Favorite lyric section from IYD
 

What are your favorite lyrics or lines from IYD? I like

"Must secret loves secretly die?" (Secret Love)
"You saved my life...I won't forget it" (For What It's Worth)
"Come in out of the darkness...it's a beautiful day" (In Your Dreams)
"I'm just on the other side of your night....I'm always in and out of your life" (In Your Dreams)
"She was distant and arrogant from the start" (Wide Sargasso Sea)
"Even though they were so in love, they drew a line in the sand, just because" (Wide Sargasso Sea)
"I wanna brush by Anne Rice" (New Orleans)
"Strange - She runs with the ones she can't keep up with
ooh it's so strange - He slows down, so desperate to stop her" (Moonlight)
"They drop to the forest floor, frozen" (Moonlight)
"She sat in a chair for months just staring" (Moonlight)
"The moon never beams without bringing me dreams" (Annabel Lee)
"In a war of words between worlds" (Soldier's Angel)
"His plan for her was just not possible, she was so not that girl" (Everybody Loves You)
"Everybody loves you, but you're so alone" (Everybody Loves You)
"..and the cold makes you tired, if you feel it at all" (Everybody Loves You)
"Like a ghost through the fog, the ghost is gone" (Ghosts Are Gone)
"You may take my hand, you who demand so much" (You May Be The One)
"You may have the question but you'll never answer to me" (You May Be The One)
"I remember it all, love was everywhere, you just had to fall" (Italian Summer)
"What's deeper than a deep well? The love into which I fell" (Cheaper Than Free)
"What's warmer than a sun-drenched land? Your hand....your hand" (Cheaper Than Free)

"Don't come here no more, if fear of fire leaves you cold.. and the cold leaves you tired if you feel at all." (Everybody Love you)

"The candle burns bright, then the candle dies.." (Moonlight)

"The moon never beams without bringing me dreams,
And the sun never shines but I see the bright eyes" (Annabel Lee)

"Forget me not
Says 'I'm so afraid'
Says, 'There is no fear in your eyes'
Tell me another lie." (You May Be The One)

"She does still hear him, all night long
The same song over and over
It heals her heart
No voice of a stranger
Could play that part" (Everybody Loves You)

"Come in out of the darkness, it's a beautiful day." (In Your Dreams)

"What you did was - you saved my life, and I won't forget it." (For What It's Worth)

"I got to sing, I got to dance, I got to be a part of a great romance." (For What It's Worth)

Those are great choices. I had to start this thread because someone on Amazon, saying they were a Stevie fan, panned IYD partially because of "schoolgirl lyrics" which I found truly baffling.

"Even though they were so in love; they drew a line in the sand just because
They did not know each other, they did not trust
They only thing they did together was to make love" (WSS)

"Paradise found was not paradise to him" (WSS)

"I am not asking for salvation from you, I'm just asking to be saved for awhile" (Secret Love)

"You saved my life...I won't forget it" (FWIW)

"About what is wrong, about what is righteous" (Soldier's Angel)

"You may have the goodness inside you
but you'll never let me see" (YMBTO)

"You may cry the tears
But the tears aren't really for me" (YMBTO)

"I used to dream that you were an angel" (YMBTO)

I really love these lines in You May Be The One:

I hear the islands calling
I hear angry words
Flying across the ocean
Like some sea birds
Never stopping

Love that image.

This album has some of Stevie's best and most mature lyrics, though there are still some clunkers. I love all the internal rhyming she does in these songs... Can't remember the exact examples now but I'll post them when I do!

It's: "I'm always in and out of your light"

A great many, but this one stands out from Moonlight.

She knows too much to walk away,
She couldn't do it anyway.

Yes, I second this. I actually love a lot of the lyrics in Soldier's Angel.

"They drop to the forest floor~ frozen" (Moonlight)
"Strange..................."

i feel like such a loser. i thought she said:

"i'm just on the other side of your knife"
"the moon never bleeds withouth bring me dreams"

a little um violent there aren't we haha?

i guess i'm still pissed about the LA thing. lol

no really that's what i thought she said! :lol:

"She moves from situation to situation like a ghost..."

That line ALWAYS gives me goosebumps. Especially when she lifts up the melody on the "...a ghost" part and leaves it hovering there til the end of the next line! It's my favorite moment of the whole album! :)

Also, even though it isn't a lyric, I LOVE the acoustic guitar in "Secret Love" that starts at the "I am not asking salvation from you" part. It lifts the song up a bit and makes it...i dunno...hopeful? It's the only way I know how to describe it.

There are many moments in this album (music wise) that are incredible! The minuet in "Annabel Lee" for example...as well as the musical bridge in "Everybody Loves You" and the driving electric guitar of "Wide Sargasso Sea".