Most Famous Lines in Song-Writing History

'Oh I'm a flower' The world's most pointless line, who's existance relies upon it's ability to rhyme with the one previous. "sens una donna" Paul Young and somebody I believe

If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy I would say such wonderful things to you you would say such wonderful things to me Something something something..........No Charge...

'Mother Mother Mother, there's too many of you dying. 'What's Going On' by Marvin Gaye'

'Now since my baby left me'

'when you hair turns to silver, we'll take you to the pawnbrokers'

Tutti frutti, oh rutti, A Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!

"I don't know just where I'm going, but I'm going to try for the kingdom if I can, because it makes me feel like I'm a man..."

Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cent no phone no pool no pets I aint got no cigarettes but... two hours of pushing broom can buy and eight by twelve foot bedroom I'm a Man of means by no means King of the road and it's up to you ...Noo yawk nooo yawk!!

Hey! You! Get offa my cloud!

Eh?

"When I put a spike into my vein, I tell you things ain't quite the same, when I'm rushing on my run and I feel just like Jesus son..." Heroin, The Velvet Underground. Thought it was really famous, obviously not as famous as I thought.

Is famous to me. An all out classic Mister Mark Brown. " I'll stir fry you in my wok" Beastie Boys. My all time favourite lyric. How about: " Excuse me while I kiss the sky" or " When you get to the bottom you go back to the top of the slide/ then you turn and you go for a ride/ then you go back to the bottom and I see you again/ Helter Skelter"

"Sunday Monday, Happy Days, Tuesday Wednesday, Happy Days..." etc.

"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again." "Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time." "I am the egg man, koo koo ka-choo." "Come together, right now, over me." "Imagine....." "There is a house in New Orleans, they call the rising sun."

You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss A sigh is just a sigh.....

"I need you to keep me straight - when the world dont seem so great - and it's hard enough you know." (I Need You (For Someone) - Weller - 1977)

"Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free." - Design for Life, Manics "All dead, yet still alive, in endless time, in endless art." - Endless Art, A House (in fact, pretty much anything by A House) Why is it I can never remember quotes when I need them? Bah!

now i guess i'll have to tell 'em that i got no cerebellum all the girls are in love with me i'm a teenage lobotomy

'The smell of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right wing meetings' The Jam (Down in the Tube Station at Midnight) 'And all the prostitutes have names like doughnuts' Tom Waits (9th and Hennipin' 'I said you look so good that I could die. She said 'drop dead' then left with another guy' Elvis Costello (The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes) 'Hush now child, and dont you cry, your folks might understand you, by and by' Curtis Mayfield (Move on Up) 'At the chime of the city clock, you put up your road block' Nick Drake (At the chime of the city clock' 'You ought to see what I can see, when I'm cleaning windows' George Fornby (Cleaning Windows) 'Its a wonderful night for a Moondance' Van Morrison (Moondance) Ralph

Thank you Eamonn for returning the thread to it's avowed intention, the listing of FAMOUS lines, not peoples favourites.

"I want to be the girl with the most cake"

'She's a muscular boy'

I think Missi is right - if we're talking famous lines, which is actually the question, then I would plump for "Well it's a one for the money, a two for the show" Oddly, Elvis seems much more universal than the Beatles, if I was going for a very universal beatles lyric it would be "We all live in a yellow submarine" "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you" ?

" If you tolerate this, then your chilren will be next"

"Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby, Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby, Be-bop-a-lula, I dont mean may be, Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby love My baby love My baby love" (No doubt Tom will correct my half remembered lyric:))

"P-P-People try to put us d-d-down, (Talkin' bout my generation), Just because we get around, (Talkin' bout my generation)" "Somewhere, there's a place for us." "Where there's no future, we could live in sin, We're the flowers in the dustbin, We're the poison in the human machine, We're the future, no future, God Save The Queen."

What about most famous opening lines? "Wild thing..." "Punctured bicycle..." "I heard there was a secret chord..." "Walking round the room singing stormy weather..." "There is freedom within..."

God Save the Queen.

Sex Pistols version.

I believe that is more infamous than famous Eddie.

"You aint nothing but a hound dog..."

I shot the e-griff but I didn't shoot the deputy

"Hey Joe, where're you going with that gun in your hand?"

aaaa-gaaaaa.......... DO-DO-DO! famous. awful as they come, but famous...

That deaf dumb and blind kid Sure plays a mean pinball