Best Song Lyrics Ever

[Tommy Gun]

To start at the top of the food chain hands down is….


Triumphs “Fight The Good Fight”

Been one of my all time favorites since I was a teenager. Just seems to resonate through my life.


Under that what do you have? Favorite lines in a song?


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[Tommy Gun]

My second that always comes to mind is The Cars, All I Can Do


One too many times
I twisted the gate
When I was crazy
I thought you were great

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[twobjshelbys]

I usually associate this kind of question with my "Sad Songs" list (although not all of them are sad) which I think had a topic in one of the predecessors of this forum. There are so many songs that I didn't really care for with the music and then I actually listened to the lyrics.

I'm sure if I went through the list I'd pick out a few lines that matter but for now just the whole song's "poem".

The first time it happened was when I was on my first road trip, driving across Texas on the way back from Phoenix to Iowa. Elton John's Daniel was at the top of the charts and it seemed no matter what station I was listening to it would be on the air at least once an hour... Somewhere I wasn't paying any attention to anything except the lyrics and Bernie Taupin's poem smacked me up the side of the head...

Hurt (Johnny Cash version)

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

Hotel California (just a great song on the happy side :) )

Comfortably Numb

Almost anything by Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf, Pat Benetar)

When Doves Cry (Prince)

Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (she's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Edge of Seventeen

You and Me (Alice Cooper)

But you and me ain't no movie stars
What we are is what we are

Ballad of Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war

It irked me that Clint Eastwood's movie Flags of our Fathers didn't use this song at the final credits.



Key Largo

We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall

The Three Bells



These are the ones I can think of right now. I'm sure more will blink into consciousness tonight while I'm staring at the ceiling at 3AM.

[Tommy Gun]

Lol


A couple of those I will have to look up.

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[Tommy Gun]

Since this was about lyrics, not songs, were there specific lyrics that stand out?


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[twobjshelbys]

Since this was about lyrics, not songs, were there specific lyrics that stand out?


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As I said, these are on my list because of the lyrics. Not just a few lines (although some are known for only that) but the whole "poem". Subtract the music, just read the words.

[tekheavy]

Eagles, "Already Gone"

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key



This always hit home with me.

[Tommy Gun]

As I said, these are on my list because of the lyrics. Not just a few lines (although some are known for only that) but the whole "poem". Subtract the music, just read the words.

Oops, okay

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[Tommy Gun]

Eagles, "Already Gone"

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key



This always hit home with me.

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[twobjshelbys]

Oops, okay

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Watching an old Monk with laptop on lap so I'll go back to the song lyrics of a few and edit in a few sound bites... This will require you to read back and the edits will not be all at once.