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Do you have a favorite song line or stanza? Either because they are clever, catchy or just click with you?

Here are a couple that stay with me and seem to resonate:

[i]Now youre punching
And youre kicking
And youre shouting at me
And Im relying on your common decency
So far it hasnt surfaced
But Im sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist [/i]

[b]People Are People- Depeche Mode[/b]

I just love the sheer creepiness of this one:

[i]I like walking in the park
When it gets late at night
I move `round in the dark
And leave when it gets light[/i]

[b]Subculture- New Order[/b]



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[i]There's an army on the dance floor
it's a fashion with a gun my love[/i]

from the Furs' "Love My Way".

[i]Sometimes I wonder why your eyes choose not to see
I'll just be a friend if that's the only role that's free[/i]
Classix Nouveaux / La Verite

I've had 3 serious, long-term relationships that went south and that lyric always comes back to haunt me.

Shocking no one...

[i]And we would go on as though nothing was wrong.
And hide from these days we remained all alone.
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time.
Touching from a distance,
Further all the time.[/i]

JD - Transmission

"She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin"

- Lloyd Cole, Perfect Skin

Meant to be sung loud with 2 people....I can't remember how many times this was bellowed in a club by me and my messed up friends.

The corporation's boiling over
Everybody's taking over
I won't go
(He won't go.)
I don't wanna go
(You must go!)
Is it time to go?
(The orders are in!)
Well, I'd rather go bowling!
(The lanes are closed!)
Maybe a little tennis?
(Your racket's got a hole.)
How about some baseball?
(Field's rained out.)
Maybe a little fishing?
(The fish are on vacation.)
Well, how about some golfing?
(The greens are overgrown.)
Well, what about some swimming?
(I don't think so!)
Well, what about this––and that––
(No, no, no, no, no!)
Well, you can't tell me what to do!
Well, you can't tell me what to do!
(Hey, fuck you!)

Wall of Voodoo "Back in Flesh"

and we go doot - doot, doot
and we go doot - doot, doot

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>and we go doot - doot, doot
and we go doot - doot, doot
[/quote]
You lyin' [funny] sack of shit.

Why Won't You Dance With Me?????
I'm Not No Limburger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[;)]

So many come to mind..

'The poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms'
- Nowhere Fast, The Smiths

'But did I ever tell you, by the way
I never did like your face'
- You've Got Everything Now, The Smiths

'If I never see you again, that will be way too soon'
- Lustre, The Church

'I would never want to do that to you
to take you far and leave you stranded
I have never gone quite far enough
but you can get off whenever you like'
- Drive That Fast, Kitchens of Distinction

'Your glass is empty just like your head'
- Prize, Kitchens of Distinction

'I give you my time to kill
but you'll never never break my will
or I could sink a sleeping pill
And in the morning could be sleeping still
but most of you are much to ill
oh, way beyond a surgeons skill
in bondage to a dollar bill
what more can you buy'
- Soul In Isolation, The Chameleons

'Let's stay home, it's cold outside and
I have so much to confide to you'
- Here Is The House, Depeche Mode

'..infectious sense of hopelessness..'
- Prayers For Rain, The Cure

'I worked hard to give you all the things that you need
and almost anything that you see
I spent a lifetime working on you
and you won't even talk to me'
- Loveless, New Order

1002

"Flesh of my Flesh" by Orange Juice:

Here's a penny for your thoughts
Incidentally, you may keep the change

[b]

Echo And The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

"I've been up to Villiers Terrace
I saw what's a-happening
People rolling 'round on the carpet
Biting wool and pulling string
You said people rolled on carpet
But I never thought they'd do those things"[/b]

Well I believe in this
and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
will later join the church

- "Death Or Glory" The Clash



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[i]I just wished my life could be
As strange as a conspiracy[/i]

"Primitive Painters" by Felt


[i]Heir to a future
You never made
There is nothing less amusing
Than the amusement arcade[/i]**

"Dog-End of a Day Gone By" by Love & Rockets



[i]Waiting feet frozen to the ground
The earth exploding with the gas of bodies
Rifle butts
To crush you down
Now only flowers
To idolize[/i]

"Heaven Street" by Death In June (cheerful, I know)


[i]Sitting at tables
And throwing the scraps
For Christ's' sake leave them something
Now they can erase us
At the flick of a switch
Will they hesitate
No!
There must be something wrong boys[/i]

"Up the Down Escalator" by the Chameleons



(**for years, I thought he was singing, "There is nothing less amusing / Than the amusement of [b]pain[/b]" [:)] )

<p align="justify">"Ooh, it gets dark!
It gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot
I find the lot
Falls through without you"

"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush



"Then my loneliness closes in
So I drink a German wine
Drift in dreams of other lives
And greater times"

"Runes And Men" by Death In June (the whole fuckin' song, really[}:)] )