Thread: Favorite Lyric One-Liners

I generally don’t care about amazing lyrics as long as a song sounds good. But I love me a good one-liner. You know, the parts of the song that you love to sing more than the others either because of the content, maybe it hits hard, or just the way it’s sounds in the context of the song. Not whole song lyrics. Just one-liners or maybe a couple of lines or some such thing like that. I have a lot that I never remember but I’m gonna start paying more attention and documenting them.

“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” - Jimi Hendrix

“The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.” - Bob Dylan

“I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.” - Johnny Cash

"Practice what you preach, your loved ones now deceased, knowledge is at our hands, never to understand" - Death

"Thrashing out in torment and pain, the maddened sea engulfs me, i let myself be swallowed up, the magnificent weight upon me" - My Dying Bride

"Time is a human contruct, and you were below the waves" - Devin Townsend

"Are a thousand tears worth a single smile, will they give an inch, will they take a mile, Longing for the past but dreading the future, if not being used well then you are user and a loser" - Type O Negative

"As I inhale the cold air from the world's lung, I cast my being far away from me, In a crystal sphere on the ground I see my life, On my knees I kiss the death with all her beauty" - Evereve

"Lord, I think I love her,
But it scares me half to death." - Don Williams

"We're beaten, battered, and cold
My children will live just to grow old" - Laura Marling

"And fifteen minutes later
We had our first taste of whiskey
There was uncles giving lectures
On ancient Irish history
The men all started telling jokes
And the women they got frisky
At five o'clock in the evening
Every basturd there was piskey" - The Pogues (sorry this one's a whole verse but it's just too ******* perfect)



This thread is awesome. I'm very much a "listen to the words, man" guy so this is right up my alley.

"Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of its fleeting time here" - Tool

"I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping, and housewives by the score" Warren Zevon

"She sat under the tree
And she smiled at me" - The Tossers

"As Lady and I look out tonight, from desolation row"- Bob Dylan

"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government" - Bob Dylan (song openers don't get better than this)

"To the bars full of girls
Who all know me by name
They all drink the same drinks
And they all **** the same"- Murder any Death

"I strum my guitar and I sing an outlaw love song" - Social Distortion

"Well God's green hair is where I slept last
He balanced a diamond on a blade of grass" Tom Waits

"How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess
Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk" - Tom Waits

Good stuff so far.

I’m listening to Titus Andronicus’s The Monitor album right now because they’ve got the goods when it comes to this sort of thing.

“Cuz Tramps like us, baby we were born to die”

Nobody says it wrong so we don’t ask why

You found god in a paper bag
You get your history from the Union Jack

"You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last" -The Pogues (sorry for another verse but holy crap do they get any better?)

"To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die." - The Smiths

I want to get my self back in again. The soft dive of oblivion. I want to taste the salt of your skin. -third eye blind


I got two choices when I do this - make moves or make excuses
Huh, if you know who I'm talking about, then you got me
My biggest enemy is me - and even I can't stop me- andy mineo

You can hate me now. But I wont stop now. Cuz I cant stop now. You can hate me now........(people) fear what they dont understand. Hate what they cant conquer, guess that's just the theory of man. - Nas




I'll let slim post his lyrics from soy imperdator.

I said that I’d been away and he knew the depths I was meaning

Pride can stand a thousand trials
The strong will never fall
But watching stars without you my soul cries

We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

Originally Posted by WTE

We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

That’s glorious

As is

Did you exchange a walk on part in the wall
For a lead roll in a cage

Got off in the wrong direction
Found a hooker and lost my erection
so I had to lie in the letter to the boys back home.

Well the good guys and the bad guys
they never work past Noon 'round here
They sit side by side in the cantinas
Talk to Senoritas and drink warm beer.


--The Refreshments