OT - Best Tag Lines from Song Lyrics

[MtNittany]

There's been a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

 

[CF LION]

"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

Definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of song lyrics.

 

[CF LION]

Chuck Berry:

Those of you who will not sing must be playing with your own ding-a-ling.

 

[PSU Mike]

From my wheelhouse

Smiths:
She said, Eh, I know you and you cannot sing.
I said, that's nothing, you should hear me play piano.

Squeeze:
But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell, Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from the shell

The Clash:
Punk rockers, in the U.K.
They won't notice anyway
They're all too busy, fighting
For a good place under the lighting

Blonde (seeing them tonight!):
Imagine something of your very own
Something you can have and hold
I'd build a road in gold
Just to have some dreaming.

B52's:
I'll give you fish
I'll give you candy
I'll give you everything I have in my hand

Smithereens:
She was tall and cool and pretty
And she dressed as black as coal
If she asked me to I'd murder
I would gladly lose my soul

Elvis:
Sometime I wish that I could STOP
You from talking when I hear the silly things that you say
I think somebody better put out the big light
'Cause I can't stand to see you this way

 

[CF LION]

From the disco genre:

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinning are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do

 

[interrobang]

May be a loser but I'm not a dweeb. I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem.

And I wonder when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real forever

Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't nothing, but it's free.

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

 

[hagberg]

LOL, good one.
I'll add another one of his thats one of my favorites...

I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe

and one that seems very topical today and somewhat prescient. LOL...

I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the russians, too?

I was gambling in havana, I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and money
Dad, get me out of this

Let's not forget this gem by WZ:

I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score

- and from the same song -

I put my last few francs down on a prostitute
Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute

 

[Fairfax Lion]

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, cause sinners are much more fun... Billy Joel

She blew my nose and then she blew my mind... Stones

 

[nittnee]

Bob Dylan
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back

Don't criticize what you don't understand

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Pink Floyd
This is not how I am....

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Always thought this part of Elvis Costello's Watch Your Step was perfect:

"Broken noses hung up on the wall
Back-slapping drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl
So punch drunk they don't understand at all
You better watch your step"

Captures those intimate boxing arenas with posters of fight cards of the past

Great, simple bass line too.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

'You're my end and my beginning - even when I lose I'm winning...'

John Legend, All Of Me - about his lovey wife Chrissy Teigan( and he's right)...

 

[PSUBluebird]

Supertramp

Now some they do and some they don't
And some you just can't tell
And some they will and some they won't
With some it's just as well

Lennon

As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and you're classless and free,
But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.

There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the fool on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero, well just follow me

 

[PSUBluebird]

Harrison

Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul

Hendrix

Not just stoned but beautiful

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Anyone who's had a bad gambling streak will relate to several stanzas of this great song off the great Wilco album, AM:

"Well the money's pouring down and the people all look down,
And it's floating out of town
I hit the second deck and I spend my paycheck,
And my wife that I just met, she's looking like a wreck

Casino Queen, my lord you're mean
I've been gambling like a fiend on your tables so green

I always bet on black, blackjack,
I'll pay you back
The room fills with smoke and I'm already broke,
And the dealer keeps on joking as he takes my last token

Casino Queen, my lord you're mean
I've been gambling like a fiend on your tables so green

Casino Queen, my lord you're mean
I've been gambling like a fiend on your tables so green"

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Funny verse from a funny Wilco song (off AM again)

"Hey, wake up, your eyes weren't open wide
For the last couple of miles you've been swerving from side to side
You're gonna make me spill my beer,
If you don't learn how to steer"

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it

 

[interrobang]

Silver, blue and gold. The color of the sky I'm told. My rainbow is overdue!

 

[MtNittany]

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
Tomorrow I'll miss you

 

[Aloha T]

"I'd Love To Change The World"

Every where is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies;
Tell me where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more.
I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do,
So I'll leave it up to you.

Population - keeps on breeding, nation bleeding,
Still more feeding economy.
Life is funny, skies are sunny, bees make honey,
Who needs money? Monopoly!
I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do,
So I'll leave it up to you... Oh yeah,

World polution, there's no solution, institution, electrocution,
Just black and white, rich or poor, them and us,
We'll stop the war!
I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do,
So I'll leave it up to you... and Good Luck!

 

[Aloha T]

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

 

[91Joe95]

I fear, that I am ordinary, just like everyone!

- Smashing Pumpkins


All I want is to have my piece of mind.

- Boston


The Cat's in the Cradle (the entire song)

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Mike Nesmith- Daily Nightly

The night has gone and taken its infractions
While saddened eyes hope there will be a next one.

Sahara signs look down upon a world that glitters glibly
And mountainsides put arms around
The unsuspecting city.
Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster
Toward bringing down someone who's found some questions but no answers.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Rage Against the Machine, two parts from Down Rodeo:

So now I'm rolling down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one

Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns.
Stay away from the men pushing the codeine around.
Stay away from the stores where the remedy is fine
For better your pain than be caught on codine.
And it's real, it's real, one more time.

Codine- Buffy St. Marie

 

[fairgambit]

And then there were these old, often forgotten, lines by Fred Lewis Pattee:
May no act of our bring shame.
To one heart that loves thy name.

 

[phillybillyreprise]

"Strike your gait and win!"

 

[PSU2124]

From my favorite Billy Joel song;

For we are always what our situations hand us
Its either sadness or euphoria
-Summer, Highland Falls
Billy Joel

 

[91Joe95]

It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away.

- U2

 

[PSU Dave]

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.

Almost cut my hair
Happened just the other day
It's gettin' kind of long
I could've said it was in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
And I feel like I owe it, to someone, yeah
Must be because I had the flu this Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
And increases my paranoia
Like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car
But I'm not, I'm not giving in an inch to fear
'Cause I've promised myself this year
I feel oh, like I owe it, to someone
When I get myself together
I'm gonna get down in that sunny southern weather, yeah
I'm goin' find a space inside a laugh, yes
Separate the wheat from some chaff
I feel
Like I owe it, yeah, to someone

 

[mrtailgate]

Candy came from out on the island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head

Lou Reed at his demented best. Saw him prob a half dozen times but not once did he do Walk on The Wild Side.

 

[wex18]

Even more Buffett:

The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful.

 

[tomhawk80907]

Maybe some of you had the pleasure of this gig too,

Sting:

The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream. We try to do the best within the given time. A kid should be with his mother everybody knows that. What can a father do but babysit sometimes

 

[katchthis]

If it suddenly ended tomorrow, I could somehow adjust to the fall.
Good times and riches and son of a bitches, I've seen more than I could recall- Jimmy Buffett
Poor man wanna be rich, Rich man wanna be king, and a king isn't happy 'til he rules
everything- Springsteen.

Great comments on life and the pursuit of wealth .

 

[katchthis]

And the lyrics most appropriate for today.
I don't like Mondays- Boomtown Rats

 

[Tri-Power65]

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too


and the single plaintive line:

I see my Marianne walking away...

 

[YYZ86]

David Byrne

In a world where people have problems
In this world where decisions are a way of life
Other people's problems, they overwhelm my mind
They say compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time.

Rush

Philosophers and ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart

Kansas

To pass beyond is what I seek, I fear that I may be too weak
And those are few who've seen it through to glimplse the other side
The promised land is waiting like a maiden that is soon to be a bride
The moment is a masterpiece, the weight of indecision's in the air
It's standing there, the symbol and the sum of all that's me
It's just a travesty, towering, blocking out the light and blinding me
I want to see

Elvis Costello

Oh, I used to be disgusted
And now I try to be amused
But since their wings have got rusted
You know, the angels want to wear my red shoes

 

[jp3272]

The Zombies

What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me?

 

[hardbop]

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.

Gil Scott-Heron
God, but did you ever try
To turn your sick soul inside out
So that the world, so that the world
Can watch you die

 

[Asrock]

Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan
You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a hand to lend
You just wanna be
On the side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it?

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
Think I'd make contact?
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

 

[katchthis]

And the colored girls go........