What are some of your favorite (amusing) lyrical phrases?

[Tommy_B]

Had a song stuck in my head this morning that contains one of my favorite (and amusing) lyrical phrases and thought this might make a fun topic of conversation.

Here's a few to get things rolling

From the Allman Brothers "Wasted Words:
"I ain't no saint, sure as hell ain't no savior. Every other Christmas I would practice good behavior"

From Jethro Tull's "Fat Man":
"Roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure the fat man would win"

At the end of Metallica's "Enter Sandman":
"Boo!"

From Clint Black's "Bitter Side of Sweet":
"She didn't need any assistance in putting some distance between us on that empty street. She was of a mind, in record time, that I'm on the bitter side of sweet"

From Aerosmith's "one Way Street":
"I thought I knew her, my cagey lady
how could my sunshine be so damn shady"

 

[Mystic]

Frank Zappa: @ 100 or more, too many to list.

 

[Mystic]

Richard Thompson has uttered quite a lot of zingers, too.

 

[epifanatic]

You talk like a duchess, but you're still a waitress.
Elvis Costello

 

[parman]

Roll me baby, like my back ain't got no bone

 

[finnbow]

Your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through.

- Dylan

 

[c-atle-79bay]

Dr Dre: Never let me slip. Cuz if I slip, then I'm slippin."

 

[harman/kardon]

I really like this one (everybody here knows it):

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!"

 

[finnbow]

Another Dylan nugget:

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

 

[KeninDC]

"Marrying money is a full time job, I don't need the aggravation, I'm a lazy slob."

"Hang Fire" - Glimmer Twins, off of "Tattoo You," but written during the "Some Girls" Paris sessions.

 

[SA-708]

I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make
A shy, bald, Buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder

The Smiths - "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

 

[c.coyle]

My weakness is stronger than I am.

- Merle Haggard

 

[iwilson]

Pretty girls
Dig 'em!

Pete townsend

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[Axe Elf]

"Jerry Lee Lewis with his balls on fire in the back of a Rocket 88 with an out of state plate and an underage date." --Ike Reilly - I Don't Want What You Got Goin' On

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

"Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum"

The Ramones - "Teenage Lobotomy"

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

"She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use"
Elvis Costello - "Brilliant Mistake"

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

"You're breakin' my heart
You're tearing it apart so **** you"

Harry Nilsson - "You're Breaking My Heart"

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

"All them kids want to sniff some glue
All them kids want something to do"

The Ramones - "Now I Want To Sniff Some Glue"

 

[dcmfan]

I ain’t drinkin alone
I’m on the phone with my brother

-Max Stalling

 

[bobsvinyl]

John Hiatt:

"Forgive me if my instincts start stinkin'
I'm just so easily led when the little head does the thinkin'."

George Thorogood:

"So I caught up my pal Jack Daniels
And his partner Jimmy Beam,
And we drank alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself."