Moved Thread Best lyrics - short or long

[The Goon]

Some prick of a mod will probably move this to the music board (not doing myself any favours here am I? ), but anyway ...

What is the best lyric set you know of? Not a phrase, not a whole song, so approximately between 2-8 lines. Don't tell us where they're from .. let it be guessed!

First up:

I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the
Lord by your side"

And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you lord

 

[checkraiseulite]

So what do you say to somebody you hate
Or anyone tryna bring trouble your way
Wanna resolve things in a bloodier way
Then just study a tape of N.W.A
One day I was walking by
With a Walkman on
When I caught a guy
Give me an awkward eye
And I strangled him up in the parking lot
With his Karl Kani
I don't give a **** if it's dark or not
I'm harder than me tryna park a Dodge
When I'm drunk as ****
Right next to a humongous truck in a two-car garage
Hopping out with two broken legs
Trying to walk it off
**** you too bitch, call the cops
I'mma kill you and them loud-ass mother****ing barking dogs
And when the cops came through
Me and Dre stood next to a burnt down house
With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches
And still weren't found out
From here on out it's the Chronic II
Starting today and tomorrow's anew
And I'm still loco enough to choke you to death with a Charleston Chew
Slim Shady, hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz with the windows up
When the temp goes up to the mid-80s
Calling men ladies, sorry, Doc, but I been crazy
There's no way that you can save me, it's okay, go with him Hailie

 

[SwampCreature]

Anything on the first two Streets albulms

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Butterfingers - Yo Mama

I see you in your office
Sending and recieving checks
But i know the quest for money
Comes from a quest for sex
So i cut to the chase
And forgot about my job
And decided to stay home wit yo mama on my knob

I can see you laughing so i guess you think it's funny
But while your getting drunk, I've been gettin honey
And by tommorow night you'll be hungover and sick
And I'll be at my home wit yo mama on my dick

(Chorus)
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list

hinking your the man
Well i am bringing news
Our manhoods being measured by the woman that we choose
And you can't earn respect if all you ever pick is sluts
So I'll be staying home to let yo mama suck my nuts

(Chorus)

Eat more fruit, Plant more trees
Learn to shoot, Travel overseas
Wash the dog, Read a book
Find three chinese recipes to cook
Learn to waltz, and speak maltese
Ferment to invent a better feta cheese
The highest they get is number two
Cos number one on my list of things to do
Is Yo maaaamaaaaa
Yo maaaamaaaaaa
Yo maaamaaamaaa
Yo mamaaaaa

She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top
She's always on top

(techno)
In my dream I was a cop and i stopped to arrest her
Never met a whore more hardcore so i frisked her
Steamed up the beamer and needed the demister
When she licked my colon cleaner than a clyster
Got anotha blista from playin naked twista
Raw on the floor with ya mama and ya sista
Hadn't even kissed her but she still let me fist her
I let her drive home pissed and said
Asta la vista baby

Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list
Your mama's on the top of my things to do list

 

[The Goon]

Sorry guys, missing the point there. NOT A WHOLE SONG.

Just a couple of (2-8) lines. Plus, let people guess where it's from.

**** you. You're not the boss of me.

 

[SwampCreature]

/the needle tears a hole/
/that old familiar sting/
/try to kill it all away/
/but I remember everything/

 

[nicky]

hurt nin

 

[SwampCreature]

Hurt nings? That's racist. You're racist nicky.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Sorry guys, missing the point there. NOT A WHOLE SONG.

Just a couple of (2-8) lines. Plus, let people guess where it's from.

**** you. You're not the boss of me.

I was takin' the piss.

The type of memories
that turn your bones to glass
turn your bones to glass

how can I stand
and laugh with the man
who redefined your body?

those cold-blooded old times
cold-blooded old times
cold-blooded old times

 

[The Goon]

I was takin' the piss.

Ummm ... Butterfingers - Yo Mama? Love cold blooded old times.

 

[RU486]

Put your foot in my Nikes,
Picture you livin' my life,
Picture you stuck in a cell,
Picture you wasting your life,
Picture you facing a charge,
Picture you beating the odds,
Picture you willing to bleed,
Picture you wearing the scar
Thank you for making me struggle,
Thank you for making me grind
I perfected my hustle,
Tell me the world ain't mine

 

[Gough]

If no one out there understands,
Start your own revolution and cut out the middle man.
Billy Bragg, Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.

I was sitting home alone one night in LA
Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes
Dylan, Black Diamond Bay, don't know why I love this verse so much. I was probably too reading too much Christopher Ricks at the time I fell for it.

 

[SugarShane]

Few of my faves;

Why do they observe me?
There's nothing here to cure,
I can see the silhouettes,
That sit behind the mirror
I'm just like a clock upon the wall
Always moving, but never going anywhere

---

I've been burning in water and drowning in flame
To prove you wrong and scare you away
I admit my defeat and want back home
In your heart under the rose

---

Identities assume us
As nine and five add up
Synchronizing watches
To the seconds that we lost

 

[treefingers]

The Shankill Butchers run tonight
You better shut your windows tight
They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives
And taking all their whiskey by the pint

And everybody knows if you don't
Mind your mother's words
A wicked wind will blow
Your ribbons from your curls
Everybody moan, everybody shake
The Shankill Butchers want to catch you awake

 

[Ed_Gein]

You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe ​

[x3]​

You a stupid hoe, (yeah) you a, you a stupid hoe​

You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (stupid, stupid)​

You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (you stupid, stupid)​

You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (you stupid, stupid)​

You a stupid hoe, (yeah) you a, you a stupid hoe (you stupid, stupid)​

 

[Plugger35]

Lloyd Cole is the best lyricist for mine.

Case in point this song.



So many memorable lines that just stick in your head.

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront
She reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance
She's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in san jose
And her neverborn child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy yeah
All you need is, love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront
As she reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance
Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment

 

[Quivorir]

'**** you', in the song **** you by Cee-Lo Green.

 

[class78]

Girls on my dick when I pretty boy swag​

girls scream my name when i pretty boy swag​

Watch me pretty boy swag (ayye) ​

[x2]​

Girls on my dick when I pretty boy swag​

Girls scream my name when I pretty boy swag​

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Two of my favourite ever lines, by two completely different people. Though looking at them now they are actually expressing more or less the same sort of thing.

1. But for the sky there are no fences facing

2. He pulls up at the side of a wide open sky and looks back where he came from

 

[Quivorir]

"I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name"

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Butterfingers - Yo Mama

I always wondered what those words were. Sounds to me like "your mamas on the top of my sexy doolie". Whatever that means.

Shit song though.

 

[The Passenger]

Always loved this Stone Roses line

She wakes up with the sun
She asked me what is all the fuss
As she gave me more than she thought she should

She wakes up with the sun
I think what have I done
As I gave her more than I thought I would

 

[tobsdad]

Breathe out so I can breathe you in
Hold you in

Everlong Foos....

 

[MrCharisma]

Stop and look around, it's all astounding
Water, fire, air and dirt
Fu#king magnets, how do they work?

"Miracles" - Insane Clown Posse

 

[Nothing]

If only I'd have found you sooner
Maybe you'd have found me saner