Given that VH1 has just broadcast a top 100 of fave lyrics, I thought I'd submit some of my faves from my very broad musical tastes and see what other Zedgers' fave lyrics are...

"I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth"
"Substitute" - The Who

"She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at St Martin's College"
"Common People" - Pulp

"Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive... stay alive!"
"Could You Be Loved" - Bob Marley

"Once had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out big pain in the a**s!"
"Heart of Glass" - Blondie

"And early morning when I wake up
I look like Kiss but without the makeup"
"Strong" - Robbie Williams

"Over there, there's broken bones
There's only music so that there's new ringtones"
"A Certain Romance" - Arctic Monkeys

"Woke up this morning, can't believe what I saw
Hundred million bottles washed up on the shore"
"Message In A Bottle" - The Police

"Walking like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis"
"Express Yourself" - NWA

"Now I've swung back down again
It's worse than it was before
If I hadn't seen such riches
I could live with being poor."
"Sit Down" - James

"All I ever wanted, all I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm"
"Enjoy The Silence" - Depeche Mode

"You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you"
"Don't You Want Me" - Human League

And the whole of the following songs (which have too many good lyrics that I can't be mithered typing them all out)...
"Creep" - Radiohead
"I'll Stand By You" - The Pretenders
"Everybody Hurts" - REM
"The Unforgiven" - Metallica
"Stan" - Eminem (ft Dido)
"Fairytale Of New York" - Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2

I figure I remember lyrics best if either they make me laugh or they're moving & pertinent to my life.

My favourite lyric is the one The Kids Aren't Alright, by The Offspring.
Here it goes:
When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole d**n street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams

Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot

Jay committed suicide
Brandon OD'd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality.

every song ever written by Jim Steinman.

Song by DMX called Damien...

any metallica \m/

"I like it better when it hurts"
Ashlee Simpson - La La

"Some items may have shifted and fall out on you or your neighbors and knock you the f**k out"
Pink - Catch 22

I like Shawn Mullin's Lullabye --- very meaning lyrics...

And on a lighter side, Afromans Then I got High....

MinM's the way i am.....like da hatred in it

Bob Marleys Three little birds,

"Sing and don't worry,
about a thing!
Cause every little thing
Is gonna be alright!"

Words to live by

in nicks honour:

Nothing else matters -Metallica

So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No nothing else matters