Favorite verses in songs

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Champion, by Clark Beckham. I love the use and arrangement of the words. Very artistic.

Oh oh

Oh oh

You're flying, you fall

You're trying, you fail

But still you keep going


You're crashing, you stall

You sink 'til you sail

Cause you never know when

The tide's gonna turn

The wind's gonna change

We're gonna make it

The world's gonna learn and remember our name

It's been not breakin'


Through blood and tears we rise

Coz Tonight we come alive


We are the sons of the promised dream

Daughters of hope we will not give up

They say we're broken

They say we're weak

But We've shown the heart of the champion


Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh

We're gonna stand

When we've been knocked down

We crawl, we walk, until we run

We're gonna fight

Gonna hold our ground

Cause we've got the heart of the champion


Oh oh

Oh oh

Cause we've got the heart of the champion

[Luftwaffles]

"When you are losing your way in the rain" by Art Garfunkel (Watership Down):

"When the colours of morning have faded away
And you don't know where the road is leading
The edge of the sky turns from blue into grey
And there's nothing to ease the pain
When you're losing your way in the rain.

Sometimes I'm right
Oh, and sometimes I'm wrong
But I'm aching now and sinking slowly
And I know in my mind that I have to keep on
But it just doesn't seem the same
When you're losing your way in the rain.

Don't want to go back there again
When you see how far you've come
Trying not to feel lonely and waiting for the sun.

There are times when you're weak
There are times when you're strong
There are times when you are in confusion
And sometimes you feel your direction is wrong
It's not easy to take the strain
When you're losing your way in the rain".

[Maudie]

And who do you think you are?
Runnin' 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Who do you think you are?

Oh oh, I can't even take it in
Oh oh, I can't even take it in
Oh oh, I left my heart in metropolis

So far apart, I checked but the coast was clear
I feel like a postcard
I wish you were here

Subway through the dark, carriage through the park
Taxi down the street, get out and use my feet
Don't matter much to me what it is that I do
As long as I'm coming home to you

Oh oh oh, as far as I can see
You're the only one, the only one who can get to me
Like a hijacked plane or a runaway train
Or a speeding bullet, there's no stopping this
I left my heart in metropolis

A thousand miles feels like a million years
Like hundreds of postcards that say
I wish you were here (I can't even take it in)
Airplane through the sky, greyhound racing by
Dirt bike on the beach, sailboat on the sea
Don't matter much to me what it is that I do
As long as I'm coming home to you

Oh oh oh, as far as I can see
You're the only one, the only one who can get to me
Like a hijacked plane or a runaway train
Or a speeding bullet, there's no stopping this
I left my heart in metropolis
I left my heart in metropolis

Like a hijacked plane or a runaway train
Or a speeding bullet, there's no stopping this
I left my heart in metropolis
I left my heart in metropolis
I left my heart in metropolis
I left my heart in metropolis

Oh oh, I can't even take it in
Oh oh, I can't even take it in
Oh oh, I can't even take it in
Oh oh, I left my heart in metropolis.

[Søren]

Lifted Up (1985), Passion Pit:

"All my life I stay here waiting
Every new year, always making me
Feel as though there's nothing up there but
One day you came out of nowhere

1985 was a good year
The sky broke apart and you appeared
Dropped from the heavens, they call me a dreamer
I won't lie, I knew you would belong here
Lifted off the ground
I took your hands and pulled you down
Because 1985 was a good year
I won't lie, I knew you would belong here"

Replace 1985 with 2015 and that's me.

[Banya]

Dust Bowl Dance by Mumford & Sons

So collect your courage and collect your horse
And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse

Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got

When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store
There will come a time I will look in your eye
You will pray to the God that you've always denied

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Well, yes sir, yes sir, yes, it was me
I know what I've done, 'cause I know what I've seen
I went out back and I got my gun
I said, "You haven't met me; I am the only son"

[Luftwaffles]

"Rock the Night" by Europe:

"I've gone through changes
I've gone through pain
But there's not enough reason for me to go insane
I know the feeling, when it grows
I'm in a rage up from my head down to my toes.

You know it ain't easy
Running out of thrills
You know it ain't easy
When you don't know what you want.

Rock now, rock the night
'Til early in the morning light
Rock now, rock the night
You'd better believe it's right.

I know my limit
Just what it takes
When things ain't good enough
I just pull the brake
Sometimes it's easy
Sometimes so tough
But just have one thing clear
I can't get enough. "

[Skyblade]

From Castle of Glass, Linkin Park:


"Take me down to the river bend
Take me down to the fighting end
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again

Fly me up on a silver wing
Past the black where the sirens sing
Warm me up in a nova's glow
And drop me down to the dream below

'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see

Bring me home in a blinding dream,
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again

'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see"

[Luftwaffles]

"Burning Heart" by Survivor:

"Two worlds collide
Rival nations
It's a primitive clash
Venting years of frustrations
Bravely we hope
Against all hope
There is so much at stake
Seems our freedom's up
Against the ropes
Does the crowd understand?
Is it East versus West
Or man against man
Can any nation stand alone

In the burning Heart
Just about to burst
There's a quest for answers
An unquenchable thirst
In the darkest night
Rising like a spire
In the burning heart
The unmistakable fire

In the burning heart

In the warrious code
There's no surrender
Though his body says stop
His spirit cries - never!
Deep in our soul
A quiet ember
Know it's you against you
It's the paradox
That drives us on
It's a battle of wills
In the heat of attack
It's the passion that kills
The victory is yours alone".

[Søren]

This is one song that I think describes me best, especially when I deal with some of my personal shortcomings and problems:
Monster, Imagine Dragons:
"If I told you what I was,
Would you turn your back on me?
And if I seem dangerous,
Would you be scared?
I get the feeling just because
Everything I touch isn't dark enough
That this problem lies in me

I'm only a man with a candle to guide me,
I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me.
A monster, a monster,
I've turned into a monster,
A monster, a monster,
And it keeps getting stronger."

[Luftwaffles]

Monster? That's a lie and you know it

"Different Strokes" by Alan Thicke, Gloria Loring and Al Burton.

"Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he's a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.

But they got, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.

Everybody's got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don't matter that you got not alot
So what,
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine....

Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Yes it does.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world".

[Søren]

Hardships get everyone:

"Practice isn't perfect
But the market cuts the loss
I remind myself that times could be much worse
My wife won't ask me questions
There's not so much to ask
And she'll never flaunt around an empty purse

Once my mother-in-law came
Just to stay a couple nights
Then decided she would stay the rest of her life
I watch my little children, play some board game in the kitchen
And I sit and pray they never feel my strife.

But then my partner called to say the pension funds were gone
He made some bad investments, now the accounts are overdrawn

I took a walk"
-Take a Walk, Passion Pit

[Luftwaffles]

"Take me away" by Globus:

"Take me away from time and season
Far, far away we'll sing with reason
Prepare a throne of stars above me
As the world once known will leave me

Take me away upon a plateau
Far, far away from fears and shadow
Strengthen my heart in times of sorrow
Light the way to bright tomorrows

Answer our call in desperate hours
Shelter our fall from earthly powers
Temper our souls with flame and furnace
Bear us toward a noble purpose

Heaven hides nothing in it's measure
Mortal men blinded by false treasure
Formless and vanquished we shall travel
Shield and sword will guide our battle".

[Banya]

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by Offspring

"Slowly out of line and drifting closer in your sights,
So play it out, I'm wide awake,
It's a scene about me...
There's something in your way, and now someone is gonna pay
And if you can't get what you want, well, it's all because of me.

Now dance, f-er, dance; he never had a chance
And no one even knew: it was really only you
So dance, f-er, dance; I never had a chance
It was really only you...

With a thousand lies and a good disguise
Hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes
When you walk away, nothing more to say
See the lightning in your eyes, see 'em running for their lives

Clever alibis, Lord of the Flies
Hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes
When you walk away, nothing more to say
See the lightning in your eyes, see 'em running for their lives."

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day

"It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life."

Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

"You cry alone and then he swears he loves you

Do you feel like a man, when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well, I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found

A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
Every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wait around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down

I see the way you go and say you're right again
Say you're right again, heed my lecture

One day she will tell you that she has had enough
It's coming 'round again

Face down in the dirt she says, 'This doesn't hurt'
She says, 'I finally had enough.'"

Wavin' Flag by K'naan

Give me freedom
Give me fire
Give me reason
Take me higher

See the champions
Take the field now
Unify us
Make us feel proud

In the streets, our heads are lifted
As we lose our inhibition
Celebration all around us
Every nation, all around us

Singing forever young
Singing songs underneath the sun
Let's rejoice in the beautiful game
And together at the end of the day
We all say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom, just like a waving' flag

So many wars, settling scores
Bringing us promises, leaving us poor
I heard them say 'Love is the way'
'Love is the answer,' that's what they say

But look how they treat us, make us believers
We fight their battles, then they deceive us
Try to control us, they couldn't hold us
'Cause we just move forward like Buffalo Soldiers

But we struggling, fighting to eat
And we wondering, when we'll be free
So we patiently wait for that faithful day
It's not far away, but for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag."

[Jetthebinturong]

From High School Never Ends by Bowling For Soup (A catchy social critique)

When the only thing that matters
Is climbing up those social ladders
They still care about your hair and the car you drive
Doesn't matter if you're sixteen or thirty-five.

Prefer the chorus but this is specifically for verses so yeah.

[Skyblade]

Chorus is fine too; I put one in my first post.


From His World (Zebrahead):
In this world (His world!) Where life is strong
In this world (His world!) Life's an open book
In this world (His world!) Where compromise does not exist
In his world of worlds, every step meets the rest!
In this world (His world!) Where one is all
In this world (His world!) Never fear the fall
In this world (His world!) Where compromise does not exist
In his world of worlds, every step meets the rest!


From Am I Wrong (Nico and Vinz):
"Am I wrong for thinking out the box from where I stay?
Am I wrong for saying that I choose another way?

I ain't tryna do what everybody else doing
Just cause everybody doing what they all do
If one thing I know, I'll fall but I'll grow
I'm walking down this road of mine, this road that I call home

...

Am I tripping for having a vision?
My prediction: I'm a be on top of the world

Walk to walk and don't look back, always do what you decide
Don't let them control your life, that's just how I feel
Fight for yours and don't let go, don't let them compare you, no
Don't worry, you're not alone, that's just how we feel

Am I wrong (am I wrong)
For thinking that we could be something for real?
(Oh yeah yeah yeah oh)
Now am I wrong (am I wrong)
For trying to reach the things that I can't see?
(Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah)

But that's just how I feel,
That's just how I feel
That's just how I feel
Trying to reach the things that I can't see

If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong
I don't wanna be right, right
If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong
I don't wanna be right"