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stillonmystring) wrote2009-05-22 08:45 pm
stillonmystring) wrote2009-05-22 08:45 pm
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Say it plainly before words lose their meaning.
I love lyrics. And I love to put down permanently somewhere lyrics that especially strike me so that I can come back to them later and fall in love with them again. So here will do. I'll come back and add more periodically. These aren't my favorite lyrics ever or anything, just ones that I happen to notice or remember while I'm listening to a song randomly. This space is more for one or two sentence lines that really get stuck inside my head and don't go away, ones that I like more for their imagery or just the way the words sound than for their profoundness or how technically good they are. They might not even be songs that I particularly adore as a whole (okay, usually they are) but I just happen to love that one line. Usually the simpler things are what get to me most and these are kind of a reflection of that. No lengthiness allowed. Just short, sweet, to the point, and perfect. All in my opinion of course.
"As the barrier breaks between your heart and mine, you would die to forget; I will live to remind you." - 1997, The Roads You Can Take
"Your fireproof heart was never wasted." - Copeland, The Grey Man
"In the moments before time starts moving backward, I will feel her hand in the palm of mine." - Copeland, To Be Happy Now
"It's true, I don't remember you, but I believe you if you say that we met." - The Elected, It Was Love
"Kid, I stayed 'cause you wouldn't leave." - The Elected, It Was Love
"To be lonely is a habit like smoking or taking drugs and I've quit them both but, man, was it rough." - Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
"I have this dream where I'm down on my knees on the black sand. I'm facing the sea as the wind pushes me down to my hands." - Jenny Lewis, Black Sand
"There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road." - Joanna Newsom; Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
"You are starry, starry, starry." - Joanna Newsom; Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
"The ties that bind, they are barbed and spined, and hold us close forever." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"Everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk, and dour. Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"We could stand for a century, staring, with our heads cocked, in the broad daylight, at this thing: joy, landlocked in bodies that don't keep - dumbstruck with the sweetness of being, till we don't be. Told: take this. Eat this." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"I heard your song before my heart had time to hush it!" - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"The cities we passed were a flickering wasteland but his hand, in my hand, made them hale and harmless." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"When you wept, I was gone; see, I got gone when I got wise. But I can't with certainty say we survived." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"I love you truly or I love no one." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"She locks all the doors and turns, says, 'We will always be safe here in this bed.'" - Lydia, All I See
"It's still not quite the way it was but you promised me that this is love." - Lydia, Hospital
"Oh, no one is watching now; sing like you just might drown but always come back home." - Lydia, Hospital
"Begging for your hand, screaming at your face: 'Come with me, kid, we'll leave this place.'" - Lydia, Laugh Before You Grin
"So go ahead, kid, we loved it; sing it loud before the light hits and we are forced to move." - Lydia, Laugh Before You Grin
"Love is not for me, I promise." - Lydia, One More Day
"'I can hear your heartbeat,' she whispers in the car." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"Let's say we were better than our bodies were found." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"I almost fought to the death yet death had come to this fight." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"Just sing your favorite verse out of key; I still think it sounds - you sound so good to me." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"The car had too much force to it and the road is so unforgiving; windows shatter like dust and make glass streets and something for our feet." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"I sang instead when other girls only cried. I called it grace. I am a mindless child." - Mates of State, Blue and Gold Print
"You can say it, I need apologies." - Mates of State, Great Dane
"Discount meals are warm, dear. Old age star on your new home team." - Mates of State, Great Dane
"You're selling our old ways. Stop telling me the right way to go. I'm on my own." - Mates of State, You Are Free
"I'm not suicidal. I just can't get out of bed." - Metric, Satellite Mind
"The bars you are behind don't care why they hold you there inside." - Now It's Overhead, Believe What They Decide
"Your sorries are overdone and out of place." - Now It's Overhead, Dark Light Daybreak
"The people under your feet are shooting stars in the night." - Rilo Kiley, Dreamworld
"They were only words and I never meant them!" - Rilo Kiley, Love and War (11/11/46)
"Take me, love me, invade the portions of me that are dark and warm and deep." - Sarah Slean, Euphoria
"They kick our verses aside." - Sarah Slean, Notes from the Underground
"And everyday, it's changed since then. In every way, I've changed since then." - Stars, The First Five Times
"Fuck you, Hollywood - I'm the glory." - Stars, Krush
"You won't say 'love' but I might." - Stars, Time Can Never Kill the True Heart
"Sorry to be heavy but heavy is the cost, heavy is the cost." - Stars, Personal
"Stick your hands inside of my pocket; keep them warm while I'm still here. Tell them this love hasn't changed me at all. Stick your heart inside of my chest; keep it warm here while we rest. Tell them this love hasn't changed me at all." - Tegan and Sara, I Know I Know I Know
"He grabs me by the hand, drags me to the shore and says, 'Maybe you don't love me but you'll grow to love me even more.'" - Tegan and Sara, My Number
"Oh, come on, say it plainly before words lose their meaning." - Tilly and the Wall, Pictures of Houses
"The only thing I miss is I messed up, I missed it, I messed up the missing of you." - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mysteries
"As the barrier breaks between your heart and mine, you would die to forget; I will live to remind you." - 1997, The Roads You Can Take
"Your fireproof heart was never wasted." - Copeland, The Grey Man
"In the moments before time starts moving backward, I will feel her hand in the palm of mine." - Copeland, To Be Happy Now
"It's true, I don't remember you, but I believe you if you say that we met." - The Elected, It Was Love
"Kid, I stayed 'cause you wouldn't leave." - The Elected, It Was Love
"To be lonely is a habit like smoking or taking drugs and I've quit them both but, man, was it rough." - Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
"I have this dream where I'm down on my knees on the black sand. I'm facing the sea as the wind pushes me down to my hands." - Jenny Lewis, Black Sand
"There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road." - Joanna Newsom; Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
"You are starry, starry, starry." - Joanna Newsom; Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
"The ties that bind, they are barbed and spined, and hold us close forever." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"Everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk, and dour. Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"We could stand for a century, staring, with our heads cocked, in the broad daylight, at this thing: joy, landlocked in bodies that don't keep - dumbstruck with the sweetness of being, till we don't be. Told: take this. Eat this." - Joanna Newsom, Emily
"I heard your song before my heart had time to hush it!" - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"The cities we passed were a flickering wasteland but his hand, in my hand, made them hale and harmless." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"When you wept, I was gone; see, I got gone when I got wise. But I can't with certainty say we survived." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"I love you truly or I love no one." - Joanna Newsom, Only Skin
"She locks all the doors and turns, says, 'We will always be safe here in this bed.'" - Lydia, All I See
"It's still not quite the way it was but you promised me that this is love." - Lydia, Hospital
"Oh, no one is watching now; sing like you just might drown but always come back home." - Lydia, Hospital
"Begging for your hand, screaming at your face: 'Come with me, kid, we'll leave this place.'" - Lydia, Laugh Before You Grin
"So go ahead, kid, we loved it; sing it loud before the light hits and we are forced to move." - Lydia, Laugh Before You Grin
"Love is not for me, I promise." - Lydia, One More Day
"'I can hear your heartbeat,' she whispers in the car." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"Let's say we were better than our bodies were found." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"I almost fought to the death yet death had come to this fight." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"Just sing your favorite verse out of key; I still think it sounds - you sound so good to me." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"The car had too much force to it and the road is so unforgiving; windows shatter like dust and make glass streets and something for our feet." - Lydia, A Story for Supper
"I sang instead when other girls only cried. I called it grace. I am a mindless child." - Mates of State, Blue and Gold Print
"You can say it, I need apologies." - Mates of State, Great Dane
"Discount meals are warm, dear. Old age star on your new home team." - Mates of State, Great Dane
"You're selling our old ways. Stop telling me the right way to go. I'm on my own." - Mates of State, You Are Free
"I'm not suicidal. I just can't get out of bed." - Metric, Satellite Mind
"The bars you are behind don't care why they hold you there inside." - Now It's Overhead, Believe What They Decide
"Your sorries are overdone and out of place." - Now It's Overhead, Dark Light Daybreak
"The people under your feet are shooting stars in the night." - Rilo Kiley, Dreamworld
"They were only words and I never meant them!" - Rilo Kiley, Love and War (11/11/46)
"Take me, love me, invade the portions of me that are dark and warm and deep." - Sarah Slean, Euphoria
"They kick our verses aside." - Sarah Slean, Notes from the Underground
"And everyday, it's changed since then. In every way, I've changed since then." - Stars, The First Five Times
"Fuck you, Hollywood - I'm the glory." - Stars, Krush
"You won't say 'love' but I might." - Stars, Time Can Never Kill the True Heart
"Sorry to be heavy but heavy is the cost, heavy is the cost." - Stars, Personal
"Stick your hands inside of my pocket; keep them warm while I'm still here. Tell them this love hasn't changed me at all. Stick your heart inside of my chest; keep it warm here while we rest. Tell them this love hasn't changed me at all." - Tegan and Sara, I Know I Know I Know
"He grabs me by the hand, drags me to the shore and says, 'Maybe you don't love me but you'll grow to love me even more.'" - Tegan and Sara, My Number
"Oh, come on, say it plainly before words lose their meaning." - Tilly and the Wall, Pictures of Houses
"The only thing I miss is I messed up, I missed it, I messed up the missing of you." - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mysteries