The Best Line in a Song
 

Every once in awhile, you find a song that has a great line in it.

(For example, Nirvana said, "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean their not after you"---thats totally great!!)

What "great lines" can you think of?

you and me babe - how 'bout it?
-dire straits / romeo and juliet.

and my sig of course.

On the bottom words are shallow
on the surface talk is cheap
you can finally judge the distance
by the company you keep

Joe Walsh - The Confessor

can't you see you're leaving me for an ugly girl
does she talk about politics and all the stuff that used to make me sick
does she smoke cigars and stay up late oh she's so great
does she tell you what you want to hear
and I bet that she can grow a beard
I'd feel better thinking you were queer
it's not fair I can't compare to an ugly girl

Fleming and John - "Ugly Girl"

Its just so freaking hilarious, I can't help but to laugh when I listen to this song. :D

"You just don't know what it's like,
To be a man, middle class and white."

-Ben Folds, "Rockin' the Suburbs"


/great satire of 'y'all don't know me' rappers

"Life is short and hard, like a bodybuilding elf"

- The Bloodhound Gang, "Lift Your Head Up High and Blow Your Brains Out"

"little old lady got mutilated late last night..."

- warren zevon, "werewolves of london..."

but they're chained up like the people in the cave, in the allegory of the people in the cave by the greek guy.

No One Knows My Plan, They Might Be Giants

another great (They Might Be Giants) line...

What's that Blue Thing doing here?

"Jesus rides beside me / He never buys any smokes"

--The Replacements, "Can't Hardly Wait"

Come on baby... And she had no fear
And she ran to him... Then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodbye
She had become like they are

Blue Oyster Cult "Don't fear the reaper"

"I'm a Dick, Im addicted to you."
I dont know who its by but this was so funny when I heard it.

Betty's in a wet t-shirt
feeling foolish and vain
lookin' like some housecat
got caught out in the rain

Starin' into the mirror
at this less than pretty picture
feeling ten years older now and
fifty bucks richer.

"Life Is Hard" by Timbuk 3

"Make that pussy purr with a stroke of my hand"

Ted Nugent
Cat Scratch Fever

"I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die."

Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues

these are all great ones.
a few of mine:

And time is a piece of wax
falling on a termite
whose choking on the splinters
-Beck "Loser" (duh)

Hes got a song about a love thats gone away
Sometimes his eyes shed tiny teardrops when he plays
His touching ballads are just there sitting to buy
They call it music but it seems more like a lie
Artificial life in the marketplace
Epic ballads by the musical whores
Life is so boring project theirs onto yours
Hear the anthems of the pepsi generation
See the martyrs of our spiritual degradation
Artificial life in the marketplace
American culture disneyland freak show
Screen in your living room
A window for your tomb
If you cant compare to the world sitting there
Repress your insecurities watch and escape
Give me artificial give me superficial
Give me a commercial life that can't be bought
This I say to you what I say is true
Emotions aren't a product to sell and cannot be consumed
Coming attraction its coming real soon
Prince is having lunch with pat boone
Want to know where all the bullshit goes
It goes down the sewer to be disposed
-Operation Ivy "Artificial Life"

Conditioned to self-interest with emotions locked away
If that's what they call normal i'd rather be insane
-Op Ivy "Here We Go Again"

That last line is my favorite. You should say it to a cop while giving him the finger. It's a great way to get away for the weekend.

I'm not waving, I'm drowning : Sheer Terror

"If everyone's a little queer
Can't she be a little straight"
Pink Triangle - Weezer

"Shaking like a dog shitting razorblades."

Alkaline Trio

"They say music can alter moods and talk to you
Well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too
Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude
Just tell the judge it was my fault and i'll get sued"
- Eminem "Sing for the Moment"

"I have a problem that I cannot explain,
I have no reason why it should have been so plain,
Have no questions but I sure have excuse,
I lack the reason why I should be so confused,"
-System of a Down "Roulette"

You beat me to it!!!! ARGH!!

"They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will ensure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed"
NOFX-The Decline

"Punk ain't no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself"
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

"Home is where the heart is... on the bus"
Glassjaw - The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

"Send lawyers, guns, and money; the shit has hit the fan."
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money

Just a few off the top of my head...

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
"Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a hollywood basement"

Pink Floyd - Time
"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but your older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death"

Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution
"I'm a thief, I'm a liar, There's my church I sing in the choir"

Pearl Jam - Not For You
"All that's sacred, comes from youth
All dedication, is naive and true
Oh with no power and nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you?"

Soundgarden - Outshined
"I just looked in the mirror, and things aren't looking so good
I'm looking California, and feeling Minnesota"

And if rain brings winds of change, let it rain on us forever.
- VNV Nation

"Such a wicked, vicious woman
black magic, voodoo queen
lesbo nymphomaniac oooh she's got a girlfriend who's seventeen"

Ballcrusher - W.A.S.P.

"The bullshit rolls off your tongue like spit
The psychotropic demi-god"
- I wish I was a Communist - NothingFace

"So please please let me get what I want, Lord knows it will be the first time."
-Deftones cover of the song Please let me get what I want

"Dicks are for my friends, when they come to my house."
-Mindless Self Indulgence.
I don't know why, but that just strikes me as odd.
.....and.....
"Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now, controls the past."
-Rage Against the Machine
Just makes you think, and I hope I didn't screw it up.

"I got something to say, I raped your mother today, but it doesn't matter much to me as long as she's spread."

Last Caress - The Misfits. Sheer poetry, and Danzig apparently invented "yo mamma" jokes.

'Theres no love in fear'
Pushit - Tool

'Higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride'

-David Allen Coe, The Dope Song

"out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a cadillac,
a little voice inside said don't look back, you can never look back"

Don Henley- "Boys of summer"

"Ashes to ashes
dust to dust;
waddya gonna do
when that thing starts to rust?"
-"Keep on truckin' mamma" N.R.P.S.

That's one of my all-time favorite lines, but I think it's because I'm Minnesotan. It really sucks to feel Minnesotan!!

"You tell me it's the Institution, well you know, we'd all love to change your head."

John Lennon, "Revolution"

Life is white
And I am black
Jesus and his lawyer
Are coming back

-Eels "Novocaine for the Soul"

funny how that song is a total bummer, but it always makes me feel great when I'm done listening to it.
you guys are coming up with some good ones, keep it up!!

Good grief, I screwed up my own post.

Previous Post should have said:

"You say you'll change the Constitution, well you know, we'd all love to change your head. You tell me it's the Institution, well you know, you'd better free your mind instead."


YIKES!

All this time you said you would die for me. Why, then, are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?

TOOL
Eulogy

(And such a great rhythm)

D-Loaded the video recently & this line has been with me ever since:

"I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill cuz in God I trust"

From, Do the Evoution by Pearl Jam.

"...as i was looking down the bore
of the deadly .44
of Ringo..."

Lorne Greene
Ringo

"Europe, not a rope to swing on, can't learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it"

Rage Against The Machine.

"Fuck it all and fucking no regrets!" Damage Inc. - Metallica

"Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind
I've seen the future and I've left it behind" Supernaut - Black Sabbath

"I'm sick and tired of bein' sick and tired" I Just Want You - Ozzy Osbourne

"Self-esteem you seem to lack,
You point your finger, three pointing back." Breakpoint - Megadeth

That should be enough for now. :)