Favorite lines from songs...

[itschris]

Speakerman put up a great post on favorite movie lines and I thought this would be a good one too. Last night I was digging through a carton and found some of my old albums. One of them was the Jeff Beck's Flash allbum where he did a bunch of songs with different singers. One of my favorites was a song called Ambitious he did with Jimmy Hall doing vocals. It's just a kick a$$ song. I don't have a turntable but was able to find the song on Itunes. I listened to it 3 or 4 times in a row. There was one line that always used to make me smirk with a sh*t-eating grin... and it hadn't changed. It's got this real hard just droning driving beat...

"... well he said, 'I'm not sure what it is I must have so I guess I'll just take ev-ery-thing.... He's just ambitious... not a bad man... just ambitious"

I was just a young upstart when that song came out and I clung to anything like that.

 

[MidnightSensi]

I have lots of lyrics I like, so I might add to this thread a bit at a time...to start....

I'm a big Sublime fan. If you don't own Sublime albums, you should!!!!!

R.I.P. Bradley!


From Pool Shark...
Lying in my plastic bed
Thinking how thinking how things wern't so cool me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom
Tying off that dinosaur tonight
It used to be so cool
Now I've got the needle
I can shake
But I can't bleed
Take it away, but I want more and more
One day I'm gonna loose the war


From Slow Ride....
I feel a little lucky so I try to play it cool.
I think she laughs inside.
With the words that burn like fire in my mouth.
Try to be a man like i got the master plan, night out on the town.
Drink and dance and we can turn it out.


From Let's Go Get Stoned
I swear sometimes your taking me for granted
I swear sometimes that your a whore
I swear but I know there ain't no reason
'cuz everything is such a bore

last night I had a dream
lord it made me sick
saw you in your bedroom suckin' someone elses ****

my friends all laughed
said it was my fault
said it's time that it happened to me

but i know that the show
was much more than a blow
so I'm waiting for the tide to get low
waiting for the tide to get low

"damn, now lick my balls"
"The rhythm, the rebel"
"the young hefer"
"the rhythm, the rebel"
"I said suck the mother ****er your bitin' it ****!"

if I was an ant crawlin' upon the wall
tell me baby would it make no difference at all
if I was a roach on a tree tell me would you smoke me

bright lights put me in trance
but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance

I don't gamble but I bet
I'm gonna die if I don't get a cigarette
just because I always play the mac
put the monkey on my back


From Greatest Hits...
I'm drunk by noon, but that's OK
I'll be President some day
Light my ciggarette, and I think
Bert Senzanka made me drink
Load the box and I'll pump that ****
Got my (It's the Ziggens) greatest hits

 

[Adam]

Some that come to mind:

Nibble on my d*** like a rat does cheese. (My friends in high school and I loved that line.)

But now all the poodles run to my house for the funky cold medina.

 

[newaudiofile]

This one always makes me laugh

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She was standing at the front door
When I came home last night
A good book in her left hand
And a rollin' pin in the right
She said you've come home for the last time
With whiskey on your breath
If you don't listen to my preachin' boy
I'm goin' to have to beat you half to death


First she hit my glasses
'Cause she knows that I can't see
She said you ain't goin' nowhere boy
'Til you spend a little time with me
Then the boys called from the honky tonk
Said there's a party goin' on down here
Well she might've took my car keys
But she forgot about my old John Deere

So give me just a one more last chance
Before you say we're through
I know I drive you crazy baby
It's the best that I can do
We're just some good ol' boys, a makin' noise
I ain't a runnin' 'round on you
Give me just a one more last chance
Before you say we're through

 

[bandphan]

Phish, Mark the Hall Germany... Doing a cover of cities by the talking heads, a chick in the front row pulls her shirt off , and without missing a beat,Trey(as if it were written), says "are those things real, nicccee". I think its on the slip stitch and pass live cd, but there were some who were fortunate to be there

 

[speakerman39]

" My milk-shake brings all the boys to the yard! " Got milk?

Cheers,

Phil

PS Sorry I had a lot of sugar today.

 

[Phil Taylor]

My favorite line of all time is from Todd Rundgren's classic "Heavy Metal Kids" where he growls (with his usual tongue-in-cheek humor) ---

I know I could make the world sooo peaceful and calm
If I could Oooonly get my hands on a Hydrogen Bomb...

BTW - Fun thread topic.

 

[MDS]

I know I could make the world sooo peaceful and calm
If I could Oooonly get my hands on a Hydrogen Bomb...

Along those lines: Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher

Here comes a helicopter, second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered, only god can say
If I had a rocket launcher (3x)
I'd make somebody pay.

It is impossible to pick one favorite line or even one favorite song.

 

[itschris]

From Digital Underground. I think the song is Sex Packets (back from my college days)

"Well they say that birds do it, bees do it... when it's time to freak... Money-B gets to it. Not a heavyweight, but I go 12 rounds and with a jab of the stick, I'm going lick for lick... so... gimme the helmet.. I'll be the stuntman..."

I'll use that last line at least once a month in a meeting:

President/CEO/Board Member: "This [insert any of a gazillion messes or catastrophes we deal with every day at the office] needs [to get fixed, a leader, a babysitter, someone to figure it all out]. Who's gonna take it?

Me: "Gimme the helmet. I'll be the stuntman."

It always gets a good laugh no matter how many times I say it. Also, I use to persuade those below me: "Get a helmet... be the stuntman!"

See how I changed it up? It's very versatile in the workplace!

 

[Hawkeye]

Hey bartender over here
Two more shots
And two more beers
Sir turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They're really great
For righting wrongs
You hit the target
And win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim
With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gain terrain
With the bravery of being out of range
With the bravery of being out of range
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range


Roger Waters

 

[jliedeka]

And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile. It don't cost very much but it lasts a long while. Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone. No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun. Well done. Hot dog bun. My sister's a nun.

 

[Haoleb]

I dont really like this song but when i first heard it it did make me laugh..

Last night I came in at 2 with a 10
But at 10 I woke up with a 2
I’ve got 20/20 vision when I ain’t drinking
But lord when I do I lose
I ain’t never gone to bed with an uglier woman
But I sure woke up with a few
Last night I came in at 2 with a 10
But at 10 I woke up with a 2

From, "Ten with a two" by Kenny Chesney

 

[cl35m]

she's my best friend's girlfriend
she used to be mine

 

[jamie2112]

"once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."

"Too much of everything is just enough"

 

[jostenmeat]

I never owned any Zappa albums, but I always thought he was the funniest.

"Catholic girls . . .with a tiny little mustache. . ."

"Why does it, why does it . . . why does it hurt when I peeeee"

 

[Phil Taylor]

I never owned any Zappa albums, but I always thought he was the funniest.

"Catholic girls . . .with a tiny little mustache. . ."

"Why does it, why does it . . . why does it hurt when I peeeee"

More from Zappa's classic Apostrophe LP --

"Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow..."

"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"

"The Furtrapper - who was strictly from commercial - STRICTLY COMMERCIAL - he went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal with a lead-filled snowshoe..."

As a side note - I had a music composition class in college back in '76 and my instructor lauded Zappa as the "premier composer of modern contemporary music". He was indeed totally unique.

 

[speakerman39]

" I'm too sexy for my shirt ".........just wished this was true!

Cheers,

Phil

 

[speakerman39]

" We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time " This song still touches me today. More or less, it is a timeless classic imho.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[Geno]

From Neil Young's "Old Man"

Doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you...

 

[unreal.freak]

This whole song is awesome:

I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly reknown
She was a black haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Trying' to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves in the summertime
In the sweet summertime

We weren't in love oh no far from it
We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Living by the sword

And we'd steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, the alley, the trusty woods
I used her she used me
But neither one cared
We were getting our share

Workin' on our night moves
Trying to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin' on out night moves
In the summertime
And oh the wonder
Felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder

I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in