Favorite lines from songs ...

In My Humble Opinion
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“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"

42

"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

43

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

44

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?

45

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

46

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”

47

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.’’

48

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.

49

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.

50

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.
All of the above are from Placebo.

51

“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)

52

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.)

53

“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.

54 
Yawn.

I'm kinda partial to "Her tits were shakin' 'til the middle of the night" Eddie Money, "Shakin'"
55

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.”

56

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…

:slight_smile:

57

“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

58

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

59

“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!!

60

“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