Best line from a song

[seatazzz]

I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free
Got the magic power of the music in me

Triumph, Magic Power

aka the absolute best song to belt out at the top of my lungs when I'm driving

 

[jcav]

All the world's indeed a stage
We are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage


Rush - Limelight

 

[Immocles]

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street

 

[Broken Crow]

Define the state of things
So far
Crazy things
Soft-spoken
With your eyes open
You know soft-spoken changes nothing
A view so cruel

Skinny Puppy - Worlock

 

[balrog]

Did you ever get the feeling
That the story's just too real
And in the present tense?
And everyone
Is on the stage
And you're the only person
Left sitting
In the audience?

Skating Away
Jethro Tull

 

[MaxStout]

My favorite "fark you" line from a song...

Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself
'Cause I'm already gone

Already Gone, The Eagles

 

[Broken Crow]

I once hid my lust for stardom like a filthy magazine
I stroked the shaft of my guitar and watched you on the screen
I've become now what I wanted
To be all along
A psychopathic poet, the devil's bastard son

Wall of Voodoo - Far Side of Crazy

 

[grampamark]

“He was a hard-headed man; he brutally handsome. She was terminally pretty”.
—Life in the Fast Lane, Eagles

“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.”
—Kodachrome, Paul Simon

 

[grampamark]

“Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk
At our Christmas party
We were drinking champagne punch
And homemade eggnog…”
—Merry Christmas From The Family, Robert Earle Keen

Actually, the entire song is one, long, string of great lyrics.

 

[BongoYodeler]

"And those who came at first to scoff
remained behind to pray."
Ammonia Avenue - The Alan Parsons Project

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

The sad truth is
You would rather follow the school into the net
'Cause swimming alone at sea
Is not the kind of freedom you actually want

NoFX - Regaining Unconsciousness

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

And history seems to agree
that I would fight you for me
That us would fight them for we

Is that how it always will be?

Moxy Früvous - The Gulf War Song

 

[beermanpete]

Send lawyers, guns, and money
The **** has hit the fan

Warren Zevon

 

[bike2brew]

There is a road, no simple highway / Between the dawn and the dark of night / And if you go, no one may follow / That path is for your steps alone” – ‘Ripple’ by the Grateful Dead

You can't close the doors when the walls cave in

 

[VApatriot]

Now, some kind of man he can't do anything wrong, if I see him I'll tell him you're waiting

Mercenary Territory - Little Feat / Lowell George

 

[Broken Crow]

Skinny was born in a bathtub
And he grew so incredibly thin
Even the end of an eyedropper
sucked him in

Hello Skinny - the Residents

 

[DonT]

Well they call me Big Mama cause I weight 300 pounds
Big Mama Thorton

 

[balrog]

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love

The Cure.

<you're welcome for the ear worm>

 

[grampamark]

And if you give me weed, whites, and wine
And show me a sign
I’ll be willin’
To be movin’
—Willin’, Little Feat/Lowell George

 

[beermanpete]

I was stealing when I should have been buying.

"Stealin'", Uriah Heep

 

[BeerAndTele]

From lips without passion to the lips with a kiss
There's nothing of your love that I'll ever miss
The stain on my notebook remains all that's left
Of the memory of late nights and coffee in bed

Squeeze, Black Coffee in Bed

 

[agentbud]

"Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?"

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

"Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?"

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

I always thought that line was "a walk-on part in The Wall", referencing the movie based on the album. Just looked it up and learned that the album The Wall wasn't even released until 4 years after this song...

 

[Kee]

Well, here I sit, all along with a broken heart
I took three bennies, and my semi-truck won't start.

 

[grampamark]

“They took all the trees
And put ‘em in a tree museum
And charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em…”
—Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell

 

[ba-brewer]

Well, long tall Sally, she's built for speed
She got everything that Uncle John need
.
.
.
Well, I saw Uncle John with bald-head Sally
He saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley

Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

 

[BongoYodeler]

It ain't home till you take the wheels off,
it ain't home till its up on blocks.
There ain't nothin' like your very own spot,
Your own redneck camelot.
It ain't home till you take the wheels off...

It Ain't Home Till You Take the Wheels Off -Antsy McClain And The Trailer Park Troubadours

 

[Broken Crow]

I dunno why it took me so long to recall this one... When Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, a lot of his pop-mentality 'fans' asked 'why?', to which I'd qoute his words... The blank uncomprehending stare I got in response never failed to make me laugh;

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun
But he don't know what it means

In Bloom - Nirvana

...and that calls to mind one of my personal favourites from years earlier;

Why kill time when you can kill yourself

Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself) - Cabaret Voltaire

 

[balrog]

"I fought the <blackberries> and the <blackberries> won"

PSA Kiddies: trim the dying stalks that flowered prior year, well in advance of next year's explosion of skin shredding thorn hell.
You've been warned.

 

[beermanpete]

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same

"Little Boxes", Malvina Reynolds

 

[Chorgey]

Out all night, sleep all day
I know what you're doin'
If you're gonna a-act that way
I think there's trouble brewin'

Funk #49 - The James Gang

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Released 43 years ago, but more timely than ever...

Quick to judge, quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear, walk hand in hand​

Witchhunt, from Moving Pictures, by Rush

 

[BongoYodeler]

"Just love those laser guided bombs
They're really great for righting wrongs
You hit the target and win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away"

The Bravery of Being Out of Range - Roger Waters

 

[agentbud]

Ain't no doubt about it, we were doubly blessed. Cause we were barely 17 and we were barely dressed.

Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Lights

 

[ba-brewer]

Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married

John Prine - Dear Abby

 

[BongoYodeler]

"She was a part of my heart, now she's just a line in my face"

The Trip to Pirate's Cove - Tom Petty

 

[Broken Crow]

Pain is nothing that a downpour won't erase

Flowers Become Screens - Delerium