Have you a favourite song lyric?

[kenny mac]

Hi guys,
I was listening to a music compilation today and on it was a song by ABC called all of my heart.
I like clever lyrics and this song has one of my favourite song lines it goes............Spilling up in silk and coffee lace,
You hook me up a rendezvous at your place,
Your lipstick and your lipgloss seals my fate.
I just think its so clever and describes a great scene.
Have you a favourite lyric or line?
Just asking 

[Greeny]

My favourite lyric is from Carly Simon's 'you're so vain' - "I had some dreams - they were clouds in my coffee". Maybe it's the way she sings them too. Simple but effective imagery does it for me everytime.

[steelguitar]

My favorite lyrics come from great french singers as Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg.

I love the lyrics of "Les dessous chics", for exemple.
A true poem. http://lyrics.wikia.com/Serge_Gainsbourg:Les_Dessous_Chics

"Les dessous chics
Ce sont des contrats résiliés
Qui comme des bas résillés
Ont filé"

Playing with words, meanings and sounds, I love it. It's difficult to explain because it's in french.

Here a straight translation using reverso which would need an adaptation :
"The smart bottoms
They are cancelled contracts
Which as stockings
Took off"

The music is also fantastic (inspired by classical music composers), going well with the brilliant lyrics :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RnrU790-C4

Jean-Sébastien

[Oldrottenhead]

my fave lyric line is from jimmy webb's wichita lineman.

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time

[thetworegs]

"a big legged woman ain't got no soul"

[Blooby]

I was goign to say "Wichita Lineman" as well. I think "The Good Die Young" by Billy Joel is genius (with some humor as well), but there's a sense of nostalgia in there as well for my days in New York.

Blooby


Come out Virginia, don't let me wait.
You Catholic girls start much too late.
Aw, but sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well be the one.

Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray.
They built you a temple and locked you away.
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
for things that you might have done.
Only the good die young.
That's what I said,
only the good die young.
Only the good die young.

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd.
We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud.
We might be laughing a bit too loud,
aw, but that never hurt no one.

So come on Virginia, show me a sign.
Send up a signal, I'll throw you the line.
The stained-glass curtain you're hiding behind
never lets in the sun.
Darlin', only the good die young.

I tell ya,
only the good die young.
Only the good die young.

You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation.
You got a brand new soul,
mmm, and a cross of gold.
But Virginia, they didn't give you quite enough information.
You didn't count on me
when you were counting on your rosary.

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait.
Some say it's better, but I say it ain't.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints,
the sinners are much more fun.

You know that only the good die young.
Whoa, oh, baby.
That's what I said,
I tell ya,
only the good die young.
Only the good die young.

Said, your mother told you "All that I could give you was a reputation."
Aw, she never cared for me,
but did she ever say a prayer for me?

Come out, come out, come out Virginia, don't let me wait.
You Catholic girls start much too late.
Sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well be the one.
You know that only the good die young.

I'm telling you baby.
You know that only the good die young.
Only the good die young.
Only the good,
only the good die young.

Only the good die young.
Only the good die young.

[Flash Harry]

Love me love me love me say you do,
Let me fly away with you.
For my love is like the wind
And wild is the wind.
Wild is the wind

Has to be sung by Nina Simone.

[Gritter]

From Art Brut's "Formed a Band":

Formed a band
We formed a band
Look at us
We formed a band

[Tootler]

Two verses from an English Traditional Song. Wonderful chat up lines

I'll buy you beavers and fine silken gowns
I'll buy you fine petticoats all flounced to the ground
If you will prove loyal and constant to me
And forsake your own true love and get married to me.

I don't want your beavers or fine silken hose
I was never so poor as to marry for clothes
But if you will prove loyal and constant to me
I'll forsake my own true love and get married to thee.

Never so poor as to marry for clothes? who's she kidding?

[Lurker]

Few lines of song speak to me as strongly as this Jethro Tull lyric:

And a wise man doesn't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick

At any given time, I can find myself on either side of that sentiment.