Indeed! That was my first Joe Jackson album, and I have a bunch. Great stuff!
I lit a thin green candle
To make you jealous of me
But the room just filled up with mosquitoes
They heard that my body was free
Leonard Cohen One of us Cannot Be Wrong
Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the quay
No one waving for me, just the shoreline receding
Ticket in my hand, I’m thinking “wish I didn’t hand it in”
'Cause who said sailing is fine? Leaving behind all the faces
That I might replace if I tried on that long ride
Looking deep inside but I don’t want to look so deep inside yet
Okkerville River, “Lost Coastlines”
.
The Mona Lisa’s sister doesn’t smile,
She tried to pose but only for a while.
Leonardo sent her home,
since then she has lived alone
with a few belongings and a copy…
…of a painting of herself unhappy.
She is going to burn it when she’s ready…
Get Started, Start A Fire…
.
I’ve only had that stuck as a “GoTo sing-to-myself” song for 33 1/3 years. Also because the tune is catchy, too…
I like the last verse, as well:
Joan of Arc was burning at the stake,
somebody had made a big mistake:
She had lit a cigarette,
in an airport where you get
all your fingers taken off for smoking.
Meanwhile up the road a factory’s choking…
The ones who killed her work there, I’m not joking!
.
“Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head . . .”
I know it’s Over - The Smiths
They also had something to say about Joan of Arc.
“As the flames rose to her Roman nose and her Walkman started to melt.”
That’s what I came in here to post! But since it’s already been posted, I’ll go with Hands by Jewel:
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we’re all ok
And not to worry because worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
Now somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoooo, oo-na.
If I fell in love with you
Would you promise to be true
And help me
Understand
'Cause I’ve been in love before
And I found that love was more
Than just
Holding hands
(aaaaaawwwwww) 
- Beatles
I have this feeling that my luck is none too good
This sword here at my side don’t act the way it should
Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave
Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave
And it howls, it howls like HELL!
(especially how it fits with the music)
- Blue Oyster Cult
yelled:
There’s a time to fuck, and a time to crave, but the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey’s graaaaaaave!
- Butthole Surfers
Most flinchingly brutal (may have griped about this before):
Hello, yeah, it’s been a while
Not much, how 'bout you?
- England Dan and John Ford Coley
Says Red Molly, to James, “Well that’s a fine motorbike.
A girl could feel special on any such like.”
Says James, to Red Molly, “My hat’s off to you.
It’s a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952.
And I’ve seen you on the corners and cafes, it seems.
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme.”
And he pulled her on behind,
And down to Boxhill, they’d ride.
1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Richard Thompson
I’m a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
That’s not reaally true
I’m a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeeze-a
You could do?
Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones
Original Luke was a careless man
Heart as hard as the Grand Coulee Dam
With silos tall over great north gorge
A shadow in each hand
A shadow 'cross the land
Bob Seger’s Get Out Of Denver
I still remember it was autumn and the moon was shining
Our 60 Cadillac was roaring through Nebraska whining
Doing 120 man the fields was bending over
Heading out for the mountains knowing we was traveling further
All the fires were blazing and the spinning wheels were turning turning
Had my girl beside me, brother, brother, she was burning burning
If you don’t like this song…
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member
Better get out of Denver
Better go!
“I got a letter from the government the other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers”
Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, Public Enemy
“In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey
Butane in my veins, and I’m out to cut the junkie”
Beck - Loser
I love that Beck song!
Spent the last year Rocky Mountain way
Couldn’t get much higher
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Saw you standing in the hallway
Red plastic cup and one of them big long cigarettes
Oh yeah. Like I said, they’re a wellspring of good opening lines. That’s a compete classic.
Our neighbors to the north, The Flaming Lips, have no shortage of them either.
– You Have to be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil’s Brain)
It makes me cry.