What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
I've recently grown fond of this one, "For The Love of Him" by Bobbi Martin, but I'm not sure that my wife is ready to "make me her reason for living":

When he opens the door
Says I'm home
Beware of the look in his eyes
They tell you the mood he's in
What kind of day it's been

For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can

There be times when he won't say a word
And you wonder if there's something you said
The gentle touch of your hand
Tells him you understand

For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can

Little things he forgets to do
Have you told him today I love you
When he reaches out be there
Show him that someone cares
He's a man and a man has to try
Let him run, let him fall, let him cry
His world won't fall apart
If you take him into your arms

For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can

For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can

For the love of him
Make him your reason for living
Give all the love you can give him
All the love you can
"In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country were they turned back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun with a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain..."

Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat"
Wish I was a Kellog's cornflake, floating in my bowl taking movies,
Relaxing a while, living in style
Talking with a raisin who occasionaly plays LA, casualy glancing at his taupee

Wish I was an English muffin, bout to make the most out of a toaster
Ease myself down, coming up brown,
I prefer the boysenberry more than any other jam, I'm a citizen for boysenberry jam fan..."

Punkey's Dilemma, from Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
Come to think of it. Always lover this:
(Michael Franks, Antonio's Song)

Antonio lives life's frevo
Antonio prays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred-proof
The vulture that circles Rio
Hangs in this L.A. sky
The blankets they give the Indians
Only make them die

But sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the Music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow

Antonio loves the desert
Antonio prays for rain
Antonio knows that Pleasure
Is the child of Pain
And lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
To the Amazon

We sing the Song
Forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
Like Light into the Rainbow
We know the Dance, we have
We still have the chance
To break these chains and flow
Like Light into the Rainbow.
I really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My word's but a whisper--your deafness a SHOUT!
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think....

--opening to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick

One of many wonderful moments penned by Ian Anderson. Probably my favorite all time lyric, but others are in the running.