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Favourite lyrics to a song?

Oran G. Utan

I couldn't possibly pick an all time favourite, but here's some that spring to mind.

"Why did God make me feel there is more to be answered? Maybe God cannot remedy our souls if he tried?" - Kamelot, "Farewell"

"No one surveys the whole. Focus on things so small. But, life's objective is to make it meaningful." - Epica, "Sensorium"

"Horrifying fecal demons/ Rising up out of the caverns below/ Dark robotic astral zombies/ Eating the peasants who live in Glasgow." - Gloryhammer, "The Siege of Dunkeld" (from Glasgow, I laugh every time)

"I've got this madman in my mind, this prolific designer. And he's working overtime, and he gets all wired up." - Poets of the Fall, "Drama for Life"

"'No reason to get excited.' the thief he kindly spoke, 'There are many here among us, who think that life is but a joke." - Jimi Hendrix, "All Along the Watchtower".

  • (all along the watch tower was written specifically for hendrix by dylan)

    my favs are (today)

    subterranean homesick blues

    sunny goodge street

    across the universe

  • There are just too many to choose from, this is one of my favourites.

    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

    When are you gonna come down?
    When are you going to land?
    I should have stayed on the farm
    I should have listened to my old man
    You know you can't hold me forever
    I didn't sign up with you
    I'm not a present for your friends to open
    This boy's too young to be singing
    The blues, ah, ah
    So goodbye yellow brick road
    Where the dogs of society howl
    You can't plant me in your penthouse
    I'm going back to my plough
    Back to the howling old owl in the woods
    Hunting the horny back toad
    Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
    Beyond the yellow brick road
    Ah, ah
    What do you think you'll do then?
    I bet they'll shoot down the plane
    It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
    To set you on your feet again
    Maybe you'll get a replacement
    There's plenty like me to be found
    Mongrels who ain't got a penny
    Sniffing for tidbits like you
    On the ground, ah, ah
    So goodbye yellow brick road
    Where the dogs of society howl
    You can't plant me in your penthouse
    I'm going back to my plough
    Back to the howling old owl in the woods
    Hunting the horny back toad
    Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
    Beyond the yellow brick road
    Ah, ah
  • in reply to Moonshadow

    I love Dylan. Forever young is sung to my girls at bedtime. Every grain of sand is amazing too.

  • Oh gosh, where to start. 

    "You lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head but it's not me" Pink Floyd.

    "Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude" The Jam

    "I have all of life's treasures, and they're fine and they're good, they remind me a house isn't just made of wood" Tom Waits

    "Let there be songs to fill the air" Grateful Dead

    "Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies" Jimmy Cliff

    "Deep down I'm still an awkward kid, I'm not half the man I thought that I'd grow up to be" Mega City Four 

    "F**k you I won't do what you tell me" RATM.

    "I guess I just wasn't made for these times" Beach Boys

    I will stop. I could do this all night

  • Who can it be knocking at my door make no noise tip toe across the floor-colin hay/men at work

    In my life why do I give valuable time to people who dont care if I live or die -morrisey/the Smiths

  • The Who, Behind Blue Eyes

    "No one knows what it's like
    To be the bad man
    To be the sad man
    Behind blue eyes
    And no one knows what it's like
    To be hated
    To be fated to telling only lies
    But my dreams they aren't as empty
    As my conscience seems to be
    I have hours, only lonely
    My love is vengeance
    That's never free
    No one knows what it's like
    To feel these feelings
    Like I do
    And I blame you (you, you, you)
    No one bites back as hard
    On their anger
    None of my pain and woe
    Can show through"

  • R.E.M., Everybody Hurts

    "When your day is long
    And the night, the night is yours alone
    When you're sure you've had enough
    Of this life, well hang on
    Don't let yourself go
    'Cause everybody cries
    Everybody hurts sometimes"
  • in reply to Martin

    Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

    "Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
    I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
    I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
    I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
    I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
    And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
    And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."

  • in reply to Martin

    Dylan, Positively 4th Street

    "You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend

    When I was down you just stood there grinnin'

    You've got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
    You just want to be on the side that's winnin'"
    Genius.
  • in reply to Moonshadow

    Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence

    "Hello darkness, my old friend
    I've come to talk with you again
    Because a vision softly creeping
    Left its seeds while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted in my brain
    Still remains
    Within the sound of silence"
  • in reply to Moonshadow

    I think them different but equal, much the same with Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man and The Byrds' version.

  • in reply to Oran G. Utan

    Its Originally by Bob Dylan , but he played it solo just on an acoustic guitar, The Jimi Hendrix electric version is better in my Opinion 

  • in reply to Moonshadow

    I first heard the song on Guitar Hero 3, credited to Bob Dylan. Since then I've also heard it credited to Hendrix, so I was uncertain where it actually came from.

  • I have too many favourite lyrics.

    I always liked the way Robert Smith of The Cure was playful with words - mixing nouns and verbs etc.

    A good example is from "High"

    And when I see you kitten as a cat
    Yeah, as smitten as that, I can't get that small
    The way you fur, the how you purr
    It makes me want to paw you all

  • I also love the song Suzanne by Leonard Cohen, I like the way there is no obvious rhyme at the end of each sentence like rhyming cat with mat lol,  he is rhyming the syllables instead 

    Now Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river
    She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters
    And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbor
    And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers
    There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning
    They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever
    While Suzanne holds the mirror

  • Dylan again, well he is a Nobel Prize winner for literature.

    Lay Down Your Weary Tune.

    I stood unwound beneath the skies
    And clouds unbound by laws
    The crying rain like a trumpet sang
    And asked for no applause

    Lay down your weary tune, lay down
    Lay down the song you strum
    And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
    No voice can hope to hum

    Ewan MacColl

    The first time, ever I saw your face.

    The first time, ever I saw your face
    I thought the sun rose in your eyes
    And the moon and the stars
    Were the gifts you gave
    To the dark, and the endless skies

  • And of course i like the lyrics from a song called moonshadow lol

    "Yes, I'm bein' followed by a moonshadow
    Moonshadow, moonshadow
    Leapin' and hoppin' on a moonshadow
    Moonshadow, moonshadow"

  • I actually sing All Along the watchtower, I have it in my music setlist that i play,  I'm a massive bob dylan fan.  I mostly like dylans lyrics from the late 60's , he was reading a lot of french symbolic poetry at the time.  One of my favorites is the song "I want you"


    "The guilty undertaker sighs
    The lonesome organ grinder cries
    The silver saxophones say I should refuse you
    The cracked bells and washed-out horns
    Blow into my face with scorn
    But it’s not that way
    I wasn’t born to lose you"

    I also like simon and garfunkel , I always related to the lyrics in a song called I am a Rock

    "I've built walls
    A fortress deep and mighty
    That none may penetrate
    I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain

    It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
    I am a rock I am an island"