What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
"I work mornings in the old yard,
digging in the ground,
but I moonlight as an astronaut,
mostly just sit around and howl,
won't you come to my house tonight,
we could sleep on the floor,
I got this window that looks out to Orion,
I paid extra for,
oh don't forget about the sun,
he's forgotten us by now,
kiss me so I remember how,
we'll turn these sorrows into strangers,
buy them a ticket on the train,
drop 'em off at the station,
watch 'em ride far away,
far away"

"Astronaut" Gregory Alan Isakov




"Not a day goes by that I don't think about you
You left your mark on me. It's permanent, a tattoo,
Pierce the skin and the blood runs through
Oh my baby

(The way you move, it's right on time
The way you move, it's right on time,
It's right on time with me.)

I stand over the stove in the kitchen
watch the water boil and I listen
Turn off the television
Oh my baby,

(chorus)

I take off my watch and my earrings
my bracelets and everything
Lie on my back and moan at the ceiling
Oh my baby"

(Chorus x 2)

"Right In Time"  Lucinda Williams

slaw, I listened to that Lucinda song just last night. The way she sings "Oh my baby" is SO lascivious! It leaves no doubt what she is implying ;-) .
@bdp24 ,

Just reading your response upon hearing LW sing, gives me chills. She’s a superb songwriter!! and interpreter of those songs.
"Here comes the helicopter
second time today
everybody scatters and hopes it goes away,
how many kids they murdered
only God can say

(if I had a rocket launcher....I'd make somebody pay)

I don't believe in guarded borders
and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals
or their stinking tortured states
and when I talk with the survivors
of things too sickening to relate

(if I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate)

on the rio lacant'un
one hundred thousand wait
to fall down from starvation
or some less human fate
cry for Guatemala
with a corpse in every gate

(if I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate)

I want to raise every voice
at least I've got to try
every time I think about it
water rises to my eyes
situation desperate
echoes of the victims' cry

(if I had a rocket launcher...some son of a bitch would die)

"If I Had A Rocket Launcher"  Bruce Cockburn