Oh, I know this topic has been done to death, but I’ve had one running through my head all day:
We were once so close to heaven
Peter came out and gave us medals
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.
(from Road Movie to Berlin by They Might be Giants)
As long as there’s music, the topic will never be quite dead.
“And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
That only drowning men could see him
He said, ‘All men shall be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them.’
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human,
He sank beneath your wisdom
Like a stone.”
–Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne”
“Visions back me to the wall sometimes
When I’m walking on my own”
–Fields of the Nephilim, “Endemoniada” (although the exact lyrics are sort of a guess. Enunciate, Carl McCoy does not.)
“Well I been abused and I been confused, and quite frankly, Lord, I am NOT amused, and I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced!”
–Doktors 4 “Bob”, “Told the Judge to Suck My Dick”
“Rock over London! Rock on Chicago!”
–Wesley Willis, in every single “song” he’s ever made.
“No regrets; just lessons we haven’t learnt yet.”
– ‘The Sweetest Decline’ by Beth Orton
“I don’t pretend to know what you want, but I offer love.”
– ‘Distant Sun’ by Crowded House
“I hope you don’t remember everything I said
Memories like roses, fading in my head.
The things I said in anger, I should have said with love.
I know some people never find what we’ve had plenty of.
I’m watching the water, I’m waiting for the rain,
To wash away the pictures in my head I know I’ll never see again.”
– ‘Watching the Water’ by Pretty & Twisted
“You can suck my dick and F**KING LIKE IT!”
-A song by Korn off the first album, I can’t remember which
“…and if my day keeps going this way I just might have to break your f**king face tonight!”
-Break Stuff, Limp Bizkit
“So close, no matter how far…couldn’t be much more from the heart…forever trust in who we are…nothing else matters.”
-Nothing Else Matters, Metallica
“And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open.
And if my face becomes sincere, beware.
And when I start to come undone, stitch me together.
And if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn.”
-The Outlaw Torn, Metallica
so many others, so little space…
The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs
Dances on the edge of his dream
And her voice rings in his ears
Like the music of the spheres
[sub]Rush - The Analog Kid[/sub]
All by Roger Waters, all from Amused to Death…
“Can’t you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can’t you see
It all makes perfect sense.”
“They had sex in Pennsylvania
A Brazilian grew a tree
And a doctor in Manhattan
Saved a dying man for free
It’s a miracle.”
“And the Germans killed the Jews
And the Jews killed the Arabs
And the Arabs killed the hostages
And that is the news.”
And the kicker…
“This species has amused itself to death.”
‘We’ve got the notion,
That we’d quite like to sail the ocean’
Wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbequed iguana
“The only real drug problem is scoring real good drugs”
HEROJUANA by NOFX
“Is my cock big enough/Is my brain small enough/For you to make me a star/Give me a toot, I’ll sell you my soul/Pull my strings and I’ll go far”
PULL MY STRINGS by Dead Kennedys
“I’m not a trendy asshole/I do what I want/I do what I feel like/I’m not a trendy asshole/I don’t give a fuck if it’s good enough for you/Cause I’m alive”
SMASH by Offspring (ironic i know)
Dead0man
"You walk in clouds of glitter
and the sun reflects your eyes.
And every time the winds blows
I can smell you in the skies.
Your kisses are as wicked as an m-16.
And you fuck like a volcano
and you’re everything to me."
Supernova by Liz Phair
“Shorter lived and longer gone” - Pretty Penny by the Stone Temple Pilots.
I think of that line often - in fact, I think of it whenever a former classmate dies. There’ve been a few.
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio 
“F**k me and marry me young”, The Sisters of Mercy - Driven like the snow. There´s a t-shirt with that print on as well.
Another favourite is
“Watch them do the falling over
Watch them do the standing still”
also by the Sisters of Mercy from the song Logic.
/Andreas
"…JFK blown away…what else do I have to say?
We didn’t start the fire…"
Rat in a drain ditch
Caught on a limb
You know better
But I know him.
Like I told you
What I said
Steal your face
Right off your head.
– “He’s Gone,” Garcia/Hunter (Grateful Dead)
Once in a while
You can get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right.
– “Scarlet Begonias,” ibid
If you plant ice, you’re gonna harvest wind.
– “Franklin’s Tower,” ibid
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
One man gathers what another man spills.
– “St. Stephen,” ibid
MAN, this is strong weed.
How could I foreget?
“…oh say does that Star Spangled Banner y-et, w-aaaaave…'or the Laaaaa-aaaaaand of the Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…and the home…of the Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavve…”
So many . . .
“'Cause the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!”
“And looking very relaxed, Adolph Hitler on Vibes”
and
“Roy Rogers on Trigger”
“Mais je suis toujours fidele darling in my fashion.”
“The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life”
“Go out and try your luck,
you might be Donald Duck.”
“She said she won’t be mine
For all of Palestine, oy!”
“Oh, your baby has gone down the plughole.”
“While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy”
“And that glorious morn
Jack the Ripper was born
Ah-ha-ha-ha – those were the good old days.”
“On the clear understanding that this kind of thing might happen.”
“She plays Medea later this week.”
“Silence in the Studio”
Identification is left as an exercise for the reader. 
For some reason this one sticks in my mind…
He’s haunted by something he cannot define,
Bowel shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him, with monster truck force…
Cake - The Distance.
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, “The Intro and the Outro”. I’m pretty fond of “Gorilla, on Vox Humana” myself.
Cole Porter, “Always True to You in My Fashion”
George & Ira Gershwin, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” (though it’s tempting to attempt some sort of Bobbitt joke)
Cream, “Mother’s Lament”
I have my ideas on some of the others, but I’ll leave some for others to pick off.
My own:
“In these shoes?
I don’t think so.”
“Calling International Rescue
No one else can save us like you do”
“Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou
I want to conjugate with you”
“They got a lotta, lotta, lotta grey desks and chairs
Uh-huh, at the Government Center”
“She got big red lips
She got big brown eyes
When she treats me right
it’s a big surprise”
“She was a winner
who became a doggie’s dinner . . .”
Extra credit:
“Well the Queen wrote me a letter
Saying ‘You owe We some bread,
From playing in your rockin’ rollin’ band.’
Well the guy I went to see
Didn’t look much like a Queen to me
You know, but he dug it
When I bowed and kissed his hand.”
I’ll translate it for ya, because it’s become my motto.
*Insanity is a narrow bridge.
It’s banks are reason and desire*
Oh here we go…
You didn’t want to start this with me here…
“My name is Cain and I am now un-Abel”
-Jenny Says, Cowboy Mouth
“Easy to bitch, easy to whine
Easy to moan, easy to cry
Easy to feel like there ain’t nothing in your life
Harder to work, harder to strive
Hard to be glad to be alive
But it’s really worth it if you give it a try”
-Easy, ibid
“'Cause I might love you yes, but I love me more”
-New Orleans, ibid
“My eyelids said 4:30, but the radio clock said six
And I was thinking up a reasonable excuse”
-Louisiana Lowdown, ibid
“How’d we ever get so chic?
Who’s your favorite Kennedy?
What’s the flavor of the week?
I live next to Fugazi!”
-Arlington, Emmet Swimming
“'Cause if I play this here guitar
Then maybe David Geffen will make me a star
Then I could pay back my student loan”
-Student Loan, Mary Prankster
“Now don’t go thinking that I love you
Just because I do
'Cause I never met a certainly
I couldn’t misconstrue”
-Tempest, ibid
“What mood is that you wear this time?
Why do you get high?”
-High, Jimmies Chicken Shack
“Even before my father’s father
They called us all rebels
Burned down our corn fields
And left our cities leveled
I can still feel the eyes
Of those blue-bellied devils
I’m walking round tongiht
Through the concrete and metal”
-Rebels, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Well it’s so hard to face
That in this day and age
Somebodies race could trigger somebodies rage”
-Let’s Face It, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
“Look where all this talking got us, baby”
-White, Discussion, Live
I could go on and on and on and on…