Lyrics

These are quotations from song lyrics, especially from musicians who are unlikely to have their own quote articles, sorted by band name and artist last name.

Quotes

0-9

• 'Cause now again I've found myself
  So far down, away from the sun
  That shines into the darkest place
  • 3 Doors Down, "Away From The Sun", Away From The Sun (2002)

A-E

• He who makes a beast out of himself
  gets rid of the pain of being a man
  • Avenged Sevenfold, 'Bat Country', City of Evil (2005)

• She's a dwelling place for demons
  She's a cage for every unclean spirit,
  Every filthy bird and makes us drink
  The poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings
  Fallen now is Babylon the Great
  • Avenged Sevenfold, 'Beast and the Harlot', City of Evil (2005)

• Here's a story about the boys at the altar
  Some of them came between me and my halter
  But I don't think the good lord would mind
  I was callin' his name the whole time!
  • Avenue D, Slut? (2004 single)

• Cuz I'm a freaky streaker like Winnie the Pooh / T-shirt and no pants and I dance the boogaloo!
  • The Beastie Boys, To The 5 Boroughs(2005)

• I never thought missing children could be so sexy. Did I say that out loud?
  • The Bloodhound Gang, "A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying", Hooray for Boobies (2000)

• These are the words you wish you wrote down
  • Brand New, "Okay, I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't", Deja Entendu (2003)

• I swam across, I jumped across for you.
  • Coldplay, "Yellow", Parachutes (2002)

• You've got that rainbow feel, but the rainbow has a beard
  • Cream, "SWLABR" (an abbreviation for "She Was (or Walks) Like A Bearded Rainbow"), Disraeli Gears (1967)

• I'll wait in this place, where the shadows run from themselves.
  • Cream, "White Room", Wheels of Fire (1968)

• And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down.
  • Cream, "Crossroads", Wheels of Fire (1968)

• He was high on intellectualism.
  I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice.
  • Sheryl Crow, "Every Day is a Winding Road", from Sheryl Crow (1996)

• If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.
  If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
  • Sheryl Crow, "If It Makes You Happy", Sheryl Crow (1996)

• It's not getting what you want
  It's wanting what you've got
  • Sheryl Crow, "Soak Up the Sun", from C'mon, C'mon (2002)

• Tell your daughters, "Do not walk the streets alone tonight!
  • The Decemberists, "Shanty For The Arethusa", from Her Majesty The Decemberists (2005)

• Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
  Sings upon the birch bough high.
  • The Decemberists, "Yankee Bayonet", from The Crane Wife (2006)

• Meet me on my vast veranda
  My sweet untouched Miranda
  • The Decemberists, "We Both Go Down Together", from Picaresque (2005)

• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
  • The Eagles, "Hotel California", Hotel California (1976)

• You can spend all your time making love/You can spend all your love making time
  • Eagles, "Take It to the Limit", One of These Nights" (1975)

• He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.
  • Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine", from Jonathan Edwards (1971)

F-J

• I love it when you call, I love it when you call/I love it when you call but you never call at all
  • The Feeling, "Love It When You Call", Twelve Stops and Home (2006)

• [to "American Tune" by Paul Simon ]
  This pretty tune was written by Hans Leo Hassler
  In 1599.
  I wrote some words and changed about three notes.
  Now ASCAP says it's mine.
  • John Forster, "Fusion", Entering Marion (1993)

• [to a tune similar to "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon]
  I'm well aware that there's an element you could call exploitation
  In the way that I appropriate the cultures of these peoples for my own commercial purposes.
  Mmm, but everyone who works for me gets credit
  And royalties
  And Grammys
  And a chance to ride to stardom on my coattails, neh-nyah neh-nyah.
  But hey, let's just remember who's the genius here!
  • John Forster, "Fusion", Entering Marion (1993)

• Between the lines of fear and blame,
  You begin to wonder why you came.
  Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
  Somewhere along in the bitterness.
  And I would have stayed up with you all night,
  Had I known how to save a life.
  • The Fray, "How to Save a Life", How to Save a Life (2005)

• I said, "Hi!"
  She said, "Yeah, I guess I am."
  • Dean Friedman, "Ariel", from Dean Friedman (1977)

• Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended?
  And wouldn't it be great to say what's really on your mind?
  I have always said all the rules are made for bendin'
  And if I let my hair down, would that be such a crime?
  • Great Big Sea, "Consequence Free", from Turn (1999)

• Won't you die tonight for love?
  Baby join me in death.
  Won't you die?
  • HIM, "Join Me in Death", from Razorblade Romance (2000)

• All in, all in a day
  A day it changes everything
  • Isis, Weight, from Oceanic
• It's just a ride, it's just a ride
  No need to run, no need to hide
  It'll take you round and round
  Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down
  It's just a ride, it's just a ride
  Don't be scared, don't hide your eyes
  It may feel so real inside
  But don't forget it's just a ride
  • Jem, "Just a Ride", from Finally Woken (2004)

K-R

• He's washing dishes and baby clothes
  He's so ambitious, he even sews
  But don't forget, folks, that's what you get, folks
  For makin' whoopee
  • "Makin' Whoopee", lyrics by Gus Kahn, popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!

• If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
  Never make a pretty woman your wife
  So for my personal point of view
  Get an ugly girl to marry you
  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts, "If You Wanna Be Happy", Doppelganger, (1983)

• I know what you must be saying to yourselves.
  If that's the way she feels about it, why doesn't she just end it all?
  Oh, no, not me.
  I'm not ready for that final disappointment.
  'Cause I know, just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,
  That when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath,
  I'll be saying to myself…
  Is that all there is?
  • Peggy Lee, "Is That All There Is?" (written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), from Is That All There Is? (1969)

• The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
  • Alan Jay Lerner, "The Rain in Spain", My Fair Lady (1956)
  • Often misquoted as "The rain in Spain falls mostly on the plain".

• I swore I would love you till the end of time.
  So now, I'm prayin' for the end of time...
  • Meat Loaf, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", from Bat out of Hell (1977)

• I'll be thuggin forever, see I'ma fighter, not a lover
  I'm a hit-and-run-it, cold-blooded, motherfucka
  • Memphis Bleek, "Round Here", M.A.D.E. (2003) (featuring Trick Daddy Dollars)

• Your life's an open book
  Don't close it fore it's done
  • Metallica, "Mama Said", Load, 1996

• Staying awake to chase a dream
  • Muse, "Falling Away With You", Absolution, 2003

• Sex is natural, sex is good; not everybody does it, but everybody should.
  • George Michael, I Want Your Sex, Faith, 1987

• This is how we like to do it in the murder scene.
  • My Chemical Romance, "Give 'Em Hell, Kid", Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)

• Becoming perfect as if they were sterling silver chainsaws going cascading...
  • My Chemical Romance, "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)

• They're coming to take me away
  Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
  To the funny farm
  Where life is beautiful all the time
  And I'll be happy to see
  Those nice young men in their clean white coats
  • Napoleon XIV, "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" (1973 single)

• I'll be back when I've calmed my fears
  And I'll see you around in a thousand years
  • Juice Newton, "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me", Quiet Lies (1982)

• Talking is just masturbating
  without the mess.
  • Our Lady Peace, "Happiness and the Fish", Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch (1999)

• Scared the lights'll turn green
  You'll have to be seen
  You'll be like anybody else
  Scared the lights'll turn red
  You're stuck in your head
  You can't run it to even her
  How you gonna get through the year?
  • Liz Phair, "Red Light Fever", from Liz Phair (2003)

• It's just fuck and run
  Fuck and run
  Ever since I was 17
  Even when I was 12
  • Liz Phair, "Fuck and Run"

• I want to be your Blowjob Queen
  • Liz Phair, "Flower"

• In wine there's truth but in silence there's surrender.
  • Protest the Hero, "Heretics & Killers", Kezia (2005)

• This is ourselves under pressure
  • Queen, "Under Pressure" (featuring David Bowie), from the album Hot Space (1981)

• You're still searching for these answers
  They're not inside your wrist
  • Rise Against,"Heaven Knows", Revolutions Per Minute

S-Z

• I never wanted to know
  Never wanted to see
  I wasted my time
  Till time wasted me
  I never wanted to go
  I always wanted to stay
  'Cause the persons I am
  Are the parts that I play
  So I plot and I plan
  And I hope and I scheme
  To the lure of a night
  Filled with unfinished dreams
  And I'm holding on tight
  To a world gone astray
  As they charge me for years
  I can't pay
  • Savatage, "Believe", Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)

• I am the way
  I am the light
  I am the dark inside the night
  I hear your hopes
  I feel your dreams
  And in the dark I hear your screams
  Don't turn away
  Just take my hand
  And when you make your final stand
  I'll be right there, I'll never leave
  And all I ask of you is... Believe
  • Savatage, "Believe", Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)

• I did it my way.
  • Frank Sinatra, "My Way" (lyrics by Paul Anka), My Way (1969)

• If the kids are united they will never be divided.
  • Sham 69, "If the Kids Are United", The Adventures of Hersham Boys (1979)

• There are things in Doris's life,
  but then there are in everyone's.
  She opens her little mouth,
  She sings her little song. Like a flag
  it folds out across the city,
  and it goes:
  
  "The old man becomes an ice-skater...
  A maniac becomes a stepfather...
  I watch a policeman's mouth -
  out comes an honest word."
  
  Miracles happen when Doris sings.
  Couples in love stop dead in their tracks.
  Dishes clatter to the ground unbroken.
  Politicians die.
  • Shellac, "Doris", Uranus EP (1993)

• Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken,
  And sleep's the only freedom that she knows.
  • Skylark, "Wildflower", Skylark (1972)

• I'm not your star...
  Isn't that what you said,
  what you thought this song meant?
  • Something Corporate, "Konstantine", Ready... Break (2003)

• [If] you can't hide it, you might as well embrace it.
  • Sum 41, "In Too Deep

• 'Cause we're all to blame
  We've gone too far
  From pride to shame,
  We're trying so hard,
  We're dying in vain,
  We want it all,
  Everyone, don't we all?
  • Sum 41, "We're All to Blame", Chuck (2004)

• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
  • Timbuk 3, "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades", from Greetings from Timbuk 3 (1986)

• 'The whole thing I think is sick.'
  • Slipknot "742617000027" from "Slipknot"