Most memroable lyrics line.

"You are a fruit fork" Faust - Meadow Meal

My signature - Witch Hunt, Rush

"And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us" - The Weapon, Rush

"Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl a cracked and broken path" - Epitaph, King Crimson

"Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!" - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd.

Well, although the thread has gone from memorable "line" to memorable "lines" to memorable "verses" (), I'll try to bring it back to its original intention:

"For though your ship be sturdy, no mercy has the sea - will you survive on the ocean of being?"

Peace.

I've always like this one line from Jethro Tull's "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day": 

Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?

Ben2112 wrote: Arrgh, how could I forget the master wordsmith Neil Peart?! "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" (so true)

Actually, I think Neil wrote "If you choose not to decide, you have not made a choice", but Geddy changed it when he sang it.  Check the printed lyrics from the album.  I think they're printed as above.

One (of my too many) faves, and also the inscription on the back of my iPod, "A dew drop can exalt us like the music of the sun"

No plans could be conceived
No ships could fare the seas
For there would be no courage were it not for Hope

Genesis:

-"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on humanoid height"

-"You know what you are, you don't give a damn"

-"The mountain cuts off the town from view, like a cancer growth is removed by skill"

Pink Floyd:

-"Will the misty master break me, will the key unlock my mind?"

-"And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be"

-"Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky"

-"The rusting wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in. Gives way, and suddenly it's day again"

Tool:

-"Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you."

-"Jesus, whon't you f**king whistle, somthing but the past and done."

-"My shadow's shedding skin and I've been picking scabs again"

-"black and white are, all I see, in my infancy, red and yellow then came to be, reching out to me, let's me see".

And the short poem in Third Eye:

"Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song..."

King Crimson:

-"When every man is torn apart with nightmares and with dreams, will no one lay the laurel wreath as silence drowns the screams."

-"The yellow jester does not play but gently pulls the strings and smiles as the puppets dance in the court of the crimson king."

-"Ice blue silver sky fades into grey."

Jethro Tull:

-"I may make you feel but I can't make you think."

-The poet and the painter casting shadows on the water."

...arrr, frack it! The whole of Thick as a brick :)

The Mars Volta:

-"Now there are those who find comfort in the breathing wrong, is it wrong?"

-"One day this chalk outline will circle this city"

-"look at how they flock to him, from an isle of open sores"

And the poem in Cassandra Gemini:

-" There was a frail syrup dripping off
His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her
Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching
Gizzard soft as a mane of needles
His orifice icicles hemorrhaged
By combing her torso to a pile
Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels"

Edited by NecroManiac

 

Flower Kings' "Stardust we are, close to divine" - kind of sums up us the progfans (actually it is Woodstock anthem, which shows where our roots come from)

But actually it should be "Rings hopes and promises fragments out of time all of these things have been spoken but still you don't understand how it feels when I'm waiting for them to be broken" Van Der Graaf Generator "My Room".

"If the sky is seared with death what is the point of catching breath - expel it!" VDGG "Lemmings"

"Welcome back to the circus", "We are clutching at straws still drowning" our beloved Fish with Marillion "Cinderella Search", "The Last Straw" respondingly

"Oh by the way which one is Pink?"

"How could an intelligent hare make such a silly mistake?"

"But there is in fact more earth than sea"

".....still you turn me on"

and so on ad infinitum

Such variety of moods, such depth of wisdom and reflection, sometimes a bit hilarious, sometimes a bit of affirmation.

Let's face it, we should count ourselves lucky. Not only we listen to most brilliant musicians (even jazzers should admit it) but we also have the best poets in rock, Morrison including!!

STRANGERS PASSING IN THE STREET
BY CHANCE TO SEPERATE GLANCES MEET

 

I know, caps lock on.. but its a goody.

Sitting on a park bench

Cat's foot Iron Claw

I need a round about

Close to the edge down by a river (or whatever they say)