Tuesday Favorites… Greatest Single Line in a Song

[Spurdog98]

Hendrix definitely set the standard for this but SRV’s version is fantastic

Agree. The emotion is puts into that song I think Jimi would have been impressed

 

[CDGator]

I'm going to bump this thread up. I bet @soflagator is a bandwagon fan now that Jimmy is dead. He will probably be listening to Margaritville and drinking all Labor Day weekend toasting to Buffett.

 

[gator1946]

It's my own damned fault

Second place:
Does she kiss like I used to kiss you

Tie for second:
Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me
One says she's a friend of mine

You can check out any time you want but you can never leave. (That might be the granddaddy of them all)

 

[wrpgator]

“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than the bad” – Jimmy Buffett​

 

[g8tr76]

Though I ran 'em away, they'd come back one day; still could manage to smile, just takes a while,

 

[I Have No Friends :(]

"To all the ladies in the place with style and grace allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes" The Notorious BIG, Big Poppa

 

[Gatordiddy]

If you know, you know…


“My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment
I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant
Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist
But you lovely b!tches and hoes should know
I'm trying to correct this”

 

[I Have No Friends :(]

If you know, you know…


“My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment
I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant
Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist
But you lovely b!tches and hoes should know
I'm trying to correct this”

Flight of the Conchords

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways…..

 

[cover2]

I always hated that song for the stupid reason that much of what she notes as ironic, isn’t. (Maybe one of you can tell me how there’s irony in a black fly in your glass of Chardonnay.).

Was going back through this thread reprisal that I somehow missed and saw your post. Maybe ironic if you were expecting Spanish Fly?

 

[cover2]

“What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end”

 

[stephenPE]

i recently watched a series on Netflix and this is the intro. It touched me.

 

[CDGator]

But I couldn't fit the part too dumb or too smart
Ain't it funny how we all turned out
I guess we are the people
Our parents warned us about

 

[B52G8rAC]

Secular song: "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just and this be our motto, In God is our Trust."
Hymn: "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow; because He Lives, all fear is gone."

 

[Gatordiddy]

“What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end”

Those last three or four albums he did with Rick Rubin were incredible

 

[GR8 2B]

Is that a double entendre?

It can be . . .

 

[LaylaGator]

The child is grown
The dream is gone

 

[TheDouglas78]

That is REALLY tough, but for me, one song has more great "one lines" than any other I can think of: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town by Pearl Jam

I knew there was a reason I liked you Carpetbagger.

 

[TheDouglas78]

“What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end”

Saw NIN play this in an encore, after all the techno show it was just him single spotline fuching haunting.

 

[TheDouglas78]

Single lyrics resonate with me at different times... but one that I tend to come back to:

"I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in-between is mine
I am mine"

Pearl Jam