What's your favorite lyric from a song?

Cold iron shackles and ball and chain.
Listen to the whistle of the evening train.

ok one more...

Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams.
Gone both, dream and lie.

ok that's it. I promise!

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

The whole song is maybe the most psychedelic vision I've ever heard. Can you hear a vision? I guess you can if John Lennon wrote it!

I got me a complication
and it's an only child

Talk Talk by Music machine

I recently found this one, on the subject of (ruefully) growing older. Transcribed as best as I can decipher:

I'd say that time is on a rude crusade
taking all that I'm annually owed
my ration of days
grows painfully shy
the rain
cannot turn the other way
one day
turns a skip into a sway

Oh, and by the way, Happy Birthday

from "Happy Birthday, Baby" by Elbow Bones and The Racketeers (AKA Kid Creole)

Marty

This lyric from Rainy Day Man, sung by Bonnie Raitt on her Streetlights album, is a great turn of a phrase and the way she sings it makes it delightful.

"Now simple pleasures they all evade you
Store-bought treasures none can save you"

As I pursue this hobby on the equipment purchasing side sometimes it is easy to forget that the simple pleasure of listening to music is the goal, not just buying better stuff.