Love this thread too.

Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead

- Beatles

I have faith in a few things, divinity and grace
But even when I'm on my knees I know the devil preys

- Ben Harper

If I ever lose my mouth, all my teeth, north and south
If I ever lose my mouth, I won't have to talk...

- Cat Stevens

All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun
Flying mother natures silver seed to a new home in the sun.

- Neil Young

Way down yonder on the Chattahoochie
It gets hotter than a hoochie koochie

- Alan Jackson

If you choose not to decide,
You still have made a choice.

-RUSH

Life's not a bitch; life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch 'cause she wouldn't let you get that pussy
~Aesop Rock, "Daylight"

Delilah Jones went to meet her god
And the old man never was the same again
~The Grateful Dead, "Brown-Eyed Women"

Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay
The world survives into another day
~Bruce Cockburn, "Wondering Where the Lions Are"

"you're perfect, yes it's true
but without me, you're only you"

one of my favourites, from Faith No More's "Midlife Crisis"

There's a place where everyone can be right.
Even though you remain determined to be opposed. - Bad Religion

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see - The Beatles

Dont think your excempt if you earn good weekly wages
because your neighbor's going crazy and insanity is contagious - Bad Religion

Look at all the living and ask yourself why
Why do we pity the dead? - Bad Religion

It's better to burn out than to fade away
Out of the blue and into the black - Neil Young

you all everybody!
you all everybody! - drive shaft

oh come on, i cant be the only lost fan here.

I'm a thief in the dark,
I'm a raging machine

Sublime

Best friends means I pulled the trigger
Best friends means you get what you deserve
-There's No "I" in Team by Taking Back Sunday

welcome to tijuana.
tequila sexo y marijuana.
-Manu Chao

A medley of great U2 line-pairs

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
"New Year's Day" (War)

You got to cry with out weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
"Running to Stand Still" (The Joshua Tree)

A man makes a picture, a moving picture
Through light projected he can see himself up close
"Lemon" (Zooropa)

With a mouth full of teeth you ate all your friends
And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends
"Crumbs From Your Table" (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)

Goodbye to yellow brick road, where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse, I'm going back to my plow

"LIKE MOST PEOPLE ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE ME
HAVNT FOUND A WAY TO SAY FUCK YOU POLITLY"

-SwolLEn MemBers

"You'd like to think that you were invincible
Yeah weren't we all once, before we felt love for the first time" Dashboard Confessional

"Difficult enough to feel a little bit dissapointed
And passed over" APC


"Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying so delighted with a new understanding" APC

And last but not least

"Kidnap the Sandy Claws, throw him in a box
Bury him for 90 years, then see if he talks!" Nightmare Before Christmas :-D

"What the head makes cloudy,
the heart makes very clear" - The Eagles (well Don Henley really, In a New York Minute)

Bit of a patriotic one:

Every day, when i wake up
I thank the lord i'm Welsh

- International Velvet by Catatonia (All the rest of which is sung in the welsh language)

May you never lose your temper
Angry father, angry son

- Angryman by The Bees

Is this real life..
or is this fantasy?

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Yeah, I know. Just like their version better, hence why they got the naming rights.

I can see why Mitchell should get credit, she wrote the song. :P

Lonliness is not a phase,
serenity is far away
field of pain is where I graze

Alice in Chains - Angry Chair

"Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay,
it only took my little fingers to blow you away"

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

"The only difference that I see,
Is you are exactly the same as you used to be."

The Wallflowers- "The Difference"

I've got seats that can selflessly hold my friends,
And a trunk that can carry the heaviest of loads.
-Cake, Satan is My Motor

You were fashionably sensitive,
But too cool to care.

These foolish games are tearing me apart,
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
-Jewel, Foolish Games

Hello, I've waited here for you,
Everlong.

Breath out,
So I can breathe you in.

The only thing I'll ever ask of you,
Gotta promise not to stop when I say 'when.'
-Foo Fighters, Everlong

Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.
-Collective Soul, December

So many times, it happens too fast,
You trade your passion for glory
-Survivor, Eye of the Tiger

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
-Kansas, Dust in the Wind.

That's all for now, I'll be back later

Bigger than the Beatles, Bigger than breast implants
Bigger than guns, bigger than cigarettes

Guns and Cigarettes-Atmosphere

"Down there on Hanley Street, my mind can run with a child's feet
Down there on Hanley Street, a simple thought can keep my soul laughing...laughing...."

Gwendolyn Speaks, Hanley Street

"I've been searchin' for the daughter of the devil himself, I've been searchin' for an angel in white
I've been waitin' for a woman who's a little of both, and I can feel her but she's no where in sight..."

The Eagles, One of These Nights

"You’d better close your eyes and bow your head
And wait for the ricochet"

- Deep Purple, Child in Time

Their music haunts you ... in a good way

Music sweet music I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

"You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
when they all did tricks for you"

- Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone"

Lots of great stuff in this thread.

So I am going to put down two of my best "I can't believe they wrote this line" lyrics that are so bad I love them.

"Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze
Diane's sittin' on Jacky's lap
He's got his hand between her knees"
-John Mellancamp, "Jack and Diane"

Sucking down chili dogs? huh?

"Never let me slip,
Cuz if I slip,
Then I'm slippin'."
-Dr. Dre, "Ain't Nuthin' but a G Thang"

Way to keep it rhyming Dre!

"you and me babe,
how 'bout it?"

Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet

"The only pain is to feel nothing at all/how can I hurt when I'm holding you?"
--U2, "A Man And A Woman"

God is your copilot, I let Satan ride shotgun
you pay a toll to get into heaven but on the road to hell there's none

-Bloodhound Gang, Asleep at the Wheel


If hell is like a woman, said "Take me to the fire!"
Shot down!! Another desperate love crucifier!

-White Zombie, Grindhouse (A Go-Go)

Rage Against the Machine

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it yet I hang from it

As a history teacher it has special signifigance

Four Lucy's and one Charlie Brown,
Yep screw it up, screw it up, tear it down.

-Boris the Sprinkler

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb
A pill to make you anybody else

-Marilyn Manson, Coma White

Okay, that's probably technically 3, but whatev ;)

When I was just a baby, my momma told me son,
always be a good boy and dont ever play with guns.
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him Bleed.

I know i know it was more than 2 lines... but it speaks volumes...

The Late Great Johnny Cash

francis (sic) Mitterand
Do you have the heater on?

WCKR SPGT - early 90s aided by making no attempt to say Francois

wouldnt it be nice if we were older, then we wouldnt have to wait so long.

"So spin your cap around to the back
you think you rhyme but you can’t rap"

Stroke 9, Kick some Ass

"The world on you depends
Our life will never end"

The doors, Riders on the storm

"I want to move north and be a canadian
Or hang down low with the nice australians"

NOFX, Franco un-american

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice

Steve Miller band, The Joker

And if I'm the man, Then you're the man, and He's the man as well
so you can Point that fuckin' finger up your ass

Tool... Hooker with a Penis.

The line is actually: "But I shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die."

:)

But I agree...Folsom Prison Blues is full of great lines.

"I'm kind of like han solo always stroking my own wookie,
Im the root of all that's evil but you can call me Cookie"

Fire, Water, Burn- Bloodhound gang

"See I reckon you're about an 8 or a 9,
Maybe even 9 and a half in four beers time."

The Streets - "Fit But You Know It."

"Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew."

Frank Sinatra, "My Way"

"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight, but there's no place left to hide"

-Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"

"Shelter me from the powder and the finger,
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger."

-Neil Young, "Powderfinger" (Listen to it on the Live Rust record, it makes the spine shiver)

Jin battling terrorist

"you know why they call him terrorist?!
because he masterbates so much he tears-his-wrist"

"I hang out with midgets, they make me feel real tall.
Plus I can kick their ass, when we play basketball"

--Random song of a compilation CD

"I heard everybody's voice cut out when you spoke.
And I watched all the lights go dim when your eyes opened."

--Alkaline Trio - You've Got So Far To Go

"Maybe it'll prove that we were right,
or will it prove that I was wrong"

Kayleigh, Marillion. Marvelous. Meh.

It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got

Sheryl crow

wow. after reading the thread, i found that a lot of the lines that immediately jumped to my mind were already taken. and that suprised me. i'll pick a few different ones instead:


"You are not my lover, and you never will be
'Cause you've never done anything to hurt me"
-Rufus Wainwright - Waiting For a Dream

"Hey mother mercy can your loins bear fruit forever?
Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?"
-Bad Religion - I Want to Conquer the World

"Cause nothing hurts like nothing at all;
When imagination takes full control."
-Death Cab For Cutie - President of What?

"If you stay to long inside my memory, I will trap you in a song tied to a melody
and I'll keep you there so you can't bother me."
-Bright Eyes - Take It Easy (Love Nothing)

Have to add another couple of Johnny Cash lyrics:

"Because you're mine,
I walk the line."

"You give me cause for love that I can't hide,
For you I know I'd even try and turn the tide"

From "I Walk the Line" - the greatest love song ever written.

And another lyric from Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2" (Mentioned earlier):

"I need you, I don't need you,
I need you, I don't need you."

Lyrics might not be too special, but their delivery is just heart-breaking

Would you like some making fuck, beserker
My love for you is a like a truck, beserker

-Clerks

paramedics fell into the wound
like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant

^At The drive in - invalid litter dept.

Oh, were so contraversial. We are entirely smooth.
We admit to the truth. We are the best at what we do.

^brand new. Don't like them, but this made me laugh


I'm not the only one watching thefallout fly back up
...
We fucked like a nuclear war release.

^Dillinger escape plan. Good band, but the lyrics are funnily bad. :)

This gravity is a quadriplegic horse and carriage

At The Drive In - Catamcombs for this^ and this V
Pendulum swing through tantrum slits
This scalpel's gaze untamed won't feel romantic


One more thing.
Listen to these bands if you don't already. I recommend:
At the Drive In
The Mars Volta
Aphex Twin
Prodigy
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Dillinger Escape Plan

..that'll do for now :)

Never had a drink that I didn't like
Got a taste of you, threw up all night
I got more sick with every sour second rate kiss
- Crawl by Alkaline Trio

"i touch down in the heated land
and shiver in my bones as i look up to greet the clouds that wait for me" - Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe - She Loves Everybody.

Asta!!

So this is on my mind because of yesterday. I happened to be listening to the world's greatest rock and roll band, Blue Öyster Cult, a little ditty called "Divine Wind" off the Cultosaurus Erectus album, and I finally figured out what the refrain was:

"If he really thinks we're the devil,
Then let's send him to hell!"

Yeah, that'll do.

"If the mic had ass cheeks,
just stick it in my hand and call it priority seating"

"And man, i don't know what i'd do,
but your girl was on my dick like she as teething"

- Vast Aire

Evolution made man out of a monkey
But it took a woman to make a monkey out of me.

"Evolution Blues"

"You teach your children some fashion sense....
and they fashion some of their own."

- Gord Downie, as nonsense during their "Live Between Us" CD.

"take my name off of the lease,
you can even keep the name... it never suited me."

-Jets to Brazil, Sea Anemone

I think the best lyrics from a song for me have also got to be the strangest that i have heard:

"And tighten your buttocks, pour juice on your chin
I promise my girlfriend i’d... the violin, violin, violin ..."

The avalanches -- Frontier psychiatrist

"cause dreams ain't broken down here now
no...they're walking with a limp"

and

"The piano has been drinking
not me ..."

Tom Waits

Love this thread...

"Your perfect, yes, it's true; But without me you're only you;
Your menstruating heart ain't bleeding enough for two."
Faith no More - Mid-life Crisis

"The sky was gold, it was rose; I was taking sips of it through my nose;
And I wish I could get back there, some place back there..."
Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life (big points for getting soccer moms to sing about Crystal Meth addiction!)

"Sneaking up like celery yeah I'm stalking
I speak like Stephen Hawkings - yeah, but I'm walkin'"
Bloodhound Gang - Boom

Everyone was Kung Fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightening


can't get much better than that... HUH!

Don't pay the ferryman. Don't even fix a price.
Don't pay the ferryman. Until he gets you to the other side.
"Chris De Burgh - Don't Pay the Ferryman - 1983"

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
"Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee - 1969"

Drink scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
"Steely Dan - Deacon Blues - 1978"

All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
"Richard Harris - MacArthur Park - 1968"

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you
"Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone - 1965"

"In this clip
there are 13 ways to say you're sorry"

Remembering Never

I leave scientists mentally scarred triple extra large/
Wild like rock stars who smash guitars/

-Inspectah Deck

Pay attention to 'bis my intention is this/
Leave you spatially adrift suspended in the abyss/

-Canibus

What's on the radio? Propaganda, mind control/
And turnin it on is like puttin on a blind fold/

-Dead Prez (Not sure if it's M1 or Stic)

I strangled you to death then I choked you again/
Then break your fuckin legs till your bones poke through your skin/

-Eminem

I'm the stronghold on your neck that doesn't let you breathe/
Stronger than the fake image of God in which you believe/

-Immortal Technique

I jerk off inside books and give life to words/
Leaving concepts stuck together that you probably never heard/

-Immortal Technique

I will send you, through the depths of the Atlantic/
to study transcripts, of rhymes by the enchanted/

-Ikon

Rough shit, don't even attempt sleeping/
At war with the demons that live in infernal regions/

-Jus Allah

I set off crowds, style wild like a circus/
I seek through souls when I walk past churches/

-Jus Allah

"Never was a cornflake girl, thought that was a good solution,
Hanging with the raisin girls."

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

Surprised not to see more Tori Amos. Most of her stuff is a metaphorical tour de force.

To the guy with the Lost reference: I got it, even if no one else did.

"And then dance, and drink, .... and screw
Because there's nothing else to do'

Pulp's Common People.

But I have to admit I first heard it as William Shatner's cover. It still rocks though.

I love these 2 lines. Itd also go for best beginning...

I can see her lyin’ back in her satin dress
In a room where ya do what ya don’t confess

by Gordon Lightfoot

"I had her lips for breakfast, her pussy for lunch,
then her titties busted open with HAWAIAN PUNCH"

AfroMan

"She got a corpse under her bed,
She had her fun but now he's dead"

"Now you're lying on the floor
Yeah, you can't take anymore"

"The devil's laughing in your face
Give me another taste, yeah"

-House of 1000 corpses, Rob zombie

"Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry
While they slowly turn, conquering the worm"

"Dead I am the dog, hound of hell you cry
Devil on your back, I can never die"

-Dragula, Rob Zombie

"You're sorry grateful, regretful happy, Why look for answers where none occur?
You'll always be what you always were which has nothing to do with, all to do with her."

- from Sondheim's Company

"We tried to bleed the sickness,
But we drained our hearts instead."

-Thrice

If your kisses can't hold the man you love
then your tears won't bring him back!

-- Sophie Tucker

The chorus from "Drop" by Red House Painters:

"All the love in an instant, makes my life stop,
But then my hate for you, makes my feelings altogether drop"

I love you more than I did the week before.
I discovered alcohol.

Alcohol - Bare Naked Ladies

They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong
I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all.

Cottonseed - The Drive-by Truckers

"There's a flask inside my pocket, we can drink it on the train,
And I promise to stay conscious if you try and do the same."

- Bright Eyes "Lua"

"Your's was the first face that I saw,
Think I was blind before I met you."

- Bright Eyes "First Day of My Life"

Pig Destoryer win this hands down:

"I would show you the view from the floor
but the knees are as far as you go"

"Parting her silver thighs
making love - obsolete.

"her lips are wet with venom, her posture's serpentine
she'll touch my arms and flowers grow there - poisonous and obscene"

"The gun smiles your smile
the razor whishpers your name"

"Lovely body, twisted into code
saying something, profound I'm sure"

"Here is a boy with paper skin who longs to touch the girl of broken glass
she loves it when he wears his skin like that - in tatters"

PxDx > all

When I think of heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird.

Sorry it's way longer than two... but I love it anyway.

Just thought of this one yesterday:

And when I lean my head against the frosted shower stall,
I see stuff through the glass that I don't recognize at all.

//They Might Be Giants - Until My Head Falls Off
(It's probably four lines written out, but he sings it as two lines.)

For today here's a few....

"There's nothing here to run from,
'Cos yeah, everybody here's got somebody to lean on."

- Coldplay "Dont panic"

"I need you to show me the way from crazy
I wanna be so much more than this"
- Jimmy Eat World "My sundown"

"I wanna always feel like part of this was mine.
I wanna fall in love tonight."
-Jimmy Eat World "Praise Chorus"

"So many parts that I have to play.
A tangle with life set me up that way"
-Seal "I'm Alive"

You know its time that we grow old and do some shit
I like it all that way

-Broken Social Scene "Lover's Spit"

All the other girls here are stars,
You are the Northern Lights
-Kathleen-Josh Ritter

Anyone can make you sweat,
But I can keep you wet - Jordan Knight, "Give It To You"

I wax poetic,
While you're waxing your legs - Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me

Wu-Tang Clan - Older Gods

"Rollin with Guess vests pedestrians yo
holdin my nuts, fuckin thousand dollar lesbians"

"Shes got style, Shes got class, Shes got a boyfriend that wants to kick my ass, I got him angry I got him annoyed when I sent you dirty pictures on my polaroid" - bowling for soup

And because I'm a fan (even if its a bit long)

I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Cause I want to be the minority
-Green day :D

Both awesome songs haha

Were one;
But were not the same.


U2

One thousand nine hundred and seventy two
that's the year I got here when my dear mother's water blew

Bloodhound Gang

"You're so vain,
You probably think this song is about you"
- Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

"You have the right to freeeee speech
as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it"
- The Clash "Know Your Rights"

[QUOTE=Unright]"You're so vain,
You probably think this song is about you"
- Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

QUOTE]


what i liked about that song, was the song really was about that person. (was it Mick jagger?)

How about:

Alanis Morrisette. "Do you think of me when you fuck her?"

"And everytime I scratch my nails down someone's elses back I hope you feel it"

Pure anger, I love that.

Today's Fav's:

"I wish that i could disappear, unzip my skin and leave it here
So i become no-one again, and never let nobody in"

Staind - Blow Away

"And I know, I may end up failing too
But I know, that you were just like me with someone disappointed in you"

Linkin Park - Numb

heh, cool thread.

just read/looked thru the whole thing, and maybe I'm blind, but i didn't see any 'tones ...

So, from a couple tracks from White Pony -

I took you home
Set you on the glass

I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed

Change (In the House of Flies)

we'll stop to rest on the
moon and we'll make a fire

I'll steal a carcass for you
then feed off the virus

RX Queen

"I'll make you sleep where the worms do
I couldnt care less if you ate shit, died and turned blue!"

Sticky (Onyx)

"We live on front porches and swing life away, We get by just fine here on minimum wage.
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end, I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand."

Swing Life Away - Rise Against :)

I guess its 2 sets of 2 ;)

"I used to buy quarters couldn't fuck with an ounce
Now I write checks and watch the bank bounce"

- E-40

John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland

You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it
I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it

We made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background from a televised war,
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say, "If we walk away, they'll walk away."

OR

"A good woman will pick you apart; a box full of suggestions for your possible hearts,
And she may be offended, and you may be afraid, but don't walk away, don't walk away."

- "Land Locked Blues" by Bright Eyes

World War II, dem use nuff tank.
Walk and skank a me say walk and skank.

Live your life you're gonna die your own death
There is no one above to take your breath

Entombed - Left Hand Path


What man's created man can destroy
Bring to light that day of joy

Entombed - Left Hand Path


I speak of what I want, And my heart lies therein
Blackened you say - Then black is my way

Darkthrone - Sunrise Over Locus Mortis


When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air suddenly... life has new meaning.

Burzum - Dunkelheit


Because to put all hope in one uphigh is sheer insanity
It will show fatal to us all, yes, even fucking dangerously

Bathory - Crawl to your Cross