Best single line lyric in a song?

There are many ways you can hurt a man and bring him to the ground, you can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad,and leave him when he's down yeah, but I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you ....
 
Sarcastically lip-synching along, to words they thought were spoken spontaneously.
 
But you've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icycles instead of tears.
 
Uriah Heep

#1 Circle of Hands - "Today is only yesterday's tomorrow"

#2 Stealin' - "I done the rancher's daughter, and I sure did hurt his pride…ha ha"
 
"Life will pound away where the light don't shine, son. Take it like a man."


"Devil kept poking the bull so I shipped her ass to Mozambique, 'cuz I was over it."


"Calm these hands before they snare another pill or drive another nail down another needy hole. Please, release me. Catch me, heal me, lift me up into the sun, I choose to live."


"Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head. Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying."


All courtesy of Maynard James Keenan!
 
Just thought of another...

"Be a simple kind of man. Be something you'll love and understand." - Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
Livin the dream
oh you on top
my mind is racing
lord it wont stop
thats how it happens
livin life by the drop
 
They're setting fire to the cornfields
As you're taking me home.
The smell of burning fields
Will now mean you and here.
 
She lives in L.A. she flies to New York City
That woman’s been around the world
You can take the girl out of the honky tonk
But you can’t take the honky tonk, take the honky tonk out of the girl.
 
Take a ride,
Into the night

Brooklyn Bounce


A song that wraps itself around your very soul and tickles it. Full song here.
 
I've had enough of hearing things from neurotic, psychotic, pig headed politicians, all I want is the truth, just give me some truth, man
 
"But what is sweet now, turns so sour/ We all know Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/ But can you show me, where you are?"
 
With the money from her accident she bought herself a mobile home
so at least she could get some pleasure out of being alone.
 
The busy girl buys beauty
The pretty girl buys style
And the simple girl buys
What she's told to buy
And sees her world
Through the brightly lit eyes
Of the glossy romance of fashion
Where she can learn...
Top tips for the gas cook
Successful secrets of a sexual kind
The daily drill for beautiful hair
And the truth about pain
 
'Cos for twenty-four years
I've been living next door to Alice

Alice, Alice, who the fuck is Alice
 
'Somebody fine will come along make me forget about loving you'
 
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