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The Cattery

My Unconsidered Opinion

5 May 2004
Filed under Art, Language, Life, Music, Text

I think I can pin down my favourite line from a song, ever, to

Forget this dance / Let's go upstairs
- Bob Dylan, Lay, Lady, Lay

Despite my secret* fascination with Justin Timberlake, I don't think that

I'm going to have you naked / By the end of this song
- Justin Timberlake, Rock Your Body

really cuts it, although the sentiment isn't dissimilar.

I'd be overestimating my audience if I expected a flood of responses, but feel free to leave yours in the comments, if you can possibly pin it down.

*Cat's out of the bag now

Views from the Floor

Peter says:

Mine is from Tim Rogers: almost the greatest songwriter Australia has ever produced:
"she keeps me in a cigarette case in a second-hand flower-print cocktail dress"

from "Take Me Out", I think it's called.
Not bad.

PS I also have a thing for JT.

Mel says:

Don't even start me on Juzzy T. You should already know that my love for him is far from secret and it's only the exorbitant ticket prices that keep me from worshipping at the altar in person. At the moment my favourite line is from "Musicology" by Prince:

Cos we got a PhD
in Advanced Body Movin'

But I would have to say my favourite ever line is from "Let's Dance" by David Bowie:

Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall into my arms
And tremble like a FLOWWW-ER!

I love how it hardly makes sense and yet does, completely.

adam ford says:

don't ask me why, but right at the moment i've been listening to a lot of supertramp, and my favourite supertramp lyric ever is... well, actually their lyrics are all crap. but my favourite TOTO lyric is

"Sure as kilamanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengetti"

Best. Line. Ever.

stu says:

Tom Waits
Small Change:The Piano Has Been Drinking

And you can't find your waitress
With a geiger counter

Sus says:

Always Leonard Cohen...

"Nothing's happened in a million years,
I've been sitting here since Wednesday morning/Wednesday morning?/Can't believe my ears." From Jazz Police

or

"I'd crawl to you baby/and I'd fall at your feet/and I'd howl at your beauty like a dog in heat/and I'd claw at your heart/and I'd tear at your sheet" From I'm Your Man

chong says:

My baby is so vain
She's almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver
down my sp-i-i-i-i-ne
Nick Cave
(Not my favourite, but it's been going through my head for days, and I haven't even heard the song played)

*Justin Timberlake, on his posters, looks like an emasculated Enimem

Virginia says:

This is a Justin-Timberlake-bagging free zone. In other news, my favourite line from a song might be changing soon. I'll keep you informed.

Bro says:

Of course, that great line isn't in the original version, which is "Stay lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead". He sang the more lusty version on tour in 1976, as heard on "Hard Rain". The orginal was probably about his wife Sara. The second version was performed after they broke up, though she was on tour with him at the time. I doubt the re-write was about her though.
Aren't you glad I'm around to be so helpful?

Helen says:

Whew- I'm really late in on this one, but I've been waiting for my favourite lyric to surface. And last night it popped into my head during the final scene of 'Miss Congeniality'...

The Whitlams: 'You're one in a million. So there's five more just in New South Wales.'

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