What's your favorite song lyric ever?

[Aledinho]

Brooks Benton Rainy Night In Georgia

I find me a place in a box car, so I take my guitar to pass some time
Late at night when it's hard to rest I hold your picture to my chest and I feel fine
But it's a rainy night in Georgia, baby, it's a rainy night in Georgia
I feel it's rainin' all over the world, kinda lonely now And it's rainin' all over the world​

 

[Bamaparrotheads]

"Far Side Of The World", by Jimmy Buffett


Ramadan is over,
The new moon's shown her face,
I'm halfway round the planet,
In a most unlikely place.


Following my song line
Past bamboo shacks and shops
Behind a jitney packed like sardines,
With bananas piled on top.


I ran away from politics,
It's too bizarre at home.
Away I flew, tuned into Blue
"Maybe Amsterdam or Rome"


Awakened by a stewardess,
With Spain somewhere below.
On the threshold of adventure,
God I do love this job so.


So while I make my move
On the big board game
Up and down a Spanish highway,
Some things remain the same.
Girls meet boys
and the boys tease girls
I'm heading out this morning,
For the Far Side of the World.


Oh I believe in song lines
Obvious and not
I'd ridden them like camels
To some most peculiar spots.


They run across the oceans
Through mountains and saloons
And tonight out to the dessert
Where I sit atop this dune.


I was destined for this vantage point
Which is so far from the Sea
I've lived it in the pages of Saint-Exupery


From Paris to Tunisia
Casablanca to Dakar
I was riding long before I flew
Through the wind and sand and stars.


Caravan
Ride that hump
And Timbuktu's a jillion bumps
Sleeping bags and battle flags
Are coiled and furled
That's the way you travel
To the far side of the world!


A Sunset framed by lightening bolts
Burns a lasting memory
And a string of tiny twinkling lights
adorn the sausage tree.
While the embers from the log fire
Flicker, fly, and twirl
Then drift off toward the cosmos
From the Far Side of the World.
Well it's Christmas and my birthday
and so to that extent
The Masai not the wise men
Are circling my tent.
I teach them how to play guitar
They show me how to dance
We have rum from the Caribbean
And Burgundy from France.


New Year's Eve in Zanzibar
With Babu and his boys
High up on the rooftop
You can relish all the noise.


They are dancing on the tables
People bouncing like gazelles
Two 0-0-1 is ushered in
With air raid horns and bells.


Time to sing time to dance
Living out my second chance.


Cobras and sleeping bags are coiled and curled
That's the way it happens
On the Far Side of the World.


Back at home, it's afternoon
Six thousand miles away.
I will still be there when I get through
Attending this soiree


There are jobs and chores and questions
And plates I need to twirl,
But tonight I'll take my chances,
On the Far Side of the World.
That's the way it happens
On the Far Side of the World.

 

[Bazza]

I can't cry anymore
While you run around
Break away
Just when it
Seems so clear
That it's
Over now
Drink your big black cow
And get out of here

 

[Bazza]

Times are hard
You're afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
When you need a bit of lovin'
Cause your man is out of town
That's the time you get me runnin'
And you know I'll be around

I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah

Light the candle
Put the lock upon the door
You have sent the maid home early
Like a thousand times before
Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same

 

[Bazza]

From my favorite song by Joni:

There's a man who's been out sailing,
in a decade full of dreams.
And he takes her to a schooner,
and he treats her like a queen.
Bearing beads from California,
with their amber stones and green.
He has called her from the harbor,
he has kissed her with his freedom,
he has heard her off to starboard
in the breaking and the breathing of the water weeds.

While she was busy being free.

 

[Bazza]

"The Warmth of the Sun" written by Brian Wilson the night President Kennedy was assassinated.

The love of my life
She left me one day
I cried when she said
"I don't feel the same way"

Still I have the warmth of the sun

 

[Bazza]

More from Brian Wilson - a song that no matter how many times I hear it....always brings out in me the same emotion:

Where did your long hair go
Where is the girl I used to know
How could you lose that happy glow
Oh, Caroline no

Who took that look away
I remember how you used to say
You'd never change, but that's not true
Oh, Caroline you

Break my heart
I want to go and cry
It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die
Oh, Caroline why

Could I ever find in you again
Things that made me love you so much then
Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone
Oh, Caroline no

 

[MegaVars]

You've been coolin', baby, I've been droolin',
All the good times I've been misusin',
Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love

Way down inside... woman... You need... love.

Shake for me, girl. I wanna be your backdoor man.
Keep it coolin', baby.

 

[Bama Torch in Pcola]

They might be giants:

We were once so close to heaven
Peter came out and gave us medals,
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.

 

[Bamaparrotheads]

("Beach House On the Moon"; Jimmy's Dad had dementia/Alzheimer's, which is what inspired the lyrics)

Also from Beach House, "False Echos" is a great song with great lyrics.

 

[Bamaro]

Clowns to left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

 

[bama579]

Can't narrow to just one. Some regular plays below:

Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat - Dylan
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/leopard+skin+pill+box+hat_20021429.html

Easy To Slip - Little Feat/Lowell George
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/little+feat/easy+to+slip_20355126.html

Summer Teeth - Wilco / Jeff Tweedy
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/wilco/summer+teeth_20257836.html

Smokey Robinson wrote, the Temptation recorded:My Girl
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/smokey+robinson/my+girl_20267451.html