# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Philosopher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/41 "2000-12-30T11:53:09Z")
‘ **Hello, hello, hello, how low?** ’ - Smells Like Teen Spirit It sounds so ridiculously simplistic it encourages the mind to find a deeper, philosophical meaning to it. It also speaks volumes about generation-x and the state of the world today. All in three words 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/42 "2000-12-30T12:06:26Z")
You might like this one **Great Philosopher** Sled dogs after dinner, Close their eyes on the howlin’ wastes. Kurt Cobain reincarnated Sighs and licks his face, then they drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of sleep hollow too. **Tragically Hip** , _Don’t wake Daddy_ ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/43 "2000-12-30T13:47:28Z")
When I was driv- ing once I saw this paint- ed on a bridge: ‘I don’t want the world, I just want your half’ -They Might Be Giants, “Ana Ng” (oh, and Featherlou, that’s “Message of Love” by the Pretenders, and to pick a nit, it actually says “we are, all of us, in the gutter…”. Great song, though.) ---
**Author:** ![romanticide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@romanticide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romanticide)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/44 "2000-12-30T20:28:28Z")
“When you were here the other day Couldn’t look you in the eye You’re just like an angel Your skin makes me cry You float like a feather In a beautiful world You’re so very special I wish I was special…” -Radiohead “Creep” “How I wish, How I wish you were here We’re just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl year after year Running over the same old ground And what have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here…” Pink Floyd “Wish you were here” ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/45 "2000-12-30T20:50:13Z")
“There’s no time to lose, I heard her say Catch your dreams before they slip away Dying all the time, lose your dreams And you will lose your mind–ain’t life unkind?” -Rolling Stones, “Ruby Tuesday” “You are only coming through in waves Your lips move, but I cannot hear what you say.” –Pink Floyd, “Comfortably Numb” “You may say that I am a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will live as one.” –John Lennon, “Imagine” Now for a “challenge”: These two sets of lyrics come from the same band and the same album. “Adam and Eve live down the street from me Babylon is every town…” AND “We spend all of our lives going out of our minds Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise.” Name the band and/or the songs. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/46 "2000-12-30T22:31:26Z")
“I’m dumb, she’s a lesbian. I thought I had found the one. We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind’s no good” Weezer- “Pink Triangle” “And your my obession. I love you to the bones. And Ana wrecks your life. Like an anorexia life” Silverchair-Ana’s Song(Open Fire) “I know somebody you’ll have a beautiful life. Ihope you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky” Pearl Jam- Black “I don’t even know what a thong is, but I got an A+ on the Teen Shop Quiz” 2gether- Awesum Luvr “Your dreams are made of blood and gore. Now they’re right outside your door. They’re gonna get you” Switchblade Symphony- Witches “You’re jaded, slated and singled out, by all those chains they bind, they bind” Creed- Bound and Tied And the one in my sig from the Cure from the song “More than This” ---
**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 30, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/47 "2000-12-30T23:33:48Z")
“But it’s not against any religion To want to dispose of a pigeon.” or “When the birdies all see us the all run and try to hide But they still go for peanuts when covered with cyanide.” Both Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park” ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/48 "2000-12-31T07:16:16Z")
My favorite lyric EVER: "When I was just a baby, My momma told me son, Always be a good boy, Don’t ever play with guns. _But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die._ – Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues” Other favorites: “When you ain’t got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose” – Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” “Uhh, hot milk, tweak my nipple” – Beck, some song from Midnite Vultures “Immerse your soul in love” – Radiohead, “Street Spirit” “Do you want me to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?” – U2, “One” ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/49 "2000-12-31T08:13:04Z")
“If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend Pick a flower, hold your breath and drift away” Still Remains - Stone Temple Pilots Another STP song, Pretty Penny has the single line “Shorter lived and longer gone” I like it. STP have other excellent lyrics, but I’ll spare you from them 🙂 “Hearts and thoughts they fade… fade away” Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam. “A dumb mistake, too much to pay” Fingers and Thumbs - Erasure “For a minute there, I lost myself” Karma Police - Radiohead “You got a one way ticket on your last chance ride You got a one way ticket to your suicide You got a one way ticket and there’s no way out alive And all this crass communication that has left you in the cold Isn’t much for consolation when you feel so weak and old But if home is where the heart is then there’s stories to be told No you don’t need a doctor, no one else can heal your soul” Coma - Guns and Roses And finally “(There must be something more) Than this house and this street and this fool who’s sitting here on this seat and he’s been waiting too long to become someone every year he makes another excuse To be wild, oh! to be free well that’s all you ever wanted to be” Something more - Southern Sons “I been working hard, tweleve hours a day And the money I saved won’t buy my youth again” Bow River - Cold Chisel ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/50 "2000-12-31T18:29:36Z")
I didn’t mean to fuck you baby,/ I didn’t mean to fuck you,/ I didn’t mean to fuck you,/ but you’re pretty when you’re mine./ I didn’t really love you baby,/ I didn’t really love you. I didn’t really love you baby,/ but I’m pretty when I lie. VAST - Pretty When You Cry Fret for the hour when the hours gone/ Can a one trick night feed forty days?/ I’m in my bed at the break of dawn/ She shivered like a vein slashed bright and new… She’s got the radio active and it makes me feel okay/ I don’t feel okay… Pavement - Perfume V Nothings free/ So fuck me kitten… Star Me Kitten - REM And finally, my guess the song lyric that no one got. Oh her flowing skirt is blowing/ in a transcedental wind/ and she wonders without knowing/ where did we begin? New Age Girl - Dead Eye Dick ---
**Author:** ![Deacons\_Trucked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@Deacons\_Trucked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deacons_Trucked)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/51 "2000-12-31T19:47:13Z")
My sig. Its just so damn poetic. Anyone know who the band is?? Anyone? Anyone? ---
**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 31, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/52 "2000-12-31T20:08:31Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ReservoirDog \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*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. \*\* Hey, I don’t claim to be a poet, but some of the dreck they made us read in my college English classes was little better than jr high yearbook limericks and it was supposed to be excellent examples of modern freeform poetry. I can only compare what I know. Most of the lyrics that have been posted in this thread so far are _far_ better than what’s passing for poetry nowdays. Including Jim Steiman. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![romanticide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@romanticide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romanticide)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598/53 "2001-01-01T04:05:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nocturne \* > \*\*Now for a “challenge”: These two sets of lyrics come from the same band and the same album. > > “Adam and Eve live down the street from me > Babylon is every town…” > AND > “We spend all of our lives going out of our minds > Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise.” > > Name the band and/or the songs. > > \*\* Too easy! Live - off of their new CD “The Distance to Here”. The songs are Run to the Water and They Stood up for Love respectively. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-in-a-song/47598.md?page=2)