Best one liners in lyrics?

[rfssongs]

"First One says she's got my child but it don't look like me" - Dead

[bjornpdx]

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo
But it's a real beauty
A Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven't a clue

-Jimmie Buffet
Not a one liner I guess but it makes me smile every time I hear it.

[rfssongs]

Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know it's my own damn fault.

That would be my favorite from that song.

[mettelus]

"Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, but you only want the ones you can't get." - Eagles

[Notes_Norton]

You've got the nicest North America, this sailor ever saw,
I'd like to feel your warm Brazil and touch your, Panama. - Michael Franks (from Popsicle Toes).

OK it's two lines, but it's perhaps the most clever lyrics to use geography to get your hands on sensual parts of a female's body.

 

You can squeeze my lemon ’til the juice run down my leg - Robert Johnson

 

I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive
You gotta treat me better, or it gotta be your funeral and my trial - Sonny Boy Williamson II

 

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, You make it hard - Crosby Stills & Nash (pretty sexy for its day)

 

I'm glad I don't live in a trailer - Jimmy Buffett

[Shane_B.]

This one has two lines ...

"It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."

"Nobody loves no one."

Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

Edited December 28, 2022 by Shane_B.

[Russell]

"The devil made me do it the first time, the second time I done it on my own"

Waylon Jennings - "Black Rose"

[jackson white]

1 hour ago, Russell said:

"The devil made me do it the first time, the second time I done it on my own"

Billy Joe Shaver - "Black Rose"

[Wibbles]

First heard as a messed-up teenager, it still gets to me:

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand - Disorder by Joy Division

[craigb]

Lots of stuff by Kansas was pretty heady too.  When I get the time I'll have to track some down...

[whoisp]

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want! a decent vocal strip ?

[craigb]

1 minute ago, whoisp said:

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want! a decent vocal strip ?

Not a vocal strip, but I had just picked up a TC Helicon Voice One (to go with my Antares AVP-1 - think "Cher" auto-tune!) and was dying to have some fun messing around with vocals on it when I lost everything (in 2009)...  I had already set up patches to make me sound like a variety of voices from Barry White to a little girl with some minor variations that I intended to use to make background (or even choir-like) vocals.  Oh well!  It would have been fun.

[Thomas Roller]

"MacArthur Park is melting in the rain "

Jimmy Webb

[SteveStrummerUK]

No, I can't believe it, that I lost you
Coulda had you easy, just didn't come true
Now another boy fills your groin with joy
I was away too long
It's the same old song, I'm gone

 

Motörhead: Same Old Song, I’m Gone

Pure genius ?

[SteveStrummerUK]

Making love to
The Mersey Tunnel
With a sausage, have you ever been to Liverpool?

The Stranglers: London Lady

[SteveStrummerUK]

Smash it up, you can keep your krishna burgers
Smash it up, and your Glastonbury hippies
Smash it up, you can stick your frothy lager
Smash it up, and your blow wave hairstyles

The Damned: Smash It Up

[Wibbles]

I f*cking love being rich (you can't pin that on me)

Yard Act - Rich

Edited December 29, 2022 by Wibbles
Oh for Heaven's sake

[Jesse Screed]

 

[Grem]

12 hours ago, craigb said:

Lots of stuff by Kansas was pretty heady too.  When I get the time I'll have to track some down...

Yep.

To me "Song For America" is the single most unappreciated work of rock music. 

To me that sound and format was totally new. And it's never been matched.

Listen to Phil's drumming along with Dave's bass playing in the beginning of the song, a work of art.

Kerry's sythn work is phenomenally beautiful in this song. 

Steve's singing on this song is just unbelievable.  The emotion he projects on that last verse is breathtaking to me every single time I listen to it.

That song and that album is some of thier best work. Some of the best rock roll there is.

"Devil's Game" is another great song and another story!!

[Grem]

12 hours ago, craigb said:

Lots of stuff by Kansas was pretty heady too.  When I get the time I'll have to track some down...

Highways scar the mountainside, buildings to the sky, people all around.

Houses stand in endless rows, sea to shining sea, people all around.

"Kansas,  Song For America "