Best rock lyric ever?

[pbass74]

"Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy" - The Eagles

And, "You'll Have To Eat Your Lunch All By Yourself".

 

[Corbusier]

Life's the same I'm moving in stereo
Life's the same except for my shoes

The Cars

 

[pbass74]

She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went.

 

[noeinstein]

Many years since she ran away
Yes that guitar player sure could play

 

[Rib 13]

Mesmerized by a decadent faith, Flowers and remorse, A fading vision lost in time
Tragedy on course

from "Mindphaser" by Frontline Assembly

 

[Tom Bomb]

The mighty rock, the mighty roll,

Once it's got you, won't let go.

Stars

 

[the harp unstrung]

...gotta be the power of suggestion, Al...

 

[Richland123]

First I look at the purse

 

[the harp unstrung]

Johnny Winter

 

[Febs]

Was she told when she was young
That pain would lead to pleasure
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back
To earn his day of leisure
Will she still believe it when he's dead?

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Rosalita. It's basically Romeo and Juliet.

 

[Tom Bomb]

If nothing else we've got that old second line

And I'll dance at your funeral if you dance at mine

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[ONYX]

"Is it Tomorrow, or just the End Of Time..?"

 

[noeinstein]

I pawned my Smith and Wesson
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street
At the Pioneer Chicken stand

 

[mapadofu]

Looking back at days of four instead of two.

- For Absent Friends, Genesis

 

[Bob_Ross]

"Second verse,
same as the first!"

- Herman's Hermits, "Henry The Eighth"

 

[Tom Bomb]

They know what is what,

But they don't know what is what,

They just strut. What the … ?​

 

[Karlson541]

"Magnesium, proverbs and sobs" - Syd Barrett, Wolfpack

The whole song lyrics:

Wolfpack

Howling the pack in formation appears
Diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead
Waving us back in formation
The pack in formation

Bowling they bat as a group
And the leader is seen - so early...
The pack on their backs, the fighters
Through misty the waving - the pack in formation
Far reaching waves
On sight, shone right
I lay as if in surround...

All enmeshing, hovering...
The milder I gaze
All the animals laying trail
Beyond the bough winds
Mild the reflecting electricity eyes...

Tears, the life that was ours
Grows sharper and stronger away and beyond
Short wheeling - fresh spring
Gripped with blanched bones - moaned
Magnesium, proverbs and sobs...

Howling the pack in formation appear
Diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead
Waving us back in formation
The pack in formation...

 

[Richland123]

I got a girl, she lives on the hill
She won't do it but her sister will

 

[whero]

Not really rock. More folk. But Tim Buckley's Song To The Siren lyrics get me the most, probably because they were quite apt for an experience I was going through at the time I first heard them. They resonate like a knife through the heart.

Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle.
And you sang, "Sail to me, sail to me, let me enfold you."
Here I am. Here I am, waiting to hold you.

Did I dream you dreamed about me? Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning broken lovelorn on your rocks.
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow."
O my heart, o my heart, shies from the sorrow.

Well I am puzzled as the newborn child, I am troubled at the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers; should I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you."
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you.