Best Lyrics
Feb 8, 2016 14:04:27 GMT -5
Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 8, 2016 14:04:27 GMT -5
So many more that I roughly sorted by theme.
Fun/Silly
"Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba / Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba" - Billy Currington, "Love Done Gone" (that counts, right?)
"I can smell your breath, it's choking me to death / The only one who doesn't know is you / Here's some gum to chew, or baby there's no way you're kissing me / What'd you have for lunch, don't you ever brush / Baby, a Binaca blast or two's what I suggest / I can smell your breath / Bad breath" - Cledus T. Judd, "Breath"
"Never tell a joke that ain't that funny more than once / And if you wanna hear God laugh, tell Him your plans" - Van Zant, "Help Somebody"
"A cross between Béla Fleck and Eddie Vedder, but better" - Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, "Banjo Boy"
"And when you get a date with Bridget, make sure the tank is full / On second thought, forget it, that one turns out kinda cool" - Brad Paisley, "Letter to Me" (leave it to Brad to inject humor into such an introspective song and not make it jarring)
"Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio" - The Oak Ridge Boys, "Gonna Take a Lot of River"
"Plan B looks like Domino's Pizza in the candlelight" - Phil Vassar, "Just Another Day in Paradise"
"$700 was a heck of a deal / For a 400 horsepower jukebox on wheels" - Lonestar, "What About Now"
"Ever knocked on the sky and had it fall on your head?" - SHeDAISY, "Don't Worry 'bout a Thing"
"Something 'bout Ho-Hos, and I said, 'oh baby, whatever you say'" - Blaine Larsen, "I Don't Know What She Said"
"Charley Pride was the man in black / Rock & roll used to be about Johnny Cash / Yeah, whatcha think about that? / Well, I'm a crazy son of a [bad word] / But I know I'm gonna make it big and rich / Yeah, I'm gonna let it rip" - Big & Rich, "Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)"
"Now, a red Solo cup is the best receptacle / For barbecues, tailgates, fairs, and festivals / And you, sir, do not have a pair of testicles / If you prefer drinkin' from glass" - Toby Keith, "Red Solo Cup"
"If you'd like to be in my wedding, darling / All you have to do is say yes" - Dusty Drake, "Say Yes"
"We'll take it slower than a broke-kneed turtle / 'Til we get tighter than your grandma's girdle" - Rodney Atkins, "Sing Along"
"She said, 'I still look good for someone half my real age'" - Pat Green, "Baby Doll"
"Just in case there might be little ears around / I won't say it, I'll just spell it out / I feel like pound sign, question mark, star, exclamation point" - Kevin Fowler, "Pound Sign (#?*!)"
"I was living the good life / None of that silly love stuff / Then I went and fell for you / Ain't that just my luck" - Kim Richey, "Just My Luck"
"I could walk out now, get in my truck / Never look back, forget your love / Sure, I could leave 'cause I'm tough enough... NOT!" - The Bellamy Brothers, "Not"
Wordplay
"I was young, he was old / And we both were the same age" - Jeff Carson, "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)"
"Peter built a truck for a man to drive / It's a pretty good living but it ain't no life / For a farmer's daughter or a drunk man's wife" - David Lynn Jones, "Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)"
Vivid/Mood-Setting
"Jessie Taylor said he saw you yesterday / He said you look great, as if I care" - Shane McAnally, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue"
"It's like the most amazing sunset you've ever seen / There's never another quite the same / Just falls into some eternal sea / Like the end of a movie that makes you cry / You're sad when it's over but you're glad you had / That moment that moved you deep inside" - Jennifer Hanson, "Beautiful Goodbye"
"Indian summer, Abilene / You were new in town, I was 17" - Mila Mason, "Dark Horse"
"And he asked her twice to come along / They said good-bye at the break of dawn / As his bus left out she cried / With him standing by her side / That ol' wind had once again found its way home / Someday he'll tell her about the money he hid / And someday she'll tell him that the boy is his kid / But for right now they're both in love / The only thing they're thinkin' of / Is that they're finally where their hearts have always been" - Garth Brooks, "That Ol' Wind"
"That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again / But I'll be fine, once I get it rowed back in / I know sometimes I may act a little crazy / But that's just Jessie" - Kevin Denney, "That's Just Jessie"
"Gone like a dollar spent on a drink / Head hangin' over the kitchen sink / Gone like the wind through a cabin door / Never gonna blow that way no more / Gone like the song of a mockingbird / Laughing at every little thing he heard / Gone like a dream in a puff of smoke / She ain't comin' back and it ain't no joke / She's gone, your baby's gone" - Lila McCann, "Down Came a Blackbird"
"Well now, who would ever think a boob tube could find such a friend / You always could tune in to how it thinks / Honey, the loving cup you need is a movie's tragic end / Always knocked over and spilled as you're reaching for a drink" - Brother Phelps, "Let Go"
"Lookin' at you through a misty moonlight / Katydids sing like a symphony / Porch swing swayin' like a Tennessee lullaby / Melody blowing through the willow tree / What was I supposed to do / Standing there lookin' at you / A lonely boy far from home" - Pam Tillis, "Maybe It Was Memphis"
Introspective/Meaningful
(the entire damn song) - Eric Church, "Mr. Misunderstood"
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy" - Billy Currington, "People Are Crazy"
"The secret of life is there ain't no secret / And you don't get your money back" - Faith Hill, "The Secret of Life"
"Bobby told Lucy the world ain't round / Drops off sharp at the edge of town / Lucy, you know the world must be flat / 'Cause when people leave town, they never come back" - Hal Ketchum, "Small Town Saturday Night"
"Now if you get an ear pierced / Some will call you gay / But if you drive a pickup / They'll say no, you must be straight / Who we are and who we ain't / What we can and what we can't / Does it really matter?" - Pirates of the Mississippi, "Feed Jake"
"Love isn't all that it seems I did you wrong / I'll stay here with you until this dream is gone / I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night / Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right / I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire / But it's the only place that I can hold you tight / In this burning house" - Cam, "Burning House"
"Daddy lived by the bottle / Daddy died by the barn / Well, he froze one night / Mama said, 'serves him right / The devil can keep him warm'" - 4 Runner, "Cain's Blood"
"If it hadn't been for losing you, I'd still be back in Jackson / Settling for settling, and getting what I got / But where I am and who I am is well-worth every lesson / Guess you could say I've learned a lot / Yeah, you broke my heart, so what?" - Tammy Cochran - "So What"
"Knowin' where you're goin', embracing where you've been / Being criticized for standin' strong in a battle you cant win / Living in a moment you may never see again / Let your heart break some rules, now that's cool" - Blue County, "That's Cool"
"Sometimes you gotta grab your world with your own two hands / Set it spinnin' off on a course all your own" - Pat Green, "Carry On"
"Make lots of noise / Kiss lots of boys / Or kiss lots of girls / If that's something you're into / When the straight and narrow / Gets a little too straight / Roll up a joint, or don't / Just follow your arrow wherever it points, yeah / Follow your arrow wherever it points" - Kacey Musgraves, "Follow Your Arrow"
Tear Jerker
"I struck a match to light the furnace in the hallway / I could smell the summer dust burning in the vent / It's just another thing that brings your memory back to me / I think that Sara knows I'm troubled by that scent, she reads my mind / I'm just fine 'til the end of September / Then I remember losing you, October '89 / But if I live in the past, there's no future / I'm looking forward to leaving October behind" - Sons of the Desert, "Leaving October"
"'Cause sirens are crying all through this town. / And one old boy said, 'Hey, Joe never slowed down.' He tried to beat that mornin' train / My life will never be the same / I didn't even tell my brother goodbye / Lord, I wish somehow he could send me a sign" - Steve Azar, "Waitin' on Joe"
"He said, 'Honey, I've gotta go' / She said, "Don't you dare hang up / There's so many things I need to say / I love you so much' / It was almost like she felt him leave / She cried out, 'Can you still hear me?' / She fell down on the kitchen floor / When the signal died / As the pilot tried to pull out of the dive / One... last..." - Dusty Drake, "One Last Time"
"I saw the rest of my old friends / At our reunion at the Holiday Inn / And it seemed like it was only yesterday / Standing in the gym in our cap and gown / Full of wanderlust and glory bound / We set out to chase our dreams on wings of passion / But somewhere along the way we got distracted / Life happened..." - Tammy Cochran - "Life Happened"
"It wasn’t in her five year plan / To have a baby with a man / That couldn’t be there-the day she had her / The sun was shining through the curtain / Hope was here when all the hurting / And the baby cried / And the leaves turned / No one called from the White House to say / The president’s making this a holiday / And people still riding in the subway all alone / It didn’t stop anybody’s big league game / Or sinners from falling on their knees to pray / The traffic is still moving real slow all over L.A. / Yes for the rest of the world, it was just another day" - Lisa Dames, "Just Another Day"
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger" - Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss, "Whiskey Lullaby"
Fun/Silly
"Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba / Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba" - Billy Currington, "Love Done Gone" (that counts, right?)
"I can smell your breath, it's choking me to death / The only one who doesn't know is you / Here's some gum to chew, or baby there's no way you're kissing me / What'd you have for lunch, don't you ever brush / Baby, a Binaca blast or two's what I suggest / I can smell your breath / Bad breath" - Cledus T. Judd, "Breath"
"Never tell a joke that ain't that funny more than once / And if you wanna hear God laugh, tell Him your plans" - Van Zant, "Help Somebody"
"A cross between Béla Fleck and Eddie Vedder, but better" - Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, "Banjo Boy"
"And when you get a date with Bridget, make sure the tank is full / On second thought, forget it, that one turns out kinda cool" - Brad Paisley, "Letter to Me" (leave it to Brad to inject humor into such an introspective song and not make it jarring)
"Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio" - The Oak Ridge Boys, "Gonna Take a Lot of River"
"Plan B looks like Domino's Pizza in the candlelight" - Phil Vassar, "Just Another Day in Paradise"
"$700 was a heck of a deal / For a 400 horsepower jukebox on wheels" - Lonestar, "What About Now"
"Ever knocked on the sky and had it fall on your head?" - SHeDAISY, "Don't Worry 'bout a Thing"
"Something 'bout Ho-Hos, and I said, 'oh baby, whatever you say'" - Blaine Larsen, "I Don't Know What She Said"
"Charley Pride was the man in black / Rock & roll used to be about Johnny Cash / Yeah, whatcha think about that? / Well, I'm a crazy son of a [bad word] / But I know I'm gonna make it big and rich / Yeah, I'm gonna let it rip" - Big & Rich, "Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)"
"Now, a red Solo cup is the best receptacle / For barbecues, tailgates, fairs, and festivals / And you, sir, do not have a pair of testicles / If you prefer drinkin' from glass" - Toby Keith, "Red Solo Cup"
"If you'd like to be in my wedding, darling / All you have to do is say yes" - Dusty Drake, "Say Yes"
"We'll take it slower than a broke-kneed turtle / 'Til we get tighter than your grandma's girdle" - Rodney Atkins, "Sing Along"
"She said, 'I still look good for someone half my real age'" - Pat Green, "Baby Doll"
"Just in case there might be little ears around / I won't say it, I'll just spell it out / I feel like pound sign, question mark, star, exclamation point" - Kevin Fowler, "Pound Sign (#?*!)"
"I was living the good life / None of that silly love stuff / Then I went and fell for you / Ain't that just my luck" - Kim Richey, "Just My Luck"
"I could walk out now, get in my truck / Never look back, forget your love / Sure, I could leave 'cause I'm tough enough... NOT!" - The Bellamy Brothers, "Not"
Wordplay
"I was young, he was old / And we both were the same age" - Jeff Carson, "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)"
"Peter built a truck for a man to drive / It's a pretty good living but it ain't no life / For a farmer's daughter or a drunk man's wife" - David Lynn Jones, "Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)"
Vivid/Mood-Setting
"Jessie Taylor said he saw you yesterday / He said you look great, as if I care" - Shane McAnally, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue"
"It's like the most amazing sunset you've ever seen / There's never another quite the same / Just falls into some eternal sea / Like the end of a movie that makes you cry / You're sad when it's over but you're glad you had / That moment that moved you deep inside" - Jennifer Hanson, "Beautiful Goodbye"
"Indian summer, Abilene / You were new in town, I was 17" - Mila Mason, "Dark Horse"
"And he asked her twice to come along / They said good-bye at the break of dawn / As his bus left out she cried / With him standing by her side / That ol' wind had once again found its way home / Someday he'll tell her about the money he hid / And someday she'll tell him that the boy is his kid / But for right now they're both in love / The only thing they're thinkin' of / Is that they're finally where their hearts have always been" - Garth Brooks, "That Ol' Wind"
"That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again / But I'll be fine, once I get it rowed back in / I know sometimes I may act a little crazy / But that's just Jessie" - Kevin Denney, "That's Just Jessie"
"Gone like a dollar spent on a drink / Head hangin' over the kitchen sink / Gone like the wind through a cabin door / Never gonna blow that way no more / Gone like the song of a mockingbird / Laughing at every little thing he heard / Gone like a dream in a puff of smoke / She ain't comin' back and it ain't no joke / She's gone, your baby's gone" - Lila McCann, "Down Came a Blackbird"
"Well now, who would ever think a boob tube could find such a friend / You always could tune in to how it thinks / Honey, the loving cup you need is a movie's tragic end / Always knocked over and spilled as you're reaching for a drink" - Brother Phelps, "Let Go"
"Lookin' at you through a misty moonlight / Katydids sing like a symphony / Porch swing swayin' like a Tennessee lullaby / Melody blowing through the willow tree / What was I supposed to do / Standing there lookin' at you / A lonely boy far from home" - Pam Tillis, "Maybe It Was Memphis"
Introspective/Meaningful
(the entire damn song) - Eric Church, "Mr. Misunderstood"
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy" - Billy Currington, "People Are Crazy"
"The secret of life is there ain't no secret / And you don't get your money back" - Faith Hill, "The Secret of Life"
"Bobby told Lucy the world ain't round / Drops off sharp at the edge of town / Lucy, you know the world must be flat / 'Cause when people leave town, they never come back" - Hal Ketchum, "Small Town Saturday Night"
"Now if you get an ear pierced / Some will call you gay / But if you drive a pickup / They'll say no, you must be straight / Who we are and who we ain't / What we can and what we can't / Does it really matter?" - Pirates of the Mississippi, "Feed Jake"
"Love isn't all that it seems I did you wrong / I'll stay here with you until this dream is gone / I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night / Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right / I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire / But it's the only place that I can hold you tight / In this burning house" - Cam, "Burning House"
"Daddy lived by the bottle / Daddy died by the barn / Well, he froze one night / Mama said, 'serves him right / The devil can keep him warm'" - 4 Runner, "Cain's Blood"
"If it hadn't been for losing you, I'd still be back in Jackson / Settling for settling, and getting what I got / But where I am and who I am is well-worth every lesson / Guess you could say I've learned a lot / Yeah, you broke my heart, so what?" - Tammy Cochran - "So What"
"Knowin' where you're goin', embracing where you've been / Being criticized for standin' strong in a battle you cant win / Living in a moment you may never see again / Let your heart break some rules, now that's cool" - Blue County, "That's Cool"
"Sometimes you gotta grab your world with your own two hands / Set it spinnin' off on a course all your own" - Pat Green, "Carry On"
"Make lots of noise / Kiss lots of boys / Or kiss lots of girls / If that's something you're into / When the straight and narrow / Gets a little too straight / Roll up a joint, or don't / Just follow your arrow wherever it points, yeah / Follow your arrow wherever it points" - Kacey Musgraves, "Follow Your Arrow"
Tear Jerker
"I struck a match to light the furnace in the hallway / I could smell the summer dust burning in the vent / It's just another thing that brings your memory back to me / I think that Sara knows I'm troubled by that scent, she reads my mind / I'm just fine 'til the end of September / Then I remember losing you, October '89 / But if I live in the past, there's no future / I'm looking forward to leaving October behind" - Sons of the Desert, "Leaving October"
"'Cause sirens are crying all through this town. / And one old boy said, 'Hey, Joe never slowed down.' He tried to beat that mornin' train / My life will never be the same / I didn't even tell my brother goodbye / Lord, I wish somehow he could send me a sign" - Steve Azar, "Waitin' on Joe"
"He said, 'Honey, I've gotta go' / She said, "Don't you dare hang up / There's so many things I need to say / I love you so much' / It was almost like she felt him leave / She cried out, 'Can you still hear me?' / She fell down on the kitchen floor / When the signal died / As the pilot tried to pull out of the dive / One... last..." - Dusty Drake, "One Last Time"
"I saw the rest of my old friends / At our reunion at the Holiday Inn / And it seemed like it was only yesterday / Standing in the gym in our cap and gown / Full of wanderlust and glory bound / We set out to chase our dreams on wings of passion / But somewhere along the way we got distracted / Life happened..." - Tammy Cochran - "Life Happened"
"It wasn’t in her five year plan / To have a baby with a man / That couldn’t be there-the day she had her / The sun was shining through the curtain / Hope was here when all the hurting / And the baby cried / And the leaves turned / No one called from the White House to say / The president’s making this a holiday / And people still riding in the subway all alone / It didn’t stop anybody’s big league game / Or sinners from falling on their knees to pray / The traffic is still moving real slow all over L.A. / Yes for the rest of the world, it was just another day" - Lisa Dames, "Just Another Day"
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger" - Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss, "Whiskey Lullaby"