What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
So, so many. But here's a couple to start with: 

'The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky 
Are also on the faces of people going by'

and this one from a great song by a great lyricist:

'You made me forget myself
I thought I was
Someone else, someone good'
"The policemen are hiding
behind the skirts of little girls,
their eyes have turned the color of frozen meat..
and no no no no no
no no no no no no no no..
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave"

"Joan Crawford Has Risen From The Grave"  Blue Oyster Cult
"Hands find the places where they've never been,
to know for themselves new surfaces,
and mine, they got a mind of their own.
I can't leave it alone."

"I Can't Leave it Alone"  Amanda Shires
So many versions but this is the one by Judy Garland

Ol' man river, that ol' man river
He must know somethin', but he don't say nothin'
He just keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along
He don't plant taters, he don't plant cotton
An' them that plants' 'em is soon forgotten
But ol' man river
He just keeps rollin' along

You an' me, we sweat an' strain
Body all achin' and wracked with pain
Tote that barge! Lift that bale!
You get a little drunk an' you land in jail

I get weary and sick of tryin'
I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin'
But ol' man river
He just keeps rollin' along

Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

@CD318, excellent selections in your recent posts, IMO, especially the ones from "What A Wonderful World" and "Ol’ Man River."

A correction, though: "Ol’ Man River" was composed by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, not Lerner & Loewe.

Also, as you may be aware, what is probably the most famous version of "Ol’ Man River" (and deservedly so IMO) was sung by the great although controversial Paul Robeson in the 1936 film version of the musical "Showboat":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

Best regards,
-- Al