rider
flying down the highway of desire.
He's talking the free wind
takes him higher,
trying to find his heaven above
but he's dying to be loved."

- Jimi Hendrix, "Ezy Rider"

"Rocky Raccoon" in it's entirety, by the Beatles

"Well maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee,
And never ever watch the ten o'clock news,
Maybe you should kiss someone nice,
Or lick a rock,
Or both.

Maybe you should cut your own hair
'Cause that can be so funny
It doesn't cost any money
And it always grows back
It grows even after you're dead

And people are just people,
They shouldn't make you nervous.
The world is everlasting,
It's coming and it's going.
If you don't toss your plastic,
The streets won't be so plastic.
And if you kiss somebody,
Then both of you'll get practice."

- Regina Spektor, "The Ghost of Corporate Future"

Nothing suits a good flirtation like need and anger and desperation - The Moth, Aimee Mann

"I hope you dance" - Lee Ann Womack

"I got a funny feeling they got plastic in the afterlife." - Beck

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" - Beck

"And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite... that's choking on the splinters." - Beck

Well, I have two quotes in my Signature that reflect Pennyroyal Tea (Nirvana) and The Perfect Drug (NIN). :)

But I always loved the lines:

"Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be"

~[Breathe --- Pink Floyd]

and

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here".

~ [Wish You Were Here --- Pink Floyd]

Well, I could go on, but I'll let someone else have a turn... ;)

The sun is out
it melts the snow that fell yesterday
makes you wonder
why it bothered
-Of Montreal

and i gotta add

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood
-Godspeed you black emperor

sorry the last one was really long but its an amazing song

yeah i just thought of another one

while you were sleeping
you tossed, you turned
you rolled your eyes as the world burned
the heavens fell, the earth quaked
i thought you must be, but you weren't awake
no, you were sleeping
you ignored the sun
you grew your power garden
for your little ones
and you found brides for them on christmas eve
they hung young cain from the adam trees
and danced
-Elvis Perkins

Theres so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

She shines in a world full of ugliness
She matters when everything is meaningless
Fragile, she doesn't see her beauty, she tries to get away
Sometimes it seems like nothing seems worth saving
I won't let her slip away
~ Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile"

So clever, whatever, i'm done with these endeavors
Alone I walk the winding way
It's over, no longer, I feel it growing colder
I live to die another day
Until I fade away
~ Breaking Benjamin, "Until the End"

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song.
I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long
Time hurries on.
And the leaves that are green turn to brown,
And they wither with the wind,
And they crumble in your hand.

Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl.
I held her close, but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write.
And the leaves that are green turn to brown,
And they wither with the wind,
And they crumble in your hand.

I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripples run away
And they never made a sound.
And the leaves that are green turned to brown,
And they wither with the wind,
And they crumble in your hand.

Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello,
Good-bye, Good-bye, Good-bye, Good-bye,
That's all there is.
And the leaves that are green turned to brown.

simon&garfunkel "leaves that are green"

"When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me"

BEAST OF BURDEN
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

I'll never be your beast of burden
My back is broad but it's a hurting
All I want is for you to make love to me
I'll never be your beast of burden
I've walked for miles my feet are hurting
All I want is for you to make love to me

Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see

I'll never be your beast of burden
So let's go home and draw the curtains
Music on the radio
Come on baby make sweet love to me

Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see

Oh little sister
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl
You're a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Pretty, pretty
Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Come on baby please, please, please

I'll tell ya
You can put me out
On the street
Put me out
With no shoes on my feet
But, put me out, put me out
Put me out of misery

Yeah, all your sickness
I can suck it up
Throw it all at me
I can shrug it off
There's one thing baby
That I don't understand
You keep on telling me
I ain't your kind of man

Ain't I rough enough, ooh baby
Ain't I tough enough
Ain't I rich enough, in love enough
Ooh! Ooh! Please

I'll never be your beast of burden
I'll never be your beast of burden
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be


I don't need no beast of burden
I need no fussing
I need no nursing
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Il Penseroso

"And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite... that's choking on the splinters." - Beck

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is officially the best line ever in a song!

"The love you take is equal to the love you make"

"The End" -- The Beatles -- Abbey Road

"Love is all you need"

"All You Need is Love" -- The Beatles -- Magical Mystery Tour

"Living is easy with eyes closed / misunderstanding all you see" -- The Beatles -- Strawberry Fields Forever

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) has lyrics that I love to think about when I'm worried or sad or just emotional.... My favourite bits are...

"...in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine."

"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself."

"Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly."

"Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders."

"Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth."

And my absolute favourite bit is:
"Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."

The chorus is featured in Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet, another reason why I love the song :)

There's no time to lose, I heard her say
catch your dreams before they slip away
dying all the time, lose your dreams
and you will lose your mind
ain't life unkind?
Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones

And the piano sounds like a carnival
and the microphone smells like a beer
and they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar,
and say "man what are you doing here?"
Piano Man, Billy Joel

And my favorite
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him
till he cried out in his anger and his shame, I am leaving , I am leaving
but the fighter still remains.
The Boxer, Paul Simon

I'm carrying the wheel - from My Name is Jonas by Weezer

Five day forecasts bring black tar rains and hellfire
while hand-picked handlers' kid gloves tear at the inseams.
Their Halliburton attache cases are useless
while Scotchguard Macintoshes shall be carbonized.

Now they're offering views of exiting empires,
such breathtaking views of Sythian empires.

... routed by Sarmations,
thwarted by the Thracians

oh Sythian empires.

- Andrew Bird, Sythian Empires

Yellow - Coldplay

"For you I'd bleed myself dry."

(I find it a very creative way of saying the most common lover's phrase "I'd die for you".)


Mixtape - ButchWalker

"You say hello,
Inside I'm screaming I love you;
You say goodnight,
In my mind I'm sleeping next to you..."

(And the way the vocalist sings this makes you feel he's experiencing it with you. :D )


Sacred (Heilig) - Tokio Hotel

"To me you'll be forever sacred..."

"And one day, the sea will guide you back to me"


Mr. Clay - Bamboo


"Talk too much muther****er hush
You had your chance to change things
Move in the direction of right
Choose to set the bad
But then you had to pick a fight
So what's daddy done for you lately?
Bought you the throne
Like stealing candy from a baby
Line your pockets with mucho dinero
Paid in full with the blood of the people

So now you got the fires rockin
Blood and hate
Then you got the people talking
Legacy
You will never be forgotten
Your place in history
A black mark in time
A black mark in time"