Favourite lyrics to a song?

he wrote it for jimmy.

ripple has great lyrics!

(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.

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

R.E.M., Everybody Hurts

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."

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'

Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence

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

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 

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"