Favourite line?

[comaknight]

"So buy a pretty dress
Wear it out tonight
For anyone you think could out do me
Or better still, be my winding wheel " - Ryan Adams (Winding Wheel)

How about:

"...When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
.... {edit}                               

 Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up

Brilliant, fucking brilliant, best breakup song ever

I held my beer high in the air when he played that "Hard Way to Fall" (and last two times I saw him in the last 2 months (NYC & NJ):

"See her smiling at him?
That used to be me
...
And we used to be something
But somethin' happened to me
Oh, my God, when I was free
And it?s a hard way to fall
And this ain't easy way down
And it?s a hard thing to love anyone, anyhow"

Why are some of the greatest songs the most depressing?  Ahh, pour me another round.  We'll empty our glasses and fill them with tears.... 

[novemberparadise23]

"And it's so easy to be social, it's so easy to be cool,
Yeah, it's easy to be hungry when you ain't got shit to lose"

the one and only coma

[Bumblefeet]

"i must be gettin older im startin to eat my vegetables"

clean up before she comes by nirvana!

[Doc Emmett Brown]

I wear lace, and I wear black leather
My hands are lightning up on my gun

My shots are clean
And my, my shots are final
My shots are deadly
And when it's done

You're as stiff as my smoking barrel
You're as dead as a desert night
You're a notch
And I'm a legend
You're at peace
And I must hide

~ Alice Cooper, Desperado

[Mr. Dick Purple]

My soul is painted like the wings of Butterflies
Farytales of yesterday's will grow but never die
I can fly my friends

The Show Must go ON by Queen

I find it very true this sentence as Freddie keeps living in his music after 15 years of being dead and will be alive for ever 

[Derby Greg]

"I'm me and that's all I'll ever be"

Duff McKagan - Mezz

-Greg (off to put Blind Melon on as inspired by this thread)

[liquidvirus]

"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"
Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of
absolutely brilliant display of rebellion

[journey]

A great love song -- the best since Stuck On You by Mr. L. Richie

I can be an asshole of the grandest kind
I can withold like it's going out of style
I can be the moodiest baby
And you've never met anyone
As negative as I am sometimes

I am the wisest woman you've ever met
I'm the kindest soul with whom you've connected
I have the bravest heart that you've ever seen
And you've never met anyone
As positive as I am sometimes

You see everything
You see every part
You see all my light
And you love my dark
You dig everything
Of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

Everything - Alanis Morissette

[Lara]

Alanis has some of the best lyrics around. 
So simple and true.

[mornintrain]

And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

[Queen of Everything]

Oh Georgie stay, don't go away
Georgie please stay you take our breath away




He said "Never wait or hesitate
Get in kid, before it's too late
You may never get another chance
'Cos youth a mask but it don't last
live it long and live it fast"
Georgie was a friend of mine

-- Killing of Georgie Parts one and Two

[GnFnR87]

And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

ah, Just Like Heaven, Perect.

speaking of The Cure, i'd pick the oldies "Siamese Twins" and "The Figurehead" here's a sample from, "Siamese Twins":

I chose an eternity of this
Like falling angels
The world disappeared
Laughing into the fire
Is it always like this?
Flesh and blood and the first kiss
The first colors
The first kiss
We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile
Siamese twins
A girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me
It falls apart
The walls and the ceiling move in time
Push a blade into my hands
Slowly up the stairs
And into the room
Is it always like this?
Dancing in my pocket
Worms eat my skin
She glows and grows
With arms outstretched
Her legs around me
In the morning I cried
Leave me to die
You won't remember my voice
I walked away and grew old
You never talk
We never smile
I scream
You're nothing
laughing into the fire
is it always like this?

perfection, i still love THe Cure, but i wish Robert Smith still wrote like this....

[journey]

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time
I better stop now before I start crying
Go off to sleep in the sunshine
I don't want to see the day when it's dying

You don't deserve to be lonely
But those drugs you got won't make you feel better
Pretty soon you'll find it's the only
Little part of your life you're keeping together

Because your candle burns too bright
Well, I almost forgot it was twilight


Elliott Smith - Twilight

[Kujo]

Some people die by the razor
Some people die by the knife
In the movies they die by the laser
Some people die by the wife

Some people die by the shotgun
Some people get lost in a maze
Some people think its a whole lot of fun getting high
Getting lost in a haze

I just want to drown in your love
I want to drown

Drowned - The Who

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Everytime I see this in the streets of life it just make me sad
Phill Collins - Another day In paradise 

She calls out to the man on the street
sir, can you help me?
Its cold and Ive nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?

He walks on, doesnt look back
He pretends he cant hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, its another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, its just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see shes been crying
Shes got blisters on the soles of her feet
Cant walk but shes trying

Oh think twice...

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that shes been there
Probably been moved on from every place
cos she didnt fit in there

Oh think twice...

[hebbesy]

Ok here goes my first post and thought I would start with fave lyrics.

Manic Street Preachers - This Is Yesterday (whole song is great lyrically)

"Do not listen to a word I say
just listen to what I can keep silent
the only way to gain approval
is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me
I stare at the sky
and it leaves me blind
I close my eyes
and this is yesterday
someone somewhere soon will take care of you
I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart
houses as ruins and gardens as weeds
why do anything when you can forget everything
I stare at the sky
and it leaves me blind
I close my eyes
and this is yesterday
I stare at the sky "

Next up for me is:

"Well, youre drunk in the alley, baby
With your clothes all torn
And your late night friends
Leave you in the cold grey dawn
Just seemed too many flies on you
I just cant brush them off"

Rolling Stones - Shine A  Light

Next not my style of music anymore but still great lyrics:

There now, just fading in my mind,
irrelevant echoes of mankind.
I never met their demands.
And they never gave me half a chance.

And I don?t know
another thing to talk about.
But I don?t ask for your help
so you can just
forget me.
 

Unbelievable Truth - Forget About Me

Loads more but im at work so better not be on here too long.

[Drew]

They painted up your secrets
And the lies they told to you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew
And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming?
No one's listening anyway.

Your voice is small and fading
And you're hiding here unknown
And you mother loves you father
'cause she's got nowhere to go
And she wonders where these dreams go
'cause the world got in her way
What's the point in never trying?
Nothing's changing anyway.

They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling anyway
And you know I see right through you
'cause the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming?
You're not listening anyway.

Accoustic #3 (No One's Listening) -  Goo Goo Dolls

[GnFnR87]

I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.

Tool, "Lateralus"

amazing...

[journey]

Bless your soul
You really think you're in control
Well

I think you're crazy
Just like me

My heroes had the heart
to put their lives out on the limb
And all I remember
is thinking I want to be like them

Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably


Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

[Demon Wolf]

Shoot by Magnum- Best lyrics EVER It was written 1990, but it reflects society today as well ^^

You take a dangerous line
Holding a loaded gun
It's just a matter of time
Before you hurt someone

So keep your running shoes close
And sing your rebel song
Then disappear like a ghost
The hunter won't be long

Don't you know there's no forgiving
Like a rabbit on the run
When you have to go on living
By the gun...

Shoot
Someone cries, that's the beginning
Shoot
Justify the blood you're spilling
Shoot
Show the world that you're not kidding