Best Line in a Song

[mikefu]

"My lovely hooligan
Come by and smash my pane
'Til I can see right through
My little blue window" -Elvis Costello

"If you're gonna sing, then sing
Just don't talk about it
If you're gonna live, then live
Don't talk about it
If you're gonna kill yourself
Then for god's sake
Just kill yourself" - Morrissey

 

[jewman22]

"Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket"

Bad Touch- The Bloodhound Gang.

 

[Servant King]

I met a non-dairy creamer,
Explicitly laid out like a fruitcake.
With a wet spot bigger than a great lake.
Took me to the new church
And baptized me with salt.
She told me, "liquor"
I am a new man...
Hot freaks!
This one is on the house,
This one is better than ever.

Guided By Voices - Hot Freaks, from Bee Thousand (1994).

 

[jewman22]

"Wind in my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware"

Red Barchetta - Rush

 

[LikeDadDid]

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad

From Riders on the Storm
The Doors

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pickup truck
She got ran over by a damned old train.

-David Allen Coe

I have spent many a night in my youth singing this song along with a bar full of drunks, in perfect harmony I might add. Some of you know the type of seedy joints I'm talking about, The ones the serve beer in a red solo cup...for everyone's safety.

Been there, done that, and spilled beer on my t-shirt. John Prine co-wrote that one, but didn’t want credit for it. Steve Goodman sent him a jukebox as a gift after David Allen Coe made it a hit.

Here’s a verse from my favorite Prine tune:

Well, I leaned on my left leg
In the parking lot dirt
And Cathy was closing the lights
A June bug flew from the warmth he once knew
And I wished for once I weren't right
Why we used to laugh together
And we'd dance to any old song
Well, ya know, she still laughs with me
But she waits just a second too long

-“Far from Me,” John Prine

 

[cossackjack]

“Why does it hurt when I pee?
I got it from the toilet seat
I got it from the toilet seat
It jumped right up
'N' grabbed my meat
Got it from the toilet seat
My balls feel like a pair of maracas
My balls feel like a pair of maracas
Oh God I probably got the Gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!”

Frank Zappa “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?”, Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III (1979)

 

[Country Bladesmith]

And we’re bound for the border
We’re soldiers of fortune
We’ll fight for no country
But we’ll die for good pay
Under the flag of the greenback dollar
Or the peso down Mexico way

“Mercenary Song,” Steve Earle

 

[dino]

Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words,
Writing prose.
Anything goes.
-Cole Porter

 

[Brendan]

“I drink 3 six packs just so I can look at your face” ?
Anthrax - Finale

 

[philobeddoe]

”Cause the free wind is blowing’ through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air…in the air.”

America ~ Ventura Highway

 

[snagstangl]

(many minutes of people puking) Clean it up. Clean it up b*%$h.

 

[snagstangl]

First thing I remember was askin' papa, "Why?",
For there were many things I didn't know.
And Daddy always smiled; took me by the hand,
Sayin', "Someday you'll understand."

Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young,
'Cause, "Someday" Never Comes."

 

[Country Bladesmith]

“I got a woman I love
She’s crazy and paints like God
She’s got a playground sense of justice
She won’t take odds
I got a tattoo with her name
Right through my soul
I think everything she touches
Turns to gold”

“Stuff that Works,” Guy Clark

 

[rmpeeps]

“So I took two steps back and gave her a drop kick to the crotch. Now I believe in being gentle to women, but sometimes you’ve got to get their attention.”

Jerry Jeff Walker
Ramblin and Scramblin

 

[anotherbob]

From the song "What Jail is like" by the Afghan Whigs.

You think I'm scared of girls
Well maybe, but I'm not afraid of you
You wanna scare me then you'll cling to me no matter what I do

 

[anotherbob]

I met a non-dairy creamer,
Explicitly laid out like a fruitcake.
With a wet spot bigger than a great lake.
Took me to the new church
And baptized me with salt.
She told me, "liquor"
I am a new man...
Hot freaks!
This one is on the house,
This one is better than ever.

Guided By Voices - Hot Freaks, from Bee Thousand (1994).

good one.

 

[Servant King]

good one.

Another Bob (Pollard)

 

[anotherbob]

Another Bob (Pollard)

Further proof that most Bobs are alright.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Favorite line in a song?

The one waiting for me on top of my bass amp!