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I’m feeling compelled to catalog my favorite lyrics of all time, although I’m doing this all in one go, so I’m sure I’m missing some. I like to think that I’m a lyric-forward listener, because I identify primarily as a lyricist as opposed to instrumentalist.
Distance has no way
Of making love understandable
I had a fever
Until I met you
Now you make me cool
I used to think about you all the time
Now I think about you all the time
I keep falling over, I keep passing out
When I see a face like you
But I'm gonna keep you in love with me for a while
I'm gonna keep you in love with me
Yes there are things I'm still quite sure of
I love you this hour
This hour today
And heaven will smell like the airport
When you walk away
You still exist, I feel good knowing it
Well, I guess you’re right
But that really shouldn't stop us
From jumping in the water without plans
You leave me hanging
I know you’re tied up
But you know what I want
To be lonely is a habit, like smoking or taking drugs
And I've quit them both but, man, was it rough
It's never over
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
We nearly drowned
For such a silly thing
Well, my heart, it don't beat, it don't beat the way it used to
And my eyes, they don't see you no more
And my lips, they don't kiss, they don't kiss the way they used to
And my eyes don't recognize you no more
You are sick, and you're married, and you might be dying
But you're holding me like water in your hands
I loved you before I even
Ever knew what love was like
Wait
They don't love you like I love you
And I long for a touch or reminder of us but,
But it must not be
And a few strong branches over water reach for what they must not reach
I paint pictures of my heart
The colors blue and purple start
To bleed into an endless dark
It's only you, it's only you
Wouldn't we be perfect together
If we wanted exactly the same thing?
But I won't tell you
That love is a variable thing
Like this stain on your ass that
I noticed when you walked away from me
I timed myself on this exercise because I could actually go on forever. Enjoy, and please comment your favorite lyrics.
Without a doubt:
And heaven will smell like the airport
“I’m the escape to something that’s worse
I am the shadow driving the hearse”
Matt Maeson, The Hearse
“You’re dripping like a saturated sunrise
You’re spilling like an overflowing sink”
Halsey, Colors
“I had to say something to strike him very weird
So I yelled out “I like Fidel Castro and his beard””
Bob Dylan, Motorpsycho Nightmare
“And you said, “Scarlett, I don’t need to be responsible for everything you’re feeling
You’re emotional grim reaper, I feel bad for you”
Holly Humberstone, Scarlett
“Fear not, fear not, when you go
I got pieces of your hate in my soul
Look at me now
I’m falling apart in daylight
All the pieces that I’ve lost, I have loved”
Aurora, Soulless Creatures
“I’m just a man, but I know that I’m damned
All the dead seem to know where I am
The tale that began on the night of my birth
Will be done in a turn of the earth”
Lord Huron, The Ghost On The Shore
I have so many more favorites!