Greatest lines in Rock 'n Roll history

Dylan

Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky, with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves let me forget about today until tomorrow

But even the president of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked

While money doesn’t talk, it swears

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn and everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?”

The buying power of the proletariat’s gone down, money’s getting shallow and weak

Paul Simon

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar

Two out of three ain't bad.

Only the Good Die Young.

Them belly full but we hungry

Get on your bikes and ride!

I don't know but I've been told

A big legged woman ain't got no soul!

Two of my favorites:

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" - Scarlet Begonias, Grateful Dead

And the single greatest line:

"And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"

-Time, Pink Floyd

"It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win"

"It's the same thing night on night

Who's wrong baby who's right

Another fight and I slam the door on

Another battle in our dirty little war

When I look at myself I don't see

The man I wanted to be

Somewhere along the line I slipped off track

I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back"

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

Send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flower by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Townes Van Zandt "Dead Flowers"

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to walk with you again.

Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down. -Art Garfunkle

We will, we will ROCK YOU.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landside, No escape from reality

Or pretty much any line from Bohemian Rapsody.

And of course

I would do anything for love. I would do anything for love... but I won't do THAT! -Meatloaf

Put me in coach, I'm READY TO PLAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwPr6kGHRE&ab_channel=DylanCieslik

Giveitawaygiveitawaygiveitawaygiveitaway now.

"What a long...strange trip it's been." - Grateful Dead

Got it bad

Got it bad

Got it bad

I'm hot for teacher.

qs wrote:

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

Send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flower by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Townes Van Zandt "Dead Flowers"

FFS

"You ain't a bad girl, honey,

No matter what the neighbors say,

It's just that you were those skin-tight dresses

With your G-string tuned to "A" "

- Whitesnake

"Kitten's Got Claws"

Slip of the Tongue (1989)

If my words did glow with the glow of sunshine

And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung

Would you hear my voice come through the music

Would you hold it near as it were your own?

The first verse of Ripple by The Grateful Dead

So now I'm praying for the end of time

To hurry up and arrive

'Cause if I have to spend another minute with you

I dont think that I can really survive

Paradise by the dashboard light, Meatloaf

GoldenMiles wrote:

johnny99 wrote:

Not sure how well known this song is if you're not a John Prine fan, but:

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes,

Jesus Christ died for nothin', I suppose."

This. As a recovering addict, no song is bleaker or truer than this. One of the darkest choruses of all time.

Prine did have a lighter side.

Spanish Pipedream:

"For I knew that topless lady

Had something up her sleeve."

In Spite of Ourselves:

"He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays

I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies."

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique

And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

-Joni Mitchell, 1969-70