What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
Jim Morrison must have been reading Joseph Campbell when he wrote this line. It resonates increasingly with me as the years pass by.

"Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes"

I don't exactly hate my job, well only sometimes, but still can't help feel there must be better ways of getting money than working with the public.

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-doors/five-to-one
"What goes on in Detox Mansion
Outside the rubber room
We get therapy and lectures
We play golf in the afternoon"

- Detox Mansion by Warren Zevon -  
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"Mama looked down and spit on the ground every time my name gets mentioned
Papa said "Oy! if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"

- Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard by Paul Simon -