Or if you have more than one, feel free to list them but they have to be single lines, not multiples or verses.
Mine is from Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song.”
“Speak to me only with your eyes.”
And yes, I get that a snarky person could interpret it in a very non-romantic way but I’m pretty sure that that interpretation is not what Page was getting at.
“It’s amazing how you speak right to my heart” Alison Krauss(and others), ‘When you say nothing at all’
This is from Troglodyte…id like to think my earliest human ancestors were the lovers of their cave and had a sense of humor.
“The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.”
Alan Parsons, Eye in the Sky, one of my favorite lyrics.
It may be more “hopeless romantic”, but I like it.
“Someone must get hurt and it won’t be me”
She Wants Revenge.
You probably know this but that was originally performed by Keith Whitley. I like both versions but prefer his.
The one that immediately comes to mind is:
“Without you, day is nothing but a waste of light.”
it’s from Seabound’s “Without You.”
"Take a bath, I’ll drink the water that you leave ", from STP.
If you were mine, I would live for your love alone.
Sorry, I can’t restrict it to one line:
My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan
Good luck, it finally struck like lightning from the blue…every highway is leading me back to you.
Survivor, The Search is Over
Without you, life has no meaning or rhyme, like notes to a song out of time.
“You Make Me Feel Brand New” by The Stylistics
Yes, I know his version as well. I love that song.
But it’s not really the lyrics, that magical voice communicates so much more in that first line. It even penetrates my thick head and heart in a way so little does.
As is much of Led Zeppelin, the line is plagiarized.
The word change is trivial and the poem had been put to music and was well known.
" I remember skies, reflected in your eyes."
Your Wildest Dreams by the Moody Blues.
This is kind of cheating, because technically it’s probably more than one line, but its delivered as one long thought and a run-on sentence:
From World Of Hurt
So if what you have is working for you or you think that it can stand a reasonable chance and whatever’s broken seems fixable and nothing’s beyond repair if you still think about each other and smile before you remember how screwed up it’s gotten or maybe dream of a time less rotten remember, it ain’t too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got
Come to Me by Goo Goo Dolls:
“When we’re old and near the end, We’ll go home and start again”
“I’ve been loving you a long time”
Pogues. Rainy Night in Soho.
(Well, today it is. You see it’s raining and …)
Huffy Well! If he can bend the rules like that:
Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow
Where you been don’t bother me or bring me down with sorrow
I don’t even mind who you’ll be waking with tomorrow
But mama you’re just on my mind
Mama You Been On My Mind - Bob Dylan
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ETA: BTW, Nice choice, EH.