Best single line lyric in a song?

[SecretSucker]

Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter with the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky...
The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

It's probably been posted before but as I consider the dickhead in the White House, "Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are"

 

[Stillrandy]

"Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest"

Simon and Garfunkel, 'The Boxer'

 

[Rum]

"Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours" Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

 

[MetaBob]

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning, thunder was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago.

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

Yes.

Not enough bytes, so I'll repeat myself:

Yes!

He thanked Bonnie (and Nanci, for a different song that I'm guessing you know) at the show I saw last year.

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

Spooks on the 3rd Floor

" Young Man's Game"

"Still sitting on this exit ramp, got the wind dead in my face
a young girls car is pulling off--, now it becomes a race.
Between this baby looking good and this place I gotta play,
got it floored at a hundred and four--, cracking eggs along the way!"

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

“Crescent Moon” by The Cowboy Junkies....

The whole song is fantastic, but this particular lyric cluster makes me love it!

Raise your eyes to a moonless sky
And try to wish upon a rising star
Search all you want for her blessing
But you won't find her sparkling there
Now cast your eyes to a part of the sky
Where nothing but darkness unfolds
And watch as all around you
She reveals the brilliance of secrets untold

 

[Awaawapuhi]

Shut it down!

3) "I can't even believe it with you; it's like having every dream I ever wanted come true""

2) "You're just too good to be true...can't take my eyes off of you"

1) "More than the greatest love the world has known, this is the love I'll give to you alone"

 

[thebeesknees]

I once had a girl or should I say she once had me.

 

[SophieUK]

“ It's the thought of him undressing you, or you undressing ”

 

[Lorilei]

This used to be a ghost town
But even the ghosts got out.

 

[Bearded_Warr1or]

"The past was yours but the future's mine..." The Stone Roses (She Bangs The Drums)

 

[hobbit.]

"The past was yours but the future's mine..." The Stone Roses (She Bangs The Drums)

Decent choice.

And when you reach the bottom
When you hit my killing floor

"Standing On Your Head" Seahorses.

 

[hobbit.]

You're making excuses for the things you've never done

 

[hobbit.]

I am the resurrection and i am the light

 

[hobbit.]

High Voltage Rock and Roll

 

[hogjack]

Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits): "Industrial Disease"

Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong.

 

[hobbit.]

Throw down the sword and leave the glory.

 

[hobbit.]

to walk the road a load i have to carry.

 

[FataMorgana]

to walk the road a load i have to carry.

Prob need a skip, love.

 

[butters]

Rock ’N’ Roll Suicide

"Time takes a cigarette/ Puts it in your mouth/ You pull on your finger/ Then another finger/ Then your cigarette”

 

[butters]

beatles

"i read the news today
- oh boy"

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

"He stopped loving her today." -George Jones

Excellent choice. Perhaps one of the most poignant country and western songs ever written (however, not perfect because it doesn’t mention anything at all about mama.
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin’ drunk...)

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

“Suicide is Painless” (from M*A*S*H)

This whole song, by Johnny Mandel and Michael B. Altman, is timeless...

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say

Suicide is painless (suicide)
It brings on many changes (changes)
And I can take or leave it if I please

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger
Watch it grin

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied oh why ask me?

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

And you can do the same thing if you please

 

[TJX]

I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold.