OT - Best Tag Lines from Song Lyrics

[Nitwit]

I'll start with a few that come to mind:

Eagles:
Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me

Julie Roberts:
Men and mascara, they both run.

Buffett
If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.

Eagles:
You can spend all your time making money.
You can spend all your love making time.

Buffett:
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Tritt:
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

Joni Mitchell
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go

Dylan
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles.

 

[psuro]

Snap
I'm the lyrical Jesse James

The Who
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss

Sir Mix A Lot
Baby Got Back

The Byrds
I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

Modern English
I'll stop the world and melt with you.

Simon and Garfunkel
The words of the prophets are written in on the subway walks and tenement halls

Pink Floyd
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl. Year after year.

 

[artsandletters]

Outkast

Heeeeeeyy ya! Heeeeeeeyy ya!

 

[Victor E. Bell]

They will never forget you till somebody new comes along.

I can't complain but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far. (Used to have this as my sig line)

 

[fairgambit]

John Denver/Placido Domingo from Perhaps Love.

"If I should live forever,
And all my dreams come true,
My memories of love will be of you."

Denver wrote those words and if there is a better expression of love in any other song, I can't think of it.

 

[MtNittany]

Jimmy Webb:

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time

 

[Shendojoe]

Dublin Blues
Guy Clark

I have seen the David
I've seen the Mona Lisa too
I have heard Doc Watson
Play Columbus Stockade Blues

 

[psuro]

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Woolly Bully

The Police
Roxanne. You don't have to put the red light.

Jefferson Airplane
One pill makes you stronger
One pill makes you small
And the pills that mother gives you
Don't do anything st all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

 

[BobPSU92]

I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts

 

[massimoManca II]

She's filing her nails as they're dragging the lake

 

[Shendojoe]

Coyote
Joni Mitchell

Coyote's in the coffee shop
He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
He picks up my scent on his fingers
While he's watching the waitresses' legs

 

[Shendojoe]

I Shall Be Free No. 10
Bob Dylan

I'm just average, common too
I'm just like him, the same as you
I'm everybody's brother and son
I ain't different from anyone
It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Paul Westerberg (many incredible lines, but I'll submit this one):

Just stay where you are
With your eyes like sparks
And my heart like gasoline

 

[BobPSU92]

I Shall Be Free No. 10
Bob Dylan

I'm just average, common too
I'm just like him, the same as you
I'm everybody's brother and son
I ain't different from anyone
It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A. Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't tie no bows
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Oh, get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Hang bail, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters

Oh, get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance
Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

 

[dalions81]

Excuse me while I kiss the sky

 

[bxle]

Yes

Don't surround yourself with yourself move on back two squares.

 

[83wuzme]

A little known and underrated singer / songwriter Graham Parker, who I once saw at PSU.

If you can't sell your work
Then cut off your ear

 

[Connorpozlee]

Todd Snider:

I was looking for a job when I found this one
Don't need the work like you need the work done

 

[loosey goosey]

Smiths- Call me morbid,call me pail.Ive spent six years on your trail.Six long years on your trail.

 

[sluggo72]

I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies over our nation.

somewhere between CSN and Mitchell ( I believe
CSN added jet planes)

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Zevon (a treasure trove with him, but..)

And if California slides into the ocean,
As the mystics and statistics say it will...
I predict this motel will be standin
Until I pay my bill

Billy Joel, very underrated songwriter IMO..

I believe I've passed the age
of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too
I had my pointless point of view
And life went on no matter
Who was wrong or right.

 

[psuro]

Warren Zevon
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand His hair was perfect.

Send lawyers guns and money. The shit has hit the fan.

Harry Nilsson
Everybody's talking at me. I don't t hear a word they're saying. Only the echoes of my mind

Put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning

Harry Chapin
Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you coming home dad I dont know when but we'll get together then sin you know we'll have a good time then.

Buffalo Springfield
Stop children what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

 

[BBrown]

I'll start with a few that come to mind:

Eagles:
Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me

Julie Roberts:
Men and mascara, they both run.

Buffett
If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.

Eagles:
You can spend all your time making money.
You can spend all your love making time.

Buffett:
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Tritt:
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

Joni Mitchell
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go

Dylan
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles.

Beatles:
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. Strawberry Fields

The Smiths:
I am human and I need to be loved, just like anyone else does. How soon is Now

Peter Gabriel.
You can blow out a candle but you can't blow a fire, once the flame begins to catch the wind will blow it higher. Biko

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Harry:

Old friends..they mean much more to me than the new friends
'Cause they can see where you are,
Yes and they know where you've been.

 

[psuro]

Beatles
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey

Why don't we do it in the road?

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

I'll start with a few that come to mind:

Eagles:
Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me

Julie Roberts:
Men and mascara, they both run.

Buffett
If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.

Eagles:
You can spend all your time making money.
You can spend all your love making time.

Buffett:
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Tritt:
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

Joni Mitchell
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go

Dylan
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles.

If you ever get the chance to visit Winslow, AZ (really not much there at all, but not far from Sedona which is SO WORTH IT), there is a mural on the side of a building called "Standin' on a Corner" which depicts this entire scene from the song. Kinda cool.

 

[83wuzme]

You've been bad, you don't do what I say
You don't listen, you never obey
Try to train you, but you just won't be good
You won't behave the way a big girl should
It's time to give that whip a crack
I'm gonna have to send you back to Bitch School

Spinal Tap
From Break Like the Wind 1992

 

[Victor E. Bell]

If you ever get the chance to visit Winslow, AZ (really not much there at all, but not far from Sedona which is SO WORTH IT), there is a mural on the side of a building called "Standin' on a Corner" which depicts this entire scene from the song. Kinda cool.

I believe Jackson Browne wrote it, yes?

 

[Global Fan]

Jimmy Webb:

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time

 

[Grant Green]

The Byrds
I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

.

That is a Dylan song.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Billy Joel (agree, an under appreciated lyricist) -
And the waitress is practicing politics
While the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone

Queen -
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun inside his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

Pink Floyd -
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

Aerosmith -
Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream on
Dream on
Dream on
Dream until your dream comes true

John Denver (one of my favorite lyricists ever) -
Close your eyes and rest your weary mind. I promise I will stay right here beside you. Today our lives were joined, became entwined. I wish you could know how much I love you.

U2 -
My hands are tied
My body bruised, she got me with
Nothing to win
And nothing left to lose

R.E.M. -
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine

Johnny Cash -
When I was just a baby my mama told me son
Always be a good boy don't ever play with guns
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

I believe Jackson Browne wrote it, yes?

Browne supposedly started it, but couldn't figure out how to end it. Glen Frey was his neighbor at the time, and Browne passed it off to him to finish it.

 

[psuro]

That is a Dylan song.

Popularized by the Byrds. I think he wrote it for them or gave it to them

 

[Nitwit]

If you ever get the chance to visit Winslow, AZ (really not much there at all, but not far from Sedona which is SO WORTH IT), there is a mural on the side of a building called "Standin' on a Corner" which depicts this entire scene from the song. Kinda cool.

My brother in law lives near Phoenix but drove out there one day just to have his photo taken there. I need to do that one day, but I doubt if any girls we be slowing down.

 

[PSU87]

I'll start with a few that come to mind:

Eagles:
Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me

Julie Roberts:
Men and mascara, they both run.

Buffett
If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.

Eagles:
You can spend all your time making money.
You can spend all your love making time.

Buffett:
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Tritt:
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

Joni Mitchell
See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow
They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go

Dylan
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles.

Not to be nit picky, but as a huge Buffett fan....
That line is in the song 2 ways
- If the phone doesn't ring you'll know that it's me
- if the phone doesn't ring it's me

Heck, Buffett is the best lyricist there is:
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane
I must look a mess I must admit, but I have been travelin' quite a bit
There's something about this Sunday, it's a most peculiar gray
Pale invaders and tan crusaders worshipping the sun, on the corner of walk and don't walk somewhere on US1.
My head hurts, my feet stink and I don't love Jesus

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Not to be nit picky, but as a huge Buffett fan....
That line is in the song 2 ways
- If the phone doesn't ring you'll know that it's me
- if the phone doesn't ring it's me

Heck, Buffett is the best lyricist there is:
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane
I must look a mess I must admit, though I have been travelin' quite a bit
There's something about this Sunday, it's a most peculiar gray
Pale invaders and tan crusaders worshipping the sun, on the corner of walk and don't walk somewhere on US1.
My head hurts, my feet stink and I don't love Jesus

I have been drunk now for over two weeks
Passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I gotta stop wishin;
Got to go fishin'
Down to rock bottom again
With just a few friends....

Great lyricist. Some songs sound the same but that happens when you write so many. JMO.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Don't know the song really well (hell, don't even remember who sang it at the moment), but a country tune from a few years back had a very simple chorus that I love:

God is great
Beer is good
And people are crazy

 

[psuro]

Not to be nit picky, but as a huge Buffett fan....
That line is in the song 2 ways
- If the phone doesn't ring you'll know that it's me
- if the phone doesn't ring it's me

Heck, Buffett is the best lyricist there is:
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane
I must look a mess I must admit, but I have been travelin' quite a bit
There's something about this Sunday, it's a most peculiar gray
Pale invaders and tan crusaders worshipping the sun, on the corner of walk and don't walk somewhere on US1.
My head hurts, my feet stink and I don't love Jesus

The best lyricist there is? Ummmm. No.

 

[Nitwit]

By Bobby Bare:


Drop kick me, Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end, neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me, Jesus through the goal posts of life
Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly temptations below
I've got the will, Lord if you've got the toe

John Prine - 4 way stop dilemma

They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority

 

[PSU87]

The best lyricist there is? Ummmm. No.

Ummm, yeah.
People know Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise. Have you ever actually listened to his GOOD stuff?