Songs with best "drop dead" lines in them?

[ailsagirl]

For me, "Positively 4th Street"

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes.
You'd know what a DRAG it is to see you.


Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight"

Well if you told me you were drowning,
I would not lend a hand...

[Bake]

1. Dylan!

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You coulda done better, but I don't mind
You just sorta wasted all my precious time
But don't think twice it's alright.


Best drop-dead song of all time, in my book.

Bake

[mark414]

2. you're breakin my heart, you're tearin it apart

so fuck you

nilsson...

[seriousstan]

3. REFUSE TO BE YOUR FOOL

I know you just called up this mess to find out how long you can keep me stuck in it.
Pick up the telephone, dial information ask for the time, you can calculate It to the last god damn minute. Now look !
You did not have to hurt me baby.
No you did not have to be cruel.
I'll be your lover and your friend darling.
I'll be god damn.
Six feet in the ground, dead, buried and long forgotten. I'll be so long forgotten that my flesh will have turned and returned to the nutrient's and element's and molecule's from which it originated.
I mean to say that the genesis of specie's of worm's that used to crawl in and out of the socket's of my eyelid hole's would have vanished from the face of the earth.
I mean to say that I will see the earth leave it's orbit.
I'll wear the ring of Saturn for a ring around my pinky. I'll let your sister marry a venution.
I will see you dead !
I will see your lover dead !
I'll see his lover dead !
I'll see his lover dead !
I'll see his lover dead !
I'll see that fagot dead !
I'll see everyone you ever, knew, loved, touched, stood next to, heard of, smelt, felt, dreamed about in your life or any of your descendant's life, down to the 168 person, roasted and tortured in hell, for one billion, trillion, year's, sixteen eternitie's, twenty seven forever's, eleven thousand year's after that before I will be your fool !

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance

[ailsagirl]

5. Speaking of Dylan, "Ballad of a Thin Man"

There ought to be a LAW
Against you comin' around
You should be made to wear
ear phones

That little begger certainly knew how to write them, didn't he?

[warrens]

6. Virtually every Wedding Present song

Gedge has a cottage industry is fuck off songs. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft and Give My Love to Kevin are two of my favorites.

[phaseolus]

7. Jack Johnson, "Sitting Waiting Wishing"

I sing ya songs I dance a dance
I gave ya friends all a chance
Putting up with them wasn't worth never having you...

[ghostsofgiants]

8. "Start Angry...End Mad" by Moneen

Really straightforward:
Screw you and die, I hope you burn

"Okay, I believe you, but my tommy gun don't" by Brand new:
Hope you come down with something they can't diagnose
Don't have a cure for

[shugah]

9. "i was always standing in the shadows

or blocking your light" - don henley or the eagles?

"i should have changed that stupid lock, i should have made you leave your key, if i'd have known for just one minute you'd be back to bother me...i will survive!" - no idea

"these boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do. one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. are ya ready boots?" - nancy sinatra, these boots are made for walkin'

"hit the road jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more." - ray charles and that female vocalist, hit the road jack

"stink foot, stink foot, i ain't lyin'! can you rinse it off, do you suppose?" frank zappa, stink foot

and to meet your dylan (love your choice!!) from idiot wind - "i can't even touch the books you've read."

[ailsagirl]

12. Good ones-- the second one is Gloria Gaynor, "I Will Survive"

[shugah]

14. OMG!!!

who is gloria gaynor?

;-)

[ailsagirl]

15. Probably before your time-- this was in the disco era

http://www.gloriagaynor.com/

[shugah]

18. lounge! for the record

:loveya: :loveya: ailsagirl!!

the disco era harmed me irrevocably. i thought i could not dance. it was years after the disco craze ended that i realized that the so-called dancers of that time had no sense of rhythm and movement and disco dancing reflected it well! ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. "Put another log in the fire"

[bridgit]

11. "you're breaking my heart, you're tearing it apart...

"so FUCK YOU!!"

[SarahB]

13. The Cure.

"The Kiss"

Get it out
Get it out
Get it out
Get your fucking voice
Out of my head

I never wanted this
I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
I wish you were dead

[EstimatedProphet]

16. I was going to pick Positively 4th Street too.

So, here's something completely different, with a somewhat "drop dead" ending:

Me and My Uncle

Me and my uncle went ridin' down,
South Colorado, West Texas bound.
We stopped over in Santa Fe,
That bein' the point just about half way,
And you know it was the hottest part of the day.

I took the horses up to the stall,
Went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all.
Three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt,
It bein' summer, I took off my shirt,
And I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt.

When Texas cowboys, they's all around,
With liquor and money, they loaded down.
So soon after payday, know it seemed a shame;
You know my uncle, he starts a friendly game,
High-low jack and the winner take the hand.

My uncle starts winnin'; cowboys got sore.
One of them called him, and then two more,
Accused him of cheatin'; Oh no, it couldn't be.
I know my uncle, he's as honest as me,
And I'm as honest as a Denver man can be.

One of them cowboys, he starts to draw,
And I shot him down, Lord he never saw.
Well I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw,
Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old.
In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold,
And we high-tailed it down to Mexico.

I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.

[Bake]

17. Comic John Wing? "I Hope You Die"

Woke up this morning and you were gone
I found a note that said "so long"
You said this love would last our lives
I hope your face breaks out in hives.

I hope you die a painful death
I hope you choke on your next breath
You screwed me up, you done me wrong
I hope you die before too long

I hope you have a heart attack
I hope your breasts get really slack
You were my girl, but now you're not
I hope you die, I hope you rot

I don't want to be your friend
I only want your life to end
You're back in town, someone else's gal
I hope you drown in the Love Canal

I hope you die a painful death
I hope you choke on your next breath
You screwed me up, you done me wrong
I hope you die before too long
I hope you die before I end this song
I hope you die, die die die die



Now THAT's pretty hardcore!! Can anyone top it??

Bake

[greenman3610]

19. Here's a Quarter, call someone who cares....

[mitchum]

20. No one does spite and scorn like Bob Dylan

No one

[ailsagirl]

22. I couldn't agree with you more. He uses words like a dagger n/t

[Pale Blue Dot]

21. Split Enz: "I Hope I Never"

I'm for living, while you can,
I'm an optimistic man,
I hope I never,
I hope I never have to see you again.

[Tikki]

23. ..."don't come around here no more".......Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

"Alison......my aim is true".......Elvis Costello and the Attractions.



"Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand
Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand, oh
I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man"....Jimi Hendrix Experience

[tuvor]

24. Tonio K tops 'em all. "H.A.T.R.E.D."

I'm so full of h-a-t-r-e-d
I'm bitter I'm maligned
You got me p-i-s-s-e-d off
I'm angry most of the time
Why don't you g-o t-o h-e-double “L”
You tramp, you philandering b*tch
I'm gonna k-i-l-l one of us baby
Give me time and I'll decide on which

Now wait a minute
I know I'm acting immature
I'm acting like a child
I should display some self-control
Instead of going wild like this
And I wish I could accept all this
As simply 'life'
Which includes pain
And act upon the actual fact
That nobody's to blame
Yes I wish I could be as mellow
As, for instance, Jackson Browne
But "fountain of sorrow," my ass, motherfucker
I hope you wind up in the ground

[Bok_Tukalo]

25. The best

"But thank you girl for teaching me brand new ways to be cruel
And if I can find my mind now, I guess I'll just leave"

- Dwight Yoakam

[sparky_in_ma]

26. Take these guns from me,

I can't shoot them anymore. Dylan (truely a "drop dead" song)