"I've used up all my tissues
'cause there's more serious of issues"

In the same song, she managed to make these two lines rhyme:

"You're peepin' through the window,
this is too much for me to handle"

They were very good with stand-out lines. In fact, entire verses stand out, rather than occasional pithy phrases. A couple from Sheriff Fatman, a song about a landlord who sponges off the welfare state, receiving grants to provide low-quality housing :

"Moving up into second place
behind Nicholas Van Whats-his-face
At six foot six and a hundred tons
The undisputed King of the Slums
More aliases than Klaus Barbie
The Master Butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
In a hatchback from Notre Dame
The one and only Sheriff Fatman"

and

"Fatman's got something to sell
To the capital's homeless
At the Crossroads Motel
For the no-fixed-abodeless
Where you can live life in style
You can sleep in a closet
And if you flash him a smile
He'll take your teeth as a deposit"

And when the clothes are strewn don't be afraid of the room
Touch the fullness of her breast. Feel the love of her caress
She will be your living end

I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, but for some reason - particularly in live recordings - the following lines from Rosalita always hit home with a wallop:

My tyres were slashed and I almost crashed, but the Lord had mercy
My machine she's a dud, I'm stuck in the mud, somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

Ace.

I'm always hoping you'll be faithful
But you're not, I suppose
We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal
So whose matches are those?

I've always been killed by that verse, but I couldn't quite say why.

So many but two contrasting examples.

I think Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family might be one of the best lyricists of all time. One of their more widely-known tracks, 'Weightless Again', has someone forgetting how to kiss their lover...and then:
'Like those Indians, lost in the rainforest
Forced to drag burning wood wherever they went
They all had forgotten how to start a fire'

Never heard anything like it - except in the rest of her work.

Secondly, the great RT's 'Walking the Long Miles Home':
'There's no-one around
As I put more ground
Between me and you'.

Much more prosaic but still a clever rhyme for such short lines - and I've always loved that image of needing just to get as far away as possible from someone after a catastrophic row. 'Put more ground' - something methodical and efficient about it. Lovely.

I was walking down the street in Seattle and I saw this monstrous object on the footpath. I had been staring for a minute or so before I noticed it had these words neatly transcribed on it.

"Money Doesn't Talk It Swears- B Dylan"

...fucked my wife, did it quick and split'

Opening line of John Cale's Guts. Rest of the song doesn't quite live up to it.

Although I've always liked the way Betty Boo rhymes 'hamper', 'champers' and 'pamper' in this song

Tom Waits

But if I had to choose one it would be

"Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives, don't know how it all got started, don't know what they do with their lives" (or something like that)