Classic rap lines:

"Yeahhh, so we gonna smoke an ounce to this,
G's up, ho's down while you mothafuckas bounce to this."

Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus
"Gin and Juice"

.....followed by the most ridiculous two lines from a rap song I've ever heard jaja:

"Put in my moooouuuth, I said my mothafuckin moooouuuth,
and you can just eat me ouuut, you could eat me ouuut"

Akinyele
"Put It In Your Mouth"

Dub me Lord Abortion, the living dead
The bonesaw in the backseat on this bitter night of giving head

Cradle of filth - Lord Abortion

Tears, they flow, but why am I crying?
After all, I'm not afraid of dying.
Do not believe that there never is an end

Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy name

Another night, another demise
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice
I`ll let the wind blow out the light
cause its gets more painful every time i die

Children of Bodom - every time i die

And my favourite:

I've lived in filth, I've lived in sin
But I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in

Iron Maiden - Holy Smoke

Too young to die, too rich to care, too fucked to swear that i was there/Desolation yes, hesitation no
"Age of Innocence" -Smashing Pumpkins

The moon is out, the stars invite/I think I'll leave tonight
"Rocket" -Smashing Pumpkins

and either
Look at me, I can write a melody/But I can't expect a soul to care
or
Look around, could it bring somebody down/If I never made a sound again?
"Who Sucked Out the Feeling" -Superdrag

"then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel

is just a freight train coming your way"

Metallica - No Leaf Clover



"you will do, what I say, when I say

back to the front"


metallica - disposable heros

I got so city girl on you
I went so crazy I didn't know what to do

- City Girl, Tegan and Sara

I flip on the television
Watch sad movies, and look for sad sick people like me

I Hear Noises, Tegan and Sara

Tool - Hooker With A Penis

The Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze

I don't want a love that will last,
I just want a piece of your ass.

-MU330

My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head
"You are the son of a mother fucker"

Nimrod's Son - The Pixies

Today’s the fourth of july, another june has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think, what a waste of gunpowder and sky...

4th of July - Aimee Mann

She sings a song and I listened to what it said
If you want a friend, feed any animal

Jane's Addiction- "Summertime Rolls"

playing on co-workers computer right now

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm tryin' not to lose my head.

Grand Master Flash...I think

I think the whole song is cool but I like these two lyrics:

well i guess it ain't easy doing nothing at all oh yeah
but hey man free rides just don't come along every day

The Offspring - Why don't you get a job

A few more verses from that song:

she sits on her ass
he works his hands to the bone
to give her money every payday
but she wants more dinero just to stay at home
well my friend you gotta say

Poka zhiva ya mogu starat'sya na letu ne upast',
Ne razuchit'sya mechtat'...lyubit'...

Translates to:

While I'm alive, I can try not to fall while flying,
To not forget how to dream... how to love...

days fade to black, in the light of what they lack

nothing's measured by what it needs..


"already dead" beck

Maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle of impossibility
we're standing at opposite poles, equal partners in a mystery

-indigo girls

I'm just so tired of romance, I just want to get in your pants..
I just want to meal on your stuff.

just because you feel it
doesn't make it real

radiohead


the best line in pop music history:

now i wanna
be your dog

the stooges

If you come calling, he'll be mauling with intent to maim
Don't knock on my door If you don't know my Rottweiler's name

Rottweiler Blues
Warren Zevon

When the sky is gray the way it is today
I remember the times when I was happy

Indifference of Heaven
Warren Zevon

Well, the emptiness is endless, cold as the clay
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way

Mississippi
Bob Dylan

Wait a minute,
while i fuck the world.

Turbonegro - Fuck the world

"you brushed my eyes with angel's wings
full of love - the kind that makes devils cry"

George Michael

"my make-up may be flaking
but my smile still stays on"

Queen

Everytime she sneezes I believe it's love.

That line gets me everytime.

"white T-shirt, ain't afraid to work,
got a 'What're you lookin' at, asshole' smirk"

Trace Adkins, Rough & Ready

and he said: "Son, this world is rough
and if a mans gonna make it he´s gotta be tough
johnny cash

i feel uptight on a saturday night
nine o clock, the radio´s the only light
kiss

fuck you i won´t do what you tell me
fuck you i won´t do what you tell me
RATM

"How can I try to explain? Cause when I do he turns away again it's always been the same...same ol story
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen now theres a way and I know that I have to go away..I know...I have to go."

Cat Stevens - Father And Son

Asta!!

"The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
and the circling is worth it; finding beauty in the dissonance."

OR

"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers."

Tool - Schism

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality; embrace this moment. Remember: we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion."

Tool - Parabola

" I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain...
To swing on the spiral of our own divinity and still be human."

Tool - Lateralus

Noticing a common trend?
Obviously, there are other great lines from other bands I should record here, but eh.

"I knew I had to do something, so I shot back,
Santa took two in the belly and one in the sack."

Deadbolt I'm The One Who Gunned Santa Down

rap has some good ones

"bush disguises bloodlust as patriotism
convincin the livin to love operation 'let's get 'em!'"

mr. lif


"mayonaise colored benz
i push miracle whips"

kanye west

"see now i reckon your about an 8 or a 9
maybe even 9 and one half in 4 beers time"

the streets (he has so many good ones god damn)

"the answer my friends
is blowin in the wind"

dylan is a master

theres somethin haunting about the way dave matthews sings this that has me hooked:

"gravedigger, when you dig my grave
can you make it shallow ... so that i can feel the rain"

Hell yes!

"This one's fat like your mother, contains enough calories
Resonates in all your favorite frequencies"

"Hang on a minute, have I got it? Oh this is a crock of shit!
I lost the fucking thing! Oh wait, no here it is in my pocket."

"He says, 'it's not like that!' and i'm like 'fuck off and die,
And stick up my two fingers and one more to make three'"

"And I believe I've been out of my element so long it feels like home,
I dream at night of being so decadent. In truth, I just don't know."

- Ralph Covert "Out of My Element"

"And I really don't know how it happened so fast, how we all grew so old, how we fell out of touch.
But I still feel cold, cold shivers, 'cuz I wanted it so much."

- Ralph Covert "Cold Shivers"

"If love's not blind then it's probably me."

- Ralph Covert "The Amazing Romero"

"You were so high when I saw you, at first I did not know it was you.
My own brother, just a shadow in Amsterdam."

- Ralph Covert "Shadow in Amsterdam."


Not that I think Covert is the best songwriter in the world or anything....

Cuz once in awhile you get shown in the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias

I love those lyrics Derwood. Any place where I can hear this guys music man? Sounds like I may like him.

Asta!!

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight."

Barenaked Ladies - Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Elvis Costello - Long Honeymoon
 

Why doesn't he come home
Why does her friend's phone keep on ringing

"Long Honeymoon" from Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom

"Sitting on a park bench,
eyeing little girls with bad intent"
Jethro Tull, Aqualung

or... my sinature.

St. Stephen; Greatful Dead.

oh yeah... I know it's more than two, but I always loved the begining of this song...

"Gotta gun,
fact I've got two.
That's okay man,
'cause I love God"

Pearl Jam, Glorified G.

DB.

www.ralphcovert.com has sound bytes of all his songs, plus songs from his band (The Bad Examples) and his kid's music CD's (Ralph's World)

possibly the greatest two line lyric from rap

i switched my motto, instead of saying "fuck tomorrow"
the buck that bought the bottle coulda struck the lotto

nas

"One sunny day I was riding my bike
and smoking a joint cos that's what I like!"

Can't remember who . . . think it was called the reefer song

S