best "rock" (or whatever) couplet ever

All my friends are junkies
but that's not really true

Some of these memories you can learn to live with
And some of them you can't

If you can't be with the one you love
Love the one you're with

And if you don't love the one that you're with
Why don't you just wait for the one that you love?

The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared

Somebody got lucky
But it was an accident

I got thirteen hours to burn
And I'm going to stay up all night

golden slumbers fill your eyes
smiles await you when your rise

Tobacco's a help because it clears the mind
But like all your friends it is vilified

And you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon
We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools

she’s slowly turning/mouth gently burning
(Wire - Too Late)

every little baby knows just what i mean
living in division in the shifting sands

hold me tight

when they split those atoms
it's hotter than the sun
blood is a special substance
they gonna pray for that man

Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away

if you turn me on to central heating
then you give me such a brutal beating

(starbuck - a fool in line)

people are strange when you're a stranger
faces look ugly when you're alone

There are problems in these times
and WOOOO! none o’them are mine!

The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees

just give me money...

Pulling into economy island
King Shit and the Golden Boys
Many more where we come from
Top of the bottom
Don't stop now, don't stop now

it's not worth it, you just don't try
you're so perfect, you just get by

celebrate the loss of one and all all all, and separate the torso from the spine
burger bender bouncing like a ball ball ball, so burger bender bargain blender shine

I am the autumn in the scarlet
I am the make-up on your eyes

yep

I met her at the Burger King
We fell in love by the soda machine

I'm curious, if I went through this thread, how many of these couplets I would recognize. I wouldn't be surprised if a huge hunk were from songs I loved and I just never noticed!

Same

that Ramones one is absolutely all-time

Yeah, that one I knew.

I fact I remember thinking about it in the 80s whilst sitting in the Burger on Northern Boulevard, the one close to Douglaston.

no bookcase can rescue a man
only a letter of sorry can

i bought fake jordans
they weren't even shoes

he fantasized an equipage
a two-horse carriage garage

Do you take sugar?
One lump or two?

otm voodoo chili

in the same vein:

deleted scene of lightning mcqueen
blacked out at full speed

tobacco they grow in peking
in the year of the locust you'll see a sad thing

you can never be strong!!!!!
you can only be free!!!!!

average MCs is like a TV blooper
MF DOOM, he's like DB Cooper

^^^ pops into my head often

honestly doom never really misses as far as i care... but that line in particular stands out to me because it is so fucking funny

Once built a steamboat in a meadow
Because I'd forgotten how to sail.

the stockings are hung, but who cares
preserved for those no longer there

Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams

he is the king of children
singing like a boiler, 'tomorrow is on its way'

Maybe I should just change my style
But I feel alright when you smile

Counting the cost in money only
Strikes me as funny don’t you know

Holidays and salad days
And days of moldy mayonnaise

(A bit of a cheat)

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make

wait awhile eternity
old mother nature's got nothin on me

so many amazing lines in that song. I think my favorite couplet is the last one:

It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight.
I'll prob'ly get homesick. I love you. Goodnight.