[Hawkeye_a]

I've just been listening to Crash Test Dummies lately (God shuffeled his feet). Dont know if any of you remember them ? but i heard them when i was getting into music, and well the album has been on myPod for sometime now, and it's actually an awesome album. so i thought id start this thread.

It's on my "Album of the Week" playlist

so anywho, i was just curious as to what lines from songs actually struck a chord with you, just lines, not verses or whole songs, just lines.
Here are a couple off the top of my head:

1."Running into you like this without no warning,
is like catching a sniff of tequilla in the morning.
But i'll try...try to keep my food down."
Artist: Crash Test Dummies
Song: I Think Ill Disappear Now

2."And songs, are never quite the answer, just a soundtrack to a life."
Artist: Badly Drawn Boy
Song: You Were Right

Feed the list...

Cheers.

[ajprice]

Radiohead - Talk Show Host
"You want me, well come on and break the door down.
I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."

[dlefebvre]

A few frome Violent Femmes.

1: On the pathetic side
"I hope you got fat. I hope you got really fat. 'Cause is you got really realy fat, you might want to see me come back"

Artist: Violent Femmes
Song: Fat

2: On the bizarre side
"I wanna to see you again, I don't care where and I don't care when. I wanna to see you again.
'Cause this begining will have no end. Bring you whips, bring your chains, we can exchange names"

Artist: Violent Femmes
Song: I Wanna See You Again

2: On the vengeance side

"I'll make more money tonight than you ever dreamed of. You thought I was strange, but just look at me now.
If you are lucky, I'll play in your city and you can comme see me. If you've got...money..."

Artist: Violent Femmes
Song: More Money Tonight

[disectamac]

I dont think it's the greatest line, I'm posting it because its fresh in my head.

Its from a rap song I heard recently.


Artist: " Im like sadam hussein, starring at his childrens burnt remains"

[pimephalis]

From the best breakup song ever:

This ain't the "where did we go wrong?" song,
This ain't the "it's been so long!" song,
This ain't the "why can't we get along?" song,
This is the "pack up your **** and move on!" song.

By a band called Snidely Whiplash.

[Kilbey]

"One in the hand equals, two at the bar.
And everyone knows what you've been drinking."

Band: The Church
Song: Grind
Album: Starfish

[effgee]

(edited due to multiple personality disorder)

the hopeless nostalgic ...

"She can kill with a smile
she can wound with her eyes
she can ruin your faith with her casual lies
she only reveals what she wants you to see
she hides like a child
but she's always a woman to me."
She's always a woman / Billy Joel

and then, there's the hick in me who quotes this one ...

"... Find a nest in the hills
wanna chill like Flynt
buy an old drop-top ...
... Cowboy baby
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy baby
West coast chillin with the Boone's Wine
I wanna be a Cowboy baby
Ridin at night cause I sleep all day
Cowboy baby
I can smell a pig from a mile away"
Cowboy / Kid Rock

when completely pissed ...

"Freedom of speech - that's the motherf*cking bullshit - you say the wrong thing, they lock your ass up quick ..."
Freedom of speech / Bodycount & Ice T ... old school.

[deekay1]

"And your plan against the ghetto backfired
So now you got a pep talk
But sorry, this is our only room to walk
Cause we don't want a drug push
But a bird in the hand is worth more than the bush"

ice cube - a bird in the hand

[christ]

Stand up and fight,
for you know we are right,
we must strike at the lies
that have spread like disease
through our minds.

Genesis, The Knife.

[MaxPower2k3]

"Pablo Picasso never got called an as*hole."

David Bowie - Reality - Pablo Picasso.

Great line from a great song (and album), and the way he sings it, that line rhymes

[The Godfather]

If you don't eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding!!!

Pink Floyd, The Wall

[MaxPower2k3]

Originally posted by The Godfather:
If you don't eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding!!!

Pink Floyd, The Wall

i forgot about that! great line

[kmkkid]

"I must be running out of luck, cause you're just not drunk enough to f*ck"

Three Days Grace - Wake Up



Chris

[drive-thru]

"Heart torn-out, down for the count,
and still come back for more."
- Saddest Girl Story / The Starting Line

"I've got a $20 bill that says you're up late night starting fist-fights versus fences in your backyard."
- There's No 'I' In Team / Taking Back Sunday

"The truth is you could slit my throat,
And with my one last gasping breath,
I'd apologise for bleeding on your shirt."
- You're So Last Summer / Taking Back Sunday

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Drummer Christian Tanna of I Mother Earth (heavily influenced by beat generation poetry), one lyric from each album:

Open and flow
Just swinging forever
Making love to the ground
'Cause it just feels better
-Levitate, from "Dig"

Every thirty days a light goes on
And brightens my back yard a yellow
Dying sun
I bite my tongue and swallow pride and blood
On some other plane I have
Become affected drawn and strange
I'm inclined to blame
My mother for dressing me like a girl
I don't know maybe that's kind of weird
-Like A Girl, from "Scenery & Fish"

A worn out old suitcase so what if it's broken, hopeless a
little odd in a splash of autumn on drugs holding all
the weight for me the weight of me
-Autumn On Drugs, from "Blue Green Orange"

So then I sink
In slow motion, can't hold my breath long
In water's deep aloha half-smile
It's swim or be sunken
And know there's no one to get me out
From under
So help me someone
-Hell And Malfunction, from "the Quicksilver Meat Dream"

[nredman]

I will never know
Myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel
Anything else, until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything
till I break away from me
I will break away
I'll find myself today

Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Best Imitation of Myself by Ben folds

So I can be for you what you want to see,
I got the gesture and sounds, got the timing down,
It's uncanny, yeah you think it was me

You know I juggle one handed, do some magic tricks and
I do the best imitation of myself.

Don't want you hanging out with no one but me
Oh, but it's all the same, It comes from the same place,


edited...

[Face Ache]

"Suppose I accidentally got my **** together..."

If I Only Had A Brain by MC 900ft Jesus.

[benign]

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

Can't do one line - all or nothing.

[WinsOBoogi]

1. "All you need is love." - The Beatles

2. "I saw a man who had to walk with his hands/born into a world he couldn't stand." - Ben Harper, "The Will To Live"

3. "I listen to the wind of my soul and where I end up, well I think, only God really knows." - Cat Stevens, "The Wind"

4. "Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part." - Coldplay, "The Scientist"

5. "Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies but hold me tight. Save your goodbyes for the morning light, but don't let me be lonely tonight. " - James Taylor, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"

6. "I know they're wrong, wait and see. Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me." - Kermit, "The Rainbow Connection"

7. "I woke up today, I was crying...lost, in a lost world." - The Moody Blues, "Lost In a Lost World"

8. "When you've had enough of this live..hang on..'cause everybody hurts, somtimes." - REM, "Everybody Hurts"

9. "And I'm free...free fallin" - Tom Petty, "Free Fallin"

10. "Sun, sun, sun, here it comes." - The Beatles, "Here Comes The Sun"

[Earth Mk. II]

I got a friend whose goal in life
Was to one day go down on Madonna
That's all he wanted
That was all
To one day go down on Madonna
And when my friend was thirty-four
He got his wish in Rome one night
He got to go down on Madonna
In Rome one night in some hotel
And ever since he's been depressed
'Cause life is **** from here on in
And all our friends just shake their heads
And say, "Too soon, too soon, too soon,
He went down on Madonna too soon
Too young, too young, too soon, too soon"
Dan Bern - Tiger Woods


baby Jesus, born to rock
EELS - Everything's Going to be Cool this Christmas

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by Face Ache:
"Suppose I accidentally got my **** together..."

If I Only Had A Brain by MC 900ft Jesus.

What a great album.

[brachiator]

Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
"Pablo Picasso never got called an as*hole."

Just to place props appropriately, that's a Jonathan ("Something About Mary") Richman song. Covered most sublimely by the Burning Sensations on the "Repo Man" soundtrack.

Here's mine:

The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned.
They got Burton suits -- ha, you think it's funny:
Turning rebellion into money.

All over, people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today,
They'd send a limousine anyway.

-- "White Man in Hammersmith Palais," The Clash.

[misc]

In no special order:

"Now the years are old and by me. They are rocking evenly, and I am older, but younger then I'll be. Thats not unusual, nor is it strange, after changes upon changes we are more or less, after changes we are more and less the same." Simon and Garfunkel: The Boxer

"And your skin, oh yeah your skin and bones turn into something beautiful and you know, you know I love you so. You know I love you so." Coldplay: Yellow

"Oh baby baby it's a wild world. It's hard to get by just upon a smile. Oh baby baby it's a wild world and I'll always remember you like a child girl." Cat Stevens: Wild World

"When you finally fly away I'll be hoping that I served you well, for all the wisdom of a lifetime no one can ever tell..." Rod Stewart: Forever Young

"If you told me to cry for you, I could. If you told me to die for you, I would." Bon Jovi: Always

"If you want to be free be free. 'Cause there's a million things to be, you know that there are." Cat Stevens: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

"Saw you last night dance by the light of the moon. Stars in your eyes, free from the life that you knew. Saw you last night, stars in the sky, smiled in my room.." Ben Folds: Magic

"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but I ain't going to argue with you no more I've done it for too long." Cat Stevens: Maybe You're Right

"Why do we stay with lovers who we know down deep just aren't right? Why would we rather put ourselves through hell than sleep alone at night?" Jonathon Larson: Tick Tick Boom: Louder Than Words

"To love another person is to see the face of god.." Herbert Kretzmer: Les Miserables: Beggars At The Feast

That's enough for now..

[olePigeon]

You go solo
Your faggot rainbow
Your Nazi halo
Won't save you this time

- Kitty

Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!

- The Who

How
How could you hurt the child, how could you hurt the child
Now does this make you satisfied, satisfied, satisfied
I don't know what's happening to people today
When a child, child, child, child he was taken away (taken away)

- The Cranberries

Fight the enemy (tears up picture of Pope)

- Sinead O'Conner

[Mr. Blur]

"I found god and his devils inside her"
- Nick Cave - Do You Love Me (Let Love In album)

"Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work...Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that..."
- Kristin Hersh - Like You (Starnge Angels album)

"As we move towards no end we learn to die. Red tears are shed on grey."
- Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (Night Time album)

"Your ship's so full of holes it won't be long before it sinks
And your heart's not made of stone it's made of sh*t and man it stinks
I'm long done choking on your sugar-coated disrespect
I'd like to rip your f**king throat out and plant a tree inside your neck."
- Hannah Marcus - Osiris In Pieces (Black Hole Heaven album)

[ironknee]

Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to start another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide

pink floyd breath, dark side

[SupahCoolX]

Notorious BIG- "Nasty Boy"
Ladies! My Mercedes
Holds 4 in the back, 2 if you're fat.

[nredman]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
Notorious BIG- "Nasty Boy"
Ladies! My Mercedes
Holds 4 in the back, 2 if you're fat.

*LOL*

[wolfen]

All from the same song. You know what song and who it is...

"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical."

"Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!"

"Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who I am."




wolfen

[waxcrash]

Girls - to do the dishes
Girls - to clean up my room
Girls - to do the laundry
Girls - and in the bathroom
Girls - that's all I really want is girls

Artist:Beastie Boys
Song:Girls

[voyageur]

Originally posted by wolfen:
All from the same song. You know what song and who it is...
wolfen

"The Logical Song"
A couple of my favorites:

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. (Dylan--but I like almost all of his lyrics!)

I know it's only rock 'n roll, but I like it. (Rolling Stones)

[iNub]

This one's almost too good to post just a little. But, in the name of actually having my post *read*, I'm going to post a little of it.

The Hell Of It by Paul Williams
From the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack

"Though your music lingers on
All of us are glad you're gone

"If I could live my life half as worthlessly as you
I'm convinced that I'd wind up burning too."

[Ghoser777]

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. You've got to kick at the darkness till ot bleeds day light."

Lovers in a Dangerous Time
BNL

Matt Fahrenbacher

[mchladek]

"Pinocchio's now a boy who wants to turn back into a toy"
-Rufus Wainwright-Vibrate

"Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you?

"You say I took the name in vain. I don't even know the name, but if I did, well really, what's it to you?"
-Leonard Cohen-Hallelujah

"No it will not be me
Rufus the Baptist I be
No I won't be the one
Baptized in c�m"
-Rufus Wainwright-Gay Messiah

[mac-kerouac]

Tool:

"One great big festering neon distraction."

-Aenima

[Rain]

"When everything feels like the movies, yea you'd bleed just to know you're alive" - Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"

"Like in your eyes, I see my future in an instant/And in your eyes, I see the missing pieces I'm searching for" - Savage Garden "I knew I loved you before I met you".

"You walk past me, I can feel your pain" - Josh Groban "You're Still You"

"how you suffered for your sanity/This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you" - Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

"There's a moment when fear And dreams must collide" - Cirque De Soleil "Let Me Fall"

[vmpaul]

OMG, this thread has gone this far without anything from Dylan? Here goes:

"I wish for just one moment, you could stand inside my shoes, you'd see what a drag it is to see you"

"You'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone. For the times they are a changin"

"On the rising curve, where the ways of nature will test every nerve, you wont get anything you don�t deserve"

"Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters"

and my personal favorite:

"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

[SOLIDAge]

"Be sure that what you dream of, won't come to haunt you out"-Bush-Headful of Ghosts

"Who wouldn't be the one you love? WHo wouldn't stand inside your love."-The Smashing Pumpkins-Stand Inside Your Love

"so perish every fond ambition
god and trouble are all i've known
yet how rich is my condition
god and heaven are all my own
god and heaven are all my own

rooms full of salt
fault my pluck
and a poets charm so far, ever far
little stars that burn the holes in my soul

and everything just feels like rain
the road we're on, the things we crave
and everything just feels like rain
the nights i sleep, what's left to dream
when everything feels like rain

drift as i dive
find the deep
out of reach of all light
stars, ever far
listless tides along the changing shore

and everything just feels like rain
the road we're on, the things we crave
and everything just feels like rain
if i should sleep, what's left to dream
"'Zwan-Mary Star of the Sea

[Paco500]

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. You've got to kick at the darkness till ot bleeds day light."

Lovers in a Dangerous Time
BNL

Matt Fahrenbacher

Great song, the the BNL certianly did a fabulous cover, but if the point is to quote lyrics, you should attribute the man who wrote them and orginally performed the song, Bruce Cockburn. It is available on iTMS if you want to hear it.

[Chris O'Brien]

Originally posted by The Godfather:
If you don't eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding!!!

Pink Floyd, The Wall

"how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!"

[Spheric Harlot]

"They say that heaven is like TV:
A perfect little world that doesn't really need me..."

-Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels

[voyageur]

Originally posted by vmpaul:
OMG, this thread has gone this far without anything from Dylan?

You missed my post.

[palmberg]

See my sig.

Artist: Slayer
Album: God Hates Us All
Track: New Faith

[davesimondotcom]

"Two of a billion stars it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you"

Duran Duran, Rio

Oh, wait, was this thread about GREAT lines or really cheesy bad lines?

[Sherwin]

Time to lower the tone with an amusing little ditty celebrating manhood...

Artiste: Raunchous Brothers
Song: Women's Lib

Wake up ***** it's time to face reality,
As far as I'm concerned you've got no ******* personality

Housework and sex is your only job,
You're not a worthwhile human being, you're just a fraud

You'll never be my equal so quit your nagging and your bitching,
Get on your knees and suck my **** then get back to the kitchen

---
Artiste: McLusky
Song: Lightsabre ****sucking Blues

I'm fearful I'm fearful I'm fearful of flying
And flying is fearful of me

---
A nice little ditty about the Internet...

Artiste: The Sisters of Mercy
Song: Detonation Boulevard

through the angel rain
through the dust and the gasolene
through the cruelty of strangers
to the neon dream
long distance information
just tell me where the manholes steam
a little girl waits on my station
with a new machine
- on Detonation Boulevard

I got wrecked out here
in a eldorado
I got wired, white-walled
this hot-wired sedan
I caught something weird in Ensenada
I've a brother of sorts in Torquemada
long distance information
disconnect me if you can
- on Detonation Boulevard

pink noise, white noise
and a violet whining sound
it burns inside this car
no cops, no signs, no left, no right
no stops, no turning round
well, you can run but you can't ride
you won't get far
- on Detonation Boulevard
- bang bang

through the angel rain
through the rust and the gasolene
through the cruelty of strangers
to the neon dream
long distance information
I'll take the same
I got the fuel for the transformation
I'm a naked flame
- on Detonation Boulevard
- bang bang

[vmpaul]

Originally posted by voyageur:
You missed my post.

Oops, my apologies. That's a good line too.

[macroy]

"You know you're semi good looking"

- Van Halen, Ain't Talking 'bout love

[BoomStick]

And I know something good is going to happen.

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

[AB^2=BCxAC]

1. "I'm not dumb but I can't understand
how she walks like a woman
and talks like a man,
Oh my Lola"
- The Kinks, "Lola"

2. "You never thought you'd get addicted -- just be cooler in an obvious way.
Well, I could say:
Shouldn't you have got a couple peircings and decided maybe that you were gay?
In a way,
I can't help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane,
with your pain.
But I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe."
- The Dandy Warhols, "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth"