What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
From the Frank Zappa masterpiece Packard Goose below .

Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST ,End Quote .

That sums up my life long love of music and the insanity we go thru to get the best sound possible .
James McMurtry - "Honey don't you be yelling at me when I'm cleaning my gun". Copper Canteen on Complicated Game.
"Cuz what they do in Washington
Iz looking out for number one
And
Number one ain’t you
You’re not even
"number two"."
Frank Zappa - You are what you iz
Frank sang this on SNL and was banned for life.
"So there'll be no guiding light for you and me
We are not sailors lost out on the sea
We were always headed toward eternity
Hoping for a glimpse of Gaililee."

Emmylou Harris - The Pearl
"Fish swim
 birds fly...
 lovers leap
 by and by...
 Old men
 sit and think.
 ……...I drink"

Mary Gauthier  "I Drink"