Best rock lyric ever?

[Hankenstein]

If she knew how, she'd be unfaithful to me
(She'd probably kill me if she could)

 

[hardtop]

Wasn't that Taj Mahal?

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends - Wikipedia

unfortunately fall out boy used it for one of their silly songs, forever tainting the brilliance of the statement.

 

[BrBss]

The best examples I can think of are from Pink Floyd:

Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side​

Also:

Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one​

And finally:

The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more​

 

[Richland123]

Talisman by The Guess Who

Trinket worn with colors matching saddened eyes has lost its magic touch
People from a distant hill have crossed an ever-stretching sea of sand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.

Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of John Smith
Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to which it's bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone kill a feather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.

 

[Richland123]

Not rock; but, cool lyrics anyway.

Drop Kick Me Jesus - Bobby Bare

Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life
End over end neither left nor the right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life

 

[HolmeBass]

Ok, TL;DR, so this might be a repeat but:

"You think this sh*t just dropped right out of the sky,
My analysis: it's time to harvest the crust from your eyes!"

 

[wideload]

Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
-Bruce Cockburn

 

[mrjim123]

"If looks could kill they probably will." - Peter Gabriel, from Games Without Frontiers

 

[Richland123]

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost you can see

 

[Bill Pool]

Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep....Buffalo Springfield

 

[Richland123]

Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull

Really don't mind if you sit this one out
My word's but a whisper your deafness a shout
I may make you feel but I can't make you think
Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink
So you ride yourselves over the fields
And you make all your animal deals
And your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick

 

[MonetBass]

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

Maybe not the spirit of rock and roll, but a message just as important today as it was in 1981.

From the same song:
"They say there are strangers, who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
That those who know what’s best for us –
Must rise and save us from ourselves"
Rush, "Witch Hunt"

EDIT: I knew those lyrics were wrong. Found the correct ones on Rush.com - go figure!

 

[Quinn Roberts]

"I'm not sure what happened, but it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap"

 

[J-Mags]

That lyric actually seems rather frank in naked print like that

I've always loved that lyric, and particularly enjoyed singing it (when I'm someplace I can get away with singing Elvis songs badly).

It's crystal clear, ain't it?

 

[rjake007]

I've always dug these two verses from Zappa's Camarillo Brillo:

Well, I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets

She stripped away
Her rancid poncho
An' laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
An' it was useless any more

"Rancid Poncho" - Great band name

 

[Rumble Thunder]

There's one for you, nineteen for me.

Taxman
The Beatles
George Harrison

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

I gave you seven children and now you wanna give em back - BB King

If it wasn't for bad luck i wouldn't have no luck at all - Albert King

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

Computerized clinic
For superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic band

If their lives were exotic and strange
They would likely have gladly exchanged them for something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane.

 

[Versatek6]

I couldn't take it any longer Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you till the end of time

So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But god only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you

 

[Ellery]

And so the doctor said
It was best for me
To take coloured pills
And neurosurgery
So I hit him with a hatchet
And escaped from my cell
Don't need no special cure
To try and keep me well
(Mad props to anyone who knows what band this is)