best "rock" (or whatever) couplet ever

besides

With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
Dissolve the nerves that've just begun

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 19:31 (one year ago) Permalink

But I just had to look,
Having read the book.

― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:19 (one year ago) Permalink

like the phoenix coming back from the ashes
I know what's good but I know what trash is

― geoffreyess, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:29 (one year ago) Permalink

heavy downbeat of one and the show began
london calling strike up the contraband

― geoffreyess, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:30 (one year ago) Permalink

There are people in boats in the middle of the sea
Crying like Jews
Do you like tennis?

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:34 (one year ago) Permalink

Live is short so love the one you got
Cause you might get run over or you might get shot

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:36 (one year ago) Permalink

It's a serious thing
When you mess with the wrong king

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:40 (one year ago) Permalink

Yeah I'll give you cab fare home
You can even use my best cologne
Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:41 (one year ago) Permalink

I used to let the mic smoke
Now I pick it up and slam it to make sure it's broke

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:42 (one year ago) Permalink

or something like that

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:42 (one year ago) Permalink

Postpunk xman parked his forklift
Like a billion stars flickering from the grinders wheel

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:42 (one year ago) Permalink

I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock
Feels like the build-up takes forever, but you never touch my cock

― devvvine, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:44 (one year ago) Permalink

Music loud , women warm
Been kicked around since I was born

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:44 (one year ago) Permalink

the drums march along at the clip of an IV drip
like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip, uh huh

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:53 (one year ago) Permalink

She'll come back as fire and burn all the liars
Leave a blanket of ash on the ground

― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:03 (one year ago) Permalink

You know I'd pay a lot to cry to try to understand
A flower's still a flower crushed to dust inside my hand

― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:07 (one year ago) Permalink

oh help me mrs medleycott i don't know what to do
i've only got three bullets and there's four of mötley crüe

― imago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:07 (one year ago) Permalink

they had the best selection
they were poisoned with protection

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:11 (one year ago) Permalink

But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm,
And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:22 (one year ago) Permalink

West Virginia
Mountain Mama

― flopson, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:24 (one year ago) Permalink

it's gone too far
inside this car

― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:38 (one year ago) Permalink

even hitler had a girlfriend
so why can't I

― sarahell, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:56 (one year ago) Permalink

son im 30
i only went with your mother cos shes dirty

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:00 (one year ago) Permalink

beat me to it

― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:05 (one year ago) Permalink

I saw you there, just standing there
And I thought I was only dreaming, yeah..

― Mark G, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:06 (one year ago) Permalink

It's hard to celebrate
With a headache

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:27 (one year ago) Permalink

Oh, oh I said, "I'm so happy I could die"
She said, "Drop dead, " then left with another guy

Or maybe:

'Cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changed
Since you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a light
On the corner by sound exchange

Or maybe:

Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum

Or maybe:

I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long

Or maybe:

I don't like you, I just hate you
I'm gonna kick your ass, oh yeah! oh yeah!

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:54 (one year ago) Permalink

you put me on a pedestal
i put you on the pill

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:32 (one year ago) Permalink

give me a week or two to
go absolutely cuckoo

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:33 (one year ago) Permalink

I've travelled round the world
I've seen so many things - why am I talking to you?

― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:43 (one year ago) Permalink

did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?
well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight

― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:04 (one year ago) Permalink

i have been around the world
looking for that woman / girl

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:05 (one year ago) Permalink

it's kinda funny how bad these read. rock couplets r the ultimate 'guess you had to be there'

― flopson, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:07 (one year ago) Permalink

i probably didn't even say that right
and i really don't give a damn

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:14 (one year ago) Permalink

but if you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics you will find that their minds rarely move in a line
so it's much more realistic to abandon such ballistics and resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:20 (one year ago) Permalink

mother, i've tried, please believe me: i'm doing the best that i can
i'm ashamed of the things i've been put through; i'm ashamed of the person i am

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:39 (one year ago) Permalink

ain't no particular sign i'm more compatible with
i just want your extra time and your X X X kiss

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:11 (one year ago) Permalink

The milk truck eased into my space
Somebody screamed somewhere

― cwkiii, Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:42 (one year ago) Permalink

With these vulgar factions of the treble clef
I wish you luck with a capital F

― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:50 (one year ago) Permalink

Something
Something

AMANDA

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 June 2017 02:10 (one year ago) Permalink

Everybody rappin like it's a commercial
Actin like life is a big commercial

― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:05 (one year ago) Permalink

Post punk x man parked his forklift
Like a billion stars flickering from the grinders wheel

― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:07 (one year ago) Permalink

i don't mind choppin wood
and i don't care if the money's no good

― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:30 (one year ago) Permalink

Widows face the future
Factories face the poor

― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:17 (one year ago) Permalink

I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eye
Think he's making something special and I'm smart enough to try

― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:36 (one year ago) Permalink

belligerent ghouls
run manchester schools

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:53 (one year ago) Permalink

I've been high and I've been low
And I don't know where to go

― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:28 (one year ago) Permalink

I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria
When I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hairu p against the pink and purple wisteria

― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:30 (one year ago) Permalink

I'll make it sweet but short
When I pull out your life support

― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:46 (one year ago) Permalink

She hit town a rose in bloom
Smell the sweet, sweet perfume
The color faded and the petals died
Down in the city no one cried
And in the streets the garbage lies
Protected by a million flies
With roaches so big they got bones
They moved in and made themselves at home
I say nice boys, don't play rock 'n' roll
Nice boys, don't play rock 'n' roll
I'm not a nice boy!

― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 4 June 2017 07:10 (one year ago) Permalink

There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

― nth, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 15:47 (one year ago) Permalink

Man, every couplet or not-couplet by THE ARCANA I read, I think, wow, that's definitely the best rock (or whatever) couplet ever, but then I see the next one and I think, no, that last couplet(?) was horrific meaningless shit compared to this one, the true best rock (or whatever) couplet ever.

― JoeStork, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 16:24 (one year ago) Permalink

Streets that spoke to me before say nothing anymore
They speak to me from afar

Ok I need some clarification here.

― JoeStork, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 16:26 (one year ago) Permalink

Turtles have a short regs, not for the walking
Want to have a cigarette? Just give me a sign

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 19:54 (one year ago) Permalink

Yeah it's just what you need when you're down in the dumps
One half hillbilly and one half punk
Big long legs and one big mouth
The hottest thing from the north to come out of the south

― bidfurd, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:35 (one year ago) Permalink

Sounds
Smash Hits
Melody Maker
NME
All sound like a dream to me

― o. nate, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:08 (one year ago) Permalink

Now you're the only one here who can tell me if it's true
That you love me and I love me

― SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:45 (one year ago) Permalink

Pepe has a scar from ear to ear
He will make your mug shots disappear

― SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:46 (one year ago) Permalink

"We want to fuck you, Easy!"
I want to fuck you too

― Beetle Juice continued to spit all over our drinks (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 June 2017 02:22 (one year ago) Permalink

There's a fire on the moon, and I can't get there
God damn these wings, they take me nowhere

― Beetle Juice continued to spit all over our drinks (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 June 2017 02:42 (one year ago) Permalink

If you want to find out what's behind these cold eyes,
You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise

― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 June 2017 02:44 (one year ago) Permalink

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

― o. nate, Sunday, June 4, 2017 7:38 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just opened the thread for the first time to post this very couplet. Well done.

― Sir Isaac Gluten (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 June 2017 02:55 (one year ago) Permalink

In high school I was a punching bag
When I got out I was a punching fag

― fionnland, Monday, 12 June 2017 19:35 (one year ago) Permalink

Holding up the trousers with extension cords

― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 19:40 (one year ago) Permalink

Net curtains blow slightly in the breeze.
Lemonade light filtering through the trees.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:04 (one year ago) Permalink

I'm gonna hold your face and toast the snow that fell
Because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell

― flappy bird, Friday, 16 June 2017 05:17 (one year ago) Permalink

I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
You'd better think about it baby

― Treeship, Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:43 (one year ago) Permalink

Not even the best misfits couplet but i woke up thinking about it

― Treeship, Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:44 (one year ago) Permalink

Also it doesnt rhyme

― Treeship, Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:46 (one year ago) Permalink

Well now I'm gonna be twenty two
I say my my and a boo hoo

― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:56 (one year ago) Permalink

There must be a dozen of them in "Every Picture Tells a Story." I'll go with "She took me up on deck and bit my neck/Oh, people I was glad I found her."

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:31 (one year ago) Permalink

Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground

― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 July 2017 22:42 (one year ago) Permalink

Live is short so love the one you got
Cause you might get run over or you might get shot

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 20:36 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Possibly otm

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 23:46 (one year ago) Permalink

So Jesus went to Heaven and he went there awful quick
All them people killed him and he wasn't even sick

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 23:49 (one year ago) Permalink

My love for you is like a truck, berserker
Would you like some making fuck, berserker

― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Monday, 31 July 2017 14:40 (one year ago) Permalink

Hahahahaha Fuck yeah

― flappy bird, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:55 (one year ago) Permalink

this week dragged past me so slowly
the days fell on their knees

― flappy bird, Sunday, 26 November 2017 00:05 (one year ago) Permalink

If we sleep together
Will you like me better?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 26 November 2017 00:15 (one year ago) Permalink

I’m a human fly and I don’t know why
I got 96 tears in 96 eyes

― don't make me wait (with Shaggy) (voodoo chili), Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:10 (one year ago) Permalink

lip balm on watery clay
relationships hey hey hey

― geoffreyess, Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:37 (one year ago) Permalink

^^ I never knew (or bothered to look up) what that first line was!

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:47 (one year ago) Permalink

Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
One more look and I forget everything

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:51 (one year ago) Permalink

You were pumping iron
as I was pumping irony

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 April 2018 17:04 (one year ago) Permalink

It's me and you now and you're not on my side
A night for planets, planes and souls to collide

― ghood ghravie (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:34 (six months ago) Permalink

Sometimes a heart can break and make its own relief
The way a cold dark night invites the fire thief

― ghood ghravie (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:38 (six months ago) Permalink

Alright, I'll be the one to rep for:

When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:40 (six months ago) Permalink

you were just like me, you were one big bruise
in the game of life we were playing to lose

― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:06 (six months ago) Permalink

So I'm drinking Irn Bru
and I'm thinking of you

― Clam up, seal dick (fionnland), Sunday, 18 November 2018 17:23 (six months ago) Permalink

and i've been making promises i know i'll never keep
one of these day i'm gonna leave you in your sleep

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 November 2018 18:05 (six months ago) Permalink

hey, wait
I've got a new complaint

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 22 November 2018 00:14 (six months ago) Permalink

the street's wet
you can tell by the sound of the cars

― linee, Friday, 23 November 2018 07:39 (six months ago) Permalink

Second verse / same as the first

.... I think this is it

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 23 November 2018 07:43 (six months ago) Permalink

Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window, got a tip that they're gonna kick the door in again
I'd like to get some sleep before I travel, but if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:46 (five months ago) Permalink

Don't you know about the new fashion, honey?
All you need are looks and a whole lot of money.

― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:49 (five months ago) Permalink

Living in a post-apocalyptic world morbid and horrid -- the secrets of the past they hoarded -- now we just boarded on a futuristic spacecraft
No mistakes, black -- it's our music we must take back

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:58 (five months ago) Permalink

I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry

― rip van wanko, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:08 (five months ago) Permalink

So wait right here and I will hurry
I'll be back in the time it takes to break a heart

― fajita seas, Monday, 3 December 2018 00:58 (five months ago) Permalink

Touch my body, and move in time
Now I now you're mine

― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 01:35 (five months ago) Permalink

I've gotta find a way to loosen up, I'm wound tighter than a magnet's coil
The longer I try to keep my mouth shut, the sooner little brain is gonna boil

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 December 2018 01:42 (five months ago) Permalink

When she speaks the flag unfurls and the heavens split in half
When she launches her attack in her opening paragraph

― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 22:02 (five months ago) Permalink