The best *one line* from song lyrics?

[ColinJ]

Or you could go see him do it live like I did last Monday

Isn't he doing the Yuppie version these days - Beasley Boulevard?

 

[screenman]

Rod Stewart,

I must have looked a creep in my army surplus jeep.

Yep! I did, before you ask.

 

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 2928403, member: 1314"]Billy Bragg nicked that when providing additional lines for Kirsty Macoll's version of A new England:

When at last it didn’t ring I knew it wasn’t you[/quote]
Here's another great lyric from that song
"I don't feel bad about letting you go, I just feel sad about letting you know"

 

[Melonfish]

"for a minute there, i lost myself"
Radiohead - Karma Police
not sure why but this one always strikes home for me, though i like radioheads songs on many levels.

"like a fire i'm drawn to her lust, can't run from her but lord i must"
tonic mountain.

 

[TVC]

Isn't he doing the Yuppie version these days - Beasley Boulevard?

Yes, he does both together.

 

[Diggs]

Here's another great lyric from that song
"I don't feel bad about letting you go, I just feel sad about letting you know"

I was being restrained.... I wouldn't know where to stop if we started on Billy Bragg*

*In a positive way, realise that he's a bit "marmite"

 

[germanicdogman]

steppenwolf. snowblind friend
He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow

 

[slowmotion]

The greatest rhyme of all time from White Punks on Dope by The Tubes

Other dudes are living in the ghetto, but born in Pacific Heights don't seem much betto...

 

[PaulB]

'But I can put a tennis racket up against my face, and pretend that I'm Kendo Nagasaki.'

Close the thread.

 

[TVC]

O Dracula comes from Transylvania, Stevie Nicks books about Kleptomania, Johnny looked out of his bedroom window and shouted to his mum, Fred Titmus.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

She's acting single, I'm drinking doubles.

 

[marknotgeorge]

One for @Fnaar by Semisonic:

Get a grip on yourself take my advice
I got a grip on myself and it feels nice

 

[Maverick Goose]

" Because tonight is just like any other night, that's why you're on your own tonight" . The Smiths again, 'I Know It's Over' [good one for Valentine's day....]

 

[vernon]

You bring to mind a Viz carton I came across y'day while looking for something else...
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Pity life doesn't imitate art.

I'd not mourn the absence of Morrisey.

 

[50000tears]

One of my favourites from Evanescence

"Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself"

My forum name comes from the same track!