'I have only two emotions, careful fear and dead devotion. I can't get the balance right.' - (The National - Don't Swallow The Cap)

'Now I'm reversing down a lonely street, a cheap hotel where I can meet the past, pay it off, keep it sweet' - (The Libertines - Death on the Stairs)  

Guilty feet have got no rhythm 

I said MAYYYBEEEEE

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream

Hate me, so you can finally see what’s good for you

She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies
Knocking me out with those American thighs

I could have been someone..

...well so could anyone. 

OBVIOUSLY anything by Blink 182, especially "Happy Holidays you bastard", but otherwise:

"She would have made such a lovely bride,

What a shame she's f**ked in the head, they said" 

• Taylor Alison Swift, "Champagne Problems". Yes, it's rock. Shut up. It is. Still gives me the shivers, that line.

"Start asking for forgiveness in advance
For all the future things I will destroy"

• Julien Baker, "Hardline". Masterpiece of a song. 

"She goes down. She goes down. She goes down, down, down, down"

• Motley Crue, "She Goes Down". A wry and surprisingly perceptive critique of the human condition.

I'm so ugly, that's OK 'cause so are you.

When at last it didn't ring, I knew it wasn't you.

Wooooaaaaah we’re living on a prayer 

Take my hand, we’ll make it I swear….

Die, Die, Die you Bastard

From the song Die you Bastard - Mötorhead.

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

🎶If you got a field that don’t yield then brother you better go there and hoe it🎶

Heh. I was going to offer

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination
Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation

Could go through a Bruce catalogue here, the bloke's a poet:

"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" - The River

"Well now everything dies baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back" - Atlantic City

"Everybody's got a hungry heart" - Hungry Heart

I don't even love his songs but his lyrics have got to be up there.

I saw a shooting star last night

I made a wish, but it was just a satellite 

It’s wrong to wish on space hardware

I wish, I wish, I wish you cared.

If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor.

Applies to many a Magic Circle partner.

Into a dancer you have grown from a seed somebody else has thrown, go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Jackson Browne - For a Dancer

Not sure Pet Shop Boys count as rock but

I’m always hoping you’ll be faithful but you’re not I suppose

We’ve both given up smoking cos it’s fatal, so whose matches are those

and

she’s made you some kind of laughing stock

Because you dance to disco and you don’t like rock

It's all about the he says/she says bullshit
I think you better quit lettin' shit slip
Or you'll be leavin' with a fat lip

It was one of those nights 

When you turn out the lights

And everything comes into view

Currently for me, Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem”: Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering / there is a crack in everything - that’s how the light gets in.

Worst, from Aretha Franklin’s “Think”: There ain’t nothing you could ask I would answer you with “I won’t” / but “I won’t”’s going to change to “I’m not” if you keep doing things I don’t.

There's also the worst scanning and factually inaccurate lyric from Africa by Toto

I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

The closest border of the Serengeti is about 250km from Kilimanjaro.

+1 for Springsteen though. 

They say you’ve got to stay hungry 

Hey babe, I’m just about starving tonight 

Gets me every time. I’ve felt like that. 

“All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme”

I thought t was rises like a leapress??

Makes more sense

A room full of noise and dangerous boys

Still makes you thirsty and hot

I can see clearly now Lorraine is gone.

Johnny Nash. 

"Yeek yeek woop woop why you all in my ear?

Talking a whole bunch of shit that I ain't trying to hear"

Another +1 for the Boss - 

"And some kidnapped handicap was complainin' that he caught the clap
from some mousetrap he bought last night
Well, I unsnapped the skull cap, between his ears I saw a gap
and figured he’d be all right"

Smell the glove

I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
Rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

[Des'ree - Life]

An interesting 3+1 approach

I can see clearly Deirdre now Lorraine has gone.

Fixed that for you.

You’re so vague 

Hebetation, King Buffalo...

When I was young I tried a million different ways to find

A panacea that would hebetate a restless mind

25 and all I find are clever ways to hide

Every night I dream a million different ways for me to die

I can see clearly Deirdre now Lorraine has gone?

I can see clearly Deirdre now Lorraine has gone g'wan.

There, fixed it for you

Oh the snot has caked against my pants

It has turned into crystal

Money don't make my world go round

I'm reaching out to a higher ground

The Wreck of the Arthur Lee

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.

The bigger the cushion

The sweeter the pushin’

You know what I mean

More good stuff from the Boss:

"And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner all alone watchin' the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone to remind him of the feeling of romance"

She said that she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

'Play a part, in a greater scheme

Try to live the dream, on a wider scene'

Rode a tank, held a General's rank

While the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

I've never been to bed with an ugly woman
But I've woken up with one or two
 

And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest

Ich heiße Superfantastisch!

Ich trinke Champers mit Lachsfisch

I remember when you said the world must be flat

Because you’d fallen off the edge

Clifford T Ward  - Before The World Was Round 

And I need you more than want you.

And I want you for all time.

It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late.