Some of my favourite lines:
"Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, possessing and caressing me"
Beatles - Across the Universe
"I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow it's love's illusions I recall, I really don't know love at all"
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
"The first time I saw you, I knew it would never last. I'm not half what I wish I was. I'm so angry now, I don't think it will ever pass. And I was bad news for you, just because... I never meant to hurt you."
Elliott Smith - Pitseleh
"I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul"
Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's alright
"Close your eyes and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you"
Morrissey - Let me kiss you
"And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die"
The Smiths - There's a light that never goes out
"A heart that’s left at home becomes a heart of stone”
New Order – Lonesome tonight
“Hello there, the angel from my nightmares, the shadow in the background of the morgue”
Blink 182 – Miss you
“And like a weary fox, I need a place to hide”
Manfred Mann – Fox on the run
“Into the night as the stars collide, into the frontiers that divide forests of stone standing petrified to be by your side.”
Nick Cave – To be by your side
“And I wanted to be there with you, for I can only be normal with you.”
Gene – Olympian
“Et au bout du chemin, dis-moi ce qu’il va rester, de notre petit passage dans ce monde éffrené? Après avoir existé pour gagner du temps, on se dira que l’on était finalement des étoiles filantes.”
(And at the end of the way, tell me what will remain of our little stay in that frantic world? After having existed to gain time, we’ll realise that we’re finally just shooting stars)
Les cowboys fringants – Les étoiles filantes
“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.”
Tears for fears – Mad world
"They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool, till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules"
John Lennon - Working class hero
"And in her eyes, you see nothing. No sign of love behind the tears. Cried for no one. A love that should have lasted years."
The Beatles - For no one
And then there's that song by Don McLean that I've always loved but that I now can't listen to without breaking down. It's about Van Gogh's insanity and suicide. Now it reminds me so much of my husband who suffered from a paranoid illness and killed himself last summer. It's too beautiful to pick just one line... So here's the whole lyrics:
VINCENT
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
A silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
tobeornot221b wrote:
Either way, my favourite by her is a collaboration with William Fitzimmons called I Don't Feel It Anymore:
