Most awesome song lines

giusti · Mar 14, 2008

I went back through about five pages, and didn't see this thread, so I think i'm safe (correct me if I'm wrong). But I just had to start it, because I was looking through the lyrics of The Past is a Grotesque Animal, by Of Montreal, and saw this:

I've been dodging lamps and vegetables.

The Past is a Grotesque Animal, Of Montreal

blues38pavol · Mar 17, 2008

"When a friend goes bad, that's the last illusion, friendship is the only beast that's never known to bite until it's dead." - J.F. Murphy & Salt (The Last Illusion)

Jersey Chick · Mar 17, 2008

One of my favorite lines is from Bruce Springsteen's Darlington County from the Born in the USA album -

Drivin' out of Darlington County, seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford

{DeadlyNightShade} · Mar 17, 2008

"Forever hold the dream inside,
The chance to fight another fight,
The breaking hearts that stand for all our lives,
Live tonight."

Operation Ground and Pound = Dragonforce

I absolutely love these guys! This song never fails to get me pumped =D

Voyager · Mar 17, 2008

So I walk upon high,
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh to myself
As the tears roll down,
Cuz it's the world I know. - Collective Soul

Perks · Mar 17, 2008

I always loved this one from Live's 'Iris'

the beauty of this vision alone
just like yesterday's sunset
has been perverted by the sentimental
and mistaken for love

quickWit · Mar 17, 2008

Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

HeronW · Mar 17, 2008

'Rock me like a wave' Janice Ian I think

JamieFord · Mar 17, 2008

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

otterman · Mar 17, 2008

Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage? - Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

What a powerful line. Carpe Diem!

DUH! I just realized (two days later) that JamieFord had posted the same line ahead of me! Oh well, it's still a good line.

TerzaRima · Mar 17, 2008

I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

William Cook · Mar 18, 2008

'If you don't get what you want - you'd better hope you want what you get' Hiding - Albert Lee

Vandal · Mar 18, 2008

[FONT=Courier, Courier New] A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh,
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart.

You're a Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan
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KTC · Mar 18, 2008

"beauty's religion and it christens me with wonder"

"They come in bent-backed creeping 'cross the floor all dressed in black candles, thick as pillars
you can buy one off the floor"

"And you couldn't find a smile if you nailed it to his face but Jesus Christ hangs his head with grace"

The above lines are all from Venice is Sinking by Spirit of the West. I can actually quote the entire song...the lyrics are just so beautiful they hurt.

Don Allen · Mar 18, 2008

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" Beautiful boy.. Some scruff kid from Liverpool named John Lennon.... Was there ever a better line?????

KTC · Mar 18, 2008

Don Allen said:
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" Beautiful boy.. Some scruff kid from Liverpool named John Lennon.... Was there ever a better line?????

I absolutely love Beautiful Boy...I used to sing it off key to my boy when he was a baby. He still cries every time he hears me sing...but you gotta love that song. Good choice.

KTC · Mar 18, 2008

"I kissed you in the water and made your dry lips sing." The Walk by The Cure

Velma deSelby Bowen · Mar 18, 2008

HeronW said:
'Rock me like a wave' Janice Ian I think

It's actually "Ride me like a wave," and was a song she almost didn't put on that album, because her partner thought it was too explicit. (Sorry -- Janis Ian fan and geek here.)

This week, my favorite awesome line is "I've been listening to you talking in your sleep -- it's a strange poetry" from the version of "Come Down Now" that's in the show Passing Strange.

willietheshakes · Mar 18, 2008

For pure lyrical perfection:

Little old lady got mutilated late last night
(Werewolves of London again) -- Warren Zevon

It just rolls off the tongue.

And for personal significance:

Early one morning the sun was shining
I was laying in bed
Wondering if you had changed at all
If your hair was still red... - Tangled Up In Blue, Bob Dylan

StephanieFox · Mar 18, 2008

Anything by Cole Porter.

For protest: The songs Brother can you Spare a Dime and Remember My Forgotten Man.

Check this out. 75 years old and still relevant:

http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/11/sunday-late-late-nite-remember-my-forgotten-man/

mikeland · Mar 18, 2008

"To have ambitions was my ambition."

I Love A Man In Uniform -- Gang of Four

Shady Lane · Mar 18, 2008

My body aches, it heaves, it shakes
All somersaults through so-called art
And I still don't know exactly who I am.
I never will.
Amen.

--Motion City Soundtrack, Last Night

Sarita · Mar 18, 2008

And every time she sneezes I believe it's love
And oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing

She's talking in her sleep, it's keeping me awake
And Anna begins to toss and turn.

And every word is nonsense but I understand and
Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.

Anna Begins, Counting Crows.

Vandal · Mar 18, 2008

Poor kid, he overdid
Embraced the spreading haze
And while he sighed his body died
In fifteen ways

Charlie Freak by Steely Dan

Mr Flibble · Mar 18, 2008

Do you ever get the feeling
that the stories to damn real
and in the present tense?

Or that that everyone is on the stage
and it seems like your the only person
sitting in the audience?

Actually just the whole damn song

Skating Away ( on the thin ice of a new day) Jethro Tull

Most awesome song lines

Up all night to get Loki

Ribbed for your pleasure.

delicate #!&@*#! flower

Totally Ninja!

Down Under Fan

giving resonant directions

Word Voyeur

Absinthe O'Malice

Happy to be here

In the Center of things

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Seeking a Sanctuary of Intelligence

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Stand in the Place Where You Live

I miss the mountains....

Gentleman. Scholar. Bastard.

Maybull the Bulldog

Call me Pookie

my name is hannah

carpe noctem

In the Center of things

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble