65 Lyric Quotes

In the vast landscape of music, lyrics often stand out as the heartbeat, capturing emotions, stories, and moments in time in the most poetic ways. Whether it's a line that perfectly encapsulates a feeling, a phrase that resonates deeply, or a verse that inspires, lyric quotes have a unique power to move us. This collection brings together the top 65 lyric quotes, offering a diverse array of poignant, uplifting, and thought-provoking excerpts from various genres and eras. Get ready to rediscover your favorite songs and perhaps even uncover new gems that speak to your soul.

1. “Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.” - Roger Waters

2. “Walk this way” - Aerosmith

3. “We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league.” - Relient K

4. “We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)” - Serj Tankian

5. “The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.” - Elvis Costello

6. “You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up,Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?" And I looked around and said, Who me?" And he said, "The higher you fly, the faster you fall."He said, "Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.” - Laurie Anderson

7. “You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin” - Rodney Crowell

8. “God bless us everyoneWe're a broken people living under loaded gunAnd it can't be outfoghtIt can't be outdoneIt can't out matchedIt can't be outrunNo” - Linkin Park

9. “We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.” - Neil Gaiman

10. “Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?” - Morrissey

11. “There are more than enoughto fight and oppose;why waste good timefighting the people you like?” - Morrissey

12. “They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.” - Morrissey

13. “I am human and I need to be loved,just like everybody else does.” - Morrissey

14. “There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die.” - Morrissey

15. “I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.” - Morrissey

16. “Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.” - Morrissey

17. “You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.” - Morrissey

18. “It's so shameful of me: I like you.” - Morrissey

19. “Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.” - Morrissey

20. “Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.” - Morrissey

21. “And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?” - Morrissey

22. “We hate it when our friends become successful.” - Morrissey

23. “I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.” - Morrissey

24. “These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love.” - Morrissey

25. “I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!” - Morrissey

26. “I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.” - Morrissey

27. “Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that's how people grow up.” - Morrissey

28. “I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.” - Tears for Fears

29. “There's a time I can recallFour years old and three feet tallTrying to touch the stars and the cookie jarAnd both were out of reach” - Hilary Weeks

30. “I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.” - Amy Winehouse

31. “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” - Poe

32. “Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.” - Scott Westerfeld

33. “You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.” - Emilie Autumn

34. “Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk” - Daft Punk

35. “Say you'll love me every waking moment.” - Charles Hart

36. “You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?” - Arctic Monkeys

37. “Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or CapuletsJust banging tunes and DJ setsAnd dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtinessI Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys

38. “There's a bit of magic in everythingAnd then some loss to even things out.” - Lou Reed

39. “I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.” - Fall Out Boy

40. “All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.” - Aimee Mann

41. “Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.” - Aimee Mann

42. “The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.” - Aimee Mann

43. “I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.” - Blink-182

44. “Que fácil fue tocar el cielo la primera vez, cuando los besos fueron el motor de arranque, que encendió la luz que hoy se desaparece.Así se disfraza el amor para su conveniencia, aceptando todo sin hacer preguntas, y dejando al tiempo la estocada a muerte.” - Ricardo Arjona

45. “He'd like you to join the club that likes to saythere's no such thing as love ...” - Patty Griffin

46. “A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.” - Criss Jami

47. “You are the sun, and I'm the moon. In your shadow I can shine.” - Tokio Hotel

48. “Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.” - Josh Groban

49. “Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth” - Stephen Stills

50. “It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.” - Neil Young

51. “We throw stones though we live in glass houses,We talk shit like its a cross to bare.You're only relevant 'til you get older.Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” - Alex Gaskarth

52. “My melon soulCrushed by your Gallagher of apathy” - David Wong

53. “The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.” - Kimberly Novosel

54. “You are my world, my everything You stupid girl, you're gonna be the death of me So let me go, just let me be You stupid girl, I love the way you're killing me (killing me) You stupid girl (killing me) You stupid girl” - Framing Hanley

55. “You taste like Heaven, but God knows you're built for sin” - Framing Hanley

56. “You only get one go at it... might as well Rock it.” - Tommie Vaughn

57. “I didn't have a heart until I meet you.That smile is killin me too.I can't look away.Can I always stay?I can't look away.I need to stay.I didn't have a heart until I meet you.” - Jenni James

58. “I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” - Lana Del Rey

59. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.” - Lana Del Rey

60. “You're a shameful opportunist! What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"You have it backwards... it's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees” - Rise Against

61. “Too much of anything can make you sick,even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole” - Cheryl Cole

62. “When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.” - Joe Brooks

63. “i better find your loving...i better find your heart...” - drake

64. “Tears flood in youyour eyes burningyour heart scars with my name scratched deepMy face is gonemy heart betrayed by your lullabiesI’m a shadow of a girl insideHands are touching younothing takes the place of youHeart wrench, weeps goodbyeLullabies, beautiful and trustingBarely breathing as they break into dustLonely corners meSweeps me off my feetShows me it was better for meFingertips holding closeyour grip not as softFollows me to an empty bedI can’t stop the weakening of my soulmy body is dyingyour tune is holding my mindLet me gosee what I doNo controlNo youYou whisper your sweet goodbyeIf it is small it won’t interrupt my sleepBut my heart you keepYou say it’s for meBut who would be happy?Alone left out in the cold” - Mercy Cortez (LiveForeverAnon)

65. “I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,since other men posess my flourishing acres now,and not for me are the mules dragging the plow through the grainland,since I have given my heart to the restless seafarer's life.” - Theognis