favourite quotes from song lyrics

[MarkBastable]

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

[motherhubbard]

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

[Sparrow]

"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

[*Classic*Charm*]

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

[ballb]

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.

[Endicott]

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

[Il Penseroso]

"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"

[dramasnot6]

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

[byquist]

"I hope you dance" - Lee Ann Womack

[Il Penseroso]

"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

[kiz_paws]

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...

[SirRaustusBear]

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

[SirRaustusBear]

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

[bazarov]

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

[Behemoth]

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"