"Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money." - I Palindrome I by They Might Be Giants

"C'mon baby, leave some change behind. She was a bitch, but I don't care." - Waitress by Live

"You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power. What power? The power of voodoo. Who do? You do. Do what? Remind me of the babe." - Magic Dance by David Bowie

"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you" Oasis - Wonderwall

"What have we done with innocence? It disappeared with time it never made much sense" Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

"Left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day" CCR - Proud Mary

"You've got to trust your instincts and let go of regret. You've got to bet on yourself now star, cause that's your best bet" 311 - All Mixed Up

"Drove downtown in the rain, 9:30 on a Tuesday night, just to check out the late night record shop" Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson

"Hate is what I feel for you, and I want you to know that I want you dead" Silverchair - Israel's Son

"I'm just a regular joe, with a regular job, I'm your average white suburbanite slob. I look football and porno and books about war, I got an average house with a nice hardwood floor." Denis Leary - Asshole

"I am still living with your ghost, lonely and dreaming of the west coast" Everclear - Santa Monica

"I'd walk the water to get back to you, and where I was complete" Moist - Leave It Alone

"There's no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard, no song that I could sing but I can try for your heart. Our dreams and they are made out of real things, like a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving" Jack Johnson - Better Together

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge, she studied sculpture at St Martin's college, that's where I caught her eye" Pulp - Common People

"I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials" Pulp - Dishes

"The microphone explodes shattering the molds, you either take the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode" Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

My personal favorite....

"Get up and get your grandma out of here!"

KISS - Deuce, 1974.

Game over.

"I'm the king of rock, there ain't none higher. Sucker MCs should call me, 'Sire'"
-Run D.M.C.
"King of Rock"

"I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me."
-Wilco
"Via Chicago"

cheers,

-the Jesus

Yep. Close the thread.

"Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat"

Pearl Jam -- Yellow Yedbetter

what exactly is a Yellow Ledbetter???

The two that came to mind:

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying
Tomorrow Never Knows, The Beatles

I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
Such Great Heights, The Postal Service

"All my life I've been searching for something,
something never comes, never leads to nothing"

-- Foo Fighters, All My Life

"Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
to the name of this town in a desktop globe.
Exit wound in a foreign nation,
there in the home of the one this was written for."

-- Ana NG, They Might Be Giants

"When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again."

-- Helter Skelter, the Beatles

"Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?"

-- Sister Morphine, the Rolling Stones

"The VCR and the DVD,
wasn't none of that crap back in 1973"

-- AM Radio, Everclear

"Well, I had the carburetor, baby, cleaned and checked
with her line blown out she's hummin' like a turbojet"

-- Open All Night, Bruce Springsteen

"Two boys on a playground
tryin' to push each other down
see the crowd gather 'round
nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd"

-- Black Gold, Soul Assylum

"God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung"

-- Bastards of Young, the Replacements

"I'm not in love with television.
I'm not in love with the radio.
I'm not in love with the Kings Road.
Because I'm in love with Cathy McGowan"

-- Ready Steady Go, Generation X

Stick to the good drinks
Martinis do bad things
I know you get scared
When you drive impaired.

- The Sheila Divine, "I'm A Believer"


(Oh, no) Not this time, too
I'm the only one you got to use
And if I tell you all this could be
Nothing more than a way to leave you
Would you want me?

- The Wrens, "Hopeless"


Who was around when the world was falling down?
Who turned away? Couldn't bother to be around this now
Who walked away when the game wasn't fun to play?
And my escape became my only game.

- Bob Mould, "Who Was Around"


I had this dream
Where I relished the fray
And the screaming filled my head all day.

- The Tragically Hip, "Nautical Disaster"


This is how we multiply
Pity that it's not my wife.

- Pedro The Lion, "Rapture"


Don't tell my wife about the last one.

She told me she loved me
which means she must be insane
- How Can Anyone Know How I Possibly Feel, Morrissey

Cassius Clay was hated
More than Sonny Liston
Some like K.K. Downing
More than Glenn Tipton
Some like Jim Nabors
Some Bobby Vinton
I like 'em all

"Cry Out !
To legions of the brave.
Time again to save us from the Jackyls of the Street."
Black Sabbath : Neon Knights

"Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat" ~ First line, first track, first album from Bruce Springsteen

That's the second verse.

A bottle of white......... A bottle of red

Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son",
Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
-Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Hands down, mine is "New Skin" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Starts off with:

Fuck you, I win the prize

"Gunter glieben glauchen globen"

While we're on the subject
Could we change the subject now?
I was knocking on your ear's door but you were always out
Looking towards the future
We were begging for the past
Well we knew we had the good things
But those never seemed to last
Oh please just last

Missed the Boat- Modest Mouse

"Nothing in this world can touch the music that I heard... when I woke up this morning"

New Order - "Dream Attack"

So fucking what! - "So What" by Metallica (Originally recorded by The Anti-Nowhere League)

"Ladies, let me tell you about myself
I got a dick for a brain
And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you
Now I'm OK, but in time I'll find I'm stuck
'Cause she wants love, and I still want to fuck"

"Be Sweet" Afghan Whigs

Oops, My bad

later in the song are the greatest lyrics of all time thou...

"Bloodied angels fast descending
Moving on a never-bending light
Phantom figures free forever
Out of shadows, shining ever-bright... Neon Knights!"

The lyrics for this song are so freking awesome.

"Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old"

Nirvana - 'Serve the Servants'