Post Your Favorite Lyric Lines

[dtripoli]

"Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world" - Brian Wilson

 

[5StringBlues]

Listen should we fight forever
Knowing as we do know
Fear destroys?

YES/Jon Anderson

 

[5StringBlues]

Neil Young-



Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
No T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone

Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone

Ain't got no T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone

Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone
Ain't got no T-Bone

 

[Double E]

Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today

Louis Prima - "Yes, We Have No Bananas"

 

[The Owl]

Coyote's in the coffee shop
He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs

Joni Mitchell - Coyote

 

[xaosbass]

Also from that great song...

So we've kept the good old vices
And labored to invent a few
With cake in vulgar surplus
We can have it and eat it, too

That album was awesome! What of he had not passed away!

 

[Flooflox]

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street - Joe Jackson

 

[Dr F clef]

I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong

Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler), Industrial Disease

 

[Brad Maestas]

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue
Well the music plays and you display
Your heart for me to see
I had a beer and now I hear you
Calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Well the room is crowded, people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown
Take that frown and break it
Before the evening's gone away
I think that we could make it
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom-cat feelings you don't understand
Well I turn around to look at you
You light a cigarette
I wish I had the guts to bum one
But we've never met
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

I can see that you are lonesome just like me
And it being late, you'd like some some company
Well I turn around to look at you
And you look back at me
The guy you're with he's up and split
The chair next to you's free
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout
Well I turn around to look at you
You're nowhere to be found
I search the place for your lost face
Guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you

 

[howard in nyc]

I wanted to cite Cyndi Lauper's She Bop, but I can't imagine that complying with the rules.

Come down off your throne and leave your body alone
Somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting so long
Somebody holds the key

Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

Steve Winwood, Blind Faith 1969

 

[jamro217]

Da Dah Dooh Dooh Dah Dah Deeee. (My favorite song is instrumental.)

 

[crlujan]

It’s not what you look like when you’re doin’ what you’re doin’. It’s what you’re doin’ when you’re doin’ what you look like you’re doin’.

- Express Yourself

 

[BWC]

Two of my favorites:

'Cause I built you a home in my heart
With rotten wood that decayed from the start
'Cause you can't find nothing at all
If there was nothing there all along

Crooked Teeth - Death Cab for Cutie

And the sun was on the rise
I never felt so wicked
As when I willed our love to die

And I was your silver lining
As the story goes
I was your silver lining
But now, I'm gold

Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

 

[Jeff Scott]

Eventually, I transcribe the lyrics, but in the meantime, have a listen, and make your own transcription if you'd like. The whole this is superb.

 

[Bazrac]

Each empty snakelike body floats
Silent sorrow in empty boats

Mr Gabriel has a good turn of phrase.

 

[Chickenwheels]

“Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening...”
Steely Dan “Everything You Did”

 

[bholder]

"Sing hymns, make love, get high, fall dead."
King Crimson "Great Deceiver"

 

[Bazrac]

From the pen that brought it's such classics as -
"Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis" and -
"I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars"
We have...

If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle-that's the thing.
And...

C'mon everybody!

 

[JW56789]

' . . . . the sunshine bores the daylights out of me . . . . ' from 'Rocks Off' on EXILE ON MAIN STREET.

 

[sharkbait130]

I helped her out of a jam I guess but i used a little too much force.

Tangled up in Blue. Bob Dylan