# Best single lines in rock lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 20, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262 "2022-11-20T16:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/541 "2026-07-02T03:47:30Z")
> [@stopnonstop](#): > > Well my daddy worked in the coalmine Yeah that’s right up there with: “_Woke up this mornin,_” ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/542 "2026-07-02T05:28:23Z")
Best for the current situation: > Oh my > Life has passed me by > The country I was brought up in > Fell apart and died Chicago, _Lowdown_ > America where are you now? > Don’t you care about your sons and daughters? > Don’t you know we need you now > We can’t fight alone against the monster Steppenwolf, _Monster_ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/543 "2026-07-02T06:01:15Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > “_You’re more than anything that anyone says about you_” That brought to mind a Jenny Lewis line: _“Because you are what you love, and not what loves you back”_ ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/544 "2026-07-02T06:02:20Z")
> [@Butthole Surfers 'Boiled Dove' (Gibby Haynes)](#): > > Imagine. Your father was naked and you had just fallen through the ceiling into a room full of soft, moist eyeballs. Dang, gonna have to listen to that a few times in a row now. Alternately: > [@Dan Deacon ''Okie Dokie](#): > > I’VE GOT AN AEROSMITH GUN! ---
**Author:** ![dcbwhaley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcbwhaley/32/21437_2.png) [@dcbwhaley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcbwhaley)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/545 "2026-07-02T17:25:01Z")
Bike by Sid Barret “I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like” is the ultimate love song. And, whilst really Ken Graham’s not Floyds, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is a wonderful evocative image ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/546 "2026-07-02T18:04:08Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > “_Woke up this mornin,_” Which brings up a worthy addition here: _Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died._ John Prine, _Please Don’t Bury Me_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/547 "2026-07-02T18:14:08Z")
_Listening to you I get the music Gazing at you I get the heat Following you I climb the mountain I get excitement at your feet_ - The Who ---
**Author:** ![stopnonstop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@stopnonstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stopnonstop)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/548 "2026-07-03T02:53:41Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > “_Woke up this mornin,_” Which brings up a worthy addition here: _Woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died._ John Prine, _Please Don’t Bury Me_ Which brings up Hendrix’s _Woke up this morning and found myself dead_ ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/549 "2026-07-03T03:00:14Z")
Yes. The entire reason I mentioned “_Woke up this mornin_” is that it is such a cliched first line that it is a running joke. Heck, the song @Dr.Winston_OBoogie mentioned isn’t even the only John Prine song that starts with that line. There are entire reddit threads devoted to songs that start with that line. There must be hundreds. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/550 "2026-07-03T03:20:18Z")
\*And you’re not worshiping me, _you’re worshipping yourself_ _And you will kill in my name and heaven knows what else_ _When you can’t prove I exist,_ _so get over yourself_ “God Said”/Todd Rundgren ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Danger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nick_danger/32/2821_2.png) [@Nick\_Danger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nick_Danger)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/551 "2026-07-05T12:52:23Z")
You may have got your silver, but I swear upon my life; Your sister gave me diamonds, and I gave 'em to your wife. Dire Straits - The Man’s Too Strong ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/552 "2026-07-05T12:55:32Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > From Floyd’s _Have a Cigar_: _ **Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?** _ Also from Pink Floyd: _ **One day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/553 "2026-07-07T21:26:27Z")
Cold Chisel - _ **Bow River** _ ‘The money I save won’t buy my youth again’ ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/554 "2026-07-08T21:24:38Z")
This always gets me… **And I wanna rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old** “Into The Mystic” - Van Morrison ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/555 "2026-07-08T21:42:30Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > And I wanna rock your gypsy soul > Just like way back in the days of old _And magnificently we will fall_ _Into the mystic_ (from the live version on “It’s Too Late To Stop Now”) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/556 "2026-07-08T22:55:20Z")
I had it on _Moondance_. I think he said the rhyming version. “And magnificently we will fold” Did he sometimes say “float?” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/557 "2026-07-08T23:29:24Z")
It can also be “fold”, maybe I misheard. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/558 "2026-07-09T01:29:06Z")
Maybe he is one of those guys who would change it up. Fall, float, fold…who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/559 "2026-07-09T14:51:28Z")
As someone who has had my words misrepresented in the past: You took my word and pounded away And wrote in the sand that you felt the same _Around The Block Again_, by Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/560 "2026-07-09T22:48:56Z")
I am reevaluating the Beatles. Some good single lines… Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensembles Man I was mean but I’m changing my scene You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer I’ve got no car and it’s breaking my heart But I’ve found a driver and that’s a start He blew his mind out in a car He didn’t notice that the lights had changed Show me round your snow packed mountains way down south For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder You’re such a lovely audience we’d like to take you home with us… we’d love to take you home Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book? Sail the ship. Chop the tree. Skip the rope. Look at me. Some kind of innocence that’s measured out in years Out of college money spent. See no future pay no rent When I think of all the times I tried to leave her She will turn to me and start to cry And she promises me the world to me, and I believe her After all this time I don’t know why [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262.md?page=29)