This clip is very long- I just want to include it because I love the song. I shall assume no one else will listen to it. I shall though.
“How can you ignore my faith in everything
When I know what Faith is and what it’s worth.”
This line has stuck in my head for years and years. It haunts me and comes back to tap at my head every now and then.
I love this line for so many reasons and in so many ways. I love it because of how the song makes me feel, in an unthinking, subconscious level I just feel the sound. (I love the cover by Duran Duran, performed live.)
I love this line being about faith. I am in awe of faith. I am enthralled by other people’s faith, constantly finding and losing my own. I think of spiritual faith, faith in the world, faith in humanity, in the future, in love, in the potential for life to turn out all right after all.
So, and this is a vanilla question- what is your favourite lyric? You can explain why if you want to or not, just say the line. (If you are one of those people who lurks this is a perfect delurking moment- you can even make up an email address!)
One of my favorite songs is Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.
“Oh mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Well I’ve been afraid of changing
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I’m getting older too”
This is from one of favourite songs titled “Lift Me Up” by The Afters:
“You lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go
You lift me up when I can’t see
Your heart is all that I need
Your love carries me so I’m letting go”
My favorite lyric is Happy Together by the Turtles.
Poppy, good morning.
and warm 
This is a song I hear quite often on my local radio, I quite like it.
You Raise me up, is possibly my all time favourite song. by any singer, but Celtic Woman I love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKFcfytlxU
If you watch this, note the drummer, what a hunk.
Paul.
Paul, I love that song too. Thanks for the link to the one by Celtic Woman. Beautiful.
I may have posted the version by Josh Groban before.
Oh, so many favourite lyrics. These are excepts from one of my faves:
Running On Empty – Jackson Browne
Running On Empty lyrics
Songwriters: Browne, Jackson;
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on
Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I’m running behind
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to, to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I’m running behind
Running on
You know I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find
Running behind
Running into the sun but I’m running behind
Okay, just one more and I’ll stop. This one is sorta about my legal career which has been mostly against the wind.
“Against the Wind” Bob Seger
It seems like yesterday
But it was long ago
Janey was lovely, she was the queen of my nights
There in the darkness with the radio playlng low
And the secrets that we shared
The mountains that we moved
Caught like a wildfire out of control
Till there was nothing left to burn and nothing left to prove
And I remember what she said to me
How she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then
Against the wind
We were runnin’ against the wind
We were young and strong, we were runnin’
Against the wind
And the years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded bv strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home
And I guess I lost my way
There were oh so many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searchin’
Searching for shelter again and again
Against the wind
A little something against the wind
I found myself seeking shelter against the wind
Well those drifters days are past me now
I’ve got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out
Against the wind
I’m still runnin’ against the wind
Well I’m older now and still
Against the wind
So many beautiful songs shared! I love Landslide, Lea, and that would have been one of my top choices, too. And You Raise Me Up, Runnin’ on Empty, and Against the Wind–all amazing.
Here’s one with a melody I find haunting, and the lyrics are deeply meaningful to me. This song was on a mix tape my son made for me when he left home, and it has always reminded me of him, mostly, but also other people in my life whom I love and can’t be with.
Run, by Snow Patrol:
“Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear
Louder, louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak, I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say
To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
I nearly do
Light up, light up…
(“Light up, light up” can carry me all day long.)
I am in a pub with Dexter who says that his favourite lyric is “A Day In The Life” by the Beatles and he has just recited the whole lyric to me.
You all have beautiful taste in music – I amtrying to remember the name of another Snow Patrol song, which I love but it hurts to hear it. Snow Patol write awesome songs.
I am at heart a romantic, so my favourite lyrics reflect this…Roberta Flack, “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
As you are in the pub, and possibly cannot link, here (I hope) is Dexter’s favourite song…
I’ve always liked these lines, and they’re doubly relevant now.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
From Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie
Lictor
I love optimistic, happy songs that remind you how to dream and hope and smile. Even when I want to cry, Owl City always makes me feel better:
Can you feel a silk embrace
In the satin air?
If we dissolve without a trace
Would the real world even care?
Downy feathers kiss your face
And flutter everywhere
Reality is a lovely place
But I wouldn’t want to live there