Best Song Lyric You've Ever Heard

[stupot]

I've been listening to Ian Brown's new album - Great lyrics, not the most complicated but sung(!) with conviction

I made a shrine, I made it for you
I see you are an angel
All the things that you do
And now I found tomorrow
With you I'm miles high
Shining like a diamond
in the darkness of the sky

- Stellify

[broadway]

First time I shot her,
I shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer
But with the second shot she died.

Deliah's Gone - Johnny Cash

Just reading this out to the Mrs

[DarkCrow]

Ahh the sunscreen song....

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

[mrdinkle]

This is a frustrating thread, how do you pick just one song (or bit of a song!)?!

I'll go with this for now as I am a big fan of The Jam, though really there are so many songs that mean so many things to me - this is probably a bit maudlin...

Meet me on the wastelands - later this day,
We'll sit and talk and hold hands maybe,
For there's not much else to do in this drab and colourless
place.
We'll sit amongst the rubber tyres,
Amongst the discarded bric-a-brac,
People have no use for - amongst the smouldering embers of
yesterday.

And when or if the sun shines,
Lighting our once beautiful features,
We'll smile but only for seconds,
For to be caught smiling is to acknowledge life,
A brave but useless show of compassion,
And that is forbidden in this drab and colourless world.

Meet me on the wastelands - the ones behind,
The old houses - the ones - left standing pre-war -
The ones overshadowed by the monolith monstrosities -
councils call homes.

And there amongst the sh*t - the dirty linen,
The holy Coca-Cola tins - the punctured footballs,
The ragged dolls - the rusting bicycles,
We'll sit and probably hold hands.

And watch the rain fall - watch it - watch it -
Tumble and fall - tumble and falling -
Like our lives - like our lives -
Just like our lives.

We'll talk about the old days,
When the wasteland was release when we could play,
And think - without feeling guilty -
Meet me later but we'll have to hold hands.
Tumble and fall - tumble and falling -
Like our lives - like our lives -
Exactly like our lives.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Ahh the sunscreen song....

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

I've just youtube'd that one (coz I don't know it) - its brilliant.

I loved the line 'Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone'

[OllieMartin]

I've just youtube'd that one (coz I don't know it) - its brilliant.

I loved the line 'Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone'

It reminds me of Rudyard Kipling's - If...

what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either
your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…
don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..
Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

[Bigmallly]

Sorry to go off at a tangent but I would just like to wish Mr & Mrs Fi a Happy Anniversery..........How many years Fi?

[SueA]

That had better be to a fantastic melody, otherwise it's the most disturbed thing I've ever read

Quite a cheery little tune, but O.M.G. the lyrics!
Can I sit with you & Wayne, Sarraceniac & Florence Fennel & we'll all hold hands until we feel better!
Found it on YouTube.
YouTube - The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

[Comfreyfan]

I always thought this was wonderful as advice to youngsters (and possibly not so youngsters).

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin'might be a mistake but it's worth makin'
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin'out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance

Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder
where those years have gone.
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
I hope you dance

I Hope You Dance
by Lee Ann Womack

[sarraceniac]

OK. I got a friend of mine, a consultant psychiatrist, to look at this thread and analyse it. He reckons that 47% of us are hung up on love and 53% on sadism and death.

"What" he asks, "is wrong with what is obviously the best song ever written?"

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world

[bobleponge]

Not at all my taste in music, nor of my political persuasion, but what a fantastic line by Billy Bragg

"she's a dedicated swallower of fascism" (to the tune of "dedicated follower of fashion)

Also (and my fave)

"Through autumns golden gown we used to kick our way,
You always loved this time of year
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
Cos you're not here"

Autumns golden gown???? Brilliant.

[northepaul]

OK. I got a friend of mine, a consultant psychiatrist, to look at this thread and analyse it. He reckons that 47% of us are hung up on love and 53% on sadism and death.

ROFL
Yep I am deffo in the second section

[lettucegrow!]

She gave to me her tenderness
Her friendship and her love
I see her face from time to time
There in the sky above
We grew up learning as we went
What a voyage our life could be
It took us through a wilderness
Into the calmest sea
Her smile could lift me from the pain
I often found within
She said some things I won't forget
She made a few bells ring
So simple her humility
Her beauty found in grace
Today she lives another life
In some fantastic place
She showed me how to raise a smile
Out of her bed of gloom
And in her garden sanctuary
A life began to bloom.
She visualised a world ahead
And planned how it would be
She left behind the strongest love
That lives eternally
I have the hope that when it's time
For me to come her way
That she'll be there to show me round
Whenever comes that day
Her love was life and happiness
And in her steps I trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place

Some Fantastic place by Squeeze. A tribute to Maxine Barker who died of Leukemia and was long term friend to two of the band members. They 're not my fav. band but I think these lyrics are lovely.

[northepaul]

Quite a cheery little tune, but O.M.G. the lyrics!
Can I sit with you & Wayne, Sarraceniac & Florence Fennel & we'll all hold hands until we feel better!
Found it on YouTube.
YouTube - The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

Slight off subject - what a great video to go with it! Thanks for posting the link, Sue.
If you go on their web site, they have quite a few (or at least they did a month or so ago) videos to go with this song...dont know why....

[SueA]

Maybe they were trying to find the most depressing looking one?!