Best Lyrical One Liners

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I love music, and the kind of music I listen too would be sadly lacking without lyrics. Whether the have a message behind them or they're just said for effect, lyrics are what I love most in music. A good lyric will at the very least stay in your head forever and at best, a good lyric will make you think, feel, react and possibly change the way you see the world.

Here, I've compiled some of my favorite lyrical one liners. These, of all my favorite lyrics, pop out and stay with me the longest, or at least long enough for me to remember them as I compile this list. Some may not be as profound as they are in the context of the music and the rest of the sung material but I think you'll agree that they are quite the statements, ramblings or intoxicated slurs.

"And God's name is smack for some"
- Lane Staley in 'God Smack', Alice In Chains, Dirt (1992)

"You know you can not hide, when the Devil's your only friend"
- Beck in 'Steal My Body Home', Beck, Mellow Gold (1994)

"Cause I could give two shits and a fuck"
- Shaggy 2 dope in 'Hokus Pokus', Insane Clown Posse, Great Milenko (1997)

"You're going to reap just what you sow"
- Lou Reed in 'Perfect Day', Lou Reed, Transformer (1972)

"Could you stop the meat from thinking before I swallow all of it, could you please?"
- Marilyn Manson in 'A Place In The Dirt', Marilyn Manson, Holy Wood (2000)

"We'll lets take this potted plant to the woods and set if free"
- Isaac Brock in 'The Devils Work Day', Modest Mouse, Good News For People Love Bad News (2004)

"We would lay and learn what each others bodies were for"
- Jeff Mangum in 'King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One', Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)

"So much potential, or so we used to say"
- Trent Reznor in 'The Warning', Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero (2007)

"I'm not like them, but I can pretend"
- Kurt Cobain in "Dumb". Nirvana, In Utero (1992)

"Safe from pain, and truth, and choice"
- James Maynard Keenan in "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums ", A Perfect Sleep, eMOTIVe (2004)

"I think you're great, you make me hard, your Irish skin, looks Mexican"
- Frank Black & Kim Deal in "Bone Machine", The Pixies, Surfer Rosa (1988)

"Where you goin' city boy?"
- Les Claypool in "My Name Is Mud", Primus, Pork Soda (1993)

"You don't find the way, the way finds you"
- Josh Homme in "Someone's In The Wolf", Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)

"I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control"
- Thom Yorke in "Creep", Radiohead, Pablo Honey (1993)

"Second verse, same as the first"
- Joey Ramone in "Judy Is A Punk", The Ramones, Ramones (1976)

"You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes"
- Corey Taylor in "Eyeless", Slipknot, Slipknot (1999)

"In our dreams we're both connected, siamese twins, at the wrist"
- Billy Corgan in "Geek U.S.A.", Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (1988)

"The words we say never seem to live up to the ones inside our head"
- Chris Cornell in "The Day I Tried To Live", Soundgarden, Superunknown (1994)

"I want to fuck my way to the garden"
- Serj Tankian in "Suite-Pee", System Of A Down, System Of A Down (1998)

"The last thing he said on earth was 'God is great and God is good', and blew them all to kingdom come, upon the road to peace"
- Tom Waits in "Road To Peace", Tom Waits, Orphans (2006)

"I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit, and you bought one"
- James Maynard Keenan in "Hooker With A Penis", Tool, Ænima (1996)

"Hey little boy, whatcha got there? Kind sir, it's a mollusk I found"
- Dean and Gene Ween in "The Mollusk", Ween, The Mollusk (1997)

(Written under the influence of Ween)