what are peoples favourite lyrics from a song?

Question

I really like the line 'the words of prophets are written on the subway walls' by simon and garfunkel, although there are loads of other lines that i just think, wow thats pretty cool

Answer 1

Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, Everywhere is war!
Bob Marley

Answer 2

Anything by Elvis Costello (There is only one Elvis!)

This is from Man out of time which is about an british member of parliament who has an S & M habit

"He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege"

also on the album "King of America" from Little Palaces which covers a number of things including parental abuse of children.

Little Palaces

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown
On the silver paper of the wrapper
There's a dapper little man
And he wears a wax moustache
That he twists with nicotine fingers
As he drops his cigarette ash
And someone comes and sweeps it up
And then he doffs his cap
And there's a rat in someone's bedroom
And they're shutting someone's trap
And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces

And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present
And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.
And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,
Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce,
And you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,
And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,
Like a picture of Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.
There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,
The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,
You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.
To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Answer 3

My fav lyric from a song has got to be. My beds filled of take-aways and fantasise of easy lays, the pause button"s broke on my video. By Robbie Williams. The song is called Strong.

Answer 4

The entire lyrics to Aerosmiths' Don't Want To Miss A Thing. It is pure genius

Answer 5

Paul Simon has written some fantastic songs. I like Meatloaf's - Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are

Answer 6

"Thick as a Brick" - by Jethro Tull
It's a fantastic song. I like the part that goes:

"I've come down from the upper class to mend your rotten ways.
My father was a man-of-power whom everyone obeyed.
So come on all you criminals!
I've got to put you straight just like I did with my old man --
twenty years too late.
Your bread and water's going cold.
Your hair is too short and neat.
I'll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me."

As it gives a good social commentry on the class system.

Answer 7

Floyds Wish You Were Here is a classic or Comfortably Numb

Hello is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me,
Is there anyone at home?

Radiohead's paranoid android, creep, how to disappear completely?
How can we choose just one? An impossibility i think

Answer 8

One of my favourite lyrics is from a McCartney song on the Band on the Run album with Wings. A track called "Mamunia"
"The rain comes falling from the sky,
To fill the stream that fills the sea
And that's where life began for you and me.
So next time you see rain it ain't bad,
Don't complain it rains for you,
The next time you see l.a. rainclouds,
Don't complain it rains for you and me
Mamunia"
I sing it to myself alto when I am out in the rain, it makes me smile.

Answer 9

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, and nothing, well that's all that Bobby left me, and if feelin good was easy Lord when he sang the blues and feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

Oh, and up we'll go in white lights I don't think so, but what do I know? What do I know? I know.

Answer 10

most inspiring

"When The Sand Runs Out"- Rascal Flatts

I spent the morning at an old friend's grave
Flowers and Amazing Grace, he was a good man
He spent his whole life spinnin' his wheels
Never knowin' how the real thing feels
He never took a chance or took the time to dance
And I stood there thinking as I said goodbye
Today is the first day of the rest of my life

I'm gonna stop lookin' back and start movin' on
And learn how to face my fears
Love with all of my heart, make my mark
I wanna leave something here

Go out on a ledge, with out any net
That's what I'm gonna be about
Yeah I wanna be runnin'
When the sand runs out

'Cause people do it everyday
Promise themselves they're gonna change
I've been there, but I'm changin' from the inside out

That was then and this is now
I'm a new man, yeah, I'm a brand new man
And when they carve my stone they'll write these words
"Here lies a man who lived life for all that its worth"

And as the cold wind blows across the graveyard
I think I hear the voice of my old friend whisper in my ear

I'm gonna stop lookin' back and start movin' on
Learn how to face my fears
Love with all of my heart, make my mark
I wanna leave something here

Go out on a ledge, with out any net
That's what I'm gonna be about
Yeah I wanna be runnin'
When the sand runs out



favorite

"Fast cars and freedom"- Rascal Flatts

Starin' at you takin' off your makeup
Wondering why you even put it on
I know you think you do but baby you don't need it
Wish that you could see what I see it when it's gone
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes, your head on my shoulder

[Chorus:]
Wait, baby don't move, right here it is
T-shirt hanging off a Dogwood Branch
That river was cold but we gave love a chance
Yeah, yeah for me
You don't look a day over Fast Cars and Freedom
That sunset river bank first time feeling

Yeah, smile and shake your head as if you don't believe me
I'll just sit right here and let you take me back
I'm on that gravel road, look at me
On my way to pick you up you're standing on the front porch
Looking just like that remember that

I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes, your head on my shoulder

[Chorus]

I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes, your head on my shoulder
You don't look a day over Fast Cars and Freedom
That sunset river bank first time feeling