What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck

Showing 9 responses by reubent

What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be

Enjoy,

TIC
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
She Came Along to Me

Words by Woody Guthrie-1942
Music by Wilco-1998

Ten hundred books could I write you about her
Cause I felt if I could know her
I would know all women
And they've not been any too well known
For brains and planning and organized thinking
But I'm sure the women are equal
And they may be ahead of the men

Yet I wouldn't spread such a rumor around
Cause one organizes the other
And sometimes the most lost and wasted
Attract the most balanced and sane
And the wild and the reckless take up
With the clocked and the timed
And the mixture is all of us
And we're still mixing

But never never never
Never could have it been done
If the women hadn't entered into the deal
Like she came along to me

And all creeds and kinds and colors
Of us are blending
Till I suppose ten million years from now
We'll all be just alike
Same color, same size, working together
And maybe we'll have all of the fascists
Out of the way by then
Maybe so

But never never never
Never could have it been done
If the women hadn't entered into the deal
Like she came along to me
kavakat1,

I hate to rain on your parade, but I believe those lyrics are from the song "Sam Stone" written by John Prine.
My last post to this thread was 14 years ago. Figured it was time to add another. Was listening to The Rainmakers - "The Good News and the Bad News" album tonight and I really enjoy the song "We Walk the Levee". Not many songs out there about long going family feuds. I like this one and here's the hook......

The mud and the guilt and the gun get heavy,
We do what we gotta. We walk the levee.
Like a little SyFi in your lyrics.........?

Cloud Cult - "The Mission: Unexplainable Stories"

We've been searching for our whole lives.
And we have traveled through unexplainable stories.
Swear to God I fought the good fight,
always waiting for the coming of morning.
I heard the Captain say, I heard the Captain say,
"The more I know, the less I'm knowing."
I heard the Captain say, I heard the Captain say,
"Activate your force-fields and just keep going..."
The Tubes - "Young and Rich"

Young and rich
Everything I desire
Light bulbs with shades
In every room