I'm not looking for your favorites songs, just clever, funny, haunting, etc lyrics from songs you like.

I was listening to some old rap from my high school days (Mi Casa, Method Man) on my ride home last night and heard the following (Belly approved) lyric and chuckled a bit:

It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.

One of my favorite lyrics from Jason Isbell (If It Takes a Lifetime):

Man is the product of all the people that he ever loved

And it don't make a difference how it ended up

If I loved you once my friend, oh, I can do it all again

If it takes a lifetime

And just like Humpty Dumpty
You're gonna fall when the stereos pump me
I like to rhyme
I like my beats funky
I'm spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy
I'm sick wit dis, straight gangsta mack
But sometimes I get ridiculous
I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice

The Humpty Dance (Digital Underground)

I dare you to find another song where someone will eat BOTH your crackers and your licorice.

Ric Ocasek of The Cars came up with some of my favorites .......off-the-wall lines for sure. 

#1

'Lucky me, working down in the gravel pit

Moving rocks, on a big dinosaur I sit

Mr. Slate gets mad and he throws a fit

Pull the birdies tail, everybody know it's time to quit" ("Bedrock Anthem" - Weird Al) 

#2

"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" - a lot of alliteration by Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"

posted by Zunardo

#2

"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" - a lot of alliteration by Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"

Big fan of this as well. 

Four that wanna own me
Two that wanna stone me
One says she's a friend of mine

Jimmy in the back with a pocket of high.

If you listen close, you can hear him cry. 

(I like to play this for my asshole neighbor named Jimmy)

Movie quote, but putting it here:

• Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing. And no good thing ever dies.
• Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

ODB "Got Your Money"

You act like your pussy don't interrupt
I don't have no problem with you fucking me
But I have a little problem wit you not fucking me

Photographs show the laughs

Recorded in between the bad times

Happy sailors, dancing on a sinking ship.

"Flashback Blues", John Prine (or pretty much anything else he's written).

look around and choose your own ground for long you'll live and high you'll fly

and smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry

and all your touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be

I love old blues lyrics: 

Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all

Three O'clock Blues:

Goodbye everybody,
I believe this is the end.
Oh, goodbye everybody,
I believe this is the end.
I want you to tell my baby,
Tell her please, please forgive me,
Forgive me for my sins.

Stormy Monday:

They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad

Yes the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray

Water, fire, air and dirt
F***ing magnets, how do they work?

He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is

Rush - Tom Sawyer.

Too many Urkels on your team, that's why you're Winslow.

Love everything about all the lyricsc on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."  I interpret this song one of two ways, and each way is very powerful.  1) They are singing to their younger selves, wishes they were here now, seeing the journey.  2) A call to Syd Barrett (stoned for good on acid).

posted by ernest_t_bass

Love everything about all the lyricsc on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."  I interpret this song one of two ways, and each way is very powerful.  1) They are singing to their younger selves, wishes they were here now, seeing the journey.  2) A call to Syd Barrett (stoned for good on acid).

I thought the story was Sid walked into the recording and said, that song is deep, and they said, well, it's about you

Well he came down to dinner in his sunday best.

Excitable boy they all said

Then he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest

Excitable boy they all said. Well he's just an excitable boy

Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy

alarm clock starts ringin, who could that be singin...it’s me baby with your wake up call

How do you like me now.....

I been to the edge
And there I stood and looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby
I got no time to mess around

So if you want it, got to bleed for it baby

Why do you have kids? 
Why did you make children? 
Falling asleep standing up on the corner 
With cigarette ash falling in the stroller 

Why do you have kids? 
Why did you make children? 
You gave all baby daddys money for food 
To the dead eyed street pharmaceutical dude 

Accidents having accidents 
Now mother like daughter 
Father like son 
R.I.P. next generation 
Goodnight, honey 
You’ve got nothing to look up or forward to 

Why do you have kids? 
Why did you make children? 
You beat your son at the grocery store 
Because he cried a little when his eyes were sore 

Why? 

Baby runs around shoeless outside 
While mama’s dressed to the junkyard nines 
Feed them garbage so they stop crying 
They’ll look just like you in no time 

I lie to their faces, they're so naive.

They have this need for make-believe.

That somebody loves them, would never do them wrong.

That's what they'll buy in them old love songs.

Satan put it on my tab. Someday soon it'll be my time.

If I don't pay it, though nevermind.

I guess that I was just born to be bad.

Satan put it on my tab.

Don't believe that the system is failing, don't believe that the planet is dead.

They'll keep all the food for their fat fucking bellies, so the starving will kill to be fed.

And they'll try to turn me against you, so divided we'll turn to them.

Because anything strong cannot be conquered from without before first being conquered from within.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints.

The Sinners are much more fun.

Only the good die young.

Billy Joel- Only The Good Die Young

do the math, you never settle for less than the whole if you know the half

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