“In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey!” - Beck, “Loser”
“How do you keep a moron held in rapt suspense? I’ll tell you that later, but first I’ll tell you this!” - Lux Interior of the Cramps, “The Most Exalted Potentate of Love”
“I dunno why you wanna impress Christgau. Aww let that shit die, and light up a new dawn.” - Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, “Kill Y’r Idols”
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine” - Patti Smith, “Gloria”. Best first line to the first song on a first album.
"Sometimes I sing the blues when I know I should be prayin’ " - T-Bone Walker “I Got the Blues”
Two favorites from Natalie Merchant:
Doctors have come from distant cities,just to see me,
Stand over my bed, disbelieving what they’re seeing…
“Wonder”
When I was just a little girl, my momma said to me "Beware of the Devil my child in the dark rocky places he’'ll keep.
“Build A Levee”
She was married when we first met, soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force.
Please allow me to introduce myself; I’ m a man of wealth and taste
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I’ve held, it pays my way but it corrodes my soul
My father was a gambler down in Georgia; he wound up on the wrong end of a gun
But that isn’t the opening line to that song…
Nice one. One of my favorites as well.
I don’t believe we’ve heard from Neil Young yet:
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming…”
(Ohio)
“I came down from the misty mountain, I got lost on the human highway”
(Human Highway)
“Trying to remember what my daddy said, before too much time took away his head”
(Prairie Wind)
mmm
Charlie, you’re not my Charlie any more.
You’re screwing it up.
Mittels Druck und Körperwärme wird aus unserer Konfusion eine Kernfusion und ungeheuer
Feurio! - Einstürzende Neubauten
Hands up who wants to die!*
Sonny’s Burning - Birthday Party*
Why Be Ashamed Of Hatred -There’s Nothing Wrong With Burning
Raping A Slave - Swans
Keep Your Head On The Ground . Push Your Ass Up
A Screw (Holy Money) - Swans
England, my country, The home of the free, such miserable weather…
Can’t Be Sure - Sundays
Suddenly shattered, ear to ear, cut to the guts and I’m screaming to be
Shatter - Shelleyan Orphan
From Cowboy Mouth (the greatest live band ever):
“My eyelids said four thirty, btu the radio clock said six and I was thinking up a reasonable excuse”
“Tina says don’t talk to me like I am deaf and dumb, we’ve broken down and broken up so much that I am numb”
“The Texas sun beats down upon me like the devil’s smile”
“Well it looks like I’m a dumbass, I done dropped the ball again”
Screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves.
“War! The Very first war of our world.”
-Amon Amarth, “War of the gods”
“Sing me a song, you’re a singer
Do me a wrong, you’re a bringer of evil
The Devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you’re a taker”
-Black Sabbath, “Heaven and Hell”
“I killed a man 'cause he killed my goat
I put my hands around his throat”
-Mastodon, “Curl of the Burl”
“There comes the siren that warns of the air raid, there goes sound of the guns sending flack”
-Iron Maiden, “Aces High”
“I’m all messed up in Texas
And I’m lookin for a damn good time”
-Hank 3, “Long Hauls and Close Calls”
“Rise of the one, of the dark Iconoclast”
Symphony X, “Iconoclast”
I was gonna get up off that bar stool
Just as soon as I could figure it out - John Hiatt
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
Yeah, I realized that later, when I hit the “Replay” button in my head. :smack:
It was late.
“Kennesaw Mountain Landis was a bad motherfucker.”
Kennesaw Mountain Landis - Jonathan Coulton
Has anyone mentioned Thunder Road yet?
mmm
I’m coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine gotta gotta be down because I want it all it started out with a kiss how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss It was only a kiss.
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin’ 'bout half past dead.
-The Band.
Nice girls, not one with a defect; cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.
Watching the Detectives.
As apparently others feel in this thread Elvis Costello has a way with words.