Favourite Song Lines?!?!?

Just post them here All lists happily welcome Mine are in no particular order and include...

Ok Go - Get Over it
Got a job, got a life, got a four-door and a faithless wife.
Got those nice copper pipes, got an ex, got a room for the night.
Aren't you such a catch?
What a prize! Got a body like a battle
axe... Love that perfect frown, honest eyes...
We ought to buy you a Cadillac.


Massive Attack...
Safe from Harm
You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight
I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me
To see me lookin' back at you


Unfinished Symphony
Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I'm missing every part

Hymn of the Big Wheel
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes


The Streets...
The Irony of it all (the whole of that song is amazing but I had to pick those two lines.. but it was tough!)
Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce 'em round like bunnies
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean grief you must believe and I ain't no thief
Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my's vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patience


Too Much Brandy
We wander down darkened pathways in a daze, "Want to buy any cocaine?", am I paranoid? "Yes, you're paranoid"


Neil Young...
This Notes for you
Ain't singin' for Pepsi
Ain't singin' for Coke
I don't sing for nobody
Makes me look like a joke
This note's for you.

One of these Days
One of these days,
I'm gonna sit down
and write a long letter
To all the good friends I've known
And I'm gonna try
And thank them all
for the good times together.
Though so apart we've grown.


Old King
I had a dog and his name was King
I told the dog about everything
There in my truck the dog and I
Then one day the King up and died.


REM...
Bad Day
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
the papers wouldn't lie!
I sigh. Not one more
Its been a bad day.
Please dont take a picture
Its been a bad day.
Please

The One I Love
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I left behind


Coldplay...
Rush of Blood to the Head
He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
Oh and I'm gonna buy this place that's what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head


The Scientist
You don't know how lovely you are


Thea Gilmore...
This Girl is Taking Bets
This girl is the snowfall where the spring should have been
She’s the stains on the pages of a top shelf magazine


Don't Set Foot Over the Railway Track
Don't set foot
Over the railway track
The Heathens and the spin-doctors
Are waiting round the back
The skies are always sullen and
Rain races to the tarmac
So don't set foot
Over the railway track


Razor Valentine
I love you like a whisper
I love you all alone
I love you like a murder babe
I'm burying the bones
I love you like the last shot
At the bottom of the bottle
I love you razor valentine


Feel free to add your lists

 

Oh man, Bob Dylan could run wild here if I'm not careful!


With God On Our Side - Bob Dylan

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavelries charges
The Indians fell
The cavelries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on it's side


Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan

But the funniest thing was
When I was leavin' the bay
I saw three ships a-sailin'
They were all heading my way
I asked the captain what his name was
And how come he didn't drive a truck
He said his name was Columbus
I just said, "Good luck."

Something - George Harrison
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover,
Something in the way she woos me.
I don’t want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don’t need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.

Here, There and Everywhere - Paul McCartney
I want her ev’rywhere, and if she’s beside me I know I need never care,
But to love her is to meet her ev’rywhere,
Knowing that my love is to share,
Each one believing that love never dies,
Watching her eyes and hoping I’m always there.
To be there and ev’rywhere,
Here, there and ev’rywhere.

A Day In The Life - John Lennon('s bits)
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book

Across The Universe - John Lennon
Thoughts meander like a restless wind
Inside a letter box they
Tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe

 

Placebo:-without you I'm nothing


# I'm unclean a liberteen,
an everytime you vent your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
I'm slipping sloyour reach
I............. Take the plan spin it sideways
I............. Fall#

 

Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You

And I know
They all look so good from a distance
But I tell you I'm the one!



Bonnie Rait - I Can't Make You Love Me

Cos I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart
And I'll feel the power
But you won't....no you won't

I'll close my eyes
Then I won't see
The love you don't feel
When your holding me

Incubus - Wish You Were Here

The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket

The sky resembles a backlight canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFO's, I signal them with my lighter

(In fact just about ALL of Jeff Buckley, and most of Incubus' lyrics!)

 

Love that song!

Anyways, My Faves are all from Nick Cave Songs

The Sweetest Embrace
And if you wanna hold me
then go ahead and hold me
I won't upset your plans
If it's revenge you want
then take it babe
Or you can walk right out the door
I just don't care anymore
And that's the sweetest embrace of all

Nobodys Baby
I loved her then and I guess I love her still
Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
She lives in my blood and skin
Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
Her winter lips as cold as stone
Yeah, I was her man
But there are some things love won't allow
I held her hand but I don't hold it now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

Sweetheart Come
Come over here, babe
It ain`t that bad
I don`t claim to understand
The troubles that you`ve had
But the dogs you say they fed you to
Lay their muzzles in your lap
And the lions that they led you to
Lie down and take a nap
The ones you fear are wind and air

The burdens that you carry now
Are not of your creation
So let`s not weep for their evil deeds
But for their lack of imagination
Today`s the time for courage, babe
Tomorrow can be for forgiving
And if he touches you again with his stupid hands
His life won`t be worth living

Thirsty Dog
I was not equipped to know how to care
And on the occassions I came up for air
I saw my life and wondered
what the hell I had been living

 

Ones that stand out, every single time I listen to them

The Strokes - Is This It
"We're not enemies, we just disagree"

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
"Pleease don't put your life in the haaands, of a rock and roll baaand, who'll throw it all awaaay"

Oh god, that song....makes me want to cry!!

 

Postal Service: This place is a prison.

This place is a prison
And this people aren't your friends
Inhaling thrills through 20 dollar bills
And the tumblers are drained and then flooded again
And again

Ther're guards at the on ramps armed to the teeth
And you may case the grounds from the cascades to puget sound,
But you are not permitted to leave

I know there's a big world out there like the one i saw on the screen
In my living room late last night,
It was almost too bright to see
And i know that it's not a party if it happens every night
Pretending there's glamour and candelabra
When you're drinking by candlelight

What does it take to get a drink in this place?

What does it take, how long must i wait?

 

Dylan,

You say you love me and are thinking of me but you know you might be wrong.
You say you told me tat you wanna hold me but you know your not that strong.
I just can't do what Ive done before.
I just can't beg you anymore.
I'm going to let you pass.
And I'll go last.
Then time will tell just who fell and who's been left behind.
When you go your way and I'll go mine.

 

Tom Waits - Big Joe and Phantom 309

well you see I happened to be back on the east coast
a few years back tryin' to make me a buck
like everybody else,

well you know
times get hard and well I got down on my luck
and I got tired of just roamin' and bummin'
around, so I started thumbin' my way
back to my old hometown

you know I made quite a few miles
in the first couple of days, and I
figured I'd be home in a week if my
luck held out this way

but you know it was the third night
I got stranded, it was out at a cold lonely
crossroads, and as the rain came
pouring down, I was hungry, tired
freezin', caught myself a chill,

but it was just about that time that
the lights of an old semi topped the hill
you should of seen me smile when I
heard them air brakes come on, and
I climbed up in that cab where I
knew it'd be warm at the wheel

well at the wheel sat a big man
I'd have to say he must of weighed 210
the way he stuck out a big hand and
said with a grin "Big Joe's the name
and this here rig's called Phantom 309"

well I asked him why he called his
rig such a name, but he just turned to me
and said "Why son don't you know this here
rig'll be puttin' 'em all to shame, why
there ain't a driver on this
or any other line for that matter
that's seen nothin' but the taillights of Big Joe
and Phantom 309"

So we rode and talked the better part of the night
and I told my stories and Joe told his and
I smoked up all his Viceroys as we rolled along

he pushed her ahead with 10 forward gears
man that dashboard was lit like the old
Madam La Rue pinball, a serious semi truck
until almost mysteriously, well it was the
lights of a truck stop that rolled into sight
Joe turned to me and said "I'm sorry son
but I'm afraid this is just as far as you go

You see I kinda gotta be makin' a turn
just up the road a piece," but I'll be
damned if he didn't throw me a dime as he
threw her in low and said "Go on in there
son, and get yourself a hot cup of coffee
on Big Joe"

and when Joe and his rig pulled off into
the night, man in nothing flat they was
clean outa sight

so I walked into the old stop and
ordered me up a cup of mud sayin'
"Big Joe's settin' this dude up" but
it got so deathly quiet in that
place, you could of heard a pin drop

as the waiter's face turned kinda
pale, I said "What's the matter did
I say somethin' wrong?" I kinda
said with 8a half way grin.

He said "No son, you see It'll happen every
now and then. You see every driver in
here knows Big Joe, but let me
tell you what happened just 10 years
ago,

yea it was 10 years ago
out there at that cold lonely crossroads
where you flagged Joe down, and
there was a whole bus load of kids
and they were just comin' from school
and they were right in the middle when
Joe topped the hill, and could
have been slaughtered except
Joe turned his wheels, and
he jacknifed,

and went into a skid, and folks around here
say he gave his life to save that bunch
of kids, and out there at that cold
lonely crossroads, well they say it
was the end of the line for
Big Joe and Phantom 309,

but it's funny you know, cause every now and then
yea every now and then, when the
moon's holdin' water, they say old Joe
will stop and give you a ride, and
just like you, some hitchhiker will be
comin' by"

"So here son," he said to me, "get
yourself another cup of coffee, it's on the
house, you see I want you to hang on
to that dime, yea you hang on to that
dime as a kind of souvenir, a
souvenir of Big Joe and Phantom 309"

 

"Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters.
Anyway the wind blows...."

Freddie Mercury

 

I just remembered about these songlines by The Libertines (Thanks Butterfly for your amazing signature picture for trigering off the ol' memory I really do like that pic.. makes me think ahhhhh )

The Libertines...
I Get Along
I get along singing my song, people tell me I'm wrong..... FUCK 'EM!

Up The Bracket
You see these two cold fingers, these crooked finger show the way to mean no!

The Good Old Days
If you've lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long.

What a Waster
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her
There's tears coming out from everywhere
The city's hard, the city's fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob ****

Where does all the money go? Straight up her nose

 

I could fill an entire page with lines from Richard Thompson songs here But I'll just put a couple instead...


Dear Janet Jackson
"When you're sick of all that dancing around, you'll make a lovely mother
Kids are such a pleasure - just ask your brother."

Cooksferry Queen
"Where you find the darkest avenue, there you'll find the brightest jewel"

"People speak my name in whispers, what higher praise can there be?"

Beeswing
"She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing...so fine a breath of wind might blow her away"

"Brown hair zigzag 'round her face, and a look of half surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights there was animal in her eyes"

"They say she even married once, a man named Romany Brown
But even a Gypsy caravan was too much settling down
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse..."


The Sights And Sounds Of London Town

Oh Gillian she's a Doncaster lass
Trains it down on the quarter past
Friday night leaves the kids at home
And struts her stuff on the Euston Road
Saying "Do you want some company darling?
Do you want some company now?
My place, your place or no place
I could use the extra cash anyhow"
That's the sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town

Oh Jean-Paul he came over from Toulouse
They told him that London was the golden goose
He never got his hands on enough to eat
He never did get his arse up off the street
Wanted to be a rap DJ
They took his pulse then they turned him away
Under the radar of your fellow man
With all that charisma it ain't worth a damn
Saying "Lend me your shoes till Monday
Oh brother can you lend me a comb
I can wash dishes all night long
I just need my fare back home"
That's the sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town

Well Jackie she tried just about everything
She tried to dance, she tried to sing
Too many doors slammed in your face
It leaves a nasty aftertaste
You scramble around for a little bit of cash
Ease the pain with Mister Flash
Saint Annes Court is the rendezvous
For those who share your point of view
Saying "This is the last time you will see me
Never again no way
One more time I'll never ask you again
I've just got to get through today"
That's the sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town

Oh Mickey he sleeps every two or three days
Runs through Soho like a rat through a maze
A little blackmail here a sting on the side
Enough to get started on the next enterprise
Dresses expensive but that's just a crutch
Like his word or his handshake it doesn't mean much
Depends on his kickback from the middle man
And whatever he can beat out of Sally Ann
Saying "Lucky I'm the one you ran into
Oh lucky I've taken a shine
Lucky I'm needing a partner
50/50 right down the line"
Oh that's the sights and sounds of London Town
The sights and sounds of London Town
The sight and sounds of London Town

 

I don't think you meant rainbow dear

But yeah.....

The Libertines

- Time For Heros
There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
And we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
A class of our own my love


-What Katie Did
And my safety pins are none too strong
But they hold my life together
;
Since you said goodbye
There are polka dots in my eye
And I don't know why

And I just read the lyrics to Vertigo for the first time....uhh....total genius confirmation
Koreema know just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her to get a buzz
Down in the street below
You can hear the drunken prophet sing
"I know whats on your mind my boy
I can see oh everything
Lead pipes are fortune made well
Take a tip from me
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be

Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please"

Who really knows just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her
To get a buzz
The rapture of vertigo
And letting go
Me myself i was never sure
Was it the liquor
Or was it my soul?

 

Sorry loverly I have changed it Heehee! Not long til the new album... ROCK!

 

I heard somewhere the other day, probably watching late night CD:UK or something , that The Libertines hired themselves some security guards to stop fights breaking out in the studio for the recording of the new album.
Don't know why I bring it up. I'll throw in a song too...

Candy Says - The Velvet Underground

Candy says I've come to hate my body
and all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
what others so discretely talk about

Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind

I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me

 

Ohhhh Candy Says is such a wonderful song Isn't it meant to be about a transexual or something?


Here are mine:

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (but I prefer the Jeff Buckley version)

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
But from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Cactus - Pixies

I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me

Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins

Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
Now i'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show
And what do you want, i want to change
And what have you got
When you feel the same

Cemetry Gates


A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now ?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry


America is not the World


In America, the land of the free, they said, and of opportunity, in a just and a truthful way
But where the president, Is never black, female or gay, and until that day
You've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe

Lord Anthony - Belle & Sebastian

Anthony, bullied at school
Get your own back now you are cool
Or are you scared bunking off though you're a toff
It's all gone wrong again, you've got Double Maths

But the teachers got no control
The boys all run riot
"You all stay quiet or you will die"

Tony, at the back of the gym
Smoke another one, your chances are slim,
'Cause here they come again
And they got you on the ground
tasting blood again
At least it's your own

When will you realize it doesn't pay
To be smarter than teachers, smarter than most boys
"So Shut your mouth, start kicking the football"
Bang on the teeth you are off for a week, boy

 

Damn right! The guy was light years ahead of all of us, and I haven't found a more positive influence on my life since I started listening to his work. A modern day genius.

"Love is not music. Music is the BEST" - From the song Packard Goose

 

Here are a few more...

Emma Rugg...
As You Go
I travelled on the waves
Across the sea and sky
Just to see your face
I wandered from afar
I looked everywhere
But I still don't know where you are

Prelude to the End
I've been watching, I've been wondering for a while
When was the last time I made you happy?
Tell me what to do to make you smile
It was a sunny day, somewhere far away
Until the clouds came down and touched the ground
And all the colours they went away
They left me with black and white
And nothing else to say

there are more of her lyrics I like I will have to post more later

 

I've never thought about 'Candy Says' in a transexual way, I suppose it could be of course, I dunno. 'Walk On The Wild Side' by Lou Reed certainly is!

First UK hit to talk of blowjobs too.


'Cemetry Gates' is an excellent call by the way, thought about adding it myself.

 

Some lyrics I had to post before I forgot

The Eels..
Beautiful Freak
You’re such a beautiful freak
I wish there were more just like you
You’re not like all of the others

And that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak
That is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

Some people think you have a problem
But that problem lies only with them
Just ’cause you are not like the others

But that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak
Yeah that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

Too good for this world
But I hope you will stay
And I’ll be here to see that you don’t fade away

You’re such a beautiful freak
I bet you are flying inside
Dart down and then go for cover

And know that i
I love you
Beautiful freak,
You know that i
I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

Flower
Turn the ugly light off god
Wanna feel the night
Everyday it shines down on me
Don’t you think that I see
Don’t you think that I see what it’s all about

Hard to look the other way
While the world passes me by
And everyone is trying to bum me out

Guest List
Are you one of the beautiful people
Is my name on the list
Wanna be of the beautiful people
Wanna feel like I’m missed

Hey you with the walkie talkie
I know my clothes are not right
I wish I had my own walkie talkie
That reached to God every night

Everyone needs to be somebody
Everyone needs to find someone who cares
But I don’t know if you know what I mean
’cause I’m never on your list

Are you one of the beautiful people
Am I on the wrong track
Sometimes it feels like I’m made of eggshell
And it feels like I’m gonna crack

Everyone needs to be somebody
Everyone needs to find someone who cares
But I don’t know if you know what I mean
’cause I’m never on your list

Mental
Its like I’m dressed up in my mothers clothing
Its like I’m talking to a voice that doesnt exist
Its like I got a wire crossed upstairs
But all I want is just a little truth and thats it

They say I’m mental but I’m just confused
Thay say I’m mental but I’ve been abused
They say I’m mental cause I’m not amused my it all

My Beloved Monster
My beloved monster and me
We go everywhere together
Wearing a raincoat that has four sleeves
Gets us through all kinds of weather

She will always be the only thing
That comes between me and the awful sting
That comes from living in a world that’s so damn mean

My beloved monster is tough
If she wants she will disrobe you
But if you lay her down for a kiss
Her little heart it could explode

She will always be the only thing
That comes between me and the awful sting
That comes from living in a world that’s so damn...
Mean

Novocaine For The Soul
Life is hard and so am i
You better give me something
So I don’t die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out

Life is white and I am black
Jesus and his lawyer
Are coming back
Oh my darling will you be here
Before I sputter out

Susan's House
Going over to susan’s house, walking south down baxter street
-nothing hiding behind this picket fence
There’s a crazy old woman smashing bottles on the sidewalk
Where her house burnt down two years ago
People say that back then she really wasn’t that crazy

Going over to susan’s house
Going over to susan’s house
She’s gonna make it right

Down by the donut prince a fifteen year old boy lies on the sidewalk
With a bullet in his forehead
In a final act of indignity the paramedics take off all his clothes
For the whole world to see while they put him in the bag
Meanwhile and old couple argues inside the queen bee
The sick fluorescent light shimmering on their skin

Going over to susan’s house
Going over to susan’s house
I can’t be alone tonight

Take a left down echo park, a kid asks do I want some crack
T.v. sets are spewing baywatch through the windows into black
Here comes a girl with long brown hair who can’t be more than seventeen
She sucks on a red popsicle while she pushes a baby girl in a pink carriage
And I’m thinking that must be her sister
That must be her sister, right?
They go into the 7-11 and I keep walking

Going over to Susan's house


That was a tough set of lyrics to choose from because I think he is a lyrical genius and every song has grand lyrics 'Beautiful Freak' is an amazing album which reminds me of many things. Beautiful!