My favorite lyric of all time (and I've listened to a lot of music, so this is a personal choice for what it means to me) is from Smashing Pumpkins' "Cherub Rock."
"These angels with their wings glued on
They are frightened and they're scared
If you don't stare."
It means so much to me about the goth lifestyle, or about hypocrites trying to seem pious for the adulation...
It was the lyric that led me to realize that the goth lifestyle is no better than, say, Britney Spears. It's a look-driven lifestyle that relies on a facade to relate to the outside world. They are both after the same thing, they just go about it in different ways.
I haven't been to Hot Topic (or any "real" local alternative look store) with my chick ever since.

I don't need to try that hard or rely on something to speak for me.