Best rock lyric ever?

[edencab]

poetically and visually I always liked this:

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather.

and I always wait for this part of this other song to sing along

When I come home
Cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones
Beside the fire

 

[boombloom]

Another bow to The Laureate... "The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."

 

[J-Mags]

We had sex in a public park
Till we were mauled by dogs
She could not stop laughing
But I was kicking logs.

-- Me

Give me all your money and I'll do some Oregami.

-- Courtney Barnette

I've been up all night with no suicide clock that works.

-- Roky Erikson

Remember flying higher than the clouds
Get pretty sentimental now and then
But the loneliest people in the whole wide world
Are the ones you're never gonna see again

-- The Mountain Goats

 

[2F/2F]

If she's smilin', beefsteak become well done.

 

[Mark_70]

Who else but Zappa (on Bobby Brown);

I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work 'n' maybe later I'll rape her
Oh God I am the American dream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An' I'm a handsome sonofabitch
I'm gonna get a good job 'n' be real rich

Regards
Mark

 

[DaDo625]

If you don’t like growing old...
You’ll hate the other choice I’m told....

Chorus: it’s a little too late to die young...

 

[bholder]

"Sing hymns, make love, get high, fall dead."

 

[4001]

"For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee"

Neil Peart - 1982

 

[BAG]

Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong

Nah!

 

[Stumbo]

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone

 

[juancaminos]

You were posting the same time as I

Anything Ziggy!

Yes Sir. There is a rather new album with demos of these songs, its great!

 

[juancaminos]

"Oh No Love, your not alone"

Not so much for the lyrics, but the way it was delivered

Your wonderful...

 

[MCF]

See the losers in the best bars
Meet the winners in the dives
Where the people are the real stars
All the rest of their lives.

 

[SAlcott]

"Let's not be L7"......

 

[juancaminos]

I know all about you, your childhood days
Your mom and dad, your pretty face

Mark Farner

 

[FatStringer52]

You're breakin' my heart, you're tearing it apart, so f*#$ you!

Harry Nilsson - You're Breaking My Heart

 

[juancaminos]

You are every woman in the world to me
And every season I go through
You are every woman in the world to me
Especially when I'm making love to you

Like a falling tear drop
You can wipe away my blues
Live honey you can make the bitter sweet
You're a child, a girl, a woman
You are everything I'd choose
That's why I sing this song to you
That's why I sing this song of love to you

Dave Mason

 

[tgriley62]

"But he lived a lifetime playin' the black man's blues
And on the day he lost his life, that's all he had to lose"
The ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynard Skynard


"He said he'd put a bullet right
Through poor old Josie's chest
But Josie wasn't like the rest
He don't like bullet holes in his vest"
The Sheriff - ELP

 

[CapnSev]

I’d have to say “Penguin Attack” from GWAR.

 

[SactoBass]

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage

- Limelight by RUSH