Best Line in a Pink Floyd song...

You have to be trusted, by the people that you lie to -
So that when they turn their back on you,
You'll get the chance to push the knife in!

I wonder who could be writing this song

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dogfox

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I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house I don't know why I call him Gerald He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse

Looks like urine is streaming out of his hands. (xpost)

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I.

"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way", because it sums up a lot about the band, and the English generally, even though half of it's pinched from Thoreau.

"The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more"

M-m-maybe this... Or maybe samthung from "Wish You Were Here" (the song).

"One of these days I'm going to cut you up into little pieces"

I was in the kitchen
And Shamus - that's the dog - was outside

Actually, it's this:

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

Which I like mostly because it brings up this weird surfing imagery in what doesn't really sound like a surfing song at all.

I want to tell you a story
About a little man
If I can.
A gnome named Grimble Crumble.
And little gnomes stay in their homes.
Eating sleeping drinking their wine.

Wonderfully twee! :)

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling

Fuck all that we've gotta get on with these!
(Fuck all that! Fuck all that!)
We've gotta compete with the wily Japanese!
(Fuck all that!)

Oh, wait. BEST Pink Floyd line...

Hrm.

the child is grown, the dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

Midnight blue burning gold

Did you exchange
a walk-on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?

I've got a can of gingerbread ean here a man there a man lots of gingerbread men

well, i have a lot of different favourite ones

but the first thing that springs to mind is:

If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Dont be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind,
You as you claw the ice"

There'll be no more naaaaaeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
But you may feel a little sick

You only have to read the lines
They're scribbly black and everything shines

THAT CAT'S SOMETHING I CAN'T EXPLAIN!

We don't need no safe prevention
We don't need no birth control
Just orgasms in the classroom
Teacher let the kids have fun

Hey teacher! Let the kids fuck on!
All in all it's just another prick in the hole

Oh, wait? Didn't they write this?

I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

david gilmour is so fucking hot.

i've said it b4 -- "if i were a good man, i'd understand the spaces between friends." yea i think that pretty much takes the cake for me. from "If" on Atom Heart Mother.

but yea this one is definitely a surefire classic: You have to be trusted, by the people that you lie to -
So that when they turn their back on you,
You'll get the chance to push the knife in!

that was a good call. the performance on that line too is so great.

i've got another one

"and it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around"

and another

"you only have to read the lines of
scribbly black and everything shiiiiiiiiiines"

oooooooooh that first one is ACE

another great vocal performance on that line. rly the vocal performances all over that record are kind of thrilling

The band is just fantastic,
That is really what I think.
Oh by the way,
Which one's Pink?

the immortal 'which one's pink?' line had to crop up sooner or later

Oh, hey, how about: Songs where the context is shifted to be about what the subject (1st person) thinks of the band performing!

Always been very keen on..

And if you survive till two thousand and five
I hope you're exceedingly thin
For if you are stout you will have to breathe out
While the people around you breathe in

GOd, they were rubbish weren't they?

i'm totally loving how wonderfully syd barrett's lines are clashing with the rest.