Favorite Sing Lyrics

[CConn]

Okay, this has probably been done many times before, but what are some of your favorite lyrics in music?

And I don't mean whole songs. But rather, what are the best snappy little hooks or clever little verses that just always seem to get stuck in your head or espouse some great wisdom in the span of a sentence or two?

 

[hopefuldreamer]

A couple of my personal faves from Fiona Apple:

'I looked in your eyes when you where kissing me once, more than once, and you looked as sincere as a dog. Just as sincere as a dog does, when it's the food on your lips, with which it's in love'

'I was having a sweet fix, of a daydream of a boy whose reality I knew was a hopeless to be had, when the dove of hope began a downward slope and I believed for a moment that, my chances where approaching to be grabbed, but as it came down here so did a weary tear. I thought it was a bird but it was just a paper bag.'

And one from Incubus:

'I saw you standing in my headlights blink, blink, blink
I thought I'd run you down for the weight you left on me
Instead I pushed rewind reversed and drove away
And see you disappear in my rearview
Brought to me the word reciprocity'

I could go on forever, I have tonnes but I won't!

 

[CLARKY]

In general I'm an avid fan of most Oingo Boingo songs, and of almost all the lyrics.
But more specifically, I would say from U2 "I will follow":
Your eyes make a circle,
I see you and I go in there, your eyes....

From Queen "who wantsto live forever":
But touch my tears with your lips, touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever, and we can love forever
Forever is our today, who wants to live forever

From Madonna "beautiful stranger":
If I'm smart then I'll run away
But I'm not so I guess I'll stay

From Tina turner "Goldeneye":
See him move through smoke and mirrors, feel his presence in the crowd,
other girls they gather around him, if I had him I wouldn't let him out

I could also go on and on... Fun Thread Idea CConn

 

[CConn]

Some of mine:

Well Jesus Christ, I'm alone again
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Cause this problem's gonna last more than the weekend
- Jesus Christ, Brand New

I hope this song starts a craze
*The kind of song that ignites the airwaves
The kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are
With whoever they're there with
This is war
Every line is about
Who I don't want to write about anymore
I hope you come down with something they can't diagnose
Or don't have the cure for
- Okay, I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't, Brand New

The corpse of my motivation hangs
In a closet next to skeletons and vampire fangs
- The Corpses of Our Motivation, The Lawrence Arms

Last night I had a dream we were inseparably intwined
Like a piece of rope made out of pieces of vine
Held together, holding each other with no one else in mind
Like to atoms in a molecule, inseparably combined
- 2 Atoms in a Molecule, Noah and the Whale

Down the street there's an accident
I hear that the bodies can still be seen
Let's call the sheriff a c***sucker
See if he's read the killer inside me
- Sri Lanka Sex Hotel, The Dead Milkmen

 

[madcowre]

Probably the whole entire lyrics to Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Freebird.'

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on, now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But, if I stayed here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you can not change
And this bird you can not change
And this bird you can not change
Lord knows, I can't change

Bye, bye, baby it's been a sweet love
Though this feeling I can't change
But please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame
But, if I stayed here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you can not change
And the bird you can not change
And this bird you can not change
Lord knows, I can't change
Lord help me, I can't change

Lord I can't change
Won't you fly, free bird, yeah

 

[hopefuldreamer]

No, not baby anymore,
If I need you I'll just use your simple name,
Only kisses on the cheek from now on,
And in a little while we'll only have to wave - Fiona Apple (Love Ridden)

 

[CConn]

We went to the Philly Pizza Company
And ordered some hot tea
The waitress said well no
We only have it iced
So we jumped up on the table
And we shouted anarchy!
- Punk Rock Girl, The Dead Milkmen

 

[CConn]

So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.

And is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back.
So let's end this call, and end this conversation.
and is that what you call a getaway?
well tell me what you got away with.
cause you left the frays from the ties you severed
when you say best friends means friends forever
- Seventy Times 7, Brand New