Lines from music which make you grin

Without Me by Eminem
*
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black Music so selfishly
and use it to get myself wealthy (Hey)
there’s a concept that works
20 million other white rappers emerge…*

Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys
*
It’s time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear*

I just found out that Don McLean did not write On The Amazon. But his cover of it is a delight.

Wild Duodeum are lurking in the trees.
And the jungles swarm with green apostrophes.
Oh the Amazon is calling, oh the Amazon is calling.
Oh the Amazon is calling me.

I’m Not From Here, James McMurtry

“I’m not from here
but people tell me
it’s not like it used to be
they say I should have been here
back about ten years
before it got ruined by folks like me”

…storyofmylife. :cool:

Oh, I completely missed the obvious: It’s not a lyric, but a line of music - and one we all know, too: The tagline from “Merry-go-round Broken Down.” I grin when I hear that, too.

“This Kiss”, by Faith Hill:

For the cheekiness:

Ooh, and

I mean, come on. :slight_smile:

I recently got into the Kinks’ wonderful Lola vs. Powerman album. It’s (mostly) about the band’s disillusionment with the recording industry after several years of ups and downs.

One of my favorites is Top of the Pops, in which Ray Davies tracks his record as it climbs the charts, much to his elation, until the very end:

*It’s strange how people want you when your record’s high
When it drops down they just pass you by
Now my agent called me on my telephone and said, “Son,
Your record’s just got to number one.”

“And you know what this means?
This means you can earn some real money.”*

cmkeller reminded me of this.

From the musical Into the Woods, reprise of the Princes’ duet Agony:

and

Northern Pikes:

I snicker at the refrain (and song title):

She ain’t pretty she just looks that way

I laugh at the this set of lyrics:

So, uh, I called her up, her father was home
Said “She’s busy she can’t come to the phone”
I held my breath, decided to wait
A guy like me doesn’t get many dates

Ha! Yes! Also, you gotta love when he says, “Whoever’s out of hand, Imma give 'em handles, light 'em up, blow 'em out like candles” That is so funny to me. Ah, the Soloist is so quotable.

From the movie The Music Man, the entire song “Trouble in River City” cracks me up, but when he says, “Why sure I’m a billiard player,
Certainly mighty proud I say
I’m always mighty proud to say it.”

It is the way he says it that cracks me right up. Someone sent me a link to that clip recently, and it took me back 20 years and had me singing all day.

“There’s a very small percentile that enjoys a dancing Gentile . . .”

“You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews,” Spamalot

I’ve always liked:

I’ve been invited to a dinner with a prominent queen…

Conjure some peppy, upbeat music in your head

Maybe a lover comes along
Maybe in story or in song
Maybe the heart is really strong
A million lemmings can’t be wrong

Heh, that’s my favorite part of the Richard Cheese version of the song too. :cool:

Dean Friedman’s one hit from 1977 called Ariel:

You’d have to hear how Dean gets into that last chorus to appreciate it.

Cake always makes me smile, particularly in ‘‘Short Skirt, Long Jacket’’

when they say,
*
‘‘I want a girl with the right allocations
I want a girl with good dividends…’’*

Hell yeah you do!
And then there’s Julieta Vinegas, a Mexican songwriter, who has this lovely song (I think it’s called ‘‘Me voy’’ (I’m going))

But basically it’s this wistful little innocent sing-songy tune and the chorus is led up in a long stream of consciousness conveying the following:

I’m not going to cry and say
That I don’t deserve this
Because, it’s probable that
I do deserve it,
but I don’t want it,
Therefore I’m leaving.
Too bad, but goodbye…

I smile every time. You really have to hear the silly tone of her voice to get it, though.

And who can’t help but smile when Beck cries out randomly,
‘‘Gettin’ crazy with the cheese whiz!’’

or even '‘My time is a piece of wax fallin’ on a termite.’’ ?

Can’t forget the next part. Choking on the splinter.

The line that makes me smile in that song is I’m a driver, I’m a winner. Things are going to change now, I can feel it.

For some reason, the bit of that song that I like is “Soy un perdedor” which is Spanish for “I’m a Loser”

I always liked Cowboy Mouth’s “My name is Cain and I am now un-Abel.”

And CENSORED by TMBG. I would quote it but I understand we’re not supposed to quote complete lyrics. :wink:

Er, Jens Lekman?

“we could fake our deaths to get insurance money
and take on hippie names
I’d be Snowphish, you’d be Sunny
we could start a little farm with little white bunnies
cause watching them copulate is very funny”

From Friday Night At The Drive in Bingo, off his new album. He has some old stuff, but that never stops making me giggle.

Also, Juju B Solomon. JuJuBsolomon | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos

"she was getting on her tall skinny bike
with the guy all the hipster chicks like
his hair was very short and his pants very tight
around his calf muscles

Not to mention, the entire song “Punk as Fuck”. Go listen to Juju B Solomon.