What's your favorite verse from a song?

[FlashDangerpants]

Bowie... Quicksand

I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah

[Walker]

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

- David Bowie

[Impenitent]

So, you've been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinking you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Playing ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five-grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slum's got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear

Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys

-Imp

[attofishpi]

The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole, now there's a hole in the sky
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold, everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns, I'll get mine too

[promethean75]

All I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me!
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi
And she wouldn't give it to me, just a Pepsi


Institutionalized
By Suicidal Tendencies

[Walker]

We come to see what we want to see,
Oh, we come to see, but we never come to know.

- Wild Man From Borneo

[Walker]

The Little Things
Danny Elfman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3foNuKYLdA

And I’m through with repairs
When there’s nothing to fix

[attofishpi]

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon river and me

The most beautiful song ever imo.

[seeds]

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On my old and "sappy" side, portions of these two sets of my favorite lyrics from two different songs have been rolling around in my head since childhood...

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Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
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Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
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From the movie Wizard of Oz
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When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
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If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
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Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
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From the movie Pinocchio
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And not meaning to associate dark and depressing thoughts with those beautiful lyrics,...

...however, later in life, they began to ring a bit hollow to me when I thought of them being sung from the perspective of the millions of children born into areas on earth where poverty, hunger, and religious and political conflict (war), is all they know.

I guess what I am getting at is that the sentiment and hope inherent in those two songs (especially the second one) is what all children should be feeling.
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