best ever line(s) from a song

Boy...you won't get an argument from me.

hey...welcome
this'll be a happenin thread

i thank you

I'm partial to "I got tears in my ears from lying on my back in my bed while I cry over you". Homer and Jethroe, I think.

"wish I didn't know know what I didn't know then"

from "lazarus in brooklyn" by reid paley

"if i could do it all again
i'd do it just the same
i just wouldn't do it with you"


from "the french inhaler" by warren zevon

"and when the lights came up at two
i caught a glimpse of you
and your face looked like something death brought with him in his suitcase"


from "desparadoes under the eaves" by warren zevon

"and if california slips into the ocean
as the mystics and statistics say it will
i believe this hotel will be standing
until i pay my bill"

damn, i could start a whole thread of favourite warren lines

just keep on dj...

dys...great new Toby Keith song

"And eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue."

Donald and Walter on paranoia:

" Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are?

warren on paronoia

"I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation"

more walter and donald

"They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose "

from "trouble waiting to happen" by warren zevon

The mailman brought me the Rolling Stone
Trouble waiting to happen
It said I was living at home alone
Trouble waiting to happen
I read things I didn't know I'd done
It sounded like alot of fun
I guess I've been bad or something
Trouble waiting to happen

from "keep me in your heart" by warren zevon

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

from "mr. bad example" by warren zevon

I'm very well aquainted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in

Not the best, but classic from Weird Al:

"I guess I might seem kinda bitter
You got me feeling down in the dumps
'Cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love
And I have to use the self-service pumps."

Steve Earle on the '"new" Tennessee moonshine.


I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Donald Fagen from his underappreciated solo album The Nightfly:

Last night I dreamed of an old lover dressed in gray
I've had this fever now since yesterday
Wake up darling they're knocking the Colonel's standing in the sun
With his stupid face the glasses and the gun

I know what happens
I read the book
I believe I just got the goodbye look

And another track about 1963, Kennedy and The New Frontier:


Introduce me to that big blonde
She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
She's got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
She's got the right dynamics for the new frontier