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.