# Favourite Line or Couplet From a Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715 "2003-04-19T23:15:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/21 "2003-04-20T23:51:02Z")
Standing at the crossroads, trying to read the signs To tell me which way I should go to find the answer, And all the time I know, Plant your love and let it grow. Eric Clapton ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/22 "2003-04-21T02:17:28Z")
Why are we here? Because we’re here, roll the bones.—Rush ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/23 "2003-04-21T02:25:33Z")
“Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end” by Mary Hopkins. Ah yes. ---
**Author:** ![jehan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jehan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jehan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/24 "2003-04-21T04:11:36Z")
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- Gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight. (From Lovers in a Dangerous Time- Bruce Cockburn) ---
**Author:** ![jehan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jehan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jehan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/25 "2003-04-21T04:20:33Z")
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- Gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight. (From Lovers in a Dangerous Time- Bruce Cockburn) ---
**Author:** ![Grit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Grit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/26 "2003-04-21T04:56:00Z")
“If you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend.” (Still Remains - by Stone Temple Pilots) ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/27 "2003-04-21T14:49:09Z")
let’s get a party going let’s get a party going when it’s time to party we will always party hard –andrew w.k. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/28 "2003-04-21T15:11:01Z")
“Time carves initials into the prison of your face” – Firewater “I’m not living; I’m just killing time” –Radiohead (fits my life right now to a T) “Does it diminish your super-capacity to love?..Does it exhibit your natural tendency to hate?” –The Tragically Hip (whoo, **Emperor Penguin**!) Waaay too many Tom Waits’ lines to list… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/29 "2003-04-21T15:19:56Z")
_Romeo and Juliet_ - Dire Straights “I can’t do the talk like they talk it on the tv, and I can’t do a love song like the way its meant to be. I can’t do everything but I’d do anything for you. I can’t do anything 'cept be in love with you.” ---
**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/30 "2003-04-21T17:00:08Z")
“I don’t pretend to know what you want But I offer love” -Neil Finn, _Distant Sun_ ---
**Author:** ![sonicsink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sonicsink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sonicsink)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/31 "2003-04-21T18:45:59Z")
“Sometimes you’re better off dead there’s a gun in your hand and its pointed at your head” -West end girls- Pet Shop Boys I don’t know why but the begining of that song gives me chills ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/32 "2003-04-21T19:00:24Z")
Up on cripple creek, she sends me If I spring a leak, she mends me I don’t have to speak, she defends me A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one… **Up on Cripple Creek** by The Band A bit homier than most that have been posted so far, but them’s some wonderful lyrics–a beautiful sentiment and a triple double rhyme! ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/33 "2003-04-21T19:44:54Z")
“Lucky my breasts are small and humble So you don’t confuse them with mountains.” - Shakira Whenever, Wherever Hey, they can’t all be deep and meaningful - this one makes me laugh. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Natroga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Natroga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Natroga)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/34 "2003-04-21T20:46:40Z")
Another one from **Coldplay** : “For you I’d bleed myself dry”- Yellow ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/35 "2003-04-21T21:05:34Z")
**Robert Palmer** , _Simply Irresistable_: “She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went” Not a great song, but what a lyric. There are any number of more worthy songs, and lyrics, that have actual gravity to them, that also come to mind (by Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Prince and others) but when I read the thread title, that lyric came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/36 "2003-04-21T21:26:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gallows fodder \* > \*\* > > “Does it diminish your super-capacity to love?..Does it exhibit your natural tendency to hate?” > –The Tragically Hip (whoo, **Emperor Penguin**!) > > \*\* Always nice to meet another hip fan. Good choice of song too! ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/37 "2003-04-21T21:51:53Z")
“And you’re restless, but I’m naked, And you’ve gotta get out, you can’t stand to see me shaking.” -Something Corporate; Konstantine ---
**Author:** ![wdcsmwscaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@wdcsmwscaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wdcsmwscaa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/38 "2003-04-21T22:19:10Z")
Killswitch Engage-_self revolution_ this is the quest of life fulfill your destiny slow down the fast paced world and you will see past the illusion Kenna- _Hell Bent_ Am I awake the morning star that brings me here since everything in me between pluto and god all is hell bent my walls are closing in Local H- _Hands on the bible_ smashed on the pavement stunned in amazement everything you make comes crawling back to you ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/39 "2003-04-21T22:20:02Z")
“There’s a boy who fogs his world and now he’s getting lazy There’s no motivation and frustration makes him crazy He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting” “Who Wrote Holden Caulfield”- Green Day ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715/40 "2003-04-21T22:30:31Z")
“I’ve seen this happen in other people’s lives, But now it’s happening in mine.” -The Smiths, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” “Ambition makes you look pretty ugly, Kicking, screaming, gucci little piggy.” -Radiohead, “Paranoid Android” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-line-or-couplet-from-a-song/169715.md?page=3)