# The "Favorite One-Liner or Phrase" from song lyrics game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065 "2003-07-22T01:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/21 "2003-07-22T15:04:21Z")
“The tune you’ll be humming forever, all the words all replaced and wrong” - _Letter From An Occupant_ by **The New Pornographers feat. Neko Case** “What left to do but complain? You better find someone to blame!” - _Get Over It_ by **OK-Go** “God looks like a guidance counsellor, God’s got that smile” - _Alleluia_ by **Dar Williams** (the whole song is genius though) If I can get away with a ‘not-quite-a-one-liner’ then: “She said “of course I love you. Of course I love you as a friend” If I hear that just one more time I’ll cut both my ears off, I swear But I swear things all the time” - _The Hole In My Heart_ by **The Dawn Parade** or even “Closed circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same movie every day And the stars of these films neither die not get killed Just survive constant action replay.” - _Nothing Ever Happens_ by **Del Amitri** ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/22 "2003-07-22T16:07:18Z")
Okay, sorry, I have to ask, and not just because it’s one of the most beguiling lyrics of all time . . . **bluecanary** in the aisle by the light switch, who watches over you? ---
**Author:** ![UES\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@UES\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UES_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/23 "2003-07-22T16:12:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > **"Lookin’ California, feelin’ Minnesota" (Chris Cornell? help?)** Close enough. Your quote is from the song “Outshined”, by Soundgarden, of which Chris Cornell was the lead singer. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/24 "2003-07-22T16:20:26Z")
**Billy Bragg** : You can fight for democracy at home and not in some foreign land _Help Save The Youth of America_ ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/25 "2003-07-22T16:28:34Z")
“Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they’re no use to the dead.” **Nitty Gritty Dirt Band** , “Buy for Me the Rain”. BTW, **Algernon** , “Squeeze Box” is by the Who. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/26 "2003-07-22T16:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW, Algernon, “Squeeze Box” is by the Who. :smack: (Geez. I _knew_ that. I don’t know why I attributed it to Mick et al.) Thanks **Exapno** for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/27 "2003-07-22T16:37:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UES Guy \* > \*\*Close enough. Your quote is from the song “Outshined”, by Soundgarden, of which Chris Cornell was the lead singer. \*\* Thank you. I’ve been Outshined. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/28 "2003-07-22T18:20:36Z")
“Something tells me that Snow White is smarter than we think, seven men at perfect height, seven noses pink.” - Tracy Bonham, _Behind Every Good Woman_ “If I could I’d change my life, I swear to G-d I’d cut it out with a knife and with a glue-stick I’d reapply it in a song.” - Jude, _You Mama You_ ---
**Author:** ![hroeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@hroeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hroeder)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/29 "2003-07-22T18:37:04Z")
“You Can Not Petition the Lord With Prayer. . .” Jim Morrison “And Jesus was a sailor then, when he walked upon the waters. . .” Leonard Cohen “Been down so long it looks like up to me.” Richard Farina (also title of his book.) “Next. . .” Jacques Brel “Short people ain’t got no reason. . .to live.” Randy Newman ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/30 "2003-07-22T18:39:36Z")
Twice shy and dog tired be cause you’re been bitten Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam Helplessly F\*&ked in the ass by a legion of 40 ex-cons That’s what it feels like when you walk all over me Oingo Boingo - Helpless Apparently nobody’s happy in heaven All the lights are too bright and the music is always too loud And people’d be shocked if you told them they’re spending their life everafter On a cold and uncomfortable cloud Frazier Chorus - Heaven (possibly misquoted) Tiny voices, echoes of our heritage, Our long and sallow faces turn the other way, Tiny voices, harbored deep within As we outwardly deny that they have something to say, And if we don’t confront them they will never go away Bad Religion - Tiny Voices Howzabout a knuckle sandwich A side of fries and and iced cold bevarage? Howzabout a mout full of fist Gonna ram it in cram it in right to my wrist Stretch Armstrong - Knuckle Sandwich ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/31 "2003-07-22T20:01:49Z")
The BEST line EVER from ANY song ANYWHERE follows: “Now I have to get off my knees, because I have some shopping to do.” –Diamanda Galas in “Do You Take This Man?” from _The Sporting Life,_ her collaboration with John Paul Jones, the source of such other gems as “Hide all the knives, cuz Baby’s insane,” and “My teeth are in your brain, I feel your pain.” And let’s not forget JoCarol Pierce, whose _Bad Girls Upset By the Truth_ includes such lines as: “Friends are great, but for a truly exciting life you must have strangers,” and “Men are a pack of animals, but you have got to capture yourself one to protect you from all the rest.” And Stephin Merritt has written such lyrics as “Give me another chance. I won’t make you happy, but you’ll never be happy anyway,” and “On a ferris wheel, on a night on Coney Island/There were more stars than there are prostitutes in Thailand.” ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/32 "2003-07-22T22:22:57Z")
“The log was in my pocket When Lucy met the rockett” Deep Purple, Knocking at Your Back Door But what about… “He was a cunning linguist, a master of many tongues” (thanks for the memory!) ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/33 "2003-07-23T01:28:06Z")
My name is Cain and I am now un-Abel. From Jenny Says by Cowboy Junkies. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/34 "2003-07-23T01:36:50Z")
“The only real drug problem is scoring real good drugs” Herojuana **NOFX** ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/35 "2003-07-23T03:43:10Z")
Critics at their worst could never criticize the way that you do no, there’s no one else, I find, to undermine or dash a hope quite like you and you do it so casually, too Aimee Mann, _Nothing is Good Enough_ Now that I’ve met you, would you object to never seeing each other again? Aimee Mann, _Deathly_ I swear that I do listen to music from other artists, but these two phrases stick to me. Actually fairly relevant in the context of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/36 "2003-07-23T03:48:47Z")
Critics at their worst could never criticize the way that you do no, there’s no one else, I find, to undermine or dash a hope quite like you and you do it so casually, too Aimee Mann, _Nothing is Good Enough_ Now that I’ve met you, would you object to never seeing each other again? Aimee Mann, _Deathly_ I swear that I do listen to music from other artists, but these two phrases stick to me. Actually fairly relevant in the context of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/37 "2003-07-23T05:36:12Z")
If he really thinks we’re the Devil Then let’s send him to Hell - Blue Oyster Cult Like acid and oil on a madman’s face His reason tends to fly away - Blue Oyster Cult I think you’d better hold your tongue Although you’ve never been that strong - Elvis Costello ’cause I don’t know if you’ve been loving somebody. I only know it isn’t mine. - Elvis Costello I know that this is vitriol. no solution, spleen-venting, But I feel better having screamed. don’t you? - REM Four seasons in one day -Crowded House That’ll do for now. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/38 "2003-07-23T05:47:25Z")
Now the damage’s done and we’re back out on the run Funny how everything was roses when we held onto the guns Just because your winning don’t mean you’re the lucky one. **Breakdown** , Guns N’ Roses ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/39 "2003-07-23T13:34:48Z")
If this bar were a school i’d have a degree Reverend Horton Heat - Gotta Hand it to me ---
**Author:** ![TVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@TVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVS)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/40 "2003-07-23T14:08:07Z")
> [@](#): > > From Jenny Says by Cowboy Junkies. That’s Cowboy Mouth. Now that I’ve nitpicked, time to make a fool of myself. I don’t remember the song, and I’m probably butchering the lyrics, but… “Since I moved to LA, I’ve had more motorcycles stolen than Nirvana has about Heroin.” – Goldfinger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065.md?page=3)