re: Best song lyrics of all time

The entirety of Dark Side of the Moon qualifies for this topic. Best album of all time.

But, to contribute something new to the discussion, I'll nominate "Fight Test" by the Flaming Lips:


I thought I was smart, I thought I was right,
I thought it better not to fight,
I thought there was a virtue in always being cool.
So it came time to fight, and I thought I'll just step aside
And that the time would prove you wrong,
And that you would be the fool.

I don't know where the sunbeams end,
And the starlight begins
It's all a mystery

Oh, to fight is to defend - if it's not now, then tell me when
Would be the time that you would stand up and be a man?
For to lose I could accept, but to surrender - I just wept
And regretted this moment that I was the fool.

I don't know where the sunbeams end,
And the starlight begins
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides
What is right for his own life
It's all a mystery

'Cause I'm a man, not a boy, and there are things you can't avoid,
You have to face them when you're not prepared to face them.
If I could, I would, but you're with him now, it'd do no good.
I should have fought him, but instead I let him take you.

Is there anyone who
Ever remembers changing their mind from
The paint on a sign
Is there anyone who really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time
Oh everyone believes
In how they think it ought to be
Oh everyone believes
And they're not going easily
Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching underwater
You never can hit who you're trying for
Some need the exhibition
And some have to know they tried
It's the chemical weapon
For the war that's raging on inside
Oh everyone believes
From emptiness to everything
Oh everyone believes
And no one's going quietly
We're never gonna win the world
We're never gonna stop the war
We're never gonna beat this
If belief is what we're fighting for
We're never gonna win the world
We're never gonna stop the war
We're never gonna beat this
If belief is what we're fighting for
Is there anyone who can remember
Ever surrender, with their life on the line
We're never gonna win the world
We're never gonna stop the war
We're never gonna beat this
If belief is what we're fighting for
We're never gonna win the world
We're never gonna stop the war
We're never gonna beat this
If belief is what we're fighting for
What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand?
Belief can
Belief can
What puts the folded flag inside his mother's hand?
Belief can
Belief can

John Prine.

There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes….

I hate graveyards and old pawn shops.
For they always bring me tears. I can’t forget the way they rob me. Of my childhood souvenirs.

A thousand dollar car ain't gonna roll
'Til you throw at least another thousand in the hole
Sink your money in it, and there you are
The owner of a two thousand dollar thousand dollar car

“ Tears In Heaven”…….


Powerful…………

quote:

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Kris Kristofferson “Me and Bobby McGee”

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I’d trade all of my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.

You F*** like a woman, but love like a little girl

American Aquarium-I hope he breaks your heart

"It's better to feel pain
Than nothing at all
The opposite of love's indifference."

Stubborn Love - The Lumineers

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life and life only

- Bob Dylan

"She's so fine there's no telling where the money went"

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible