Favorite all-time lyric, from any band, including Live Options

[sandkind]

my all-time favorite:

"I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday death bed..."

-STP - from Dead & Bloated

Don't ask me why, it's just fucked up enough that I like it

[Lively Chick]

ok i won't, but

"I wear black on the outside cause black is how I feel on the inside, and If I seem a little strange well that's because I am." ~ Unloveable by the Smiths

I think Morrissey is the greatest lyricist of all time!! He's just genious! I could basically post everything he has ever written.

This post has been edited by Lively Chick: Sep 4 2006, 10:13 pm

[Alex]

"We are stuck in this world of change, expecting it to remain; now nothing is left unstained"
-Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation)

[Heather]

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun." -Billy Joel



"it's the way we sing that makes them dream"

"
Conquer some serenity
Lay yourself in fields of poetry
Close your eyes to all you see
Lay your weary head here with me" -Ed Roland


There are a ton more that I could list but those are the first that come to mind.

And pretty much every line that Ryan Adams has ever written.

[rocknerd]

The signs on the wall but she wants to be sure cause she knows some times words have two meanings-Led Zeppelin Stairway to heaven

When they come for you how you gonna come with your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun- The Clash Guns of brixton

[brandedwendy]

"Go to sleep my one true love, and find your heart's release" David Gray

"We're like 2 lost souls, swimming in a fishbowl, year after year...." Pink Floyd

[Pokey]

God there are so many, and mostly all from Morrissey.

[rocknerd]

Did you see that guy Mugsyhe got iced the other day, he got five rounds in the belly, looked like a bowl of minestrone soup, you tell his mamma to send the dry cleaning bill my way!
Hey hey.-Zip gun bop ROYAL CROWN REVIEW.

[edstipe]

Wow, I could go on forever with a topic like this.

Off the top of my head, here's a few:

1. Possibly the greatest visual description of music I have ever heard: "I close my eyes / And I close my mouth / And do this all in time / To the music, that dances like fools set on fire / Flailing their arms in a room full of whores" (Ryan Adams, Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.)

2. For its beautiful imagery: "See how the sky is made of sapphire / The colours flowing through our hands / The moon is fire in your hair / A million miles beyond what science understands" (David Gray, Falling Free)

3. Mandatory +Live+ lyric: "Who is making over, idolizing princes / Banishing the dreamers with
barbed-wire fences / And telling all the children who run to her feet / That they have no vision,
and love's all diseased" (Live, Waterboy)

4. For its simple but powerful personal connection to my own life: "I gather speed / From you fucking with me" (Pearl Jam, Rearviewmirror)

Actually there are far too many Pearl Jam lyrics that blow me away, so I'll just list a few here:

- "Hold on to the thread / The currents will shift / Glide me towards you / Nothings left / And we're all allowed to dream of the next / Ohh, the next time we touch..." (Oceans)

- "I'm not blind, I can see it coming / Looks like lighting in my child's eye / I'm not frantic, I can feel it coming / Violently shakes my body" (Army Reserve)

- "And now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass / Of what was everything / All the pictures have all been washed in black / Tattooed everything..." (Black)

There's a ton more, but my lunch break is over, so I'll come back leter.

[Heather]

Possibly the greatest visual description of music I have ever heard: "I close my eyes / And I close my mouth / And do this all in time / To the music, that dances like fools set on fire / Flailing their arms in a room full of whores" (Ryan Adams, Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.)

Great lyric. If I started listing my favorite Ryan Adam's lyrics I would probably just be typing out his entire songs. So I didn't even include him. I really think he is one of the best writers out there. One of my absolute favorites of his is Meadowlake Street, every word in that song from beginning to end is perfection.

[rocknerd]

this is not a black and white world i think to survive the colours must swirl to the beauty of grey.

[sandkind]

"...I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me 'cause I'm dead and bloated!"

[Lively Chick]

this is not a black and white world i think to survive the colours must swirl to the beauty of grey.

Really great lyrics in this whole song. Greater that it was written by a teenager who did not grow up in an urban city.

[sandkind]

"i don't know if it's ABC news, Hill Street Blues, or the Old Time Gospel Hour"

FFS...did i really just throw a U2 lyric in here...somebody stab me with a fork already

[beau99]

"Janine, I drink you up"

(written by Mike Doughty when he was a member of Soul Coughing)