Best single line lyric in a song?

[Wings]

Mine haven't all been single lines, either. Rulebreakers, we are.

That makes us true Gbers!

 

[Lorilei]

That makes us true Gbers!

Oh, shit!

 

[cjh]

she blew my nose and then she blew my mind
- rolling stones, honky-tonk woman

the opening line is not bad either: i met a gin-soaked, barroom queen in memphis.

 

[Lord_Michael]

"All lies and jests,
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest."

--Simon & Garfunkel, "The Boxer"

 

[Scrawney]

Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Jerry Lee Lewis

 

[Sean]

she blew my nose and then she blew my mind
- rolling stones, honky-tonk woman

the opening line is not bad either: i met a gin-soaked, barroom queen in memphis.

Ha! I'm just reading King's Kennedy opus and that song is a major plot point.

 

[good4u2]

And all the girls walk by
Dressed up for each other
And the boys do the boogie-woogie
On the corner of the street

Wild Night...Van Morrison

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Nobody loves me but my mother
And she could be jivin' too."

--B.B. King

 

[Lorilei]

Then one day you find, ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

 

[MasterDave123]

As I was saying to Kippies, for me it's either "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" by Johnny Cash or "two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude" by The Jam.

What you got?

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

Jim Morrison, The Doors

 

[pointless]

Denn für dieses Leben
ist der Mensch nicht gut genug
darum haut ihn eben
ruhig auf den Hut.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WENkquBHchM

 

[neiljames74]

"Good and evil lay side by side, while electric love penetrates the sky"

 

[Liar]

Best opening line:

AII WANT MAH MONEYBAACK!

-Saul Williams, List Of Demands

 

[Scrawney]

Breaking my back just to know your name
Killers

 

[Boxlicker101]

"So blame it on your lyin' cheatin' two-timin' cold dead-beatin' mean mistreatin' lovin' heart.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/blame-it-on-your-heart-lyrics-patty-loveless.html

 

[Lorilei]

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

 

[rosco rathbone]

now eat this grenade!!!!
firey jack MES

 

[Zynder]

Most were being good for goodness sake
but you wouldn't pantomime
You are more beautiful when you awake
Than most are in a lifetime

 

[Lorilei]

How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows that too many people have died?

 

[QueenLevitra]

"your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin' overtime"

 

[vetwife]

Aint goindown, no more to the well
Sometimes it feels like, Im going to hell
Sometimes Im knocking, on your front door
But I dont have nothing, to sell no more~

My man Van Morrison

 

[Super-Surprise]

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints..."

 

[zipman]

I'm not lost, but I don't know where I am.

Talking Heads

 

[Saint Peter]

I said I know, everybody funny,
now you funny too

 

[pointless]

I said I know, everybody funny,
now you funny too

that was actually bouncing around my head last week for some damned reason. i really have no clue why. i haven't listened to thorogood in ages.

eta: or whoever wrote that particular line. credit where it's due and what not. i just know that's not in the original i heard, but i have no clue where it's from.