Favourite Lines in Songs

[Rhythm Thief]

All of your friends are c**ts
And your mother is a ballpoint pen thief

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The bars are all closed
It’s four in the morning
Must have shut 'em all down By the shape that I’m in I lay my head on the wheel
And the horn begins honking
The whole neighbourhood knows
That I’m home drunk again


Classic George Jones!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I picked a stick up off the ground
And I knocked that fair girl down
She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
"Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me yet
I'm unprepared to die"
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
With her blood did flow


The lovely murder ballad 'Knoxville Girl', Louvin Brothers version is arguably the best, were two voices ever more suited to each other that Ira and Charlie Louvin ... Chas 'n' Dave maybe ...

 

[Fnaar]

I am the milkman of human kindness
I will leave an extra pint


Sir Billy of Braggdom

 

[betty swollocks]

'I was so upset that I cried,
All the way to the chip shop'

...........Jilted John

 

[Midnight]

Can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin,
But don't as me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to...

 

[swee'pea99]

You got it, buddy ... step right up. Change your shorts, change your life, change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy, get rid of your wife.

Am I right?

Get away from me kid, you bother me...

 

[Ravenbait]

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood


Sam

 

[Ravenbait]

There are so many. I can't decide.

I am a clone
I am not alone.
Every fibre of my flesh
and bone
is identical to others'.
Everything I say
is in the same tone
as my test-tube brothers' voice.
There is no choice
between us.
If you had ever seen us
you'd rejoice
in your uniqueness
and consider every weakness
something special
of your own.
Being a clone
I have no flaws to identify.
Even this doggerel
that falls from my pen
has just been written by
another twenty
telepathic men.
Word for word
it says:
Oh for the wings
of any bird
other than a battery hen.


Sam

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Johnny Paycheck at his very best ...

He'll find me at their big house on the hill
He'll find a note explaining why I killed us all
Now it's time to go, I've got someone to kill

 

[fimm]

And you want to call your mother, and say "Mother, I can never come home again, because I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere, somewhere in a field in Hampshire"

 

[Herbie]

What are the lines that make you sit up and realise that someone has wriiten something that strikes a chord with you?
I have many, but I'm curious about other people.

two pints of lager and packet of crisps please

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

Can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin,
But don't as me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to...

The man (Peter Green), at his finest!!!!!

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

There's a girl from New York City
That calls herself the human trampoline.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Because there's nothing strage about an axe with bloodstained edges in a barn,
there's always lots of killing you got to do around a farm