What's your favorite line or lyric?

[HDELbook]

"I'd be an anchor but I'm scared you'd drown. It's safer on the ground." -'TALK!' by The 1975. It is talking about wanting to be with someone but worrying that you might let them down so it would be better not to be together at all.

[Shakina]

Love Yours....J Cole

[alwayz1313]

we sit in a circle and suppose; yet the secret sits in the middle and knows........

[Bri2000]

Also from Divergint "I have a theory that selfless and bravery aren't all that different."

[Kuartalia]

My favorite line is quite relevent to writing, so it really speaks to me.
"Some see a pen, I see a harpoon."- By: twenty one pilots the song is called "Ode To Sleep".
To me it means that when it comes to writing, there are so many possibilities. It can be your weapon of passion or defense. It can mean so many things! What do YOU think this quote means?

[Gravy]

I’m but a ship stuck in the sand ~ Nate Ruess

[superdawk]

What's your favorite line or lyric from any song or poem? It can be one of your own if one of your own is your favorite.

My favorite line in a poem is by Alexander Pushkin: ...Day follows day, the rolling stream of hours crumbles the banks of being, and you and I had thought to live but behold we die.

[Narcissa13]

I realize this is actually a whole song, but it's hard to isolate the best part because it's all good, at least to me. Here are the lyrics to Glenn Yarborough's 'The Greatest Adventure" which was featured in the 1977 animated version of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit :

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead,
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes, are all yours to make,
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is there if you're bold,
Let go of the moment that life makes you hold.
To measure the meaning will make you delay,
It's time you stop thinkin' and wastin' the day.

The man who's a dreamer, who never takes leave,
Who thinks of a world that is just make-believe,
Will never know passion, will never know pain,
Who sits by the window will one day see rain.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead,
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes, are all yours to make,
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. "

This clip from the above-mentioned movie can be found on YouTube.

[Levi]

"Open Your Eyes" by Staind

As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of peoples feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof over head
A crack head asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
But most of you don't give a sh-t
That your daughters are porno stars
and Your sons sell death to kids
You're so lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

You turn away
As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxi cabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

[ashley_claire]

"You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
so dance alone to the beat of your heart"

Fall Out Boy

[Levi]

I realize this is actually a whole song, but it's hard to isolate the best part because it's all good, at least to me. Here are the lyrics to Glenn Yarborough's 'The Greatest Adventure" which was featured in the 1977 animated version of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit :

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead,
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes, are all yours to make,
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is there if you're bold,
Let go of the moment that life makes you hold.
To measure the meaning will make you delay,
It's time you stop thinkin' and wastin' the day.

The man who's a dreamer, who never takes leave,
Who thinks of a world that is just make-believe,
Will never know passion, will never know pain,
Who sits by the window will one day see rain.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead,
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes, are all yours to make,
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. "

This clip from the above-mentioned movie can be found on YouTube.

Very cool!

[DATo]

Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin
Is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

- written : Lennon / McCartney
- made popular: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEHckjjbE8I

[Circling Turtle]

Pretty much every line from every Bright Eyes song... I love this particular line from their song I Believe in Symmetry:

"And if it seems like an accident
A collage of senselessness
You weren't looking hard enough..."

But there are so many that resonate with me! Really depends on my mood.

[CloudedRune]

All the songs I've listened to by Sleeping at Last have wonderful lyrics, this verse from Hold Still is really nice:

If all words are cameras,
Hold still.
Shutters slide to unveil
Fingerprints of angels
And a language made of film.

There are so many lyrics I like, I'll be back when I think of more of my favourites

[Circling Turtle]

I've never even heard of Sleeping at Last! They sound pretty good, I'll have to check them out. I was thinking of what the original post on this thread said about your favourite line from one of your own songs... It was difficult for me because I don't always like to put my songs out there, but here's a line from my song Red Leaves which I'm quite fond of:

Secrets too sweet to keep
Another promise that I had to eat

Mainly because its so fun to sing, rather than any poetic qualities