# Lines from music which make you grin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980 "2007-10-08T19:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [October 9, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/41 "2007-10-09T03:49:12Z")
_And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression Said, if you’re gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right_ The Gambler – Kenny Rogers It makes me smile because Mr Rogers had no idea how a little company called Nintendo was going to alter the meaning of that last line. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/42 "2007-10-09T05:16:38Z")
“18,000 Lira” by **Art Brut** might be my favorite funny song ever. “Enrique’s got a head cold again It’s not his fault He’s a brave and valiant leader He couldn’t even get bus passes this time Just scooters, very fast scooters” ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/43 "2007-10-09T05:40:32Z")
“I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.” - Joe Walsh, Life’s Been Good “She’s gonna kill me, and I don’t mean softly.” - Old 97’s, Timebomb “Someone to not watch The View with…” - Sloan, Someone I Can Be True With More Roger Miller: I see you going down the street in your big Cadillac You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back Yeah, and way in the back you got money in a sack Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/44 "2007-10-09T05:49:31Z")
Speaking of Eminem… _“Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records” Well I do - so fuck him and fuck you too._ ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/45 "2007-10-09T06:27:43Z")
The Front Lawn (Old kiwi band - excellent) _Man and a Woman._ Don’t wake them up, leave them sleeping, Don’t wake them up, don’t let them know we’ve seen them, 'Cause that’s Sarah there - that’s Eugene’s wife, but - that’s not Eugene. And the Proclaimers _Oh Jean_ (in a broad scot’s accent) I’d never been lucky with girls I confess, Don’t know who to blame for my lack of success Cause even with ones like the back of a bus There was always the risk of a slap in the puss. Jean, oh Jean, you let me get lucky with you. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/46 "2007-10-09T14:19:40Z")
Two more: _World’s Most Handsome Man_ by Robbie Williams: _You know who I am I’m still the boy next door That’s if you’re Lord Litchfield and Roger Moore Have I I’ve gone up in the world Or is the world gone down on me I’m the one who put the ‘Brit’ in celebrity._ And my favorite, that I couldn’t remember yesterday: _On My Boat_ by Lyle Lovett: _The mystery masked man was smart He got himself a Tonto ‘Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free But then ol’ Tonto wised up And he said, “Kemo Sabe, You can kiss my ass, I bought a boat I’m sailing out to sea.”_ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/47 "2007-10-09T14:28:09Z")
From the Barenaked Ladies _The Old Apartment_: “How is the neighbour downstairs? How is her temper this year? I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/48 "2007-10-09T14:40:20Z")
The old Beach Boys song _Drive In_: “If you say you watch the movie you’re a couple of liars, and remember only you can prevent forest fires.” And Jimmy Soul: “If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So from my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/49 "2007-10-09T14:48:08Z")
Also, this line from _The Zombies Ate My Neighbors_ always makes me smile, maybe because it makes me think of Codename: Kids Next Door: So call the neighbor kids with trash can lids and buckets on their heads, cause I’m telling you we’re going to need a little help tonight… - Single File ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/50 "2007-10-09T16:18:15Z")
**Tom Waits** “The Piano Has Been Drinking”. The entire song cracks me up, but I like this line in particular: “And you cannot find your waitress With a geiger counter And she hates you, and your friends and you Just can’t get served without her.” ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/51 "2007-10-09T16:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I’ve always liked: _I’ve been invited to a dinner with a prominent queen…_ [/QUOTE] Heh. Why not round it out with one more? Now my record’s number eleven on the BBC Number seven on the NME Now the Melody Maker wants to interview me And ask about my politics and theories on religion ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/52 "2007-10-09T17:23:40Z")
I like the last two lines to Jim Stafford’s “Wildwood Weed” _And they drove away, and we just smiled and waved… Sittin’ there on that sack of seeds._ ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/53 "2007-10-09T17:32:40Z")
From the Billy Joel song “Christie Lee:” She didn’t need another lover all she wanted was the sax and She didn’t need him as a man All she wanted was his horn ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/54 "2007-10-09T18:31:24Z")
Everything in Muxy Fruvous’s _King of Spain_ makes me giggle like a lunatic. It’s not a good song to play on the bus in the mornings. ---
**Author:** ![mikews99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mikews99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikews99)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/55 "2007-10-09T19:20:19Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] So, I was just listening to some Bowling For Soup, and the following line made me grin in particular in a song full of grins. … So, any grinner lines from songs you’ve listened to? [/QUOTE] Flaming Lips, “Lightning Strikes the Postman” from “Clouds Taste Metallic.” The entire song to me is just a setup for the final line which cracks me up every time I hear it. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, so listen to it here from one of their [live performances](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a60lmVyehE). It’s a little bit hard to make out the lyrics, but the song is about a postman who’s delivering a letter and is struck by lightning. The final line is: And it’s hard to read the writing through the flames. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/56 "2007-10-09T19:59:39Z")
_Short People,_ by Randy Newman. I’m short, and I especially love this part: _They got little baby legs That stand so low You got to pick em up Just to say hello_ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/57 "2007-10-09T20:18:06Z")
Read about Love by Richard Thompson \*He gave me a book The cover was plain Written by a doctor with a German name Had lots of pictures, serious stuff I read it seven times and I knew it well enough. \* Lots of good lines in Dylan’s Talking World War III Blues \* I got into the driver’s seat and I rode down 42nd Street In my Cadillac. Good car to drive After a war. \* ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/58 "2007-10-09T20:21:52Z")
“Giselle,” by **Stew** “She wears leather… whatever… the weather.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/59 "2007-10-09T22:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Everything in Muxy Fruvous’s _King of Spain_ makes me giggle like a lunatic. [/QUOTE] Even his unspeakable wife, Queen Lisa? ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980/60 "2007-10-09T23:49:16Z")
1. Hendrix’s _Red house:_ _I might as well go back over yonder way back over yonder 'cross the hill, 'Cause if my baby don’t love me no more, I know her sister will!_ The drums at the end remind me of a rim shot, ba-cha! 2. Donald Fagen’s \*The Nightfly: So you say there’s a race of men in the trees? You’re for tough legislation Thanks for calling I wait all night for calls like these\* Reminds me of some of the best threads here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-from-music-which-make-you-grin/421980.md?page=4)