The single most epic lyric of all time.

[zero_circle]

This part of 'H' by Tool always gets me. Poetic and brilliant.

I am too connected to you to slip away, to fade away.

Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me, and considerately killing me.
Without the skin, beneath the storm, under these tears the walls came down.
And the snake is drowned and as I look in his eyes, my fear begins to fade recalling all of those times.
I could have cried then.
I should have cried then.
And as the walls come down and as I look in your eyes my fear begins to fade
recalling all of the times I have died and will die.
It's all right. I don't mind.
I am too connected to you to slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me, and considerately killing me.

 

[Phoenix09215]

The last verse and chorus of Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones contains my favourite lines in a song:

I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses we'll ride them some day
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses we'll ride them some day

 

[Michael Collett]

You were walking down the street
You were just across the street
So I had to cross the street
To get your side of the street

-Dark Angel- Electric Six

 

[Sindaine]

The entirety of My Heart Is Broken by Evanescence. The song is from the viewpoint of an unwilling sex worker, praying for escape from her hell. It's just...so powerful and heartwrenching.

 

[TheRussian]

"back in the back of a... Cadillac"

 

[JaceArveduin]

Oh god... let's see... For the fun ones, I'll go with...

Spoiler

Crash landed on this planet and some psycho attacked us
So we shot him in the balls and kicked him into a cactus
Now a thousand angry mutant wanna come out and play
All hell is breakin' loose and I like it this way!
-Fire in Your Hole. Gav's pretty damn good with lyrics to be a one man band.

Leviathan
Slaying all foes
Who dare to oppose
Tearing bodies limb from limb
Eviscerating on a whim
-Leviathan, Alestorm. I found it hilarious, and I've no idea why XD

By the sword in my hand
I will conquer the land
I will decimate and decapitate
Those who question the sword in my hand
-By the Sword in My Hand, Tyr. Another one I'm not quite sure why, but love it anyway.

For more serious types, I'll go with... Hell, I'm saying most of the choruses Blind Guardian's done.

Spoiler: This entire song, for example

Lyrics:
Intro(War of Wrath) :
The field is lost
Everything is lost
The black one has fallen from the sky and the towers in ruins lie
The enemy is within, everywhere
And with him the light, soon they will be here
Go now, my lord, while there is time
There are places below
[Morgoth:]
And you know them too
I release thee, go
My servant you'll be for all time
[Sauron:]
As you command
My king
[Morgoth:]
I had a part in everything
Twice I destroyed the light and twice I failed
I left ruin behind me when I returned
But I also carried ruin with me
She, the mistress of her own lust

Light fails at dawn, the moon is gone
And deadly the night reigns
Finally I've found myself in these lands
Horror and madness I've seen here
For what I became a King of the lost?
Barren and lifeless the land lies

Lord of all Noldor, a star in the night
And a bearer of hope
He rides into his glorious battle alone
Farewell to the valiant warlord

The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill
The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill

I stand alone, no one's by my side
I'll dare you, come out, you coward
Now, it's me or you

He gleams like a star
And the sound of his horn's
Like a raging storm
Proudly the high Lord
Challenges the doom
"Lord of slaves," he cries

Slowly in fear the Dark Lord appears:
"Welcome to my lands, you shall be damned!"

Lord of all Noldor, a star in the night
And a bearer of hope
He rides into his glorious battle alone
Farewell to the valiant warlord

The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill
The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill

The iron crowned is getting closer
Swings his hammer down on him
Like a thunderstorm, he's crushing
Down the Noldor's proudest King

Under my foot so hopeless it seems
You've troubled my day, now, feel the pain
Lord of all Noldor, a star in the night
And a bearer of hope
He rides into his glorious battle alone
Farewell to the valiant warlord

The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill
The fate of us all lies deep in the dark
When time stands still at the iron hill

The Elvenking's broken
He stumbles and falls
The most proud and most valiant
His spirit survives

Praise our King
Praise our King
Praise our King
Praise our king

 

[headbanger97]

The whole song Holy Diver by Dio is pretty dang epic.
"Holy Diver
You've been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh what's becoming of me
Ride the tiger
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean
Oh don't you see what I mean
Gotta get away
Holy Diver"
I mean come on! Dio is riding a tiger, what do you want?

 

[dcdude171]

" Well they cut me to ribbons and taught me drive, I got your name tatooed inside of my arm, and i called for my father but my father had died, and i called for my father and my father had died, while you told me fortunes in American slang

 

[schiz0phren1c]

Ok I'm gonna cheat first cause the entire second verse by Ra the rugged man of Jedi Mind Tricks song Uncommon valor is BREATH TAKING
I was originally gonna post the lyrics but the tl/dr would set in with the ADD crowd,
so just watch this song,the first verse is amazing too,but Ra just fucking NAILS it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KpWMNxnM

also the single best lyrics(not written by me
is by Rakim in "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em" with "blood pressure rises,you damn near lost it,
hit the ground burning and woke up frostbit" which is it's simplicity and complexity always blew me away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALPH86ybA6U

 

[Evan Halfmann]

Final lyric to Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence:

"A journey to find the answers inside our illusive mind"

That lyric and the way it's delivered has always given me chills.

 

[V3rtig0]

Probably the lyrics from Pink Floyd - Time. I used to be a huge procrastinator (I still am one, but slowly making progress towards fixing the "huge" part), so those lines and actually the whole song itself perfectly describes me.

"The sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk

There are probably others, but this is the one I thought about when I saw this thread.

 

[JaceArveduin]

"Never trust the northern winds. Never turn your back on friends"

Blind Guardian - "Nightfall"

*nods sagely*

Yeah, not sure how I missed your post, but Nightfall's probably one of Blind Guardian's best songs.

I'll also throw in Iced Earth's 'Anthem' This bit in particular.

We have the power make our lives what they ought to be
Reconnect with our humanity
Transcend to a higher place, accepting reality
You are the key to the life you seek

Spoiler

In your eyes I see your desperate and in hunger
Reclaim your future, your paths uncertain
See this child it's raised in hate and in anger
His eyes wide open, his rage so focused

Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life
Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life

The single mother she is strained and she suffers
She slaves away, her life in turmoil
The homeless man had it all and now has nothing
His spirit broken plagued from injustice

Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life
Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life

We have the power make our lives what they ought to be
Reconnect with our humanity
Transcend to a higher place, accepting reality
You are the key to the life you seek

Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life
Torn asunder our destiny is in sight
This is the anthem to celebrate your life

 

[Daeggreth]

SNIP

Well since MASTACHIEFPWN already mentioned the song lyrics that have the biggest personal effect on me... gonna have to go with "C'est La Vie" (Protest the Hero) because of the suicide puns ^.^

 

[Sprinal]

Combichrist - Throat Full of Glass


"It's hard to scream with a throat full of glass"

Good quote especially when you know people who crave attention and see pain as a good way to do it.

 

[Fatboy_41]

I... I can't believe it... No one has mentioned Mike Skinner?!?

"For billions of years, since the outset of time,
Every single one of your ancestors survived.
Every single person on your mum and dad's side,
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.

What are the chances of that like?
It comes to me once in a while.
And everywhere I tell folk,
It get's the best smile."

On The Edge Of A Cliff - The Streets

 

[Ninjat_126]

The entirity of the song "Alice's Restaurant". What? It's a song... It doesn't matter that it runs for 20 minutes and is entirely in the spoken word...

...we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."

After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.

Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."

And it keeps going, but that's my favourite bit.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Mad world, the Gary Jules version.


And 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
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World

Or in an alternate mood, Nyan cat.

 

[Sandjube]

You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge.

- Scroobius Pip, introdiction.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Doginabag by The Fratellis:

It's a million o clock.
Too hot to sleep,
A rotten taste in my mouth,
And my eyes are deep.
There's nothing much really going on up here,
I'm holding on for dear life and one more beer.
I guess you could say it's a sick little show,
A bottle of troubles and a bed full of woe
It's easy to see without looking too far, you'd have to be a saint to be as sick as you are.


Just such a well written song. I can't think of any other lyrics that have had such an impact on me

Here's the song:

Oh god....How did i forget about this song?!

Thank you, Walking Kim!

 

[Nazulu]

Master of images, songs cast a light on you
Hark through dark ties that tunnel us out of sane existence
In challenge as direct as eyes see young stars assemble

Master of light, all pure chance
As exists cross divided in all encircling mode
Oh, closely guided plan awaken in our heart

Master of soul, set to touch all impenetrable youth
Ask away that thought be contact with all that's clear
Be honest with yourself, there's no doubt, no doubt

Master of time, setting sail over all of our lands
And as we look forever closer
Shall we now bid farewell, farewell?

Not even religious and I still haven't heard anything as dramatic and as thrilling as this.