What is your favourite song lyric?

Question

And why? Does it remind you of "that" moment?...

Answer 1

"getting funky on the mic, like ol batch of colla greens" - best snoop lyric ever

Answer 2

Think you’re going nowher
When you’re walking down the street
Acting like you just don’t care
When life could be so sweet

Why you wanna be like that
As if there's nothing new
You’re not fooling no one
You’re not even fooling you

So walk a little slower
And open up your eyes
Sometimes it’s so hard to see
The good things passing by

There might never be a sign
No flashing neon light
Telling you to make your move
Or when the time is right

[CHORUS]
(So) Why not (Why not)
Take a crazy chance
Why not (Why not)
Do a crazy dance
If you lose a moment
You might lose a lot
So why not
Why not

Why not
Take a crazy chance
Why not
Take a crazy chance

You always dress in yellow
When you wanna dress in gold
Instead of listening to your heart
You do just what you’re told
You keep waiting where you are
For what you'll never know
Let’s just get into your car
And go baby go

[CHORUS]

Oh
I could be the one for you
Oh, yeah
Maybe yes, maybe no
Oh
It could be the thing to do
What I'm saying is
You gotta let me know

You’ll never get to heaven
Or even to L.A.
If you don’t believe there’s a way

Why not
Take a star from the sky
Why not
Spread your wings and fly
It might take a little
And it might take a lot
But why not
Why not

[CHORUS]

Answer 3

Something about England by the Clash on Sandinista (album): a complete social history of the twentieth century in 4 minutes. I won't do it all but here's a sample lyric:

I missed the 14-18 war/but not the sorrow afterwards/with my father dead/my mother ran out/my brothers took the pay of hoods.
The twenties turned/the north was dead/the hunger strike came marching south [Jarrow]/in the garden party not a word was said/the ladies lifted cake to their mouths.
The next war began and my ship sailed/with battle orders writ in red/five long years of bullets and shells/we left 10,000,000 dead.
The few returned to old Piccadilly/we limped around Leicester Square/The world was busy rebuilding itself/The architects could not care.
So how could I know when I was young/the changes that were to come/all the photos in the wallets of the battlefields/and now the terror of the scientific sun [the A-bomb].

Answer 4

Sheep (Waters) 10:19

Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.

What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told.
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

Answer 5

It's from a song called "One Last Time" by country artist Dusty Drake...

"It was almost like she felt him leave
She cried out 'Can you still hear me'
She fell down on the kitchen floor
When the signal died
As the pilot tried to pull out of the dive
One last..."

Because it reminded me so much of what happened on 9/11 and this song brings me to tear everytime I listen to it. And it also reminds me of how much I love my family and boyfriend. Gosh... I think I'm tearin up now.

Answer 6

Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard
Catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen
White roses on a grave

Audioslave, Be Yourself
Just the message I think. How there's always two sides to every thing and having hope and the courage to do what you feel is right. And I'm getting married.

Answer 7

The entire lyrics to 'If You See Her, Say Hello' by Bob Dylan break my heart every time I hear it. I was driving away from a girlfriends house after she had just told me our four year relationship was over, and this song came on the radio. I had to pull over as I couldn't see the road through the tears.

Answer 8

At the moment it is a song by The Fall called Sparta FC. The lyric is-
"You have to pay for everything but somethings are for free, we live on blood we are Sparta FC...
English Chelsea fan, this is your last game, we're not Galatasary we're Sparta FC!"
It might not be the lyrics themselves but its the way they are sang....

Answer 9

My favorite song lyric is all 3 verses from "Slippin" by DMX...and this is because I can relate to 99% of what he says and describes in this song. When I first heard this song, I actually teared up because I could have sworn that he was describing my life story through his voice.

Answer 10

'Changing Partners, sung by Kay Starr.

When I was aged between 10 and 15, my dad played this on the piano often, just for me and I would sing along.

He was an accomplished pianist, self taught from childhood, he played by ear.

For the jokers in here, it means that he could hear a piece of music once and instantly play it, then, keep it in his memory forever.

He had a huge repertoire of songs in his head and played as 'resident pianist', in three local pubs. Though my song chosen by him for me, represented my name (Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair) he knew I loved this one most of all. To entice me to sing, he'd play it first.

He would have me stand and sing along at home to all the forties and fifties songs.

It's quite a fast tempo, but he slowed it down for me, because that's how I sang it best.

These are the lyrics:

'We were waltzing together, to a dreamy melody
When they called out "change partners" and you waltzed away from me
Now my arms feel so empty, as I gaze around the floor
And I'll keep on changing partners, till I hold you once more

Though we danced for one moment, yet too soon we had to part
In that wonderful moment, something happened to my heart
I will keep changing partners, till you're in my arms and then
Oh my darling, I will never, change partners again:-)

Sigh.....

Dad died at age 53 in 1968, but I still hear him playing as I sing it.

Answer 11

Fairies wear boots and ya gotta believe me...Black Sabbath, long story involving magic mushrooms...seriously tho' Marillion's entire Misplaced Childhood album, but particularly the line "Son watches father scan obituary columns/In search of absent school friends"