Best line/couplet from a song?

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

A New England - Billy Bragg
 
I liked all the lyrics in Paul Brady's The Island.
These few lines stand out.

'Now I know us plain folks don't see all the story
And I know this peace and love's just copping out
And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches
Is just what being free is all about'
 
'I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2 point 7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu' Randy Travis I think.


'Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by' Guns n Roses
 
bren1916 said:
And then one Saturday in March
I decided I would go
as I was going nowhere
and my mind was getting slow
I opened all the closets
there wasnt much to pack
I felt bad not telling her
that I wasnt coming back
but this day she was early
she looked at me and asked why
I said why

You're an uptown, uptempo woman
I'm a downtown, downbeat guy

'Randy Edelman'
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Every time I hear that song, I want to punch the radio, I dont know if it is his voice, or the lyrics but to me it is evil. There is another song I always associate with that one too, do you like Pina Coladas, getting caught in the rain....something like that, just dreadful
 
Heard it today and forgot how good it was....


It's allright to say things can only get better, you havent lost your brand new sweater.

Sultans of Ping FC - Where's me jumper?
 
'But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled
Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill
I want to live and I want to Love
I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of '

Frankly, Mr Shankly
Morrisey
 
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody
Who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die

The Smiths, How Soon is Now?

Sounds a bit melodramatic years later, but for anyone who was a be-spectacled, shy and awkward teenager these lines spoke volumes.

I can't resist quoting from an interview Morrissey did where he was asked what he thought of TATU's cover of How Soon Is Now?. Morrissey said that he thought that it was magnificent but admitted that he did not know too much about TATU. The interviewer explained, "They're teenage Russian Lesbians." To which Morrissey replied, "Well, aren't we all?"

Brilliant thread - I'm sure this will run and run.
 
LDFerguson said:
I can't resist quoting from an interview Morrissey did where he was asked what he thought of TATU's cover of How Soon Is Now?. Morrissey said that he thought that it was magnificent but admitted that he did not know too much about TATU. The interviewer explained, "They're teenage Russian Lesbians." To which Morrissey replied, "Well, aren't we all?"
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Great Morrissey quote, class song!
 
This one really sticks with me when I hear it........says alot about the Irish abroad.....

Thousands are Sailing - the Pogues...

"In Manhattan's desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
Like the first man on the moon
And The Blackbird broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
I danced up and down the street
Then we said goodnight to Broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to Mister Cohen
Dear old Times Square's favorite bard
Then we raised a glass to JFK
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried"
 
Yes - great Pogues song - lyrics not written by Shane McGowan if memory serves?

The other line from that song that jumps out at me is: -

Where e'er we go we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
 
'You aint a beauty, but hey you're alright'

Bruce - Thunder Road


Reminds me of himself.
 
Always liked this:

Killing Joke: Good Samaritan

Bright clothes and smiles and we'll talk sunshine
Although the light bulb's dim
And my beach ball is getting dusty
And the fun wears thin - thin.
It's much the same everywhere
Diversions right and we're ready to dance

Also -

David Bowie: Repetition

Well Johnny is a man
And he's bigger than her
I guess the bruises won't show
If she wears long sleeves
But the space in her eyes shows through

And -

XTC: Respectable Street

Now she speaks about diseases
and which sex position pleases best her old man.
Avon lady fills the creases
when she manages to squeeze in past the caravans
that never move from their front gardens.
 
"She was left behind and sour
And she wrote to me equally down,
She said In the days when we were hopelessly poor,
I just liked you more."

Half a person, The smiths

"It was only a test, but she swam
too far against the tide, (she deserves all she gets...)"

Lifeguard sleeping, girl drowning. Morrisey
 
learnt this song as a child and have never forgotten it - especially the
last 2 lines:

Buachaill on Eirne:

"Má chaill mé mo stór ní moide gur chaill mé mo chiall
A's ní mó liom do phóg ná'n bhróg atáim ag caitheamh le bliain"

Translation

"If I lost my riches I probably didn't lose my senses
And your kiss is no more to me now than a shoe worn for a year"
 
Betsy Og said:
I She broke my heart I wanna be sedated,
all I wanted was to see her naked. Girl all the bad guys want (artists?)

If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? (some Country & Western crooner).
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First is Girl all the bad guys want by Bowling Soup and the second is Bellamy Brothers "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me"

There seems to be quiet a few indie and a few other heads here. Excellent. :D

Mine would be

"I'm taking a ride with my best friend
I hope he never lets me down again
Promises me I'm as safe as houses
As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers"

Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down Again

"If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
Into the night and through the rain
Into the half-light and through the flame"

U2's Bad

"Innocence is hurting, a world speaks out of tune
Promise calls, promise falls, what are we to do?
With a clouded view, you follow me through"

"we're but fools of our fate
on this earth I shall wait
by the roots of my soul
I am loosing control
take the dream"

both Fields of the Nephilim's The Watchman & Sumerland (where Dreams may come)

"You don't have no money, he'll get you some
You don't have no car, he'll get you one
You don't have no self-respect, you feel like an insect
Well, don't you worry buddy, 'cause here he comes
Through the ghetto and the barrio and the valley and the slum

His shadow is cast whereever he stands
Got some green paper in his red right hand"

Nick Cave's Red Right Hand

"You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does"

Smiths's How Soon Is Now

"Well take it easy
While the world goes crazy
As it's just another day
And we've all been through the mangle
And our pockets are empty
But we'll live like kings and queens
Hear the choirs of noise sing
Take a load off my mind soothe me
Live like kings and queens"

Killing Joke's Kings and Queens

Very topical eh? I could just so go on. :)
 
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