What's your favorite line or lyric?

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My favorite lyric is "I don't show in front of you mother but i love you forever my mother". This line is very close to my heart.
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my favorite Lyric are Without You (feat. Usher) by David Guetta.
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It is interesting: this line comes up both in Taking Back Sunday's song "There's No 'I' in Team" and in Brand New's song "Seventy Times 7"... Because cheating on your best mate's girl is never the answer. Retaliation via song lyric is the way to go.

"Is that what you call tact? You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back, so let's end this call and end this conversation."
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khoon chala (rang de basanti)
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"When its not always raining therell be days like this
When theres no one complaining therell be days like this
When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch
Well my mama told me therell be days like this ...."

................ Van Morrison Day's Like This

Fabulous song from a fantastic poet & songwriter :)
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
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So many!
We saw Wicked last year and at the moment I like this:
I think I'll try defying gravity.

-- 18 May 2013, 21:56 --
nitish wrote:khoon chala (rang de basanti)
Can you translate that for us ?
It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. J.R.R. Tolkien
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This is an old folk song written about 300 years ago. Whats interesting about it is that it was written while the event was actually happening. Its called The Hangman.

Hangman, hangman
Slack your rope
Hangman hangman
Slack your rope
Slack it well for I...(drop..crack)

Smothers Brothers
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omg I love the Smothers Brothers!
I fell in a vat of chocolate....
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it's my life - the song of Bryan Adams.
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lady_charlie wrote:omg I love the Smothers Brothers!
I fell in a vat of chocolate....
I remember that one. Its on the same album as the Hangman. Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers.
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Bighuey wrote:
lady_charlie wrote:omg I love the Smothers Brothers!
I fell in a vat of chocolate....
I remember that one. Its on the same album as the Hangman. Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers.
ok so the wife of a brewery worker gets a visit from the supervisor
Mrs. Jones, I am sorry to tell you that your husband passed away at work today
He fell in a vat of beer and drowned.
Mrs Jones says, Poor Joe, he never had a chance!
Supervisor: actually, ma'am, he got out three times to go the bathroom....
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Mary had a little bear
And that was very fine
And everywhere that Mary went
You could see her bear behind.
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Bighuey wrote:Mary had a little bear
And that was very fine
And everywhere that Mary went
You could see her bear behind.
They are going to ask us to take this to Smuggler's pretty soon

Mary had a little lamb she tied it to the heater
every time it turned around it burned its little seater.
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No doubt. Thats funny. I like it. :lol: :lol:

Heres a song I made up a long time ago. I may have posted it on here, dont remember for sure.

My Daddy
When I was just a lad, barely turned 17
My Daddy took me aside and told me son
We got to have ourselves a chat
Im goinna tell you where its at
We gotta have us a talk
About your financial obligations.

When you was just a pup
I went and figgered it up
Just how much it costs to raise a kid
Now that youre full grown
You gotta pay back your own
You owe ninety nine thousand dollars
and ninety nine cents.

I gotta pay my Daddy back
And that sure is a fact
Sometimes I curse the day that I was born
I dont know where to start
To pay that rummy old fart
He can take it and put it
Where the sun dont go.

He wants him a Cadillac
And a mansion on the hill
I sure do think hes got rocks in his head
He thinks hes gettin it back
Hes got it all figgered out
The old man wants it all back before hes dead.
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You made that up?
That is good.
Does it have music?
Have you read Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser?
Doesn't her dad expect her to pay him back?
See, again, more than corn in Indiana. Dreiser was from Indiana!
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