What's your favorite lyric from a song?

Can I assume that you're a big Stones fan Geoffkait?

Well, they do know how to turn a phrase. What’s not to like?

Oh I don't really have anything against them, but in the sea of interesting and memorable lyrics, I wouldn't include any of theirs among my favorites, or ones that I consider special, and I noticed that you listed 2 of their songs. We're all touched by different things.

When we touch the world
And it falls away
When we feel that we're born
Just to fall apart
And our mother lies in state
And the broken pitcher glistens
And the snow is at the window
Creating neither sign nor symbol
And the earth covers earth
And the mud lies in pools

Where the sand-dunes stretch unbroken
And the dry wind bends and sighs
And the geese are running harmless
And our desires are running wild
Then we're looking at the smoke
That's rising from the incense
Neither coming here nor going
Neither heaven here nor hell
Neither borning here nor birthing
Neither dying here nor death

And we're wrapped inside our troubles
And we're wrapped inside our pain
And wracked with fires with longing
And our eyes are blind with night
With our fingers clutching coins
And our thoughts burning with 'I'
And our eyes cannot be sated
With the world and its nightmares
With the world and its dreams
Though later they'll be filled
With a small handful of dust
And the gods appear on the altars
And we recognize their face
It's a face that we have carved there
And it's full of fear and longing
And promises and threats
But they neither stoop to conquer
Nor do they stoop to praise
And the mines are void of diamonds
That we carry in our rags

Then all the world seems
A sadness song
And all the world seems
A sadness song

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Current 93 - The Sadness Song

Many too many have stood where I stand
Many more will stand here too
I think what I find strange is the way you built me up
Then knocked me down againThe part was fun but now it's over
Why can't I just leave the stage?
Maybe that's because you securely locked me up
Then threw away the keyOh mama
Please would you find the key
Oh pretty mama
Please won't you let me go free
I thought I was lucky
I thought that I'd got it made
How could I be so blind?You said good-bye on a corner
That I thought led to the straight
You set me on a firmly laid and simple course
Then removed the roadOh mama
Please help me find my way
Oh pretty mama
Please lead me through the next day
I thought I was lucky
Oh I thought that I'd got it made
How could I be so blind? Oh no

“Many Too Many” - Genesis