The best *one line* from song lyrics?

[Deleted member 1258]

Why does the Doctor have no face

The Rolling Stones Sister Morphine

 

[PaulB]

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

That's hard to beat, innit?

 

[Cyclist33]

Sparklehorse: Spirit Ditch

The owls have been talking to me / But I'm sworn to secrecy

Sworn to screechery, surely?

 

[Yellow Fang]

We take a drink and step outside, an angry voice and one who cried.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Talking about Billy Bragg's New England, I thought these were the lines he nicked off Paul Simon:

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you cared.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice-pick that made his ears burn.

 

[MontyVeda]

Hard to pick a single line from some songs...

...but your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you...

or

...even this doggerel that flows from my pen has just been written by another twenty telepathic men.

 

[Cyclist33]

"If you want the position of God then take the responsibility"
- Orbital, "You Lot"

Ok, it's a sample, but still, a cracking line and with a wicked break afterwards.

 

[roadrash]

We take a drink and step outside, an angry voice and one who cried.

Ahh .........joy division, so many good lyrics to choose from

 

[Fnaar]

Talking about Billy Bragg's New England, I thought these were the lines he nicked off Paul Simon:

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you cared.

No, he stole from Paul Simon:

It starts down in Wapping
There ain't no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea,
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend's the end


Or was it "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long" ?

 

[roadrash]

O.M.D.... ENOLA GAY

Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away

and so true

 

[Phil Fouracre]

Got to be Beautiful South for me - "Jesus gave out candles to the dim and partially lit" think they got it spot on!

 

[nickyboy]

She's got more rabbit that Sainsbury's

 

[germanicdogman]

David bowie life on mars ?
It's on America's tortured brow,that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

 

[Herbie]

As much as I love Johnny Cash and that song, it has to be acknowledge that it was a cover version of a Nine Inch Nail's song.

his version is far far far superior