Favourite line from a song?

[a morbid curiosity]

I searched but didn't find a thread like this, so sorry if there is one.

I shall begin:

"You sit in circles with your friends,
Pontificating to each other, waiting for that one moment of self-aggrandising glory in which you hog the intellectual spotlight,
Holding dominion over the entire pointless conversation--oh, we're not worthy"
-Say Anything ("Admit It")

or

"Immerse your soul in love"
-Radiohead ("Street Spirit")

[Metabolik]

I take a look in your eyes, I don't like what I see
You lived your life as a fake and
I'm as real as can be
I lived my life and faced my own realities"

As real As It Gets - Sworn Enemy.

Not really my favorite lyrics but I like them :3
It's hard to pick my favorite because there's so many I think are great.

[honeythorn]

" Darkness is a mystery of curves and lines " - The spoken word - AFI. I love that line (and song) so much I had it tattooed from elbow to wrist on my inner left forearm.

[Metabolik]

"Skwisgaar Skwigelf, taller than a tree.
Toki Wartooth, not a bumblebee.
William Murderface, Murderface, Murderface.
Pickles, the drummer, doodily doo. (Ding-dong, doodily, doodily, doo.)
Nathan Explosion."

Dethklok rules

[dabbadmc]

Everlong - Foo Fighters
Breathe out so I could breathe you in
Hold you in

And now, I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang

And I wonder when I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

Ok...so it's several lines. That or

Figurative Theatre - Christian Death
Their razor sharp tongues invite to relax
As they slip the skin of your eyelids back
Invasive spectators get into the act
With roses and candles, silver knives and spoons

[Joker_in_the_Pack]

Sixty Seconds, One hundred murders
The bill of rights is a bill of sale
What will you do when the war is over?
What will you do when your system fails?


- All Hope is Gone by Slipknot.

[Minyaliel]

*points to sig*

[Geoluhread]

Ou... This is gonna take a while...

Kamelot - On the coldest winter night

"i am breathless need i say
How could you find me here?
You of all have crossed my way
Unexpectedly... From where?"
I just think it's so well written

Anathema - one last goodbye
"in my dreams
I can see you
I can tell you How i feel
In my dreams i can hold you and it feels so real
I still feel your pain, and somehow i knew you could never... Never stay
And somehow i knew you would leave me"

Pink - coversations with my 13 year old self
"the pain you feel is real, you're not asleep but it's a nightmare... But you can wake up anytime"

In Flames
"Neo-wolf but older again, than the Lupus itself
Linked its fur to the gyroscope of time"

In Flames - Moonshield
"Naked and dying under worlds of silent stone
Reaching for the moonshield that once upon us shone"

In Flames - Reroute to remain
"for years we wandered these circles
Hold on to whatever lie gets us through"

In Flames - dawn of a new day
"Against the grain
Against the odds
I'll rise and i won't trip again
The dawn of a new day
Never looked as good as this"

Ashley parker angel (i hate him But i love this song) - shades of blue

"With eyes wide open
The sky is always a thousand shades of blue
Probably broken, lost and lonely
We're all just shades of you"

My dying bride - she is the dark

"She is the dark, the nightmares you hide, the pain you feel, the suffering inside
Though she was like you, through her dark past
But now, the conqueror
Her choirs vast
Oh, please forgive her
As mankind dies, as angels weep, and heaven cries"

My mood can get really morbid sometimes =P

[Cicero]

There really are way too many.

In the Heart of the Wood by Current 93
"And I wait for another
Revolution or revelation
It doesn't too much matter
If I see blood in wheals
"All shall be well" she said
But not for me
Not for me
The skeleton of the universe
Barbed wire of blues and stars
Remains unmoved
When the mother ocean covers me
I rush to drown
With her breakers"


Lucifer Over London by Current 93
"The twisted wings and cluds unfold
And the greatgape of He who fell
Makes darkened shadows over pointed spires
Little children point and sing
And little children run and dance
Over there the setting sun
Over there the setting sun"


The Seven Seals Are Revealed At the End of Time as Seven Bows by Current 93
"One dips into a broken bowl full of sadness,
The other into seven hundred children with horses' heads in different stages of decomposition.
Across the Bloodbow a hundredthousand betrayers are nailed and lost. To the sound of the mewling of eight million cats all those who have betrayed humanity twist and turn.
Step forward, if you can, Satan in many scumcoloured forms."
Along with the rest of the song, for which the lyrics can be found here.


Greensward Grey by Cinema Strange

"There is blood on the hooves of the fawns on the Greensward Grey
for they tread through the gristle on the lawn today
Don't they see the roseate faces of my wives as they lay, disemboweled, on the Greensward Grey?

This park is rank and slippery
Skip and watch the kite tails, don't trip on the entrails
White, and ligamental blossoms jutting from the earth...
when have toadstools ever grown toenails? "
And everything else Lucas Lanthier has ever written.


Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants

"I'm the dandy highwayman so sick of easy fashion
The clumsy boots, peek-a-boo roots that people think so dashing
So what's the point of robbery when nothing is worth taking?
It's kind of tough to tell a scruff the big mistake he's making"

There are a whole lot of Sex Gang Children lyrics I want to post, but as I went to double check that I had the words exactly right I found their website has been replaced with porn. Somehow I'm not surprised, but fuck that's annoying.

[PortraitOfSanity]

I wonder how much pain it would take
To make you all believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
In me
I'm your god machine
Fuck your god

Acid Bath - God Machine

[The Antichrist]

"COWARD!!
spit i think i'll spit
For all those girls, who speak contradiction
The guy who crept through the shadows
everyday to clutch his own conclusion
Watch all the blood,
as it drips from your veins you coward Godspeed,
may your death come quickly "Kittie-spit

"So, Im Nothing.
You Took Something From Me, Now You've Dissapeared.
You're Right Where I Want You.
You Said You Wanted It, Alright.

No! Its Not Alright
No...

Now I'm Something, And Your Head Is In My Closet.
Dead Forever, They'll Never Search It... More from kittie.Don't rember the name of the song.

"Run your mouth when I'm not around
It's easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize
Can you hear the violins playing your song?
Those same friends tell me your every word " pantara-walk

"You see us comin'
And you all together run for cover
We're takin over this town" pantara-cowboys from hell

[Evening Falls Around Us]

I have a few.. I'll add more later... (as I remember them lol)
First off though, this is from Iron Maiden's "The Clarivoyent":

"There's a time to live and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange
That as soon as you're born you're dying"

[Bete Noire]

Not quite a favourite LINE, as such...

There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
There's a devil waiting outside your door
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
There's a devil waiting outside your door


Loverman! Since the world began
Forever, Amen Till end of time Take off that
dress I'm coming down I'm your loverman
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am


L is for LOVE, baby
O is for ONLY you that I do
V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are
E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do
R is for **** me
M is for MURDER me
A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to
be the answer to all of yours


Loverman! Till the bitter end
While empires burn down Forever and ever
and ever and ever Amen I'm your loverman
So help me, baby So help me
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
I'll be your loverman!


There's a devil crawling along your floor
There's a devil crawling along your floor
With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door
With his straining sex in his jumping paw
There's a devil crawling along your floor
And he's old and he's stupid and
he's hungry and he's sore
And he's lame and he's blind
and he's dirty and he's poor
Give him more
There's a devil crawling along your floor


Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
Forgive me, baby My hands are tied
And I got no choice No, I got no choice at all


I'll say it again
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for O yes I do
V is for VIRTUE, so I ain't gonna hurt you
E is for EVEN if you want me to
R is for RENDER unto me, baby
M is for that which is MINE
A is for ANY old how, darling
N is for ANY old time


I'll be your loverman! I got a masterplan
To take off your dress And be your man
Seize the throne Seize the mantle
Seize the crown Cause I am what I am
What I am what I am I'm your loverman!


There's a devil lying by your side
You might think he's asleep
but look at his eyes
He wants you, baby, to be his bride
There's a devil lying by your side

[Splintered]

"As in the life of rain
You're only alive when you're falling
The coldest chill
In the emptiness of reason

You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It begins today"

- Dark Tranquillity's A Closer End

[Zakyath]

"There are lessons that sadness
can only teach
there are things that we must learn
now I won't die if you walk away
but I may not live"

Walk Away - Crüxshadows

[MegearaErotica]

When you kiss me
Do you still taste her?
Are you thinking of, are you thinking of me?
With your lips pressed tightly up against his skin
Does your body still scream my name?
Does your body still scream my name?

Hold your breath to keep it
Trapped with secrets
'Til you're turning cold blue with guilt
Still, no blood is spilled
had I seen the plot twist coming
Would I had checked out the book
Even if I was dead
You would never be off the fucking hook

~Atreyu's Our Sick Story

[JCC]

I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter
But I feel much cleaner after it rains

- Tom Waits, Little Drop Of Poison

[Beowulf]

This is from one of my all time favourite songs and I also use the chorus to this song as my signiature !!!.

Sabbat `Horned Is The Hunter`


This is What hope for a king with no kingdom to rule?
now his children desert him -
regard him a fool,
and are bonded to progress -
the plough and the scythe -
that lay waste and leave barren
what beauty survives
though legends of power and glory suffice -
for these 'latter-day-heroes'
who live out their lives,
chained by conformity shackled by greed -
and told to believe they don't want to be freed.


I`ll post the song in its entirety on the lyrics thread !!!.

[BitternessMusic]

You want me?
F***ing come and find me.
I'll be waiting
With a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

Radiohead - Talk Show Host


One of my most favorite songs.

[Chumley]

Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack

Sixty Seconds, One hundred murders
The bill of rights is a bill of sale
What will you do when the war is over?
What will you do when your system fails?


- All Hope is Gone by Slipknot.

Slipknot and an unintentional King Crimson reference? Really? :P

"I'm not a drowning man! And I am not a burning building! Drowning cannot hurt a man! Burning cannot hurt a man! I'm a government man..."

Talking Heads, Born Under Punches (I guess you need the context, but whatever).

Basically, all of Time by Pink Floyd. One terrific song.

[crucifix]

Resurrection is for those.....who didn't get it right.....the first time.

Otep, sanctify

[JCC]

This is the year where hope fails you,
The test subjects run the experiments,
And the bastards you know, is the hero you hate.

- Slipknot, Pulse Of The Maggots

I predict a Slipknot-off between me and Joker.

[Disaffected Shoelaces]

She's my teenage baby and she turns me on
I'd like to make her do a nasty on the White House lawn
Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Frank Zappa

Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure amassing treasure - why scrape and save?
Why look so canny at ev'ry penny? You'll take no money into the grave.
Lanlord and gentry with all your plenty must still go empty where'er they're bound;
So to me thinkin' we'd best be drinkin', our glasses clinkin' another round.
Preab Son Ol, The Dubliners

They stay with the masses
Don't take any chances
End up emptying ashtrays
But I push, push, push, push
Throw the bones and the poison dice
No time for small moralists
But I am the dice man
Balls-on-the-line man
Do you take a chance, baby?
The Fall, Dice Man

Well they call me William The Pleaser
I sold opium, fireworks and lead
Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers
When the shadows get long I'll be dead

Now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar
Skin was as white as a cuttlefish bone
I left Texas to follow Lucinda
Now I'll never see heaven or home
Tom Waits, Lucinda

And finally, a fairly large excerpt from one of my favourite songs ever:

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn, we'll kneel and say a prayer
When the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair.
Sickbed of Cuchulainn, The Pogues

[a morbid curiosity]

The Pogues!
Why do you have such great taste in everything?

[Disaffected Shoelaces]

Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity

The Pogues!
Why do you have such great taste in everything?

I... have a crush on Shane MacGowan.

That pretty much quashes your second statement, right there.