What's your favorite lyric from a song?

Peter Tosh “I am That I Am”

I’m not in this world
To live up to your expectations
Neither are you here to live up to mine

I don’t owe no one
No obligation
No one owe me none
So everything is fine

I quoted that to my dad a lot in my young adult years…every time he tried to point me in the direction he thought my life should be heading. It would make him explode lol

I’ll miss him this Sunday.

I miss your broken china voice - how I wish you were still here with me.
Tom Waits - Hold On

In Tiananmen Square, lost my baby there, my yellow rose and her blood stained clothes, She was a short order pastry chef, from a Dim-Sum dive in Yangthzee tideway, she had shiny hair, she was the daughter of an engineer - won't you shed a tear....
The lyrics of this song puts Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the top of my list.  Its a well crafted song w Don Henley supporting the vocals.

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.
I was staring in my empty coffee cup.
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'.
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles.
I'm gonna drink 'em up.

And if California slides into the ocean.
Like the mystics and statistics say it will.
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill.

Desperados Under The Eaves by Warren Zevon

Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own

Black Rose by Billy Joe Shaver

@dmac67,

Dads always know best - apart from those few times they don’t.

Was he right, or was he wrong?


@danoroo,

They’re sure great lines, full of rare self insight.

Deserve to be better known.