What's your favorite lyric from a song?

I miss your broken china voice - how I wish you were still here with me.
Tom Waits - Hold On

In Tiananmen Square, lost my baby there, my yellow rose and her blood stained clothes, She was a short order pastry chef, from a Dim-Sum dive in Yangthzee tideway, she had shiny hair, she was the daughter of an engineer - won't you shed a tear....
The lyrics of this song puts Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the top of my list.  Its a well crafted song w Don Henley supporting the vocals.

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.
I was staring in my empty coffee cup.
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'.
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles.
I'm gonna drink 'em up.

And if California slides into the ocean.
Like the mystics and statistics say it will.
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill.

Desperados Under The Eaves by Warren Zevon

Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own

Black Rose by Billy Joe Shaver

@dmac67,

Dads always know best - apart from those few times they don’t.

Was he right, or was he wrong?


@danoroo,

They’re sure great lines, full of rare self insight.

Deserve to be better known.

Tin roof, rusted.