Favorite single lyric of all-time. Yeah, that's right... only one!

[bobbob1313]

My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy

My machine she's a dud, I'm stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

[JUDE]

She

[M. (hristine]

Of all time? My tastes are too labile.

 

Today? I've been waking up to:

 

they took my ears in Omaha

thought me dead but I weren't at all

and I

left them bleeding in the mud

 

Ben Nichols

Toadvine

[Dick Ctionary]

la

[M. (hristine]

Thank you Dick. I know I can always count on you.

[GtrPlyr]

My favorite lyrics are constantly shifting depending on what I've been listening to. Since it's been a lot of Warren Zevon lately:

 

And if California slides into the ocean

Like the mystics and statistics say it will

I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill

 

 

or, for a true one-liner:

 

All my lies are always wishes

[Degenerex]

ok fine... I'll stick to 1 line, but I'm going to list 2...

 

when you ain't got nuttin' you got nuttin' to lose

 

and

 

at least in dying you don't have to deal with new wave for a second time

[Moss]

Wow, that's a hard one. For now I'm going with:

 

Hey, Ho...Let's Go!

[jakobnicholas]

(Vic Chesnutt)

 

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler

High up to the darkest sky

Some 4th of July spectacular

I shook it with an urgency I'll never be able to repeat

[plasticeyeball]

Some static started in the pool hall

In a motherfucker's face with the cue ball

 

or

 

Then I met this girl she tried to gank me

So I smacked her in the pocket with M.C. Plank Bee

 

or

 

Me and my crew out breaking windows

The bingo the lotto you know I'll never win those

 

or

 

Possession is half the law

I had my routines before all y'all

 

or

 

Your whole life is coming apart at the seams

You ain't nothing but a car thief biting routines

 

or

 

I'm a city slicker I ain't no townie

Right now I wish I had another hash brownie

 

or

 

Like Ricky always said you've got to toke and pass

Or Mookie's gonna kick your fuckin' ass

 

or

 

You try to take what isn't yours like a God damn rat

See personally I wouldn't want to go out like that

 

or

 

I'm a writer a poet a genius I know it

I don't buy cheeba I grow it

 

or

 

People always trying to get next to me

I had a beautiful experience on Ecstasy

 

or

 

Smoked up a bag of elephant tranquilizer

Because I had to deal with a money hungry miser

 

or

 

Had a caine filled Kool with my man Rush Rush

Saw my teeth fall in the sink when I started to brush

 

or

 

You be doing nose candy on the Bowie Coke Mirror

My girl asked for some but I pretended not to hear her

 

or

 

You can't deny me you always want to try me

You're just gonna get your ass kicked

 

or

 

Homeboy throw in the towel

Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell

 

or

 

The Godfather of Soul is in the belly of the beast

For smoking that dust at St. Anthony's Feast

 

or

 

Sometimes you've got to let someone trip on their own shoelace before you tell them to tie their shoe

 

or

 

All the wife beaters and all the tax cheaters

Sitting in the White House pulling their peters

 

or

 

Buy me cheeba from the cop down the street

The only cop with a rope chain walking the beat

 

or

 

Like a sneaky pouch time bomb tickin'

Like the beat to my rhyme just kickin'

 

or

 

Space cake cookies I discover who I am

I'm a dusted old bummy Hurdy Gurdy Man

 

or

 

Five-O caught me now I'm going to the mountains

Said good-bye to my girl my lawyers and accountants

 

or

 

My mind is kinda rhymin and I think I oughta think

So I'm rockin all the rhymes and I'll have another drink

 

or

 

So the lights are flashing my mind is spinning

I feel like it is always the beginning

Of another rhyme I'm rapping M.C.'ing I rock

You ain't nothing but a car thief who must be stopped

[dmait]

"Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial"

 

or

 

"Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine

Never could learn to look at your face and call it mine."

[Sir Stewart]

Some static started in the pool hall

In a motherfucker's face with the cue ball

 

or

 

Then I met this girl she tried to gank me

So I smacked her in the pocket with M.C. Plank Bee

 

or

 

Me and my crew out breaking windows

The bingo the lotto you know I'll never win those

 

or

 

Possession is half the law

I had my routines before all y'all

 

or

 

Your whole life is coming apart at the seams

You ain't nothing but a car thief biting routines

 

or

 

I'm a city slicker I ain't no townie

Right now I wish I had another hash brownie

 

or

 

Like Ricky always said you've got to toke and pass

Or Mookie's gonna kick your fuckin' ass

 

or

 

You try to take what isn't yours like a God damn rat

See personally I wouldn't want to go out like that

 

or

 

I'm a writer a poet a genius I know it

I don't buy cheeba I grow it

 

or

 

People always trying to get next to me

I had a beautiful experience on Ecstasy

 

or

 

Smoked up a bag of elephant tranquilizer

Because I had to deal with a money hungry miser

 

or

 

Had a caine filled Kool with my man Rush Rush

Saw my teeth fall in the sink when I started to brush

 

or

 

You be doing nose candy on the Bowie Coke Mirror

My girl asked for some but I pretended not to hear her

 

or

 

You can't deny me you always want to try me

You're just gonna get your ass kicked

 

or

 

Homeboy throw in the towel

Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell

 

or

 

The Godfather of Soul is in the belly of the beast

For smoking that dust at St. Anthony's Feast

 

or

 

Sometimes you've got to let someone trip on their own shoelace before you tell them to tie their shoe

 

or

 

All the wife beaters and all the tax cheaters

Sitting in the White House pulling their peters

 

or

 

Buy me cheeba from the cop down the street

The only cop with a rope chain walking the beat

 

or

 

Like a sneaky pouch time bomb tickin'

Like the beat to my rhyme just kickin'

 

or

 

Space cake cookies I discover who I am

I'm a dusted old bummy Hurdy Gurdy Man

 

or

 

Five-O caught me now I'm going to the mountains

Said good-bye to my girl my lawyers and accountants

 

or

 

My mind is kinda rhymin and I think I oughta think

So I'm rockin all the rhymes and I'll have another drink

 

or

 

So the lights are flashing my mind is spinning

I feel like it is always the beginning

Of another rhyme I'm rapping M.C.'ing I rock

You ain't nothing but a car thief who must be stopped

 

QFT

[ih8music]

Just impossible to be limited to only one... but the first one that came to mind was:

 

The ones who love us best

are the ones we'll lay to rest

and visit their graves on holidays at best

The ones who love us least

are the one we'll die to please

if it's any consolation

I don't begin to understand them

[ms. yvon]

been hearing xtc a lot the last few days, so...

 

"no matter what the weather,

you and the clouds will still be beautiful"

 

[stooka]

Helicopter, helicopter let your long rope down

Let us sway into the sunset,

I have done all I can do in this town.

[Mrs. Peel]

QFT

 

X2

[Mrs. Peel]

Honestly this is the first thing that popped into my head:

 

You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools,

But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever!

 

followed quickly by this:

 

Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair

Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs

[uncool2pillow]

No one could turn a phrase like Westerberg, I expect to see more of his up here. For now, I'll post one of my favorite Costello lines:

 

"Was it a millionaire who said, 'Imagine no possessions?'

A poor little schoolboy who said, 'We don't need no lessons?'"

[Sparky speaks]

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming

Sayin' something about a queen

There were peasants singin' and drummers drumming

And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun

That floated on the breeze

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies

 

I was lyin' in a burned out basement

With a full moon in my eyes

I was hopin' for a replacement

When the sun burst through the skies

There was a band playin' in my head

And I felt like getting high

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

 

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying

In the yellow haze of the sun

There were children crying and colors flying

All around the chosen ones

All in a dream, all in a dream

The loading had begun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

To a new home in the sun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

[theashtraysays]

No matter what happens now

You shouldn't be afraid

Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.

[HungryHippo]

I would've held your mother's hand

On the day you was born

 

Ryan Adams- How Do You Keep Love Alive?

 

damn, this line gets me every time!

[Shakespeare In The Alley]

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming

Sayin' something about a queen

There were peasants singin' and drummers drumming

And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun

That floated on the breeze

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies

 

I was lyin' in a burned out basement

With a full moon in my eyes

I was hopin' for a replacement

When the sun burst through the skies

There was a band playin' in my head

And I felt like getting high

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

 

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying

In the yellow haze of the sun

There were children crying and colors flying

All around the chosen ones

All in a dream, all in a dream

The loading had begun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

To a new home in the sun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

 

Win

[alison the wilca]

uno, dos, tres, catorce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or, maybe i've always loved:

fence slats rattling

fingers pushing through

slowly brushing past

a fast glimpse of you

 

at least i think thats what it says.

[Moss]

Not sure why but always like this one:

 

Wave upon wave of demented avengers

walk cheerfully out of obscurity into a dream

 

or

 

Balanced on the biggest wave, you race towards an early grave

 

I love Roger Waters' lyrics.

 

And of course theres always Westy:

How do you say I miss you to an answering machine?

[mjpuczko]

can't believe i forgot this one:

your daddy works in porno, now that mommy's not around

she used to love her heroin, but now she's underground