# 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:** 3
**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:** [November 20, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/41 "2022-11-20T23:17:20Z")
_You got to live like you’re on vacation_ – Kiss, “Lick It Up” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/42 "2022-11-20T23:20:28Z")
Kiss, “Let’s Put the X in Sex” “Love’s like a muscle and you make me want to flex.” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/43 "2022-11-20T23:33:18Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I love the line **saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac** from _The Boys of the Summer_, Don Henley. > > Probably pretty date now, but impactful when new. When the Ataris covered the song in 2003, they changed the line to: _“Out on the road today I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac”_. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/44 "2022-11-20T23:33:25Z")
_Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you’re nothing_ _You’re fuckin’ perfect to me_ “Fuckin’ Perfect”, Pink _I twisted you over and under to take you_ “Furnace Room Lullaby”, Neko Case _I want to be the girl with the most cake_ “Doll Parts”, Hole _Well, I’m a high school grad, I’m over five foot three_ _I’ll get a badge and a gun and I’ll join the P.D., they’ll see_ “God Is A Bullet”, Concrete Blonde ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/45 "2022-11-20T23:46:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Probably pretty date now, but impactful when new. Yeah; there’s a Tesla with one, driven by a nanny who drops off and picks up kids at my preschool. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/46 "2022-11-20T23:47:10Z")
Couple of gems from The Beautiful South: “She’s a perfect 10, but she wears a 12, Baby save a little 2 for me.” and “She’s a Ph. D in ‘I told you so’, you’ve a knighthood in ‘I’m not listening’.” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/47 "2022-11-20T23:47:17Z")
“She is like a hurricane, there’s calm in her eyes.” Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/48 "2022-11-20T23:56:16Z")
_You ain’t never been loved like you’re gonna be loved when I, love, you, now…_. Bill Murray in [Hite Report Disco](https://youtu.be/yewWE7P9Kw8?t=73) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/49 "2022-11-20T23:57:09Z")
And the magic’s in the music And the music’s in me Do You Believe In Magic Lovin’ Spoonful ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/50 "2022-11-21T00:08:05Z")
_A screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways_ _Like a vision she dances across the porch_ _As the radio plays_ Bruce Springsteen, “Thunder Road” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/51 "2022-11-21T00:18:39Z")
And would a thread like this be complete without some utter vulgarity? If you want inside the well boy you better make her Raspberry Swirl – Tori Amos On golden daffodils to catch the silver stream that washes out the wild oat seed upon Velvet Green – Jethro Tull This can’t happen, this can’t be real, something lying next to me looks like I feel – Joe Walsh, Coyote Love ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/52 "2022-11-21T00:24:37Z")
“Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinkin’ warm beer in the soft summer rain.” Bruce Springsteen-Jungleland ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/53 "2022-11-21T00:28:48Z")
Me too for > [@What\_Exit](#): > > From _Hello, I love you_ by the Doors: **Sidewalk crouches at her feet** I’ll add: **Cancel my subscription to the resurrection** - Doors, “When The Music’s Over” and Mamas & Papas, _Got A Feeling:_ **I got a feeling that you’re stealing** **All the love I thought I was giving to you** ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/54 "2022-11-21T00:29:04Z")
> [@Tride](#): > > They say that looks don’t count for much and so there goes your proof!” I hear that as: They say that looks don’t count for much; _ **if** _ so there goes your proof!” ObElvisCostello entry: > “I don’t know if you are loving some body, I only know it isn’t mine” _Alison_ ObBobDylan entry: > Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine _A Simple Twist of Fate_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/55 "2022-11-21T01:19:46Z")
Every single meeting with his so-called superior is a humiliating kick in the crotch. The Police, “Synchronicity II” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/56 "2022-11-21T01:39:40Z")
_The world will still be turning when you’re gone_ Wheels of Confusion by Black Sabbath ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/57 "2022-11-21T01:55:50Z")
But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away Doobie Brothers ---
**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:** [November 21, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/58 "2022-11-21T01:56:17Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > _A screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways_ > _Like a vision she dances across the porch_ > _As the radio plays_ > Bruce Springsteen, “Thunder Road” This whole song. Really this whole album is just a tour de force of great lyrics (I’ll grant the opinion that they can get overwrought at times). I wanted to add, from the same Thunder Road: You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right, And that’s all right with me ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262/59 "2022-11-21T02:05:46Z")
\*I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood. \* Wish List - Pearl Jam. ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Why leave out Nicol? She’s the only character in the series who’s described as a musician. Leave her out? My God, she’s the headliner. The Dendarii band is her opening act. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262.md?page=4)