Not sure of my all-time favorite, but the first line that came to my mind is SHeDAISY’s “Took the hourglass, left the sand, now you got plenty of time on your hands.”

Krystin (sp?) Osborn is a really clever songwriter. Most of their songs have clever lyrics. I like witty lyrics and those that have imagery (hence Mariah Carey).

“Choose to chance the rapids, dare to dance the tide”

“The Back of Your Hand – Dwight Yoakam

Take a guess at where i stand
pick a number one to two
take a look at the back of your hand
just like you know it
you know me too

I’m not made of stone, I’m not made of glass
I’ve been alone, every one has
I’ve learned to forgive what I’m not
I just try to live with what I’ve got
Maybe I’ve got what you need

“All of my life I wanted to roam, to go to the ends of the earth. But the earth only ends where you started to roam – you and I know what a circle is worth.”
Come a Long Way – Kate and Anna McGarrigle

“You must think my life’s a circus, watchin’ me laughin’ and slappin’ my thighs. How’d you like to die in a house of mirrors with nobody around to close your eyes.”
Often is a Word I Seldom Use – John Prine

Clint Black has a million of ‘em…

“I’ve spent my lifetime wishing the waitress would come around.” – Nothing’s News

“I wonder how I came to be the know-it-all I am, and how the world ever got used to me.” – also Nothing’s News

“I’ve stopped looking for questions, I have only suggestions. Black and white can only turn to grey.” – Live and Learn

Just every bit of the song No Time To Kill, but my favorite is the verse: “If we had an hour glass to watch each one go by, Or a bell to mark each one to pass, we’d see just how they fly. Would we escalate the value to be worth its weight in gold, Or would we never know the fortunes that we had ’til we grow old. And do we just keep killin’ time until there’s no time to kill.”

Definitely want to include this verse from Good ol’ Boys Like Me: “When I was in school I ran with a kid down the street, And I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed. But I was smarter than most and I could choose, Learned to talk like the man on the six o’clock news. When I was eighteen Lord I hit the road, but it really doesn’t matter how far I go.”

Also basically every lyric I’ve ever heard from Guy Clark – thank you Idlewyldsouth for including one that I really love.

I better stop now before I think of twenty more that I want to include.

Paul Simon
Kodachrome

“We’re caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because I love you too much, baby.”

A perfectly distilled song above love, paranoia, and an inability to trust one another as only the King could deliver it (IMHO).

–Guy Clark “she aint going nowhere’

“she wore red dresses…and now she lay dead’

Dwight Yoakam

She’s somebody’s hero
A hero to her mother in a rockin’ chair
She runs a brush through her silver hair
The envy of the nursing home
She drops by every afternoon
Feeds her mama with a spoon
And that smile lets her know
Her mother’s smile lets her know
She’s somebody’s hero

It gives me shivers in a good way, it just makes me feel good from the inside.