best "rock" (or whatever) couplet ever

Sometimes you really dig a girl the moment you kiss her
And then you get distracted by her older sister

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, June 20, 2022 2:28 AM (eleven hours ago)

Heard on WFMU this AM!!

‘tis (almost) the season!

Toss-up for me between these two.

And I need you more than want you
and I want you for all time

But I'm as priceless as a brass ring
That's losing the heat from your hand

Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's hip, he knows what cooks
Just tell your hoodlum friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride

Beautiful Delilah, bathing in the sun
Audience of seventeen and noticed not a one
Local Casanova, who wouldn't be outdone
Let her steal his heart away, and break it just for fun

I didn't change my number
I only changed who I reply to

Everything goes when you're dead
Everything empties from what was in your head

I've got six things on my mind
you're no longer one of them

I think I'm in love
Probably just hungry
I think I'm your friend
Probably just lonely
I think you got me in a spin now
Probably just turning
I think I'm a fool for you, babe
Probably just learning
I think I can rock and roll
Probably just twisting
I think I wanna tell the world
Probably ain't listening

I think I can fly
Probably just falling
I think I'm the life and soul
Probably just snorting
I think I can hit the mark
Probably just aiming
I think my name is on your lips
Probably complaining
I think I have caught it bad
Probably contagious
I think that I'm a winner, baby
Probably Las Vegas

I think I'm alive
Probably just breathing
I think you stole my heart now, baby
Probably just thieving
I think I'm on fire
Probably just smoking
I think that you're my dream girl
Probably just dreaming
I think I'm the best, babe, come on
Probably like all the rest
I think that I could be your man
Oh, probably just think you can

i'll use you
and i'll confuse you
and then i'll lose you
still, you won't suspect me

I've been in this here town for a week
At least I've ended up with a freak

You’re really good
At making people feel good
Not because the way you dress
I think it’s in your genes
I know I wish I was

There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown

You are somebody that I don't know
But you're taking shots at me like it's Patrón
And I'm just like "Damn, it's 7:00 a.m."

It has often been my dream
To live with one who wasn't there

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?