# Great lines in songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-in-songs/247328 "2004-05-27T13:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-in-songs/247328/101 "2004-06-17T01:42:23Z")
I’m gonna mention Counting Crows, whose lead singer, Adam Duritz, has got to be one of the most depressing sonuvabitch on the face of the earth. George Jones and the late Johnny Cash would tell this guy to lighten up. _“Waiting for trains that just…never come”_ from _High Life_ _“If everything is nothing, then are we anything? Is it better to be better than to be anything?”_ from _Einstein On the Beach (For an Eggman)_ _“I want to be the last thing that you hear when you’re falling asleep”_ from _Catapult_ _“Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better…and that’s all that really matters to me”_ from _Amy Hit the Atmosphere_ _“Fix your hair just right…put your jeans on tight…or wear a dress so I can get it off real easy”_ from _Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)_ _“I dream I’m in New York City some nights…angels float down from all the buildings…there’s something about an angel that just kills me…I keep hoping something will”_ from _Chelsea_ _“I wanted to see you walking backwards to get the sensation of you coming home…I wanted to see you walking away from me without the sensation you’re leaving me alone”_ from \*Time and Time Again _“But we only stay in orbit for a moment of time…and then you’re everybody’s satellite; I wish that you were mine”_ from _Recovering the Satellites_ Or how about Ben Folds? _“I feel like a quote out of context”_ from _Best Imitation of Myself_ _“She said, ‘You’ve been pushing me like I was a sore tooth,’”_ from _The Last Polka_ _I don’t get many things right the first time - in fact, I am told that a lot - now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls brought me here"_ from _The Luckiest_ _“In a haze these days, I pull up to a stoplight…I can feel something’s not right…I can feel someone’s blasting me with hate and bass, sending dirty vibes my way because my great great great great grandad made someone’s great great great great grandaddies slaves…it wasn’t my idea…it wasn’t my idea…never was my idea…I just drove to the store for some Preparation H”_ from _Rockin’ the Suburbs_ ---
**Author:** ![bdandhr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@bdandhr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdandhr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-in-songs/247328/102 "2004-06-17T01:46:33Z")
Very GREAT lines above!!! A couple I like: Through this world I’ve stumbled so many times betrayed trying to find an honest word to find the truth enslaved oh you speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes my body aches to breathe your breath your words keep me alive And I would be the one to hold you down kiss you so hard I’ll take your breath away and after, I’d wipe away the tears just close your eyes dear Into this night I wander it’s morning that I dread another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread oh into the sea of waking dreams I follow without pride nothing stands between us here and I won’t be denied (sic - I wish - sic) - Sarah McLachlan And for anyone who’s ever been dumped: And every time I scratch my nails down someone else’s back I hope you feel it…well can you feel it - Alanis Morrissette I have to agree with those above who have lamented Warren Zevon’s departing of this planet. Lyrics speak to all of us - in different ways, at different times in our lives. Thank God for MUSIC!!! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-in-songs/247328/103 "2004-06-17T23:11:30Z")
Some of my favorites _You wear guilt Like shackles on your feet Like a halo in reverse…_ **Depeche Mode** “Halo” \*Too many songs about Bitches and hoes Too many songs about Pimpin’ Too many songs about Just getting high Too many songs about Money." **Anything Box** “Radio Static” _Though you are gone I am still your son And while your pain is over Mine has just begun Did I disappoint you?_ **Assemblage 23** “Disappoint” _Moments Lost Though time remains I am still proud of what we were No pain remains No feelings Just eternity awaits…_ **VNV Nation** “Beloved” _You’re such an inspiration For the ways I would never choose to be._ **A Perfect Circle** “Judith” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-in-songs/247328.md?page=5)