Favourite song lyrics

[Sigh]

Thought this might be interesting - even if there's only a small group of us here - what are you favourite song lyrics?

I'll start with some of mine -

"Well of course I've changed.
With all the things I've done and the places I've been
I'd be a machine if I had stayed the same.
But you're still back where we started, you haven't changed at all."

[Slinky]

"Posing questions to a silent universe
My very thoughts are cursed
They just seem to multiply
Forever in my mind
Brother don't grow up
Brother, please, never grow up"

Bear's Den - Elysium

[silence]

Honestly a few years ago I used to be really obsessed with song lyrics. I had a word document I would keep adding to whenever I heard something I liked. It is old and I'm not sure I remember all the songs but I'll post it here.

Hopefully I can work out how to do a spoiler cut because there is a lot!

SPOILER: Click to show

"If we've got to burn out let's do it together

Let's all melt down together"

~ of Montreal ~



"I'm in a crisis, I need help

Come on mood shift, shift back to good again

Come on be a friend

Chemicals, don't flatten my mind

Chemicals, don't mess me up this time

Know you bait me way more than you should

And it's just like you to hurt me when I'm feeling good"

~ of Montreal ~



"When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

Cause I see you

I'll be your mirror"

~ The Velvet Underground ~



"You feel me

Away far too empty, oh so alone!

I want to go home"

~ Syd Barrett ~



"Well if they freed me from this prison,

If that railroad train was mine

I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line

Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay

And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away"

~ Johnny Cash ~



"Don't know that I will but until I can find me

A girl who'll stay and won't play games behind me

I'll be what I am

A solitary man"

~ Johnny Cash ~



"I never felt magic crazy as this

I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea

I never held emotion in the palm of my hand

Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree

But now you're here

Brighten my northern sky."

~ Nick Drake ~



"Time has told me

You're a rare rare find

A troubled cure

For a troubled mind."

~ Nick Drake ~



"Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting

Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,

and I say it's all right

It's all right"

~ The Beatles ~



"Walk in silence,

Don't walk away, in silence.

See the danger,

Always danger,

Endless talking,

Life rebuilding,

Don't walk away."

~ Joy Division ~



"Did you say 'no, this can't happen to me'

And did you rush to the phone to call

Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind

Saying maybe you didn't know him at all

You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime

Burning clues into this heart of mine

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories

Offer signs that it's over... it's over"

~ Jeff Buckley ~



"There's the moon asking to stay

Long enough for the clouds to fly me away

Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid...afraid to die

My fading voice sings of love,

But she cries to the clicking of time

Of time"

~ Jeff Buckley ~



"We come together making chance into starlight.

Meet me tomorrow night, or any day you want.

I have no right to wonder just how, or when.

And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this.

I miss my beautiful friend."

~ Jeff Buckley ~



"And true, it may seem like a stretch

But it's thoughts like this that catch

My troubled head when you're away

When I am missing you to death"

~ The Postal Service ~



"Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide,

No escape from reality

Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see,

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,

Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low,

Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me"

~ Queen ~



"You came to take us

All things go, all things go

To recreate us

All things grow, all things grow

We had our mindset

All things know, all things know

You had to find it

All things go, all things go"

~ Sufjan Stevens ~



"I can taste the fear

Lift me up and take me out of here

Don't wanna fight, don't wanna die

Just wanna hear you cry"

~ Arcade Fire ~



"Endless Rain,

fall on my heart

kokoro no kizu ni

Let me forget all of the hate,

all of the sadness

Endless rain,

let me stay a memory in your heart.

Let me take in your tears,

take in your memories"

~X~



"Close your eyes

and I'll kill you

in the rain"

~X~



"Tonight make me unstoppable

And I will charm, I will slice

I will dazzle them with my wit

Tonight make me unstoppable

And I will charm, I will slice

I will dazzle, I will outshine them all"

~ Bloc Party ~



"How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl,

Year after year,

Running over the same old ground.

What have we found?

The same old fears.

Wish you were here."

~ Pink Floyd ~



"Caught your hand inside the till

Slammed your fingers in the door

Fought with kitchen knives and skewers

Dressed me up in women's clothes

Messed around with gender roles

Line my eyes and call me pretty"

~ James ~



"Together we could break this trap

Well run till we drop, baby well never go back

Will you walk with me out on the wire

`cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider

But I gotta find out how it feels

I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real"

~ Bruce Springsteen ~



"Stay free my misery. sakuretsu suruitamiga

Kakenukeru dake no kaze naraba

Stay free my misery. amenochihare o matou hora

Kimino namida o tabechaou"

~ hide ~



"I head for a place far away

Leaving my memories as footsteps

It's not that I'm sorry

But I'm not particularly happy" (trans.)

~ hide ~



"And I know it's over - still I cling

I don't know where else I can go

Over and over and over and over

Over and over,

I know it's over

And it never really began

But in my heart it was so real"

~ The Smiths ~



"You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back

You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl

You are so pretty when you're on your knees

Disinfected, eager to please

Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn

God rest your soul

When the loving comes and we've already gone

Just like your dad, you'll never change"

~ Radiohead ~



"You were conceived in my heart

Came like a dream to save me from my mortality

Put on your dress white goddess

And settle in as the weather folds

Our lives will be entwined even when I die

You'll see me through 'till the end of time

No earthly bride, the most beautiful star, in the world,

in the air, on my tongue, before my eyes, beyond the stars,

beneath the sun

So take me in your arms again

Lead me in my dreams again

So what is it worth, I'll sell my soul

What is it worth, only you know"

~ Ash ~



"I stare at the sky

And it leaves me blind

I close my eyes

And this is yesterday"

~ Manic Street Preachers ~



"Semete nokoru Negai Dake wo

Toki no naka de Egaite Shinjita

Semete nokoru Omoi Dakara

Eien wa Aru to Shinjite

Hikiyosete Tsukameta mono wa Mukashi mita

is the same as that light

Kagayaite Tsukameta mono wo Kimi to miru isn't

it just night scenery"

~ Inoran ~

[Zoe]

The first thing that came into my head was:

Don't stop, never give up
Hold your head high and reach the top
Let the world see what you have got

And yes.....that is from SClub 7 "Bring it all Back"




Another favourite is from Korea

All the underdogs in the world
A day may come when we lose
But it is not today
Today we fight

If you can’t fly, then run
Today we will survive
If you can’t run, then walk
Today we will survive
If you can’t walk, then crawl
Even if you have to crawl, gear up



Not Today by BTS do have some graphic scenes so if you don't feel comfortable, please don't watch, also press Close Caption so you can read in English what they are saying in Korean.

[Strawberry]

"We got but one shot at life; let's take it while we're still not afraid
Because life is so brief, and time is a thief when you're undecided
And like a fistful of sand, it can slip right through your hands..."

Young Turks by Rod Stewart (he is not even my fave artist, but always think of these first when thinking of my fave lyrics it seems!)



Love tons of lyrics, and this list could be endless really...but love the following....especially reminded of it lately and heard it on my MP3 player recently...


"Through the corridors of sleep
Past shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion
I don't know what is real
I can't touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my illusion

So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end
And flowers never bend with the rainfall
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.
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No matter if you're born
To play the king or pawn
For the line is thinly drawn 'tween joy and sorrow
So my fantasy becomes reality
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow

So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end
And flowers never bend with the rainfall."

Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall - by Simon and Garfunkel