What is your single favourite line of lyrics?

Five nil to the Tractor boys

It summarises the the reason for living as far as I'm concerned in one neat, informative line. I'd like to hear it sung much more often.

Another favourite has to be

I can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that I'm Kendo Nagasaki

Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

"Does getting into Zappa mean getting out of Zen"

I'm just a puny guy on a blue and green ball,
i've got no problem with that thought at all
Sean James Donnelly

quote:

Originally posted by munch:
I wrapped a newspaper round my head so I looked like I was deep

Look here brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris?

I guess with any Zappa quote, the crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe.

how can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team.

Billy Bragg

"The longest way round is the shortest way home"

EBTG

If anything bad should ever happen to your eyes as a result of some sort of conflict with anyone named Nanook.

"I know everything there is to know about missing a train"

or

"I lived with an actress-to-be, she was amazingly life-like."

two of my favorites by Steve Tannen

Men never die for flags, they die for politicians, the shadiest breed of the mental magicians

"Confusion will be my epitaph".

Almost anything by Lehrer or Thackray.
Ken

"And God lives in underground silos, hanging on for judgement day"
Peter Hammill- Medieval, from the album "The Future Now"

Stephen

'of all those who can tell me wrong from right'

Peter Gabriel

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an hide, but they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.

Tom Lehrer from Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.

"I lie face-down, with my face in the sand, 'cause it makes me feel better."

and

"Hold still now baby, there is something by the bed, a viper or a butterfly, an angel or the magic of the dead"

Jerry Joseph

"I was sitting in hell's kitchen,
contemplating murder.
Contemplating murder,
Contemplating the great escape.
When you walked in looking like crap,
But satisfied.
I swear that you looked satisfied,
And I hated you for that."

Matthew Ryan

I was walking round my local store
searching for the ten pence off Lenor
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You can’t put your foot up in Europe
You can’t show your studs on the ‘nent
They take a dim view of a slightly raised shoe
So think on if you’re up against Ghent
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The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see The Pope
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Help me Mrs Medlicott
I don’t know what to do
I’ve only got three bullets
And there’s four of Motley Crue

Two broken Tigers on fire in the night
Flicker their souls to the wind

she had diamonds on the soles of her shoes.

I thought of you as my mountain top,
I thought of you as my peak,
I thought of you as everything
I've had but couldn't keep

(from "Pale Blue Eyes" by Lou Reed/Velvet Underground)

AND

...and you're east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause

(from "Time" by Tom Waits)

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day

"When they kick in your front door,
how ya gonna come?
With your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun?"

quote:

Originally posted by HuwJ:
how can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team.

Billy Bragg

I almost chose that one. I also like "With the money from her accident she bought herself a mobile home".