Best and worst lines.......lyrics
 

I thought this would be a fun thread. I will start with Stevie because she truly is a poet and writes some amazing stuff. What are your favorite lines? What are your least favorite lines or corny lines or just plain bad lines.

One of my all time favorite lines are from Edge of 17:

"The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea
Does not change
And so with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen"

When I hear those lines....they blow me away every time


One of my least favorite lines from Welcome To The Room Sara:

"Its not home
and its not Tara
In fact do I know you?
Have I been here before?
This is a dream, right?
Deja Vu
Did I come here on my own?"


Another good one that I remember one time someone reviewing Stevie's TOSOTM album made fun of but it is true poetry to me IMHO. It makes sense to me LOL.

Rooms on Fire:

"Somewhere out in the back of your mind
Comes your real life and the life that you know
It seems like to be one of those same old things
It seemed to be the only thing left out in the light"

I also love

"There is magic all around you
if I do say so myself
I have known this much longer than I've know you"


Most romantic line in a Stevie song:
If Anyone Falls:

"I have never known the words
and I have tried to be true
But I have never known what to say
how to say
seen anything today
but I have never seen........
Anything......LIKE YOU

Best: lyrics to 'Moonlight' and to 'Planets of the Universe' - :thumbsup:

Worst: "You'll go down... to the laundromat" :laugh: (I know she didn't write this herself - thank goodness - it's cringe-worthy just to hear)!

Best: And the lady's feeling
Like the moon that she loved
Don't you know that the stars are
A part of us

Actually I could go on and transcribe all the song except...

Worst: You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall...
'cause the whole thing's phoney.

Another onorable mention for the Best is:
Love is a word that some entertain
If you find it
You have won the game

Worst:

You're a front-liner, you put it all on the line
You're consistent, hey and that's good!

Well you're a victim...
Phantom of the opera

What a horrid song.

Wow you guys have come up with some of my favorites too
Bella Donna is full of amazing lyrics. I also love:

No speed limit
This is the fast late
Its just the way that it is here

The ending to Outside the Rain is amazing that someone already mentioned

Also from Beauty and the Beast:
My darling lives in a world of false pleasure and pain
we come...from different worlds
but we are the same

Off the top of my head...

BEST

"It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams
and have you any dreams you'd like to sell?"

"You say it will be harder in the morning...
I wait for you to say, "Just go."
(^^ that one kills me each time)

"Take on the situation but not the torment..."

"Beautiful...insecure...she has nothing.
She moves from situation to situation like a ghost..."

"Just how deep do you hold that dream in your hands each night...this time?"

"I didn't win or lose...I just threw the cards..."

"You can consume all the beauty in the room..."

"If I were the one who watched over your sleeping
you would never have been frightened at all."

"This is no ticket to dreamland...
a garden for fevers (or feelings) to grow in..."

...I'm sure there are many more I love but can't think of at the moment...

WORST

"She stares at the stairs...there are many things to stare at these days..."

"Everything was the same except that everything was different..."

Those two songs that involve going down to the Laundromat with her forgotten chimpanzee.

"Don't buy that doll!!!"
(^^ even though I really like this song as a whole.)

"I guess she EVEN felt guilty about EVEN dying..."

"And then here was the kiss right out there in the universe
How did that happen? No, it could not have been worse..
You forgot yourself...it could not have been worse..."

Hmmm.

"Never ever been a blue calm sea, I have always been a storm."

"Like a candle burns bright once it burns faster. But maybe then, at least, she really feels."

"Love is the touch of your fingertips. Love is watching you go."

"She is like a cat in the dark and then she is your darkness. She rules a life like a fine sky lark when the sky is starless."

Off the top of my head.

Worst? I don't know. Watch Chain annoys me.

Best:

I know a lot of people don't like this song, but I love the ending lines.

That don't mend the sorrow
Or reinvent the pleasure
Reinvent the pleasure.

~Maria

No, I don't particularly like the song as a tune, but the lyrics make me think of things from real life, the suddenness you feel when relationships shift. It does leave you kind of stumbling around and stunned (like the aftermath of a car accident). I mean, when you look an old picture and realize, "that was taken just a year ago and now we don't even talk". I think Love Changes captures that experience rather nicely.

When love changes in the flash of an eye,
It leaves people burnin' by the side of the road
You stand there you got nothing to hold


Michele

Time cast a spell on you but you wont forget me
I know I could have loved you but you would not let me
I'll follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you
You will never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

Best:

"For me it's the only life that I've ever known and love is only one fine star away...even though the living is sometimes laced with lies it's alright.....the feeling remains even after the glitter fades."

"Rock on gold dust woman take your silver spoon and dig your grave."

"My mind won't rest and I don't sleep not even in my dreams."

Worst:

"You prefer to be just a little bit in and out of love with me."

"She turns around on her second story, "I'll get down!" She says..."

GOOD

She is like a cat in the dark
and then she is the darkness

Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind

Never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm

Love is a word that some entertain
If you find it, you have won the game

That is how songs are written,
stories are told, rumors are started

Take your silver spoon
and dig your grave

Hold on, the night is coming
and the starling flew for days

I thought we already did that
Have fun, tell the world

Another lady, another time
Another heartbroken state of mind

Come in, out of the darkness
you are in love with

Let the crises become a bridge
and cross that bridge tomorrow

In my distress, I wanted someone to blame me
In my devastation, I wanted so to change
In my wake, disaster was the only thing I could depend on

Something in my heart died last night
One more chip off an already broken heart

So I close my eyes softly til I become
that part the wind that we all long for some time

You don't give into yourself
You give in to your friends

Faith is a hard thing to hold on to
Sometime I feel that I don't have to

There were candles, crystals
I was anyone's fantasy

The sun is here today
But I requested a storm

She moves from situation to situation
like a ghost

I hear the islands calling, I hear angry words
Flying across the ocean like a sea bird

I've also always liked
"maybe your attention was more than you could do"

It just sounds cool ;)

best ,

Leaving your touch On the edge of my heart & Don't know what my destiny will bring , Just spend eternity with me

Best:
Now, I can't define love
like it should be
That's alright.
That's alright

The stiletto cuts quick
Like a whip through the air

Worst: as ,mentioned above
She stares at the stairs, there are many things to stare at these days (:sorry:Stevie)