Favorite lines or "quotes" from songs.

Are there any songs that have stand out lines to you?

Some of my favs:
"I excel, they all fail" - "Mama Said Knock You Out", LL Cool J
"Maybe I'm just like my mother, she's never satisfied" - "When Doves Cry", Prince
"Smack it up, flip it, rub it down...oh no..." - "Do Me", BBD

"How Do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves the porch light on"
- Mr. Siegal, Tom Waits

"And I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole"
- Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)

"But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked"
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan

"And now the old man's gone
And I'd give all I own
To hear what he said
When I wasn't listening to my old man"
- My Old Man, Steve Goodman

"I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done"
- Needle and the Damage Done, Neil Young

"I'm never where I wanna be." - Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill

"Well, I know from experience that if you have to ask for something more than once, it wasn't yours in the first place." - Madonna, Waiting

"I thought that I could resist, but the leopard in you silently preyed on me." - Duran Duran, The Man Who Stole a Leopard

I'll come back to this

Nystyle709 wrote:I'll come back to this

Just saving you place in line?

"Every damn time I walk through that door,
it's the same damn thing
That bitch bends over, and I forget my name - ow!"
- Domino, KISS

"There's a warning sign on the road ahead, there's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead, don't feel like Satan but I am to them, so I try to forget anyway I can." Keep Rockin' in the Free World, done by just about everybody


"And his cheating wife had never left town, and that's one body that'll never be found, see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun." The Night the Lights went out in Georgia, also done by about everybody

"Now you intellectuals may not like it, but there ain't nothing you can do, cuz there's a whole lot more of us common folks than there ever will be of you!" What this World Needs is a few More Rednecks by Charlie Daniels

"And then there was this politician, from the land of the rising sun, he said the working people in America were lazy and dumb. Well let me tell you something, Jack, the next time I go on a shopping trip and take something off of the rack, if it don't say made in the USA, I'm just gonna put it back." America, We Believe in you, also by Charlie Daniels

"Someone handed me a cigarette, they offered me my last request, I asked my mortal soul be blessed, by someone close to me. He came to me with trembling hands, he swore he'd never understand, I said it's just what life has planned, it's destiny." Born and Raised in Black and White by the Highwaymen

"I am an American Indian, my tribe is Cherokee, my forefathers loved this land, they left it here for me. But the white man came with boats and trains and dirty factories, poisoned my existence with his deeds." American Remains, also by the Highwaymen

"But for that they've got a pill, if that don't kill you then the side effects will, if we don't kill each other then the side effects will, Cape Town I think we've got a problem." Ave Mary A by Pink

'Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.' - Kool Moe Dee, "Knowledge Is King"

"They call me storm from the day i was born, i've been known to break the coldest muthafucker til his hearts warm" --Storm, from 2pac's Run tha streetz

Even the genius asks questions - "Me Against The World" (2Pac)

"And when we're done, I don't wanna feel my legs" Motivation-Kelly Rowland

"If you listen carefully, you will hear" Natural Mystic-Bob Marley

"Time will tell/think you're in heaven but you're living in hell" Time Will Tell-Bob Marley

"You better back down before you get smacked down" Gettin' In The Way-Jill Scott

"I bomb atomically/Socrates philosophies and hypothesis can't define how I be dropping these/mockeries/lyrically perform armed robbery/flee with the lottery/possibly they spotted me" Triumph-Inspectah Deck's verse

"The brutalizer, crew de-cizer, accelerator/the type of nigga that be pissin' in you elevator" Reprsent-Nas

"Murder capital/only key to survive is kill/if the elements don't murder you/the riders will/for real" B.M. Jr-Lil Wayne

"And if the red dot spot 'im/then the hollow head got 'im/knock his top to his bottom/Jack/ yeah, see we grind from the bottom/just to make it to the bottom/at the very bottom of the map" B.M. Jr.-Lil Wayne

"Real shit, I'm ducking bombs from drug war/no religion/but the cops swear I'm a drug lord" B.M. Jr.-Lil Wayne

"I ain't trippin' nigga/I play the corner like Ripken nigga/with the 40 Cal ripken nigga/Rip a nigga"" BM Jr.-Lil Wayne

"Man a train couldn't stop your man/I man up/and you not a man/I stand up/say I got my land/I'm the man of my land/call it LilWeezyana/that's the new plan" B.M. Jr.-Lil Wayne

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
that's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
-Dirty Blvd., Lou Reed

It was a slap in the face, How quickly I was replaced, And are you thinking of me when you fuck her? - Alanis Morrisette

You don't have to be rich to be my girl, you don't have to be cool to rule my world, ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with, I just want your extra time and your....kiss! - Prince

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate. - Marvin Gaye, What's Going On

"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace"

John Lennon

One that I often relate to, having much history:

"There are places I'll remember
All my life, tho some have changed,
Some forever, not for better,
Some have gone and some remain.

All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all."

In My Life
John Lennon/Paul McCartney


(Now ref the thread about what makes me cry)

Keep your crystal and your pistol
I’d rather have a pretty piece of crystal
Don’t need you silicone, I prefer my own
What god gave me is just fine… - "Video," India.Arie.

'Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips.' - Kanye West ("Last Call")

'So please, stay off my back; or I will attack, and you don't want that.' - Snap ("The Power.")