# What Are Your Favorite Songs Lines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210 "2001-10-24T00:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Mr\_Strange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Strange)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/1 "2001-10-24T00:58:15Z")
Just follow the title… We went to Sears to get our christmas pictures, and they wouldn’t let us make the metal sign. -Pantera Fans in Love by Nerf Herder and Me and Steve are the bread and you’re the meat bitch! -Love Sandwich by Nerf Herder ---
**Author:** ![tapioca\_tundra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tapioca\_tundra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapioca_tundra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/2 "2001-10-24T02:28:56Z")
~~so here’s your holiday (for now) karma police arrest this man he talks in maths if I can’t have you right now, I’ll wait here you know my name, look up the number dirt grits beneath my feet, the stair creaks, I precariously sneak ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/3 "2001-10-24T02:41:49Z")
“Because the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance.” Bruce Springsteen, “Rosalita” The most joyous line in the history of rock. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/4 "2001-10-24T03:00:21Z")
…You love to play the clown… I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down. You do what you do, you say what you say, you always try to be everything to everyone… Everclear. -sigh- ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/5 "2001-10-24T03:02:30Z")
I’m going to put this to music somehow. [http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/hate.html](http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/hate.html) ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/6 "2001-10-24T03:13:09Z")
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/7 "2001-10-24T03:16:23Z")
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. We chased our pleasures here, dug our treasures there, can you still recall the time we cried? Break on through to the other side. And (snicker) put all the blame on VCR… ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/8 "2001-10-24T03:28:38Z")
Seen a shooting star tonight And I thought of you. You were trying to break into another world A world I never knew. I always kind of wondered If you ever made it through. Seen a shooting star tonight And I thought of you. Seen a shooting star tonight And I thought of me. If I was still the same If I ever became what you wanted me to be Did I miss the mark or Over-step the line That only you could see? Seen a shooting star tonight And I thought of me. _Shooting Star_\*, Bob Dylan So shoot me, it’s a few lines. 😉 Bob Dylan, _My Back Pages_ ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/9 "2001-10-24T03:29:26Z")
Well I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused… I said wait a minute Chester, now I’m a peaceful man, he said that’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can… Give her inches and feed her well…[sub]How’d that get in there?[/sub] Her friends are so jealous, you know how bad girls get… ---
**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 24, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/10 "2001-10-24T04:00:17Z")
Maybe a lover comes along Maybe in story or in song Maybe the heart is really strong A million lemmings can’t be wrong ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/11 "2001-10-24T04:00:40Z")
**Anticay** , good choice. Me? “They cut off my legs, now I’m an amputee/God damn you!”. It cracks me up every time! ---
**Author:** ![Phoebestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Phoebestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoebestar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/12 "2001-10-24T04:04:54Z")
“So you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.” – Tori Amos, “Precious Things” “I believe in peace, bitch.” – Tori Amos, “The Waitress” “I’ll hold you if you feel you’ll fall I’ll hold your hand if you just need a friend I’ll hold the line so you can call I’ll hold the feelings you don’t want to end” – Moxy Fruvous, “I Will Hold On” “My poor generation we’re airborn with nothing to land on. Baffled by bullshit, grounded with nothin’ to stand on.” – Moxy Fruvous, “My Poor Generation” “If you’ve never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.” – Counting Crows, “Mrs. Potter’s Lullabye” “and what if there are no damsels in distress what if i knew that and i called your bluff? don’t you think every kitten figures out how to get down whether or not you ever show up i am not a pretty girl” – Ani Difranco, “Not a Pretty Girl” ---
**Author:** ![TheOtherOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@TheOtherOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOtherOne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/13 "2001-10-24T04:13:19Z")
**DPWite** , you stole my choice. That’s the first line that popped into my head! Anyway, here goes: “I know the rent is in arrears The dog has not been fed in years I know it’s worse than it appears, but, It’s alright…” The Grateful Dead, Touch of Grey “What is the truth, what is the fateful lasting proof? What is the central theme to this everlasting spoof?” Phish, Halley’s Comet “Cat on a tin roof Dogs in a pile Nothin’ left to do But smile smile smile” Grateful Dead, He’s Gone (makes me want to cry every time I hear that damn song… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/14 "2001-10-24T04:15:16Z")
_Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound Raindrops taste like tears without the pain._ Queensryche, “Another Rainy Night” ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/15 "2001-10-24T04:17:51Z")
> [@](#): > > and life is a sleazy stranger > who looks vaguely familiar > flirting with a bimbo named disaster > at the end of the bar > and i am telling you that i am different > than you are -Ani DiFranco, “The Million You Never Made” > [@](#): > > i wish i didn’t have this nervous laugh > i wish i didn’t say half the stuff i say > i wish i could just learn to cover my tracks > i guess i’m not concerned about getting away > > 'cause every time i try to hold my tongue > it slips like a fish from a line > they say if you want to play > you should learn how to play dumb > i guess i can’t bring myself to waste your time -Ani DiFranco, “Light of Some Kind” Both from Not A Pretty Girl, which is an awesome CD ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/16 "2001-10-24T04:20:23Z")
There’s things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? Counting Crows, _Raining in Baltimore_ ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/17 "2001-10-24T04:20:26Z")
“And I don’t believe in God, so I can’t be saved” - Ben Folds Five, _Mess_ “We were once so close to heaven, Peter came out and gave us medals, declaring us the nicest of the damned” - They Might Be Giants, _Road Movie to Berlin_ “I believe my shirt is wearing thin and change is what I believe in” - R.E.M., _I Believe_ “You always had more than I really wanted, come on honey, help me pick up the change” - Wilco, _Pick Up the Change_ “I just can’t find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read” - Wilco, _Box Full of Letters_ “I don’t need a heaven, I don’t need religion, I am in the place where I should be…I am breathing water, I am breathing water - you know a body’s got to breathe” - R.E.M., _Undertow_ “I lost an arm, no one harmed, you diplomatically alarmed. I sulked away to lick my thin skin.” - R.E.M., {i]I’m Not Over You\* “He’s just a hero in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save. They say he rode in on the back of a pickup, and he won’t leave town till you remember his name” - Liz Phair, _Soap Star Joe_ There are just too many to list - these are the first I thought of. ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/18 "2001-10-24T04:57:21Z")
"And if I swallow anything evil Put your finger down my throat If I shiver, please give me a blanket Keep me warm, let me wear your coat " -The Who- Behind blue eyes “I hear she still grants forgiveness although I willingly forgot her” -Tori Amos- Liquid Diamonds “somtimes i breathe you in…” -Tori Amos- Hey Jupiter “when i say you sucked my brain out the english translation is i am in love with you and it is no fun but i don’t use words like love 'cuz works like that don’t matter but don’t look so offended you know, you should be flattered” Ani Difranco- Dilate “we barely have time to react in this world let alone rehearse and I don’t think I’m better than you but I don’t think that I’m worse” -Ani Difranco-Letter to John ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/19 "2001-10-24T05:17:07Z")
She comes skimming through rays of violet, She can wade in a drop of dew. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210/20 "2001-10-24T05:21:48Z")
Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am Stuck in the middle with you – Bob Dylan [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-lines/89210.md?page=2)