# Best single lines in rock lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262>\
**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:** 2\
**Page:** 29

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/561 "2026-07-09T23:08:15Z")

</div>

> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
>
> Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensembles

This brings to mind the song **Amour** \[1\], by the Warning, a Mexican band writing in English, and sticking some pretty good French lyrics into the middle of the song:

_Je t’aime pour toujours /_ _Mon coeur est tien_ _/_ _Je te deteste_ _/_ _Amour de ma vie_ _/_ _Je ne mens pas_ _/_ _Je t’adore_

Translates as:

_I love you forever /_ _My heart is yours_ _/_ _I hate you_ _/_ _Love of my life_ _/_ _I am not lying_ _/_ _I adore you_

[1] Inspired by a love scene in the movie Ratatouille

* * *

1. Footnotes

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/562 "2026-07-10T00:54:09Z")

</div>

> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
>
> I just remembered the opening lines to Paul Simon’s “Graceland”. There’s no better way to start a song:
> 
> _The Mississippi Delta_  
> _Was shining like a National guitar_

I put this album on for the first time in a while yesterday, this lyric hit, and I thought “this is a killer of a metaphor to open a song with. I should post it to that thread on the SDMB!” I see that @Dr_Paprika has posted a lot of lines from this album in the thread and I support their inclusion. Paul Simon is a master, Graceland is one of the greatest albums ever, and pretty much every song in Simon’s catalog has evocative lyrics in one form or another.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262.md?page=28)