What are your most favorite lyrical phrases?

Simple enough question: what are your most favorite lyrical phrases? Or what phrases really hit you hard but are short and sweet? You can also tell why it mean so much to you or whatnot.

I'll start it off:

Most recently Modest Mouse killed me with "You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?"

And Cedric from the Mars Volta really hit me when he said, "One day this chalkline will circle the city"

So what are yours?

 

did you exchange a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?

gets me every time

 

one man gathers what another man spills.

I love that phrase. that's why I tattooed the sT. Stephen bear on my back. stupid, but it means a lot to me.

 

"I'm without fault before the throne of God" (My Dying Bride - Crown of sympathy)

"I too once thought I was owed something" (Alanis Morissette - I was hoping)

"I said I don't believe in revenge, in right or wrong, good or bad" (Alanis Morissette - I was hoping)

"Let us rejoice in the light of this man-made armageddon" (Marduk - Blutrache)

"I walk a lonely path, am I too blind to see? At least I can say my soul is free and my only god is me" (Ancient Rites - Götterdämmerung)

 

I wish I was a headlight.....on a north bound train! I'd shine my light through the coooool Colorad-ohh rain.

Well, I like how this sounds and I think it's fun to sing. But mostly, I think being a headlight on a train in Colorado would be fucking sweet! Freedom!

humandraydel

 

dont look so frightend this is just a passing phase, one of my bad days

 

Positively 4th Street: I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes and just for that one moment, I could be you. Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

...there is one for now.

 

wow yeah that's one of mine too... I wouldn't really know... hmm let me think about it....

Maybe you'll be president, but know right from wrong... or in the flood you'll build an ark, and sail us to the moon....
- Radiohead

There's a gap in between, there's a gap where we meet,
where I end and you begin.
I'm sorry for us, the dinosaurus roam the earth, the sky turns green,
where I end and you begin
I'm up in the clouds, I'm up in the clouds, and I can't and I can't come down.
I can watch but not take part, where I end and where you start,
where you, you left me alone...

X will mark the place,
like the parting of the waves,
like a house falling into the sea,
into the sea...

I will eat you alive,
There'll be no more lies...
- Radiohead (It's about how god looks down on earth and what he thinks about it)

"Show me show me show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream" she said, "the one that makes me laugh" she said, and threw her arms around my neck
- The Cure

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes...
- beatles, of course...

And well I could tell you all the pink floyd lyrics I like, but that would make this post too long...

 

"Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile." - 'He's Gone' - Grateful Dead
I get goose-bumps everytime I hear that

 

Most of my favorites don't mean anything, you probaly should have named this "What Are Your Most Meaningful Lyrical Phrases?"
But if look down at my sig. you'll see it.

 

"Strangers passing in the street by chance to seperate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me" -Pink Floyd

 

"...rose tints my world keeps me safe from my trouble and pain..."
Colombia from RHPS

 

Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see. ~LZ

We have no choice but to carry on. ~CSNY

I’m the gypsy, the Acid Queen. I’ll tear your soul apart. ~The Who

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"Sometimes I think love is just mythical" - Joni Mitchell

"I saw a lion he was standing alone, with a tadpole in a jar" - LZ

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" - Beatles

"Woke up this morning, with a wine glass in my hand.
Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine." - Frampton

"The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. oh by the way,
Which one’s pink?" - PF

"I was a free man in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive." - Joni Mitchell

"So why should I feel sorry if they just couldn't understand
The idiomatic logic that went on in my head
I had a brain I was insane" - Joni Mitchell

 

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

 

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year" - Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

"You don't have to love me, let's just get high awhile" - Magic Man - Heart

 

"Everything that keeps us together is falling apart, i got this thing that i concider my only part in fucking people over."-Modest Mouse (third planet)

"And one day we will die, and our ashes will fly, from the aeroplane over the sea." - Neutral Milk Hotel (In the aeroplane over the sea)

 

"My image spoke to me, yes to me and often said
'You are the son of incestuous union'"
Pixies~Nimrods Son

 

"Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave, no one was saved." Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles

"Fool, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows." Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

 

"strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand"

"I am the walrus!"