The best line ever from a song?

What do you mean, "I couldn't be the President
United States of America?"
Tell me something
It's still "'We the people, right?"

Peace Sells...Megadeth

you win, awesome song

"You better stay away from him, He'll rip your liungs out Jim, Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor"

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

Feather-light suspension, Koni's couldn't hold, I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors

Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot

There are way too many amazing lines in all of my favorite songs to choose just one as "best". However I'll go with what is currently stuck in my head:

"Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth, and we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party."
-The National (song: Lemonworld)

All of there lyrics are spectacular and full of feeling, which is what I look for in a great line.

"And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself" - The Eagles

I don't know why but every time I hear that line it makes me chuckle :laugh:

"I have a perfect body, but sometimes I forget. I have a perfect body because my eyelashes catch my sweat." Folding Chair by Regina Spektor

I will come to you in the silence
I will lift you from all your fears
You will hear my voice, I claim you as my choice
Be still & know I am here...

I've known this song since I was a little girl & it's still makes me cry! :sad:

It's more of a verse than a lyric, but these words cannot be divided up.... they're just too purty.


You are calm and reposed
Let your beauty unfold
Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones
Spring keeps you ever close
You are second-hand smoke
You are so fragile and thin, standing trial for your sins
Holding on to yourself the best you can
You are the smell before rain
You are the blood in my veins


-Brand New, "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot"

Also, my next tattoo....

"It's not the long walk home that will change this heart, but the welcome I receive with the restart"
-Mumford & Sons 'Roll Away Your Stone'

"It's not the long walk home that will change this heart, but the welcome I receive with the restart"
-Mumford & Sons 'Roll Away Your Stone'

Great song! Love Mumford & Sons.

Damian Rice is a lyrical genius.. him and Ed Sheeran are the only 2 people I'd ever say that about, but especially him.. So if you like lyrics and haven't listened to either of these guys, you're missing out

Ed Sherran is amazing!

Morrissey's got too many good ones.

“Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”

“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”

“I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.”

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, But before I began, I was bored before I even began”

“So the life I have made... may seem wrong to you. But, who asked you anyway? It's my life to wreck my own way...”

“This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.”

"If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall"

"You're the one for me, Fatty, you're the one I really, really love, and I will stay, promise you'll say if I'm in your way"

And of course,

"And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us ... to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine. There is a Light that Never Goes Out."

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Trace Adkins - You're Gonna Miss This