What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck

Is this Lou Reed’s best lyric?

I’m Set Free
The Velvet Underground
 
I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound
To the memories of yesterday’s clouds
I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound

And now I’m set free
I’m set free
I’m set free to find a new illusion

I’ve been blinded but
Now I can see
What in the world has happened to me?
The prince of stories who walks right by me

And now I’m set free
I’m set free
I’m set free to find a new illusion

I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound
Let me tell you people
What I found
I saw my head laughing
Rolling on the ground

And now I’m set free
I’m set free
I’m set free to find a new illusion
 
 
Simply beautiful.
The sometimes unbearable nature of freedom means that the search for the next illusion goes on.
For some reason I thought the line was,
'To the memories of yesterday’s clowns'
 
Oh well, here’s a very different version, recorded live at Max’s Kansas City.
 
 

 

 

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Brand New, Science Fiction ‐ A fantastic concept effort. IMHO, the entire CD contains some of the best lyrics I've heard. From "Logic\Teeth" 

"...But you're no tailor, you're no surgeon, none of your cuts go very straight
Every new layer you uncover reveals something else you hate
And then you cracked your head, and broke some bones
And when you glued them back together you found out you did it wrong..."

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If you're feeling low, really low, and this can happen to any of us for whatever reason, there aren't too many songs as good as expressing a total sense of desolation as this one.

 

Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels

 

There's a funeral in the town

Some guy from the top estate

Seems they found him under a train

And yet he had it all on a plate  

 

So this is how it feels to be lonely

This is how it feels to be small

This is how it feels

When your word means nothing at all