hard to pick a Replacements best line, here goes my try:


"try to free a slave of ignorance

try to teach this whore about romance"

-Answering Machine

I called your boss and he knows you ain't coming in today,
Sex in the morning, sex all day.

- R Kelly, Echo

"I'll lie again and again/and I'll keep lying/I promise"

Liar - The Rollins Band

There's a train that leaves the station
Headed for your destination
But the price you pay to nowhere has increased a dollar more.

~ Led Zeppelin, "Celebration Day"

Tom Waits has too many to remember. Here are a few of my favorites:

"There ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk" (Heart Attack and Vine)

"I don't have drinking problem, cept when I can't get a drink" (Bad Liver and a Broken Heart)

"I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!" (Nighthaws at the Diner)

"Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers" (God's Away on Business)

From "Maybe It Was Memphis," Pam Tillis:

"Read about you in a Faulkner novel, met you once in a Williams play
Heard about you in a country love song
Summer night beauty took my breath away..."

Garth Brooks - Much to young (to feel this damn old)

"The competition's getting younger
Tougher broncs, you know I can't recall
The worn out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women and bad booze
Seem to be the only friends I've left at all"

Mc Frontalot - Goth Girls

"She’s got a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac tattoo.
Legs all deep in the boots, boots all up on the heels —
yes, the kind to make a certain type of fetishist squeal.
The ordeal I endure: this close to her splendor
yet besieged by my shyness; try this: I surrender!
I’ll render my intentions in the usual way
(home alone, suicide girls up on the cathode ray)."

One of These Days
 

One of These Days (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) 5:56

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces


Pink Floyd


I also like this one:

When all else fails
We can whip the horse's eyes
And make them sleep
And cry
Lyrics: The Soft Parade, Doors

"The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful."
Jimmy Buffett, title and lyric the same


"Cuddle up a little closer, lovey mine.
Cuddle up and be my little, clinging vine."

As sung by Dean Martin


"I was free man in Paris. I felt unfettered and alive."
Joni Mitchell

"The mere idea of you, the longing here for you
You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you."
Ray Noble

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes your the bug."
Mary Chapin Carpenter

"You could be my someone
You could be my scene
You know that I'll protect you
From all of the obscene
I wonder what your doing
Imagine where you are
There's oceans in between us
But that's not very far"

Puddle of Mudd

"Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do

For the morning sun and all its glory
Meets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter, somehow you make it better
Ease my troubles, that's what you do"

Van Morrison

"if he was in a position to fuck Shola Ama he wouldnt, but he'd want to fuck Sadie"
(Shola Ama's younger, and at the time teenage, sister)

Bashy - Fuck Wiley

It's probably still the funniest diss song I ever heard. You really cant beat a track where the first line of the chorus is "your sister is a slag"

There ain't no wisdom in whisky
at three o'clock in the morning

Three O'clock In The Morning-Mucaro

I'm sure this is probably here already but worth revisiting,

And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Life IS Good, TuG.

Tell me something I really wanna know
Take me somewhere I really wanna go
Introduce me to someone really cool
Not another crazy fool

Feed me something hot enough
Don't be afraid to treat me rough
I just want be entertained
I wanna feel alive again...

--Juliana Hatfield, Feelin' Massachusetts

Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
And the dead lay in pools of maroon below

"Jeremy" - Pearl Jam

Knockin' me out with those American thighs--AC/DC

Is it poetry? Fuck no, and that's why it's brilliant.

"I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul...."

--Radiohead, Creep

"Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, anything loved can be lost..."


Barenaked Ladies, "Falling For the First Time"

"A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon
Makes you so crazy, you wanna swallow the moon..."

Jewel, "Jupiter"

Many of my favorite lyrics were written by Barenaked Ladies

In addition to yours I like,

You can shine like silver all you want but you're just Aluminum -- "Aluminum"

Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company. -- "War on Drugs"

If I hide myself wherever I go, am I ever really there? -- "For You"

I was a baby when I learned to suck but you have raised it to an art form -- "Wind it Up"

Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight. -- "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"*
*The first time I heard that, it was sung by BNL, but was actually written by Bruce Cockburn

"Cast reflections,
Ripples in the water.
Replicate yourselves with sons and daughters.
harvest timely fruit from trees.
Recognize beauty and let it be.

Let it lie, where it lies
As it already should be placed.

To tear asunder what must be torn.
Wear things down that should be worn.
Try to act correctly in every situation.

Like spirits crash in dead December,
There are three day feasts in the womb of summer.
All men sigh, but pass the wine in due time.

To run full-tilt in youthful fires,
Stepping down when age requires.
Try to act correctly in every situation.

Carry hammers, carry feathers,
Sing together, on forever."

- The Hidden

what they eat don't make us shit, real talk -R Kelly

lemme smell yo dick - Riskay

I just thought those were funny and yet poignant

"I'm a quiet natured player who outwardly hates the game" - Sage Francis

Pin Your Ear to the Wisdom Post,
Pin your eye to the line
Never let the weeds get higher than the garden
always keep a sapphire in your mind
always keep a diamond in your mind
Tom Waits