Favourite Lines in Songs

[Baggy]

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

The Smiths - Ask

From the cellar of my house comes a bellowing
It's the tired and lonely tigers that are kept there
I can't imagine who the landlord's expecting
They've been there since June last year

Cud - Rich and Strange

 

[Kestevan]

Life is short and love is always over in the morning.




Temple Of Love - Sisters of Mercy

 

[Archie_tect]

"For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right....."


Songbird- Christine McVie

 

[slowmotion]

Ah yes, Beasley Street.

Here is more gloomy stuff that fitted my mood very well , at the time, after emotional turmoil. Strangely enough, I like happy stuff these days, but it hit my buttons years ago.

A police car and a screaming siren
Pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing, a stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking

That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

A smash of glass and the rumble of boots
An electric train and a ripped up phone booth
Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tom cat
Lights going out and a kick in the balls

I say that’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

Days of speed and slow time Mondays
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday
Watching the news and not eating your tea
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

I say that’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearse in a nearby yard
Watching the telly and thinking 'bout your holidays

That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
A hot summers day and sticky black tarmac
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude
Getting a cab and travelling on buses
Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs

I say that’s entertainment, that’s entertainment


Sod angst, life is far too short. Get on your bikes

 

[Fnaar]

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

Top stuff...

 

[TVC]

One, two, three, four. John the Baptist knows the score.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Funny you should say that ...

Oh does your heroin lose its glamour on the washboard overnight?
When your mother says don't do it do you jack it up in spite?
Do you rob your brother's giro, do you talk a load of shite?
Does your heroin lose its glamour on the washboard overnight?


Or:


I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.

Or:

As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.

 

[CharlieB]

For lyrical expression, there's probably little that improves on 'Beasley Street', but for me the award for the cheesiest rhyming couplet has to go to Queen for this from 'I'm In Love With My Car';

'Told my girl I had to forget her
Rather buy me a new carburettor'

 

[dellzeqq]

Nirvana Smells like Teen Spirit 'Here we are now, entertain us'. Sums up the zeitgeist.

For lyrics that take a delight in language there's always Richard Thompson

I see you on the street in company
Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thedimmi.htm

 

[Gareth]

For me it has to be ACDC's Thunderstruck:


"And I was shakin' at the knees
Could I come again please.
Yeah the ladies were too kind"

 

[numbnuts]

....and I’m hovering like fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

"And she'll promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you're bleedin'
But she'll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she's always a woman to me..."

Prefer the Fyfe Dangerfield version or more recent ones sung by Mr Joel himself after his voice has aged and become more interesting (i.e. less whiny).

 

[Kirstie]

Showroom Dummies by Kraftwerk says a lot about the emptiness of modern life and the consumer society, which is a pre-occupation of mine...

We are standing here
Exposing ourselves
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

We're being watched
and we feel our pulse
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

We look around
and change our pose
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

We start to move
And we break the glass
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

We step out
And take a walk through the city
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

We go into a club
And there we start to dance
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies

 

[Theseus]

5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking)



An angel on a Harley
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
Puts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends
A scarred and greasy hand...he said
How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'?
Then he takes your hand
In some strange Californian handshake
And breaks the bone
Have a nice day

A housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
With his book of rules
Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
To take a second look at you
You flex your rod
Fish takes the hook
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
Another number in your little black book

These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
I'm standing on the leading edge
The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
"I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried
"Go on", she says
"Why don't you give it a try?
Why prolong the agony all men must die"
Do you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember Shane?
And mother wants you
Could you see him selling tickets
Where the buzzard circles over
Shane
The body on the plain
Did you understand the music Yoko
Or was it all in vain?
Shane
The bitch said something mystical "Herro"
So I stepped back on the kerb again

These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming again

These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking

 

[Ste T.]

Where ladies of the village
Fight like Visigoths for pillage
( Jumble Sale)

She's got a lovely bottom and I prize it highly
I've studied it's proportions time and again
(Sophie)

She won't come to taunt me and haunt me I know,
,Cos I buried her face downwards she's a long way to go
( The Jolly Captain)

I could grimly stand in front of her sharpening up an axe,
I could sprinkle her with parafin and ask her for a match.
(On again on again on gain)

All by the peerless and sadly missed Jake Thackery