# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/61 "2001-05-14T15:26:07Z")
**Shelleyan Orphan** You’re like a flower with no scent You’re heaven sent _Summer Flies_ Suddenly shattered ear to ear Cut to the gut and I’m screaming to be _Shatter_ This is not love, this is life _A Few Small Hours_ **The Swans** I’ve got one thing to say, before I am drunk again: “Goddamn the sun, Goddamn the sun, Gaddamn the light it shines, and this world it shows. Goddamn the sun, Goddamn the sun, Goddamn anyone who ever said a kind word” _God Damn The Sun_ **The Smiths** Scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen This means you really love me _The Rusholme Ruffians_(IIRC) **Pixies** You buy me a soda…& then you try to molest me in the parking lot, yep yep yep _Bone Machine_ This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called Tony’s theme _Tony’s theme_ ---
**Author:** ![Joyfulgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Joyfulgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joyfulgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/62 "2001-05-15T12:00:58Z")
Every word of every song by Ani Difranco and Suzanne Vega. No? Ok… “Rejecting outfits offered me Regretting things I’ve worn When I was still playing roles in order to fill holes In my conception of who I am Well you know, now I understand It’s not important to be defined It’s only important to use your time well Well, time is something nobody can buy Nobody can sell you And don’t let anyone tell you They have the advantage.” - **Ani Difranco, Pale Purple** “I got tossed out the window Of love’s El Camino And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb” - **Ani, Marrow** “I spent 10 whole days in Jerusalem Mmmm, Jerusalem Sweet Jerusalem And all I ate was olives Nothing but olives Mountains of olives It was a good 10 days I like olives” - **Dan Bern, Jerusalem** “Do you love any Do you love none Do you love 20 Can you love 1 Do you love me?” - **Suzanne Vega, Knight Moves** “You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffee shops and morning streets And the blue and silent sunrise” - **Suzanne Vega, Gypsy** ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/63 "2001-05-15T12:22:13Z")
I’m afraid of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera Backstreet Boys and 'NSync,I don’t know what to think By LiveonRelease ---
**Author:** ![osweetman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@osweetman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/osweetman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/64 "2001-05-16T02:33:20Z")
* * * Did you exchange, A walk-on part in the war, For a lead role in a cage? ## How I wish, how I wish you were here. We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year. Running over the same old ground, What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here. BTW, since when is it shameful to like Jackson Browne? I think he’s one of the better lyricists in all of mainstream rock. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/65 "2001-05-16T03:57:05Z")
Where brave and restless dreams are both won and lost - on the edge is where it seems it’s well worth the cost. (Pat Benatar/Neil Geraldo) …and he did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole. (Harry Chapin) Put a quarter in the juke, and boogie 'till you puke. (Root Boy Slim) ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/66 "2001-05-16T04:53:06Z")
Public Enemy: Fight The Power Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant sh#t to me the straight out racist was simple and plain!! Mother\*@#\*$r he is John Wayne Pink Floyd: In The Flesh If you wanna find out what’s behind these cold eyes You’ll just have to claw your way through this disguise THE HIP!!! Bourbon blues on the steet Loose and complete Under skies all smokey blue-green and New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim! and Everyone has their breaking point With me it’s spiders With you it’s me Thugs and perpetuity ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/67 "2001-05-16T05:24:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by donkeyoatey \* > \*\*I’m afraid of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera > Backstreet Boys and 'NSync,I don’t know what to think > > By LiveonRelease \*\* Oh, my gosh. This song cracks me up, as does it’s video. ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/68 "2001-05-16T17:55:18Z")
My all-time favorite line is from Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”: “It’s a town full of losers and I’m pulling out of here to win.” Maybe it’s because I came from a small town. ---
**Author:** ![osweetman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@osweetman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/osweetman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/69 "2001-05-17T23:00:55Z")
* * * ## fellow members, club we’ve got ours, i’d like to introduce you to our host, he’s got his, and i’ve got mine, meet THE DECLINE ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/70 "2001-05-19T16:29:22Z")
“…it`s not the band I hate, it`s their fans…” (re: Consolidated) Sloan - Coax Me "…well always be remembered, we`ll always be dismembered" Front 242 - Don`t Crash Absolutely anything by Severed Heads whether I can figure out the lyrics or not. [http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4207/shlf/](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4207/shlf/) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/71 "2001-05-19T16:43:58Z")
At the latest NYC Dopefest this song came on and I thought of this thread. _Little old lady got mutilated late last night_ One line that justs rolls off the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Mambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mambo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/72 "2001-05-20T20:48:50Z")
“And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but its sinking, Racing around to come up behind you again.” (Time, Pink Floyd) ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/73 "2001-05-20T21:08:51Z")
I never understood the thrill of poetry until this: Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow. – Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077/74 "2001-05-21T02:15:53Z")
Mrs. Tranq. posting 1. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Limp Biskit, Re-arranged. 2. Its my way, my way or the highway. Limp Biskit, not sure what the song title is. 3. Dispite my rage I am still just a rat in cage. Smashing Pumpkins, The world is a Vampire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-songs/65077.md?page=3)