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Favourite line from a song

"He was waiting for a station just like some people wait for a train." - Michelle Shocked

Something more modern:
"A kiss with a fist is better than none." - Florence & The Machine

Some soppy ones - these are the last lines on one of the final songs recorded by the artists, so you can interpret these as final thoughts:

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - The Beatles

"I still love you." - Queen/Freddie Mercury

Lots of good stuff on this thread!
 
There is so much sorrow in the world
there is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn
how can we build the right path again ?
Through the grief, through the pain
Our flowers need each others' rain

Peter Hammill
 
So I bought a .44 magnum, it was solid steel cast
And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast
'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet
And they busted me for disturbin' the almighty peace
Judge said "What you got in your defense son?"
"Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"
 
Your day breaks
Your mind aches
You find that all her words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you

She wakes up
She makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years


Remember listening to this the day after my first proper girlfriend dumped me. Ahh...
 
Today its lets wrestle....my schedule

I'm going to my local library
And then I'll go to the charity shop
Who knows where I'll go after that?
Then I think I'll go home

Ooooooh ooh oooh oooh ooh ooooh

When I get home, I'll put on the kettle
But I'll forget and I won't make the tea
I'll sit in my armchair watching telly
And then I'll go to bed

I wish that you'd call me
But you don't call at all
I wish that you'd call me
But I just stutter nervously then hang up the phone, the phone

Ooooooooooh (to fade) :)
 
'Ferryboat Bill, won't you please come home? Your wife has married a midget's son. That's the short and long of it. That's the short and long of it.'
 
"After his second wife passed away, Percy Rawlinson seemed to spend more and more time with his alsatian owl."
 
Minstrel SE said:
Well pick the first line then :) Point is I have thousands of favourite lines from songs and tomorrow something else will catch my imagination.
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I think the point is that it's harder to find a single line that works alone – without the rest of the song creating a context for it.

So, I'm not even sure that my Ferryboat Bill quote counts, as it needs the final 'That's the long and short of it', repeated as a payoff.
 
She went from a small town looker to dressing like a myopic optimistic hooker

And so I dance in dirty pants, a drink in my hand. No shirt and broken tooth, barefoot and beaming

My kill hand's tatooed EVIL across its brother's fist, that filthy five they did nothing to resist

Skinmags in the brambles, for the first part of my life I thought women had orange skin
 
"I love a good bum on a woman. It makes my day" - not bad for an opening line.

Its from On Again, On Again by Jake Thackray from all those years ago.

PC it isn't, but it still makes me smile.
 
Here's some Cohen:

"Ah but don't go home with your hard-on
It will only drive you insane
You can't shake it (or break it) with your Motown
You can't melt it down in the rain."

"I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song."

"And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross."
 
sewo3 said:
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dogs eye. Lennon.
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Just for the record, this line is not a Lennon original but taken from a rhyme that school kids used in Liverpool in the 60's, the full text of which went as follows :

"Yellow matter custard, green snot pie all mixed up in a dead dog's eye. Slap it on a butty, slap it on thick and wash it down with a cup of cold sick."

There are numerous reference in Beatles songs to rhymes and phrases used in Liverpool at the time some of which were a bit rude, "finger pie" for example :eek:
 
Our version (school kid in Liverpool in the 60s) was:

Yellow belly custard, green snot pie, all mixed up with a dead dog's eye, slap it on a sandwich, spread it nice and thick, all washed down with a cup of cold sick.
 
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