Best single line lyric in a song?

[MagicFingers]

Heard today

Mama's got a squeeze box
and daddy never sleeps at night

 

[SquirtnBrat]

"I've been working like a regular dog to keep my woman, and the lights, and the water, and the phone turned on!"
Little Time Off For Bad Behavior - David Allen Poe

 

[pensivepoet]

~all i ever learned of love, is how to shoot somebody who out drew you. Cohen

 

[Que]

Lately I have enjoyed: "Leave it to me to be holdin’ the matches, when the fire trucks show up and there’s nobody else to blame."

 

[Byron In Exile]

seven virgins and a mule
keep it cool
keep it cool

~Emerson Lake and Palmer

I have to second this one.

St Pete knows about stuff.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSTe9uit48

 

[Byron In Exile]

Roll up! See the show!

 

[Byron In Exile]

Nine fucking oscillators.

 

[Byron In Exile]

~all i ever learned of love, is how to shoot somebody who out drew you. Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZmHp7FQgY

"Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you..."

 

[Balladeer08]

You put the cunt in country.

The Saddle Tramps

 

[lovetoread]

You thought it'd be easy, you thought it'd be clean
Snap me awake while I'm still dreaming my dream
Escape on your own terms, just start moving on
You're miles away, here I am thinking nothing is wrong

 

[siobhansmut]

kurt cobain aid in a song on nirvanas 'never mind' album "love myself ,better than you" greatest one liner<3

 

[CeasarBoobage]

I'm not crazy about the song, but the intro lyrics are priceless.

Crowded House - Love you til the day I die


There's closets in my head where dirty things are kept
That never see the light of day
I want to drag them out, go for a walk
Just to see the look that's on your face

 

[renard_ruse]

One of the most lyrically profound songs ever written...

Sex and violence

 

[Balladeer08]

My Uncle Used to Love Me, But She Died -- Roger Miller

Or possibly

My Girl, Bill -- Jim Stafford

 

[cleaver]

i want you so ba-aa-aa-aad it's driving me mad... it's dri-ving me.... (heavy guitar and bass)

 

[Mrclean_sober]

Neil Young

No the world, on a string
Doesn't mean a thing.
It's only real, in the way
that I feel, from day to day.


I know it's more than one line, deduct a point from my score...

 

[Sasha69]

Give Me

Give me, your dirty love, like you make that nasty poddle do! Frank Zappa & The Mothers.

 

[lovetoread]

Since my world was reset
For the better at our first kiss

 

[ozraven]

Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall, give me Stalin and St Paul I've seen the future brother: it is murder.

 

[AbsintheFather]

From John Prine's Late John Garfield Blues

An old man sleeps with his conscience at night
Young kids sleep with their dreams

 

[butters]

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises -

 

[lovetoread]

You hung up and left me for dead on the ground
You didn't even say goodbye

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I don't know just where I'm going .. but I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can

 

[Lorilei]

I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves.