[troutman]

Inspired from the Tragically Hip thread - let's see your favorite lines, verses from songs you like. Some great poetry out there. Please explain if a line has a personal significance or meaning to you.

He snatches at you and you match his cigarette
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake
- Elvis Costello "Watching The Detectives"

Some view the song as a complaint about a non-present partner watching television, but I think it also works as a picture of a woman actually being investigated for a murder. The last line is one of my all-time favorites. Grace under pressure.