Favorite song lyric?

[monkey68]

Mine is from Nickelback "Gotta Be Somebody"

You can't give up, looking for a diamond in the rough
You never know, when it shows up, make sure you're holding on
Cause it could be the one, the one you're waiting on
Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
And everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There's gotta be somebody for me, ohhh

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I was always fond of Born to Run by Springsteen. It gets bonus points cause my name is Wendy.

Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I dont know when we're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Current one is in my sig...from "Skin Divers" by Duran Duran...

 

[lisadr]

I've got a lot, but here's a few:

"...have you come here to play Jesus to the leapers in your head?" U2

"..it's not having what you want , it's wanting what you got."
Sheryl Crowe

"...Unhappy with your riches 'cause you're piss poor morally."
TI & Rhianna

Like I said there's tons-but those I the first ones I thought of.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here of our own device
And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast

 

[Mr. Pig]

The Beatles:
"and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"

or Pink Floyd:
"..everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Jimmy Buffett:

"Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places I've been.
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again.
If it suddenly ended tomorrow,
I could somehow adjust to the fall.
Good times and riches and son of a b*&^%es,
I've seen more than I can recall"


Even though the lyric is incorrect, U2:

"Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride"


Loretta Lynn:

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's pay
Mommie scrubbed our clothes on a washboard everyday
Why I've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need
She's smiled in mommie's understanding way

Van Morrison:

You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail it right around the seven oceans
Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea
Because she's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


Paul Simon:

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

 

[koolaidmoms]

It's an obscure one but...

"When the time comes to embrace
for one long last while,
We will laugh about how time really flies
We won't say good-bye because true love never dies
And you will always be beautiful in my eyes." - Joshua Kadison

It was played at our wedding 13 years ago and always makes me cry when it gets to that part.

 

[mvazul]

I have quite a few, but my most favorite (for now ) is in my signature...

 

[chattyann]

John Lennon:

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

 

[mvazul]

Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here of our own device
And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast

Great song!

 

[YourMajesty]

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Here's another....

Do you take sugar? one lump or two?

 

[mickeymedic]

Rascal Flatts:

When push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand.


Evanescence:

If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken

 

[Golf4food]

German original:

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,
Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben,
Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen,
Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben!

Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen,
Ob sie mich für gestorben hält,
Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen,
Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt.

Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel,
Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet!
Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel,
In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied!

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English translation:

I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!

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And a performance for reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0UsXA_Geg

A chart topper from 1901. Ok, so they didn't have charts back then, or radios... but it is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written in the history of mankind. Give it a listen at least once. Gustav Mahler setting of the song from a poem by Friedrich Ruckert.

 

[The Mayor]

One of my favorite opening lyrics to any song and sung by one of the best voices evah...Boston and Brad Delp... ...how many times have you lost yourself in a song.

I looked out this morning,
and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
Then lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes, and I slipped away

 

[Tink888]

Currently my favorite is by Weezer - Pork & Beans

I'mma do the things
That I wanna do
I ain't got a thing
To prove to you
I'll eat my candy
With the pork and beans
Excuse my manners
If I make a scene
I ain't gonna wear
The clothes that you like
I'm fine and dandy
With the me inside
One look in the mirror
And I'm tickled pink
I don't give a hoot
About what you think

I found this song on my son's ipod and I absolutely love it. It's all about being happy with who you are, doing your own thing and not conforming to what everyone else thinks. Plus, it's just a fun song. Love, love, love it!

 

[Stacerita]

I'll Stand By You
Take Me In, Into Your Darkest Hour
And I'll Never Desert You
I'll Stand By You

 

[PK Disney Dork]

Mine right now are the lyrics to Barenaked Ladies' song Upside Down

I'm not surprised it's come to this
Sooner or later there must be another's kiss
Behind that kiss a promise of a life of bliss
Yeah, great
I won't be takin' the bait
I'd rather drown
And I will not turn my whole life upside down

Imagine everything you've done
Under a microscope on view for everyone
And if the King of Circumspection's here
He's come in vain
I won't be sharing the blame
I wear the crown
And I will not turn my whole life upside down

Nothing's good enough for me
To shake me from complacency
I make my mind up and I'll never be

The kind of man who'd make a choice
For if I hold my tongue I'll never lose my voice
If each attempted act of sabotage destroys all hope
I won't be needing a rope
I'm gagged and bound
And I will not turn my whole life upside down

And if the genie were set free
And by the laws of things like that, he's indebted to me
I'd bury my three wishes
deep down in the ground
So I will not turn my whole life upside down

Though I appreciate the aim
Tell Andy Warhol's ghost that he can keep his fame
I'd only use it to make everything the same again
So don't applaud till the end
I'm not around
Cause I will not turn my whole life upside down

Nothing's good enough for me
To shake me from complacency
I've made my mind up
I won't make a sound
And I will not turn my whole life upside down

 

[piglet50]

from jack & diane - john mellencamp

hold on to sixteen as long as you can
changes come around real soon make us women and men

(or at least that's how i hear it )

 

[aprilvaca04]

One of my favorite opening lyrics to any song and sung by one of the best voices evah...Boston and Brad Delp... ...how many times have you lost yourself in a song.

I looked out this morning,
and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
Then lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes, and I slipped away

Love, love, love Boston and am really loving this thread!


How about Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road:

It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win