Your favorite line from a Smiths/Morrissey song

[My sacred one]

There are so many...Ok then,post the first ones that comes to your mind.
These are some of my favorites:


When you say it's gonna happen 'now'.Well,when exactly do you mean?

'Cause there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them,but not very often.

When she calls me, I do not walk, I run.

Jeer the lights in the windows of all safe and stable homes(but wondering then 'well, what could peace of mind be like?')

But dreams have a knack of just not coming true

Dear God, did this kind of thing happen to you?

Are you aware, wherever you are, that you have just died?

You want to turn it on its head by staying in bed. I said 'I know I do'.

[not_me_not_I]

I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

The gulf between the things I need and the things I receive is an ancient ocean wide, wild lost uncrossed.

Here you'll find despair and I calling to you with what's left of my heart.

[Mr Reynolds]

'she said 'I know you and you cannot sing' I said 'that's nothing, you should hear me play piano!'

'I crashed down on the crossbar and the pain was enough to make a shy bald buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder'

'I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now its happening in mine......kick em when they fall down'

'It takes guts to be gentle and kind'

'this might make you throw up in your bed, but I'm OK by myself...and I don't need you...and I never have, I never have'

'trudging slowly over wet sand, to the bench where your clothes were stolen'

'its not natural normal or kind, this flesh you so fancifully fry - the meat that you eat as you savour the flavour of murder'

'Love's young dream - I'm the one who stopped you, I'm the one who shopped you...coz in my sorry way I love you'

[Qvist]

See how words as old as sin fit me like a glove
But fresh-lilaced moorland fields cannot hide the stolid stench of death
It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate / it takes guts to be gentle and kind
Vivid and in your prime / you'll leave me behind
Amidst concrete and clay and general decay nature must still find a way
I might walk home alone / But my faith in love is still devout
I tried living in the real world instead of a shell / But I was bored before I even began
What she said: I smoke, cause I'm hoping for an early death / and I need to cling to something
I lost my bag at Newport Paignell (for being so marvellously malapropos)
There's something against us / It's not time

[Irregular Regular]

Gasping, dying, but somehow still alive, this is the final stand of all I am

I'm doing very well, I can block out the present and the past now

And if you think peace is a common goal that goes to show how little you know

You without clothes, oh I could not keep a straight face, me without clothes, well a nation turns its back and gags

[joe frady]

"We've never seen a keener / Window-cleaner"

Oh yes!

[maudlingirl]

It's difficult to choose only one actually... But I can think that now I am in the right mood for this:

"Why did you give me so much desire, When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world, When there is no one I can turn to
To unlock all this love?"

Lovely, indeed. Go Moz!

[Qvist]

And Morrissey solo:

When the gulf between all the things I need and the things I receive is an ancient ocean wide / Wild, lost, uncrossed

Black sky in the daytime and I don't much mind dying / when there is nothing much to care for anymore

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong / You were the only one, who's come and gone

Is evil something you are, or something you do?

Used to be a sweet boy / something went wrong / and I know I'm not to blame

..And if you don't know this, then what do you know?

And freedom and reason is a waste / It's a lot like love

This is the coastal town that they forgot to close down / come come nuclear bomb

I'm just playing easy to get (or is that I'm just plain easy to get? )

[billy scissors]

Too many

"How I'm the 18th pale descendant of some old queen or other" always tickles me

[alek2702]

Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

[chris]

"what she asked of me at the end of the day caligula would have blushed"

[Emil]

I am a poor, freezingly cold soul

[Librarian On Fire]

"I will live my life as I will undoubtly die alone".

[nightingale+therose]

I was minding my business lifting some lead off the roof of the Holy Name Church :)

I want to live and i want to love, I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of ;)

Outside there is a pain, emotional air raids exhausted my heart and it's safer to be inside :(

Sleep on and dream of love because it's the closest you will get to love (swayed by video)

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Nothing's changed , I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love

[kissmyshadestoo]

Too many to mention.......but always liked "Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"

[Stanley Ogden]

A bit on the dirty side, but....... "The motion of taxis excites me when you peel it back and bite me"

[M-in-Oz]

trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your clothes were stolen (which I also think is his best opening line)

drawn to what scares me, and scared of what bores me
If you're so very entertaining, then why are you on your own tonight?
I will be in the bar, with my head on the bar
When the gulf between all the things I need and the things I receive is an ancient ocean wide, wild, lost, uncrossed
It could go on forever, in which case I'm doomed

oh, there is just too many...

[ABoyNamedSue]

There are so many that speak to me in such a profound way, but I think the line that I can relate to the most, which brings a smile to my face every single time I hear it is this

"Oh, the alcoholic afternoons
When we sat in your rooms
They meant more to me
Than any, than any living thing on earth"

[AHappyRocket]

These things take time,
and I know that I'm
the most inept that ever stepped...

[Tortuga]

today it's:

and I don't get along with myself
and I'm not too keen on anyone else

[ellay mort]

today it's:

and I don't get along with myself
and I'm not too keen on anyone else

sadly, that one's a motto for life, i'm afraid.

[ellay mort]

"And people who are uglier than you and I /They take what they need, and just leave"

"The story is old, i know, but it goes on"

"And reason and freedom is a waste / It's a lot like life" (although the delivery of this line massively biases me)

and then a bunch of others already mentioned...

[Bizarro]

Did i ever tell you by the way....i never did like your face !

[Raphael Lambach]

"and in the darked underpass I thought 'oh God my chance has come at last'".

[gwen]

My favourite at the moment is "Leather elbows on a tweed coat. Oh! Is that the best you can do?"

It makes me laugh.

[Dave]

Well I was 15 / what could I know?
basically all of Maladjusted is one classic line after another.

I could list the details
of everything you ever wore
or said, or how you stood that day

Impossible, the whole song is great.

[KenzieW]

These things take time,
and I know that I'm
the most inept that ever stepped...

Mine too. I had a bunch of awkward moments last night and this song started buzzing in my head and I thought "I love you Morrissey."

[Emil]

And I'm ashamed of myself - as usual

is another great line. Sums up my life pretty well.

[Bizarro]

" This is the last song i will ever sing, Oh i've changed my mind again. Goodnight and thank you."

[alcoholic afternoons]

And as I climb into an empty bed. Oh well... enough said.
I'm just passing through here, on my way to somewhere civilized. And maybe I'll even arrive.

Too many great lines.Very inspiring too

[socrates]

My favorite line in the moment

"Dear God, please help me
And I am so very tired
Of doing the right thing"

I need God right now!!!

[Tibby]

Life Is Never Kind

When I`m lying in my bed I think about Life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeal to me

I am a poor freezingly cold soul so far from where I intended to go

And many ,many more.

[sad veiled bride]

Some heartbreaking lines:
sleep on and dream of love, because it's the closest thing you will get to love.
see the sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me, do you think you can help me? sad veiled bride please be happy...well, ALL the song, actually.
you had no real way of knowing in my heart I begged take me with you, I don't care where you're going
why did you stick me in self deprecating bones and skin, do you hate me?
if you have 5 seconds to spare, then i'll tell you the story of my life etc...
Some lines that always make me smile:if it's not love, then it's the Bomb...
can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
let me cry on your shoulder, I've heard that you try anything twice.
how can you stay with a fat girl who'll say would you like to marry me and if you like you can buy the ring.
and now I know how Joan of Arc felt...
caligula would have blushed
Some genius opening lines:trouble loves me, trouble needs me, 2 things more than you do
punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate, will Nature make a man of me yet?
the sanest days are mad...
I am a poor freezingly cold soul
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving etc.
And many more...

[Tibby]

Does The Body Rule The Mind Or Does The Mind Rule The Body?

Fifteen Minutes With You I Wouldn`t Say No

I Would Go Out Tonight But I Haven`t Got A Stitch To Wear

I know that somebody already mentioned this one but it`s one of my favorites.

I Don`t Get Along With Myself And I`m Not Too Keen On Anyone Else

[Valjean]

I dreamt about you last night
And I fell out of bed twice
You can pin and mount me like a butterfly
But "take me to the haven of your bed"
Was something that you never said
Two lumps, please
You're the bee's knees
But so am I

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
But I Won't Cry

[elles]

For whether you stay, or you stray, an inbuilt guilt catches up with you and as it comes around to your place at 5 a.m. wakes you up and it laughs in your face

But that joke isn't funny anymore, it's too close to home and it's too near the bone, it's too close to home and it's too near the bone, more than you'll ever know

and many more.....

[theytookit]

scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
(this means you really love me)

Looking up at the sign
It said "Please Keep Away"
And so in I ran
You see, I'll never learn

[Eraserhead]

Kind-hearted view me and say 'thank god that's not me'.


Why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?

[chan]

So how did I end up so deeply involved in the very existence I'd planned on avoiding?

[Dario_Western]

So many, but here are a few stonkers:

"Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard 'How I dearly wish I was NOT here' "
"Yes there are worse things in life than never being someone's sweetie"
"Give us a drink and make it quick or else I'm gonna be sick all over your frankly vulgar red pullover, now see how the colours blend"
"Most people keep their brains between their legs"
"Little lamb on a hill run fast if you can, the "good" Christians they want to kill you and your life has not even begun"
"You can break my spine but you won't change the way I feel about you, cos I love you"
"I was bored before I even began"

[Drago]

Probably not my favourite & not a line either...

"When I sleep
With that picture of you framed beside my bed
Oh, it's childish and it's silly
But I think it's you in my room, by the bed
(...yes, I told you it was silly...)"

I'm feeling a lot of love for Viva hate again at the moment.

[billybu69]

I'm very partial to,
"loafing oafs in all night chemists."
because who else could put this lyric in a song.