This is just a small taste of the kind of lyrics I enjoy. Clever for the most part. I could go on forever, but then you wouldn't read forever...would you? Here ya go:
"Take my picture, hang it up so you can tear me down." ---Bouncing Off the Walls, Sugarcult
"We can hide out under there. I just made you say 'underwear'." ---Pinch Me, Bare Naked Ladies
"Words are like weight, with density and shape, modifying forms they evaporate." ---I Am Not the Only Cowboy, Josh Joplin Group (I'd advise you to look up all lyrics to this song, it's simply wonderful)
"And language was invented so people could lie. Don't just say you love me, let your love perspire." ---The Sweater Song, Weezer
"I know that life's a bitch, don't get me wrong. You gotta give the world the finger; you gotta sing a happy song." ---Nervous Heart, Rhett Miller
"You ask me if I love you, and I choke on my reply. I’d rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie." ---Sometimes When We Touch, Rod Stewart (one of the greatest artists of all time)
"Moses used to sniff the lines. Noah used to rock the boat sometimes. Mary used to get undone. Jesus rode a Harley Davidson." ---Jesus Rode a Harley Davidson, Ugly Kid Joe
"You can tell by the way I walk I ain't from here. Oh, wait, you couldn't tell, I wasn't walk'n nowhere." ---Midwest Swing, St.Lunatics
"Yeah! Bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp my heart aches,
Ram-a-lam-a-ding dong for ever,
When I say dip da dip da dip da dip,
You know what I mean,
From the bottom of my boogity boogity shoes." ---Who Put the Bomp, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
"I can't write if ya' can't relate, trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate, and my time is a piece of wax, fallen on a termite, who's chokin' on the splinters." ---Loser, Beck
"Though I've got more hooks than Madonna got looks, just like that AC/DC song.'Come on, baby, shake me all night long.'' ---You're Extraordinary, Better Than Ezra
"She likes me for me, not because I sing like pavarotti or because I am such a hottie. I like her for her, not because she’s phat like cindy crawford; she has got so much to offer, why does she waste all her time with me? There must be something there that I don’t see." ---Hey Leonardo, Blessed Union of Souls
"The truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt." ---You're So Last Summer, Taking Back Sunday
What are your favorites? I'm curious.
Trinitie
Note: These don't include favorite lyrics from Christian bands, I may have to do a whole separate article on that. Then again, maybe not. Ahhh, delicious ambiguity...