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Best lines in songs
R&B Guru

2009-03-06 12:46:35

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What are your favorite lines from songs? They don't have to be good, they can just be lines you like to sing. But good lines work just as well.

For me...:

Boyz II Men - Thank You in Advance
"Hi my name is Shawn. Tell me your name, although I know the last one"

Luther Vandross - Can Heaven Wait
"Baby take my breath, so you can breathe."

Tony Rich - Nobody Knows
"But like a jigsaw puzzle, my heart's been torn all apart"
"Nobody knows it but me"

bunky1787

2009-03-06 12:52:52

Total Posts: 440
Javier-Beautiful U R

girl, how does he miss the things so special to me
girl, he'll never be the thing that i am naturally
girl, how could he touch your face and never really see
girl, how beatiful u r

the "good guy theme" :)

Havok214

2009-03-06 18:44:55

Total Posts: 407
Javier's October sky:

"When You kissed me goodbye/I could taste every lie"

Mint Condition - You dont have to hurt no more

"How Could He look into those pretty eyes and hurt you?"

Boyz II Men - Trying Times

"Trials and tribulations build up walls in front of faces made of stone/yet we stand strong enought to break the walls down to journey on"

Babyface - The day (you gave me a son)

"Its like a song I've never heard, I've never sung, but I know the words"

Moofu

2009-03-06 23:02:22

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Great picks guys. These are mine.

The Temptations - Just My Imagintion

"Her love is heavenly;
when her arms enfold me,
I hear a tender rhapsody...
but in reality, she doesn't even know me"

The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine

"But if you leave me a hundred times
A hundred times I'll take you back"

The Deele - Two Occasions

"I only think of you on two occasions
That's day and night"

JohnnyAwesome24

2009-03-07 00:58:14

Total Posts: 1928
Dammit I wrote this once and forgot to click the reply button. I will only include two.

II D Extreme- "If I Knew Then"

"Forget foolish pride, cuz I want it all back. let's leave the past behind, I'm willing to build love from scratch."

Javier- "Crazy"

"Every time that you are close to me, I lose control of my sanity. Every night, every day, every word that you say. Don't you know you put a spell on me.

d0rk

2009-03-07 02:56:12

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Blackstreet - Let's Stay In Love
"Girl, i must confess that you are the best I've ever had in my whole life
and i believe that love, just wouldn't be complete
without you here beside me
near to guide me through whatever comes my way."

Joe - Good Girls
"Why are the good girls taken everytime"

H-Town - Emotions
"Emotions make you cry sometimes,
emotions make you sad sometimes,
emotions make you glad sometimes,
but most of all they make you fall in love."

Sonofsoul

2009-03-08 17:33:56

Total Posts: 212
Guru, you picked a great song in Nobody Knows...but you picked the wrong line! The real line is

"Like a clown I put on a show
The pain is real even if nobody knows..."

Other great lines? I gotta go to my favorite lyricist (currently), Eric Benet. In "Where Does the Love Go" he says:

They say that love is a timeless energy
it never dies it just changes form
But it when it changed from the shape of you and me
it took the shape of a raging storm

That's good stuff...I got more from Benet but I'm done for now

R&B Guru

2009-03-08 17:57:05

Total Posts: 2527
Haha, good to have you back. Guess break is giving you some time between interviews? I could probably pick any line in Nobody Knows :). I was debating that line though.

And if you don't take more of Benet's lines, I might do it myself.

soulful_sweetie

2009-03-08 18:29:50

Total Posts: 93
India.Arie:
"I will be faithful, kind, patient and true, to a man who loves music, a man who loves art, respects the spirit world and thinks with his heart" from ready for love...my fav song ever

Anthony Hamilton's dear life:"early was the morn, flowers filled with bloom, I became somebody through lovin' you. softly as a child, born in natural rain, I predict the seasons still go onchanged. sometimes in life, you run across a love unknown. without a reason, it seems like you belong. hold on dear life, don't go off runnin' from what's new, I became somebody through lovin' you." or pretty much this whole song, this song is just one beautiful line. oh my gosh. love it.

Musiq Soulchild Love: "many nights I've wanted you, longed for you, hopin' for the chance to get to know you, longing for your kiss, for your touch, for your feel, for your escence."

I'm sure I could go on, but those are just a few of my favs right now.

Sonofsoul

2009-03-08 18:36:04

Total Posts: 212
More Benet you say? Well aside from that rhyme, here are some more of his that I have taken a liking to

For the more religious crowd, here's something from "Lamentation"

"I asked my father, Lord, what's wrong?
Through his tears I heard him say, child be strong
Cause the world I'm tryin to save done turned me away
But, they better come 'round my way before too long"

Also, from "Be Myself Again"

"Like a circle peg in a square hole
I tried to push it but it wouldn't go
It didn't kill me so my strength increased
And now i finally see"

One more? OK. Here's another one of my favorites from "Making Love" (Note: sex is being used metaphorically...brilliant)

I want to lay you down
On the bed of our emotions
Embrace you with tenderness and truth (yes)
I'll be inside of you
With the strength of my devotion


Good stuff...talented writer



R&B Guru

2009-03-09 05:54:57

Total Posts: 2527
Jerk, you did that just to take all my favorite lines by him.

Hurricane:

Surrounded by everything I want
But nothing that I need
I was blinded by the absurdity
Losing all identity
Sometimes what you fear the most is what you need
To find that road

I sing that verse allll the time.

R&B Guru

2009-03-09 11:31:12

Total Posts: 2527
I love this line, it's Color Me Badd's Last To Know

"When I hunger for affection,
The cupboard is bare"

ALovingV

2009-03-10 05:49:25

Total Posts: 201
Hmm I have afew..

Brown eyed blue - Adrian Hood
"She makes me take a good look at myself, she brings out the best in me, she doesnt think any less of me, when I do the wrong thing, she loves me for me and I cant explain" (Yup that is soooo me lol)

Video - India Arie
"But I learned to love myself unconditionally becos I am a Queen"

Purify me - India Arie
"Like a glimmer of light, like a vision of life, hes so perfect I couldnt picture him if I tried"

Little things - India Arie
"I dont need no Hollywood"

Lesson Learned - Alicia Keys
"Falling down aint falling down if you dont cry when you hit the floor"

Wreckless Love - Alicia Keys
"That crazy love, that off the wall wont stop till I get enough kind of love" :) LOVE IT!!

Whenever, whereever, whatever - Maxwell
"For you and your blood I would bleed"

Glamorous - Fergie
"If you aint got no money take your broke a** home" I can relate to this line lol :)

ilikeit

2009-03-10 12:32:16

Total Posts: 1156
Still have your picture in a frame
Hear your footsteps down the hall
I swear I hear your voice, driving me insane
How I wish that you would call

From Brain McKnight "Anytime"

ilikeit

2009-03-10 12:34:49

Total Posts: 1156
She's staring at me, I'm sitting wondering what she's thinking
Ummm Nobody's talking, cause' talking just turns into screaming (Oooo)
And now yes I'm yelling over her, she yelling over me,
all that that means is neither of us are listening,
and what's even worse, that we don't even remember why we're fighting

Ne-Yo "Mad"

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