favourite quotes from song lyrics

[dum_spiro_spero]

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"

[summersun]

"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"

[Virgil]

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

[TheFifthElement]

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

is officially the best line ever in a song!

[J.D.]

"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

[sprinks]

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

[pjjr]

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

[djy78usa]

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

[Il Penseroso]

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

[Laindessiel]

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. )


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"

[lakeside_girl]

van morrison- summertime in england
oh my common one
oh my little one
oh my high in the art of suffering one
i will show you
it ain't why why why, it ain't why why why
it just is

[firefangled]

Tom get your plane right on time.
I know that you've been eager to fly now.
Hey, hey, hey let your honesty shine, shine, shine
Yeh! like it shines on me, the only livin' boy in New York.

[firefangled]

Later on the crown thinned out
I was just about to do the same.
She was standin there in back of my chair
sayin', tell me don't I know your name?
I muttered something underneath my breath
She studied the lines of my face.
I've got to admit I felt a little uneasy,
when she bent down to tie the lace of my shoe
Tangled up in blue.

[firefangled]

She lit a burner on the stove
and offered me a pipe.
I thought you'd never say hello, she said,
you looked like the silent type.
Then she opened up a book of poem
and handed it to me, written by an Italian poet
from the fifteenth century.
And everyone of them words rang true
and felt like burnin coal, pouring off of every page
like it was written on my soul from me to you
Tanled up in blue.

[firefangled]

Deep greens and blues
are the colors I choose.
Won't ya let me go down in my dreams
and rockabye Sweet Baby James