Quote a one-line song lyric that has stayed in your brain for years or decades

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by RickH, Dec 8, 2022.

  1. Randall DeBouvre

    Randall DeBouvre forum resident

    Location:
    Illinois
    they hurt you at home, and hit at you at school
    they hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool
    till you're so ****ing crazy, you can't follow their rules
     
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  2. dberthia

    dberthia Curmudgeon, Skeptic

    Location:
    Minnesota
    "I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me."
    Opening line of Via Chicago by Wilco.
     
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  3. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

    Location:
    Seattle
    Excellent choice!!!!!
     
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  4. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

    Location:
    Seattle
    I am calling, yes, I'm calling, just to speak to you
    For I know this night will kill me if I can't be with you
    If I can't be with you


    New York Telephone Conversation Lou Reed

    The message is very plain
    Oh, I hate your answering machine
    Answering Machine
    , Replacements
     
  5. steveharris

    steveharris Senior Member

    Location:
    Mass
    There are way too many useless lyrics and movie lines orbiting around my cranium.
    One completely senseless line is The Ramones-I’m not sorry for the things I do,Dooo Carbona Not Glue!
     
  6. County50

    County50 Forum Resident

    I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag
     
  7. GLUDFSSR

    GLUDFSSR Senior Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    “I heard the news today, oh boy”

    “I used her, she used me but neither one cared
    We were gettin' our share”
     
  8. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, IL USA
    Every day I get in the queue (Too much, Magic Bus)

    Pete Townsend
     
  9. bataclan2002

    bataclan2002 All You Need Is Now.

    Great one! “Feeling Minnesota” inspired a movie title. Not a great movie from what I hear (haven’t seen it though).
     
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  10. Eleanora's Alchemy

    Eleanora's Alchemy Forum Cryptid

    Location:
    Oceania
    He stopped to look at the sun one day, he didn't realize he would be there to stay

    Elephant's Memory
     
  11. 500Homeruns

    500Homeruns Peaceful Punk

    Location:
    Lehigh Valley, PA
    “The beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad. So, I had one more for dessert.”
    Kris Kristofferson
     
  12. ARK

    ARK Forum Miscreant

    Location:
    Charlton, MA, USA
    I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
     
  13. dlabruyere

    dlabruyere Forum Resident

    Location:
    USA
    "Well, maybe you're a dancer,
    And maybe I'm the King of Old Siam."

    Jethro Tull
    Said She Was a Dancer
    Crest of a Knave
     
  14. dlabruyere

    dlabruyere Forum Resident

    Location:
    USA
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  15. Swansong

    Swansong From Planet Earth

    Location:
    Idaho
    “My problems might seem meaningless,
    But that don’t make them go away”.
    : Neil Young

    “Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful”.
    : Jimi Hendrix

    “Come home cold and tiered, warm my bones beside the fire”.
    : Pink Floyd

    “You know something people, I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot a times I wish I could say I’m not white”.
    : Frank Zappa
     
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  16. Radiophonic_

    Radiophonic_ Electrosonic

    Location:
    Royal Oak MI
    “I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm”
     
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  17. phantasmagoria

    phantasmagoria Lost Child

    Location:
    Vale of Glamorgan
    “I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice”
     
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  18. jomo48

    jomo48 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Davis CA, USA
    "Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme."


    "And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze. But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse."

    -Richard Thompson
     
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  19. fluffskul

    fluffskul Would rather be at a concert

    Location:
    albany, ny
    Too many to list... but since the first time I heard this one has always stayed in my head...

    "When you knock me down I get the f--- back up again!!" ~Hercules Mulligan (via Lin Manuel Miranda)
     
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  20. SixtiesGuy

    SixtiesGuy Ministry of Love

    Canvas the town and brush the backdrop
     
  21. Zoo Station

    Zoo Station Senior Member

    Location:
    Rochester, NY
    Yeah, when I heard there was a movie that aped that line for it's title, I immediately thought, "LAME."
     
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  22. The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man Forum Resident

    “I have no reason to be overoptimistic
    But somehow when you smile I can brave bad weather.”
     
  23. SixtiesGuy

    SixtiesGuy Ministry of Love

    And the people bowed and prayed
    To the neon God they made
    And the sign flashed out it's warning
    In the words that it was forming
    And the sign said:
    The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
    And tenement halls
    And whispered in the sound of silence*

    *more than one line, I know, but this vision that was planted in my brain in 1966 still remains, as vivid as ever
     
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  24. versionsound

    versionsound The six strings that drew blood

    “Things mean a lot at the time
    Don’t mean nothing later”

    Red House Painters
     
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  25. 131east23

    131east23 Person of Interest

    Location:
    gone
    "She said I love the night,
    The day is OK and the sun can be fun,
    But I live to see those rays slip away"
     
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