Best one liners in lyrics?

[Bapu]

7 minutes ago, RobertWS said:

 

Is there even a word for that type of ingenious word segue?

 

Inter-Juxtapo-xfade?

[PhonoBrainer]

"I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once, as I ever was."

  the Right Honorable Tobias Keith

[whoisp]

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year

I guess everyone should know who wrote that 

[Bapu]

"I know, everybody funny, now you funny too" - GeorgeThorogood

[Pragi]

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol.

Qotsa are leaving no space for discussions.

 

Edited December 22, 2022 by Pragi

[paulo]

"Take your head out of your *****, spend some time with the looking glass and I'll stand corrected if it shows I'm wrong" - Paulo.

 

[whoisp]

43 minutes ago, paulo said:

"Take your head out of your *****, spend some time with the looking glass and I'll stand corrected if it shows I'm wrong" - Paulo.

 

Nice plug "Living in a Matrix with propaganda signs"  - Whoisp?

[rfssongs]

Little feat -old folks boogie (this is the best line, but it's really the whole song)

"And you know that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill"

 

[smallstonefan]

“Is there a line that I could write sad enough to make you cry?”

Gin Blossoms

[Grem]

No one told you when to run..

you missed the starting gun. 

 

PF

[Grem]

Answer the call

While you still hear it all,

Cause nobody will if you won't. 

DT

[Grem]

Slim was so pleased when I had eased into his trap of death.

ZZ Top

[Vernon Barnes]

"And if you never liked pulling teeth
Then why? Why did you tie me in the dentist's chair?"

From Richard Thompson's "Missie How You Let Me Down"

And another contender, the opening lines of the same song.

" Hailstones and a sickle moon and the north wind races."
 

[Vernon Barnes]

And Thompson again. From "Bone Through Her Nose".

"Oh, she gets her suits from a personal friend, Coco the clown
She got dustman's jacket, inside out, it's a party gown"

[rfssongs]

"it's alright we told you what to dream"

(For the Floyd fans)

 

[bitflipper]

Just about any lyric Roger Waters ever penned. One of my favorites is...

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and every day the paper boy brings more

- Brain Damage, Dark Side of the Moon

[Grem]

19 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Just about any lyric Roger Waters ever penned.

Yep.

[Notes_Norton]

"She's living in L A, with my best old ex-friend Ray" - Jim Croce

"The senoritas don't care-o, when there's no dinero" -  Zac Brown

"If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" - Bellamy Brothers

"The girl is your sister but your mama don't know" - Sir Lancelot
 

[whoisp]

On 12/24/2022 at 10:30 PM, bitflipper said:

Just about any lyric Roger Waters ever penned. One of my favorites is...

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and every day the paper boy brings more

- Brain Damage, Dark Side of the Moon

If you look at top 10 songer writers Roger is not even in there, Mick Jagger / Keith Richards are number 6 WTF 

 

[bitflipper]

55 minutes ago, whoisp said:

If you look at top 10 songer writers Roger is not even in there, Mick Jagger / Keith Richards are number 6 WTF 

Tbh, he wouldn't be on my top 10 list of songwriters, either. A songwriter is one who's proficient at every aspect of song creation, from rhythm to melody to arranging and instrumentation. Paul Simon is a songwriter, perhaps the best ever. Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Smokey Robinson, Randy Newman, Brian Wilson, Freddy Mercury and Dolly Parton are songwriters.

Now, if we're talking top 10 lyricists then Roger would definitely make the list, along with Bernie Taupin, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Jim Morrison. I'd even tack on the somewhat controversial Neil Peart in the honorable mentions.