What is a lyric or a set of lyrics from your favorite song that you thing is pure poetry?

Give the lyric(s) and the song and who it's by. =]

What is a lyric or a set of lyrics from your favorite song that you thing is pure poetry?
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"Seasons are changing,


and waves are crashing,


and stars are falling


all for us.


Days grow longer


and nights grow shorter,


I can show you


I'll be the one."
Reply:"Woke up it was a Chelsea Morning


And the first thing that I knew


There was milk and toast and honey


And a bowl of oranges too


and the sun poured in like butterscotch


and stuck to all my senses


Oh won't you stay, we'll put on the day


and we'll talk in present tenses"


--Joni Mitchell--Chelsea Morning





"And as we wind on down the road


Our shadows taller than our souls


There walks a lady we all know


Who shines white light and want to show


How everything still turns to gold"


--Led Zeppelin--Stairway to Heaven (as if you didn't know)





Most anything written by Joni Mitchell is poetic.





I could find MUCH more but I'm controlling myself.
Reply:This is probably not a genre that anyone else will contribute from...





The way Trent whispers the following lyrics is amazingly seductive, especially in contrast with the music/the rest of the album. And no, I'm not gay.





From NIN, Album: Broken, Song: Suck





"A thousand lips a thousand tongues


A thousand throats a thousand lungs


A thousand ways to make it true


I want to do terrible things to you"





Cheers!


Baron Von Lipwig
Reply:Almost anything that David Usher writes. My favorite song by him, Surfacing, "But high above me I can see the surface now,


The picture perfect life is fading out of view,


And high above me I can feel the world,


But I don't need it,[x3]


I just need you," When he sings it it's even more poetic.

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