favourite quotes from song lyrics

[weltanschauung]

you know you can't be hurt,
you gotta believe in your star,
they'll always treat you like dirt,
they can only push you so far,
they can't take it away,
if you've got something to say,
they might try and fence you in,
but you've only gotta live to win
i know it's hard, a natural drag,
tt's a hassle to fight,
if you don't wanna be a slag,
if you believe you're right,
they've got the power now,
but soon it's our hour now,
we all know where we been,
we all been living to win

...break down the wall,
live it up it's their time to fall,
anarchy is coming in,
if you know we live to win

(motorhead)

[*Classic*Charm*]

I'm standing on this corner
Can't get their attention
Facing rush hour faces turned around
I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest,
then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
in all that I could never overcome?
How I don't know what I should do with my hands when I talk to you.
How you don't know where you should look, so you look at my hands.
How movements rise and then dissolve, melted by our shallow breath.
How causes dance away from me.
I am your pamphleteer.

I walk this room in time to the beat of the Gestetner,
contemplate my next communique.
The rhetoric and treason of saying that I'll miss you.
Of saying "Hey, well maybe you should stay."
Sing "Oh what force on earth could be
Weaker than the feeble strength
Of one" like me remembering the way it could have been.
So help me with this barricade.
No surrender. No defeat.
A spectre's haunting Albert Street.
I am your pamphleteer.

The Weakerthans "Pamphleteer"

[Sapphire]

I'm a bit of a collector when it comes to (parts of) lyrics. Glad to find this thread

I'm totally undecisive when it comes to "favourite", so I'll just give you what I'm listening to right now:

Tommy Stinson - Without A View
do You Trust Yourself At All?

The other lines in the song are great too, but hey - one has got to choose

[Babyguile]

In our life theres if
In our beliefs theres lie
In our business theres sin
In our bodies theres die - This Was My Life, Megadeth



In my hour of need
Ha no youre not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldnt lend a hand.

Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me.

Did you ever think I get lonely
Did you ever think that I needed love
Did you ever think to stop thinking
Youre the only one that Im thinking of.

Youll never know how hard I tried
To find my space and satisfy you too.

Things will be better when Im dead and gone
Dont try to understand, knowing you Im probably wrong.

But oh how I lived my life for you
Still youd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise you head, raise your face your eyes
Tell me who you think you are, who?

I walk, I walk alone
Into the promised land.

Theres a better place for me
But its far, far away
Everlasting life for me
In a perfect world
But I gotta die first,
Please God send me on my way.

Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt be fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, alone so alone, Im lost
Consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain, the pain.

Wont you hold me again
You just laughed, ha ha, *****
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away. - In My Darkest Hour,Megadeth

[weltanschauung]

If I see the morning hours
Ill have one more yesterday
Take life from tomorrow
Cause Ive burned out my today

If I get up to the top I know
Ill just go back downhill
Gotta terminal future
And its time to write my will

Down another glass of courage
And a shot of thorazine

Were not ready to see you yet
99 ways to die
Were not ready to see you yet

Gotta short between the earphones
Wringing my hands in dismay
A more efficient maniac
With two feet in the grave

Aint got no last words to say
Yellow streak right up my spine
The gun in my mouth was real
And the taste blew my mind

In a black tie and straight jacket
Man Im gonna try again


Demitasse of arsenic
Try on this tie
Never mind the tree

There is only death and danger
In the sockets of my eyes
A playground of illusion
No one plays they only die

Theres a prison in my mind
And the bars are gonna break
Im as mad as a hatter
And strung out just the same

Taunting rigor mortis
I feel it draw me in

[Mathor]

And when that guy comes by
With his diamond ring
It doesn’t feel right
And you tell him so
So you buy your tickets home
And you’re going down slow

-Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire "How Indiscreet

[Sapphire]

And I don't wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreaming
- Michael Bolton (How Am I Supposed To Live Without You)

[Chris Marie]

Revolution was a pretty good song, like Helter Skelter.

Instant Karma was good, too.

[pinkkdaisy]

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.

thank god somebodys got good taste
that james blunt and coldplay appeared before Dob Dylan on this forum is shameful

I have to say, Id go for Don't think Twice, It's alright, or It's alright Ma, I'm only Bleeding - but they are all so so good.

[skib]

Go ahead, end it all
We deserve no better
A forever unblessed detonation

The great plutonium chord fulminates
blinding the eyes of creation

Cutting off all life support
Sweeping away existence instantly

Iced desolate ruins linger
leaving traces of our lovely humanity

-From Eradication Instincts Defined by Dimmu Borgir

and to jump from Satanistic black metal to country

Poor Billy Bonney, you're only twenty one
Pat Garrett's got your name of every bullet in his gun
Each notch you carve on your sixgun's got a bloody tale to tell
You're a mile ahead of Garrett, and a step outside of Hell
-From Billy the Kid by Chris Ledoux

[intoxicatedsoul]

see my smile i can hear your voice
coming from another room
in another land in a house
in a corner of my heart

so be quiet
not make a sound
do not blink now
don't look down

you don't know
you'd never ever know
i've forgotten all my lies
i feel like a fool
in a cold
i don't even know myself
any more

come to me lay down beside me
and close your eyes kiss me sleep
for tonight
- lullaby 6000 (the czars)

[Maida]

"She saw it and she grabbed it and it wasn't what it seemed
The kids all dream of making it, whatever that means
Another variation on a theme
A tangle on the television and the magazine
D'you reckon that they do it for a joke?
D'you reckon that they make 'em take an oath?
That says "we are defenders
Of any poseur or professional pretender around"

When did your list replace the twist and turn?
Ah the fist, replaced the kissed-on concern
And if you're bothered, I don't want your prayers
Save it for the morning after"

Arctic Monkeys "Teddy Picker"


"I wish I could sleep, I wish I could dream
I love the sound of my feet against these empty streets
I saw the whole town burn down
I'm walking away
Nothing stays, these feelings have wings
Our arms outstretched, we are soaring"

Umbrellas "Ships"

"And I have learned
That even landlocked lovers yearn
For the sea like navy men
'Cause now we say goodnight
From our own separate sides
Like brothers on a hotel bed"

Death Cab for Cutie "Brothers on a Hotel Bed"

I have lots more, but I don't want this to be an annoyingly long post.

[Maida]

I absolutely love this 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

[Like_Herod]

I really like a lot of Smashing Pumpkins lyrics. 1979 is good but I really like this but from Geek U.S.A.:

Lover lover let's pretend
We're born as innocents
Cast into the world
With apple eyes

To wish wish dangerous
My dear delirious
To try and leave
The rest of us behind

Shot full of diamonds
And a million years
The disappointed disappear
Like they were never here

[Moshu]

I like Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" alot, but the swear in the beginning ruins it a bit for me. It does add alot more seriousness to the emotion, though.

Where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only
just begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling


Spin me round again
and rub my eyes
this can't be happening
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy


Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first


oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before
the takeover
the sweeping insensitivity
of this
still life


Hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first


mm what d'ya say?
that you only meant well, well of course you did
this it's all for the best, of course it is
that it's just what we need, you decided this?
what did you say?


Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid sweet talk newspaper word cut outs
Speak no feeling no I don't believe you
you don't care a bit