Does anyone have some favourite lines/quotes from Beatles songs? It can be something "philosophical", or something funny, or something beautiful, or a clever word-play, or just something that you really like, or even something that you use sometimes.

For me... the ones I can think of right now are:

"and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" (makes me think)
"limitless undying love that shines around me like a million suns" (I find it quite beautiful)

and then the one that I actually use when people complain about the weather
"when it rains and shines, it's just a state of mind"  

There are more that I like, but these are the ones off the top of my head.

What about you guys?

(wow... I made a thread...  )

Great thread topic, Octie!

I've always enjoyed Paul's clever word play, for example:

And it really doesn't matter if
I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong.

^ oh, yes yes, I really like that word-play as well!  

hey i am new by the way...... cmon there is way too many lines... every song has at least 6 each... think about it and if you dont believe me .... debate me

Quoted from 774

hey i am new by the way...... cmon there is way too many lines... every song has at least 6 each... think about it and if you dont believe me .... debate me

Welcome JMHS (what an original name! I like it). Hope you'll enjoy the forums.

Every song has at least 6 lines- but do you like ALL the lines (or all 6?) Thats the question. Now for me, the lines that "speak to me" or "do it for me" are:

"Got to be good looking coz he's so hard to see"

"Sitting on the sofa with a sister or two... ohhhh"

These two were not for the content but more for the way they are sung. These are content songie lines:

"What ever happened to the life that we once knew?" (so real and honest from John)
"Don't leave me standing here" (strong line for me)
"turn off your mind and float downstream..." (the whole of TNK really)

I'll think of some more.


Congries Octie on making a thread!

And so it's true, pride comes before a fall
I'm telling you so that you won't lose all

Good line but especially in performance videos.  John always makes a funny face singing "before a fall."  It was awkward maintaining the meter of the lyric.



Welcome to the forum JohnMccartneyHarrisonStarr

^ Have you ever thought that Paul had "his pride"? There was a fanfic about the Beatles and Paul there always talked about his pride. So i like singing "And so its true prude comes before a fall. I'm telling you so that you wont lose, Paul"

Another one:

Someday when we're dreaming
Deep in love not a lot to say

I like the "not a lot to say" part.

Welcome, JohnMccartneyHarrisonStarr! You have a very balanced name.

Hello Goodbye, thank you for explaining John's face when he sings "before a fall." I always thought he was just cutting up!  

You're right, Kaleidoscope_Eyes and JMHS, many songs are just filled with great lines. "Across The Universe" has always captured me with its poetic beauty, but this bit is my favorite:

Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box

Such a perfect description of that feeling, so eloquently stated!

How could i ever have lost you.

But when you want money for people with minds that hate

You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

What they need is a dam good whacking

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet glove

One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover

Where would i be without the White Album  

DaveRam

Quoted from harihead

"Across The Universe" has always captured me with its poetic beauty

Me too!   Such beautiful imagery...

Another line I like is
Life is very short and there's not time
For fussing and fighting my friend

Good thing to remember, I think...

Welcome JMHS ,great name  

DaveRam

Great thread Octie!
Well right now, these are my favorite lines:

Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for love
- Makes me think

Although your mind's opaque, try thinking more if just for your own sake
- George's sense of humor twisted into a song  

THE MOVEMENT YOU NEED IS ON YOUR SHOULDER  ,like that one

WITHOUT GOING OUT OF MY DOOR I CAN KNOW ALL THINGS ON EARTH , it sort of the w.w.w. , but of course spiritual  

Here are mine:

"and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" - The End

"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about"- Strawberry fields forever  (that line makes me happy, like going to a magic place to forget about problems")

"Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye." - I am the warlus

"The sun is up, the sky is blue: it's beautiful and so are you" - Dear Prudence

Some more:

For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool

You say you'll change the constitution, well you know, we'd all love to change your head

I say yes, but I may mean no

I could go on and on....  

Quoted from harihead

Hello Goodbye, thank you for explaining John's face when he sings "before a fall." I always thought he was just cutting up!  

Perhaps a little bit of cutting up also, hh.

Another favorite line is

"Like the other girls,
Jenny Wren took wing."

living is easy with eyes closed

Quoted from 774

hey i am new by the way...... cmon there is way too many lines... every song has at least 6 each... think about it and if you dont believe me .... debate me

Welcome to the forums, JohnMccartneyHarrisonStarr ... hope you'll enjoy them!  

I'm looking through you, where did you go
I thought I knew you, what did I know
You don't look different, but you have changed
I'm looking through you, you're not the same

                                    from I'm looking through you  

'And I curse Sir Walter Raleigh/He was such a stupid GIT'...

xD

Er, I have lots an' lots an' lots...but here's a few.

'...my independence seems to vanish in the haze...'
-Help!

'I saw a film today, oh boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book'
-A Day In The Life

'One thing I can tell you is you got to be free...'
-Come Together

A four of fish and finger pie



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"Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
but it all works out
It doesn't matte much to me"

"No one you can save that can't be saved"

I'm painting my room in a colourful way
That stops my mind from wandering"

Quoted from Hello Goodbye

A four of fish and finger pie

And there'd be some people on here who don't yet know what that means!!

The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bone
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones.

With our love we could save the world  

Quoted from DarkSweetLady

With our love we could save the world  

Funny, I just put how Within You Without You is my fav sitar song lyrically and then I read this.   

But of all these friends and lovers
there is no one compares with you


Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see

Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change

Quoted from BlueMeanie

And there'd be some people on here who don't yet know what that means!!

And there'd be some people on here who would not oblige to explain the meaning  

I just noticed Hello Goodbye: your arrow is partially a four (IV). Very appropriate  

He doesn't listen to them he knows that they're the fools

And though I'll lose a freind in the end you will know

*i do apologize if these are not the correct lines.  

I love Only a Northern Song's

"It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown "

as random as it is, i say it everyday to myself becuase i love it so much!

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and i really like Im Only Sleeping's

"Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time

Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling...

Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping"


I feel like im doing that everyday