I found a nice site called RockWisdom.com.
It lists tons and tons of song quotations relating to various subjects.

What are some of your favorite song lines --
quotations you think are profound, humorous, or describe situations you've been in perfectly?

Great question! I love music, and there are literally hundreds of songs I can think of off the top of my head that I can relate to. Some good times, and some not so good times I can relate songs to. Some times songs help to heal; last spring was a perfect example for me. I do not show much in the way of emotions most times. I prefer to keep level headed at all times. Emotions cloud judgment and reaction. Anyway ,,,

I visited a place that I have been to numerous times last spring. My wife made a comment to me that hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt, and showed more emotion in those few minutes than I did in my entire life combined up to that point. I spent the rest of the day and night on the beach drinking and talking with a dear old friend.

Being an early riser I was sitting in the sand just off the deck awaiting the sun to rise from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean . I was drinking my “coffee” (Diet Coke® ) with my dog by my side as the magnificent fire ball slowly rose from the water. It was a beautiful sunrise. Being deep in thought, you know “zoned” I noticed little to nothing around me except for the sun. When the sun was sticking out about half way of the water I noticed a song playing. I then felt my wife kneel behind me and she put her arms over my shoulders and placed her hands over my heart. Knowing my emotional state was still in uncharted territory and I would be trying to put things back into my own perspective, (Heading back under my rock ) and that I would be watching the sunrise my wife played a song that fit perfectly. Having gone through a long cold winter (Physically and emotionally for a few years) my wife picked the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun”.

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right

My wife whispered the last three words into my ear and then kissed my cheek. We then walked on the beach for a long time talking. We drove around and went to Downtown Wilmington for lunch. For supper we barbequed on the beach and watched the sunset into the bay from the rear deck . My ice melted some that day; it was one of the best days of my life. All day long that song ran through my head.

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I've referred to this too many times already on DP, but here goes again - a whacky (go figure) tune by the Dead Milkmen way back called "Beach Party Vietnam" harkens to the inate and f'ed-up ability of the U.S. gov. to drag KIDS overseas to fight useless wars, and relates of course to our current no-win sitch in Iraq:


It's a beach party Vietnam,
Surfin with the Viet cong,
cookin hot dogs with Napalm
a
Beach Party Vietnam............
Grab your boots and all your friends,
we're all invited to
a
Beach Party Vietnam
surfin with the Viet cong,
cookin hot dogs with Napalm
a
Beach party Vietnam..........
(lyrical break) "Hey Frankie, aren't you gonna give me your class ring"
"ooh, sorry Annette I can't do that.......)
"well why not???!!!"
"Cuz I don't have any arms!!!!"

Oy. The Dead Milkmen. Paving the way for future nerd/no-wave/dorkus/anti-establishmentarinas everywhere.

When life seems more trouble than it's really worth, Jackson Browne's "For a Dancer" reminds me why I bother getting up...

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

Here are a few which come to mind :

•"It's better to burn out, than fade away" - Def Leppard (Rock of Ages)

• "You never know just how to look through other people's eyes." - Butthole Surfers (Pepper)

• "I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me ?" - Beck (Loser)

• "Now don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone" - Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi)

• "Imagine all the people living for today" - John Lennon (Imagine)

• "Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go `round." - Queen (Fat Bottomed Girls)

"And you read your Emily Dickinson,
and I my Robert Frost,
and we note our place with bookmarkers
that measure what we've lost"

S & G "Dangling Conversation"

It doesn't get any better than what the J. Geil's Band said quite some time ago:

I've been through diamonds, I've been through minks, I've been through it ALL--
LOVE STINKS!