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Which is the all-time best line in a song?
61 replies
Small-talker said on May 7, 2002 10:15:
Probably very hard to say with so many Rox albums but take any line you like and post it here... It doesn’t have to be Rox related... Post as many as you like!
I love the following lines from
Artist: Bjork
Album: Post
Song: Hyper-Ballad
>I’m back at my cliff / Still throwing things off / I imagine what my body would sound like crashing against those rocks / And when it lands will my eyes be closed or open?
vaxjoe said on May 7, 2002 20:01:
I have many favourite lines from songs but right now in my mind it only comes this one
ARTIST:MADONNA
ALBUM:RAY OF LIGHT
TRACK:THE POWER OF GOODBYE
LINE: “...freedom comes when u learn to let go creation comes when u learn to say no...theres nothing left to lose, theres no more heart to bruise”
Sascha said on May 8, 2002 06:57:
Artist: Roxette
Album: Have A Nice Day
Song: Pay The Price
“Looking at you through the holes of the soles of my old brown shoes”
This is very underrated!!! ;-)
Ronney said on May 8, 2002 08:09:
from Ca plane pour moi - Plastic Bertrand:
“I am the king of the divan”
notice that this song is in french and this is the only english sentence...
gyllene_tjej said on May 8, 2002 18:15:
The best for me is Gyllene Tider...
”...En gång i livet möter du nån som ändrar det som sker, som ändrar allt du ser. Och det är allt du förstår allt du kan och allt du vet, det är din nya verklighet...”
—–GT ” Det är blommor som har fångat dig”
freshold said on May 8, 2002 23:17:
well....couldn’t pick the single verse from this song so here it is all:
Bruce Springsteen
HUMAN TOUCH
You and me we were the pretenders
We let it all slip away
In the end what you don’t surrender
Well the world just strips away
Girl, ain’t no kindness in the face of strangers
Ain’t gonna find no miracles here
Well you can wait on your blesses my darlin’
But I got a deal for you right here
I ain’t lookin’ for praise or pity
I ain’t comin’ ’round searchin’ for a crutch
I just want someone to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch
Ain’t no mercy on the streets of this town
Ain’t no bread from heavenly skies
Ain’t nobody drawin’ wine from this blood
It’s just you and me tonight
Tell me, in a world without pity
Do you think what I’m askin’s too much
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch
Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize
Well it comes at a hard hard price
You can’t shut off the risk and the pain
Without losin’ the love that remains
We’re all riders on this train
So you’ve been broken and you’ve been hurt
Show me somebody who ain’t
Yeah, I know I ain’t nobody’s bargain
But, hell, a little touchup
and a little paint...
You might need somethin’ to hold on to
When all the answers, they don’t amount to much
Somebody that you could just to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Baby, in a world without pity
Do you think what I’m askin’s too much
I just want to feel you in my arms
Share a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Give me a little of that Human Touch
reelsugar said on May 9, 2002 00:00:
Artist: Ani DiFranco
Track: Firedoor
line: “I opened the firedoor to four lips, none of which mine were kissing.”
AND from the same song:
line: “Substituting the conclusion to confrontation with a kiss.”
coyboyusa said on May 9, 2002 11:59:
2 songs come to mind
ALbum : the bridge
artists ace of base
song: ravine
lyric: i am standing here on in my ravine, once again i see a piece of the sky, And I swear my joy’ll never be denied as long as you are here the only place on earth where you are near
album : dbugttc
aong: YDUM
I guess loneliness has found a new friend here i am
kachina008 said on May 10, 2002 13:26:
Roxette: Cinnamon street
The whole song is a lyrical masterpiece but i esply like “We fell in love, coz I could play guitar”
Pearl Jam: Jeremy
Powerful song
Denstandigaresan said on May 10, 2002 18:40:
Small-Talker... Love your choice! Hehehe!
Urm, mine would be.
“I’m a Zombie in the moonlight, I’m sleeping when it’s daylight”(Crush on you)... Considering I am an X-Files fan, this is rather fitting! ;)
roxtexanet said on May 10, 2002 23:16:
Well, not many of Roxette’s lyrics are particularly memorable, but one line I just love is from “Anyone”:
“Everything is more or less looking so meaningless, and fades to grey; lying awake in an ocean of teardrops... I float away”
...very poetic, wonderful imagery.
From Melissa Etheridge’s “Silent Legacy”:
“Feed you on the guilt, keep you humble keep you low - some man and myth they made up a thousand years ago”
Most of my favourite lyrics are from the Indigo Girls, though:
“If you live they’re gonna make you a crusader, if you die they’re gonna make you a grave - either way it goes down, well your life’s not your own - and that’s why killing don’t pay” -A. Ray, “Faye Tucker,” a commentary on capital punishment
“I’m not making a joke, you know me I take everything so seriously, if we wait til the time when our souls get it right, well at least I know there’ll be no nuclear annihilation in my life time - I’m still not right!” -E. Saliers, “Galileo,” on reincarnation
“I went to see the doctor of philosophy, with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees; he never did marry, or see a B-grade movie, he graded my performance, he said he could see through me, I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, I got my paper and I was free” -E. Saliers, “Closer To Fine,” a poke at academia that anyone who has experienced “higher” education can appreciate (:
Markuz said on May 13, 2002 02:40:
Artist: Eurythmics
Album: Peace
Song: Anything But Strong
>How my heart aches / More than I can take / What are we really learning when we make the same mistakes? / Where is your hope? / It’s all gone up in smoke / You used to be so funny, now it’s just the same old joke<
>And laughing is so very close so crying / When there’s nothing to defend / It gets you in the end / And living is so very close to dying / You struggle on and on to find where you belong / Where do you belong?<
Katya said on May 27, 2002 13:46:
I thought of Elton John’s “Out of the Blue”:
Someday out of the blue
Maybe years from now
Maybe tomorrow night
I’ll turn around and
I’ll see you
For me there is magic in these lines, though one probably must hear the whole song to understand what I mean.
lefty-x said on May 27, 2002 14:21:
I guess loneliness found a new friend, here i am...
coyboy, you’re so right!
animalkingdom said on May 27, 2002 15:07:
One that crosses my mind right now is this:
In the room where lovers sleeps/ Winds would knock and disappear
wendy said on May 27, 2002 15:23:
i really like this one:
i hit the coast with the faith of a preacherman,i saw a ghost with a face like a madman.
roxette:keep me waiting
wendy said on May 27, 2002 15:23:
i really like this one:
i hit the coast with the faith of a preacherman,i saw a ghost with a face like a madman.
roxette:keep me waiting
Pikappa said on May 27, 2002 16:18:
...and i walk around this small town ... like small town people do...
onlywhenidream said on May 27, 2002 16:24:
’you crashed by the gate - and captured my fate, salvation’
m-cvk said on May 27, 2002 17:55:
There are many great lines in songs. Right now, some of my favourites are:
- “There’s a time for the good in life, a time to kill the pain in life” (from Queen of Rain - gr8 song!)
- “I do believe love came our way and fate did arrange for us to meet” (from Almost Unreal)
- “The only thing that stays the same is change” (from Melissa Etheridge’s ’Change’)
Grtz,
MC
Vixzter said on May 28, 2002 20:20:
Rox’s version of “Oh Marie”,
“One day she’ll buy some coats of fur instead of spending time with Blur”
“She says that Roffe is hard to please, knowing her he’s on his knees”
Fantastic!!
shaolinda said on May 30, 2002 00:44:
I agree with cowboy. By the way... who never felt this way?
But I have a good line too
Artist: The Cranberries
Album: Wake Up and Smell The coffee
Song: Time is Ticking Out
“We better think about the things we say”
JoyRidErno said on May 30, 2002 09:39:
Marie - Mellan sommar och höst
“Det finns en känslä jag inte rår på / Den kommer alltid när du ska gå”
Roxette - The Look
“Na na na ...” :D
wendy said on May 30, 2002 20:41:
the calling
to touch you again with life in your hands
(couln’t be any harder-camino palermo)
Debora said on February 9, 2006 19:05:
...tell me why it’s getting harder to know where I stand. I guess loneliness found a new friend... here I’am... (from You Don’t Undertand Me)
...now I do believe in flowers on the moon... (from Salvation)
...close your eyes and you will see that you are all you really need... (from I Believe - Bon Jovi)
...it’s not always rainbows and butterflies, it’s compromise that moves us along... (from She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5)
vee1977 said on February 9, 2006 21:45:
hey newbie here,this is sooooo kewl
i love sooo many of their songs. i have had a real thing for per since i was about 11-12 and look sharp came out.but i love all the real slow ones especially break up songs.
but this among others i have a real soft spot for...
Everywhere i look i see her smile,her absent-minded eyes.And she has kept me wondering for so long,how this thing could go wrong.
dont bore us get to the chorus
not the best album but one of the best songs
vee1977 said on February 9, 2006 21:53:
im hooked,lol another song that really does make me cozy up is dire straits...
hand in hand....
The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Oh I can read between the lines
Rain come down forgive this dirty town
Rain come down and give this dirty town
A drink of water a drink of wine
If I been hard on you I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I tried my best to be somebody you’d be close to
Hand in hand like lovers are supposed to
As you’d sleep I’d think my heart would break in two
I’d kiss your cheek I’d stop myself from waking you
But in the dark you’d speak my name
You’d say baby what’s wrong ?
Oh ? Here I am baby I’m coming back for more
I’m like a wave that’s got to roll into the shore
Yes and if my love’s in vain how come my love is so strong ?
Now you and me go parallel together and apart
And you keep your perfect distance and it’s tearing at my heart
Did you never feel the distance
You never tried to cross no line
Now it’s another dirty river and another dirty scar
And I don’t know who’s kissing you and I don’t know where you are
So far from home don’t you think of me sometime
Sky is crying see the streets are full of tears
Rain coming down to wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Oh I can read between the lines
Making movies
rox-kuryliw said on February 9, 2006 23:33:
I tried to find out
What love was realy all about
Behind the curtain waits the sky
It’s rare I feel enough to cry
I’m drying up inside
My life was open
Like a window to the summer breeze
perishot said on February 10, 2006 04:19:
“geT out oF my way! get ouT of my sight! im not attracted 2 go g0 deEper 2night”
roXeTtE - danGerous
i jusT recKon it sounds neaT & not many roX songs have this manner... i dun0 oh eXcepT 4 knocKin on every d0or gr8 song gr8 lyrics. deB i liKe thaT 1
hoPe i maKe sense im in claSs gotta be quicK
:)
pwbbounce (moderator) said on February 10, 2006 08:11:
Where do I start?!?!?!?
“Every new beginning is some beginnings end” - Welcome To Wherever You Are - Bon Jovi
“Since I was young I’ve been a stranger to myself” - Something Happened Today - SOAP
“Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry. And yes I’ve cried over you” - Never Is A Long Time - Rox
“You found you’re way into my head, where even Angels fear to tread” - Where Angels Fear To Tread - Bryan Adams.
“And I try not to think about the love I live without” - Everytime It Rains - Ace of Base
“We always go to bed together, I always wake up all alone” - Everyday - Rox
There are many more, but I don’t have time to do it now. I’ll update later!!
pwbbounce (moderator) said on February 10, 2006 09:41:
No 2!
“What if everyone you ever loved was torn from the pages of your life” - These Open Arms - Bon Jovi
“When I’m with you are you somewhere else?” - Love Bites - Def Leppard
“Suddenly something has happened to me as I was having my cup of tea” - Animal Instint - Cranberries. Nice fun lyrics!
brentnewtown said on February 10, 2006 11:37:
’who rox you like a baby’
of course
or
’toujours l’amour’ because its french and sounds so cool and sophisticated. lol
more:
’every chance in love you love to take’
’you’re one in a million we’re two of a kind’ (???)
daniel_alv said on February 10, 2006 12:02:
Easy choice
Artist: Gyllene Tider
Album: Finn 5 Fel!
Song: Varje gång det regnar
Line: En evig kyss, kvinna man
onlywhenidream said on February 10, 2006 13:12:
“because the night is so pretty, so pretty and young!”
ouch - how sexy is that!
pallis said on February 10, 2006 13:45:
Jag vet att du sover
känner värmen från din hud
bara lukten gör mej svag
men jag vågar inte väcka dej nu
Jag skulle ge dej
allting du pekar på
men bara när du inte hör
vågar jag säga så
“Utan dina andetag” med Kent
ally77 said on February 10, 2006 16:06:
Min Tjej och Jag
Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba
Na Na Na Doo Doo Wop?
Wah Wah Wah Wah!
Tä Tä Tä Tä?
Do wah diddy diddy!!!
KixGuy said on February 10, 2006 22:56:
Artist: Weezer
Album: Pinkerton
Song: “The good life”
Line: “I shouldn’t complain / I should have no feeling, ’cuz feeling is pain / As everything I need, is denied me / And everything I want, is taken away from me / But who do I got to blame? Nobody but me”
watercoloursint... said on February 11, 2006 04:33:
There are so many! But the first ones that have come to my mind are:
And every time I scratch my nails on someone else’s back I hope you feel it... Well, can you feel it?
From Alanis Morissette’s “You oughta know”
roxtexanet said on February 11, 2006 15:31:
@pwbbounce: I recognize that Bon Jovi line you quoted from Semisonic’s “Closing Time”... that was out, what, 8 or 9 years ago?
david_h said on February 14, 2006 01:58:
dont know if its an “all time” line, but it really moves me:
Wish you the best (Per Gessle)
“This distant dream
it might as well rest
I wish you peace
I wish you the best (wish you the best)
I wish you the best, oh I wish you... wherever you´ll go...
I wish you the best... whatever.... whatever whatever you´ll doooooooooo..... oh i Wish you...”
that´s a power ballad, period!
I´d put some others by Journey, one of my fav bands, from Remember Me, Open Arms, Ask the Lonely, Send Her My Love, etc... and some from Steve Perry itself: Foolish Heart, Missing You and specially IT WONT BE YOU
denny said on February 14, 2006 04:09:
Ok, Rox excluded... It’s Ten Sharp’s You
You, you are always on my mind.
You, you’re the one I’m living for.
You, you’re my everlasting fire.
Oh, you’re my always shining star.
And the whole lyrics to Pet Shop Boys’s Miracles.
Dawid_Fredriksson said on February 14, 2006 14:38:
Artist: Marie Fredriksson
Album: Efter Stormen
Song: Aldrig som främlingar
Santi said on February 14, 2006 17:10:
Easy! :P
“Until the sky turns green, the grass is several shades of blue, every member of parliament trips on glue”
By: The Stone Roses
Album: Stone Roses (1989)
Song: (Song for my) Sugar Spun Sister
argentinean-que... said on February 14, 2006 20:43:
There are so many!!!!
Losing you...things will never be the same...
You build it up and tear it down...there’s no reason to follow you (Never is a Long time)
when u kiss my mouth and u hold my body close do you wonder who’s inside? Maybe there’s no way we could feel eachother’s pain (You don’t understand me)
I kept the rain falling down on me all the time, all the time, and some things in life won’t ever change...(the rain)
Mariana
realmiddlename said on February 15, 2006 05:17:
’...you’ve coloured all the secrets of my soul...’
i bet no one on this website would know this song title?!?!?!?! heeheehee
songwriter2005 said on February 15, 2006 18:10:
i think it’s
“it’s all bla bla bla bla bla, you broke my heart” *laugh*... it’s pure fun and a little bit of irony, isn’t it?
Well, but a thing that doesn’t go off my head for months now is:
“...but when she smiles there’s something in her eyes that tells me i’m not like the other guys...”
(SOAP, Jo-Anna says)
Have fun, Seb.
david_h said on February 16, 2006 05:51:
in that case Id say the best line is...
“do do do do u, do u wanna b my baby???!!!”
that´s a hit! greetz!
Fortius said on February 16, 2006 17:45:
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
Album: In Utero/ Nirvana Unplugged in New York
...The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I’m having fun
I think I’m dumb
Or maybe just happy...think I´m just happy
The Unplugged version is sublime.
kibkalo said on February 17, 2006 06:50:
Det är blommor som har fångat dig
Fattar du vad det handlar om?
Superbullie said on February 17, 2006 11:55:
i don’t speak swedish, but ain’t that a line from “billy” ?
lucre_gt said on February 17, 2006 19:00:
Savage Garden - Affirmation
I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people’s hands
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I’m loved when I’m completely by myself alone
I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can’t appreciate real love until you’ve been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don’t know what you’ve got until you say goodbye
I believe you can’t control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse tv evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity
fbr_ said on February 22, 2006 03:43:
death cab for cutie “marching bands of manhatten”
If I Could Open My Arms
And Span The Length Of The Isle Of Manhattan
I’d Bring It To Where You Are
Making A Lake Of The East River And Hudson
If I Could Open My Mouth
Wide Enough For A Marching Band To March Out
They Would Make Your Name Sing
And Bend Through Alley’s And Bounce Off all the Buildings
I Wish We Could Open Our Eyes
To See In All Directions At The Same Time
Oh, What A Beautiful View
If You Were Never Aware Of What Was Around You
And It Is True What You Said
I Live Like A Hermit In My Own Head
When The Sun Shines Again
I’ll Pull The Curtains And Blinds To Let The Light In
Sorrow Drips Into Your Heart
Through A Pinhole
Just Like Faucet That Leaks
And There Is Comfort In The Sound
But While You Debate
Half Empty Or Half Full
It Slowly Rises Your Love Is Gonna Drown
Your Love Is Gonna Drown
Roxwriter said on February 22, 2006 05:16:
Easy Question!
My favourite of all time is..............
ARTIST: John Mellencamp
SONG: I Saw You First (Key West Intermezzo)
ALBUM: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
LINE: “....this loud cuban band is crucifying John Lennon... I wanna be she’s drinking yeah I just want to be....”
God he’s brilliant. Too many Mellencamp lines to mention.
His lyrics are self-depricating with an uplifting humourous tone, a man who doesn’t take things too seriously and yet is so powerful political and inspirational with his choice in words.
”...there’s a black man, with black hair, living in a black neighbourhood, he’s got interstate running through his front yard you know he thinks he’s got it so good.....but ain’t that America for you and me...”
Debora said on February 23, 2006 20:13:
”...I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve lost, I’ve paid some dues, baby. We’ve been to hell and back again, through it all you’re always my best friend...” (Bon Jovi - All About Lovin’ You)
”...You pick me up when I fall down, you ring the bell before they count me out, if I was drowning you would part the sea and risk your own life to rescue me...” (Bon Jovi - Thank You For Loving Me)
roxlad said on March 3, 2006 01:20:
SOAP ’Something in the system’
“You should get a life and stop talking to the flowers”....
I love this one and it applies to a lot of people I know! *LOL*
crazypackersfan said on March 8, 2006 07:55:
U2- “Pride”
Early morning, April 4, shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your pride
In the name of love...
animalkingdom said on May 7, 2002 15:53:
Yea (!) ;)
Hyper-ballad is a FANTASTIC piece of art!!
Luv luv luv it!!!
But what was the question again? ;)