OT: What is your favorite, one line, song lyric of all time.

[atomicmorganic]

"your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin' overtime."
From the same song,
"If you must keep talkin' please try to make it rhyme."

 

[Mongrel]

"She's well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane..."

 

[Nacci]

Can`t believe no one has sighted this one yet.

"I`m looking California and feeling Minnesota'' from 'Outshined'

Soundgarden

Great pick.

 

[SlingJack]

life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

 

[JDA]

"This is a torch song for piano and fire extinguisher"

Tom Waits

 

[Hanno]

"Don`t give up you still have us, don`t give up now we`re proud of who you are, don`t give up you know it´s never been easy, don`t give up `cause I believe there`s a place, there`s a place where we belong."

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, So

 

[dje31]

Not a best-ever line, or a best-ever song, or best-ever band, but a memorable, vivid line:

"For you I'd bleed myself dry."

Coldplay, "Yellow"

 

[JazzDrumGuy]

Meet the new boss same as the old boss......

Sitting on a park bench.......

Lock up your daughter lock up your wife, lock up the back door run for your life!

You can be the captain, I will draw the chart, sailing into destiny, closer to the heart.

When you aint got nothing you got nothing to lose

The Cuervo gold, the fine Columbian, makes tonight a wonderful thing....

Have you ever been experienced? Well i have....not necessarily stoned but beautiful...

One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain...

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war.

Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Gimme five, I'm still alive, ain't no luck, I learned to duck.
-

 

[xipa4]

Isn't she lovely

Life and love are the same

Life is Aisha

The meaning of her name

Londie, it could have not been done

Without you who conceived the one

That's so very lovely made from love

Stevie Wonder,"Isn't She Lovely".

 

[orvilleb]

"Well I love that dirty water Oh, Boston, you're my home"... Dirty Water - The Standells. It's not the lyrics of most songs that hook me. It's the unique musical riff and groove that get embedded in my memory.

 

[On the one]

The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light

Tornado of souls - Megadeth

 

[piccupstix]

"Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster."

 

[EvEnStEvEn]

From the last verse of my previous posting:





"Well I started the engine and gave it some gas
Cathy was closing her purse
we hadn't gone far in my beat up old car
and I was prepared for the worst
will you still see me tomorrow?
"no, I've got too much to do"
well a question ain't really a question
if you know the answer too"

~John Prine

 

[thumpy]

"Windfall" by Son Volt

Not exactly one line, but my absolute favorite assemblage of words in a song:

Switching it over to AM
Searching for a truer sound
Can't recall the call letters
Steel guitar and settle down

Catching an all-night station somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963, but for now it sounds like heaven

 

[Mongrel]

"Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air...."

 

[cwdrums]

"My dad just left for work he wasn't talking. It's all a game and inside I'm just the same. My fried egg makes me sick first thing in the morning."
Townshend and The Who, Quadrophenia.

From my youth, Coy in Idaho

 

[JDZ]

Tom Waits (again

"My friends say I'm ugly. I have a masculine face."

Sorry - I used 2 lines.

 

[biggator]

In this thread - lots of people who don't understand what 'one line' is.

 

[Resohead]

One line can also be construed to convey one thought.

 

[ludslingerwig]

...Tequila...