Favorite one-line in a song

"And the stars are projectors, yeah. Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth. Everyone wants a double feature. They wanna be their own damn teacher and how. All the stars are projectors, yeah. Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth."
Modest Mouse

"It's just that demon life, got me in its sway."
Rolling Stones
 
"My heart is broke, but I have some glue.
Help me inhale and mend it with you.
We'll float around, hang out on clouds
then we'll come down and have a hangover...."

Nirvana "Dumb"
 
'Master, Master - where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master - you promised only lies!
Laughter, laughter - all I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, laughter - laughing at my cries'
and the guitar solo played just before it
(Master of Puppets, Metallica)
really speaks to me since I've got off drugs
actually this whole song kinda tears me up inside on an emotional day - its my fav song and those r my fav lines anyway
 
^ in keeping with the metallica theme

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
 
Well they're sharing a drink they call lonelyness
But it's better than drinking alone

Billy Joel - Piano Man
 
Since you said goodbye, the polka dots fill my eyes, and I don't know why

~The Libertines
 
Forgot my woman, lost my friends
Things I'd done and where I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors cold
See my face it's growin' old
Scared to death no reason why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I said
Read the page it's cold and dead

Take me home

Say goodbye, Don't follow
 
Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden now to be the One
Born to bear and bring to all the details of our ending,
Jot it down for all the world to see.

But I forgot my pen
Shit the bed again ...
Typical.

-Tool "Rosetta Stoned"
 
Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard

Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
he looks out a window without glass
The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg

He's got 9 brothers and sisters
they're brought up on their knees
it's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
but that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard

He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard
he's going out, to the dirty boulevard
He's going down, to the dirty boulevard

This room cost 2,000 dollars a month
you can believe it man it's true
somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
they dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
that's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard
going out, to the dirty boulevard
He's going down, on the dirty boulevard
going out

Outside it's a bright night
there's an opera at Lincoln Center
movie stars arrive by limousine
The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
but the lights are out on the Mean Streets

A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
he's selling plastic roses for a buck
The traffic's backed up to 39th street
the TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
he's found a book on magic in a garbage can
He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling
"At the count of 3" he says, "I hope I can disappear"

And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard
 
'Fighting for my sanity
Many nights of tragedy
Got to leave my wretched ways behind'
- Ozzy Osbourne, 'Running out of Time'
can totally relate
 
Keeping with the Nirvana posts...

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you."

-from 'Territorial Pissings'
 
'Sometimes you wish that you'd never been born - tormenting came with a crownful of thorns' - Ozzy Osbourne, 'Junkie'
 
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