Great lines in songs

[Melody]

I've been playing the Coffeehouse channel on XM in my car this week, just for a change. My husband and I have been giggling over how BAD some of the lyrics in those songs are.

But it made me remember a song my daughter has on a CD that has this great metaphor in one of the lines toward the end, "Vanity is a tiger that you've raised from a cub that will some day scratch your face." (Artist is Jay Buchanan. Couldn't tell you the name of the song, only that line jumped out at me.)

Anybody else have a line, esp. a metaphor, from a song that you thought was particularly good or deep?

[Porcelain God]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be a lawman.

[Yoda]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be a lawman.

A lawman?

[NeedMoreLike84]

I've always liked "don't follow leaders watch the parking meters."

[Melody]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be a lawman.

That is pretty good. Do you remember the song or artist?

[dadair6]

That is pretty good. Do you remember the song or artist?

I'll jump in, it's Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven.

How about "I'm the Pompatus of love."

[Antrat]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now.

led zep. stairway to heaven.

[chasfh]

There's a bathroom on the right.

[Gehringer_2]

Any line at all from Dylans "Like a Rolling Stone"

[Melody]

*slaps forehead* D'oh! I should have recognized.

[Corky]

Great line from Tower of Power

Song: How Did This Happen To Me?

"Hindsight is foresight that happens too late."

[zimm]

"Rock the Casbah, Bring the Noise,
ampllified dishwashers exploring the boring to the core."

-from Beck's "Bogusflow"


"Erotic Jesus, together with his Marys. Loves his Marys. Bits of puzzle, fitting each other."

-from Jane's Addiction's "Three Days"

[Motor City Sonics]

"To have ambitions was my ambition" - Gang Of Four "I Love A Man In A Uniform"

"He's got his uptight white virginal followers, I've got these metal chicks, dumber than a rock. Dated one once but I hated the music and all her ex boyfriends were there on the bus. It's never good to be understood by a girl in acid-wash". The Caulfields "Devil's Diary"

"If a double decker bus, crashes into us, to die by your side well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine" Smiths "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

"Hello, Dad? I'm in jail" - Was (Not Was)

"Here I sit so all alone, like a king who sits upon his throne and whose kingdom may have just gone home with another king" - Lyle Lovett "Her First Mistake

[Motor City Sonics]

"You know what's goin' on in that Bermuda Triangle? Elvis needs boats, Elvis needs boats........Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis needs boats.....Ah the sailing Elvis, Captain Elvis, Commodore Elvis" - Mojo Nixon "Elvis Is Everywhere"

[drownwithyou]

Pedro the Lion - "The Poison"
"My old man always swore that hell would have no flame. Just a front row seat to watch your true love pack her things and drive away."

[rhino]

"There ain't no Coupe d'Villes hiding in the bottom of a cracker jack box."-Meatloaf

[jonjd]

I think the greatest line in music has to be "I'm so 2008, you're so two thousand and late."

Fergie and will-i-am. So poetic. Even their names are goofy and dull. This country is finished.

[jonjd]

My honest answer is anything from Robert Hunter and sung by Jerry Garcia.

There are no great lines as the whole compositon is impressive and brilliant as a whole.

[Porcelain God]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now.

led zep. stairway to heaven.

You are correct but I'm still going to sing it my way.

[hueytaxi]

You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off for the sky

And here, she's acting happy
Inside her handsome home
And me, I'm flying in my taxi
Taking tips, and getting stoned
I go flying so high, when I'm stoned

Harry always touched nerves inside me and created emotions few could.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

Especially this

[bigtenguy]

She put him out, like the burning end of a midnight cigarette - Brad Paisely, Whiskey Lullaby.

[Lousluggage]

One that comes to mind, from Warren Zevon:

"The eternal Thompson gunner
Still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it"

[bigtenguy]

It's been six months, you haven't shut up once!
I don't mean to be crude but, I'm finished with you - The Tubes, Talk to you later.

[smr-nj]

You don't have to go to off-Broadway
To see something plain absurd
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word.

[Biff Mayhem]

My toilet went crazy yesterday afternoon
The plumber he said never flush a tampoon.

Frank Zappa

[chasfh]

This great information cost me half a week's pay,
And the toilet blew up later on the next day-ee-ay-ee-aaaayyy ....

[IdahoBert]

"There were ghost in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets ..."

Springsteen/Thunder Road

[chasfh]

A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill,
Keep him happy all the time.
Some other fella's makin nothin' at all
And you can hear him cry,
"Can I go, buddy, can I go down, take your shift at the mine?"

Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine (Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine),
That's where I mainly spend my time.
Make good money, five dollars a day.
Make anymore, I might move away.

Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues.
He can't win for losin'.
Lotta poor man got to walk the line
Just to pay his union dues.
I don't know now, I just don't know if I'm goin' back again.

[Biff Mayhem]

This great information cost me half a week's pay,
And the toilet blew up later on the next day-ee-ay-ee-aaaayyy ....

And we are the people who will make it all happen
While your children are sleepin', your puppy is crappin'

[Corky]

I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's. And his hair was perfect.

[IdahoBert]

From the last six minutes of Six Feet Under:

"Breathe Me"--Sia

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

[Corky]

More Than Eva Braun
(D. O'Keefe)

He would have loved you more than Eva Braun
You would have been his kind of girl
You'd have been there right beside him
As he drove around the world
And when he stopped, you'd have pushed him on
And he'd have loved you more than Eva Braun

He would have loved you more than Eva Braun
You would have held the secret to his heart
And when they found you in the bunker
They'd've had to tear you both apart
But if you'd said, "Argentina?" he'd have gone
And he'd have loved you more than Eva Braun

A broken heart is like a Nazi
And a Nazi's like the blues
The fuerher that you have
The fuerher you have to lose

He would have loved you more than Eva Braun
If he'd only known what fun you really are
You'd have shown him how a fresh wound's
More exciting than a scar
(He wouldn't have cared you're not a natural blonde)
And he'd have loved you more than Eva Braun
Oh, he'd have loved you more than Eva Braun
Ja, he'd have loved you more than Eva Braun

[Scottish caveman]

" In a clearing stands a Boxer, a fighter by his trade and he carries a reminder of every punch that laid him down
or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame."...

--Paul Simon, "The Boxer"

[ewsieg]

"YEAH, whooo, haa, haa yea, yeah, yeah-na, naa, nanahay" ~ Pearl Jam / Even Flow

"Someone told me once
that there's a right and wrong,
punishment was cure
for those who dare to cross the line.
But it must not be true
for jerk-offs just like you.
and maybe it's just ********
I should play god
and shoot you myself.
tired of waiting." ~ Tool / Jerk-Off


"You got no fear of the underdog
That's why you will not survive" ~ Spoon / The Underdog

[Nolan]

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
Im so lonesome I could cry

-Hank Williams

[NeedMoreLike84]

J. Boehner: I know a name. It's the same.

[chasfh]

And we are the people who will make it all happen
While your children are sleepin', your puppy is crappin'

You might call us flakes or something else you might coin us.
We know you're so greedy that you'll probably join us

[Joe Gahona]

"Ivory, inward / the serpent's kiss / forgotten from dawn / ivory, inward" --Roy Holly

[NeedMoreLike84]

I LOVE Roy Howard.

A moment in time/you and me/I search through my mind/I need to be me....

[zimm]

"I don't have no trouble with you f******g me
But I have a little problem wit you not f******g me"
-Old Dirty Bastard "Got Your Money"