Favourite Lyric

[tutankamun]

As a fan of The Smiths, I love a good lyric. Good old Mozza had a cool turn of phrase, 'hang the DJ' etc. On a par with Dylan, he knew the power of words more than most.

 

But what is your favourite lyric?

 

Maybe I'm biased (as I grew up with them and they were/are my favourite band) but one of my personal faves is The Roses from 'Standing Here':

 

"I could park a juggernaut in your mouth

And i can feel a hurricane when you shout"

 

I just love the ambiguity of a Roses' lyrics, 'all things to all men' etc.

 

I mean

 

Roll on June...

[bonzodaddy73]

I always have a smile when I hear Babies by Pulp.

"I know you won't believe its true,I only went with her coz she looks like you!

Brilliant!

[BrianFaePerth]

From Yummy Down on This by the Bloodhound Gang:

 

"If you were a Hindu I could aim for the dot"

 

 

 

But, my favourite has to be Death to all but metal by Steel Panther:

 

Alright! Yeah! C-c-come on!

Fuck the Goo Goo Dolls, they can suck my balls

They look like the dogs that hang out at the mall

Eminem can suck it, so can Dr. Dre

They can suck each other just because they're gay

They can suck a dick, they can lick a sack

Everybody shout, "Heavy metal's back!"

Death to all but metal

Death to all but metal

Death to all but metal

Death to Papa Roach, Blink 182

All those fucking pussies sounds like doggy-doo

Wearing baggy pants, spiking up their hair

They're not worth the crust on my underwear

Where is Def Leppard?

Where is M

[tightbreeks]

probably something from jello biafra

[Crossbow]

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.

I'm crying.

 

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

 

Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

 

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,

Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

 

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.

If the sun don't come, you get a tan

From standing in the English rain.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

 

Expert textpert choking smokers,

Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty,

See how they snied.

I'm crying.

 

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

[Chrisyboy81]

There is a Light that Never Goes Out:The Smiths

 

And in the darkened underpass

I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last

(But then a strange fear gripped me and I

Just couldn't ask)

 

Shoplifters of The World Unite: The Smiths

 

A heartless hand on my shoulder

A push - and it's over

Alabaster crashes down

(Six months is a long time)

Tried living in the real world

Instead of a shell

But before I began ...

I was bored before I even began

 

Subterranean Homesick Blues: Bob Dylan

 

The pump don't work

'Cause the vandals took the handles

 

and finally... Hurt Feelings: Flight of the Conchords!

Some people say that rappers don't have feelings

We have feelings (we have feelings)

Some people say that we are not rappers

We're rappers (that hurts our feelings)

It hurts our feelings when you say we're not rappers

 

Some people say that rappers are invincible

We're 'vincible (we're 'vincible)

What you are about to hear are true stories (real experiences)

Autobiographical raps (things that happen to us)

All true - bring the rhymes!

 

I make a meal for my friends, try to make it delicious

Try to keep it nutritious; create wonderful dishes

Not one of them thinks about the way I feel

Nobody compliments the meal

 

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

I feel like a prize asshole, no one even mentions my casserole

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

You could have said something nice about my profiteroles

 

Here's a little story to bring a tear to your eye

I was shopping for a wet suit to scuba dive

But every suit I try is too big around the thighs

And the assistants suggests I try a ladies' size

 

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

I'm not gonna wear a ladies' wet suit - I'm a man!

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

Get me a small mans' wet suit please

 

It's my birthday 2003

Waiting for a call from my family...

They forgot about me

 

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

The day after my birthday is not my birthday, mum

 

I call my friends, say, "let's go into town"

But they're all too busy to go into town

So I go by myself, I go into town

Then I see all my friends; they're all in town

 

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings

They're all lined up to watch that movie, Maid In Manhattan

 

Have you ever been told that your ass is too big?

Have you ever been asked if your hair is a wig?

Have you ever been told you're mediocre in bed?

Have you ever been told you've got a weird-shaped head?

 

Has your family ever forgotten you and driven away?

Once again they forgot about J

Were you ever called "homo" 'cause at school you took drama?

Have you ever been told that you look like a llama?

 

Tears of a rapper (tears of a rapper)

I'm cryin' tears of a rapper (tears of a rapper)

 

(reprise)

 

I've got hurt feelings

I've got hurt feelings (x4)

 

Hurt feelings...

 

Have you ever been made fun of 'cause of where you were from?

Have you ever been dissed over the intercom?

Have you ever found a gift you've given thrown away?

Have you ever been told that you're the wrong shape?

Have you ever been told you're Miss New Zealand?

Have you ever had hurt feelings?

[Marty13479]

Everything is in its place and all is of it's time

I think it's so funny I left you so far behind

You might have another story but I can see your smile

Money it don't buy you love, redemption, hope or style

 

 

Ian Brown-So High

Always fancied the bit in bold as a tattoo!

[tutankamun]

Favourite lyric and folk give us an insight to the song.

 

'She was getting pally with a scally in the alley giving head for gear' is a belter.

 

Yes, Pete Doherty is another with quite a unique turn of phrase.

[Marty13479]

"I could park a juggernaut in your mouth

And i can feel a hurricane when you shout"

 

I just love the ambiguity of a Roses' lyrics, 'all things to all men' etc.

 

 

Think these lyrics are about some mouthy bird? Thats what I think of when I hear them anyway.

[tutankamun]

 

Think these lyrics are about some mouthy bird? Thats what I think of when I hear them anyway.

 

Correct (allegedly). I've read a lot about Roses' lyrics (or other people's interpretation of them anyway) and I've heard Ian & John discussing them on several occasions .

 

Nothing was ever definitive though, they have contradicted themselves on the meaning of particular songs. Part of the reason I loved The Roses was that I was never entirely sure what they were even singing, never mind what they were singing about. They never printed their lyrics on the album like so many bands have done since The Beatles.

 

Made of Stone for example, what's that all about? I guess people could take that song to mean anything they want it to. Which is part of the charm I suppose.

 

Edit: from Wiki:

 

John Squire said: "'Made of Stone' about making a wish and watching it happen. Like scoring a goal in a Cup final...on a Harley Electra Glide...dressed as Spider-Man".

 

[StandFree1982]

Pretty much anything from the Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible, but I particularly love this song and lyrics:

 

"Mausoleum"

 

Wherever you go I will be carcass

Whatever you see will be rotting flesh

Humanity recovered glittering etiquette

Answers her crimes with Mausoleum rent

 

Regained your self-control

And regained your self-esteem

And blind your success inspires

And analyse, despise and scrutinise

Never knowing what you hoped for

And safe and warm but life is so silent

For the victims who have no speech

In their shapeless guilty remorse

Obliterates your meaning

Obliterates your meaning

Obliterates your meaning

Your meaning, your meaning

 

No birds - no birds

The sky is swollen black

No birds - no birds

Holy mass of dead insect

 

Come and walk down memory lane

No one sees a thing but they can pretend

Life eternal scorched grass and trees

For your love nature has haemorrhaged

 

Regained your self-control

And regained your self-esteem

And blind your success inspires

And analyse, despise and scrutinise

Never knowing what you hoped for

And safe and warm but life is so silent

For the victims who have no speech

In their shapeless guilty remorse

Obliterates your meaning

Obliterates your meaning

Obliterates your meaning

Your meaning, your meaning

 

No birds - no birds

The sky is swollen black

No birds - no birds

Holy mass of dead insect

 

I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit...

and force it to look in the mirror

 

And life can be as important as death

But so mediocre when there's no air, no light and no hope

Prejudice burns brighter when it's all we have to burn

The world lances youth's lamb-like winter, winter

[360]

Splack Pack- Shake That Ass Bitch

 

"Uh, I kinda like what I see

But you gotta shake for this money

One time for my dogs in the back

My niggas from the bottom down with the splack

So drop it down if you wit it

Don

[OddJob]

Aye Tut i read that one before, think it's mentioned in the Complete Stone Roses album. Typical Squire effort there like

 

If we're talking about classic and simple lyrics then surely:

 

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

now it looks as though they're here to say

Oh i believe in yesterday"

 

So simple yet effective in telling the story

[StandFree1982]

I told the witch doctor I was in love with you

I told the witch doctor I was in love with you

And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do

He said that

Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang

Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bang-bang

Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang

Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bang-bang

 

Lyrics that we can all relate to.

[Sheep#1]

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.

I'm crying.

 

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

 

Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

 

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,

Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

 

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.

If the sun don't come, you get a tan

From standing in the English rain.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

 

Expert textpert choking smokers,

Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty,

See how they snied.

I'm crying.

 

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

 

Great song, that was one hell of acid tab Lennon must have been on when he wrote that though :idea:

 

Mine is:

 

Maybe I just want to fly

I want to live I don't want to die

Maybe I just want to breath

Maybe I just don't believe

Maybe you're the same as me

We see things they'll never see

You and I are gonna live forever

[Henry]

"I'm serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer"

[ebbe]

"and it's hard to get by, when your arse is the size, of a small country."

[CrazyBullSheep]

War Pigs, Black sabbath

 

Generals gathered in their masses

Just like witches at black masses

Evil minds that plot destruction

Sorcerer of death's construction

In the fields the bodies burning

As the war machine keeps turning

Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

 

Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that all to the poor

 

And.....

 

 

Porcupine Pie, Porcupine Pie, Porcupine Pie

Vanilla Soup, a double scoop please.... No

 

Maybe I won't, maybe I will, maybe I'll have

the tutti fruit, with fruity blue cheese

 

Ah but Porcupine Pie, Porcupine Pie, Porcupine Pie

don't let it get on your jeans

 

And though it sounds a little strange but

you gotta eat it with gloves or your hands will turn green

 

Ah but porcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie

weaves its way through my dreams

 

I do believe I'm gonna try some and

leave enough room for dessert, the chicken ripple ice cream

 

Porcupine pie, Neil Diamond

[dervish]

Aye Tut i read that one before, think it's mentioned in the Complete Stone Roses album. Typical Squire effort there like

 

If we're talking about classic and simple lyrics then surely:

 

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

now it looks as though they're here to say

Oh i believe in yesterday"

 

So simple yet effective in telling the story

 

 

That's top notch. From newer stuff quite a lot of Oasis and Streets but for me Frightened Rabbit have loads such as:

 

Keep Yourself Warm

 

"My hole, I'll get my hole, I'll get my hole

Get my hole, get my hole and I'll find out more.

It's a choo-choo train, a rocket launch

If we have a hormone race

i'm bound to finish first."

 

"I'm drunk, I'm drunk

And you're probably on pills

If we've both got the same diseases

It's irrelevant girl"

 

Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms

 

"i decided this decision some six months ago

so i'll stick to my guns, but from now on it's war

i am armed with the past, and the will, and a brick

i might not want you back, but i want to kill him"

Last line "i'm still in love with you (can't admit it yet)"

Loads of others but love em basically.

[minijc]

Lots of stone roses lyrics hit me and give me a tingle, same with the lyrics from F.E.A.R and alot of the libs tunes, will post up a selection tomorrow.

[Lang Bar]

Sometimes I wish that I could stop.....you from talking

When I hear the silly things that you say

I think somebody better put out the big light

Cause I can't stand to see you this way

[Lang Bar]

Love is a fire of flaming brandy

Upon a crepe suzette

Lets get this romance cookin' honey

But let us not forget...........

 

Life is a minestrone.

[tightbreeks]

the macc lads - more tea vicar

 

"christ almighty, she's over by the kettle"

 

 

gordon's revenge is another classic.

 

[Jocky Balboa]

"They say that life's a Carousel

Spinning fast, you've gotta ride it well

The world is full of Kings and Queens

Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

...It's Heaven and Hell

 

They tell you black is really white

The moon is just the sun at night

And when you walk through golden halls

You get to keep the gold that falls

...It's Heaven and Hell"

 

- Black Sabbath

[tightbreeks]

i went to the doctor to see what he could give me

he said

sorry son, you've gone too far

smoking and drinking

is all that you do

 

sabbath

[Bluto10]

my favourite lyrics are the lines of suffer little children.