Best rock lyric ever?

[AaronVonRock]

Not a poll and I know there is no correct answer. Just wondering what lyric you think is the best ever.

I'm specifically saying lyric as opposed to lyrics. Just one line, not a whole verse or chorus.

I went to see Nine Inch Nails last night and I think Trent Reznor came up with the best rock lyric ever. First line to the chorus of Closer: I want to **** you like an animal.

It's nasty, vulgar, offensive, dangerous, and menacing but it's also sexy, fun, and crazy. It's a song that is rough enough for the boys but still sexy enough for the girls to get into as well. A nice balance. And it was a wonderful experience to be in a room with thousands of women screaming that line at the top of their lungs.

 

[5StringBlues]

Hey!
Down in Joe's Garage
We didn't have no dope or LSD
But a coupla quartsa beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
And the same old chords goin' over 'n over
Became a symphony
We could play it again 'n again 'n again
Cause it sounded good to me
ONE MORE TIME!

 

[two fingers]

Opening line from Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do".



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

Whose wine? What wine? Where the hell did I dine?"



Clearly, that was a fun night.

 

[FunkHead]

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and say man what are you doing here?

 

[bassicmike]

Please allow me to introduce myself...

 

[AaronVonRock]

Opening line from Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do".



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

Whose wine? What wine? Where the hell did I dine?"



Clearly, that was a fun night.

Nice one.

I'll follow that up with a similar sentiment, I woke up this morning and got myself a beer. Although your lyric is open to more possibilities

 

[Michedelic]

Look out, kids, they keep it all hid.

 

[Wood and Wire]

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be : You're gonna give your love to me!

 

[Bob_Ross]

Pretty hard to top OP ...there is something insidiously, ruthlessly brilliant about that succinct statement, the way it taps directly into our reptilian hindbrain

The Doors' lyric mentioned in post #6 has a very strong personal resonance for me, but that mostly has to do with A) the sound/delivery of Morrison's execution, and B) where I was and what I was doing the first time I actually enjoyed "Roadhouse Blues" ...but it's definitely one of my contenders.

This one always struck me as one of the most powerfully clever and compact sentiments in rock'n'roll, from The Rolling Stones' "Rocks Off":

Sunshine bores the daylights out of me

 

[the_home]

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw

 

[Bass Man Dan]

They call me the working man. I guess that's what I am.

 

[Stumbo]

Tutti frutti oh rootie
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!

 

[hardtop]

Please allow me to introduce myself...

For the win! well done.

The one's that popped into my head were:

"I'm feeling that I'm sober, Even though I'm drinking, I can't get any lower, Still I feel I'm sinking"

"It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet"

"And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools/Tryin’ to anaesthetize the way that you feel”

"I wish I was like you, easily amused"

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine"

 

[Stumbo]

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you

 

[filmtex]

“If I wake up married, I'll have to annul it
Right now my hands are in his mullet.”

Elizabeth Cook “El Camino”

 

[TNCreature]

That's the best lyric ever?

They call me the working man. I guess that's what I am.

 

[TNCreature]

"And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through..."

 

[yodedude2]

'We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden' - mitchell

 

[bikeplate]

Love stinks