My Personal fav is

John Lennon's line:

"Someone i think is in my tree i mean it must be high or low"- Strawberry Field's- The Beatles

Whats yours?

Great idea for a thread my Nottingham friend.

A few that automatically spring to mind come from Oasis. I'm not a huge fan but Noel has great songwriting skills, especially with lyrics. He'll use a ton of oxymorons and then more. "Slowly walking down the hall, Faster than a cannon ball"

But one line from 'Little by Little' really stands out:

"But my God woke up on the wrong side of his bed"

Bruce Springsteen deserves a mention too. "But tramps like us, baby we were born to run"

Didn't he also have a line about itchin' in the kitchen?? :rolleyes:

Yeah, he's a genious.

I'm more of a "sappy song" person. Here are some of my favorites.

The one my heart and soul confided in. The one who knew just what to say to make me laught again. - "I miss my friend" - Darryl Worley/

The movement you need is on your shoulder - Hey Jude - The Beatles

I like the bed I'm sleeping in. Just like me it's broken in. It's not old, just older. - Just older - BonJovi

Off the top of my head, just a few:

"They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast." Eagles - Hotel California

"Oh my love my darlin'. I've hungered for your touch." Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers (One of the most beautiful songs made IMHO)

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" Rolling Stones


TIS

Another John Lennon Line is

No Hell Below Us, Above Us Only Sky- Imagine

*i know i'l go from racks to riches'

Tony Bennet

"Buy another fixture, tell another lie.
Paint another picture, see who's surprised.
You can love me baby but you can't walk out.
Someone oughta tell you what it's really all about"- Fleetwood Mac "The Ledge"

"Holding on in quiet desperation is the English way" Pink Floyd "Time"

"We all know that crass is king" Don Henley "Dirty Laundry"

"Brainwashed by the media.
You're brainwashed by the press" George Harrison "Brainwashed"

Sorry to correct you but it's Rags to Riches-Not rack's

I've always liked the following line from Paul McCartney's 'My Love':

"Only my love holds the other key...to me."

Incidentally, since it was mentioned:
I like the line and have always loved the song but WHAT exactly does that mean...the meat is too rare??? The hotel is whacky? Too many drugs???
Inquiring (and sheltered) minds want to know!!


Apple

"When you wish upon a star that turns into a plane"

"Is a dream alive if it don't come true or is it something worse"

"Don't say you love me when it's just a rumor"

"If Adolf Hitler flew in today they send a limosine anyway"

"Do you know what a drag it is to see you." - Bob Dylan, "Positively 4th St"

"At night I wake up with the sheets soakin' wet and a freight train running through the middle of my bed." - Bruce Springsteen "I'm on Fire."

"Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you, do you want to hear me beg you to take me back." - Eric Clapton "Bell Bottom Blues"

I like the line and have always loved the song but WHAT exactly does that mean...the meat is too rare??? The hotel is whacky? Too many drugs???
Inquiring (and sheltered) minds want to know!!


Apple [/b][/quote]According to the attached link (which is really interesting), that line was a reference to "Steely Dan" who was under the same management as the Eagles.

Glen Frye said the song is somewhat like an episode of The Twilight Zone, which kind of is the way I interpreted it. I thought it'd make a good horror flick. No matter what the Eagles intended, I think it's one of those songs that is fun to intepret.

Anyway, check out the link, if interested.

Hotel California

TIS

Thanks, TIS...Twilight Zone, good analagy. Frankly, that's how I had interpreted it as well.

Great website, too; I've already bookmarked it!!

AppleOnYa

The Beatles
"I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who made the grade. He blew his mind out in a car."

The Beatles
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me. Speaking words of Wisdom, Let It Be."

Bob Dylan
"Come Senators, Congressmen, please heed the call, for the times, they are a changin'"

Bob Dylan
"Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you."

John Lennon~
"Well we all shine on....Like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun."

Good Stuff

Doc

Sorry to correct you but it's Rags to Riches-Not rack's [/b][/quote]How many times do i have to say it...i'm Danish.I do not speak or spell your langues as good as you,so EXCUSEEEE MEEE!!!

Sorry to correct you but it's Rags to Riches-Not rack's [/b][/quote]How many times do i have to say it...i'm Danish.I do not speak or spell your langues as good as you,so EXCUSEEEE MEEE!!! [/b][/quote]Relax man, you came to an American Board. You said something drastically wrong in American so we politely corrected you. It's what Americans do, we fix things. :rolleyes:

Doc

"For the ones who had a notion
A notion deep inside
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
I wanna find one face that ain't looking thru me
I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands"
-The Boss

Too many to choose from. Here's a few of my fav.

"Sounds like a scene from the silver screen
Yeah, that's how it was
Love doesn't always look like a picture perfect storybook....Ah, but sometimes it does" ~Long Slow Beautiful Dance

"But how many corners do I have to turn
How many times do I have to learn
All the love I have is in my mind" ~Lukcy Man, The Verve

"You don't have to call me darling, darling,
you never even called me by my name." ~David Allen Cole

And my all time favorite:

"I used to love her...but I had to kill her, she's buried right in my backyard.....and I can still hear her complain." GunsnRoses.

Rolling Stones- "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me." (Rocks Off)

"With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats,You can't say we're satisfied." (Angie)

"You make a dead man cum." (Start Me Up)

Curtis Mayfield- "Everybody's misused him, Ripped him up and abused him, Another junkie plan, Pushin' dope for the man" (Freddie's Dead)

These are the favorite lines of a song from an 87 year old man? :p

Don Mclean/American Pie

"I cant remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside the day the music died."

The Eagles/Hotel California

"'Relax' said the night man, 'we are programed to receive. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.'"

George Thorogood/One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

"I said 'I know. Everybody funny. Now you funny too.'"

Dire Straits/Romeo and Juliet

"You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin. Now you just say, 'O Romeo yea. You know I used to have a scene with him.'"

2Pac - Changes
2Pac - Me Against the World
2Pac - Unconditional Love
2Pac - Who Do You Believe In?
2Pac - Until the End of Time
2Pac - Lord Knows
Jadakiss - Why?
Eminem - Who Knew?
Eminem - My Dad's Gone Crazy
Eminem - Square Dance
Nas - One Mic

"Monday, I could wait till Tuesday, if I make up my mind, Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind, Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait, but Sunday'd be too late. Seven days will quickly go; the fact remains, I love her so. Seven days, so many ways but I can't run away. Do I have to tell a story of a thousand rainy days since we first met? It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet." - Sting, Seven Days

It's fairly new, but I just LOVE this line from John Mayer's song "Daughters"

"On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world..."

nice.

"Breathe out
so I can breathe you in"

Boyz II Men

"But this torch that I've found's gotta be drowned, or it soon might explode"

Harold Arlen - One For My Baby (As Performed By Frank Sinatra).

"And through it all, I stood tall and did it my way!"
Paul Anka and Co. - My Way (As performed By Frank Sinatra)

"Fools rush in were wise men fear to go, but wise men never fall in love" - Fools Rush In

"In Time The Rockies may crumble, Gibralter may tumble, their ounly made of clay, but out love is here to stay"
George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin; Oscar Levant - Our Love Is Here To Stay

"In the roaring traffic's boom;
In the silence of my lonley room;
I think of you, Night and Day"

Cole Porter - Night And Day

"I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat"

Sugar Hill Gang - "Rapper's Delight"

I always liked the line from She's Leaving Home by The Beatles:

"Leaving the note that she hoped would say more"

Also from Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl (the best Christmas song ever!)

"I could have been someone, well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me when I first found you
I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you."