What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
This lyric from Rainy Day Man, sung by Bonnie Raitt on her Streetlights album, is a great turn of a phrase and the way she sings it makes it delightful.

"Now simple pleasures they all evade you
Store-bought treasures none can save you"

As I pursue this hobby on the equipment purchasing side sometimes it is easy to forget that the simple pleasure of listening to music is the goal, not just buying better stuff.
"Before you slip into unconciousness, let me steal one more kiss, before you fade away...." The Doors "Crystal Ships'

also:
"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...."

"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again"

Beginning of Astral Weeks. Van Morrison
They put a sign up in our town,
If you live it up, you won't live it down,
So she left monte Rio son,
Just like a bullet leaves a gun.

Tom Waits, hold on.
Maxnewid,
The Crystal Ship (singular) is a good song, but the lyric actually reads:
"Before you slip into unconciousness, I'd like to have another kiss."
"Before you fade away" isn't in there at all.
Good choice though.