first there is a mountain
then there is no mountain
then there is

- Donovan

I got a letter from the government the other day
Opened it and read it, it said they were suckers.
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Public Enemy

This line was featured in two films I've seen in the past week.
First: over the closing credits of "Stander" as part of the Tricky cover
Second: as diegetic music in "Friday Night Lights" from the original P.E. song.

"And in the end
The love you take is equal to the love you make"

Beatles

[didnt read the entire thread, so dont know if its been repeated...]

'laughter aint the best medicene; its just a primitive form of novacaine."

"I tried to have phone sex, but the holes were too small"


Sage Francis

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia
He was looking for a soul to steal.."
CDB - Devil....Georgia

"I make my money man, without the coca
I'm living la vida without de loca.."
Ma$e - Welcome Back

And of course,,

"They paved Paradise
and put up a parking lot.."

- Counting Crows, "Big Yellow Taxi"

Tralls- That was exactly the line that came to my mind when I read the title of the thread.

This makes me laugh:

two men say they're Jesus,
one of them must be wrong.

This makes me cry:

I hope some day you'll have a beautiful life,
I'll know you'll be a star,
but in someone elses sky,
but why, why can't it be mine?

(its more than two lines, so sue me. I had an ex that I was very much in love with send me that after we broke up. It still makes me tear up whenever i hear it).

"I was in Heaven, I was in Hell,
Believe in neither, but fear them as well."

- Modest Mouse "Doin' the Cockroach"

Um, don't you mean Joni Mitchell? I hope you don't think Adam and the boys wrote that song....

I already saw a post from the song "why" by jadakiss so i thought i'd include my favorite lines from the remix featuring common, nas, and styles p.

"why did Ricky Williams retire they mad in Miami,
Why did Justin sell Janet out and go to the Grammy's?"

by common

And i figured i'd include my favorite line from Nas, when he was featured on the track Verbal intercourse:

"Through the lights, cameras, and action, glamour glitters and gold,
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe"

Verbal intercourse is probably my favorite rap collabo track.

"Oh Mickey, what a pity. You don't understand.
"You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand."
Toni Basil -- "Oh Mickey"

"I've got a Gibson without a case.
"But I can't get that even-tanned look on my face."
The Who -- "I'm the One," on Quadrophenia

"This world offers riches, and riches will grow wings.
"I don't take stock in those uncertain things."

OR, also from "Minutes to Memories" by John Mellencamp:

"This is my life -- it's what I've chosen to do.
"There are no free rides. No one said it'd be easy."

"Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."

- I Am The Walrus (Lennon/McCartney)

Usher:
"u never miss a good thing till it leavees ya"

Not sure Counting Crows, as good as they are, should be credited with that one

Maybe not the best, but damn recognizable.

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog!
Was a good friend of mine!"
-Three Dog Night -> Joy to the World.

or

"She took my love, and ran around...
with every single, guy in town..."
-Dion and the Belmonts -> Run Around Sue

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
-Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana

Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind.
Hey, I won't change direction and I won't change my mind
-Indifference, Pearl Jam

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
-Nothing Else Matters, Metallica

I met her in a hotel lobby
Masturbating with a magazine
-Darling Nikki, Prince

Goldie Lookin' Chain have some incredible lines..

For example...
'I thought I had to tell you.. I had to put in a letter.. But I thought fuck that I'll write a song it's much better...'
Or...
'I hate to tell you with all due respect.. Take your mother to the doctors - cuz her front bum's wrecked.. You know why? Your mother's got a penis...'

See what I mean? ;)

Tickles me every time.. heh

"I don't need you no more in this world, honey.
I'll meet you in the next one, don't be late, don't be late"
Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child

I go on record first to say I have strange tastes: My all time favorite:

waiting for the time when I can finally say......
this has all been wonderful but now I'm on my way - Phish

Girl, don't go away mad
Girl, just go away - Motley Crue (says it all, eh? cracks me up EVERY time!)


I need a reason for the way things have to be
I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me - Train

Ok that's it from me -I can do this all day :)

"Together we stand,
Divided we fall."

The Floyd - Hey You

I long to hear her final words,
"I brought this on myself" - Type O Negative

Enemies are equal to
Wrath times the speed of fright squared - Type O Negative

I never wanted anybody more than I wanted you.
The only thing I ever really loved was hurting you. - Slipknot

Then I feel the pressure on me. The kind that overwhelms you and makes your ears bleed.
So I pop the pills that kill the chills and serenade you with my screams. - I.R.A.T.E. (infinite Rebellion Against The Establishment)

And finally the one that lulles me to sleep at night:

I want to slit your throat
and fuck the wound. - Slipknot

Hearing only what you want to hear,
And knowing only what you've heard.

'Tallyca

The gods made heavy metal, and they saw that it was good.
They said to play it louder than hell; we promised that we would.

When losers say it's over with you know that it's a lie
The gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die.

Manowar

so it's four lines, it still rocks

A decade ago, I never thought I would be, a twenty-three on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe is me.

But I guess that it comes, with the territory, an ominus landscape of never ending calamity.

Incubus - Pardon Me

Wu Tang - Older Gods

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

"She's cool in bed,
She oughtta be, cuz Ethel's dead"

-Alice Cooper, "Cold Ethyl"

Who else could make necrophilia so damned FUNNY?

see her picture in a thousand places 'cause she's this year's girl

you think you all own little pieces of this year's girl



-elvis costello

"Oh my god!
Thats the funky shit"

The Prodigy - Funky Shit

Vocals have never been used so well to bring a tune into swing.

"...and the answers always waiting at the liqour store 40oz to freedom
So I take that walk"

Sublime-40oz to freedom

"And when somebody knows you well, well there's no comfort like that
And when somebody needs you, well there's no drug like that..."

Heather Nova - London Rain

"You're the cutest of the Scoobies, with your lips as red as rubies
And your firm yet supple.....tight embrace!"

from "Once More With Feeling"

"Their children hate them for the things they're not;
They hate themselves for what they are-
And yet they drink, they laugh,
Close the wound, hide the scar."

Thats The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon

Asta!!

"just an urchin livin under the streat
im a hard case thats tough to beat"

"strapped in the chair of the city gas chamber
why i'm here i cant quite remember"

both from g'nr welcome to the jungle


"please allow me to introduce my self,
i'm a man of wealth and taste..."

"pleased to meet you,
hope you guess my name"

'stones sympathy for the devil


"judgement day the second coming arrives,
before you see the light you must die"

slayer - south of heaven

"my life came with its own scars
i dont need you to tell me about your sorrow"

slayer - seven faces

This one will always be a classic:
"She goes above and beyond her call of duty.
She is a slut but X thinks it's sexy.
Sex reminds her of eating spaghetti.
I am wasted but I'm ready."

Ben Kweller "wasted but ready"

Pussy got bank in her pockets
Before she got dick in her drawers

- Pussy Control, Prince

I don't have no problem with you fucking me,
But I have a little problem with you not fucking me

Got your money, ODB

And the radio man says it is a beautiful night out there in Los Angeles
You live in Los Angeles and you are going to Recida
We are all in some way or another going to Recida some day, to die
and the radio man laughs because the radio man fucks a model too

Screenwriter's Blues, Soul Coughing

Okay, that last one was four lines, but I just love every damn line of that song. Any other members of the 5% Nation out there?

"I made enough money to buy Miami
But I pissed it away so fast...never meant to last...never meant to last..."

Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Forty

Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
-tool
"aenema"

Love this thread... Lots of great stuff in here....

"I got 15 people telling me to move,
I got moving on my mind."
- White Stripes "Hotel Yorba"

"Do you believe what you're saying?
Yeah, right now, but not that often."
- Modest Mouse "Satin in a Coffin"

"I'm trying to drink away the part of the day
That I cannot sleep away"
- Modest Mouse "Polar Opposites"

You seem cool for a naked chick in a booth. Let's be pals some day.
In other words, put some clothes on and call me."
- Presidents of the USA "Stranger"