# Favorite lines in a song **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 29, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598 "2000-12-29T00:03:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Simon\_Met\_a\_Pieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simon\_Met\_a\_Pieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simon_Met_a_Pieman)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/21 "2000-12-29T13:50:21Z")
‘Cause we’re okay, we’re fine. Baby I’m here to stop your cryin’. Chase all the ghosts from your head, I’m stronger than the monster beneath your bed, smarter than the tricks played on your heart. We’ll look at them together, then we’ll take them apart. Adding up the total of a love that’s true, multiply life by the power of two. -Indigo Girls, Power of Two ---
**Author:** ![AndYrAStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@AndYrAStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndYrAStar)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/22 "2000-12-29T14:14:16Z")
I can’t pick a single line- “I was lied to when I was told life was fair and that someone would always be there I hated myself more than anyone else I was so unhappy with the cards I was dealt When I was a child, my castle was my home but now I walk down empty streets, memories and me alone it’s easier to burn a bridge than to cross it to slip, give in, give up; move on and try to forget more’s been said in silence than could ever be spoken in words secrets shared, promises kept, and feelings that will never be cured” _Slap_, **Link 80**. God I love that song. There are lots more, but I don’t feel like thinking right now. ---
**Author:** ![el\_mono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@el\_mono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_mono)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/23 "2000-12-29T14:24:33Z")
“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.” RUSH, Freewill. “There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line, and the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.” THE INDIGO GIRLS, Closer To Fine. “You’re breaking my heart, you’re tearing it apart, so fuck you.” NIELSON, Your Breaking My Heart. Just to name a few… ---
**Author:** ![AndYrAStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@AndYrAStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndYrAStar)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/24 "2000-12-29T15:07:28Z")
Another really long one I just thought of: “yesterday I went outside with my momma’s mason jar caught a lovely butterfly when i woke up today, looked in on my fairy pet she had withered all away no more sighing in her breast I’m sorry for what I did … every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away” Butterfly, weezer. Actually, I just thought of a whole bunch more, too, but I’ll spare you all. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/25 "2000-12-29T15:29:05Z")
_Sorry 'bout the attitude I need to give when I’m with you, but no one else will take this shit from me._ – Matchbox 20 _So now I’m rollin’ down Rodeo with a shotgun. These people ain’t seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one._ - Rage Against the Machine _It’s so easy, you see. You’d really swear it was me. I do the best imitation of myself._ - Ben Folds Five _You, sugar taste. Sweetness doesn’t often touch my face. Stay, if you please. You may not be here when I leave. As of now, I think you got me wrong._ - Alice in Chains _Instead of a war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me_ - Tupac ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/26 "2000-12-29T15:42:53Z")
Probably my sig. And I could pick out any number of others from Elvis. You can’t always gget what you want. But if you try sometimes, you find, you get what you need. - _Stones_ There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes. Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose. - _John Prine_ (and any other number from him). Give the people what they want. I’m not like anybody else. - _Kinks_ Pick just about any line from “For You” - \*Bruce Springsteen (and many others of his) I’m so goddamned horny the crack of dawn better look out around me - Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/27 "2000-12-29T15:43:04Z")
“Come and hear those dancing feet On the avenue I’m calling to you 42nd Street.” – Al Dubin “Now, ain’t it funny They pay them money Shows you what can happen if your horse can act.” – Johnny Mercer, “Hooray for Hollywood” “There one, two, three, four, five, six pockets on a table. Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum. With a capital B and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool!” – Meredith Willson “And that glorious morn Jack the Ripper was born Ah-ha-ha-ha those were the good old days!” - Adler/Ross ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/28 "2000-12-29T16:35:25Z")
_You love the thunder and you love the rain What you see revealed within the anger is worth the pain And before the lightning fades and you surrender You’ve got a second to look at the dark side of the man_ -You Love the Thunder, Jackson Browne _the beauty of this vision alone just like yesterday’s sunset has been perverted by the sentimental and mistaken for love_ -Iris, Live _All alone in space and time. There’s nothing here but what here’s here’s mine. Something borrowed, something blue. Every me and every you._ -Every Me and Every You, Placebo _Every time i talk to you you’re down and every time you need a laugh i’m around and when you forget i’m here i’m not it isn’t really me that you forgot_ -Manchild, The Eels _Never thought that I knew too much I always thought I knew enough I didn’t want to learn this stuff I didn’t ever want to be that tough_ -Murder 101, The Wallflowers ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/29 "2000-12-29T16:59:08Z")
I don’t know just what it’s all about… ``` ... but put on your red pajamas and find out. Velvet Underground Some Kinda Love ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*Probably my sig. And I could pick out any number of others from Elvis. > > \*\* I’d go with that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/30 "2000-12-29T17:08:04Z")
I could leave but I’ll just stay/ All my stuff’s here anyway. _Pinch Me_, Bare Naked Ladies I may not be a lady/ But I’m all woman… _?_, Lisa Stansfield ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/31 "2000-12-29T17:47:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KJ \* > **"Why-y? Why d’you always kick me when I’m hi-igh? Knock me down 'til we see eye to ey-ye…?"** SR-71 is the band, singing Right Now. > [@](#): > > \*\* > “You say money isn’t everything. Well, I’d like to see you live without it.”\*\* That’s Silverchair. The song is Tomorrow. As for me, I submit the following: How can I get there from here, and I don’t care where I’m going? - Van Halen - Unchained ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/32 "2000-12-29T17:58:03Z")
“She used her body just like a band-aid, she used my body just like a wound. I’ll never know where she disappeared but I see her rising out of the backseat now just like an angel rising up from the moon.” Meatloaf. “Objects in the Rear View Mirror (May appear closer than they are)” [I think] IMHO, Jim Steiman, Meatloaf’s partner/writer, is one of the under-rated poets of my generation. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/33 "2000-12-29T18:20:15Z")
“All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” - The Pretenders (sorry but I can’t remember the name of the song) ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/34 "2000-12-29T18:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden\_Ranger \* > \*\*“She used her body just like a band-aid, she used my body just like a wound. I’ll never know where she disappeared but I see her rising out of the backseat now just like an angel rising up from the moon.” \*\* This is to poetry what Mr. T is to acting. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/35 "2000-12-29T19:32:58Z")
“…there’s nothing like regret to make you feel you’re alive…” –Sheryl Crow (can’t remember song’s name though) ---
**Author:** ![Scarred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Scarred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarred)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/36 "2000-12-29T21:57:49Z")
“Just when I thought my vista was golden in hue; One thousand umbrellas open to spoil the view.” 1,000 Umbrella’s - Andy Partridge (XTC) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/37 "2000-12-29T22:19:14Z")
_How young are you? How old am I? Let’s count the rings Around my eyes Ain’t lost yet, so I gotta be a winner Bacon and cigarettes - a lousy dinner_ - **The Replacements, "I Will Dare"** - I said “I’m so happy I could die” She said “Drop dead” then left with another guy\* - **Elvis Costello, "(The Angels Wanna Wear My)Red Shoes"** _We’re all exchanging pleasantries No matter how we feel And no one knows the difference 'cause it all seems so unreal You’d better grab ahold of something Simple but it’s true If you don’t stop to smell the roses now They might end up on you Expectations only mean you really think you know What’s coming next, and you don’t_ - **Husker Du, "These Important Years"** _And when we die Will we be that disappointed or sad If heaven doesn’t exist What will we have missed This life is tge best We’ve ever had_ - **The Divine Comedy, "Tonight We Fly"** Many more when I get home and look at my CD collection. ---
**Author:** ![Candi757](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Candi757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candi757)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/38 "2000-12-30T06:40:08Z")
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand In other words, baby, kiss me Fill my heart with song Let me sing for ever more You are all I long for All I worship and adore In other words, please be true In other words, I love you ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/39 "2000-12-30T07:00:52Z")
_Little TV sets Going off inside my ears Spaceships passing by Firecracker beer Chase the demons lightly Newt inside my eye Up and down the sidewalk Take a doodoo pie I love you…_ ---
**Author:** ![Xgemina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@Xgemina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xgemina)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/40 "2000-12-30T08:31:40Z")
“been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding” Harvy Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta” (it’s my CSR dept theme song, or should be) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598.md?page=3)