I listen to a lot of music, and some lyrics stick out more than others. I started a Word Doc every time I would hear a lyric that stuck out I would add it to the Doc. It is definitely a work in progress but I thought I'd share it. Enjoy and remember where you were the first time you heard the lyric!-Brendon

I have found all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away, again. - Fuel, Shimmer

 

I will have my ever after. - Steve Winwood, Finer Things

 

It won't be the first - heart that you break.  

It won't be the last - beautiful girl.
The one that you wrecked - won't take you back.
If you were the last beautiful girl in the world. - Matchbox 20, Beautiful Girl

 

I can't help thinking it we could have held it all together where would we be now. - Matchbox 20, Beautiful Girl

 

Sometimes I think there must be a woman to blame.  But I know, it's my own damn fault. - Jimmy Buffet, Margarittaville

 

Time just leaves you dry.  Where are you now?  With your lies and the words that are rarely spoken here. - Better Than Ezra, Rarely Spoken

 

Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me. - Dave Matthews Band, Crash

 

Sooner or latter it's over your shoulder. - 7 Mary 3, Over Your Shoulder

 

Life has become cumbersome. - 7 Mary 3, Cumbersome

 

God save the king of New Orleans. - Better Than Ezra, King of New Orleans

 

Say the worst is over.  Can't get over, can't get over.  Then they ask what went wrong, well you never had it right. - Better Than Ezra, Desperately Wanting

 

Before you ask a girl for her hand, keep your freedom for as long as you can.  My momma told me you better shop around. - Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, Shop Around

 

So take a good look at my face.  You'll see my smile looks out of place.  If you look closely it is easy to trace the tracks of my tears.  - Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, Tracks of My Tears

 

Why do ple break up and then turn around and make up.  I just can't see.  You'd never do that to me, would you baby? - Al Green, Let's Stay Together

 

Let's stay together.  Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad. - Al Green, Let's Stay Together

 

Happiness is when you really feel good about somebody.  - Al Green, Love and Happiness

 

Love can make you do right.  Love will make you do wrong.  Make you come home early.  Make you stay out all night long. - Al Green, Love and Happiness

 

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.  She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian Wood. - Beatles, Norwegian Wood

 

With lovers and friends I can still recall.  Some are dead and some are living. In my life I have loved them all.  But off all these friends and lovers there is no one that compares to you.  These memories lose their meaning when I think of love as something you.   - Beatles, In My Life

 

Although the news was rather sad, I had to laugh, having seen the photograph. - Beatles, Day in the Life

 

I look at the world and I notice it's turning. - Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.  All your life.
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night.
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see.  All your life.
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

- Beatles, Blackbird

 

Oh my head hurts aches from each night we lay in fight.  In your bed, can't we just sleep tonight?  I quit, I give, mercy. - Better Than Ezra, Mercy

 

Sooner or later you sleep in your own space.  Either way it is ok you wake up with yourself. - Billy Joel, My Life

 

You may be right.  I may be crazy.  But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. - Billy Joel, You May Be Right

 

I took the good times; I'll take the bad times.  I'll take you just the way you are. - Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are

 

Come out Virginia don't let me wait.  You Catholic Girls start much too late. - Billy Joel, Only the Good Die Young

 

And every time I've held a rose it seems I've only felt the thorns.  And so it goes, and so it goes, and so will you soon I suppose.  - Billy Joel, And So it Goes

 

I can change, I swear, oh, oh,  See what you can do.
I can make it through,  You can make it too. - Bob Dylan, You're a Big Girl

 

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you and then say you are brave.
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned. - Bob Dylan, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

 

But somewhere sometimes when you're curious I'll be back around. - Cars, You Might Think

 

You can't go one thinking nothing's wrong.  Who's going to drive you home tonight? - Cars, Drive

 

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
Strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you. - Chris Isaak, Wicked Game

 

Chug-a-luggin up one side, sliding down the other.  I am a lover of the other side of the hill.  - Chris LeDoux, Cadillac Cowboy

 

I'd start walking your way, you'd start walking mine.  We'd meet in the middle between that old Georgia pine.  And we'd gain a lot of ground ëcause we'd both give a little.  Ain't no road to long when you meet in the middle.  - Diamond Rio, Meet in the Middle

 

In a week or two or I was going to bring you diamonds.  In a week or two a long long string of pearls.  And we would have run down to the river at night and sailed away.  Just me and you in a week or two.  - Diamond Rio, In a Week or Two

 

Look how far we have made it choosing to stay.  Baby don't go there.  Love don't get no where walking away.  - Diamond Rio, Walking Away

 

I want to look at the horizon and not see a building standing tall.  I want to be the only one for miles and miles except for maybe you and your simple smile.  - Dixie Chicks, Closer to You

 

I've sure enjoyed the rain.  But I'm looking forward to the sun.  You have to feel the pain.  When you lose the love you gave someone.  I thought that now the time would take away these lonely tears.  I hope your doing fine all alone but where do I go from here? - Dixie Chicks, Without You

 

The road you leave behind you is another road you are going to have to go back down.  Just the way this big old world turns around.  You'll find some how, some way, some place, some time; you'll have to go back down the road you leave behind. - David Lee Murphy, The Road You Leave Behind

 

I was either standing in your shadow or blocking your light.  Though I kept on trying I could not make it right.  For you girl, there's just not enough love in the world. - Don Henley, Not Enough Love

 

Sometimes I wonder where it is love goes.  I don't know if even heaven knows. - Don Henley, Not Enough Love

 

When happily ever after fails and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales.  Lawyers dwell on small details since daddy had to lie. - Don Henley, End of the Innocence

 

You can lay your head back on the ground; let your hair fall all around me.  Offer up your best defense.  This is the end of the innocence. -Don Henley, End of the Innocence

 

And it just breaks my heart to see you here this way.  Someday I'll get the nerve to walk up to you and say, this is the last worthless evening that you will have to spend.  Just give me a chance to show you how to love again. - Don Henley, Last Worthless Evening

 

In a New York Minute, everything can change.  In a New York Minute, things can get pretty strange. - Don Henley, New York Minute

 

What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment and beg for something more?
I'm learning to live without you now. But I miss you sometimes.
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter.
But my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter.
But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore - Don Henley, Heart of the Matter

 

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man or woman, miss out on the night life. - Morphine, Early to Bed

 

What you feel is what you are, and what you are is beautiful.  I want to get married and run away. - Goo Goo Dolls, Slide

 

Comin' down the years turn over, and angels fall without you there.
And I'll go on to bring you home and all because I'm what you became to me.

- Goo Goo Dolls, Black Balloon

 

Would you stay if she promised you heaven?  Will you ever win?  Will you ever win? - Fleetwood Mac, Rhiannon

 

Tell me why everything turned around?  Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do. - Fleetwood Mac, Go Your Own Way

 

Now here you go again you say you want your freedom.  Now who am I to keep you down.  It is only right you should play the way you feel it.  But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness like a heartbeat drives you mad.  In the stillness of remembering what you had and what you lost. - Fleetwood Mac, Dreams

 

Thunder only happens when it's raining.  Players only love you when they're playing
Say .. Women ... they will come and they will go.  When the rain washes you clean .. you'll know. - Fleetwood Mac, Dreams

 

Who wants to wrap around your dreams and ...  Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness ... - Fleetwood Mac, Dreams

 

I've been changing as you can plainly see.  I felt the joy and I learned about the pain that my momma said. - Brewer and Shepply, One Toke Over the Line

 

Rumors spreading around in that Texas town.  About that shack outside LaGrange.  You know what I'm talking about.  Just let me know if you want to go.  To that little home out on the range.  They got a lot of nice girls there. - ZZ Top, LaGrange

 

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly.  He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller.  He got hair down to his knee.  Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football.  He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola. He say "I know you, you know me".  One thing I can tell you is you got to be free. - Beatles, Come Together

 

She said you don't look like my type but I guess you'll do.  Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendezvous.  He said I'll even tell you I love you if you want me to.  - Sammy Kershaw, Third Rate Romance

 

This here is the queen of my double-wide trailer.  With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck.  Sometimes she runs and I've got to trail her.  Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck. - Sammy Kershaw, Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer

 

The world is the same you'll never change it. - Dean Martin, You're Nobody ëtil Somebody Loves You

 

You're nobody 'til somebody loves you.  You're nobody 'til somebody cares.  You may be king.  You posses the world and its gold.  But gold won't buy you happiness when you're old. - Dean Martin, You're Nobody ëtil Somebody Loves You

 

Why do we hurt each other? Why do we push love away? - Boys II Men, Water Runs Dry

 

Let's not wait 'til the water runs dry.  To make the biggest mistake of our lives. - Boys II Men, Water Runs Dry

 

Since your mind is already made up go on.  Go ahead and I'll make it past the pain. - Robert Cray, Already Gone

 

I promised to love you forever.  It is just forever ran out of time. - Robert Cray, Far Away