Lyrics Quotes

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within ...

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within ...

I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a v...

This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can...

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell...

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. Thi...

There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft ...

We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles...

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade ...

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and ...

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane...

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously...

I salute to you Commanderand I sneeze'Cause I have Nowan AllergyTo your policies it seemsWhere have ...

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

It won't give up, it wants me deadGoddamn this noise inside my head

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfe...

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad,and so, for the sak...

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover...

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clea...

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't y...

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage c...

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I don't want to feel you die,but if that's the way that God has planned youWell, I'll put pennies on...

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just n...

a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i'v...

These spider webs are my home now

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mo...

Home can be the Pennsylvania TurnpikeIndiana's early morning dewHigh up in the hills of CaliforniaHo...

Coincidence makes sense only with you.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and onl...

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that...

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...

reality has too many heads

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Loneliness is a crowded room,Full of open hearts turned to stone,All together all alone

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and lo...

But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the...

As the smoke clears,I awaken,And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, whil...

Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we n...

Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can...

I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear.If you have a message th...

The worst things in life come free to us

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've ...

But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

She's no angel.He's no saint.

It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.

There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.

I don't wanna be a lover,I just wanna be your victim.

So you take her to the pictures,trying to become a fixture.Inch by inch trying to reach her,all the ...

No use wishing now for any other sin.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me r...

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lac...

Cause I don't appreciatePeople whoDon't appreciate

I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him alwa...

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same...

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tensionAnd not always knowing the answers w...

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.

And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.

I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time I...

So you write to our congressmenWith bleeding pensOf the sorrow withinAnd in return they just sendTic...

My hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my o...

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ri...

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and...

The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better...

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

You can't take the sky from me.

You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that sou...

My heart is broke but I have some glue.

I'm not like themBut I can pretend

No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.