Favorite Song Lyrics

Today, not a poem, but a collection of some of my favorite lines in songs, which are also poetry.

Favorite Song Lyrics

If you want to kiss the sky, you'd better learn how to kneel.
--U2, "Mysterious Ways"

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.
--Josh Ritter, "Kathleen" (recently discovered)

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for dancing
But I love it when you read to me
and you can read me anything.
--Peter Gabriel, "The Book of Love"

And maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You're my wonderwall.
--Ryan Adams cover, "Wonderwall"

Mother, don't worry
I killed the last snake that lived in the creekbed
Mother, don't worry
I've got some money I saved for the weekend
Mother, remember
being so stern with that girl who was with me?
Mother, remember
the blink of an eye when I breathed through your body?

So may the sun rise,
bring hope where it once was forgotten.
Sons are like birds, flying
upward over the mountain.
--Iron & Wine, "Upward Over the Mountain"

Hurricanes will come
Earthquakes break the walls
Oceans rise
Empires fall

Enter world, light unshown
Follow heart, follow home
Here we are, light unshown
One round heart, one round home
--The Wailin' Jennys, "Apocalypse Lullaby"

Fare thee well, my own true love
Farewell for a while; I'm going away
But I'll be back, though I go ten thousand miles
Ten thousand miles, my own true love
Ten thousand miles or more
The rocks may melt and the seas may burn
If I should not return
--Mary Chapin Carpenter, "10,000 Miles"

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise
Thou mine inheritance, now and always
Thou and thou only first in my heart
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.
--"Be Thou My Vision"

I'd rather feel the pain all too familiar
than be broken by a lover I don't understand.
--Jars of Clay, "Jealous Kind"

If you'd call my name out loud
If you'd call my name out loud
Do you suppose that I would come running?
Do you suppose I'd come at all?
I suppose I would.
--Dispatch, "Out Loud"

She won't falter easy
She'll be careful, she'll be coy
But still she paints her heart
among the musings of a boy

At the break of morning
day awaits her when she sleeps
Deep inside her dreams
is all the beauty that she keeps

If you find her, tell her that I love her
If she hears you, ask her heart to come
--Future of Forestry, "If You Find Her"