Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.- Jimmy Eat World; Bleed American

“If heaven and hell decide, that they both are satisfied, Illuminate the “No’s” on their vacancy signs..”
and
“In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
“Son fear is the heart of love”
So I never went back..”

both are from “i will follow you into the dark” by deathcab for cutie

i also think damien rice has alot of clever lines in his songs
like in “cannonball”:

“stones taught me to fly
love, it taught me to lie
life, it taught me to die
so it’s not hard to fall
when you float like a cannonball

…so come on courage, teach me to be shy
‘cos its not hard to fall,

and I don’t want to scare her
its not hard to fall
and i don’t want to lose
its not hard to grow
when you know that you just don’t know.”