Post your favourite Song Lyric/Poem

[Digi]

Love it - off to see them in Leeds on Saturday.

[Timme]

I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water,

And pictures of you and I'm not coming out

Until this is all over

And I'm looking through the glass where the light bends

At the cracks

And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs pretending

The echoes belong to someone

Someone I used to know

Postal Service - We will become silhouettes

[swede]

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,

I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why

Why, why can't it be, can't it be mine

Pearl Jam - Black.

Beautiful but very bittersweet lyrics.

My favourite song at the moment, just cant stop playing it.

[DiscoDolly]

Living in lies

by the railway line

Pushing the hair from my eyes

Elvis is English and climbs the hills

Can't tell the bullshit from the lies

Screaming along in South London

Vicious but ready to learn

Sometimes I fear

that the whole world is queer

Sometimes but always in vain

David Bowie. Buddha of Suburbia

[ICGenie]

And the sun on the equator

Setting like an ember thrown to deep water

From crimson to black

But coming back tomorrow...

This Strange Engine - Marillion

[ukslim]

Two lines from Joanna Newsom's "En Gallop":

Never get so attached to a poem, you

Forget truth that lacks lyricism

[pjadnoo]

"If you fled a million miles, I'd chase you for a day ... if I could be bothered"

-SFA

[al_coholic]

And you have never been in love

Until you've seen the dawn rise

from behind the home for the blind

From the King of Irony himself

[swede]

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday

Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin')

We-we-we so excited

We so excited

We gonna have a ball today

Tomorrow is Saturday

And Sunday comes after... wards

I don't want this weekend to end

Ladies and Gentlemen, it doesnt get any better than that.

[Aragorn]

Rows and flows of angel hair,

and icecream castles in the air,

and feathered canyons everywhere,

I've looked at clouds that way,

but now they only block the sun.

They rain and snow on everyone.

So many things I would have done,

but clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,

from up and down, and still somehow,

it's clouds illusions I recall.

I really don't know clouds...at all.

[bigjontour]

It's so safe to play along

Little soldiers in a row

Falling in and out of love

With something sweet to throw away.

But I want something good to die for

To make it beautiful to live.

I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate.

Do you believe it in your head?

I can go with the flow

But don't say it doesn't matter anymore

I can go with the flow

Do you believe it in your head?

Love this song ! Can't wait !

[Banana Co]

'Sleeping is giving in, No matter what the time is.'

Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

Favourite Poem is The Scroobius Pip by Edward Lear.

[CrispyRed]

The people who grinned themselves to death

Smile so much they fail to take a breath

And even when their kids were starving

They all thought the queen was charming

The Housemartins circa 1987

Don't know if its my favourite but it seems appropriate with these union jack clad flag waving airheads littering the streets of London today.

Edited April 28, 2011 by CrispyRed

[firstglasto]

I can't win, but for you i will try.

Ryan Adams-Blueskyblues

[stylishkids]

If god made man they say, Sam Colt made him equal

MSP

And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss

So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it

But me I'm not a gamble you can count on me to split

The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won't exist.

Bright Eyes

[rubenz]

"Then the girl in the cafe taps me on the shoulder

I realize five years went by I'm older

Memories smoulder winters colder

But that same piano loops over and over and over

The road shines and the rain washes away

The same Chinese takeaway selling shit in a tray

It's dark all round I walk down same sights same sounds new beats though

Solid concrete under my feet

No surprises no treats, the world stands still as my mind sloshes round

The washing up bowl in my crown

My life's been up and down since i walked from that crowd"

Streets - Weak Become Heroes - poignant stuff..

[Ricochet]

Yesterday, a child came out to wander

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder

And tearful at the falling of a star

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return we can only look behind

From where we came

And go round and round and round

In the circle game

Then, the child moved ten times 'round the seasons

Skated over ten clear frozen streams

Words like, "When you're older", must appease him

And promises of someday make his dreams

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

And they tell him, "Take your time. It won't be long now.

'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down"

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return we can only look behind

From where we came

And go round and round and round

In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty

Before the last revolving year is through.

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind

From where we came

And go round and 'round and 'round

In the circle game

And go 'round and 'round and 'round in the circle game.

Joni Mitchell:: The Circle Game

[drewsstrat]

That hurricane day

Will soon pass away

And someone will sweep

All the jetsam back into the bay

And we'll come down

Like we always did

And knock on my door

Like the big bad wind

Born in a storm

Is that the only excuse you can give

Born in a storm

Is that you're gonna live

Born in a storm Deacon Blue

[DeadAmos]

Yankee detectives

Are always on the TV

'Cos killers in America

Work seven days a week

The Clash I'm so bored with the USA

[whateverman]

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told,

I have squandered my resistence,

For a pocket full of mumbles - such are promises,

All lies and jest!

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest,

Paul Simon - The Boxer

[Guest blackcockerel]

STOP. HAMMER TIME.

[theampersanddevil]

The whole song but especially

'...and all your friends and seditives mean well but make it worse.' Bright Eyes - If the brakeman turns my way.

sums up the feeling of when i need to just leave and do my own thing for a while, inspite of the well meant advise.

[fowls]

Carrying on with Bright Eyes ...

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire,

Something that would make me never want another,

Something that would make it so that nothing matters,

All would be clearer then

But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments,

Then watch it all dissolve into a single second,

And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet,

Or one foolish line

'Cause that's all that you'll get,

So you'll have to accept,

You are here,

Then you're gone

Emo-tastic

Edited April 28, 2011 by fowls

[firstglasto]

Sorrow found me when I was young

Sorrow waited, sorrow won

Sorrow they put me on the bill

It's in my honey, it's in my milk

Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water

Cover me in rag and bone sympathy

'cause I don't wanna get over you

I don't wanna get over you

Sorrow's my body on the waves

Sorrow's a girl inside my cave

I live in a city sorrow built

It's in my honey, it's in my milk

Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water

Cover me in rag and bone sympathy

'cause I don't wanna get over you

I don't wanna get over you

Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water

Cover me in rag and bone sympathy

'cause I don't wanna get over you

I don't wanna get over you

The National - Sorrow

if you have never listened to this song you should definitely go check it out.Powerful stuff.

[CrispyRed]

As I watch them drop the grain

into your fish tank brain

How can you like this place

when it never even rains?

Pretenders To The Throne - Beautiful South