Best and Worst lines from a song

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What line from a song immediately comes to mind? For the best line, it doesn't have to be the most profound, but what touched you profoundly. For the worst line, what makes you want to smash your fist through the radio?

Best: "One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, the next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all."
- "Lovers in a dangerous time" by Bruce Cockburn (the Barenaked Ladies version)

Worst: "When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do is stop and think of you, then I'm not so blue."
- "Groovy kind of love" by Phil Collins
 

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What line from a song immediately comes to mind? For the best line, it doesn't have to be the most profound, but what touched you profoundly. For the worst line, what makes you want to smash your fist through the radio?

Best: "One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, the next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all."
- "Lovers in a dangerous time" by Bruce Cockburn (the Barenaked Ladies version)

Worst: "When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do is stop and think of you, then I'm not so blue."
- "Groovy kind of love" by Phil Collins
Don't blame Phil for the words, he only did it as a remake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_Kind_of_Love
And from the time period his version came out, I've always thought the "groovy" word of the sixties should be replaced, and the title changed to "yuppie kind of love." But no one asked me.:)


"best" might be Stephen Stills (actually I like his music and the sound of his voice mor than I think about the lyrics), but I took my subtitle line/whatever it is above my avatar from "Sit Yourself Down", the line is "I'm only just growing a little each day."

WORST: Any line from, I hate to even give the song title but you asked, "Afternoon Delight."
 

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I don't know about best, but here are two of my least favorite lines from songs:

Switchfoot-Dare You To Move-"I dare you to move/Like today never happened/Today never happened before." Um, it didn't, did it?

Shaggy-Angel-"Closer than my peeps you are to me." Is that really a compliment?

Anything the Black Eyed Peas write is pretty crappy.
 
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Best Line
Aquabats "Lovers of Loving Love"
I can't walk, I can't move, 'cause I'm paralyzed by your love, but that's okay with me.

Worst Line
Shania Twain "I Feel Like A Woman"
Pretty much the whole song. I hope she feels like a woman cause that is what she is.
 
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Best:
"Poor man want to be rich. Rich man want to be king. And the king ain't satisfied 'till he rules everything."
Badlands
Bruce Springsteen

Worst:
"Everybody wang chung tonight. Everybody have fun tonight."
Frasier Crane
Cheers
re: Wang Chung
 

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SUBLIME: "You can pin and mount me like a butterfly" -- The Smiths, "Reel Around the Fountain"

RIDICULOUS: "I am the Lizard King/I can do anything/I made the blue cars go away" -- The Doors, some song on the Waiting for the Sun album

[eta: Hi, Rob. Go on... free shot.]
 
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Worst line: "Your eyes touch me physically." EWWWW!

Gotta think about best line...
 

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Gag - God laid me down into your rose garden of trust Live, The Dolphin's Cry

ButILike - I dream of Vegas and the trancendental wild card Live, The Sanctity of Dreams
 

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Ooooh, one of my very favorites from Mr. Bob Dylan:

"I wish for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you..." (Positively 4th Street)

I'll have to think about the worst. Off the top of my head, it's the dumb song about My Humps but I don't know a specific lyric!:rolleyes:
 

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Best? Far too many to choose. But take your pick for 'Worst' from the WHOLE bloody song below (I'm partial to the yellow custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye, m'self):

I Am the Walrus, Beatles

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.
 

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Best line: I had somebody/Somebody who loved me/Someone so good to me/You were my angel/Your were my heaven but I was too blind to see/I let you slip away/I guess I never knew/I had the world with you/I'd be there still be there in your arms/If not for my careless heart you would still be loving me/If not for my careless heart you'd still be mine/I wouldn't have this hurt inside/I wouldn't have these tears to cry if not for my careless heart.

Worst line: ANY SONG BY MIKA - he is bloody awfull!
 

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I love this line from "Chasing Cars" (Snow Patrol): "Those three words - are said too much - and not enough." I don't know, I just think it's deep.

Worst line: Any song that relies on "yeah, ooh, baby" in place of real lyrics.
 

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Best: "All of us get lost in the darkness; dreamers learn to steer by the stars..." Rush, "The Pass."

The worst? "Girl I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Bad. Very appropriate name for the band, if you ask me - yuck. "We can do it till we both wake up/making love until we drown"? :eek:
 

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Best: "All of us get lost in the darkness; dreamers learn to steer by the stars..." Rush, "The Pass."

The worst? "Girl I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Bad. Very appropriate name for the band, if you ask me - yuck. "We can do it till we both wake up/making love until we drown"? :eek:

Brav-freaking-o. Good choices!
 

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The worst? "Girl I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Bad. Very appropriate name for the band, if you ask me - yuck. "We can do it till we both wake up/making love until we drown"? :eek:

Don't forget: Bad in the band's name has 2-count 'em two-D's, which must mean something, right?
 

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Worst line: Any song that relies on "yeah, ooh, baby" in place of real lyrics.

There were a lot of those in the sixties, here's just two:

"She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Ooh I need your love babe, eight days a week."

The Beatles really sucked, didn't they?
[/totally joking sarcasm :D :D :D]
 

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best: "I shot the sheriff and the motherf**king deputy. Test me." Some
rapper on a mix-tape I heard about 20 years ago.
"The moment I found you, I was lost." Volebeats; Annabel
"You can travel along 10,000 miles and still stay where you are." Harry
Chapin; WOLD
"Wouldn't you like to be with me, watching the snow come down?" Lori
Carson, Snow Come Down

Worst:
"I feel like a woman" (I concur with that choice)
The entire "Snow" song "Informer", which is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs ev-ah!
 

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Best: "Get yourself afraid...get yourself alone...get yourself contained...get your self-control." Soundgarden

Worst: "All I wanna do is uhma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom, just shake your rump." Never bothered to find out artist's name. :)
 
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If I said you had a beautiful body Would you hold it against me

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Best: "Get yourself afraid...get yourself alone...get yourself contained...get your self-control." Soundgarden

Worst: "All I wanna do is uhma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom, just shake your rump." Never bothered to find out artist's name. :)

If I tell you, will you promise not to hate me? I typed it below in white for ya.

Wreckx-N-Effect, "Rump Shaker."
 
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Best: From Wilco in their song "Hummingbird" - So he slept on a mountain In a sleeping bag underneath the stars He would lie awake and count them And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way Would never let him Die alone

Worst: BonJovi - shot through the heart and you're too blame darlin you give love a bad name.