Talking about lines...

Lady · November 19, 2007, 18:48:14

Listening to THE CATERPILLAR, I find the lines are very original and strange, especially:

"Dust my lemon lies
With powder pink and sweet"

This topic is not just for "your favourite lines", but also for every lines that you find strange, original, touching, apparently nonsensical, etc.

Hero · November 19, 2007, 20:16:30

I really like

"Tear out the pages with all the bad news"

Doing the unstuck is not one of my favourite songs but this line is really brilliant and really happy i think.

I also like
"the idea of perfection holds me" and "Painted like an unknown saint"
from Faith but i like them when i feel sad or depressed. Oh and "perfect moments wait" but these make me cry

I think thats it for now...

silversand · November 19, 2007, 22:40:35

I went a away with nothing left ... but faith

how the end always is ...

I won't ever take it if i never give
If i never live ...

Tear out the pages with all the bad news

One of my favourite lines are: I walk wondering why the same dream so many times.
I can't explain it, but i like it very very much

Carnage Visor · November 19, 2007, 23:18:07

For the longest time my mom and I thought the lyrics in "A Night Like This" were as follows:

Quote"You're just the most gorgeously stupid thing I've ever cut in the world"

Whereas it's actually:

Quote"Your trust; the most gorgeously stupid thing I've ever cut in the world"

It's still a fantastic line...

I also love "Eyes like ice don't move" which has been used a few times...I may be paraphrasing.

sues777 · November 20, 2007, 11:54:29

There are so many great lines, so I find this really hard, but -
"and the way the rain comes down hard, that's how I feel inside", and
"please stop loving me, I am none of these things",
have been favourites of mine for years.

For last few months though,
"I never said I would stay 'til the end" and "And both of us knew how the ending would be", have been especially significant. Totally overwhelming and sad for me, but at the same time comforting...

disintegration · November 20, 2007, 12:08:00

"Trust in me throught closing years, perfect moments wait, if only we could stay..."
and "please say the right words, or cry like the stone white clown and stand, lost forever in a happy crowd" from faith! Is fantastic for me! :roll:

Lady · November 20, 2007, 12:14:15

Quote from: Hero on November 19, 2007, 20:16:30
"Tear out the pages with all the bad news"

I love this one, especially when I'm depressed! :roll:

Quote from: Hero on November 19, 2007, 20:16:30
"the idea of perfection holds me"

Yes, I find this line so interesting, I don't know why...maybe 'cos the idea of perfection holds me, too!

This one by "plainsong" is simple but so sweet! :roll:

"Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world"

Hero · November 20, 2007, 13:29:33

Quote from: Lady on November 20, 2007, 12:14:15

This one by "plainsong" is simple but so sweet! :roll:

"Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world"

Yeah i like "its just how i smile you said" from plainsong, it makes me smile everytime!

lordsquidy13 · November 20, 2007, 22:31:49

My Favorite's always been from "Primary.

"The Further We Go, and Older We Grow, The More We Know, The Less We Show"

It seems chanting in a melody sort of way.

Lady · November 21, 2007, 11:02:44

This one by CATCH:

And sometimes we would spend the night
Just rolling about on the floor
And I remember even though it felt soft at the time
I always used to wake up sore...

At the beginning it's sensual and then becomes almost comic...it makes me smile!

silversand · November 21, 2007, 19:59:42

Yes, this could make me smile also

What makes me smile is this one from Mint Car:
The sun is up
I'm so happy i could scream
And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
Than here with you ...

lordsquidy13 · November 21, 2007, 21:46:06

Poetics from A Letter To Elise:
Every time I try to pick it up like falling sand,
As Fast as I pick it up, it runs away from my clutching hands.

I've always found this line from Push awkward....

"Smear that man across the wall like strawberries and cream"

Why would someone pleasure the experience of smudging strawberries and cream against the wall rather then eating it?

LuvURobert · November 22, 2007, 09:29:25

Here are some of my fav's off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are a lot more...

~ Shiver and Shake
You're just three sick holes that run like sores, you're a f*cking waste

~ FTEOTDGS
I've never been so colourfully-see-through-head before
I've never been so wonderfully-me-you-want-some-more

~ The Upstairs Room
Oh the kiss
So alcoholic and slow

~ If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Then an angel would come
With burning eyes like stars
And bury us deep
In his velvet arms

Ummm.... that's it for now!! :smth001

B.DEE · November 24, 2007, 17:37:24

"Dropping through the sky,
through the glass of the roof,
through the roof of your mouth,
through the mouth of your eye,
through the eye of the needle,
it's easier for me to get closer to heaven
than ever feel whole again"

The imagery this evokes is excellent.
Shrinking to nothing and feeling closer to death than life ...
It's poetic and heartbreaking. And scary.

japanesebaby · November 24, 2007, 18:09:36

i know its useless to ask "what does it mean?" about many cure lyrics, because pretty often there's no such a "meaning" behind many of the lines, just images... anyway, i've always been bothered by the lines "if you slip going under, slip over my shoulder" in fascination street. it just never made any sort of sense, as some sort of word-play only. so i've always wondered if that one's actually supposed to mean/stand for something...(?). but i was always somehow shy to ask... maybe some native english-speaker might be able to clarify this....