What is your favourite song lyric..............?

finchy

Moray Gub wrote:

Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day

Hoilday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys

cheers
MG

...Slave for soldiers til you starve then your head is skewered on a stake.


Julian Cope (Safesurfer): You don't need to be afraid love, 'cos I'm a safesurfer, darling

Chuck Berry (Johnny B Goode): Go, Johnny, go, go

Galaxie 500 (Melt Away): Melt away, I wanna melt away, melt awaaaay, I wanna melt away

John Cale (Close Watch):
Never win and never lose
There's nothing much to choose
Between the right and wrong
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Still things aren't quite the same
Between you and me

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I still hear your voice at night
When I turn out the light
And try to settle down
But there's nothing much I can do
Because I can't live without you
Any way at all

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

iain_j

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
--John Lennon - "Beautiful Boy"

shockedsoshocked

How could I forgot Neutral Milk Hotel.

Holland, 1945

The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjpbjCH5L0

Bikerbaboon

I went for a p1ss and again i missed.

boybiker

Too many to list but at the moment:-

in pitch dark, i go walking in your landscape
broken branches trip me as i speak
just because you feel it doesnt mean its there

There's always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)

Steer away from these rocks
We'd be a walking disaster
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)


Or :-

I jumped in the river and what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Or even:-

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong

Alain Quay

Too long, some of these lyrics.

For an an expat Aussie living in Scotland, I love:

'Home is where I want to be
but I guess I'm already there'

- This must be the place by Talking Heads

toshmund

Bloodsport for all - Carter USM - Classic band!!!

Bloodsport for all said Corporal Flash
And shoved me in a room full of C.S. gas
Stuck me in a wet-suit to dry off in the sun
And fed me pet food, Kit-e-Kat and Chum
Stand up and beg said Sergeant Kirby
Lay down, play dead for Di and Fergie
Roll up, roll up goes the revielle
Abuse the bugle boy of Company B

Suffer in silence said Brigadier General Holmes
Or change your name to Smith or Jones
Learn to live with all the death threat notes
The big bananas and the racist jokes
Stand up and beg said Sergeant Kirby
Lay down, play dead for Di and Fergie
Roll up, roll up goes the revielle
Abuse the bugle boy of Company B

And the coldest stream guards of them all
Sang God Save the Queen and Bloodsport for All

While we're on the subject,
I've been called a spade
Single filed in public
With my privates on parade
I hope my feet go flat
Before I hang myself
Because I can't take this crap
I'm going A.W.O.L.

BMCCbry

I like these two:

"Nothing's changed, I still love you, only slightly less than I used to, my love..." (Stop Me)

"I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time..." (Witchita Lineman)

Cleat Eastwood

I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know darling that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Nick Cave

Well I say happy memories
Leave a bitter taste.
The FAll

I eat grass and I moo all day
I'm a cow
The Wiggles

pneumatic

The first line (unaccompanied) of Dury's "Plaistow Patricia" always gets my attention. The auto moderator will shred it, but it goes:

8resholes, b*stards, f*****g c***ts and pricks
Aerosol the bricks
a lawless brat from a council flat, oh oh
dirty tricks

I used to have to dive across the room to turn it down before my mum heard it, now I have to do the same for the sake of my kids. I probably even panic when it's on the ipod.

pedylan

On a whimsical note.

The Man in the Long Black Coat - Bob Dylan

"People don't live or die, people just float"

When asked by a journalist what underlay the profound statement that people's lives amount to nothing more than a superficial floating, Dylan replied " I needed something to rhyme with coat"

FCE2007

If you see me getting mighty
If you see me getting high
Knock me down
I'm not bigger than life

Knock Me Down - Red Hot Chili Peppers (late 80's 8) )

shockedsoshocked

Alain Quay wrote:

Too long, some of these lyrics.

For an an expat Aussie living in Scotland, I love:

'Home is where I want to be
but I guess I'm already there'

- This must be the place by Talking Heads

Good choice, absolutely love that song.

justresting

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heavymental

justresting wrote:

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Ah yeh, Love that tune. 'From an uptown apartment to a night on the A train. Its not that far'.

Also love that Nick Cave tune and Wichita Lineman. Good ones.

How about...

But that scar on your face
That beautiful face of yours
In your heart there's a trace
Of someone before

Thats George Michael - Cowboys and Angels. George is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. well, not that guilty, he's a quality artist imo.

dennisn

And I could cry for the time I've wasted
but that's a waste of time and tears
And I know just what I'd change
If I went back in time somehow
But there's nothing I can do about it now.


Song - Nothing I can do about it now
Singer - Willie Nelson
Lyrics - Beth Nielsen Chapman

Dennis Noward

shockedsoshocked

After this mornings cold and wet ride, The Jams "Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero" comes to mind.

"Hello Darling, i'm home again, covered in sh!t and aches and pains"

pendulum

A bit of an Elbow theme but these are great

And the world moves in slow-mo
Straight to my head like the first cigarette of the day

I'm sick of working for a living
I'm just ticking off the days till I die

sonicred007

I like my football on a saturday
roast beef on sundays
Alright
I got to blackpool for my holidays

The Kinks

twowheeledwriter

From Billy Bragg's "The Short Answer"

"Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary"

From Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"

"Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Box Hill they did ride"

...especially the "Red hair and black leather" line.

matt581

I want to go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

The Streets

This line always makes me smile

LangerDan

matt581 wrote:

I want to go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

The Streets

This line always makes me smile

Mike Skinner is a thieving git . Mark Twain said that about a hundred years ago:

"I'll take Heaven for the climate and Hell for the society"

Coriander

The chorus from kd lang's "So it shall be"


"I can exist being caught by your kiss
Willingly
Or grant you control
Of my body and soul
Ask it and so it shall be"


My, I'm a soppy gurl.

CHRISNOIR

So yes I guess I'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue
And nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
Find a man that needs you more than I

Elbow, Starlings

sonicred007

LangerDan wrote:

matt581 wrote:

I want to go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

The Streets

This line always makes me smile

Mike Skinner is a thieving git . Mark Twain said that about a hundred years ago:

"I'll take Heaven for the climate and Hell for the society"

As friends of mine claim about their clothes shop - Oi polloi: "Talent robs, genius steals"... which I think is robbed from something Picasso said

sicrow

"Well the weekend is a coming and its time for a bath then we'll go and sup some Boddies and we'll have a good laugh, and we'll have chips - and gravy twice, we'll have pudding chips and peas and two fried rice"

The Macc Lads

singlespeedexplosif

LangerDan wrote:

matt581 wrote:

I want to go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

The Streets

This line always makes me smile

Mike Skinner is a thieving git . Mark Twain said that about a hundred years ago:

"I'll take Heaven for the climate and Hell for the society"

2 different quotes then?