Favorite Line in a Song/Favorite Lyrics

Looks like these got killed by the late-last-year hack too - so, kicking off with inspiration from the Canadian trucker (Porker) "freedom" protests:

I'm not taken in by their scared new world,
Where "beauty is freedom" and "freedom" is the prize.
They wouldn't know freedom if you salted it and rubbed it in their eyes.

The Jazz Butcher (RIP) - Last of the Gentleman Adventurers

 

Good non-controversial topic to start with based on the first rating you got

I don't usually pay that much attention to lyrics, but next time I come across a line that stands out for me, I'll post.

 

"And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds"
VU - Heroin

 

I'm a lousy lover, I give and never take

Tuxedomoon, Desire

 

I believe these are end times. Wouldn’t it be best to be together then?
The smell of your box on my mustache or a crossword on our mind.

Bonnie Prince Billy, closing lines of "That's What Our Love Is" from Wonder Show of the World

 

I'm reminded of this passage by the Prigozhin incident. He should've, but he didn't; or, if it's a smokescreen: now he'll have to.

Things that take minutes last for hours
Plane crashes on its way home
The company still feeds on your power
Learning to live on your own

The Mekons, Learning to Live on Your Own

 

well, since you started w the Mekons, ig I'll continue...

You were standing in a queue
Do you see me?
You had yellow hair
Do you see me?

Spoiler: last stanza

I wanna talk to you all night
Do you like me?
I wanna find out about your life
Do you like me?
Could you ever be my wife
Do you love me?

"Where Were You?", 7" single

but one of my all-time favorites is in my sig, "Papa Was a Rodeo" by the Magnetic Fields, from their record 69 Love Songs.

 

“If my mind’s the weapon, my heart’s the extra clip.”

The Movielife - “Jamestown” on Forty Hour Train Back to Penn

 

But I'll still sing you love songs;
Written in the letters of your name.

 

Familiarity breeds contempt
And I just met you today

Midnight Pal - Wayne County and The Electric Chairs

Pretty sure I posted those lines in the original thread before the 2022 hack took it out; but they're worthy of repeat, as are others in the same song - and indeed in other tracks on the same album.

 

And I think I can still see the joy in people
Like I can see the ghosts of dinosaurs in birds

The Cool Greenhouse, Get Unjaded