Favorite line from a song.

[LSquared]

A little old, and a lot obscure, but this is one of my favorites:

And I've run out of pale ale
And I feel like I'm in jail
And my music bores me once again
And I've been on the pinball
And I no longer know it all
And they say that you never know when you're insane....

Brian Protheroe - Pinball

 

[Din Of Win]

"I danced with dogs and felt the freedom of filth." - Young Widows

 

[etoncrow]

"Living on the road my friend was gonna make you free and clean. Now you wear your skin like iron; your breath as hard as kerosine." - "Pancho & Lefty" by Townes Van Zant

 

[Bluesy Soul]

"Your prison is walking through this world all alone."
- "Desperado", The Eagles

"Pancho & Lefty" is an excellent choice. It's full of great lyrics

 

[funkybass4ever]

reminds me of my older brother - from Oasis his favorite band- "Met my maker, made Him cry"

 

[JmJ]

I've lost my equilibrium and my car keys and my pride.

 

[Eric Perry]

Co-wrote by me and my old band Simon Sez in the song Nothing to You...

"I'm standing here in the old battered shoes.
I wanted you to move me, but you just refuse.
There's nothing left, between you and me.
Broken arrows, that just don't agree."


Also, by now defunct local band Strangers with Candy from their song My Rooom

"Come to my room, in my bed, but the whore inside you never goes away.
In the end, it's okay, but the hole inside you really shows."

 

[WyrmDL]

"To be willing to march
Into hell for a heavenly cause."

Andy Williams - Impossible Dream

 

[crispygoat]

"all gone when they drop the bomb, can the politicians reassure?"

Jamiroquai's Too Young to Die

 

[Jimmy Bones]

Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad!
Yeah! Ha ha yeah!
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad!


Bombs Over Baghdad, Outkast

 

[beaglesandbass]

You can run all your life, but not go anywhere.

Ball & Chain, by Social Distortion

 

[Taranis101]

I didn't look all the way though, but I didn't see a Metal song with suggestive lyrics

"No one
No one could ever understand
This life, IMN"
IMN - MuDvAyNe

 

[RestInPieces]

I don't usually like war as a subject for a metal song but
this is really good one from Metallica "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

"On they fight, for the right, yes, but who's to say?
For a hill, men would kill. Why? They do not know
Stiffend wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know"

That describes the madness and pointlessness of war perfectly.

 

[DeanT]

There are so many great lines I had to post again. From that great philosopher Axl Rose:

"I used to love her, (whoa yeah)
but i had to kill her
She ****** so much,
she drove me nuts
And now we're happier this way, alright"

Guns and Roses' "I Used to Love Her".

 

[etoncrow]

One more from me but it is a bit longer than a line in order to show the line (in bold) in context:

You yelled hey when the stove blew up
Upset? why yes
And the footprints on your ceiling, they're almost gone
And you're wondering why?
Well mama lay your head down, don't you cry
'Cause your eyes are tired, and your feat are too
And you wish the world was as tired as you, whoa
Well I'll write a letter, and I'll send it away
And put all the trouble in it you had today.

"Trouble" - Lowell George

 

[JTE]

"There were ways I should have thrilled you, there were days when I could have killed you." "After All This Time" by Rodney Crowell

"Only two things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home-grown tomatoes." "Home Grown Tomatoes" by Guy Clark

John

 

[Basshappi]

The Police;
"Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you."

 

[Bard2dbone]

It might be cheating. But my current favorite is the chorus to one I'm writing. I'm really happy with the chorus, but the verses are weak. So I'll just keep re-working them until I like all of it.

I'll have a drink to remember
Then a few to forget
I'll drink till she's out of my mind
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Who cares? Just leave the bottle behind.

 

[tom e smith]

"Today's the Fourth of July,
Another June has gone by,
And as they light up our town,
I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky." (Aimie Mann)

There is something about this lyric....

 

[DblG]

You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead