You hear a song, and there’s always one line from it that gets stuck in your head, as you can’t really have the entire song playing (it would take too long). Aside from guitar riffs and intense drum clips, the lyrics of a song define and sometimes create an epiphany within us. “What were they thinking about when they wrote that? “I know how they feel!” Wow, I never thought of it that way!” are just a few of the common phrases that cross our minds when we sit down and really listen to the words.

With that in mind, I have gathered 17 of my absolute favorite lines from songs of many musical genres and created my list. See what you agree with, leave me a comment or two, and hopefully stir up some memories or thoughts of your own.

#17- ”I Drove All Night”written by Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg

“What in this world keeps us from falling apart?
No matter where I go
I hear the beating of our one heart
No one can move me the way that you do
Nothing erases this feeling between me and you
I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?”

When Tom and Bill wrote this song, they had no idea that Roy Orbison would be the one to sing it. Since then, it has been covered by several international recording artists, including Cyndi Lauper (my favorite) and Celine Dion (my least favorite). This dynamic duo of pop have written quite a few top-notch lyrics, including “True Colors” which was also performed and popularized by my favorite freak of the 80’s, Cyndi Lauper. This line is just, well, awesome. [Read more →]

My initial intent was, for the sake of controversy, to state plainly that Christmas derives only from a holiday where men would give eachother gifts, drink, fornicate, sodomize eachother, etc. – Why? Because the ensuing reaction would not only be filled with various tidbits of enlightening information, but would be hilarious, at that. (I have my moments)But! Upon much more research, said holiday involving said things only influences said modern-Christmas to a certain extent. Mainly, said traditional gift giving. Said Roman holiday, though, is actually preceeded by many other winter-solstice festivities, spreading about a wide array of cultures; none of which actually have anything to do with Jesus, as many of them were in place before he was born.Now, I’m not going to go into many specifics (because I don’t quite know them yet), but, you see, the winter solstice was celebrated (around the date of December 25th) for years upon years before [Read more →]