What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
Come to think of it. Always lover this:
(Michael Franks, Antonio's Song)

Antonio lives life's frevo
Antonio prays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred-proof
The vulture that circles Rio
Hangs in this L.A. sky
The blankets they give the Indians
Only make them die

But sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the Music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow

Antonio loves the desert
Antonio prays for rain
Antonio knows that Pleasure
Is the child of Pain
And lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
To the Amazon

We sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow.
I really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My word's but a whisper--your deafness a SHOUT!
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think....

--opening to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick

One of many wonderful moments penned by Ian Anderson. Probably my favorite all time lyric, but others are in the running.
They say it costs a lot to win, even more to lose.
You and me got to spend some time, wonderin' what to choose.
I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train.
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.

I don't know what this means, but it's like religion every time I hear it!