So, does anyone have some favorite song lyrics?  Something that's particularly meaningful or something that perfectly captures a mood?  Here are some that stand out for me:

"You can sell your soul.  But you can't buy it back" - Ben Harper

"As long as the day is full of time there will always be room for your hand in mine."  - Brandi Carlisle

Deserving particular merit are Josh Ritter and Bob Dylan who write such well crafted lyrics that they don't stand alone as well as they do in the context of their whole song, but here are some favorites:

This is a fun one from a song about being a S&M person's lover:

"I know the sound of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor but that new thing you've got I've got no clue what it's for".  - Josh Ritter

"I'm not sayin that you treated me unkind.  You could've done better but I don't mind.  You just kinda wasted all my precous time.  Don't think twice, it's all right." - Bob Dylan.

So, does anyone else have a favorite song lyric or two?

I won't bore you with the whole song, here's a snippet.

The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox


Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful part 3.
A much missed poetic genius.

Another great Dylan 1 liner I remembered:

From a song about a drunkard...

"The whole world is a bottle and life but a dram.  When a bottle gets empty it sure ain't worth a damn."

Forward he cried, from the rear, and the front rank died. Us and Them by Floyd

My god ozzy that is scary. I very nearly said Get in the Ring was my fav. lyrics, but decided against it on the grounds that I'd be tempted into writing out the lyrics (and getting banned).

That said... "get in the ring motherf**ker and I'll kick your b*tchy little a$$!" 

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Listen son, said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside..
Another classic, from the same song.
Rob.

Probably 'cos all your teachers are so old that they can be classed as nearly dead or so new that they listen to New Age hippy rubbish and'll have a nervous breakdown by Easter

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I swear you know my teachers or something