Favourite Song Lyric?

[Vortigar]

This is a really hard one. Being a singer myself and a lover of stories I can rattle off about two dozen of my faves from the top of my head.

Single lines I'd go with:
Tori Amos - Winter "When are you going to love you as much as I do?" or
Massive Attack - Safe from Harm "I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you"

I'm tempted just to throw up the whole of Sting's Soul Cages album. About a kid who's father dies and his struggle with himself and his religion because of it, told over the course of nine songs.

But in the end Suzanne Vega's The Queen and the Soldier wins out. Not because of a particular line but because it compacts the tragedy of a man, a woman, a man and a woman and an entire country into one conversation.

Mad World

As we're talking about lyrics and not the actual performance (as Gary Jules delivers it better than in the original) I have to ask:
You do know it's a cover from Tears for Fears, right?

 

[Thedayrecker]

"One more quirky cliche'd phrase"
from I Hate Myself and Want to Die by Nirvana

EDIT: Or "Sell the kids for food"
from In Bloom by Nirvana

 

[Blue Musician]

Sweet Dreams (Are made of These) by Marilyn Manson Eurythmics

Sorry, that really needed fixing.

I'd be here all day if I tried to write a complete list, so I'll just go with the thing I've quoted the most over the past few months:

"There's a twist in the fabric, there's a knot in the wood. There is no lesser evil, there is no greater good. Every heartbreaking lesson carries no wisdom at all, and I've had more second chances than I'd care to recall."

I think it's fair to say that David Ford is the most quotable songwriter in the world right now. Here's the song that the above quote came from.

Cannot say you were wrong in correcting it, but I liked a lot more the cover Manson did. But whatever...

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Speak up
My ears are growing weary
I'll sing this to the end
And watch the waves crash over me

Not too much to overcome with enough time to turn it all around
In a picture perfect scenery I've become a stick figure illustration

My eyes roll back and focus on what's ahead
I can still stand if you lend the hand to embrace me

I'll take this on my own

Casting Such a Thin Shadow by UnderOath

 

[wolf92]

Song lyric:You better run for the hills before they burn
Listen to the sound of the world
And watch it turn
Song: This River Is Wild
Band:The Killers

 

[EviladeBlazingDemon]

Crushing, cranial, contents.

Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face

 

[not_the_dm]

All of "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits.
Best song ever, bar none.

 

[Elburzito]

"Go To Hell" by Carcass.

"Your Paradise Doesn't sound to Fetching,
It's not only your souls which must be lost,
"HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE",
Yeah, Too Right, My Hell is YOU!"

 

[cocoadog]

We contemplate oblivion as we resonate our dissonance. In godless random interpretation.

 

[The DSM]

Road of No Release, Blind Guardian.

I find you
Slipping away
I'll bind you
Still I conquer the world
Take him away

Here on this Road of No Release
Pale reign of Misery
That even time can not erase
On through my sorrow
Still life goes on

The new album is amazing and supremely creepy.

 

[Julianking93]

Every lyric in this song:

 

[Valkyira]

"In his heart, in his eyes, in his soul, there's no sign of thunder. Screams. Can you hear the screaming? When another restless soul must dieeeeeee!"

I love Hammerfall.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

"We're all living in America,
America,
Is wunderbar."

Gotta love Rammstein. Or they kill you.

 

[PrinceTyke]

"Soto de wa kuruma ga hashiru. Shigaisen ga hada wo yaku. Niji made tonde yuku kimi mo hikouki ni hanerareru"
Translated: "Outside, cars drive by. The sunlight roasts my flesh. Even a bird who chases a rainbow finds itself blindsided by a plane."

Either that or: "I may play for the ladies. Where? In my head. If I could get 'em in my bed I'd have 'em watchin' Evil Dead 2."

Both from Shame of the Otaku by MC Frontalot.

 

[sansamour14]

Dear my friends in the time we've spent forever
after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?
Dear my friends in the time we've spent forever
after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?

Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Forever you will, forever you will learn

COHEED AND CAMBRIA LYRICS - "Three Evils (Embodied In Love And Shadow)"

Coheed and Cambria best band evahhhhhh

 

[Chancie]

"There are no flowers, no, not this time. There will no angels gracing the lines (or lives? Never figured it out), just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile, but I'm too weak. I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me."

- This Time Imperfect by AFI

Man, I love that song.

 

[ProtoChimp]

ALL OF THIS FUCKING SONG Also, another one from Hilltop Hoods in the song the light you burned, if you've ever had to dump a total *****

"It' not you it's me, no IT'S YOU
I had a lotta love for them things you did
If it only added up to them things you missed"

A few lines later

"This is what I got for all my caring so fuck it.
Nah, I aint sleeping on the couch,
You can sleep on the carpet
I'm a take the bed and sleep like a starfish
Hog all the blankets and sleep off the lagers
And wake up in the morning and we feeling marvelous."

Yeah I know a little more than one line sorry.

 

[Limiting Factor]

Probably from Blink-182's 'What's my age again'
We started making out,
and she took off her pants,
but then i turned on the TV.

 

[MellowFellow]

Rise Against 1000 Good Intentions
I don't have a backup plan
This is all that I am

Also I don't listen to green day, but one of the lyrics from Longview (not my favorite just memorable)
When masturbation's lost its fun you're fucking lonely.