Greatest Ever Lyric

I know how you all like to keep it purely PJ around here but I was wondering what you think the greatest lyric ever writen is?

My vote goes to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt":

"EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END"

It pretty much sums up the harsh reality of life.
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  • Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
    I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
    I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
    I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
    I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
    And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
    And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

    Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
    I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
    I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
    I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
    I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
    I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
    I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
    I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
    And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
    And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

    And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
    And what did you hear, my darling young one?
    I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
    Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
    Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
    Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
    Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
    Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
    Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
    And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
    And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

    Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
    Who did you meet, my darling young one?
    I met a young child beside a dead pony,
    I met a white man who walked a black dog,
    I met a young woman whose body was burning,
    I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
    I met one man who was wounded in love,
    I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
    And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
    It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

    Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
    I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
    I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
    Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
    Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
    Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
    Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
    Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
    Where black is the color, where none is the number,
    And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
    And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
    Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
    But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
    And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
    It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.


    "A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL" BOB DYLAN

    Just pick any line from that song and you'll have the greatest lyric ever
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009

    My vote goes to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt":

    "EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END"

    It pretty much sums up the harsh reality of life.

    most of what Trent's written is pretty damn deep, but "Hurt" is pretty much the epitomy. Amazing stuff. Also, the newer "Right Where it Belongs" strikes a similar chord.
    I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.

    Some die just to live.
  • BUENABUENA Posts: 165
    Another can of worms
    Another stomach turns
    Yeh yr ghetto burns
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    You got a stupid man
    You got a Ku Klux Klan
    Yr fuckin' battle plan
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    A sieg heil-in' squirt
    You're an impotent jerk
    Yeh a fascist twerp
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    Black robe and swill
    I believe Anita Hill
    Judge will rot in hell
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    Yeah a cross on fire
    By a christian liar
    A black attack on fire
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    Yeah the president sucks
    He's a war pig fuck
    His shit is out of luck
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    Another nazi attack
    A skinhead is cracked
    My blood is black
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    We're banging pots and pans
    To make you understand
    We gonna bury you man
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

    I'm a human wreck
    A redneck in check
    I killed the teacher's pet
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
    "It's the American Dream I am disbelieving... When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank... I’m gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride..." - Gone (vedder)
  • it may sound selfish and undeep but these are great:

    so i'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
    where i'm not ugly and your lookin' at me
    and i stare you back
    oh blue eyes, i've seen it
    if just once i could feel love
    oh stare back at me, yeah..
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    "Time to take her home
    Her dizzy head is conscious laden..."
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Hey, Bungalow Bill
    What did you kill
    Bungalow Bill? (2x)

    When out tiger hunting with his elephantine gun
    In case of accidents he always took his mom
    He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
    All the children sing

    Hey Bungalow Bill
    What did you kill
    Bungalow Bill? (2x)

    Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
    Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise
    So Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes
    All the children sing

    Hey, Bungalow Bill
    What did you kill
    Bungalow Bill? (2x)

    The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
    But when he looked so fierce, his mummy butted in
    If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
    All the children sing

    Hey, Bungalow Bill
    What did you kill
    Bungalow Bill? (8x) (fade out
  • [Jadakiss]
    Why would niggaz push pounds and powder
    Why did bush knock down the towers
    Why you around them cowards
    Why Aaliyah have to take that flight
    Why my nigga D ain't pull out his Ferrari
    Why he take that bike
    Why they gotta open your package and read your mail
    Why they stop lettin' niggaz get degreez in jail
    Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time
    And why do niggaz lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes
    Why a nigga always want what he can't have
    Why I can't come through in the pecan Jag
    Why did crack have to hit so hard
    Even though it's almost over
    Why niggaz can't get no jobs
    Why they come up wit the witness protection
    Why they let the terminator win the election
    Come on people, pay attention
    Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets
    Why I say the hottest shit but we sellin' the least
    I will make the world a better place...with my own, two hands.
  • Here is my choice...Uncle Neil




    He's a perfect stranger,
    Like a cross
    of himself and a fox.
    He's a feeling arranger
    And a changer
    of the ways he talks.
    He's the unforeseen danger
    The keeper of
    the key to the locks.
    Know when you see him,
    Nothing can free him.
    Step aside, open wide,
    It's the loner.

    If you see him in the subway,
    He'll be down
    at the end of the car.
    Watching you move
    Until he knows
    he knows who you are.
    When you get off
    at your station alone,
    He'll know that you are.
    Know when you see him,
    Nothing can free him.
    Step aside, open wide,
    It's the loner.
    There was a woman he knew
    About a year or so ago.
    She had something
    that he needed
    And he pleaded
    with her not to go.
    On the day that she left,
    He died,
    but it did not show.
    Know when you see him,
    Nothing can free him.
    Step aside, open wide,
    It's the loner.
    Makes much more sense to live....in the present tense

    I know I was born and I'll know that I'll die
    The inbetween is mine, I am mine

    Why go home??

    www.pearljamlive.com/iraq
  • MABMAB Posts: 17
    Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
    North is to South what the clock is to time
  • put it in your heart for everyone
    thanks to everyone who can read what i write without having to say something mean
  • september 9,1999 in texas somewhere a band played this one song and the lines are angelic

    "we will run we will fly we will be together
    we will laugh we will cry we will be together"


    anyone interested in a cassette recording of this private message me
    thanks to everyone who can read what i write without having to say something mean
  • it may sound selfish and undeep but these are great:

    so i'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
    where i'm not ugly and your lookin' at me
    and i stare you back
    oh blue eyes, i've seen it
    if just once i could feel love
    oh stare back at me, yeah..
    The whole song it's amazing..i think it's one of the ebst i've ever heard..Talking about really touching lyrics, i also have to mention to classics: What a wonderful world and imagine..
    it's easy to confuse a great design with life's ripercussions

    i'd rather die than give you control
  • If you hate something don't you do it too!
  • Do I have to tell the story
    Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
    It's a big enough umbrella
    But it's always me that ends up getting wet
  • You look so pretty in it, honey, can I jump on it sometime
    I just want to see if it's really the expensive kind
    You know it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
    Your brand new leapord-skin-pill-box hat
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • know1 wrote:
    "Time to take her home
    Her dizzy head is conscious laden..."

    I lovvveee that song :)


    Great line:
    "if you hate something dont you do it too"
    `~.:.~`.History doesn't make something right`~.:.~`
  • somewhere a queen is weeping...and somewhere a king has no wife...

    wind cries mary Jimi Hendrix
    Toronto '96
    Barrie '98
    Toronto '00
    Toronto '03
    Hamiltion '05
    Toronto '05
    Toronto 05/09/06
    Toronto 05/10/06
  • Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
    Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
    And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
    But tonight you're on my mind so you never know

    When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
    Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
    Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

    Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
    And much too blind to see the damage he's done
    Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

    So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
    Will I ever see your sweet return
    Oh will I ever learn

    Oh lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
    Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
    My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

    It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
    It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
    It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
    It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

    Well maybe i'm just too young
    To keep good love from going wrong

    Oh... lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    Well I feel too young to hold on
    And i'm much too old to break free and run
    Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
    Sweet lover, you should've come over
    Oh, love well i'm waiting for you

    Lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    JEFF BUCKLEY-LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER
    I wonder 'bout his insides...It's like his thoughts are too big for his size...He's been taken...where, I don't know? Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope...
    There he goes...
  • fpafpa Posts: 18
    sorry, I'm a dork, but it's a Pearl Jam lyric for me. For some reason "all the rusted signs/ we ignore throughout our lives/ choosing the shiney ones instead" really sticks with me. I like it.
    ========================================
    I still can't believe PEARL JAM in Newfoundland

    I love you I love you I FUCKING love you
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    "up here so high, the sky i scrape" always moved me...it conveys this ultimate feeling of elation to me, which is nice and sorta rare to hear in pj's music
    I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.

    Some die just to live.
  • Here are a couple of my favorites. I might post more later.

    "The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your throat." (Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live)

    "I hope them cigarettes are gonna make you cough/I hope you heard this song and it pissed ya off/I take that back I hope you're doin' fine."
    (Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong)

    "I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream/Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me." (PJ - I got Id)

    "You've claimed all this time that you would die for me/Why then are you so surprised when you hear your own eulogy" (Tool - Eulogy)
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
  • Oooh I forgot this one

    "Life ain't nothin' but bitches and money" (NWA - Gangsta Gangsta)
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
  • "All that's sacred comes from youth,
    Dedications naive and true,
    With no power and nothin' to do,
    I still remember...why don't you?"
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    "you sut back and watch as the death toll gets high"
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • Imagine there's no heaven,
    It's easy if you try,
    No hell below us,
    Above us only sky,
    Imagine all the people
    living for today...

    Imagine there's no countries,
    It isnt hard to do,
    Nothing to kill or die for,
    No religion too,
    Imagine all the people
    living life in peace...

    Imagine no possesions,
    I wonder if you can,
    No need for greed or hunger,
    A brotherhood of man,
    Imagine all the people
    Sharing all the world...

    You may say Im a dreamer,
    but Im not the only one,
    I hope some day you'll join us,
    And the world will live as one.
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
  • I love myself better than you
    I know it's wrong so what should I do?

    The finest day that I ever had
    Was when I learned to cry on command
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
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