Best single line lyric in a song?

[TARDISCapricorn]

“On my feet to chase it down
The lights were spokes and rungs away
I stumbled back and hit the floor
Long shadows crawl beneath the door
To a passage so poorly lit
There's moths flying away from it”

Neko Case, “Prison Girls”

 

[jaF0]

Old country song by some old country singer ....


'If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?'

 

[StillStunned]

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

- The Pogues, Rainy Night In Soho

 

[Ambient4190]

"Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand"

 

[Wordlover59]

He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays
I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies
He ain't too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen

“In Spite of Ourselves”
John Prine and Iris Dement

 

[hulmule]

I'm up and gone every day at dawn working like a regular dog to keep the woman and lights and the phone turned on...

 

[hulmule]

"Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand"

ahh the 70's , saw him in concert

 

[stretchedballs]

"... somewhere in the distance, there's a tower and a light, broadcastin' the resistance, through the rain and through the night..."
From "Midnight Radio" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters,

 

[gregor2001us]

I woke up in between
A memory and a dream

Tom Petty, You don't know how it feels

 

[Ambient4190]

"You're not shy, you get around"

 

[lovecraft68]

There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight

Broken by Seether

 

[ned63]

Led Zeppelin song, a line in the song, squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg. think it was called Lemon song, nasty song back then.

 

[thetiesthatbindme]

'Raindrops taste like tears,without the pain'
--Just Another Rainy Night-Queensryche

 

[RideFl71]

I'd like to fly, But my wings have been so denied.
"Down in a hole" Alice in Chains

 

[jaF0]

Good morning Midnight.
You're not a welcome sight at all.


Robin Trower.

 

[Ambient4190]

"Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan after you meet her family"

 

[jaF0]

And someone's sneaking 'round the corner
Could that someone be ...

 

[RideFl71]

Sucking on a chilli dog outside the tasty freeze.

 

[jaF0]

The Floyd has pretty much made fools of themselves in recent years and destroyed much of their own reputation, but one of their lines really stands out to a group of people who lived the era.



Did you trade a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

 

[Lorilei]

Are you living the life you chose?
Are you living the life that chose you?
Are you taking a grown-up dose?
Do you live with a man who knows you like I
Thought I did back then
Oh, but I guess I never did
Did I, kid?
- Jason Isbell

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

“If I cried out loud
Over sorrows I've known
And the secrets I've heard
It would ease my mind
Someone sharing the load
But I won't breathe a word”

“Silence and I,” The Alan Parsons Project

 

[Anguished_Amy]

I shot my mouth off
And he showed me what that hole was for….
Tattooed Love Boys
The Pretenders

 

[Jodaily]

With her knees up on the dashboard, she took out her barettes and her hair spilled out like root beer, and she popped her gum and arched her back.
Tom Waits, Burma Shave

For me the image of hair spilling out like root beer is so evocative! Loved watching root beer foaming up when I was a kid.

 

[Jodaily]

If heartaches were nickels, I'd be the richest fool alive.
Joe Bonamasa

 

[Ambient4190]

"But I don't care about foolish pride when its concerning you"

or? (I can't make up my mind!)

"You can order me to stay around you all that I can"



Mother's Finest 'Baby Love'