Best rock lyric ever?

[Tom Bomb]

I can't speak for the OP, but I figure as long as it doesn't go completely off the rails (i.e., book/TV/movie quotes instead of song lyrics, or petty arguments over lyrics submitted), then it's all good. These kinds of threads rarely adhere to strict rules.

That's the rule

 

[Tom Bomb]

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

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[Guild B301]

I can't speak for the OP, but I figure as long as it doesn't go completely off the rails (i.e., book/TV/movie quotes instead of song lyrics, or petty arguments over lyrics submitted), then it's all good. These kinds of threads rarely adhere to strict rules.

I just wondered if people actually read the OP. Some people posted an entire song. It was about the best single line from a rock song.

 

[StatesideRambler]

I just wondered if people actually read the OP.

This is TB. Once we reach page 2 the OP is just nostalgia.

 

[getBAK]

I make the most anti-choice granny’s panties moist.
- MC Paul Barman

 

[Guild B301]

I make the most anti-choice granny’s panties moist.
- MC Paul Barman

Are those actually rock lyrics?

 

[Renaissance]

Somewhere out on that horizon.

 

[getBAK]

Are those actually rock lyrics?

Define Rock but...

 

[skwee]

One I was always partial to, from Liz Phair's Divorce Song:

And it's true that I stole your lighter,
And it's also true that I lost the map,
But when you said that I wasn't worth talkin' to,
I had to take your word on that.

 

[skwee]

Also, a friend of mine made me a sweet graphic poster of Sting's Englishman in New York:

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile, be yourself, no matter what they say

 

[Tom Bomb]

Sting'll sometimes give it a good shake.

Blessed are the poets :ninjja:

… I climb this tower inside my head,
A spiral stair above my bed.

I dream the stairs don't ask me why,
I throw myself into the sky.

…


… This is the time of the worlds colliding,
This is the time of kingdoms falling,
This is the time of the worlds dividing,
Time to heed your call.

Send your love into the future.

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[Lagado]

In the face of a tragedy too bleak to know
The death of some grand illusion
All the treasure we pilloried, splendour we stole...
They never told you that in school...

 

[Ayce]

Now they're planning
the crime of the century

 

[friskinator]

“Too young to hold on, but too old to just break free and run.”

Jeff Buckley, “Lover, You Should Have Come Over”

 

[Lagado]

Such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

 

[laristotle]

I can hear your tales and lies, you say I'm dumb and scraggy
But man this dumb and scraggy is your daughter's baby's daddy

 

[Tom Bomb]

Da da da


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[Tom Bomb]

By the grace of God Almighty, and the pressures of the marketplace, the human race has civilised itself. It’s a miracle.

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[Guild B301]

“Well, I wonder, if she wonders,
if I wonder, if she wonders?”

Alice by Mott The Hoople

 

[StatesideRambler]

I was lookin’ back to see if she was lookin’ back to see if I was lookin’ back at her.
John Mayall