Which lyrics stay in your subconscious?

[bluestelecaster]

I'll start ...

"Generals gathered in their masses"

A lot of the lyrical phrases in Iron Maiden songs stay with me as well, along with the Black Sabbath lyrics above.

Or is this post intoxicated ramble!? Haha.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Candlebox "Sometimes"

This song is always with me, I can never get enough of it.

http://youtu.be/9b1Pn2pAK1Y

I wipe the night from my eyes
Block out the sunny day and I hide
Everything's falling down around us
I'm just missing the rain
I'm happier now today
Don't let me down
Don't let me go
A change of seasons inside her mind
In time I'll decide
In time I'll decide to move on
We change directions, we watch the tides
And we borrow too much
We form restrictions and we form lines
And we separate you from me
Sometimes, sometimes we carry more weight than we own
Oh but sometimes sometimes goes on
Night takes the light by the hand
Tunes out the boring day and cries out loud
Everyone's hanging on, hanging on my words
It kills the thrill in being divine
But she's happier now today
Don't let her down
Don't let her go
There are no reasons there are no lies
We just bleed together
That's how we realize
We change directions we watch the tides
And we borrow too much
We form restrictions and we form lines
We separate you from me
Sometimes sometimes we carry more weight than we own
Oh but sometimes sometimes goes on
Somehow we'll find a way we've got to paste it back together
These ripped out pages of old coloring books where your
Gold is silver, my blue is gray
It's all held together by cellophane tape
but we change directions, we watch the tides
And we borrow too much
We form restrictions and we form lines
We separate you from me
Sometimes sometimes we carry more weight than we own
Oh but sometimes sometimes goes on
In my head I've got everything I want in you

 

[Death by Uberschall]

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[line6man]

All of Renaissance's "So Cold Is Being."

So cold is being lonely
Behold the feeling lonely
The living part is done
The dying has begun
The world is spinning slow
So tired slow

So cold is being sadness
Behold the feeling sadness
Oh how can we believe
We earn what we receive
The pain it overflows
Overflows

Lord wont you help us realise
See through your eyes
Within our lives
The earth grows old
The earth grows cold

So cold is being tired
Behold the feeling tired
Stand quietly at the side
Watch darkness open wide
The light is growing dim
So dim within


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ow-QjOA58g

 

[Cagey]

You're gonna laugh...

All the kids in the marketplace say:
Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo...
Walk like an Egyptian.

I get that song in my head and it sticks like tar.

Actually, it happens with a bunch of tunes; I just happened to think of that one. I seem to obsess on a line and it won't go away, sometimes for hours. Usually not lyrical, though. Usually it's just several bars of a particular lead run.

 

[MSP]

Lyrics don't stick in my head like riffs do, for some reason.  But, like Cagey, cheesy pop tends to stick more firmly than anything else**.  The worst is when you go to a wedding and at the reception they play all those dance tunes.  They get stuck in my head like crazy.  I get Rah-Rah-Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen! going round and round and round.  Not to mention some more recent ones. 


** I actually like Walk Like An Egyptian.  I was the right age to appreciate it when it came out and it makes me smile even now.

 

[NQbass7]

Bush's Glycerine is one of those that the lyrics just always struck a chord with me. "I'm never alone, I'm alone all the time. Are you at one, or do you lie?"

Also, the OP made me think of "The General" by Dispatch, also one that has always stuck in my head well.

Oh, and Demons by Guster.

 

[Cagey]

Walk Like An Egyptian has a funny feel to it. I think they played some games with the percussion at edit time, leading and lagging some things. I notice in many of the videos of that song the drums aren't even being played live - the band plays to a recorded drum track and the drummer "plays" tambourine while singing fill. In the videos where the drums are actually played, they don't sound right. Or, I should say not like the recording.

 

[line6man]

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like: It's better than yours! Damn right! It's better than yours. I could teach you, but I'd have to charge...
:icon_jokercolor:

 

[mayfly]

Currently I'm obsessed with the Sadies "another year again".  It's a sad sad story:  The heartbreak of seeing a friend slowly dying of drug addiction and knowing there's nothing you can do to help:

"and now I find - they can't see through the pennies on their eyes"