"I could never swallow your false ideals
of a lifeless happy ending"
poison the well - artist's rendering of me

the guru (of gang starr) is amazing on some of his shit-

"sometimes you gotta dig deep, when problems come near
dont fear things get severe for everybody everywhere"

(sing that to yourself it flows wonderfully)

from the same song:

"yo i got one lyric pointed at your head for start
another one, is pointed at your weak ass heart
now if I pull the trigger, on these fully loaded lines
you're gonna wish I woulda pulled a black nine, i mack dimes"

thats "moment of truth" from gang starr please check out that song its wonderful

"He's not your average mountain man,
'Cause he was born with big old hands

There's adamantium in his bones,
He's got a jaw that's made of stone"

Orange Goblin - Born with Big Hands

Green Day:
Do as I say, not as I do because the shit's so deep you can't walk away
Beg to differ, on the contrary, believing every word that I say

Relienk K:
I don't want to be percieved the way I am
I just want to be percieved the way I am

Bad Religion:
Hey Brother Christian with your high and mighty errand,
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying

Story of the Year:
From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire

Sorry one more...

Talib Kweli:
I live life to the fullest because I know I could die
Right now

A bunch of great two liners from the same song...

'Your pubic hairs are on my pillow
Your stubble rings the sink

Your words under my skin
Your table manners stink

I paddle in the things I love
You wallow in a swamp of trivia

In a vase with insincere I love yous
Next door's camellias

I'm sick and tired of this position
Hatched underneath an arm

Your crutch under stress
Your rudder when it's calm

I'm bored of staring at the ceiling
While you point out my flaws

I've watched the wallpaper peeling from slamming doors
You talk about penis envy

Your friends applaud
What am I expected to do?

Shout man overboard?'

Do Re Mi - Man Overboard

I'd rather die for a cause
than to die just because

The Non-prophets - Hey Bobby

I see seven towers
but I only see one way out

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
~ Alice Cooper - Dead Babies

Truer words have not been spoken.

'So I smile at you with the mouth of the ocean;
And I wave to you with the arms of the mountains';
-Faith No More

'Yeah, I sweat a lot';
(hocks a lugee, spits) 'Urp!,Shit';
-Faith No More

'And I'm more than just a little curious,'
'How you're planning to go about making your amends,'
'To the dead'
-A Perfect Circle

And of course:

'I took my fish head out to see a movie,'
'I didn't have to pay to get him in!'
-Dr. Demento

"Where is that girl? That pretty young thing?
After i fuck her, she'll get up and sing."

Ween from The Mollusk

I pledge my grievance to the flag.
Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
-Pearl Jam

"No one is placed higher than another,
No matter race or creed or gender"
Killswitch Engage - Vide Infra

You're never ever coming back
and I am hooked on smack
-Donkey Punch, F'd Up for You

I'm sorry I never told you about my STDs
I've got herpes
-Donkey Punch, Oops,My Bad

And being caught in between, all you wish for and all you've seen
And trying to find anything, you can feel that you can believe in.
- Joseph Arthur "In The Sun"

I donated myself to the mexican army
I gave all my love to a mexican whore
I gave her my dreams and I gave her my money
I buried my family under her floor.
- Joseph Arthur "I donated myself to the mexican army"

"My frustratione needs release, cut me open hear me bleed
playing punk keeps me sane, dont need drugs to numb the pain"

"My heart is broke, but I have some glue,
help me inhale and mend with you"

"Crack my head open on your kitchen floor,
proved to you that I had brains"

"With your body spread on the bedspread, red on the wall
red on the ceilin, red on the floor, get a new whore
met on the second, wet on the third;
then she's dead on the fourth"

baby your silhouette,
makes me wanna light a cigarette.
-kanye west

"And her soft brown hair
is as long as a Canadian Highway"

- Sam Roberts "Hard Road"

"live for your smile
and die for your kiss"

-Skid Row

What else is in the teaches of Peaches?
Fuck the Pain away.

Corduroy, satin nailed jewelry lips
While the guillotine just laughed again

-At the Drive in, "Invalid Letter Dept."

Space and heel
will drag you halo through the mud

-The Mars Volta, "Cicatriz ESP"
I like the juxtaposition/chiaroscuro in the second line of the second lyric.

Pussy broke the president -- yeah it did
And pussy made a pimp rich -- yeah it did!
-Snoop Dogg, "True Lies"

Im a big boy standing in my big boy pants
hurry up and hive me the microphone be for i bust in my pants!

sticky fingaz of ONYX

Said the hero in the story "It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure but I could only make you cry with these words"

'Get me away from here i'm dying' - Belle and Sebastian

Hmm.. Some of the best ones I can think of:

"I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"
- Tears For Fears: Mad World

"My my, hey hey
Rock'n'roll is here to stay"

- Neil Young: My my hey hey

"And if I go insane
Please don't put your wires in my brain"

- Pink Floyd: If

So get your tanks and load your guns and hold your sons in a family huddle
Because even if we win this tug of war and even the score...humanity struggles

- Sage Francis "Makeshift Patriot"

Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I got a lot of toys

- Bad Religion "21st Century (Digital Boy)"

Him - just fucking kill him, I don't care if it hurts.
Yes I do, I want it to,
- Shellac "Prayer To God"

its all u can eat and they will never get enough
they'll be feeding us they'll be feeding on us
- Desaparecidos "Greater Omaha"

Kudos on the At The Drive-In and Tears For Fears lyrics...

"You know that you are a perfect fit
in a world that is filled with the opposite."
- Yours Truly, Jon Frederick Band

"Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow, go out an' buy you a gun,
Did you turn off that violent ol' movie you're watchin', an' turn on 'I Love Lucy' reruns."

-----Alan Jackson - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning-----

It's weird, I don't like country music or 'I Love Lucy', but that song, and especially those two lines, gets me every time. I guess it's just the subject matter of the song.

Oh, I watch you there through the window
And I stare at you, you wear nothing, but you wear it so well

-Dave Matthews Band Crash Into Me

Grave digger, When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow so that i can feel the rain

-Dave Matthes Solo Grave Digger

Kudos to Grave digger, Simple Man, and many others.

You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down
-Tom Petty

i wanna fuck you like an animal
i wanna feel you from the inside
-Nine Inch Nails

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
-Otis Redding

AND WHEN YOU ASKED FOR LIGHT
I SET MYSELF ON FIRE
-Audioslave

To our best friend present past and beyond, Even though they weren't with us too long,
Your life is the most precious thing that we could lose.
-Pennywise

Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
-Jimmy Buffet

Close my eyes just to look at you
Taken by the seamless vision
-A Perfect Circle

"And now, my bitter hands
Cradle broken glass... of what was everything."
-Pearl Jam, "Black"

"I mastered numerology and big bang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology"
-Linkin Park, "High Voltage" (There are several other two liner's in there that are great too)

"Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white"
-Counting Crows, "Round Here"

Plenty of others to post... just have to think of them. :D

Play these heavens one more time
I'm not yours and I'm not mine

--John Frusciante

Got several, my favorite is:

I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I'm praying for the end of time - Meat Loaf

Other favs are:

And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd

And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide, hide, hide behind paranoid eyes - Pink Floyd

Through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time - Pink Floyd

There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup

"Dont Dream its Over" Crowded House

And I cant keep going without this one as well:

In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page

"Dont Dream its Over" Crowded House

You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.

"Chelsea Hotel #2" Leonard Cohen

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

"Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible

"The Future" Leonard Cohen

Now to change gears:

First I'll assasinate em
And them I'll cremate them
and take all of his fucking ashes and evaporate em
Or creep through the graveyard and hunt down your tombstone
Dig up your skeleton and stomp all your fucking bones

"Diary of a Mad Man" The Gravediggaz

I Can't Stand Rockin' When I'm In This Place
Because I Feel Disgrace Because You're All In My Face

"Sabotage" The Beastie Boys


I could go on forever, essentially with every line Leonard Cohen ever wrote, but I dont want to bore you guys....

"Everything has changed
Absolutely nothing's changed"

Pearl Jam "Corduroy"

"Word is born
Fight the War Fuck the Norm"

Rage Against the Machine "Know Your Enemy

I met all my wives in traffic jams
There's just something women like about a pickup man!

Sorry.. more kept coming to me as I was thinking.. There is a ton of memorable NIN lyrics..

Nine Inch Nails:

Picture this:
If I should make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?

All I know, is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need...

I woke up today, to find my self in the other place,
with a trail of my footprints, from where I ran away..

In the blur of serenity, where did everything get lost?
The flowers of naivete, buried in a layer of frost.

everything's blue
in this world
the deepest shade of mushroom blue
all fuzzy
spilling out of my head

APC:

Give me
One more medicated peaceful moment
(it's killin me)


Celldweller:

Eraseable, expendable
Untraceable, unmendable

I want to forget mistakes they've helped me make
It's better to be broke than never to break..

"Leave the singin to Sinatra
And always keep your big trap shut, capice?"

"Sinatra" by Smashmouth before they sold out

I might cry two tears in a bucket.
Fuck it. Let's take it to the stage.
George Clinton

To the British I'm Gandhi
To the Japanese Imma American flyin over Nagasaki

Canibus