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 )

While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital wing

genius lyrics from Nothing Ever Happens By del Amitri

I could fill up this thread from one liners from this song alone.

So many lines from Tracey Chapman.
Maybe ‘And I, I had a feeling that I belonged
I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone’. From Fast Car.

‘All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms’
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence

’And there’s nothing wrong with me, this is how I’m supposed to be’
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Across my dreams with nets of wonder, I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love.
Bob Lind.

Well you really got me this time...and the hardest part is knowing I'll survive. Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham

Release yourself upon me, Free the hounds of chastity, Unleash your sexuality on me. - KD Lang

"As leaves pour down, splash autumn on gardens"

I just love how few words this uses to evoke such a clear, beautiful picture - merging a nature scene with the idea of turning falling leaves into an abundance of bright, pouring paint. They're right, that's autumn! And a beautiful way to look at it.

I don't know if it hits anyone else the same way but I just think it's pared-back, elegant genius in the middle of a 90s pop song!

Honourable mention to "trying to catch the deluge in a paper cup". Simple image, just detailed enough, and perfect choice of words ("deluge" vs a paper cup) paints a thousand-word image!

Living is easy with eyes closed

Strawberry fields forever, the Beatles

Oh yes! It's so terribly hurtful.

And the following line: All we have to do now, is take these lies and make them true somehow...

Very profound in today's world.

@Velmy scrolled the thread to see if someone would say this. You have impeccable taste.

Some have been said but my contributions are:

To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die- The Smiths

Love will tear us apart again- Joy Division

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mine
Possessing and caressing me- The Beatles

LyingSmilingInTheDark I love Crowded House. Neil Finn has such an ear for touching lyrics and great melodies

So many of these I have to sing to myself to remember what song they're from!

Tracy Chapman was mine too; "leave tonight or live and die this way". Her words are haunting.

omwell hello middle of night\real oughta been sleeping............

"when u gony realise twas just that time was wrong" romeo-dire sraits
"i biiiiiiiiiiiin down so# godDAAMN long-that it looks like up to me" doors(srry-brke finger nd vwels not plying(n plus side am doin a one hander)

Space monkey, mafia.

"He was dangerous and drunk and defeated and corroded by failure and envy and hate"

Meatloaf

A brilliant description of a broken character.

"Carry me like a fire in your heart"

Chris De Burgh

Down at Precinct 49
Having a tear-gas of a time
...
We all got balls and brains
But some's got balls and chains

Rubber Bullets, 10cc

Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts, give me back my girlhood, it was mine first!

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve- Taylor Swift

And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight

"Raised on a diet of broken biscuits,"

Mis-Shapes Pulp

You’re so pretty when you are somebody else…

Innocence Prime Circle (little known band)

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein"

WEREWOLVES OF LONDON. WARREN ZEVIN.

Charity is a cloak you wear twice a year.
George Michael had some people sussed!