Favorite "quote" from a song?

[Nadril]

So, I know we all have certain quotes, be it a sentance or a paragraph, that really get's us going. It may mean something to us or it may just be that it's simply the damned coolest piece of lyrical content the world has to offer.

 

 

 

So, what about you? What are some of your favorite "quotes" from song lyrics?

 

 

 

 

 

I'll start as I have a few:

 

 

 

 

 

They say that lifes a carousel

 

Spinning fast, youve got to ride it well

 

The world is full of kings and queens

 

Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams

 

Its heaven and hell, oh well

 

And theyll tell you black is really white

 

The moon is just the sun at night

 

And when you walk in golden halls

 

You get to keep the gold that falls

 

Its heaven and hell, oh no!

 

 

 

A little long for a single quote, but the entire passage is amazing. It also just fits the mood for the entire song.

 

 

 

 

 

Grief is nothing life should be

 

Never bend for misery!

 

 

 

This one is much shorter. It seems like a fairly simple quote, but it's very true. Life should never be about the Greif of everything, and you should never give in to sadness (misery). Also, they way they sing it just brings the entire idea together.

 

 

 

 

 

Du er et tret rovdyr

 

PÃÆÃâÃâÃÂ¥ veien, haltende

 

Flenget opp

 

Av reisen

 

 

 

Kamuflert som menneske

 

Tatovert av slit

 

En eksistensens jeger, krigsmalt

 

Av ditt usynlige oppdrag

 

 

 

About a month back Azvi and Necro ( I think) helped me translate these lyrics. I forgot the actual literal meaning of them, but the reason they are so interesting is because they are the only lyrics the man had produced out of all his albums.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, what about you all?

[apinagez]

My favorite by far. :)

 

The muffin man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the utility muffin

 

Research kitchen... reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an

 

Intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants and brushing his scapular aside

 

Procceds to dump these inside of his shirt...

 

 

 

And:

 

I am IRONMAN!

 

 

 

How could I forget? This song has possibly the best lyrics you'll ever find in a rock song.

 

 

 

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon

 

And if there is no room upon the hill

 

And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too

 

Ill see you on the dark side of the moon

 

...

 

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

 

You shout and no one seems to hear

 

And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes

 

Ill see you on the dark side of the moon

[assassin_696]

When Im broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it

 

Where are you tonight, child you know how much I need it

 

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

 

 

 

Its never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder

 

Its never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her

 

Its never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter

 

Its never over, shes the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

 

 

 

I really love the lyrics in that song, so powerful and raw.

 

 

 

Drop down we two to serve and pray to love

 

Born again from the rhythm

 

Screaming down from heaven

 

Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms......

 

 

 

 

Poetry in music.

 

 

 

And i want you now

 

I want you now

 

I feel my heart implode

 

And i'm breaking out

 

Escaping now

 

Feeling my faith erode

 

 

 

 

Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, and all the things you do

 

 

 

 

I'll probably think of more later.

[How2PK]

Hah, that can only be:

 

 

 

Voice: Suzy?

 

Suzy: Yes?

 

Voice: Suzy Creamcheese?

 

Suzy: Yes?

 

Voice:This is the voice of your conscience baby, uh I just want to check one thing out with you, do you mind dear?

 

Suzy: What?

 

Voice: Suzy Creamcheese, honey, whats got into you?

 

Voices & weird sounds: Aaaaaaaah, hmmmmmmmm, ahahahah, oo-oo-oo

 

 

 

Hahah, it's so great. So funny. :D

[Bubsa]

 

Just as every cop is a criminal

 

And all the sinners saints

 

As heads is tails

 

Just call me lucifer

 

cause Im in need of some restraint

 

So if you meet me

 

Have some courtesy

 

Have some sympathy, and some taste

 

Use all your well-learned politesse

 

Or Ill lay your soul to waste

 

 

 

It just completes one of the best songs ever written.

[Necromagus]

I don't speak Swedish, so I doubt I helped you with that translation :-w

 

 

 

Back on topic:

Mark my words, believe my soul lives on

 

Don't worry now that I have gone

 

I've gone beyond to see the truth

 

 

 

When you know that your time is close at hand

 

Maybe then you'll begin to understand

 

Life down here is just a strange illusion.

[Nadril]

Hehe it was one of the other sweedish people on the forums.. can't remember their name atm.

 

 

 

@ How2PK: those lyrics are... interesting. :lol: .

 

 

 

edit: Few more quotes I thought of :

 

 

 

 

 

"It's the most awful thing you'll

 

ever hear."

 

"If you're lying to me..."

 

"Oh, you dearly love her."

 

"...just have to leave... all our lives."

 

"Seize the day!"

 

"Something happened.

 

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."

 

"She was killed."

 

 

 

 

Probaly my favorite part of the entire song, right at the climax it could seem.

 

 

 

 

 

Innocent victims for merciless crimes

 

Fall prey to some madman's for impulsive designs!

 

 

 

What quote's topic wouldn't be without octavarium? Anyways, every time I hear this part I seem to get chills... it's amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had to add two Dream Theater epics of course :wink: .

[megadedhed]

 

BUZZ: what about Ryan?

 

MAYNARD: no, he blew it, he lost the number for the girl he met down here.

 

BUZZ: oh,and Adam said she's a beauty.

 

MAYNARD: she's the one who has that [bleep]ed up voice.

 

BUZZ: is she a rocket scientist?

 

MAYNARD: the [bleep]in...she has a voice like a [bleep]in' modem dude!

 

BUZZ: (laughs) sounds perfect!

 

MAYNARD: immatates a chick with a voice like a modem sayin' some weird

 

gibberish...(you have to hear it)

 

BUZZ: (laughs heavely)

 

MAYNARD: then he got to work up there, you know Ryan gets off at work,i

 

guess to show that he has a [bleep].

 

BUZZ: (laughs again)

 

 

 

thats manyard from tool and buzz from the melvins, the song is "Divorced" off the Crybaby album.

[Futurama]

I know these are simple and probably pretty crap compared to some of yours but...reminds me of the girlfriend every time she's not here...and this song means a lot to me :)

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Melillo - Sam's Song

 

 

 

I hope you're waiting by the door when I get home

 

I don't want anyone to see me here alone

 

It's not enough to say I think about you now

 

But that was all I had, but that was all I had

 

But that was all I had.

 

 

 

I walk the boards alone tonight

 

And try to fill this empty space inside my chest

 

I take Atlantic home tonight

 

And every neon light in sight spells out your name

 

 

 

And every morning that I wake

 

I make a point to check the date, in case

 

I slept an extra day.

 

 

 

I cross as many numbers out

 

But every time I count them

 

There are so much more

 

 

 

The other one would be from

 

 

 

Alexisonfire/Dallas Green - Happiness By The Kilowatt

 

 

 

So this is continuous happiness?

 

You know, I always

 

Imagined it something more.

 

With the right drapes, the right paints

 

The right frames, this could really work

 

What a great day to spend indoors.

 

 

 

Wake, wake up, wake, wake up

 

 

 

In a hail of sparks

 

And a tangle of wires

 

Everything went wrong

 

 

 

So where has all the day gone?

 

And why are my lungs aching when I breathe?

 

Is there something wrong with the heat?

 

Why am I so cold?

 

And my heart feels sick

 

And it hurts when I speak

 

And this is not what I hoped for.

 

 

 

That song is amazin, it's just about how people have a perfect life planned out but once you reach it it might not be everything you thought it would be. Metaphorically, they build their perfect house; but once it's built, it's a beautiful day outside and they want to leave the house; beautiful song :]

[Lateralus]

Is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind,

 

and to lie to you rather than hurt you?

 

Well I'll confess all of of my sins

 

after several large gins

 

but still I'll hide from you,

 

hide what's inside from you.

 

 

 

]Why should I wait until tomorrow

 

It's already been, I've already seen all the sorrow that's in store

 

I will beg or steal or borrow

 

Hold on tighter to all that sorrow tries to choir

 

 

 

Come mothers and fathers

 

Throughout the land

 

And don't criticize

 

What you can't understand

 

Your sons and your daughters

 

Are beyond your command

 

You old road is

 

Rapidly agin'.

 

Please get out of the new one

 

If you can't lend your hand

 

For the times they are a-changin'.

 

 

 

Over thinking, over analyzing, separate the body from the mind

 

Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind

 

 

 

Feed my will to feel this moment

 

Urging me to cross the line

 

Reaching out to embrace the random

 

Reaching out to embrace whatever may come

 

 

 

Listen to the tales and romanticize,

 

How we follow the path of the hero.

 

Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.

 

How we rise to the height of our halo.

 

 

 

Listen to the tales as we all rationalize,

 

Our way into the arms of the savior.

 

Fading all the trials and the tribulations,

 

None of us have actually been there.

 

Not like you.

 

 

 

Cause I threw you the obvious to

 

See what occurs behind the

 

Eyes of a fallen angel

 

Eyes of a tragedy

 

 

 

Oh well

 

Oh well

 

Apparently nothing

 

Apparently nothing at all

 

 

 

The Libs/Doherty/Shambles songs because I love the romantic/poetic element in Doherty's lyrics, the Tool lyrics because they're so intelligent and literate, and the A Perfect Circle lyrics because they're just beautiful in content and delivery.

[zach312]

When I was a young boy,

 

My Father took me into the city,

 

To see a marching band.

 

 

 

He said, "Son when, you grow up,

 

Would you be the savior of the broken,

 

The beaten and the damned?"

 

 

 

He said, "Will you defeat them,

 

Your demons and all the non-believers,

 

The plans that they have made?

 

 

 

"Because one day, I leave you,

 

A phantom to lead you in the summer,

 

To join the black parade."

 

It's just beautiful. (And that's just the intro.) This band is gonna go places with this new album. \

[Miluion]

Wintersun - Sadness and Hate

 

 

 

Have we arrived from our journey, I must ask you now

 

At last I can cry, 'cause these sad words are calling me tonight

 

My eyes bleed for you my star, my pride and the love of my heart

 

But why did you had to fly so far, I raged and it tore me apart

 

I promise to you with sadness and hate

 

wherever I might go, you will know...

[WutangFlu]

Pink Floyd - "Breathe"

 

 

 

-For long you live and high you fly

 

--Smiles you give, and tears you'll cry,

 

---And all you touch and all you see,

 

----is all your life... will ever be.

 

 

 

You cant beat that...

[Bubsa]

Another one which appeals to me:

 

Feels like forever

 

Within my heart

 

Are memories

 

Of perfect love that

 

You gave to me

 

Oh, I remember

 

When you are with me

 

I'm free, I'm careless

 

I believe

 

Above all the others

 

We'll fly

 

This brings tears

 

To my eyes

 

My sacrifice

 

 

 

It's such a beautiful song, accompanied by a great rock piece. Makes me wish most love songs were like this. :) (Unless you interperate the lyrics to be about drugs - which you can do)

[assassin_696]

Another one which appeals to me:

 

Feels like forever

 

Within my heart

 

Are memories

 

Of perfect love that

 

You gave to me

 

Oh, I remember

 

When you are with me

 

I'm free, I'm careless

 

I believe

 

Above all the others

 

We'll fly

 

 

 

 

It's such a beautiful song, accompanied by a great rock piece. Makes me wish most love songs were like this. :) (Unless you interperate the lyrics to be about drugs - which you can do)

 

 

 

Oh wow, those lyrics just sum up so much for me, great song as well. :)

[Satenza]

 

Just as every cop is a criminal

 

And all the sinners saints

 

As heads is tails

 

Just call me lucifer

 

cause Im in need of some restraint

 

So if you meet me

 

Have some courtesy

 

Have some sympathy, and some taste

 

Use all your well-learned politesse

 

Or Ill lay your soul to waste

 

 

 

It just completes one of the best songs ever written.

 

 

 

Didn't quite fit at the end of that vampire flick, it was the Guns n Roses version though.

 

 

 

Mine are -

 

 

 

The change, it had to come

 

We knew it all along

 

We were liberated from the fold, that's all

 

And the world looks just the same

 

And history ain't changed

 

Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

 

 

 

there's no sensation to compare with this

 

suspended animation, a state of bliss

 

can't keep my mind from the circling sky

 

tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nights in white satin

 

Never reaching the end

 

Letters IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ve written

 

Never meaning to send

 

Beauty IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ve always missed

 

With these eyes before

 

Just what the truth is

 

I cant say anymore

[Sir_Alex85]

inson - I'm In A Band With An Italian Drummer"] I'm in a band with an italian drummer

 

And all the girls just fall into his lap

 

I'm in a band with an italian drummer

 

but for a foreigner, he's quite a nice chap

 

 

 

I love that song.

[harryp0tt3rules]

Jus 1 line favorite for me....

 

Green day.....

 

Holiday :)

 

 

 

Like an armagedon flame! the shame! the ones who died without a name!

 

 

 

Dunno....i jus like it somehow :?

[How2PK]

Sounds like elementary school rhyming. But that could be me of course.

 

 

 

Oh, I'm going for a TOOL part as well...

 

 

 

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf 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.

[Lateralus]

Sounds like elementary school rhyming. But that could be me of course.

 

 

 

Oh, I'm going for a TOOL part as well...

 

 

 

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf 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.

 

 

 

I was gonna put that as well, but I don't think just reading it does it justice. The delivery of those lines is absolutely perfect.

[Nahdrav]

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

 

 

 

 

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

 

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

 

So when you're waiting for the next attack

 

You'd better stand there's no turning back.

 

 

 

The bugle sounds and the charge begins

 

But on this battlefield no one wins

 

The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath

 

As I plunge on into certain death.

 

 

 

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run

 

The mighty roar of the Russian guns

 

And as we race towards the human wall

 

The screams of pain as my comrades fall

 

 

 

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground

 

And the Russians fire another round

 

We get so near yet so far away

 

We won't live to fight another day.

 

 

 

We get so close near enough to fight

 

When a Russian gets me in his sights

 

He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow

 

A burst of rounds take my horse below.

 

 

 

And as I lay there gazing at the sky

 

My body's numb and my throat is dry

 

And as I lay forgotten and alone

 

Without a tear I draw my parting groan

 

 

 

 

 

Iron Maiden - Paschendale

 

 

 

In a foreign field he lay

 

Lonely soldier, unknown grave

 

On his dying words he prays

 

Tell the world of Paschendale

 

 

 

Relive all that he's been through

 

Last communion of his soul

 

Rust your bullets with his tears

 

Let me tell you 'bout his years

 

 

 

Laying low in a blood filled trench

 

Kill tim 'til my very own death

 

On my face I can feel the falling rain

 

Never see my friends again

 

 

 

In the smoke, in the mud and lead

 

Smell the fear and the feeling of dread

 

Soon be time to go over the wall

 

Rapid fire and the end of us all

 

 

 

Whistles, shouts and more gun fire

 

Lifeless bodies hang on barbed wire

 

Battlefield nothing but a bloody tomb

 

Be reunited with my dead friends soon

 

 

 

Many soldiers eighteen years

 

Drown in mud, no more tears

 

Surely a war no-one can win

 

Killing time about to begin

 

 

 

Home, far away

 

From the war, a chance to live again

 

Home, far away

 

But the war, no chance to live again

 

 

 

The bodies of ours and our foes

 

The sea of death it overflows

 

In no man's land, God only knows

 

Into jaws of death we go

 

 

 

Crucified as if on a cross

 

Allied troops they mourn their loss

 

German war propaganda machine

 

Such before has never been seen

 

 

 

Swear I heard the angels cry

 

Pray to god no more may die

 

So that people know the truth

 

Tell the tale of Paschendale

 

 

 

Cruelty has a human heart

 

Every man does play his part

 

Terror of the men we kill

 

The human heart is hungry still

 

 

 

I stand my ground for the very last time

 

Gun is ready as I stand in line

 

Nervous wait for the whistle to blow

 

Rush of blood and over we go

 

 

 

Blood is falling like the rain

 

Its crimson cloak unveils again

 

The sound of guns can't hide their shame

 

And so we die on Paschendale

 

 

 

Dodging shrapnel and barbed wire

 

Running straight at the cannon fire

 

Running blind as I hold my breath

 

Say a prayer symphony of death

 

 

 

As we charge the enemy lines

 

A burst of fire and we go down

 

I choke a cry but no-one hears

 

Fell the blood go down my throat

 

 

 

Home, far away

 

From the war, a chance to live again

 

Home, far away

 

But the war, no chance to live again

 

 

 

See my spirit on the wind

 

Across the lines, beyond the hill

 

Friend and foe will meet again

 

Those who died at Paschendale

[How2PK]

I was gonna put that as well, but I don't think just reading it does it justice. The delivery of those lines is absolutely perfect.

 

 

 

True, when I re-read it after posting it was a bit of a weird read. Still briliant part though.

[Nadril]

Another one that skipped my mind:

 

 

 

Love can be like poetry of demons, or maybe

 

God loves complex irony?

 

 

 

Fit's perfectly with the song, and is a great quote even on it's own I think.

 

 

 

[sPOKEN]

 

I hereby commit thy body to the deep

 

To be turned into corruption

 

Looking for a resurrection of the body

 

When the sea shall give up her dead

 

And the life of the world to come, through our Lord

 

Amen

 

 

 

The very ending of the song. If you listen to the entire song it ends it perfectly.

 

 

 

 

 

I gave you my time

 

I gave you my whole life

 

I gave you my love, every dime

 

They told me it was a... crime

 

 

 

Do you remember?

 

Or did it all go in vain...

 

 

 

I bolded/italicised the word "vain" for a reason. This is probaly one of the best examples of the singer changing his/her voice that i've heard in a song.. and it fits perfectly. Right until the word "vain" he's singing in a very moderate voice, not too quiet or loud. When he gets to the word "vain" it somewhat explodes. Probaly my favorite part of one of my favorite songs.

[runemetsa]

Looking for my place

 

On assembly lines

 

Fake prizes

 

Risin out of the bombholes

 

Skeleton boys hyped up on purple

 

Smoke rings blow from across the disco

 

Bank notes burn like broken equipment

 

Lookin for shelter readjust your position

 

Thought control ghost written confessions

 

Two dimensions dumb your head down

 

Duck don't look now company missiles

 

Power is raunchy rent-a-cops are watching

 

Makin their dreams out of paper mache

 

Cliche wasted hate taste tested

 

 

 

Hell yes I'm movin this way I'm doin this thing

 

(please enjoy)

 

Hell yes I'm turnin it on

 

I'm workin my legs hell yes

 

I'm callin you out I'm switchin my plates

 

(please enjoy)

 

Hell yes

 

I'm cleanin the floor my beat is correct

 

 

 

Stretched to the limit attention spans

 

Snap back retract collapse into laugh tracks

 

Noise response applause and hand claps

 

Floodgates open to the sound of the rainbow

 

Breaking points on the verge of pointless

 

Fools anointed to the followers fanfare

 

Look for the common not superficial

 

Code red cola war conformity crisis

 

Perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles

 

With magic markers running out of their ink

 

Lives in white out

 

Turn the lights out

 

Fax machine anthems get your damn hands up

 

 

 

Hell yes I'm movin this way I'm doin this thing

 

(please enjoy)

 

Hell yes I'm turnin it on I'm workin my legs

 

Hell yes I'm callin you out I'm switchin my plates

 

(please enjoy)

 

Hell yes

 

I'm cleanin the floor

 

My beat is correct

 

I've never actually understanded the deepest message in beck's lyrics, but he still is one of the most respected songwriters in the world. If somebdoy just could tell me what exactly he is trying to tell to us?

[eckered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

 

 

 

 

ain't got grillz but i still got braces

 

 

 

 

im nerdy in thee extreem, nd whiter then sour cream

 

 

 

 

 

i memorized holy grail, really well, i can recite it right now; ROTFLOL