Some of your favorite song lyrics?

"Oh, having it with me
From the first day of my life
Oh, always carrying them within me
The powers of Fire and Ice"

"Without fear I die
I hold my sword
And die
Without fear"

"Feel the call - Nocturnal desire
Sorrow's breath - Enchanting cries
Night's blood - Taste damnation's wine
Feel the pain - Nocturnal desire
The devil's path of dark delight
Night's blood - Pure damnation's wine"

"Me ratsastamme yli Kuolemananne. Tuomiopäivän monumentteina ruumiinne, luina tuhkan mustaamina,
ovat kunnian muistoja vuosituhansia kylmässä, talven tuulissa valittaen keihäiden painona."

But when he's gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The bed's too big
The frying pan's too wide

"You're nearly a laugh but your really a cry"
"Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain"
"I think God he stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down"
"And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me. Shine until tomorrow"
"I don't to live my life, I don't want to live my life unknown, unknown in a Hick Town" - local band Talas, known for bass God billy Sheenhan

...and a couple of couplets


On a ferris wheel looking out on Coney Island
Under more stars than, there are prostitutes in Thailand
- The Magnetic Fields - "Strange Powers"


You Liberated a boy I never rated
And now he's throwing discus, for Liverpool and Widness
- Belle and Sebastian - "The Stars of Track and Field"


Hey, where you been, ain't seen you for weeks
You've been hanging out with, all those Jesus freaks
- Felt - "The Ballad of the Band"

Chasing after field mice, running through the high grass
That's what she loves to do
And if she's happy as a mongoose

Man in a Long Black Coat

Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Window wide open African trees
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hangin' around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask
Somebody said from the bible he'd quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat
Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don't live or die people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote
She gone with the man in the long black coat

Songwriters: Bob Dylan

"I don't intend to offend, I just offend with my intent."

"Beauty's in the beholder's eye.  I just like the ugly side."

"The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side"

Of course, and Dylan lyrics only work because Bob sang them

That lyric reminds me of one by Tom Lehrer (ca 1965):

The Ballad of Wernher von Braun

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance 
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi-schmazi," says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical

Say rather that he's apolitical

'Once the rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down?

Dot's not my department,' says Werner von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples of old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You, too, may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, or English, I know how to count down...
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun