What are your favourite lines from a song ?

"There's something in the way she moves...attracts me like no other lover. Something in the way she woooooes me... Don't wanna leave her now" (written & sung by gorgeous George Harrison. Frank Sinatra described this song as the best love song ever!)

"Slipping through my fingers.." (Abba)

Spot on Baubles. I couldn't remember the preceding two lines

Mine is French and I shall attempt to translate them. "Ne me quitte pas " by Jacques Brel...

Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays où il ne pleut pas

I would offer you rain pearls [raindrops] that come from a country where it never rains.

Aaaaah. One of my favourite songs of all time.

It's a wonnderfu lworld

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Oh yes Bubbles the master and you got me singing

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Another Madness line:

Mother's tired she needs a rest, the kids are playing up downstairs.

The line that gets me every time is from Duran Duran's "Ordinary World"

'Where is my friend when I need you most?'

You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear
(You've got to be carefully taught - from South Pacific)

and

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm gettin' older, too

I treasure your love,
I never wanna lose it.
You’ve been through the fires of hell
And I know you’ve got the ashes to prove it.

If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at aaalll.

Everything passes, everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do,
And some day, maybe,
Who knows, baby,
I'll come and be crying to you.

Do they know where hell is?
He'll is in hello
Heaven is in goodbye my friend
It's time for me to go...
I was born under a wondering star?

"And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses"....ONE of my favourite lines by Joni Mitchell, but definitely not the only one!

Full lyrics of Chelsea Morning:

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard
Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words
It came a-reeling up like Christmas bells and rapping up like pipes and drums
Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll wear it 'till the night comes
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crimson crystal beads to beckon
Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
There's a sun show every second
Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today
And the streets are paved with passersby
And pigeons fly
And papers lie
Waiting to blow away
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses
Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses
When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away
I will bring you incense owls by night
By candlelight
By jewel-light
If only you will stay
Pretty baby, won't you
Wake up, it's a Chelsea morning

"I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away".

Love the Joni Mitchell and Dr Hook ones.

I could drink a case of you.

Melt.

Lyndylou. Girl after my own heart. Needs to be sung or played loudly. Bruuuuuuce.

Why do we give up our hearts to the past?
And why must we grow up so fast?
- The Eagles

Nana, I had Bobby McGee as the don't push song to sing while delivering daughters #1 and =#2 . I have collected 11 different versions of it at the time. I've seen Kris Kristofersen sing it live too, twice, and seen him with the Highwaymen too. But I don't think they sang it then. It was a while ago.

One of my favourites is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=emhwwCTZr4k

and
I've got a couple more years on you, baby, that's all.
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall.
And it ain't that I'm wiser - it's only that I've spent
more time with my back to the wall.
And I've picked up a couple more years on you, baby, that's all.
I've walked a couple more roads than you, baby ,that's all.
And I'm tired of runnin' while you're only learning to crawl.
And you're headin somewhere , but I've been to somewhere
and found it was nowhere at all.
And I've picked up a couple of years on you baby , that's all.
Now sayin' goodbye, girl don't never come easy at all.
But you've got to fly 'cuz you're hearin' those young eagles call.
And someday when you're older, you'll smile at a man strong and tall.
And you'll say I've got a couple more years on ya baby that's all.

I think all rhe replies on here are from women (and I do know that gn is mostly women!) but I wonder if listening to lyrics is more a woman thing anyway.

Dh likes modern jazz, where there are not a lot of lyrics, which I don't enjoy very much.

I love lyrics!! So I enjoy people like Ed Sheeran who tell a story I can relate to. I think that's why I like country!

But lots of the songs I like are written by men.

Oh yes kittylester, I heard their version too. The lead singer.. Dennis Loccoriere ( the spelling is probably way out ! ) has a very emotional voice. Sylvia's Mother for example if full of angst !

I love the Marianas Faithful version if that song but I first heard is live at a Doctor Hook concert and I found it really compelling!

I love The Ballad of Lucy Jordan from Marianne Faithfull.

"At the age of 37, she realised she'd never
ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair".

It ends happily for Lucy though !

"At the age of 37 she knew she's found forever,
as she rode along through Paris with the warm wind in her hair"

And yes, I finally got my open top car by telling DH we needed to get one, whilst we still had hair for the wind to blow through !!

Well they while away their hours
In their ivory towers,
Never saying what they mean,
Never meaning what they say.