What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck

Showing 13 responses by geoffkait

"Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains."

From Rollin' and Tumblin' off Dylan's Modern Times
 
2channel8

"And if time could heal the wounds
I would rip the threads asway
That I might bleed some more."

Gordon Lightfoot

"It ain't The Meat
It's the motion"
Sung by Southside Johnny

a nice Christmasy feel to them

She showed me love a hundred ways 
How she pimped and how she paid 
All the daughters, all the sons 
All were welcome, all would come
Yeah ten thousand dollars, go have some fun
Put it all on at a hundred to one
Hang fire, hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire, baby
Doo doo
Doo doo, hang fire, hang fire put it on the wire
Hang fire, hang fire, hang fire, hang fire
Stones’ All the Way Down (Excerpt)

She went all the way 
All the way down 
She went all the way, all the way 
She showed me love a hundred ways 
How she pimped and how she paid 
All the daughters, all the sons 
All were welcome, all would come 
We went all the way 
All the way down 
We went all the way, all the way 
I was King, Mr. Cool 
Just a snobby little fool 
(Like kids are now.) 
I dreamed of reaching greater heights 
I raved about it every night 
Talk is cheap



Lyrics from Star Star that might have got buried in the mix,

Yeah, Ali McGraw got mad with you
For givin' head to Steve McQueen
Yeah, you and me we made a pretty pair
Fallin' through the silver screen
Honey, I'm open to anythin'
I don't know where to draw the line
Yeah, I'm makin' bets that you gonna get
John Wayne before he dies



From When the Whip Comes Down,

Yeah I'm going down fifty-third street
And they spit in my face
I'm learning the ropes
Yeah I'm learning a trade
The East River truckers
Are churning with trash
I've got so much money
That I spend so fast
I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
Now I'm all used up and I fee so turned-around
I went to church on Sunday and she passed by
And my love for her is taking such a long time to die
God, I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like I don't exist
I'm 20 miles out of town, Cold Irons bound

dylan, cold irons bound