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I've always liked the look of quotes/text/script tattoos so i've been slowly collecting my favourite song quotes from various bands. Curtent plan is to get a Hip themed half sleeve collage type thing. So tell me your favourite quotes in case I missed some good ones!

'Up high and aloft, wherever winds may blow
Don't let your balloon touch the ground
Or get so high that you can't let go'

One of my favorites is from Dark Canuck, "Inside there's an army waiting for their marching orders from you".

Always made me think of when you try to stay calm in a situation but finally reach a breaking point to finally tell someone off, lol.

Was listening to Eldorado tonight:

"I've got no genius for evil that makes me common"

Such a good line.

(But the best was, as soon as it ended, my ten-year-old says, "put it on again." Awww yeah.)

"If there's a glory in miracles, it's that they're reversible"

"And a bat sees a bug with the sound of a linger
Night time when the shadows cough
And you're chilled to the tips of your fingers"

Especially the bat line. The imagery there is absolutely incredible. I think Yawning or Snarling has the most vivid lyrics of any Hip song, maybe any song.

emperor penguin Wrote:"And a bat sees a bug with the sound of a linger
Night time when the shadows cough
And you're chilled to the tips of your fingers"

Especially the bat line. The imagery there is absolutely incredible. I think Yawning or Snarling has the most vivid lyrics of any Hip song, maybe any song.

Agree. "Walk past damaged goods and ugly trends" is another great line from that song. Not tattoo material, but great imagery nonetheless. The combination of the imagery and the music in that song is so good that it almost makes me feel El Paso hot and sweaty when I'm listening. I can feel the heat from that "throbbing bladder of light".

It's a routine flight for this bird tonight
There's more worms than earth in the after life
Where the blind feed the blind, whispering things like
"On the money" and "Bullseye"

Well for a tat I would think you would want something well known, wouldn't ya? How about:

-Courage, it couldn't come at a worse time.
-It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated
-Martyrs don't do much for me though I enjoy them vicariously
-I'm a highway romance milking thief
-You're going to miss me, wait and you'll see, fully and completely
-I'm fabulously rich, come on just let's go
-I come from downtown, born ready for you, armed with will and determination, and grace, too

sonichka11 Wrote:I've always liked the look of quotes/text/script tattoos so i've been slowly collecting my favourite song quotes from various bands. Curtent plan is to get a Hip themed half sleeve collage type thing. So tell me your favourite quotes in case I missed some good ones!

If were talking something succinct for a tattoo, nothing beats Fully Completely:

"Either it'll move me, or it'll move right through me"

Always a line that stuck with me

Lizard King Wrote:If were talking something succinct for a tattoo, nothing beats Fully Completely:

"Either it'll move me, or it'll move right through me"

Always a line that stuck with me

Oh that one is included for sure. A bunch of my favourite songs I'm stuck with 2 or 3 quotes and trying to narrow it down to one is next to impossible.

Most of them are fairly well known yeah....but that's why i wanted some recommendations of stuff I might not have thought of yet. Currently have way more than I know what to do with! In no particular order.....And yeah..."Tired as fuck" HAS to be included. :lol: The list keeps changing on a daily basis, plus there's no way I'll fit them all, though depending on the design many of the quotes will likely be shortened or cut off at random.

*Tickled to death by their importance
*It would seem to me I remember every single fuckin' thing I know
*the Last Canada Goose
*And that’s when the hornet stung me
*Come in, come in, come in, come in / From thin and wicked prairie winds, come in
*Quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar / Quickly something familiar
*And yea the human tragedy consists in the necessity of living with the consequences
*Tired as fuck
*Whispers of disease and acts of enormity
*Hairbird plucks a hair from a sleeping dog / To build her nest she said, “I've looked around and I like your hair the best.”
*Nothing’s dead down here, just a little tired
*Either it’ll move me, or it’ll move right through me
*And grace, too
*Full of countervailing woes
*Lil super-dangerous
*Instructions from the manual could not have been much more plain
*I remain aloft and I forget a lot / Then I try not to try and I can remember, or not
*And after all that training
*The short answer’s fourty-eight hours OR Can we stay for The Dark Canuck?

sonichka11 Wrote:I've always liked the look of quotes/text/script tattoos so i've been slowly collecting my favourite song quotes from various bands. Curtent plan is to get a Hip themed half sleeve collage type thing. So tell me your favourite quotes in case I missed some good ones!

I've always found Vapour Trails to be particularly evocative, lyrically speaking. Especially the first half of the third verse:

Past hills of chambermaids' dark bare arms
and fields of muscle quilted to the bone,
right now I'm flying over.
Yeah, right now I'm flying home.

Bring on the springtime bring on the houseflies
Bring on the butterscotch river, overspilling its banks

When you thought all my dreams suck
I was just happy you gave a fuck

Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, "holy fuck, it's Jesus!?"

You cannot know, you cannot not know
What you're knowing

and on , and on...

How about

I lose control, I just can't stop
You look so good like a big pork chop

sean.bonner Wrote:How about

I lose control, I just can't stop
You look so good like a big pork chop

:lol: I can't imagine tattooing pork chop to my arm