Favourite Lyrics.

[Sarge90]

Oh so many songs with amazing lines... Here are a few of my absolute favourites, mostly because they're clever:

.... I'm so happy that I
Can't stop crying,
I'm laughing through my tears...

... What a nice long leash,
What a nice tight noose,
Never worked for me but
Sure would look good on you...

... So I'm sorry if I ever resisted;
I never had a doubt you ever existed,
I only have a problem when people insist on
Taking their hate, placing it on your name...

I could try to explain why I love each one so much, but that's for another time and another post

[Jah Brother]

Jah Jah city, Jah Jah town
Dem waan fi turn it in'a cowbwoy town now
Unno look yah now
Jah Jah city, Jah Jah town
Dem waan fi turn in'a dead man town now
Unno look yah now


when I was a boy about eight years old
there was a surtain rastaman
and he love all the children
and he treated us like a man
even the little children than no one cared
he called up on everyone
and he gave us food and treated everyone
with a special love

You know it feels so good, when i know you're skanking with me
So good when i know you're skanking
So good when you do

[Daringdon't]

Olta Boka - We Put Our Hearts At Stake

The clock ticks like a heart
The clock runs crazy, it has no hands
You stole the time from my life
The coldness of your voice fell on my heart
Covering the last shelter of love
Ha… ha…
And the hands of time stop there

Day after day, we
Beat after beat, we looked in vain
For the perfect clock which a heart can never be

Night after night, we
Beat after beat, we grew apart
But no, we couldn't because we both put our hearts at stake
Ah…

The clock ticks like a heart
The clock runs crazy, it has no hands
You stole the time from my life
(The coldness of your voice) fell on my heart
Covering the last shelter of love

Ha… ha…
And the hands of time stop there

Day after day, we
Beat after beat, we looked in vain
For the perfect clock which a heart can never be

Night after night, we
Beat after beat, we grew apart
But no, we couldn't because we both put our hearts at stake
Ha…

[lilsissy]

Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me
And loving me tonight
Somewhere out there
Someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that big somewhere out there
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing
On the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping
Underneath the same big sky
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

i love this song

[mrpropel]

Menacin' methods label me a lethal weapon
Making niggas die witnessin' breathless imperfections
Can you picture my specific plan
To be the man in this wicked land,underhanded hits are planned
Scams are plotted over grams and rocks

Outlaws motherfuckers die by the random shots
We all die in the end, so revenge we swore
I was all about my ends, fuck friends and foes
Me, a born leader, never leave the block without my heata
Got me a dog and named her mob bitch nigga eata
What could they do to me that little brat
Shit them niggas shot me and still terrified, I'll get their ass
How can I show you how I feel inside
We outlawz motherfuckas can't kill my pride
Niggas talk a lot of shit but that's after I'm gone
Cause they fear me in physical form let it be known
I'm troublesome


One of the greatest verses ever...

[pet monkey]

Not a song but:

If you are a dreamer come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer,
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin..

Come in!
Come in!

[M.G]

Take me to your heart take me to your soul
Give me your hand before I'm old
Show me what love is - haven't got a clue
Show me that wonders can be true

They say nothing lasts forever
We're only here today
Love is now or never
Bring me far away

An amazing song

[janesg]

Wish people would put what song the lyrics are from as it's often within the context of the music that the lyrics come to life, on a page in black and white they are not that inspiring. For instance not many of you would want to read a load of German text, but you may love listening to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony!

As for my favorite lyrics;

"The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)"

A cab combs the snake,
Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare,
And a solitary sailor
Who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers...

Paws his inside P-coat pocket for a welcome twenty-five cents,
And the last bent butt from a package of Kents,
As he dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes
And marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair.

Her rhinestone-studded moniker says, "Irene"
As she wipes the wisps of dishwater blonde from her eyes
And the Texaco beacon burns on,
The steel-belted attendant with a 'Ring and Valve Special'...
Cryin' "Fill'er up and check that oil"
"You know it could be a distributor and it could be a coil."

The early mornin' final edition's on the stands,
And that town cryer's cryin' there with nickels in his hands.
Pigs in a blanket sixty-nine cents,
Eggs - roll 'em over and a package of Kents,
Adam and Eve on a log, you can sink 'em damn straight,
Hash browns, hash browns, you know I can't be late.

And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond
Across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe Devilles,
Leaving the town in a-keeping
Of the one who is sweeping
Up the ghost of Saturday night...

[Wordsmiff]

"We all live in a Yellow Submarine, a Yellow Submarine, a Yellow Submarine..."

[RawrXD]

Now Cinderella don't you go to sleep
It's such a bitter form of refuge
Oh don't you know the kingdom's under siege
And everybody needs you?

Is there still magic in the midnight sun
Or did you leave it back in '61?
In the cadence of a young man's eyes
Out where the dreams are high

- A Dustland Fairytale - The Killers

[Joan Sky]

/7 I can hear your heart now beating.
I can feel the fire in your soul.
I can see your arrows drawn and flaming (let ‘em fly). /7

[Foodlover312]

Oh oh!
All the rumors are true, I am Satan.
Now we knew.
Their heads must all come off.
BRB I’ll get the saw.
Dude, she dropped her cell phone.
Pick it up, call the Po – Po.
We’ll be dead once they get here.
I have a better idea, Sent!

[Ravenwood]

And we all have so many faces
the real self often erases
enticing lies
flicker in our eyes

(I got cast as Iago in Othello and this fits that perfectly.)

[naughtylittlegirl]

I need another story
Something to get off my chest
My life gets kinda boring
Need something that I can confess

'Til all my sleeves are stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear
Thought you saw me wink, no
I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will light those ears
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away

[Sarge90]

Just because it's been stuck in my head for about 2 weeks, and it's a great comeback for Def Leppard:

'Welcome to the carnival,
Welcome to the party,
Welcome to the edge of your seat...'

But I think that great lyrics are entirely subjective based upon the time you hear it, not a dry eye in the house had me almost in floods of tears after my fiance left me 3years ago, but now I listen and nothing other than a huge appreciation of it...