What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
I find the Eagles "Get Over It" to be pretty funny. It is about people unwilling to take responsibility for their lives, and instead, hope to cash in on whatever "victim" status they can claim. The last few lines are:

Complain about the present
Blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child
And kick its little ass.
Here's a little bit of "Stuck" by Tonio K

Papa was a farm boy, california born
growing up in paradise until the second war
when they put him in an airplane and loaded it with bombs
sent him over there, said "don't come back until they're gone"
they dropped 'em on the cities, they dropped 'em on the towns
they were tryin' to blow up hitler, he was tryin' to shoot 'em down
now papa hated killin' just as much as you and me
but he knew he had to do it; he could tell instinctively
that he was stuck

Stuck in the middle
stuck in the middle of the beginning of the end

It's the end / of the end of the tunnel
the end of the line
it's the end of the american century
the end of the endless summertime
Her papa was a midget, her mama was a whore
Her granddad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty-four
What a slimy old bastard he was
Man don't you think I know she hates me
Man don't you think I know that she's no good
If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me
I think she'd kill me if she could
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so

Randy Newman - Wedding in Cherokee County