best one-liner in a song, ever:

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"they asked me for collateral, and i pulled down my pants"

from "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"

nominate others please

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

"The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!"

Zimmy's got a million of 'em.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Best one liner in a song, like, like, EVER:

"My diamonds got diamonds... my hoes got hoes."

-- Lil Wayne

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

"This is not a ho in the sense of havin' a pussy/but a pussy with the goddamn sense to try an' push me"
Jay Z

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

He said, "Steve, it's because people leave and no highway can bring them back."

― Rybys, Friday, 26 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

"and a hip hop, a hip, a hippy to the hip hip hop and ya don't stop" - sugarhill gang

― beatles fan, Friday, 26 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

"This is not a ho in the sense of havin' a pussy/but a pussy with the goddamn sense to try an' push me"

that is two lines.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

here's four:

The longest train I ever saw
Went down that Georgia line
The engine went by at six o'clock
And the cab went by at nine

take my wife, please!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

maybe 2 lines?

here's a penny for your thoughts, and incidently, you can keep the change

Flesh of my Flesh by Orange Juice

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Blind Willie McTell (also two lines):

"A black man will give you a dollar, and he won't think it's nothing strange / A white man give you a dollar, he'll take back ninety-five cents change"

― PB, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

"I know she's perfect, because I read her schematics"

I heard this last night and determined it was totally brilliant.

― J (Jay), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

WHEN I GOT A PROBLEM A PROBLEM GOT A PROBLEM TIL IT'S GONE BY OL DIRTY

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

"Maybe the truth in searching is not having found."

-Dave Longstreth from the Dirty Projector's Getty Address

― kenneth, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

"Jesus died for sombody's sins but not mine!"

-Patti Smith Gee eL Ohh aRe I Aye...

― John Gwynn, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

It's three (sorry), but I like 'em:

"To take a wife and no paper
Never again to wonder
Did that rapper rape her"

Smog, "Running the Loping"

Here's one: "Fuck all y'all!" from "The Wall" by Smog.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Doh, make that "The Well". I must be channelling Pink Floyd or something...

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

That first one is like the worst Smog lyric ever, sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

"LIKE THE KNICKS I GOT GAME LIKE I WORKED AT HASBRO"

I will never understand the appeal of that Patti Smith line.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

"But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah!"
— Rush, "The Spirit of Radio"

It's the "yeah!" that kills me.

― electric derby, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

"You keep asking for ashtrays, can't you reach?"

Dylan, "She's Your Lover Now"

― RJM (robmy), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

"And if you're going to read your poetry aloud to me
I'll have to show you to the door"

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

"Que je n'ai con
nue q'un instant"

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

"the guy on that cross is holier than i / but then again he's made from plastic"

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

ok seriously one liners mean only one line people! sheesh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

"If I wanted to pick you up with a line, it'd have a fish hook on the end of it and it be stickin' in your eye"

-Sage Francis

― sickhead, Friday, 26 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Although I'm not sure "of it" is in there. Whatever sounds better :S

― sickhead, Friday, 26 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

"Put me anywhere on God's green earth/I'll triple my worth, mothaFUCKA"

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Tramps like us, and we like tramps

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

"She told me to come but I was already there"??

― PB, Friday, 26 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

"Son, I'm thirty,
I only went with your mother cos she's dirty"

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

yesssss

― noizem duke (noize duke), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

or, from the same genius:
"it takes more than one man to change my name to shanghai lily"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Today I vote for:

I don't wanna be your momma, I just wanna make you comma (Outkast)

Simply for it's sly censor-bypassing ability.

Aside from that, the best one liner EVAH has to be Foetus':

"You just wear your umbilical cord like a noose and make believe it's a tie" (from the Ache album)

Shit, he's got a ton:

"I found there was a hole in my spiritual parachute after I jumped from the astral plane"

Amazing!

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

"I will never understand the appeal of that Patti Smith line."
It means she's rejecting the idea of sin -- original or otherwise -- and rejecting Christ as her personal savior and going it alone. What the fuck don't you understand? That's the ONLY Patti Smith line that I like.

― JesusHater1, Saturday, 27 August 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Just wanted to put y'all up on this...

the "not a hoe in the sense of havin' a pussy" line was actually borrowed from me by the homey Jay. I dropped that jewel back in '96 on UGK's "Touched."

― Bun B, Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

"I still believe in God but God no longer believes in me."

Kidding, of course. It was just the first one that popped into my mind. It shouldn’t qualify either way because it was spoken and by a cheezze group.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

I have been using this one this week somewhere...

"If it isn't penetration then it isn't worth a kiss."

-David Bazan

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

"And don't forget the joker!"

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

"Big booty bitches, they think they is the shit."

― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

I hate music, it's got too many notes.

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

i prefer couplets

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

"you're about as easy as a nuclear war"
duran duran "is there something you should know

― simon le rhodes, Saturday, 27 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

"say we play too fast the music's not gonna last
well, I think you're wrong" -

Husker Du, "Obnoxious"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey yo fat girl, commere are ya ticklish? Yeah, I called ya fat, look at me I'm
skinny."

Digital Underground, "Humpty Dance."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

So pogo on that, you twat!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 27 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

"I LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE MY DICK SIZE"
Raekwon

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

"Baby's on fire, better throw her in the water..." - Eno

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

You know it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

"I'm a minute away from feeling no sympathy" odb

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

dude, there are totally better ODB lines.. such as "Be careful with my balls, they're fragile as EGGS"

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Smog:

"Also tell them about how I gave to charity
And tried to love my fellow man as best I could
But most of all don’t forget about the time on the beach
With fireworks above us"

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 27 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

This one's awfully obvious but - sorry, too good:

'Will Smith don't gotta cuss to sell records" / Well, I do / So fuck him and fuck you, too

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Ian, but it's a line I can use! I ain't got no balls! :-)

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Saturday, 27 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

out on my skateboard, the night is just humming

― jive session (elwisty), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

"The wacky morning DJ says democracy's a joke" - Cake, "Comfort Eagle"

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

"Viva la revolution"
The Adicts

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that's a slogan.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

"The girls won't touch me 'cause I got a misdirection" - Pere Ubu

― Declan Zimmerman, Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

"She said 'will you call me?' / Yeah, I'll call you A BITCH OR A HO! / after i ball you"

- Ice Cube

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

"how can moments go so slow?"
brian eno in 'golden hours'... though most any line from the rest of the song could work just as well... my favorite lyrics ever.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

it's all so sugarless hooker waitress model actress / i'll just go nameless

-Hole

― Naca (Naca), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

brian eno in 'golden hours'

I'd go with:

"I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between"

― Declan Zimmerman, Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

"I hope she's speeding on the way to the club trying to hurry up to get to some baller or singer or somebody like that and try to put on her makeup in the mirror and then crash crash craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash into a ditch."

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Two lines, whoops:

You're the type of guy to try to call me a punk
Now knowin that your main girl's bitin my chunk

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

For disturbingish: "but wild erotic fantasies concerning Postman Pat would not leave my head while I was in the shower" from The Chrysanthemums' "You Are a Serbian (And I Like You)".

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

"If we heard mortar shells, we'd cuss more in our songs and cut down the guitar solos"

― jeffery (jeffery), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

"IT'S A SLY PERSPECTIVE PROJECTOR, IF YOU WILL."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

"NOT THAT A SLUG CAN READ BY ANY MEANS."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line

Take your pick...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

"i'm the king of all i see, my kingdom for a voice"

Michael Stipe

― herman nijhuis (herman), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

"Why don't you join the foreign legion?"
"You're still in love with Hayley Mills"
"I have six things on my mind, you are no longer one of them.."

I should stop listening to Prefab Sprout quite so much.

― Mippy (Mippy), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

"she aint't pretty, she just looks that way"

i don't care for the song, but it is a snappy one liner.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

aint't? wtf i suck

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

"You only get half a bar/Fuck ya'll ni**as."

Jay-Z, "The Takeover." Best outro ever.

― Chris O., Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Another great sorta obvious one:

"Got a light skinned friend that look just like Michael Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson."

― Chris O., Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

"And all those people see themselves in you / And I can see them in you too" (Malk, "Pencil Rot"). What an amazing musician-to-musician insult.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

"I'm the man you think you are."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

C'mon people!

"I'm not black like Barry White no I am white like Frank Black is"

― Handsome Dan, Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Two lines:

"you remind me of Rod Stewart when he was young--
you've got passion, you think that you're sexy, and all the punks think that you're dumb."

― Alex Pareene (Pareene), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

"But you can't use my phone!"

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

"DO YOU BLEED CLEAN OR DOES YOUR BLOOD FLOW IN A MESS?"

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE EFFECTS, DON'T PRODUCE THE CAUSE."

"...AND WITH AN ASHTRAY BIG AS A FUCKING REALLY BIG BRICK I SPLIT HIS SKULL IN HAALLLLLLLLLLLLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

"You've got to watch out for the exit wounds, when girls say yes"
Jazz Butcher, Girls Say Yes

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line
Take your pick...

OTM

I pick the first one I posted.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Big Daddy Longstroke and your man's Pee Wee Herman"

― kaygee (kaygee), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

file under: kiss-off

"I'd feel better thinking you were queer"
fleming & john "ugly girl"

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Recognize I'm a fool and ya luuuuuuuuuuv me!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

"They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom for trying to change the system from within."

- Leonard Cohen "First We Take Manhattan"

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

cohen OTM

― Declan Zimmerman, Monday, 29 August 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

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