What's Your Favorite Rock Lyric?

[rothko]

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

Work your cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobboboy, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

[Borodog]

I'm foregoing the 1-2 line restriction.

You smoked me like a cigarette
I was burned, I was cast aside
You knew what you couldn't get
So you settled for me pride

"Can't Put a Price on Love", The Knack

So the big ol' guy he socks me in the nose
and I falls on my back and I gets blood on my clothes
and he says, hey skinny white boy
whad do you think about that?
I says, well it doesn't change that much
I still don't think that much of your "girlfriend"

"European Swallow", The Refreshments

And you run and you run
to catch up with the sun
but it's sinking
racing around
to come up behind you again

the sun is the same
in a relative way
but you're older
shorter of breathe
and one day
closer to death

"Time", Pink Floyd

We're the couple in the corner tying up ur tongues
to the percolatin' rhythm of the big bas drums

"No Mercy For Swine", Cherry Poppin' Daddies (not rock, but still a great lyric)

So many more . . .

Edit to add:

Then I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage in this funky bar
and I stepped outside to smoke myself a j
and When I come back to the room
everybody just seemed to move
and I turned my amp up loud and I began to play
it was late in the evening
and I blew that room away

"Late In the Evening", Paul Simon

[ReDeYES88]

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

[ReDeYES88]

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[DaffyDuck]

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun. But Mama...... that's where the fun is.

So, often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.

Freedom's just another word for Nuthin left to lose

[miketurner]

Well I was teething Tracie’s tiny suntan titties
She was doing something crazy with my nuts
I said ‘baby where you goin’
She said ‘boy you’ll soon be knowin’
then she plunged her pudgy pinky in my butt.

The Scabs
Pudding & Cheese

[Propertarian]

[ QUOTE ]
Favorite one-or-two line lyrics from any rock, pop, blues, or R&B artist.

Mine:

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."

(Jimi Hendrix, "If 6 Was 9")

[/ QUOTE ] Strange, one of my favorites is

"If we're so fine maybe you can tell me why
no one counts until they're dead"

(Fugazi, "Closed Captioned". From one of the best rock albums ever: "End Hits". what the heck, since it is lyrically all-around amazing, here is a Here is a link to the album's lyrics )

A microcosm of our very intense and very different politics. Notice the we vs. the I.

[illeagle]

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, Arlene,
And tell me, who do you love?

Bo Diddley

[TripleH68]

"Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence"

ARTIST: Charlie Ryan
TITLE: Hot Rod Lincoln

[Overdrive]

That's the way I like it baby,
I don't wanna live forever.

"Ace of Spades" BY: Motorhead