Most memroable lyrics line.

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"

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?

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.

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.

"You are a fruit fork" Faust - Meadow Meal

" a salamander scurries into flames to be destroyed, imaginary creatures are trapped in earth on celuloid" (feel free to correct)

To be honest that's only what came to my head. toooooo many lyrics are memorable

"rain down, rain down, c'mon, RAIN down on me!!" for ex. Very simple, very bland= very easy to get stuck in head.

The "innocents raped by napalm fire" verse of 21 Century Schizoid Man is always stuck in my head.

Eetu, mukster's song was "Moths" by Jethro Tull.

Hi

Brand new to this forum. Love prog and dunno how I ever missed this great site and forum.

 

How about " The leaded window opened
  to move the dancing candle flame
And the first Moths of summer
  suicidal came."

Remember first time I heard that.

 

Cheers

nacho wrote: Moogtron III wrote: "Has the dawn ever seen your eyes, have the days made you so unwise..." I love those lines... Strange, but true. Piece of cake to find out where they came from, I guess... Maybe we should ask threefates to help us...

Why?  Because the voice that sings it is just as beautiful as the words??    So lets cover a few more of those mind tingling lyrics...

- Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea.
  Then watch the ripples that unfold into me.
  My face spills so gently into your eyes,
  Disturbing the waters of our lives.

- Have you walked on the stones of years?
  When you speak, is it you that hears?
  Are your ears full? You can't hear anything at all.

- Clear the battlefield and let me see
  All the profit from our victory.
  You talk of freedom, starving children fall.
  Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?

  Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
  Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
  Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face,
  Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.

  Every blade is sharp; the arrows fly
  We're the victims of your armies' lie,
  Where the blades of grass and arrows reign
  Then there will be very little sorrow,
  Very little pain.

 

-You and I are yesterday's answers

  the earth of the past come to flesh

  Eroded by time's rivers

  to the shapes we now possess

 

  Come share of my breath and my substance

  and mingle our streams and our times

  In bright infinite moments

  our reasons are lost in our eyes

 

- There's no end to my life,

  No beginning to my death:

  Death is life.

 

- Man alone; born of stone;

  Will stamp the dust of time

  His hands strike the flame of his soul;

 

- I give you the state of statesmen

  And the key to what motivates them

  On the left, on the right, on the nail

  Still I don't see a man in a mansion

  That an accurate pen won't puncture

  Go to town, go to hell, go to jail.

 

- So be closer to believing though your world is torn apart

  For a moment changes all things and to end is but to start

  And if your journey's unrewarded, may your God lift up your heart

  You are wind blown, but you are mine.

 

- A tattered cloak behind the throne

  It is unseen it is not known

  Behind this face I am alone

  I would give everything I own

  To touch you...