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