Great lyric lines

[sliding-tom]

Hi everybody and good evening.
I'd like to start a thread here to ask you for your favourite lyric lines that are: ironic, funny, very original and/ or inspired you to write a song off of that line.
Here's a couple that I really dig and I might come up with some more:

"That girl who waits on tables used to wait at home for me" - Redd Volkaert (I'm sure it's a cover but I don't know who recorded the original version)

"When I think I used to worry 'bout things like that - I used to worry about rich and skinny 'til I wound up poor and fat" - Delbert McClinton in a duet with Francine Reed :D

"I've got a good mind to give up living - and go shopping instead. I'm gonna buy myself a tombstone and pronounce my own self dead." I'm sure this is ver very old - I first heard it sung by Paul Butterfield, B.B. does that tune, too.

"So scared to be running out of time" - Bonnie Raitt - a little bit on the sad side and nothing peculiar but it hit a string in my inner self and inspired me to write a song about getting older and dying before my time (not finished yet)- you know: "I've got 20 million things to do" - Lowell George

Looking forward to your posts.:cool:

[PeeWee]

One of my favorite Rock lyrics has always been from Satisfaction:

He can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me

I've also always liked Short & Curlies:

It's too bad/ She's got you by the balls/ You can't turn around at all/ She's got your name/ She's got your number/ You're screamin' like thunder/ And you can't get away from it all/ It's too bad/ She's got you by the balls

Now how many of us here have been in that situation??

[cvansickle]

"Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" - Jim Steinman, "Paradise by the Dasboard Light"

[Thwap]

If you choose not to decide...you still have made a choice-Rush "Freewill"

[gururyan]

"I could hide out under there...

...I just made you say underwear"

Barenaked Ladies - "Pinch Me"

[Leftee]

"You can come to my place and sleep on the couch
Lots of people do it and we won't leave you out."

UFO - "I'm a Loser"

[Budman2k]

My favorite form Bob Dylan although I'm sure I mangled it a little :)

"If you could only, stand inside my shoes. Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you."

And of course from BB King

"nobody loves me but my mama....and she may be jivin' too."



Budman

[No Code 5]

"If you could only, stand inside my shoes. Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you."



great song: "You've got a lotta nerve... "

I like: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
Subterranean Homesick Blues

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great song: "You've got a lotta nerve... "

I like: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
Subterranean Homesick Blues

Reminds of a song by my good friend Eddy Clearwater:

"I've got a Chicago weather woman, she change like the weather all the time."
:D

[PeeWee]

From the Ralph Stanley song My Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane comes this chorus:

She's my darlin', my daisy/ She's knock-kneed and lazy/ Humpbacked, bowlegged and she's vain/ Well, they say her teeth are false/ But they rattle when she walks/ She's my long, skinny lanky Sarah Jane

There are more that are pretty good, but the chorus says it all!

I always thought the lyrics to this particular song were funny when I was a kid and I still think they're funny as a grown man! :D

[No Code 5]

Reminds of a song by my good friend Eddy Clearwater:

"I've got a Chicago weather woman, she change like the weather all the time."
:D

That reminds me of another Dylan song, From a Buick 6:

"I've got this grave yard woman, you know she, keeps my kids... but my soulful momma, you know she, keeps me hid... She's a junkyard angel and she, always gives me bread... Well, if I, go down and died, you know she's bound to put a blanket on my bed..."

and later in the song

"I need a steam-shovel momma to, keep away the dead... I need a dumptruck baby to, unload my head... She brings me everything and more, and just like I said... Well, if I, go down and died, you know she's bound to put a blanket on my bed..."

[sliding-tom]

I like the tongue-in-cheek style of a lot of ZZ Top's lyrics, like from "Jesus Just Left Chicago":

"Got him a job through Mississippi - muddy water turned to wine"

You see, I dig wordplay.:D

[No Code 5]

I like the tongue-in-cheek style of a lot of ZZ Top's lyrics, like from "Jesus Just Left Chicago":

"Got him a job through Mississippi - muddy water turned to wine"

You see, I dig wordplay.:D

"She was going down and I was gettin' blown away... then she held it in her hand and this is what she had to say... a Pearl Necklace..."

Oh, you said tongue-in-cheek. :D This one is a little more straight forward. LOL

[Budman2k]

Well since we're on the subject why not just come out and say it like Jimmy Buffet did:

"why don't we get drunk and screw" :D

[sliding-tom]

Well since we're on the subject why not just come out and say it like Jimmy Buffet did:

"why don't we get drunk and screw" :D
Reminds me of Louis Jordan: "What's the use of gettin' sober when you're gonna get drunk again?" :p

[Budman2k]

I always liked this one from Cobain too:


"I wish I was like you, easily amused"

[No Code 5]

My favorite PJ lyric might be:

"I don't wanna take what you can't give..."

Or

"Stop light, plays its part, so I will say, you've got a part..."

Or

"I am lost, I'm no guide... But I'm by your side... I am right by your side"

ask me again in five minutes. LOL They are a band that I connect with on so many levels and there music means a great deal to me. So many of there songs are tied to great/difficult/joyful/sad/depressing/challenging/triumphant momemnts in my life. I feel lucky to have had the music in my life.

[PeeWee]

Again from the Stones, this time from Rocks Off

"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me..."


NOT a lyric, but could be a great one, is written inside the album cover of Exile On Main Street - " I gave you the diamonds, you gave me disease ".

[sliding-tom]

Chicago bluesman Jimmy Johnson:
"I've got the St. Louis blues as blue as I can get - I sent Louis to the liquor store and he ain't come back yet."
" I drank a dozen buds but I don' feel any wiser"

Jimmy Johnson - The Twelve Bar Blues

[Budman2k]

Ah yes, some of the BEST lines IMO are from blues songs. Once again I may not have them exact but I think you'll get the idea.

Pretty sure this one is Earl Hooker:

"is you ever seen a one-eyed woman cry? So sad 'cause tears only come out but one eye"

This one I can't remember who it's from:

"I've got a three handed woman, she's right handed, left handed and underhanded."

And I think this one is Willie Dixon:
"Woke up this morning, got out of bed, went to have some breakfast and the blues was walking across my bread"

[mullard]

Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man

Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son, Is to be satisfied.

Bad Co Shooting Star

Johnny was a schoolboy, When he heard his first Beatles song
Love Me Do, I think it was And from then it didn't take him long
Got himself a guitar, Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit And everything's alright
Don't you know? Johnny told his Mama,
"Hey, Mama, I'm goin' away, Gonna hit the big time gonna be a big star someday"
Mama came to the door with a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said, "Don't cry, Mama smile and wave goodbye"