What are your favorite song lyrics?
Technically, this is a repost. I’m re-posting it for a number of reasons. I first put this together when I got on Facebook and everyone was doing lists. Since then I’ve hooked up with a lot of old friends who might enjoy this. Also, I much prefer the lists thing to the quizes thing and I’m hoping to reignite that craze. Finally, last time around I didn’t know what I was doing and I didn’t include any rules. So, here it goes.
By the way, this was originally designed for Facebook. If you’re reading this on my website, submit your entries as a comment to this article.
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Copy the text of these instructions and paste them into a new note. In that note include your five favorite song lyrics. Tag five or more friends who might appreciate this and ask them to post their five. The five lyrics should be from five different songs. Try not to include more than one verse or chorus. Definitely do not include the whole song – that clearly doesn’t count. You could include more than five songs, but that would just be showing off. Tag me so I can see your lyrics.
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
Visions of Johana
Bob Dylan
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
Just Like Heaven
The Cure
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret, waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you’d wait till the end of the world.
Until the End of the World
U2
I could live without so much
I can die without a clue
Sun keeps risin’ in the west
I keep on wakin’ fully confused
I never seen no mountain
Never swam no sea
City got me drownin’
I guess it’s up to me
I can’t live without your touch
I can’t live without your touch
Within Your Reach
The Replacements
Moves like a fist through the traffic
Anger and no one can heal it
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
It’s just a little lump
But you feel it
In the creases and the shadows
With a rattling deep emotion
The cool, cool river
Sweeps the wild, white ocean
The Cool, Cool River
Paul Simon