Favourite line in a song?

[Master Jmd]

What is your favourite line from any song?

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I would say that mine would be:

And like a sinner before the gates of heaven i'll come runing on back to you...

(Bat out of Hell) (Meat Loaf)

[Sylvester]

Sometimes when you're having a really bad day where everything is going wrong and it's like some divine force is just trying to upset you... i'm sure we've had days like that Well i was having one of those days when i first heard Blasphemous Rumours, by one of my fave non-rock bands... Depeche Mode, an' it goes a little like this... (a very depressing song actually, but sometimes it gets you thinking)

'I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours

But I think that god’s got a sick sense of humor

And when I die I expect to find him laughing'

And that day i really thought... 'you know i think they've got a point'.

That and my edited version of that awful Weathergirls song... my version 'It's raining Women' need i say more?

[Chris Perkins]

I like:

'And we'll basque in the shadow of yesterdays Triumph'

(Roger Waters, Pink Floyd. Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Wish you were here album 1975)

It's a great line, and I have a little sticker of it on the back window of my Triumph TR7. Other motorists can basque in my shadow!

[Master Jmd]

Oh, i also like:

'Insanity laughs at the presure we play in, why cant we give ourselves one more chance, why cant we give love another chance, why cant we give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, Coz loves such an old fashioned word, and love dare's you to care for the people on the edge of the light, and love dare's you to change our way of caring about our selves, this is our last dance, this is our selves Under Pressure'

(Under Pressure) (Queen and David Bowie)

Edited July 3, 2004 by Master Jmd

[Geoff T]

It's a toss-up between:-

"They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,

The lads who will die in their glory and never grow old."

(Butterworth/Housman - The lads in their hundreds, from "A Shropshire lad")

Always gets me, because of the irony that Butterworth was to die young in the first world war. The numismatic reference is purely coinincidental, but Housman had a great gift in finding a novel turn of phrase which goes for the emotional jugular.

or

"Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel, in meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied".

(Mahler/Rueckert - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen)

I'm usually reaching for the industrial strength Kleenex at this point.

I'm just a big softie really

[Sylvester]

"Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel, in meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied".

(Mahler/Rueckert - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen)

I'm usually reaching for the industrial strength Kleenex at this point.

I'm just a big softie really

I'm usually reaching for a dictionary at that point...

[Geoff T]

It means - I live alone, in my heaven, in my loving, in my song.

The whole song, the title of which means "I have become estranged from the world", is about the isolation of the creative artist.

(Heavy or what? )