# Great lines from songs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728 "2000-10-05T04:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/1 "2000-10-05T04:37:26Z")
This thread was inspired by the recent Powerful Lyrics thread. The difference is that I’m looking for one, two, maybe three lines, not a whole song. Here’s a couple of my favorites : “I want to meet you barefoot, barely breathing.” –Sophie B Hawkins - As I Lay me Down (_I guess I’m just a sucker for alliteration_) “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery” –Bob Marley - Redemption Song “The stars aren’t aligned Or the gods are malign Blame is better to give than receive” –Rush - Freewill ---
**Author:** ![travisimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@travisimo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/travisimo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/2 "2000-10-05T04:49:44Z")
And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/3 "2000-10-05T05:04:11Z")
“My girl don’t just walk, she unfurls.” - She Didn’t Know “If I had loads of money, to make me tame and sour I’d pay you to remind me of my baby by the hour.” - The Luxury “It’s the end of rent-a-movie weather, it’s time to end this seige together.” - Thompson Girl ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/4 "2000-10-05T05:35:18Z")
**Cowboy Junkies** > [@](#): > > _This Street, that man, this life_ > Lord, you play a hard game, you know we follow every rule > Then you take the one thing we thought we’d never lose > All I ask is if she’s with you please keep her warm and safe > and if it’s in your power please purge the memory of this place > [@](#): > > _Someone Out There_ > But what I want to know > before you save my soul > is who gave this power to that fucker up there? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/5 "2000-10-05T05:51:32Z")
“I just wanna live fast, diarrhea!” _The Vandals, Live Fast, Diarrhea_ ---
**Author:** ![Azargoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Azargoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azargoth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/6 "2000-10-05T06:09:49Z")
“You can’t see California without Marlon Brano’s eyes”- Eyeless by Slipknot (still have no clue what this is supposed to mean, just sounds good!) “Stupid people do stupid things, smart people outsmart each other”- DDevil by System of a Down. “No bullsh_t, No Slave Ships, No Motherf_cking Hootie and The Blowfish.” - No by Soulfly “Who aked you to cry for me, Who asked you to lie for me, Who asked you to pray for me, I’m asking you answer me.” -Sh\*t Life by Dope ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/7 "2000-10-05T06:26:50Z")
“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash…” from the live version of “Fulsom Prison Blues.” “If you wanna kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel- ON YOUR KNEES, BOY!” - U2, Mysterious Ways and, because we Scots are a sentimental people… “A night in summer long ago The stars were falling from the sky And still, my heart, I have to know Why do you love me, lady, why?” - Mark Knopfler ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/8 "2000-10-05T08:13:00Z")
“If I don’t believe my own advice I could never fool a child And they don’t forgive you once they see you’ve tried” ``` -- Freedy Johnston ``` “The ones who love us best Are the ones we’ll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least Are the ones we’ll die to please If it’s any consolation, I don’t begin to understand” ``` -- Paul Westerberg ``` ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/9 "2000-10-05T10:46:04Z")
On s’etait dit rendez-vous dans 10 ans Meme jour, meme heure, meme pommes On verra quand on aura 30 ans Sur les marches de la place des grands hommes Le jour est venue et moi aussi Mais je ne veux pas etre le premier Si on avait plus rien a se dire et si et si… **Patrick Bruel** - _Place des Grands Hommes_ This is quite possibly the most hideous and overrated singer ever. He has, however, done a few great songs. For some reason, this one gets me every time. I’ll give a brief translation, and I’m sure the true Francophones will correct my errors 😉 _We had promised to meat again in ten years time Same day, same hour, same apples (apple trees?) We’ll see when we’re 30 years old At the stairs of the Square of Great Men The day has come, and so have I But I don’t want to be the first one there What if we don’t have anything to say anymore, what if what if…_ ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/10 "2000-10-05T11:29:54Z")
I have loved, and I have waited Been picked up, and been sedated. Mental health is overrated. –BNL, _This is Where it Ends_ So you wanted to take a break Slow it down some, and have some space Well, fuck you too! Give me my money back, give me my money back, you bitch! –Ben Folds Five, _Song for the Dumped_ ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/11 "2000-10-05T11:56:57Z")
“She done me wrong, but at least she done me” The Red Elvises _Sad Cowboy song_ “Can’t find a dame, It’s always the same, Gonna shame my family name. Going Homo. I always used to flirt, my feeling’s got hurt, Now I’m going out with Burt. Going Homo” The Dickies _Going Homo_ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/12 "2000-10-05T12:43:17Z")
I’m a sucker for Vox Populi so the recent ‘get rid of Milosevic’ demostrations in Yugoslavia have had this running through my head: “Arms entwined, the chosen few Newspapers say, say it’s true it’s true We can break through” -New Years Day, U2 ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/13 "2000-10-05T12:45:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > \*\*(_I guess I’m just a sucker for alliteration_) > \*\* “Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearby, awaiting a word.” CSN (&Y?) ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/14 "2000-10-05T12:52:23Z")
“And in her eyes, you see nothing, No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one, A love that should have lasted years.” **–For No One** (NB: This song has the best lyrics McCartney ever wrote, and is a far better song than “Yesterday,” IMNSHO.) “And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take.” **–The End** ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/15 "2000-10-05T14:06:45Z")
“I wish I was queer so I could get chicks.” **Bloodhound Gang** ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/16 "2000-10-05T14:10:36Z")
One night of lovin’ don’t make up for six days of hurt." – Willie Nelson ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/17 "2000-10-05T14:28:10Z")
“Thoughts arise like butterflies” -Evenflow by Pearl Jam (Ten still rocks) “It only took my little finger to blow you away” -Watching the Detectives by Elvis Costello “If you can’t make it, baby, your sister Lucille said she wanna go, and I sho’ will take her” -Statesboro Blues by the Allman Brothers This could go on forever for me… ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/18 "2000-10-05T14:34:14Z")
All around the world, Statues crumble for me I don’t know the song’s title…leave me alone. **DEVO** They tell us that, we lost our tails, evolving up from little snails, I say it’s all just wind in sails, Are we not men? We are DEVO. Jocko Homo…from the “Are we not men, we are Devo” album Geez I love DEVO ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/19 "2000-10-05T14:42:45Z")
From the Dixie Chicks’ _Cowboy Take Me Away_: I wanna sleep on the hard ground In the comfort of your arms On a pillow of bluebonnets In a blanket made of stars I really like the imagery of this phrase. And being a proud native Texan, any song than can work in a reference to bluebonnets is alright by me. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728/20 "2000-10-22T02:10:35Z")
I guess it don’t matter how old you are Or how old one lives to be I guess it boils down to what we did with our lives And how we deal with our own destinies But something happens when you reach a certain age Particularly to those ones that are young at heart It’s a lonely proposition when you realize That there’s less days in front of the horse Than ridin’ in the back of this cart “The Real Life” by John Mellencamp [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-songs/35728.md?page=2)