OT: Favorite rock lyrical couplets, 2 lines max. What you like?

Connorpozlee

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The noise I was hearing was a million people cheering,
And a child flew past me riding in a star.
Pure and Easy, The Who

Pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in.
Watched myself crawling out as I was crawling in.
Just Dropped In, Kenny Rogers

Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from.
Not Dark Yet, Bob Dylan
Along the same lines, from Springsteen:

I crawled deep into some kid of drkness
Trying to burn out every trace of who I’d been

And another Springsteen line(s) that resonate with me strongly these days as my kids are now all adults:


If I had one wish for you in this god forsaken world, kid
It'd be that your mistakes will be your own. That your sins will be your own
 

OKLALionsFan

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A pair of 45's opened up my eyes,
My temperature started to rise.


The Hollies - Long Cool Woman

Time will tell on stars that fell,
A million years ago.


The Moody Blues
You Can Never Go Home
 

OKLALionsFan

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He was taken to task, by some critic who asked,
"Do you write the words or lyrics first..."

Praying for the end of time
So I can end my time with you!

Acting funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky
 

PSU87

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So if you're tired of the same old story
Baby turn some pages.
REO Speedwagon, Roll With The Changes

Been six months
She hasn't shut up once
The Tubes, Talk to ya later

Pale invaders and tan crusaders worshipping the sun
On the corner of walk and don't walk somewhere on US1
Jimmy Buffett, Floridays
 

WestSideLion

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A friend and I were working on a sitcom idea at one point, about 30 years ago. One of the running gags was going to be using one Westerberg line in every episode. In the pilot episode we were writing, one of the characters refers to his love interest as his “white pearl in a sky of ebony.” The show was based around two guys (us) working together in a liquor store. Alas, the movie Clerks came out with essentially the same idea, filmed about 10-15 miles up the road from us. Killed our momentum.
Funny. Kevin Smith used to hang out at that Blarney Stone. We’d see him occasionally when we ate lunch there in the old Ogilvy and Mather days.

Six degrees.
 
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throw2oj

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I've opened my doors of perception and can't get them shut
Now I feel f&#$ed for free...

-Not The Doors
 

Ludd

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“I only live for today,
But I’m one day behind.”- The Outfield

“Life is what happens to you
While you’re busy making other plans.”- John Lennon

“Oh, wasted time shouldn’t qualify for the nights you won’t forget, no
But to us it did.”- Mitchell Tenpenny (not rock)
 
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op2

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I said I'm so happy I could die /
She said "Drop dead" and left with another guy

--Elvis Costello "Red Shoes"


I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy /
I might be drunk but at least I'm not insane

--Can't remember who did that song


I wish I hadn't bought you dinner /
Right before you dumped me on your front porch

--Ben Folds Five "Song for the Dumped"
 

PSU Mike

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Cause all I wanna do is have some fun, I got the feeling I’m not the only one.(SC)

If it makes you happy it can’t be that bad (SC)

An exit to eternal summer slacking, but where were they going without even knowing the way (Fastball)

Is there gas in the car, yes there’s gas in the car (Steely Dan)

She had hair like Jeanie Shrimpton back in 1965, she had legs that never ended I was halfway paralyzed.(Smithereens)
We should just fill out Behind The Wall of Sleep, two lines at a time. One the most shower-singable songs ever written. And I feel it every time.
 
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I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And Heaven knows I'm miserable now

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

I am the son and heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir of nothing in particular

Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life

I could come up with a whole list of nothing but Smiths lyrics
 
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PSU Mike

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“If I were you I would stay for a little while
If you were me would you walk out in style?”

— Roxy Music, Out of the Blue
 
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Warlerski

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"Good girls don't. Good girls don't.
but I do."

"We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow"

"Well, I hope you won't see me in my ragged company
Well, you know I could never be alone"

"Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose"

"Staring out my window, to the streets below - On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock"

"All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)"

"I ain't ready for the altar but I do agree there's times
When a woman sure can be a friend of mine"

Well, not rock but...

"East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done"
I was smokin with the boys upstairs when I heard about the whole affair
 

op2

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I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And Heaven knows I'm miserable now

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

I am the son and heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir of nothing in particular

Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life

I could come up with a whole list of nothing but Smiths lyrics

Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow /
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear
 

jp3272

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Thought you'd never miss me 'til I got a fat city address
Non-stop talker, what a rocker
Blue-eyed murder in a size five dress
 
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Piketownman

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Jackson Brown:
And we’ll fill in the missing colors
In each other’s paint by number dreams
Eagles:
You can spend all your time making money
Or you can spend all your love makin time
 

BostonNit

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"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here."
 
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CVLion

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I said, “Jesus Christ, where did you get that Cadillac?”
She said “Balls to you daddy!” - she ain’t never comin back

(from The Clash version)
 
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CVLion

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So I’ll sing you a new song, please don’t cry anymore
I’ll even ask your forgiveness though I don’t know just what I’m asking it for
 

CVLion

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I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
 

CVLion

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I don't wanna tame your animal style
You won't be caged in the call of the wild