Favorite song quote(s)?

Post Reply New Topic

I was just wondering to see what everyone's favorite quote from a song is.

My favorite song quote is this.
"It's hard to keep from getting burned when love is like fire."-from To Keep from Getting Burned by Motionless in White. I'm not even a big metal fan but it amazes me how powerful one phrase in a song can be.

"You should never let the sun set on tomorrow, before the sun rises today." - from "If I Am" by Nine Days. Basically a quote about never giving up hope for the future. At least that's how I interpreted it.

'Ain't thou watching my film, analysing me' has been one I dug for a while. I don't think it's my favourite quote, but it's still cool as f**k. I can't be bothered to pick one, I memorise every lyric I like.

"Can't see the forest through the trees"

"I'm not sick but I'm not well" from Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
"Ten years have got behind you-no one told you when to run,you missed the starting gun" Time by Pink Floyd
"

I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, lazing on a sunny afternoon in the summertime

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks - Face To Face - 1966

Both from "Already Gone" by the Eagles:

"The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why, but I guess you felt like you had to set things right.
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light."

"Heaven knows it wasn't you who held me down. Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free.
So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

Det finnes ingen sommer uten vinter - There is no summer without winter

" Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies,... tounge tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit, I "

Pink Floyd, Momentary Lapse Of Reason

"Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live at all."
- Marilyn Manson, "The Reflecting God"

"Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism; never draw so close to the heat that you forget that you must eat."

Composer: Joanna Newsom
Song: 'En Gallop'
Album: The Sprout and the Bean

"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying. Over time didn't see, that the joke was on me" - I started a Joke by Faith No More (BeeGees cover)

"You're punching, kicking, and you're shouting at me. I'm relying on your common decency. So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists. It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fist" - People Are People by A Perfect Circle

"Yes it is I, Lottie, The Curse of Millhaven, I've struck horror in the heart of this town. Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow, it's more like the other way around. I've got a pretty little mouth, underneath all the foam" - Curse of Millaven by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

"He flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line. He made a promise that would kill off all the swine. His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering in vain. Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name" - Heresy by NIN

Too many (I listen to indie rap mainly after all). Though one has always stood out to me as the epitome of figurative speech:

"no more hourglasses, I'm allergic to saltwater"

-Adeem on The Canada Project

Cool. James Manyard Keenan was their frontman, right?

Song quote I've got in my head now, so I'll post it here: "Just a hedonistic fool who knows exactly how his story's got to end" - From Miss Martell by Zoe Devlin-Love.