# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/41 "2003-07-23T17:46:00Z")
“Some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic, But I had a good life all the way” ---------------------------Jimmy Buffett, “He went to Paris” “When God made me born a yankee He was teasin’.” ----------------------------Indigo Girls, “Southland in the Springtime” “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone.” -----------------------------Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” “Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell - Children will listen” -----------------------------Stephen Sondheim, _Into The Woods_ ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/42 "2003-07-25T00:50:56Z")
_She don’t rock and roll/She don’t like it/She don’t do the stroll/Well she don’t do it right_ -Syd Barrett, “Here I Go” _I don’t want to go to Sunset Strip, I don’t want to feel the emptiness/Old marquees with stupid band names I don’t want to go to Sunset Strip_ -Cake ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/43 "2003-07-25T01:21:37Z")
The best line from any song, and one which I have used many times in real life is: **If we sleep together, would you like me better** _Garbage - Sleep Together_ ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/44 "2003-07-25T01:45:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saramamlana \* > [ > “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_ \*\* I love Jude. Another good line is “I wish you wished I wished you love” from I Do. I also liked Indian Lover Boy’s first line “And if you wed another, I would have to kill you both in bed my lover.” “Lover you should have come over…It’s not too late” Jeff Buckley’s Lover You Should Have Come Over. Here’s a half-liner “catharsis between your knees…” Chris Whitley’s God My Heart Is Ready Now ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/45 "2003-07-25T02:07:09Z")
“They decide and the shotgun sings the song.” - **Who** “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” - **Dylan** “And then one day you find, ten years had got behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun” - **Pink Floyd** “Look, Mummy! There’s an airplane up in the sky.” - **liitle kid** “I was drowning in my sorrows, when my sorrows learned to swim.” - **U2** “Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.” - **Beatles** “Tighten up on my organ, now!” - **Archie Bell** “Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction” - **Reunion** “Some people tell me that the blues ain’t bad. Worst ‘ole feelin’ I most ever had.” - **Robert Johnson** “Somebody got my batteries run down on this machine.” - **RJ** “I don’t care if it rains or freezes Long as I got my plastic Jesus” - **Paul Newman?** “He’s got him fixed!” - **Jethro Tull** “Pastoral scene of the Gallant South. The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth!” - **Billie Hoiday** “I’ll stop there…” - **if6was9** ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/46 "2003-07-25T04:19:11Z")
“All up in my face like fuckin’ Betty Crocker!” --some song by 311 that I can never remember the name of. “…pimpin’ hoes and clockin’ a grip like my name was Dolomite…” --Snoop Dogg in another song that escapes me for the moment. ---
**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 25, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/47 "2003-07-25T06:04:22Z")
“Look, Mummy! There’s an airplane up in the sky.” - liitle kid Pink Floyd - The Wall “I don’t care if it rains or freezes Long as I got my plastic Jesus” - Paul Newman? His identical twin brother, Randy Newman 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/48 "2003-07-25T07:26:52Z")
Heh, it’s hard to quote Robert Johnson lyrics, but “And I went to the mountain, lookin’ far as my eye could see Some other man got my woman and the lonesome blues got me.” “I wish I was a catfish/Swimmin’ in a hole/Deep blue sea/I’d have all you good-lookin’ women fishin’ after me.” -Muddy Waters [Actually, pretty much all of Catfish Blues/Rolling Stone. There’s a line in there that I think sums up the blues: “Two trains runnin’, neither one going my way. One after midnight, the other just 'fore day.”] More later. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/49 "2003-07-25T08:25:23Z")
“Gettin’ crazy with the Cheese Whiz!” - _Loser_ by Beck. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/50 "2003-07-25T11:03:09Z")
'I whipped off her bloomers and stiffened my thumb, and applied rotation on her sugar plum" - Frank Zappa “Dyna-moe Humm” 'And the generals sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side" - Pink Floyd “Us and Them” ---
**Author:** ![Iyamity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/96bed5/32.png) [@Iyamity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iyamity)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/51 "2003-07-25T12:26:58Z")
“Keeper of the gates of wisdom - please let me in,” Wynonna, ‘My Strongest Weakness’ ---
**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 25, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/52 "2003-07-25T14:01:38Z")
“Girls don’t like boys girls like cars and monaaaayyyyyyy.” Boys and Girls - **Good Charlotte** ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/53 "2003-07-25T23:59:58Z")
“Elenore gee I think you’re swell and you really do me well…you’re my pride and joy et cetera.” - _Elenore_, The Turtles ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065/54 "2003-07-26T01:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*Heh, it’s hard to quote Robert Johnson lyrics, but “And I went to the mountain, lookin’ far as my eye could see > Some other man got my woman and the lonesome blues got me.” > > “I wish I was a catfish/Swimmin’ in a hole/Deep blue sea/I’d have all you good-lookin’ women fishin’ after me.” -Muddy Waters [Actually, pretty much all of Catfish Blues/Rolling Stone. There’s a line in there that I think sums up the blues: “Two trains runnin’, neither one going my way. One after midnight, the other just 'fore day.”] > > More later. \*\* Ha Ha! “The train, it left the station with two lights on behind. The blue light was my blues and the red light was my mind.” BTW What is a bluesman’s epitaph? "Din’t wake up dis mo’nin’ " [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-favorite-one-liner-or-phrase-from-song-lyrics-game/190065.md?page=2)