Thread: Favourite Lyrics

I was just wondering, what with all the other nosy question threads recently, what everybody's favourite song lyrics are and why?

Mine is "The darkest hour is just before dawn" from the Mamas and Papas' "Dedicated to the One I Love".

It's such a hopeful message- even when everything is at rock bottom, it can only get better. I grew up listening to the Mamas and Papas so there's that sentimental value too.

Your turn!

(Ooh, is that a 5 star rating? :eyebrows

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I'll have to have a good old think about this one

The entire second verse of the song sung by the Fireys in Labyrinth, for the same reason!

Favourite:

Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate, will nature make a man of me yet?

Most powerful/pungent/real/hurtful - Perfect - Alanis Morrissette

Sometimes is never quite enough - if you're flawless, then you'll win my love
Don't forget to win first place! Don't forget to keep that smile on your face!
Be a good girl, try a little harder
You've got to measure up, make me prouder
How long before you screw it up? How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up?
With everything I do for you the least you can do is keep quiet
Be a good girl, you gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough, to make us proud.
I'll live through you - I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I
Compared to him compared to her
I'm doing this for your own damn good! You'll make up for what I blew!
What's the problem? Why are you crying?? :cry:
Be a good dirl, push a little farther now
That wasn't fast enough to make us happy
We'll love you, just the way you are........if you're perfect......

(yes, I have issues....)

Pretty much anything by Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls who just manages to blow my mind with her lyrics. This is what I'm listening to right now:

mrs. o

oh mrs. o
will you tell us where the naughty children go
will you show
how the sky turned white and everybody froze
heaven knows how they got into the fireplace
but everybody's saying grace
and trying to keep a happy face

and oh mrs. o
can you teach us how to keep from getting cold
out we go and you watch us as we face the falling snow
what a show with our hairdryers aimed heavenwards
and fifty foot extension cords
you really have a way with words

the truth can't save you now
the sky is falling down
watch the vultures count the hours
april trains may bring strange showers

and oh mrs. o
will you tell about the time they made you go
all alone to the palace where they took your only clothes
we all know
there's no hell and no hiroshima
chernobyl was a cover up
the world is really all in love

oh mrs o
will you leave us hanging now that we are grown
up and old
will you kill me if i say i told you so
we all know
ther'es no hitler and no holocaust
no winter and no santa clause
and yes virginia all because
the truth cant save you now
the sky is falling down
eveything they ever told us
shakes our faith and breaks their promise
but you can stop the truth from leaking
if you never stop believing......

" the only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocated in" - Mowtown junk - Manic Street Preachers.

Originally Posted by Dashwood

Pretty much anything by Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls who just manages to blow my mind with her lyrics.

I adore the lyrics to Sing, so powerful.

"There is thing thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance"

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

I adore the lyrics to Sing, so powerful.

"There is thing thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance"

How wierd! I'm listening to that right now, and even the exact line you quoted! How freaky!

Sing for the teacher who told you that you couldn't sing

I like that one!

Originally Posted by Dashwood

How wierd! I'm listening to that right now, and even the exact line you quoted! How freaky!

Sing for the teacher who told you that you couldn't sing

I like that one!

That's coz I'm stalking you - that lamp behind you isn't just a lamp

Yes, I met that teacher too

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

I adore the lyrics to Sing, so powerful.

"There is thing thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance"

I love Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls.

Good day is brilliant song with great lyrics:

So you don't want to hear about my good song?
And you don't want to hear about how i am getting on
With all the things that i can get done
The sun is in the sky & i am by my lonesome
So you don't want to hear about my good day?
You have better things to do than to hear me say

God its been a lovely day! everything's been going my way
I took out the trash today and i'm on fire...

So you don't want to hear about my good friends?
You don't have the guts to take the truth or consequence
Success is in the eye of the beholder
And its looking even better over your cold shoulder

I'm not suggesting you get to line me up for questioning
But Jesus think about the bridges you are burning
And i'm betting
That even though you knew it from the start
You'd rather be a bitch than be an ordinary broken heart

So go ahead and talk about your bad day...
I want all the details of the pain and misery
That you are inflicting on the others
I consider them my sisters and I want their numbers

God its been a lovely day! everything's been going my way
I took up croquet today and i'm on fire

I picked up the pieces of my broken ego
I have finally made my peace as far as you and me go
But i'd love to have you up to see the place
& i'd like to do more than survive i'd like to rub it in your face.....

Hey! its been a lovely day! everything's been going my way
I had so much fun today and i'm on fire
God it's been a lovely day everything's been going my way
Ever since you went away hey i'm on fire.....
I'm on fire...
I'm on fire...
So you don't want to hear about my good day?