Best single line lyric in a song?

You sold your soul for something you never will obtain
Every syllable you speak is weak, you have nothing to say.
 
Words that mean a lot to me:

I can't quote the book, the chapter or the verse
You can't tell me it all ends in a slow ride in a hearse
 
I read bad poetry into your machine
I save your messages just to hear your voice
You always listen carefully to awkward rhymes
You always say your name like I wouldn't know it's you
At your most beautiful.
 
Dwight Yoakam's in the corner trying to catch my eye
Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh

The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true
Hey the stars might lie but the numbers never do

I feel lucky, oh, oh, oh, I feel lucky, yeah
Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight
Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight
 
Smoke so sweet fills the air
She maybe ought to crack a window
But all she can do is stare at the paint
That's been peeling off the walls
A couple tokes and her troubles don't seem all that tall

[Chorus:]
You know life will let you down
Love will leave you lonely
Sometimes to only way to get by
Is to get high
 
Oh my my this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
 
"Amish Paradise"

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows... fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
I've churned butter once or twice
Living in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Living in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Living in an Amish paradise
 
I will
I will give up my life for you, if you want it.
I'll give you my heart, you already own it.
I'll do anything,
I'll go anywhere
It's true,
I will,
I will,
I will.

I look in your eyes,
And I see our life
So full of happiness.
Do you see the same?
Just someone you play
For things that you might've missed.

I don't wanna weigh you down like an anchor.
But if that's how you see me now I will rather
Let you go free
Just sail away
If that's what you need
If that's what it takes
 
What a beautiful face I have found in this place
That is circling all 'round the sun
What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly
From the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be in the arms of all
I'm keepin' here with me

What a curious life we have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds, Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
But now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now we don't even know his name

What a beautiful face I have found in this place
That is circling all 'round the sun
And when we meet on a cloud I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all
 
And for all the bitches I might take home
I got the Johnson baby powder and Cool Water cologne
 
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough
... never enough

(I must have posted this before)
 
You can't run away forever, but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.
 
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