Your Best Line

[Elias Graves]

I love this thread. There are a lot of talented lyricists here. I think it is so hard to pick favorites from my songs. Each one is special in its own way, kinda like children. Maybe my favorite single line, in reference to a girl in traffic... She's a hand yeller, like Helen Keller And traffic vigilantes want to get into her panties But my favorite verse is in a song about my real problems with addictions, and how they've screwed up my relationships with people around me. My band doesn't like this song so much, because it is pretty meloncholy, and we're more of an upbeat party band. So I made a promise to my liver One that I could not deliver Not unlike the one I made you all those years ago. Now that bottle keeps on calling Into its grip I keep on falling. To hell with all those preachy people that I used to know. You wanted me to prove I loved you. The only proof I had was 80. I spent the night alone And learned something I should've known Booze ain't no substitute for a lady

 

 

That's cool. Love the dark humor.

 

EG

[mat4365]

Neil Young:

"It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition
and the morning sun has yet to climb my hood ornament"
-Roll another number (for the road)

Oh Yeah Baby!!

Favourate lines I have written:

"Truce town, 6am
Cold and grey Sunday
Litter on the street was put there
by the drunks of last night
Birds are on the roof and gutter
of the red brick arcade
by the supermarket
where the kids all hang out" ("Truce Town, 6am", Kaned Citizen)

"It

[Fenderman1991]

Everyone likes my line/title/song "Clear Eyes and Hazel Skies".

Came up with it in Chemistry last year. Don't ask why or how.

As for one someone else wrote, I probably couldn't pick just one. The Beatles have a lot of my favorites though.

[nat whilk II]

ok, this is a first post for lyrics for me, so don't hurt me too bad...but I am pretty pleased with this one. The song is a quiet, simple tune.....

Simple and Sad

Simple and sad
Simple and sad
Are the things you tell
To your wishing well.

Simple and good
Simple and good
Is the scattered light
In the deepest wood.

Why don't you look there?
There's a spot of sunlight
Glowing on the floor of your despair.

Simple and sad
Simple and sad
Is the story read
In your tossled bed

Simple and sweet
Simple and sweet
Are the faithful stars
In the dark of night, complete

Why don't you look there?
There's a haze of starlight
Your eyes can follow it through the air

Simple and sad
Simple and sad
That old voice you hear
And that familiar fear

Simple and true
Simple and true
Are the spiritwords
God whispers to you.

Why don't you look there?
In the darkest silence
At the heart of your unanswered prayer.

nat whilk ii

[Elias Graves]

ok, this is a first post for lyrics for me, so don't hurt me too bad...but I am pretty pleased with this one. The song is a quiet, simple tune..... Simple and Sad Simple and sad Simple and sad Are the things you tell To your wishing well. Simple and good Simple and good Is the scattered light In the deepest wood. Why don't you look there? There's a spot of sunlight Glowing on the floor of your despair. Simple and sad Simple and sad Is the story read In your tossled bed Simple and sweet Simple and sweet Are the faithful stars In the dark of night, complete Why don't you look there? There's a haze of starlight Your eyes can follow it through the air Simple and sad Simple and sad That old voice you hear And that familiar fear Simple and true Simple and true Are the spiritwords God whispers to you. Why don't you look there? In the darkest silence At the heart of your unanswered prayer. nat whilk ii

 

 

That's pretty good. I like the way the simplicity seems to reinforce the sparseness of the lyrics. It adds to the power of the message. Sometimes the simple things are the best.

 

EG

[D_Ciple15]

Favorites of mine are.

"I turn around and start to walk
I look back at you just to see you in shock.
Thank god the door was unlocked.
Otherwise I would have to stay."

"It's so much easier to believe in fate than to think I {censored}ed up."

"There's an inherent guilt in everything I do
I get drunk, hold women and pretend it's you.
But they aren't you."

and my two favorite lines ever are from Weezer and Harvey Danger.

"But that's just a stupid dream that I can't realize
Cause I can't even look in your eyes.
Without shakin' and I ain't fakin'
I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon."

"Remeber Pericles? He democratized the city with his mind
A little wisdom never hurt anyone.
Tell that to Socrates, telling the citizens what they needed to hear
And so they fed him hemlock."

I don't know what but I just the second one to be really funny.

[rockinrobby]

"I apologize for being late? But I didn't want to come prematurely..."

[light_without_heat]

Some of mine...

When my day is done,
I will know if the undertow,
Pulls you near,
Water whispering into your ear.


This is from a song critiquing Hollywood and the ridiculousness of at all through a once-determined-to-make-it girl's eyes. I called it "Holly Won't"
Everyone wants to say something smart about L.A.,
And the cultural abnormalities that lay,
Out on the hills; they forcefully spill,
Covering the globe

Picture a girl mad at the world,
that dressed up plastic like a pearl.
Everyone knows but still they pose,
When the red light glows... Holly Won't

[Lee Knight]

Another lesson to be learned
Can't walk across a bridge that burned

[Chicken Monkey]

I was just blown away by this verse from "Good Year for the Roses":

I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick
On the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lying cold the way you left them
But at least your lips caressed them while you packed
Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee
That you poured and didn't drink
But at least you thought you wanted it
That's so much more than I can say for me

The way the lines are broken up on this cut-and-pasted version doesn't do the meter and internal rhyme justice, but it's an incredibly powerful set of lines.

Of my own, I got a good reaction at my songwriter's group last week with,

"She stood out like a birch among the pines"

But I've always been afraid that it doesn't resonate with anyone who hasn't spent long hours driving through pine forests. If you have, though, it's a pretty vivid image.

[rockinrobby]

"It was touch and go there for a while, I kept touching myself, and she kept asking me to go."

[Lee Knight]

At my bedside, empty pocket, a foot without a sock
Your body gets much closer I fumble for the clock
alarmed by... the seduction
I wish that it would stop

[adorduan]

There is a song on Jordan Zevon's CD that starts:

There's a message in this bottle
and I'll drink until i find it

I think those lines are pretty cool.

[MDR]

Opening lines (written in the 90s, haven't gotten any further yet)

Johnny grabbed a sleeping bag, stuffed it in his pack
Tossed in a toothbrush and a book by Kerouac

[tbry]

"It was touch and go there for a while, I kept touching myself, and she kept asking me to go."

:lol:

[TeeDupree]

"to make it up I do whatever it take
I love you like a fat kid love cake
You know my style
I say anything to make you smile "

- 50 Cent. Hehe

[rockinrobby]

Are you going to pull those pistols? Or are you going to whistle Dixie...

[DL2]

Hmm. Let's see here. Have I written anything good?

This is from a song called 'Lightyears':

Though the stars and the sky seem the same to my eyes it's been proven they're lightyears apart.
Though the scientists say stars still shine in the day I recall seeing most in the dark.

This one's from one called 'Silver Rings':

Silver rings are saving my life with a pledge and a wife.
And it wont be long before all of my children are singing this song.

This is from one called 'Terribly Wrong':

Oh, the planets are turning faster than you'd ever hope to run.
Don't bother trying, I read it in a book my love.

And finally 'Let Go':

Please don't gamble with your life. That's crazy.
Please don't make another move. You're angry
Please don't throw it all away. It's only just begun.

And as for my favorite line of all time, it probably belongs to 'A Day In The Life':

And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh. I saw the photograph.

And we all know what he says after that.

Although it may belong to Radiohead's 'No Surprises' as well:

A heart that's filled up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Who says that won't be?

I'll take the quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
With no alarms and no surprises please

[Temple of Light]

Cant telll you until it's copyrighted.

[Ernest Buckley]

Lots of great lyrics out there but some of my own which still resonate with me years after having written them...

"No one heard, revelation spoke
A Rome was built, a Rome would fall
A Holy Man turned victim soul
John 3:16, 14:12
Look to yourself to save your soul
Look to yourself to save your world" -from my first record "Be Your Own" (the song Innocence Is Gone)

and a newer one...

"Where stone meets sky, we realize, love is the only destination" -from my second record "The Hundredth Monkey" (the song Believe In Me)

[rangerrick]

Thers so much I could say but the words get in the way, so just stay by my side forever.

[stickboymusic]

If your heart moves as fast as a runaway train
then theres always a chance you'll be headin' my way
cos ive got the flame if youve got the fuel
if we got the together we could spark something new
cos ive got the feeling
one must be better as two.

[Elias Graves]

Lots of great lyrics out there but some of my own which still resonate with me years after having written them... "No one heard, revelation spoke A Rome was built, a Rome would fall A Holy Man turned victim soul John 3:16, 14:12 Look to yourself to save your soul Look to yourself to save your world" -from my first record "Be Your Own" (the song Innocence Is Gone) and a newer one... "Where stone meets sky, we realize, love is the only destination" -from my second record "The Hundredth Monkey" (the song Believe In Me)

 

 

That's cool.

 

EG

[notlimah]

Suicide bombers
Killing for some piece of land
Baby

[Matximus]

These are from: Crawled off a Ledge (Jumped in a bottle of Jack)

which I wrote a couple weeks ago. I was happy with them:

I won't shoot myself
I'll take shots until I see black

Crawled off a ledge...

I'll take off a noose
And tie one on with some of that...