What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck

Showing 5 responses by timrhu

Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin' down
Me and Billy standin' there
With a silver half a crown
Hands are full of a fishin' rod
And the tackle on our back
We just stood there gettin' wet
With our backs against the fence

Oh the water
Oh the water
Oh the water

Hope it don't rain all day

And It Stoned Me by Van Morrison

Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
It's bad for your health, he said
Yes, I disobeyed his orders
I came to see you
But I found him there instead
You know, I don't mind him cheatin' on me
But I sure wish he'd take that off his head
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.

Bob Dylan, Leopard-skin Pill-box hat

Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
And think about the bubbles
You can take your teardrops
And drop them in a teacup
Take them down to the riverside
And throw them over the side
To be swept up by a current
And taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some fishes
Who were eaten by some fishes
And swallowed by a whale
Who grew so old
He decomposed
He died and left his body
To the bottom of the ocean
Now everybody knows
That when a body decomposes
The basic elements
Are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it oughta
And soon there's salty water
(That's not too good for drinking)
'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop
(So they run it through a filter)
And it comes out from a faucet
(And is poured into a teapot)
Which is just about to bubble
Now think about your troubles

Think About Your Troubles
- Harry Nilsson

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
"Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried"

Haunting lyric from Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen.