Some favourite song lyrics

I have a very scattered way of recording my favourite quotes and overheard words of wisdom that I want to remember. Usually I write them in the notebooks I use for my to-do lists, but since there's always a lot to do and a lot of other things that get scribbled down there they end up scattered across dozens of books, with not much chance of me being able to find it again easily if I half-remember one of them and want to look it up. Some people have the better idea of using dedicated notebooks for this alone, but that could be impractical for me too as those things I write down aren't always just short quotes but also favourite passages from books, conversations from movies, interesting things I've heard in real life etc. So a single notebook for that would get filled much too quickly.

Thinking of that is when I had the idea to start writing this blog. Using my own blog to do it would just be a digital equivalent of what I do already with mixing them all in with everything else I write, so I thought I'd start another one to do it, and that way anyone else who wants to read them can enjoy them too as well as it being a way for me to record them. I'll probably just post when I've heard or read something especially great, but also maybe I'll take some from the old notebooks and put them in a more ordered fashion here, or write some favourites by theme or by favourite writer etc. when I have the time.

To start with, some of my favourite lyrics.

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I could swear by your expression that the pain down in your soul was the same as the one down in mine. - from The Origin of Love by Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Every time she sneezes I believe it's love. - from Anna Begins by Counting Crows

I close my eyes and I wonder if everything is as hollow as it seems. - from Tryin' to Get to Heaven by Bob Dylan

Life's a bitch and she ain't fuckin' for free. - from Best of Things by Xzibit

And you dare to call me a terrorist while you look down your gun. - from The Ballad of Joe McDonnell by The Wolfe Tones

Life is short but this time it was bigger than the strength he had to get up off his knees. - from Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley

It's funny how falling feels like flying, for a little while. - from Falling and Flying by Jeff Bridges

When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense I jizzed in my pants. - from Jizz in my Pants by The Lonely Island

I'm dangerous, like a fire in a nursing home. Old people burning, old people burning, put your hands up! Old people burning, old people burning, that's kind of messed up. - from I Kill People by John LaJoie

She was called a scarlet woman by the people who would go to church but left me in the streets. - from Bed of Roses by The Statler Brothers

Without evil there would be no good so it must be good to be evil sometimes. - from Up There on the South Park Movie soundtrack

Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good so I never tried. - from Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen