What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
From "Good Night Irene" written by Leadbelly and covered by many including my favorite by Ry Cooder:

"Sometime I live in the country, sometime I live in town.
Sometimes I have a great notion to jump in the river and drown."
Beginning of Little Bird by Lisa Hannigan "Your heart sings like a kettle, your words boil away like steam"
I believe in life, and I believe in love,
But the world in which I live is tryin' to prove me wrong.
From Rush's "Subdivisions":

"Where some will sell their dreams for small desires
and lose the race to rats,
get caught in ticking traps,
and stop to dream of someplace
to relax their restless flight -
somewhere out of the memory
of lighted streets on quiet nights."

Wow. How true in contemporary America.