The best *one line* from song lyrics?

[roadrash]

a time for giving, a time for getting, a time for forgiving and a time for forgetting


....all kneel and praise Sir Cliff !

nnnNNOO. AARRGGHH

 

[MontyVeda]

nnnNNOO. AARRGGHH

CHRISTMAS TIME, MISTLETOE AND WINE
CHILDREN SINGING CHRISTIAN RHYME!

 

[roadrash]

CHRISTMAS TIME, MISTLETOE AND WINE
CHILDREN SINGING CHRISTIAN RHYME!

aarrgghh this.... doth offend my eyes

 

[swee'pea99]

I once had to sign that song, and many other Xmas ditties, over and over again in a shopping centre to raise money for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. My hands still start to twitch when I hear it, and not in a good way.

God, what a vision of hell.

 

[slowwww]

I fully agree re 'Like a rolling stone'. My favourite being "when you ain't got nothing, you got nothign to lose".

On a lighter note, I also love the whimsy of Elivis Costello's "..they call her Natasha but she looks like Elsie" from 'I don't want to go to Chelsea'

 

[MetalPig]

"and i couldn't believe the size of her bum, but she used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum".

The Macc Lads.

 

[Archie_tect]

I once had to sign that song, and many other Xmas ditties, over and over again in a shopping centre to raise money for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People...

I feel sorry for the dogs...

 

[captain nemo1701]

Other great Floyd bits:
You wore out your welcome with random precision....
Shine on You Crazy Diamond

 

[Maverick Goose]

''Finished with my woman, 'cos she could not help me with my mind'' -good old Ozzy and the gang

 

[roadrash]

Gary numan
down in the park with the machmen meet the machines playing kill by numbers

 

[Acyclo]

I've got to agree with ColinJ and Luddite Joe, almost every line by JCC is worthy. Even when he's advertising chips: 'Their smiles could launch a thousand ships, and all because they're 'avin' chips.'

But check out this line from Psycle Sluts parts 1 and 2: 'twin-wheeled existentialists steeped in the sterile excrements of a doomed democracy, whose post-nietzschean sensibilities reject the bovine gregariousness of a senile oligarchy'. Get the whole thing here:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmM5ygFOso

 

[MattMM]

Surprised this hasn't came up:

"Cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin, and she's sexually enlightened by Cosmpolitan"

Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I think I'm alone in HATING the Johnny Cash version. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big JC fan, and I LOOOOOOVE most of the 'American' stuff, but that song (and the vid) just seem incongruous to me, they just don't go with JC, I'm afraid. Most of the song works, but the 'hurt' bit (if meant physically) just doesn't work for me.

I'm with you on Hurt, in my opinion he's done a couple of half decent songs but mainly he's a bit of an old ham.

 

[LutherB]

'Taxes, death and trouble, this I know' - Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man

'Son, I am thirty, I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty' - Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro

'She's gone and it's quiet now, took her mother with her, left town' - Tindersticks - She's Gone

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Did you see the BBC programme about Joan Baez recently?

Unfortunately no, but I did enjoy the one about the Everly Brothers