Post a song lyric (not all the lyrics, just one line or two) that you absolutely love (2 Viewers)

[fatness]

"I rode the Highball
I fired the Daylight
When I turned sixty-five
I couldn't see right

It was 'Mr. Jones
We've got to let you go
It's company policy
You've got a pension though' "

Southern Pacific
Neil Young

 

[Dr_Zaius]

In fifty years I will dream of this moment
from a bed, tired from lifting my legs,
tired from drifting around,
Through the dust, through the dust

Hollywood Park - The Airborne Toxic Event

Beautiful, bombastic song that my daughter introduced me to. The whole song tells the story about the writer's relationship with his flawed but loving father, with the old Hollywood Park racetrack that his dad used to take him to as a kid as the backdrop. When they released the song he talked about how that track was inextricably linked to cherished memories of his father, and thus the emotions he felt when it was torn down and buried.

 

[Parrothead]

Jim Croce could have his own thread-

5 short minutes of love
cost me 20 long years in jail-

She might be nasty
she might be fat
but I never meant a person
who would tell her that

She's livin in LA- with my best old ex-firend Ray

 

[Parrothead]

just heard this one on my playlist

I used her, she used me but neither one cared- we were gettin our share

 

[titusbramble]

It's not a bird, it's not a plane
It must be Dave, who's on the train

 

[AAABatteries]

You ain't gone far enough to say
At least I've tried
You ain't worked hard enough to say
"Well, I've done mine"
You ain't run far enough to say
"My legs have failed"
You ain't gone far enough
You ain't worked hard enough
You ain't run far enough to say
It ain't gonna get any better

 

[fatness]

More miles than money.
Look at our lives and it's oh so funny.
More miles than money.
We fall in love but it's never funny.
We're the last, the very last ones to know.

Last to Know
Alejandro Escovedo

 

[northern exposure]

just heard this one on my playlist

I used her, she used me but neither one cared- we were gettin our share

Bob Seger - Night Moves

 

[drummer]

In these days of evil presidente

Working for the Clampdown

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Jim Croce could have his own thread-

Yeah, Jim Croce was such a great lyricist. I wish i could write like he did.

Hey tomorrow, I can't show you nothin'
You've seen it all pass by your door
So many times I said I been changin'
Then slipped into patterns of what happened before

 

[heckmanm]

I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

Anti-Hero, T Swift.

I don't really listen to her stuff (not being a woman under 30) but that's a great line.

 

[fatness]

The percentage you're paying is too high priced while you're living beyond all your means.
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your dreams.
But today you just read that the man was shot dead by a gun that didn't make any noise.
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest, was the low spark of high-heeled boys.

 

[Navin Johnson]

I love you more than the feeling when the bass hits the hook
When the boy gets the girl at the end of the book...

 

[The Longtime Lurker]

16 in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold

 

[fatness]

Give the rancher more to waste.
Crack the egg and save your face.
But hotel, lawn care, golf course, ********.

Bendigo Fletcher

 

[fatness]

"Stuff that works, stuff that holds up
The kind of stuff you dont hang on the wall
Stuff thats real, stuff you feel
The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall"

Stuff That Works
Guy Clark

 

[Sammy B]

I looked up one day and saw it was up to me
You can only be a victim if you admit defeat
"Coolidge" by Descendents

Give me the strength to hold my head up
Spit back in their face
"Can I Play With Madness" by Iron Maiden

 

[Cowboysfan8]

A poor girl wants to marry and a rich girl wants to flirt. A rich man goes to college and the poor man goes to work.
The drunkard wants another drink of wine and the politician wants the vote.
I don’t want much of nothin at all….but I will take another toke

 

[Mookie]

How the Hell can a person, go to work in the morning, come home in the evening, and have nothing to say?

John Prine

 

[Mookie]

I bought you a new Ford, but you said "I want a Cadillac"
I bought you a ten dollar dinner and you said "thanks for the snack"
i let you live in my penthouse, and you said it was a shack
I gave you seven children, and now you want to give 'em back!

BB King

 

[Ilov80s]

My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too

Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew

And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue

How can beauty that is living be anything but true?

 

[fatness]

He's one of those who knows that life
is just a leap of faith.
Spread your arms and hold your breath
and always trust your cape.

Guy Clark
The Cape

 

[Idiot Boxer]

I've been dipping in my darkness for seratonin boosters, cider and some kind of smelling salts.

 

[B Maverick]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
or

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand?
Oh, my little girl
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

 

[Bracie Smathers]

I was just a boy when I threw away my toys
And found a new pastime to dwell on
Whenever I detects them there of the other sex
I play the game I do so well```
Girl Watcher | The O'Kaysions

 

[fatness]

That's one more kid that'll never go to school
never get to fall in love
never get to be cool

Neil Young
6/22/25

 

[Zow]

Look at me, look at me
Drivin' and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let 'em all die of exasperation
Have 'em all healed of their lacerations
Have 'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like 'em
And I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command because
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
I can ride my bike

 

[Zow]

My favorite post-trial win lyrics:

Who you gonna trust when the judge is so unjust?
And the jury must discuss, said you don't look like one of us
Where you gonna turn, now the court has been adjourned
And the lessons that you learned are not as many as the bridges burned
We don't need to run and hide
We won't be pushed off to the side
What's your plan for tomorrow?
Are you a leader, or will you follow?
Are you a fighter, or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power

 

[Mookie]

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

 

[fatness]

Thinking young and growing older ain't no sin.

Nils Lofgren
Goin' Back

 

[Don Quixote]

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

Recently, my wife was telling me that someone recommended the Trader Vic’s Mai Tai recipe to her. I responded by saying that “I know werewolves like their pina coladas, but I’m not sure about their Mai Tai’s.” Reference went over my wife’s head, and she proceeded to look at me like I had two heads.

 

[rockaction]

Happy Birthday to the ground! - Lonely Island

 

[Leroy Hoard]

You got a big mouth, I'm happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be.
If you talk much louder you could get an award
From the Federal Communication Board.

 

[fatness]

One time, friends, I had a ma
I even had a pa
He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
Headed down to tennessee
It's easier than just waitin' around to die'

 

[DocHolliday]

Balanced on their knives
Little parts of lives
Such a strange reality
Kill the unicorn
just to have its horn
Soon he’s just a fantasy

 

[Bracie Smathers]

"I think I'm gonna be sad. I think it's today"
The titular title and lyrics were changed for American audiences.
Listen and you won't hear a hard D on the end of RiDe because they aren't singing RiDe, they are singing RYE.
The original lyrics are 'She's got a ticket to RYE' which is a town in in the Rother district of East Sussex, England.
Dur, 'Merican's wouldn't understand so it was changed to Ride.

 

[Jay_B]

In each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
And eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
And I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
And when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all
And I am walking out in the rain
And I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again
And I am getting nowhere with you
And I can't let it go
And I can't get through
And both hands
Please use both hands
Oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing graffiti on your body I am drawing the story of
How hard we tried