What's your favorite lyric from a song?

Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream she said
The one that makes me laugh she said
Threw her arms around my neck
The Cure - Just Like Heaven 

I’m first among equals - second to none
I’m last of the best - you can bury the rest


It must be the winter of my discontent
I wish you’d taken me with you wherever you went
They talk all night - they talk all day
Not for a second do I believe what they say



Mister Freud with his dreams and Mister Marx with his axe
See the raw hide lash rip the skin off their backs

Black Rider Black Rider hold it right there
The size of your cock will get you nowhere

What are these dark days I see in this world so badly bent
How can I redeem the time - the time so idly spent


I feel the Holy Spirit inside and see the light that freedom gives
I believe it’s within the reach of every man who lives


Key West is the place to be
If you’re lookin’ for immortality
Stay on the road – follow the highway sign
Key West is fine and fair
If you lost your mind, you’ll find it there

I’ve never lived in the land of Oz
Or wasted my time with an unworthy cause


The day that they blew out the brains of the king
Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing
It happened so quickly - so quick by surprise
Right there in front of everyone’s eyes

Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done

Ridin’ in the back seat, next to my wife
Heading straight on into the afterlife
I’m leaning to the left, got my head in her lap
Oh Lord, I’ve been led into some kind of a trap

Goodbye, Charlie, goodbye Uncle Sam
Frankly, Miss Scarlet, I don’t give a damn
What is the truth and where did it go
Ask Oswald and Ruby - they oughta know
Shut your mouth, says the wise old owl
Business is business and it’s murder most foul

You got me dizzy Miss Lizzy, you filled me with lead
That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head

Zapruder’s film, I’ve seen that before
Seen it thirty three times, maybe more
It’s vile and deceitful - it’s cruel and it’s mean
Ugliest thing that you ever have seen
They killed him once, they killed him twice
Killed him like a human sacrifice

 The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son,
The age of the anti-Christ has just only begun.”

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Rough and Rowdy Ways. Bob Dylan

Lenny Bruce Bob Dylan

Lenny Bruce is dead but his ghost lived on and on
Never did get any Golden Globe award, never made it to Synanon

He was an outlaw, that’s for sure
More of an outlaw than you ever were

Lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit’s living on and on.

Maybe he had some problems, maybe some things that he couldn’t work out
But he sure was funny and he sure told the truth and he knew what he was talking about

Never robbed any churches, nor cut of any babies heads
He just took the folks in high places and he shined a light in their beds

He’s on some other shore, he didn’t want to live anymore.

Lenny Bruce is dead but he didn’t commit any crime
He just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time

I rode with him in a taxi once, only for a mile and a half
Seemed like it took a couple of months

Lenny Bruce moved on and like the ones that killed him, gone.

They say he was sick ’cause he didn’t play by the rules
He just showed the wise men of his day to be nothing more than fools

They stamped him and they labeled him like they do with pants and shirts
He fought a war on a battlefield where every victory hurts

Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that you never had.

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It’s a song that just builds and builds. That last line must resonate with a lot of people.

I always liked the lyrics to The Lamia. A bit dark, but also very poetic and beautifully descriptive.

Honourable mentions to Fountain of Salmacis, Ripples & One for the Vine.

I always thought a lyric was a one-liner in a song, not the whole song as many above have interpreted it...

Mine: Springsteen - Rosalita: " ... Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny... "