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Title: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on March 07, 2011, 03:09:39 pm
What are your favorite line from a V song?

Mine include:
"Just like kings under lavender skies, we will live" - I Don't Want to be a Bride
"For all the broken hearted lovers lost, go find another one." -  Carousel
"This night under stars, well I call it peace." - More Than This
"Let's make this our story; Let's live in the glory." - More Than This
"Someday when our stories are told, they'll tell of a love like this." - Hands on Me
"Na, na, na, na, na, na, na" - Spring Street
"And you say we're too young, but maybe you're too old to remember" - Who's To Say
"Cause I'm walking free, the wind at my back, bathe in afterglow" - Afterglow
"If we walk now, we will divide and conquer this land" - Ordinary Day
"Even when I'm alone, I've always known with you I am home" - Home
"And magical thinking gets us by... Gotta get by" - Fair-weather Friends


Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 07, 2011, 04:31:33 pm
"like a shooting star, he shines"
"Watch her as she flew, deep within the blue"
"Though it didn't work out, I don't love you any less"
"Porcelain for tea"
"Say gravity can bend the time, funny I always liked your mind"
"Let's make this our story, lets live in the glory"


I could go on for a while... Lol
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: lydia on March 07, 2011, 06:13:02 pm
"Just like kings under lavender skies"
"Let's make this our story, let's live in the glory"
"The unicorns are riding high, powerful in coats of white"
"Meet me there, in that afternoon"
"Every time she closed her eyes, she saw what could have been"
"The cracks don't count, it's gotta break for me to see.. and it's breaking"
"Magical thinking gets us by.. gotta get by"

and of course...
"Na na na na na na na"  ;D ;D ;D

along with many others.. I probably have a favorite line for every song of hers!
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Martin. on March 07, 2011, 07:30:56 pm
"What I gave is yours to keep"
"Take away my record deal, Go on I don't need it" (just because it's a nice, big F YOU to A&M)
"Down the hall echoes a past"
"She's as fine as dandellions blowing in the wind"
"Got a knife throwing kind of love, but your silence cuts the deepest"
"But the goodness is something you don't have to chase because it's following you"
"Don't live in forgotten times"
"Jupiter shines so bright when you're around"
"I'll keep fingers crossed always for you"
"I always sleep so much better when it's raining"
"It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me"
"So I sing this song in faith it finds you"
"Your face is like a paper-cut to the heart"
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Fred_Saboya on March 07, 2011, 08:51:39 pm
"And he said
'take my hand, live while you can.
If we walk now we will divide and conquor this land.'" - Oridnary Day

"I lied,
wrote my enjuries all in the dust,
in my heart is the five of us.
In white houses." - White Houses

"Give me a year or two,
and I'll mend my ways and see these mistakes" - Heroes & Thieves

"Wanna get drunk on a bottle of wine,
no better way to pass the time.
Forever by your side." - I Don't Wanna Be A Bride

"Never too late to change the pace,
days creep up on you.
But the goodness is something you don't have to chase
cuz it's following you." - Carousel

i'm sure there's a line which i'm in love with in every vanessa's song. i'd need a whole day to write all of them.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: ryan9315 on March 07, 2011, 09:59:07 pm
I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 07, 2011, 10:15:01 pm
I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by

Ah I lov that one!! There are so many, it's hard to just pick a few lines
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on March 08, 2011, 05:15:18 am
I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by

Ah I lov that one!! There are so many, it's hard to just pick a few lines

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Really hard.  :P
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 08, 2011, 06:09:00 am
I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by

Ah I lov that one!! There are so many, it's hard to just pick a few lines

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Really hard.  :P
Really really hard :|
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: lydia on March 08, 2011, 12:53:14 pm

I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by

Ah I lov that one!! There are so many, it's hard to just pick a few lines

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Really hard.  :P
Really really hard :|
Really really really really hard  ;D
For some of them, I don't even want to pick one line, I want to pick the whole song!
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Jasonm on March 08, 2011, 01:44:47 pm
"Maybe you'll remember me. What I give is yours to keep, in white houses."
"Though it didn't work out I don't love you any less.."
"I don't need you to tell me I'm the one."
"Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could just see you."
"He said, take my hand..live while you can..."
"After all these years I'll never learn, that heavenly creatures never come."
"The only one I come undone for is you."
"I've seen twilight."
"Time won't wait so don't be late. White rabbits on the run" <3333

So many more but I'll stop! :)
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: sarab on March 08, 2011, 03:26:26 pm
"I would add up what you mean to me but I cannot do the math"
"for me, it's a glance, and the smile on your face, the touch of your hand, an honest embrace"
"what could be worse than leaving something behind? And when the depths of ocean slowly become shallow, it's lonliness she finds"
"every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been"
"but I have found you and you do not see, all that is me all that is true"
"the goodness is something you don't have to chase because it's following you"
"apologies to your mother"
"all the world has gone to bed. and I am drowning in it's silence"
"if the silence was a song, well, it's rhythm grooves and it's a private radio"
"the wreckage, is my secret need"
"you're always a golden boy in this girls heart that you destroy you smile at me and then you have your fun"

I'm doing this all from memory which is always a bit fuzzy but more so since I just woke up, so if there are any mistakes I apologize!  Those are ones that I can think of that are always with me.  Every time I listen to a song, I can pick out at least ONE line I love, but these are ones that I always sing in my head.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: LadyLavender on March 08, 2011, 09:56:26 pm
Vanessa has many amazing lines in her songs, but this was the line that got me hooked:

"He's my first... mistake."

Also, I love when she sings, "Darling, it's you I'm without."
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 08, 2011, 10:10:20 pm
Reading this makes me realize every line I didn't put in my post  :-\ haha. Every song has at least one favorite line
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on March 09, 2011, 01:47:14 am
Reading this makes me realize every line I didn't put in my post  :-\ haha. Every song has at least one favorite line

I know. Every song has at least one magical line, one transcending moment, and one amazing piano part.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: sarab on March 09, 2011, 04:40:45 am
Reading this makes me realize every line I didn't put in my post  :-\ haha. Every song has at least one favorite line

I know. Every song has at least one magical line, one transcending moment, and one amazing piano part.

ditto!  I think I also tried not to repeat what others and written, though I like them as well!
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on March 09, 2011, 05:51:40 am
Reading this makes me realize every line I didn't put in my post  :-\ haha. Every song has at least one favorite line

I know. Every song has at least one magical line, one transcending moment, and one amazing piano part.

ditto!  I think I also tried not to repeat what others and written, though I like them as well!

I feel a little bit crazy for even starting this thread.

Of course, almost every line of her songs would be listed.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 09, 2011, 08:47:39 am
Hahaha maybe we could have a vote, like start with say 20 lines and we would all vote on one favorite out of those?
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on March 09, 2011, 09:05:07 am
Hahaha maybe we could have a vote, like start with say 20 lines and we would all vote on one favorite out of those?

Good idea. Maybe I'll make a list this coming Friday, A poll or an elimination game?
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: sarab on March 09, 2011, 11:38:17 am
I forgot the most important one!:

cause you see, through the tears, and they come every night without meaning, reason, whyyyyy
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on March 09, 2011, 05:00:25 pm
Hahaha maybe we could have a vote, like start with say 20 lines and we would all vote on one favorite out of those?

Good idea. Maybe I'll make a list this coming Friday, A poll or an elimination game?
I think an elimination game would be more fun haha
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: OPENROAD on March 09, 2011, 06:10:27 pm
Way too hard, but here are some, could really have picked every line from ATM

If I could Fall Into The Sky, do you think time would pass me by.



And as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
It's loneliness she finds.

well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds
when covers tucked in tight

I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen Twilight

If I drank too much when I am reckless
Just this once would you forgive this


Now I'm walking with the living
I always liked Steinbeck and those old men whistling

talking in the Mission
Over coffee this is my utopia
Man, I'll be your lady

and friends become strangers
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: JamesCrowley on May 24, 2011, 01:31:41 pm
Make me high on lullabies
You sing for the aftershow, those candy-coloured lips, but you're age is showing and you gotta work harder for it (Take that Stephen Jenkins)
Watch her as she flew deep within the blue
There's some words I never told you, the sound rings out
I'm a sycophantic courtier with an elegant repose
Say gravity can bend the time, funny i always liked your mind

and many, many more :)
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Patricius on May 24, 2011, 03:36:35 pm
"But the fever breaks when it's too much to take, so you can put your weapons down." Hurray for facades.
"Who's to say we won't burn it out?"
"The sun comes out for you."
"I'm a sycophantic courtier [...] And the only one I come undone for is you~" (The second to last "the only one I come undone for is you")

And basically most of "I don't wanna be a Bride" and "Home." Yeah...
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: 04jhowarth on May 24, 2011, 03:43:56 pm
'Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky, and lay me down and feel the days gone by'
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: lavender skies on May 26, 2011, 12:21:11 pm
I love the original afterglow lyrics

"hold me now, and taste the sun-filled sky"

also,

"talking in the mission, over coffee this is my utopia."
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Byoungforever on June 07, 2011, 08:02:02 pm
"We climb Tibetan mountains, where we can barely breathe. I see the Dali Llama, I feel him blessing me."- Hands on Me
"Time won't wait, so don't be late, white rabbits on the run."- Carousel
"All I hear is the music, and beauty stands before me, and love comes back around again, it's a carousel my friend."- Carousel

It is so hard to pick! Like every song on H&T had great lyrics, and some songs on Harmonium did too. Too hard to choose! :)
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: NESSAussie on June 08, 2011, 03:08:36 am
Way too hard, but here are some, could really have picked every line from ATM

If I could Fall Into The Sky, do you think time would pass me by.



And as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
It's loneliness she finds.

well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds
when covers tucked in tight

I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen Twilight

If I drank too much when I am reckless
Just this once would you forgive this


Now I'm walking with the living
I always liked Steinbeck and those old men whistling

talking in the Mission
Over coffee this is my utopia
Man, I'll be your lady

and friends become strangers
All of the above... and from what I've heard from ROTR, the 3 lines from IDWTBAB that I've used in my new signature. Escapest V at her best!

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/cadenus/IDWBAB_8611.png)

Peace

Aaron
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Martin. on June 08, 2011, 03:35:48 am
"Your face is like a paper-cut to the heart" can now be added to my list.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Arwen on June 08, 2011, 05:36:57 am
"Your face is like a paper-cut to the heart" can now be added to my list.

Me too! Such a great line.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: WhiteRabbit on June 09, 2011, 05:16:44 am
"Your face is like a paper-cut to the heart" can now be added to my list.

Me too! Such a great line.
That's my fav line from that song :) haha
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Arwen on June 09, 2011, 05:48:13 am
I also love (not really a line more like a verse but anyway):
Floating on the see, stars are watching me
Current takes me out, what will be will be
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: [sobriquet] on June 09, 2011, 06:11:16 am
I also love (not really a line more like a verse but anyway):
Floating on the see, stars are watching me
Current takes me out, what will be will be


I'm in love with this line.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: SilverIchor on June 15, 2011, 07:03:28 pm
I love love love LOVE this line from Afterglow.

Watch the sun, it paints an orange sky
Lay me down and feel the days gone by


I wrote a short prose based on that line a year or so ago. Maybe I'll tweak it and post it on here or something.

I will never cease to fly if held down
These silly little wounds will never mend
And you say we're too young but maybe you're too old to remember
Boy you swallow truth like honey as you spew your lies upon me
Some melodies are best left undone
The goodness is something you don't have to chase 'cause it's following you
Built a poem and kept a rhyme, wrapped our love in golden twine
You're fragile as porcelain
Kneel and pray to a gravestone, but the gravestone never tells
Have you lost your constellation eyes?
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Patricius on June 16, 2011, 12:57:02 pm
*insert the lyrics of "Dear California" and "The Marching Line." I pretty much love most of the songs but...

Dear California, it's been nice to know ya. Tell me, will you miss me when I'm gone? and Do you know a love like a bullet in the chest? are 2 lines that pretty much stick out for me though.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: matchel on June 20, 2011, 05:20:51 pm
I would add up what you mean to me, but I cannot do the math

by far. it's so...perfect!! i might have to use it, like when i'm in a relationship or something haha
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: sarab on June 20, 2011, 05:28:57 pm
I would add up what you mean to me, but I cannot do the math

by far. it's so...perfect!! i might have to use it, like when i'm in a relationship or something haha

that is one of my favs too!  I think of my nephew when I hear it (just the line alone, not in the context of the song).  He means the world to me and nothing can compare to the love I have for him (and now my niece as well)
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: AlexanderLaska on June 20, 2011, 06:17:28 pm
Gosh, so hard to choose!  Here are some that come to mind immediately?

"But the truth is, you'll never need more than this"
"He loves me as I leave - so I'm gonna go"
"That's no trick, that flicker of radiance"
"Do I go too far? Not far enough? Why can't I keep my big mouth shut?"
"Love comes back around again - it's a carousel, my friend"
"All it takes is a song, and I could swear I hear your steps"
"Sad that you could be so lovely, yet so wrong"
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: silverpianokeys96 on June 25, 2011, 06:51:30 pm
Hmmm...let's see...

"We will live like kings under lavender skies" -I Don't Wanna Be A Bride
"Walk London's windy streets, go anywhere but home...looking for secrets only cobblestones hold" -London
"December, crossing on to Chinatown, as the wind starts to cut through" -Hear the Bells

"I will learn to say goodbye to yesterday, and I will never cease to fly if held down" -Twilight

"I've been keeping company with a ghost" -Annie
"I feel the ever after over red wine on the eve of summer" -San Francisco

"Someday when the stories are told, they'll tell of a love like this"-Hands on Me
"Soldiers and heroes come home, and they carry a song, don't live in forgotten times, may this always remind you of the sea under the skies, blue looking glass" -More Than This
"You're always a golden boy, in this girl's heart that you destroy" -The One
"But you'll always be my golden boy, and I'm the summer girl that you enjoy" -The One
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: bumblebee429 on June 25, 2011, 07:16:10 pm
*insert the lyrics of "Dear California" and "The Marching Line." I pretty much love most of the songs but...

Dear California, it's been nice to know ya. Tell me, will you miss me when I'm gone? and Do you know a love like a bullet in the chest? are 2 lines that pretty much stick out for me though.

I love these lyrics too! Whenever I hear her sing this I always answer to myself "yes" :(


Sarah xx
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Fred_Saboya on June 25, 2011, 07:38:15 pm
there are specific lines that give me goosebumps in a specific time of my life, maybe cuz i can relate to it at that moment and and maybe cuz it helps me to understand what i'm feeling.
so the lines i love from vanessa's songs are always changing. there are lines from some songs that i can't understand until i experience something like that, which happened to this line in Come Undone:
"there are people in this lifetime that we should never meet,
cuz to be here now without you, well my life's so incomplete.
"
and i love the feeling of when i understood it.
i'm trying to feel it again with rabbits on the run, but i haven't yet.
but there's a line which sounds to me like... like when someone perfectly describes something that you never could describe before:

"Do you know a love like
a bullet in the chest?" - The Marching Line
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: NoelleNC on June 30, 2011, 05:19:54 pm
I will just pick one from each album:

*Never cared, never wanted, never sought to see what flaunted / So on purpose, so in my face, couldn't see beyond my own place" (maybe just because I loved singing it, not sure)

*"You say we're too young, but maybe you're too old to remember." (because I felt that way!)

*"The cracks don't count, it's gotta break in front of me." (because I knew someone who was just like this)

*Not sure what my favorite will be off the new album :)

Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: urarabeyond on July 25, 2011, 04:15:19 am
 :-* nolita fairytale

wanna garden by the ocean tide, 'cuz i lose my way searching for stage lights
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Onyx on July 25, 2011, 07:42:49 am
Lets make this our story, lets live in the glory, time it fades away precious as a song cause someday we'll be gone. - More Than This
We climb Tibetian Mts where we can barely breath, I see the Dahli Llama I feel him blessing me, and all the connstilations shine down for us to see and if you don't believe me just put your hands on me. - Hands On Me
Under The skies blue looking glass- More Than This
It seems like i'm getting closer somehow, a flicker of peace that I finally found, thank you for believing in me now - Heros & Theives
Give me a year or two,       my way and see these mistakes and just when I figured it out well darling it's you i'm without. - Heros & Theives

Who are they anyway. - Who's To Say
And you say we're too young but maybe you're too old to remember. - Who's To Say
As I sit here in this dark room, all I seem to feel is light. - Afterglow
Stronger Than the hands that hold you - Annie

Hmm, How about I just say the whole album 'Rabbits On The Run'  :P I can't choose any lines from this album. They're too many!  :P
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: nessaddict21 on July 25, 2011, 10:28:54 am
"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight" -ATM
"We promised each other it's 'til the end." - White Houses
"Who's to say I can't live without you?" - Who's To Say
"C'est la Vie" - C'est la Vie (I really like the quote, even if the meaning is used a lot ;D)
"We hold on to dreams and live like kings, like the days will never end." - Spring Street
"I'm looking for wisdom in all the wrong places." - Heroes & Thieves
"I'd pick the fool any day." - Fools Like Me
"Let's make this our story. Let's live in the glory... 'Cause someday we'll be gone." - More Than This
"Time won't wait, and you'll be late white rabbits on the run." - Carousel
"Love comes back around again. It's a carousel, my friend." - Carousel (again)
"Dear California, it's been nice to know ya. Tell me, will you miss me when I'm gone?" - Dear California
"Never known a day without the quiet regret." - The Marching Line

That's all I can think of at the moment :P
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Fred_Saboya on August 14, 2011, 05:36:55 pm
"do you know a love like
a bullet in the chest?
"

have i already said that i love this line? yes. and i have to say that it keeps growing more and more.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: pswik91 on August 16, 2011, 09:24:56 am
"Our last names on a wooden sign, arm in arm where the river starts to wind, forever by your side."
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: Byoungforever on August 16, 2011, 09:27:02 am
For some reason, this one I am in love with....

"It's always easier with freshman, they're not as clever, but she'll bring you to life"-- Fairweather
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: AlexanderLaska on August 16, 2011, 03:53:08 pm
"Now you're fragile as porcelain, drinkin' cheap wine on airplanes"

LOVE that line, there's so much attitude in it.  I think part of the reason I love it is because I'm used to hearing it as "You're fragile as porcelain..." after the second chorus, so it throws me for a loop everytime I hear it in this new way.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: raacheeel on August 16, 2011, 06:03:58 pm
I've always liked the line "We sail through our youth so impatiently".

People grow up so fast and don't appreciate what's around them or embrace the present.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: sarab on August 17, 2011, 12:32:40 am
"Now you're fragile as porcelain, drinkin' cheap wine on airplanes"

LOVE that line, there's so much attitude in it.  I think part of the reason I love it is because I'm used to hearing it as "You're fragile as porcelain..." after the second chorus, so it throws me for a loop everytime I hear it in this new way.

Yeah, "you're as fragile as porcelain" was the former lyric for the bridge. But, since time has passed, it seems like she's edited some of the lyrics to the songs. Also, I think that the title itself used to be "Fairweather Friends" , not "Friend."

this is an argument for another thread for sure, but I don't think it was ever supposd to be pleural seeing how the songs is most definitely about one person in particular.  just my opinion and not the right place to be saying so but I just couldn't resist!
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: AlexanderLaska on August 17, 2011, 07:01:56 am
"Now you're fragile as porcelain, drinkin' cheap wine on airplanes"

LOVE that line, there's so much attitude in it.  I think part of the reason I love it is because I'm used to hearing it as "You're fragile as porcelain..." after the second chorus, so it throws me for a loop everytime I hear it in this new way.

Yeah, "you're as fragile as porcelain" was the former lyric for the bridge. But, since time has passed, it seems like she's edited some of the lyrics to the songs. Also, I think that the title itself used to be "Fairweather Friends" , not "Friend."

this is an argument for another thread for sure, but I don't think it was ever supposd to be pleural seeing how the songs is most definitely about one person in particular.  just my opinion and not the right place to be saying so but I just couldn't resist!

Well I think we assumed that was the title because in the original version, the song ended with "We're fairweather friends."  I think that was the only time the phrase was in the song, which was why we assumed.  But yeah that song has changed a LOT since we first heard it.

Another favorite: "You can't deny me, you will oblige me, it's my melody" from Private Radio.  It's so angsty and awesome.
Title: Re: Favorite Line from a Vanessa Song.
Post by: SunflowerLeah on August 22, 2011, 06:32:01 pm
"We'll never need more than this"

I have to say, More Than This helped pull me out of a really hard time. I love all the words to this song.
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Post by: SylvanHistorian30 on August 28, 2011, 08:27:48 am
"As I sit here in this dark room
All I seem to feel is light." - from Afterglow

"Love comes back around again." - Carousel

"Paper-cut to the heart." Dear California

And many other lines, too many to write them all down. She has a great way with words!  ;D
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Post by: Fred_Saboya on September 07, 2011, 11:53:29 am
"cuz you love me as i leave so i'm gonna go."
the ugly truth. people love you when you leave. love how this song made me realize it. :)
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Post by: LauraH on September 09, 2011, 04:38:42 pm
"We'll never need more than this"

I have to say, More Than This helped pull me out of a really hard time. I love all the words to this song.

Same here. It's my favorite song.

I also like "i always sleep so much better when it's raining"
"So I sing this song in faith it finds you
Have a hope the kind you can't forget"
"on a cloudy day, it's more common than you think"

yea there are waaaaaay too many!
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Post by: raacheeel on September 12, 2011, 08:36:47 pm
I was listening to More Than This...this line always gets me "Want some much in this life so much to be, we sail through our youth so impatiently"
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Post by: raacheeel on September 13, 2011, 11:47:15 pm
On the verge of crying on how much truth these lyrics apply to me right now....me and my friend are like not friends anymore and we know we're both strangers to each other and it just doesn't work out T____T

"Everything changes friends become strangers
What we hold so dear slips away
The past keeps on fading,
But I'll never forget you
It's hard to see that you're a part of me"
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Post by: sarab on September 28, 2011, 11:21:35 pm
On the verge of crying on how much truth these lyrics apply to me right now....me and my friend are like not friends anymore and we know we're both strangers to each other and it just doesn't work out T____T

"Everything changes friends become strangers
What we hold so dear slips away
The past keeps on fading,
But I'll never forget you
It's hard to see that you're a part of me"

oh raacheeel I know just what you  mean.  I knew this friend since I was eight. We were inseperable until we graduated high school.  Now we see/talk maybe once a year (it's nice for the most part it seems like we just pick up where we left off, with total trust) but for a few years we didn't even speak or write to each other at all.  we have recently tried reconnecting but she is in such a different place in her life than I am.  I know that if it is meant to be, if we are truely best friends then one day, we will be just like we were before.  Until that day I just treasure all our memories and the great times that we had.
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Post by: AisforAdrn on September 30, 2011, 12:46:14 am
"But the goodness is something you don't have to chase, cause it's following you"


Such wisdom in that line.
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Post by: beautydivine on September 30, 2011, 05:31:25 am
"And some I have known, have a ship where they sleep, the sound of rocks on the coast.."
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Post by: Onyx on September 30, 2011, 01:59:58 pm
"But the goodness is something you don't have to chase, cause it's following you"


Such wisdom in that line.
Ah! I love that line! Looking back at this journal I kept, I realized I wrote that line more than 5+ times on different pages.

I guess I like to be followed by goodness.... Ha!
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Post by: davidjp on October 04, 2011, 07:43:01 pm
"But I'm still holding on, maybe we could still be friends?"