What's your favorite lyric from a song?

[Elizabeth]

Mine is from "Who's Going to Ride Your Wild Horses" by U2.


Oooh the deeper I spin
Oooh the hunter will sin for your ivory skin
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Only the trees and rivers laughing at you and me
Hallelujah - Heaven's white rose
The doors you open, I just can't close


Bono is such a poet.

[Zelda Von Yitz]

"Shake it like a polaroid picture" from Hey Ya.

[Elizabeth]

That's a good one!

Andre or Big Boi or whoever writes their lyrics is pretty talented - they're usually pretty clever.

[lawyerlee]

"Today love smiled on me,
It took away my pain, said please"

~ from Soul to Squeeze by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Stephanie]

I had a friend point this out to me so many years ago, but I still remember how cute it was that she said the lyrics and then gave a big sigh.

Oh I watch you there
Through the window
And I stare at you
You wear nothing but you
Wear it so well
~Dave Matthews Band: Crash Into Me

[Myra]

Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
Then lie beside me, baby
That's an order

from "The Future" by Leonard Cohen

[Millie03]

I love a lot of her lyrics, but I always enjoy these phrases:

Fiona Apple- Sleep to Dream:

I tell you how I feel, but you don't care
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bear
And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem
This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

She writes good angry chick music.

But I agree with Elizabeth....Bono is fantastic.

[Elizabeth]

More from Bono ...

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief

From "The Fly"

I was totally obsessed with him when I was in h.s.

[ptrecluse]

I love this song, Dylan is amazing ::sigh::

Dylan - Love Sick

I'm walking through streets that are dead
Walking, walking with you in my head
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
And the clouds are weeping

Did I hear someone tell a lie?
Did I hear someone's distant cry?
I spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile
While I was sleeping

I'm sick of love but I'm in the thick of it
This kind of love I'm so sick of it

I see, I see lovers in the meadow
I see, I see silhouettes in the window
I watch them 'til they're gone and they leave me hanging on
To a shadow

I'm sick of love; I hear the clock tick
This kind of love; I'm love sick

Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder
Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder
Could you ever be true?
I think of you
And I wonder

I'm sick of love; I wish I'd never met you
I'm sick of love; I'm trying to forget you

Just don't know what to do
I'd give anything to
Be with you

[msnicolea]

It's all about Bob (Dylan, that is)

Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean,
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss,
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.