Favorite NLOTH lyrics?

[sherwood01]

Now that I'm finally getting the hang of most of the lyrics on the new CD, thought I'd start a thread about people's favorite lyrics from the songs. I've picked out a few, some that I like so well, I'll restart the song over from scratch just to hear them again, some I like because they're quirky, etc.

So my choices thus far, in no particular order...

Begging to get back to my heart
To the rhythm of my soul
To the rhythm of my unconsciousness
To the rhythm that yearns
To be released from control
(love Bono's Moroccan style yodelly thing (?) when he sings "yearns")

At the moment of surrender
Of vision of over visibility

Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the Magnificent
(I love the play on words in those two: vision/visibility, and magnify/Magnificent)

I was right there at the top of the bottom
On the edge of the known universe

(Talk about being very specific, I just like how he's at the top of the bottom of the edge of the universe. :) )

Bossy boots
(I didn't realize that they actually sang BOSSY boots partway through the song until I saw the Amazon video for it, and now it cracks me up every time for some reason.)


The roar that lies on the other side of silence
(just because... :) )

I know there are more (a line about not buying a cockatoo comes to mind, lol), but I probably SHOULD get some work done while I'm at work this morning, so...

Anyone else?

[Babyface_Mullens]

01. I’m a traffic cop, Rue du Marais
The sirens are wailing
But it’s me that wants to get away
Oh

02. Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent


03. Every eye looking every other way
Counting down ’til the pain will stop


04. You know your name so punch it in
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now

05. for this song -- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
I love the full lyrics...

06. Now I’ve got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret
You’re so high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the cedars of Lebanon

[Kaycee]

"Stop helping God across the street like a little old lady"

"Be careful of small men with big ideas"

"I was born to sing for you, I didn't have a choice but to lift you up, and sing whatever song you wanted me to"

"Restart and reboot yourself" - I need that one in the morning

[sherwood01]

Yay, someone else who wants to play. :) I was wondering if everyone else was like Doug, who likes to listen to songs as a whole, vs me, who plays them to death to wring out everything I can from the lyrics.

Another fave for today... well, essentially ALL of "Breathe". I played it three times back to back on my way in to work this morning...

With all the fuss and bother about these presales and will they/won't they come to Raleigh, I really DO feel like "I'm running down the road like loose electricity" Really MUST switch to decaf this week.

Every day I die again, and again I'm reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can't defeat
...
Walk out into the street
Sing your heart out
The people we meet
Will not be drowned out
There's nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now
Yeah, yeah

We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown

Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out
I've found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it's all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now

Yeah, I'm really liking that song today...

[stanley]

[QUOTE=Kaycee;33370
"Restart and reboot yourself" - I need that one in the morning [/QUOTE]

I need that too !

[Niebuhr]

Nice thread - don't stop!

I myself am quite taken with Cedars of Lebanon, but suppose my favorite will be some snippet from one of the other songs... Time will tell.

[stormy]

It´s not easy,but my favourite ones...

"Time is irrelevant, it's not linear."

"Stand up to rock stars, Napolean is in high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas"


Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can’t defeat