# Favorite lines from songs ... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 11, 2001, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077 "2001-05-11T07:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/41 "2001-05-12T06:44:24Z")
“Fuck you and your untouchable face Fuck you for existing in the first place. And who am I To be longing for your touch? Who am I? Bet you can’t even tell me that much.” **Ani DiFranco, "Untouchable Face"** “Smell you in my dreams…” **Mesheel Nedgeocello, "Fool of Me"** (That line sums up my love-you-want-you-can’t-have-you situation nicely). “And when the crowd becomes your burden and you’ve early closed your curtain I’ll wait by the backstage door while you try to find the lines to speak you mind and pry it open for an encore.” **Fiona Apple, "I Know"** “This bed is one fire with passion and love. The neighbors complain about the noises above. But she only comes when she’s on top.” **James, "Laid"** (Best first lines of any song!) “I knew a girl named Nikki, guess you could say she was a sex fiend. Met her in a hotel lobby masturbatin’ with a magazine.” **Prince, "Darling Nikki"** ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/42 "2001-05-12T15:12:34Z")
"I’ll sing myself to sleep A song from the darkest hour Secrets I can’t keep Inside of the day Swing from high to deep Extremes of sweet and sour Hope that God exists I hope I pray Drawn by the undertow My life is out of control I believe this wave will bear my weight So let it flow… Now I’ve swung back down again It’s worse than it was before If I hadn’t seen such riches I could live with being poor" **Sit Down - James** “And if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted All the time, all the time” **Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead** “It’s a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day 'Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain” **The Wild Ones - Suede** “I’ve seen this happen in other people’s lives Now it’s happening in mine” **That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore - The Smiths** “A dreaded sunny day So let’s go where we’re happy I’ll meet you at the cemetry gates” **Cemetry Gates - The Smiths** “Burn down the disco Hang the blessed DJ Because the music they constantly play says nothing to me about my life… Hang the DJ, Hang the Dj, Hang the DJ…” **Panic - The Smiths** ---
**Author:** ![nra\_babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@nra\_babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nra_babe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/43 "2001-05-12T18:15:22Z")
Who’s come to slay the dragons come to watch him fall rush For you the blind who once could see The bell tolls for thee rush ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/44 "2001-05-13T04:39:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\* > Remember when you were more easily led > Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed > Trembling as your dreams came true > You looked up into those blue eyes and knew > It was love, and now you can’t pretend > You’ve forgotten all the promises of that first friend… > > - Pet Shop Boys, _Can You Forgive Her?_ > > Is it enough to live in hope > That one day we’ll be free, > Without this fear? > > - Pet Shop Boys, _Discoteca_ > > I reserve the right to live > My life this way, and I don’t give > A damn when other people say > I’ll pay the price that others pay > > - Pet Shop Boys, _Was It Worth It?_ > > I look from my window down to the square > At workers still queueing patiently there > For market forces to provide > What history so far has denied > For a different kind of fate > Than to labour long and always wait > > - Pet Shop Boys, _To Step Aside_ \*\* MATT\_MCI Is PET SHOP BOYS music “blocked” on NAPSTER? All the above sound like they might be really interesting and I thought I’d give them a listen. Just gives me “no matching files”. Any other site I can hear them at? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/45 "2001-05-13T05:06:32Z")
I know a woman Became a wife These are the very words She uses to describe her life “A good day ain’t got no rain A bad day is when I lay in bed and think of things that might have been” **Paul Simon, Slip Sliding Away** “My name is SUE. How do you DO? Now you are gonna DIE.” “I got all choked up and threw down my gun, and I called him my Pa, and he called me his Son.” **Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue** “It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. Be yourself no matter what they say.” **Sting, An Englishman In New York** “I’m so happy I can’t stop crying. I’m laughing through my tears.” **Sting, I’m So Happy** “Hey, what are you looking at? She was a happy girl when she left me.” **Stone Temple Pilots, Sour Girl** “Maybe somewhere down the road aways, you’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days. Maybe somewhere down the road aways when someone plays Purple Haze.” **The Traveling Wilburys, The End of the Line** “If I had a million dollars, we wouldn’t have to walk to the store. If I had a million dollars, we’d take a limo cuz it costs more.” **Bare Naked Ladies, If I Had a Million Dollars** And of course, my sig from **Sting’s When We Dance** ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/46 "2001-05-13T05:11:15Z")
In the clearance stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down And cuts him 'till he cried out, “I am leaving, I am leaving,” But the fighter still remains. \*\*–Paul Simon, “The Boxer” ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/47 "2001-05-13T05:48:47Z")
And it’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey, and goodnight to the streetsweepers, the nightwatchmen flamekeepers, and goodnight, Mathilda, too. – Tom Waits, ``Tom Traubert’s Blues.’’ You’re so soft, you make me hard. – Sonic Youth, ``Kissability.’’ Will you ever learn you’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird? – Tori Amos, ``Crucify.’’ ``Hey, you’ve gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.’’ – Pavement, ``Range Life.’’ ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/48 "2001-05-13T06:32:42Z")
Anything by Robert Hunter. Sometimes you wake up and find out that you are the eyes of the world. _Eyes Of The World_ When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door. _Uncle John’s Band_ **Attics Of My Life** And many, many, more. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/49 "2001-05-13T07:07:23Z")
From **At the Ballet** Mother always said I’d be very attractive When I grew up, when I grew up. Different she said, with that specal something And a very, very personal flair. And though I was eight or nine, though I was eight or nine, though I was eight or nine, I hated her. Now, different is nice, But it sure isn’t pretty, Pretty is what it’s about. I never met anyone Who was different Who couldn’t figure that out. From the overture of **Sweeny Todd** . . . and what if none of their souls were saved, they went to their maker impeccably shaved by Sweeny, by Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street From **The Simpsons** Simpson, Homer Simpson, He’s the greatest guy in his-to-reeeeee. From the town of Springfield, He’s about to hit a chestnut tree. **The Stonecutter’s Song** Who controls the British pound, Who keeps the metric system down? We do, we do! Who keeps Atlantis off the maps, Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do, we do! Who holds back the electric car, Who makes Steve Guttenburg, a star? We do, we do! Who robs crayfish of their sight, Who rigs every Oscar night, We do, we do! **Flaming Moe’s** When the weight of the world has got you down, And you want to end your life, Bills to pay, a dead-end job, And problems with your wife, But don’t throw in the towel, 'Cause there’s a place right down the block, Where you can drink your misery away. At Flaming Moe’s When liquor in a mug, Is all you’d like to hug Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away, Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/50 "2001-05-13T07:11:42Z")
So many. Here’s a list from just one band. “Always goes against the grain, and I can try and deny it. Give a monkey half a brain and stills he’s bound to fry it. Now the happening scene is dead, I used to want to be there too.” **"Come Home"** “Thought I was getting carat gold, and what I got was you.” **"36 Degrees"** “I know you want the sin but not the sinner” **"I Know"** “It’s in your reach Concentrate. If you deny this, Then it’s your fault That God’s in crisis He’s over.” **"Passive Aggressive"** Here is one for Mother’s Day~ “I wrote this novel just for Mom For all the mommy things she’s done For all the times she showed me wrong For all the time she sang god’s song And I say thank you Mom Hello Mom Thank you Mom Hi Mom” **"Blue American"** I like the lyrics to the songs **“Black-Eyed”, “Commercial for Levi”, and “Special K”**. You can see the words [here](http://www.thebsh.com/lyrics/lyrics.htm). All of the above are from **Placebo**. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/51 "2001-05-13T07:18:12Z")
“It’s a world of laughter a world of tears… It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all.(etc.)” :D(with devilish horns) ---
**Author:** ![holdenmagroin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@holdenmagroin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holdenmagroin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/52 "2001-05-13T09:37:31Z")
2 of my favorite song lyrics… New car, caviar, four star daydream. Think I’ll buy me a football team. (of course Pink Floyd) Decending waves of graceful pleasure. For your love there is no measure. Her curves they bend with subtle splendor. (R.H.C.P.) ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/53 "2001-05-14T00:44:46Z")
“Don’t tell me that I’m insane and quit comparing me to Shirley Maclaine” - Jimmy by Bongwater “He’s a virgin from behind not as curious as me” - Rockbottomoff by Pansy Division “They may not go down in history but they’ll go down on yr sister” - Moron Brothers by NOFX “I’d compare you to Holden Caufield but you’re the type to take that as a compliment” - Airplane by Pizzicato Five poorly translated by me. ---
**Author:** ![1kBR\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/dc4da7/32.png) [@1kBR\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1kBR_Kid)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/54 "2001-05-14T01:38:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nra\_babe \* > \*\*Who’s come to slay the dragons > come to watch him fall > rush > > For you the blind who once could see > The bell tolls for thee > rush \*\* ``` Yawn. I'm kinda partial to "Her tits were shakin' 'til the middle of the night" Eddie Money, "Shakin'" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/55 "2001-05-14T01:44:05Z")
George Thorogood , “One Bourbon,one scotch ,one beer” “He came back,I seen in his face.The answer was NO.Uh,I dunno man,she kinda funny.I says…I Know…everybody funny.Now you funny too.” ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/56 "2001-05-14T02:35:13Z")
Millions of peaches Peaches for free Millions of peaches Peaches for me Peaches come in a can They were put there by a man In a factory across town… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/57 "2001-05-14T02:42:12Z")
“Angels lead me your might Forfeit all my lifes to get just one right” Fuel - Innocent “So you call this your free country But tell me, why does it cost so much to live” 3 Doors Down - Duck and Run “If you’ve got conviction And you’ve got naviete Then the answers perfect for you” Bad Religion - The Answer “Instead your mute and fawn Just waiting to die Like some kind of hopeless housewife” Bad Religion - The Hopeless Housewife "if the Divine master plan is perfection - maybe next I’ll give Judas a try" Tori Amos -Spark “Metaphor for a missing moment Pull me into your perfect circle” A Perfect Circle - Orestes “I know the pieces fit Cuz I’ve watched them fall away” Tool- Schism ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/58 "2001-05-14T03:30:28Z")
from: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd The song is, Time You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/59 "2001-05-14T04:47:31Z")
“I will choose a path that’s clear - I will choose free will” - Rush “And I don’t know where it is I am or what I’m all about - I guess I’ll feel my way back home…” - Fighting Gravity “If I could forgive the, ‘Honey, I swear it didn’t mean a thing to me’ attempt at abstention, I could forgive the rest, too. It’s just a fact of life that no one cares to mention; she wasn’t good, but she had good intentions.” - Lyle Lovett “Given that fact that intellectual compatibility is at the least difficult, if not impossible to come by, we could always opt for the more temporal gratification of sheer physical attraction. That wouldn’t make you a shallow person…would it?” - Lyle Lovett “Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me…you told them all I was crazy…they cut off my legs, now I’m an amputee, God damn you!” - Harvey Danger “Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk? I didn’t mean to call you that…I don’t remember what was said or what you threw at me…” - Lit “…but when I saw her laid out like a queen…she was the happiest corpse I’d ever seen.” - Cabaret “Doctor my eyes cannot see the skies. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?” - Jackson Browne (shut up.) “There’s only one thing that I know how to do well, and I’ve often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that’s be you. Be what you’re like. Be like yourself.” - They Might Be Giants “Hai, Callisto I think that I love you - ya’ psycho-bitch leather-queen killer bombshell…” - Tom Smith And a couple of un-repeatable lyrics from Bloodhound Gang and Digital Underground…heh heh heh… Man, I could keep going for hours. Someone please get me out of this topic!! ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/60 "2001-05-14T12:00:10Z")
“There is no need to throw your arms around. And there is no need to ask unless there is some doubt. If you are comfortable with two feet on the ground, you don’t need wings now. You don’t need wings now.” - Pinstripe, Something For Kate "Sometimes I get the feeling, That I won’t be on this planet, For very long. I really like it here, I’m quite attached to it, I hope I’m wrong. All I really wanna say, Is you’re the reason I wanna stay. I loved you before I met you, And I met you just in time, 'Cause there was nothing left. " - Don’t Change Your Plans, Ben Folds Five [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077.md?page=4)