Attention: this only scrapes the surface of amazing lyrics. I couldn't possibly fit all the world's great lyrics into one article. But I can bring to attention some of the more incredible phrases I've heard in music just in passing.
1. “I’m hopelessly hopeful” I’ve Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song), Fall Out Boy
2. “If you feel embarrassed, then I’ll be your pride; if you need directions, I’ll be the guide” Passenger Seat, Death Cab for Cutie
3. “You barely get by the rest of us are trying, there’s no need to apologize I’ve got no time for feeling sorry” Feeling Sorry, Paramore
4. “A hand for each hand was planned for the world, why don’t my fingers reach?” All Alone in the World, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
5. “As every descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me” What Sarah Said, Death Cab for Cutie
6. “So much hate for the ones we love; tell me we both matter, don’t we?” Running up That Hill, Placebo
7. “No matter how the wind may blow, you belong to me, like the mountain to the sky” Karla with a K, Hooters
8. “So take a step before you leap into the colors that you seek” Aftermath, Adam Lambert
9. “Funny how we say we don’t need it then turn around and try to achieve it” Bullet with a Name, Nonpoint
10. “We are not what you think we are, we are golden” We Are Golden, Mika
11. “If I ever leave, I could learn to miss you” Trade Mistakes, Panic! at the Disco
12. “I don’t mind take your time I’ve got things to do besides sit around and wait for you” Sarah Smiles, Panic! at the Disco
13. “I wanna go where everyone goes; I wanna know what everyone knows. I wanna go where everyone feels the same” That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed), Panic! at the Disco
14. “Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone than I ever have before” Brick, Ben Folds Five
15. “And if I were a field, you would be in clover. And if I were the sun, you would in shadow” I’ll Be That Girl, Barenaked Ladies
16. “It’s time to kick off your shoes, learn how to choose sadness” I’ll Be That Girl, Barenaked Ladies
17. “Will you still love me when I shine from words from not from beauty?” Old Money, Lana Del Rey
18. “Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb” All Star, Smash Mouth
19. “Love is not a victory march” Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
20. “Don’t believe everything happiness says. Nothing feels better than hiding these days” Old School, Hedley
21. “Cause if falling for you girl is crazy, then I’m going out of my mind” For The Nights I Can’t Remember, Hedley
22. “I believe in you so much, I could die from the words that you say” Ghost of a Good Thing, Dashboard Confessional
23. “If all your love was wasted, well then who the hell was I?” Skinny Love, Bon Iver
24. “The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger” Miss Missing You, Fall Out Boy
25. "L'horloge tourne, les minutes sont des rides, et moi je rêve, je rêve d'arrêter le temps" L'horloge tourne, Mickaël Miro
26. “Don’t wanna call you in the night time, don’t wanna give you all my pieces, don’t wanna hand you all my troubles, don’t wanna give you all my demons. You’ll have to watch me struggle from several miles away” The Run and Go, Twenty One Pilots
27. “Came home with flags on coffins and said we won, oh we won” 20 Dollar Nosebleed, Fall Out Boy
28. "The worst things in life come free to us" The A Team, Ed Sheeran
29. “I almost wrote a song about you today but I tore it all up and I threw it away” Almost, Bowling for Soup
30. “That’s what crazy is: when it’s broken you say there’s nothing to fix” Same Mistakes, One Direction
31. “I almost got popped for a fight with a thug, cause he almost made off with a bunch of the drugs that I almost got hooked on cause you ran away, and I wish I would’ve had the nerve to ask you to stay” Almost, Bowling for Soup
32. “The tattooed mistake are gonna fade over time” When We Die, Bowling for Soup
33. “If there were monsters in the closet, well I don’t think I would be surprised” Ghosts, Mayday Parade
34. “All I remember is talking is cheap and your lies were expensive, and God only knows when I’ll come to my senses” Angels, Mayday Parade
35. “Well I can live with all my demons we all get along” Demons, Mayday Parade
36. “Well you dropped a note and we changed key, you change yourself and I’ll change me, I really didn’t see us singing through this. Well you screamed the bridge and I cried the verse, and our chorus came out unrehearsed, and you smiled the whole way through it, I guess that maybe that’s what’s worse” If You Wanted a Song Written About You All You Had to do Was Ask, Mayday Parade
37. ”And perfect boys with your perfect lives: nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy” Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes, Fall Out Boy
38. “I was thinking about how everyone is dying, and maybe it’s time to live” P.S. You Rock My World, Eels
39. “Casually dropping a line designed to keep you next to me” Do It For Baltimore, All Time Low
40. “I never knew what you all wanted, so I gave you everything” Pacing the Cage, Bruce Cockburn
41. “Everything I promised everyone I’d be, well I just ain’t” Oh Glory, Panic! at the Disco
42. “And then I think about the good times down in the Caribbean sunshine; in my younger day I was so bad, laughing about all the fun we had” One Particular Harbour, Jimmy Buffett
43. "Easy baby, maybe I'm alive" I'm a Mess, Ed Sheeran
44. “And I see the days where my hair goes gray, and I finally disappear” One Particular Harbour, Jimmy Buffett
