My first attempt at starting a topic, hopefully it won't be a waste of time. I've been thinking a lot lately about individual lyrics/lines, so I thought it would be fun to start a topic for lyrics we enjoyed this year, whether or not we enjoyed the song or the album.

For instance, from the Strokes new one:
"I love you more than being seventeen." - Evening Sun (terrible song though)
also:
"My feelings are more important than yours." - Razorblade.

From the Arctic Monkeys:
"There's only music so that there's new ring tones." - A Certain Romance.
"Bet she's delighted when she sees him /
Pulling in and giving her the eye /
Because she must be fucking freezing /
Scantily clad beneath the clear night sky /
it doesn't stop in the winter, no." - When The Sun Goes Down.

I think this is a good idea for a thread. I don't know of any good lines yet, though, because there hasn't been much of anything good come out yet. I'll be on the lookout though.

Bonzob, "A Certain Romance" is my favorite song of 2006 so far, and you've already posted my favorite line from it. However, this one should not be ignored, as it is the perfect closing line for the album.

"Over there there's friends of mine/What can I say? I've known them for a long long time/And though they might overstep the line/You just cannot get angry in the same way" - Arctic Monkeys

I just remembered a good line from the Swearing At Motorists album:

"Sometimes nothing feels better / than feeling nothing at all"----from "Losing the Battle"

Another great line from Swearing At Motorists, this one from the song "Timing Is Everything": "Why do you do what you do / you don't know / you just do."

i know it's from 2005, but I think it's way early to be speaking about the great lines of 2006. Great topic, though. From Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine:
-"What's so impressive about a diamond except the mining" (Red Red Red)

all of threnody by two gallants

oh and

it wasn't pretty but she was
not your wife

from "rise up with fists" by jenny lewis + watson twins

The Dresden Dolls : Sex Changes
"We need to chop your clock off! (Tick tock! Tick tock! Tick tock!)"

The Dresden Dolls : Dirty Buisiness

"She's the kind of girl who leaves out condoms on the bedroom dresser, just to make you jealous of the men she fucked before you met her."

There are a lot of cracker-jack lines in Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's new album.

"& since September I've been 26 years old
she's still the only one besides my dad
who's ever said I love you Creedence"----from "I Love Creedence"

"couldn't make rent again or are you in trouble deep
you're a stray dog with fleas & your sister agrees
you've looked better son

hey Bobby Malone it's good to have you home
a couple months on the couch while you figure things out
won't do you wrong"--------------from "Bobby Malone Moves Home"

Plus a lot of other great tales of heartbreak and loneliness. Probably the strongest album lyrically so far this year.

quote:

From the Arctic Monkeys:
"There's only music so that there's new ring tones." - A Certain Romance.

Reminds me of that one grime punchline from... I think it was Dizzee or maybe Wiley... "In the studio like I should/Gettin' blown/This song's so good/you can have it as your ring tone."

U.K. rap-rock is the new U.S. rap-rock.

Two great ones from my favorite song of the year thus far, "The Funeral" by Band of Horses:

"Coming up only to pull you under..."

and

"At every occasion, I'm ready for the funeral"

Great song. Great album. Great new band. Check them out.

There are a few good lines from the song "My Favorite Mutiny" by The Coup, but I think my favorite is,

"They heavy on weaponry like Charleton Heston..."

"Throwin' ketchup on my fries, hittin baseball spliffs,
Back seat with my leg all stiff,
Push the fuckin' seat up, tartar sauce on my S Dot kicks,
Rocks is lit while I'm poppin' the clips"

Ghostface - "Shakey Dog"

"We think, therefore we are a bit confused" from Big City Rock's "Human." Not horribly original, but I've never heard it in a song before, and I love the sentiment.

Destroyer! hehe all from destroyer's rubies

"why can't you see that a life in art and a life in mimicry, is the same thing!"

"did i tell you that I love you lately. And did I fail to mention there's an axe hanging above you!"

"typical me, typical me, I gave my cargo to the sea"

and my favorite line

"all good things must come to an end, the band ones go on forever"

subrock, I think the line is:

All good things must come to an end, the BAD ones just go on forever.

And yes, that is definitely one of the best lyrics of 2006 or that I have ever heard.

haha silly me. the band ones do go on forever don't they.

yep, especially in sonic youth's case.

"For I have never seen a sun who did not bury his head in the sand when the day is done"


"I've heard of creatures who eat their babies
I wonder if they stop to think about the taste
...
I am a creature
I am surviving
I want to be alone but I want your body
so when you eat me, mothering baby
oh baby mother me
before you eat me"

Both are from "us ones in between" - sunset rubdown

The first is definitely the better 'line' as it is a one liner, but I freaking love the buildup to the baby mother me before you eat me part. And krug's delivery is unbeatable. damn

"Some days I think I'd feel better if I tried harder / Most days I know it's not true"

Mountain Goats - "Wild Sage" the opening song from Get Lonely.