Songs with Clever Lines

She’s so cold   Stones

I’m so hot for her and she’s so cold

Yeah, I tried re-wiring her, tried re-firing her

I think her engine is permanently stalled

"We could have almost made it

Looks like we found the door but lost the key"

--Not What We Promised to Be (Fat City)

"Across the street A neon sign
All you can eat for a Dollar ninety nine

Our soul stew Is the baddest in the land
But-a one dollar's worth Was all that I could stand"

Sometimes Bad Is Bad - Huey Lewis And The News

"You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
'cause the whole thing's phony"

--"Bella Donna," Stevie Nicks

Don't You Want to Be There (Jackson Browne)

"And those you have wronged, you know
You need to let them know some way
And those who have wronged you, know
You'll have to let them go someday"

Oh Girl  -  Scorpions

Blue Sky (A-ha)

"Oh, I used to be confused
But now I just don't know"

That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be (Carly Simon):

"You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds
But soon you'll cage me on your shelf
I'll never learn to be just me first"

Lyin' Eyes: Eagles   I think the song is full of cleverly crafted lines, images and metaphors, starting with "City girls just seem to find out early, how to open doors with just a smile".

Your Haunted Head (Concrete Blonde)

"He laid his troubles out to me like a deck of playing cards,
Well don't you know that I can tell the Kings and Jokers well apart?"