favourite quotes from song lyrics

[Il Penseroso]

"Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie in its entirety, but in particular:

"You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice)"

but I like yours better.

yeah, me too

[sprinks]

Footsteps - Daniel O'Donnell

I'm not sure if perhaps someone else has posted these lyrics, but right now this song is just what I need

Footsteps walking with me
Footsteps I cannot see
But every move I make
And every step I take
I know they're there with me
They walk with me all the way
Beside me day by day
Through good and bad
Through happy and sad
Those footsteps won't go away

I'll never walk in life alone
There'll always be someone there
I know He won't let me down
He's with me everywhere
The special things in life I've done
Have been through Him and His love
I've been blessed in so many ways
Thanks to the Lord above

Footsteps walking with me
Footsteps I cannot see
But every move I make
And every step I take
I know they're there with me
They walk with me all the way
Beside me day by day
Through good and bad
Through happy and sad
Those footsteps won't go away

I think that my life's been planned
By the one who's guiding me
When I'm led by the hand
Of someone I can't see
I'm not always sure where to go
That's when I follow his lead
I know that the pathway that He shows
Will help me to succeed

Footsteps walking with me
Footsteps I cannot see
But every move I make
And every step I take
I know they're there with me
They walk with me all the way
Beside me day by day
Through good and bad
Through happy and sad
Those footsteps won't go away
Through good and bad
Through happy and sad
By my side they will stay

I thought of this song the other day when on camp and our Chaplain was talking about the Footsteps verse, and it's been on my mind, or on my playlist, since.

[Lonely_poet]

Mine is, Kiss from a rose. By seal.


There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.


Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
The more I get of you, Stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the gray.


There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?

But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.


There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain My power, my pleasure, my pain.
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.

But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.

Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the gray.

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I like the first verse very much.

kind'a close to me

[symphony]

Moonlight and Vodka ~ Chris de Burgh

Fix me a drink, make it a strong one,
Hey comrade, a drink, make it a long one,
My hands are shaking and my feet are numb,
My head is aching and the bar's going round,
And I'm so down, in this foreign town;

Tonight there's a band, it ain't such a bad one,
Play me a song, don't make it a sad one,
I can't even talk to these Russian girls,
The beer is lousy and the food is worse,
And it's so damn cold, yes it's so damn cold,
I know it's hard to believe,
But I haven't been warm for a week;

Moonlight and vodka, takes me away,
Midnight in Moscow is lunchtime in L.A.,
Ooh play boys, play...

Espionage is a serious business,
Well I've had enough of this serious business,
That dancing girl is making eyes at me,
I'm sure she's working for the K.G.B.
In this paradise, ah cold as ice;

Moonlight and vodka, takes me away,
Midnight in Moscow is sunshine in L.A.,
Yes, in the gold U.S.A.



I love this song. Its been favorite for a real long time now.

[sprinks]

Tears fallin’
Rain fallin’
Leaves are falling with the sun
Lives drifting
Seeds drifting
Worlds drifting with the sun

Thats my favourite verse from Sunset by Nitin Sawhney

[Oniw17]

From Dead Pez- Know Your enemy, I especially like the second verse
[stic.man]
you got to watch what you say in these days and times
It's a touchy situation, lotta fear and emotion
september 11th
televised world-wide
suicide planes fallin like bombs from out the sky
they wasn't aimin at us
not at my house
they hit the world trade, the pentagon, and almost got the white house
now everybody walkin round patriotic
how we gon' fight to keep freedom when we ain't got it?
you wanna stop terrorists?
start with the u.s. imperalists
ain't no track record like america's, see
bin laden was trained by the c.i.a
but I guess if you a terrorist for the u.s
then it's okay
uh huh

[m1]
they try to make us think we crazy
but I know what they doin, they tryna put us back in slavery
check it, to get on welfare you gotta get your fingerprints
soon ya gotta do eyescans to get your benefits
now they got them cards to swipe, ain't no more foodstamps
shoulda seen it comin, now it's too late to get amped
and everything got a barcode
so they know what you got, when you got it, and what you still owe
you seen them projects, lately you better watch it
why they got us surrounded if money is the object?
why they use satellites to keep track of the criminals?
why they puttin jails in schools, is it subliminal?
cameras everywhere to protect us from one another
or is it the undercover, disguised as big brother
and even freedom of speech is limited
mad leaders done spoke up, and look at what these crackas did

[m1]
and you ain't got to believe me
go 'head and listen to bush
the dope pusher on the t.v
what you think the war is for?
cause the greedy wantin more and more
we be hustlin the corridor
I would never join the military
one soldier to another, nigga holla if ya hear me
goin out to the best sons and daughters
don't be a lamb gettin led to the slaughter
I'ma keep ridin when my momma released
cause ain't no stoppin us now, dawg
freedom before peace

[Gracewings]

"Oh no, I've said too much
I haven't said enough"

Losing My Religion ~REM

[pjjr]

then take me disappearring 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.
Mr. Tambourine Man- Bob Dylan

[MissWilbourne]

" Leather elbows on a tweed coat, oh is that the best you can do?"
- Morrissey "Alsatian cousin"

[AbbyLomas]

This isn't really a quote... or very stylistically complex. But its honest.

I wanna be better than oxygen
So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees
I wanna speak louder than Ritalin
For all the children who think that they've got a disease
I wanna be cooler than t.v.
For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be
We can be stronger than bombs
If you're singing along and you know that you really believe
We can be richer than industry
As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
We can speak louder than ignorance
Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet.

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I wanna see through all the lies of society
To the reality, happiness is at stake
I wanna hold up my head with dignity
Proud of a life where to give means more than to take
I wan't to live beyond the modern mentality
Where paper is all that you're really taught to create
Do you remember the forgotten America?
Justice, equality, freedom to every race?
Just need to get past all the lies and hypocrisy
Make up and hair to the truth behind every face
That look around to all the people you see,
How many of them are happy and free?
I know it sounds like a dream
But it's the only thing that can get me to sleep at night
I know it's hard to believe
But it's easy to see that something here isn't right
I know the future looks dark
But it's there that the kids of today must carry the light.

[djy78usa]

Oh the words that he spoke
Seemed the wisest of philosophies
Theres nothing ever gained
By a wet thing called a tear
When the world is too dark
And I need the light inside of me
Ill walk into a bar
And drink fifteen pints of beer

from Streams of Whiskey by Shane MacGowan

[Oubie]

I've always found jazz to have the most poignant and elegant lyricsm...

"a trip to the moon on gossamer wings..."

"autumn in new york is often mingled with pain; dreamers with empty hands, they sigh for exotic lands..."

"drifting, dreaming in an azure mood... stardust, gleaming, through my solitude"

"when the world hangs heavy on your heart... and the dreams you plan on fall apart..."

"When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze... then touches with her hand, the summer trees... perhaps you'll understand those memories I own"

"Yesterdays - days I knew as happy, sweet, sequestered days... Olden days!Golden days! Days of mad romance and love... Then, gay youth was mine, truth was mine... joyous free in flame and life - Then, sooth was mine! Sad am I, but glad am I, for today I’m dreamin' of... yesterdays"
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and lastly, my favorite of the past few years...

"Waiting too long for a sign you would come was what
nearly killed the spirit in the house within me
and when you appeared you brought an answer after praying
like a sailor sighting landfall on horizons of green
or sunrise / after endless nights of burning scenes
or having sense be restored to me...

I remember stories of Orpheus and his love ruinous / Euridice
Spirited away / on their wedding day
bitten by a snake upon the way / and Euridice had to stay
in under-day – SAD!

Just as bad / Orphie had / to stay up and lay up with us here / but without her.
Some Stun!
Can you just imagine / living without it /
love that was destined to perfect / everything that was imperfect?"

wow.

[Niamh]

Young modern Station by Silverchair

"Does it make you cry When I make you feel so far away"

Also part of some of my fav lyric ever!
The Bright side of life

"When life is jolly rotten,
theres something you've forgotten,
and thats to smile and laugh and dance and sing."

[Shurtugal]

ha, ha, i liked the last one Naimh!

"And I want a moment to be real,
Wanna touch things I don't feel,
Wanna hold on and feel I belong."
I'm Still here Johny Rzeznick

"In the most painful faces,
Angels show up in the strangest of places"
Looking for Angels Skillet

boy i could go on... so i'll stop till later.

[cipherdecoy]

Even those who never frown eventually break down
Pushing Me Away, Linkin Park

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?
Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
Iris, Goo Goo Dolls


I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed

I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

Affirmation, Savage Garden

There are many more but I'm too lazy to dig all of them out right now.