best lyrics?

[rune]

I need to call my old time used to be

Somebody loan me a dime...........

[Colonel Knowledge]

Thank you Huey Lewis:

The power of love is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing.
Turns your heart to a little white dove,
More than a feeling, that's the power of love.

Beautiful sentiments in a beautiful song.

[OscarWildesCharm]

Mine is:

"I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know, I want to share what I can give, I want to be, I want to live" By John Denver. Corny I know, but he knew how to drink and he knew how to give a message to his songs.

[Celtic]

we need a battle royale.

Tom Waits' lyrics Vs. Leonard Cohen's lyrics Vs. Shane Macgowan's Lyrics.

[WillyBlues]

She moved back around here thirty-five weeks ago today
Oh down the lane
At night she walks on the banks and remembers how she
Dreamed of rowing away
And how she left one day
She left with a driven look in her eyes
Came back around with it still inside
They said give it some time and you'll forget about it too
We know they always do
Well I know

Some fine day
You will find your way Across the river
Row down slow
There's a long way to go
Across the river

She was proud and so strong
And she tried not to listen to idle talk
Downtown where she walked
They sit around and they say
That she came back with her tail between her legs
Like they always said she would

Well I hear it's better on the other side
They say you'll never do it so don't even try
Well you may be beaten downwith your closed mind
But don't try and make it mine
Well I know

Some fine day
You will find your way Across the river
Row down slow
There's a long way to go
Across the river

"Your wild days are through" is what they said
I dreamed she came, when I was down and
I walked where she led

Standing on the shore
She looks to the west with a look of longing
To where the grass seems greener
There's a hard and distant prize
It probably won't happen but I think I'll try
Well even if it doesn't happen for me
It still beats hanging around here
Well I know

Some fine day
You will find your way Across the river
Row down slow
There's a long way to go
Across the river

[WillyBlues]

No need to whine, boy,
Like a wind-up toy you stutter at my feet,
And it's never the time, boy,
You've had too much wine to stumble up my street.
Well it isn't a problem,
Nothing we can't keep between the sheets,
Tell me you're mine, love,
And I will not wait for other bedtime treats.

Is there something you lack,
When I'm flat on my back,
Is there something that I can do for you?
It's always something you ate,
Or it's something you hate,
Tell me is it the way that I touch you?
Have you found a new mate,
And is she really great,
Is it just that I'm much too much for you?
Oh, oh oh , ouah oh ah

Don't feed me a line, boy,
I can hear that voice you use upon the phone,
And there's no need to be coy,
That is something you can do upon your own.
Well it isn't problem, nothing we can't solve so just relax.
Am I on the wrong train, love,
And will I have to tie you to the tracks.

Is there something you lack,
When I'm flat on my back,
Is there something that I can do for you?
It's always something you ate,
Or it's something you hate,
Tell me is it the way that I touch you?
Have you found a new mate,
And is she really great,
Is it just that I'm much too much for you?
Oh, oh oh , ouah oh ah
I really want you to

[knumbskull]

if we sit here
and drink enough beer
we'll be two inflatable dolls
in a hooker's bad dream

- American Music Club

and many others, too numerous to list. but this is the one that keeps coming back to me...

[Fred O'Lisby]

we need a battle royale.

Tom Waits' lyrics Vs. Leonard Cohen's lyrics Vs. Shane Macgowan's Lyrics.

I've gotta go with Tom Waits on this one. Off the top of my head, I think my favorite lyrics are from Sandiego Serenade.

I never saw the morning ’til I stayed up all night
I never saw the sunshine ’til you turned out the light
I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long
I never heard the melody, until I needed a song.

I never saw the white line, ’til I was leaving you behind
I never knew I needed you ’til I was caught up in a bind
I never spoke ’i love you’ ’til I cursed you in vain,
I never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane.

I never saw the east coast ’til I move to the west
I never saw the moonlight until it shone off your breast
I never saw your heart ’til someone tried to steal,
Tried to steal it away
I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face.

[Paralepsis]

Some of my favorite lyrics, though relatively unknown..

baby’s like a college station, no use in succeeding
kinda like a foreign nation, Romantic but deceiving

Causing revolution
Seeking retribution from me
Offering solutions
To everything that I don’t wanna see

baby’s hanging over me like fallout on a shelter and I
never try to make her see how much I got in store

gotta kinda wonder how I got under the table
and I say
darling you’re the sweetest
baby you could fuck the blues away

Causing revolution
Seeking retribution from me
Offering solutions
To everything that I don’t wanna see

Yeah, yeah – I don’t wanna see

now I’ve been going up and coming down
I guess it’s in my head
though it wasn’t all I wanted
it was all I thought it could be…