Favorite lyrics, of all time!

[raelikescoldplay]

what are the best lyrics ever written, not including coldplay(but we all know that all of coldplay songs are great:) )? what song gives you BUTTERFIES when you listen to it?! just post the lyrics, or the section of the song you really like:)

mine are:
all my life-foo fighters:
"All my life I've been searching for somethin'
Somethin' never comes, never leads to nuthin'
Nothin' satisfies, but I'm gettin' close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope

All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around, and it's takin'away
Leaves me with the feelin' that I fear the most
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost..."

lake of fire-nirvana:
"Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July

I knew a lady who came from Duluth
Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
And flew away howling on the yellow moon

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July

People cry and people moan
They look for a dry place to call their home
Try to find some place to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils try to make them their own

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July"

stranger things have happened-foo fighters:
"...You were not alone
Dear lonely miss
You forgot
But I remember this
Oh stranger stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

I'm not alone
Dear lonely miss
I forgot
That I remember this
Oh stranger stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

You'll dream about somewhere
A smoke will fill the air
As I lay awake and wait
For you to walk out that door
I can change I can change I can change
But who do you want me to be
I'm the same I'm the same I'm the same
What do you want me to be..."

[Pseudonym]

SHATTERED -O.A.R.

In a way, I need a change
From this burnout scene
Another time, another town
Another everything
But it's always back to you

Stumble out, in the night
Under pouring rain
Made the block, sat and thought
There's more I need
It's always back to you

But I'm good without ya
Yeah, I'm good without you
Yeah, yeah, yeah

How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
Give me a break let me make my own pattern
All that it takes is some time but I'm shattered
I always turn the car around

I had no idea that the night
Would take so damn long
Took it out, on the street
While the rain still falls
Push me back to you

But I'm good without ya
Yeah, I'm good without you
Yeah, yeah, yeah

How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
Give me a break let me make my own pattern
All that it takes is some time but I'm shattered
I always turn the car around

Give it up, give it up, baby
Give it up, give it up, now
Now

How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
All that I feel is the realness I'm faking
Taking my time but it's time that I'm wasting
Always turn the car around

How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around

Don't wanna turn that car around
I gotta turn this thing around

[bjaiken]

Good question, tough topic.

Without giving it too much thought, because I will go back and forth all day, one of my favorite sections is from "Black" by Pearl Jam:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
Can't it be, can't it be mine"

[RedGirl76]

Such a hard question but when I saw you started off with a Foos song, it made me think of my own favourite song of theirs:

And I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright

I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of lying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly high

[raelikescoldplay]

Such a hard question but when I saw you started off with a Foos song, it made me think of my own favourite song of theirs:

And I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright

I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of lying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly high


yeah, thats a great song:)

[airieslady]

John Lennon... Imagine
You all know the lyrics!

[WV Gal]

^^^I totally agree with that comment. Imagine probably has the best lyrics all around.

I would also add the line "I give up forever to touch you" from the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. That line gets to me everytime.

[bjaiken]

^^^I totally agree with that comment. Imagine probably has the best lyrics all around.

I would also add the line "I give up forever to touch you" from the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. That line gets to me everytime.

Iris is a great song. The Goo Goo Dolls are one of my favorite bands. Despite the fact that they usually get hammered by the critics, I think they have written some of the best pure pop songs of the last decade.

[WV Gal]

Iris is a great song. The Goo Goo Dolls are one of my favorite bands. Despite the fact that they usually get hammered by the critics, I think they have written some of the best pure pop songs of the last decade.

I also like The Goo Goo Dolls but I've never been fond of their name. I think John R. (I'm not spelling his last name) wishes they had another name. LOL!!

[iPsy]

Somewhere Only We Know- Keane:

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches, are they looking at me?
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

So if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

So if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
So why don't we go

This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

IT'S JUST AMAZING!

[squareone13]

My absolute fav lyrics of all time are printed on canvas on my living room wall :)

Don't waste your words i don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do - I am The Resurrection - Stone Roses

Other favourites would include:

My Beloved Monster - Eels

My beloved monster and me
We go everywhere together
Wearing a raincoat that has four sleeves
Gets us through all kinds of weather

and..

The Patio Song - Gorki's Zygotic Mynci (just cos it's so bonkers!!)

Well isn't it a lovely day
Oh, my patio's on fire
Well isn't it a lovely day?
Oh, no words or wisdoms from liars

Mae'n bwrw glaw
So dal fy llaw
Ond mae'r gaeaf mor hir
Mae'n cymryd gormod or tir