Greatest ONE LINE from a song!

[Clawdy]

For me, it's :
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. (Me And Bobby McGee )

What about the fantastic Imagine by John Lennon. All the lines are genius but my favourite is Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"
Werewolves Of London. Warren Zevon.

'She said "losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow"'
Paul Simon, Graceland

'You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt'
Nine Inch Nails, Hurt. (Johnny Cash had a great cover of this)

'You are someone else
I am still right here'
Also Nine Inch Nails, Hurt

Both ^ songs have very poignant associations with the time I knew my marriage was over.

'Beauty will defeat the darkest day'
ABBA, I Let the Music Speak

We will skate across the surface of the storm as if we're wheeling sea birds
XTC, Yacht Dance

I'm surprised at you, you were taken in
You have filled in the colours of a picture that was black and white

Sold A Rose - Judie Tzuke
For a friend of mine who couldn't see what everyone else could.

You're the measure of my dreams

Rainy night in Soho - Shane McGowan.

Depends upon mood, really (and whether you actually mean one line when most lyrics are spread over more than one to make sense);

I have grown older and you have grown colder and nothing seems very much fun anymore

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year

Far away, across the fields, the tolling of an iron bell calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spells

(All Floyd)

I wanna be where the cunts like me are six feet underground (Wildhearts)

I think it might be this one from Clam Abuse, though -

I guess it's quite clear male genitalia
Has never been more than unlucky to me
So now I'm surviving because I'm muff-diving
I'd like y'all to meet Anne-Marie

I go to parties sometimes until four
It's hard to leave when you can't find the door

I am not in love but I'm open to persuasion. (Joan Armatrading)

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night…

…As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise

I’ve moved away now, but I’m a Londoner born and bred and this song means London to me. I get a bit teary and proud when I hear it. I don’t care what other people say, it’s the greatest city on Earth

I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last - Prince

Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola. - The Kinks

👆’Lola’. Cracking song 🫶

Oh yes, this. And 'You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold'.

Ain't that the truth!

I love EC. I had the lyrics of Veronica written in the front page of my notebook for my Nursing dissertation.

Stumble out of bed stumble to the kitchen pour myself a cup of ambition !

The jam..but I forget which song it comes from?

Edwin Starr..war what is it good for
Absolutely nothing.

Rhinestone cowboy!

That's Entertainment.

If we're going for The Jam, how about

The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains to take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever

?

Oh that's easy.. Down in the tube station at midnight.👍😁

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I’m only falling apart

I'm a huge Elvis Costello fan
Such a great lyricist! Alison is so great - love this line too:
I don't know if you're loving somebody
I only know it isn't mine
Another favourite from the same album:
I said 'I'm so happy I could die'
She said 'drop dead' and left with another guy
Funny and devastating
Also from Dylan's Visions of Johanna:
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face ...

Look at sweet Julia speeding on the late night train, laughing at the way she dresses to smart and clean.

Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight

From the song Lovers in a dangerous time
Bare Naked Ladies