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As songwriters, we all hear those lines....the ones we wish had come out of us. But, if you could choose one, what would it be? I don't need to even think about what mine would be. It strikes me every time I hear it.

Melissa Ethridge, from the song "Come to My Window":

"I would dial the numbers just to listen to your breath"

For me, it doesn't get any better than that! What's yours?

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Mine would be "You never give me your money". First line from the song with the simlilar name from the Beatles.

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"Be Still My Heart, I Age By Years At The Mention of Your Name." Behold The Hurricane - The Horrible Crowes.

That whole album album is lyrical genius, but for me this is the one that stands out the most.

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"Maybe this matress will spin on its axis and find me on yours" - Edge Of Desire, John Mayer

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Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll - Ian Dury

in with a close second is:

Just because your paranoid

Don't mean their not after you. - Kurt Cobain

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First of all, it's been a looooooooooooooooong time since I stopped by. So, hi to everyone who remembers me, and hi to those who don't.

That being said...One of my favorites comes from an Indie back around 2000. His name was Zallen, and the line was:

"Oh you're never gonna know just how it feels,

To be a kid on a bike without training wheels,

Stuck in the rain for the very first time....

Love that!

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I've always thought about this one lyric from a song by Doug Martsch (the singer for Built to Spill) it goes:

"Isn't it amazing how everyone's crazy 'bout violence they can't concieve?"

It's always struck home with me and I often wish I wrote it...

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"It's not the world that's heavy, just the things that you save. So I'm drifting, drifting away"

From the song Drifting by Ed Vedder with Pearl Jam

I moved to Europe for 8 months last year with nothing but a week's worth of clothes, my laptop and my guitar. It was amazing to feel so light and free.

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From the song "My poor brain" by Foo Fighters:

"Sometimes it feels I´m getting stuck, between the handshake and the f*ck!"

Very thoughtful.

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Awesome topic! Mine is,

" I don't mind stealing bread, from the mouths of decadence..." Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. Such a powerful sentiment in that whole song really, but those words gave me a robin hood empowerment. So beautiful, and... Right.

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"Tell me I'm only dreaming,

Tell me he's just sleeping!

And when morning comes

We'll both wake up to the sun."

Timothy - As Cities Burn. Whilst the song, in my opinion, is awful and way too long, screechy and poorly recorded, these lines are just so emotional.

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Maybe of personal reasons I like this line :"

Don't know why I'm still afraid

If you weren't real I would make you up

now"

joseph arthur - honey and the moon

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"It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you" - Neil Young

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"No longer can I call a home, the place I’ve known so well

But what may come upon the road, right now I cannot tell"

-Bryan John Appleby

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'...and in her eyes you see nothing....no sign of love behind the tears ' For No One - McCartney

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There are lots of lines I wish I'd written, but the first one that popped into my mind when I saw this thread was from Watching the Detectives by Elvis Costello:

"She's filing her nails, while they're dragging the lake."

Whew! What a cold lady!

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