What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
Oh God, can you feel the sun in your back
Oh God, can you see your shadow, inky black on the sand
Oh God, can you hear the saltwater drying on your skin
Oh God, can you feel my heart beating in my tongue

Oh God, by being quiet, I hope to alleviate my debt
Oh God, by sitting still, I hope to lighten your load

And when your shadow covers me from head to toe
And curtonevrae flies tell me it’s my time to go
Seven waves of insects make babies in my skin
Seven waves of insects make families in my skin
It’s just like animals at play
And the flesh rotted off my skull
And then I will have earned my permanent smile

Oh God, I never, never ask why
Oh God, I never, never ask why

"Permanent Smile" Bill Callahan/Smog (04/03/2000)
Muriel plays piano 
Every Friday at the Hollywood
They brought me down to see her
And asked me if I would
Do a little number
And I sang with all my might
She said, "Tell me are you a Christian child?"
And I said, "Ma'am, I am tonight."

"Walkin' in Memphis"
Marc Cohn
another from Smog/Bill Callahan...

"Do you miss me when I go
Honey I love you and that's all you need to know
Well then what is love
Love is an object kept in an empty box
How can something be in an empty box
Well well give me another shot
Of that truth serum"

"Truth Serum"