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[Goodbye]

Just for the Hell of it, a new list...
The guy who just sat down next to me STINKS of lynx spray...IS it just me or does the stench of this "deoderant" discust everyone, or is it just me??

Best Lyrics... hmmmm
Shit, thats a hard one...

"Just put those freshly shaven legs into
the cold clean sheets I put on just for you"
David Gedge

 

[rumpus]

"November's cold chains, made of wet boots and rain
shiney black ravens on chimney-smoked lanes"

tom waits


or


"...it's hard to take the hand of someone who is reaching to the sky just to surrender"

L.Cohen


oh, or


"feathers are floating down and I can't dodge them
the tar is oozing from my little noggin
it's ugly, ancient residue
no there ain't no mistaking who's been abused"

Vic chestnut

 

[manky mongrel]

ooh! so many!


"Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife
For the first time in your life

Wear your blouse undone to here and your skirt split up to there

Wink at the minister, blow kisses to my grieving brothers"

...and it just gets better from there on

(by Smog, by the way)


The Old Gold Shoe by Lambchop:

"For all our massive brains, that fall on choked remains, it's painful and it's certain that something's bound to break inside"

later on he says

"The guy on the cross is holier than I, but then again he's made of plastic"

Or what about The King of America by Elvis Costello:

"She said that she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet that she knew how to use"


9th and hennepin by Tom Waits:

talking about a waitress in a bar with a "tatooed tear", he says "nothing wrong with her a hundred dollars won't fix"


I better stop.

 

[billygannon]

"i believe that stars are the headlights of angels, driving from heaven to save us" Dave Berman

"I want to go where the ladies have nothing on except the radio too loud for me to think" Jim O'Rourke

Most of Large Mound's lyrics


Is anyone going to read this?

 

[Beanstalk]

Fashion crisis hits New York.
I met a blind man he was eating his fork.
He said "That's what you have to do to be cool
You eat your cutlery instead of your food"

- Frank & Walters ("Fashion crisis hits New York")



Its the underachievers that I wanna hang with.
I'd smuggle myself into the para-olympics
And smash all the records
Until a one legged Nigerian makes me look shit.

- Obsolete ("Naturally Talented Bastards")...ahem!

 

[steveamanakick]

"One of us is a cigar stand, and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine"

"the trolls in the glen are consorting again, the liberals say they don't exist but i know that they do"

Both by Pavement, in the same song too.


Oh, and i have to stick this one in...

"I move like an obscene groove machine on the floor...ON YOUR MOTHER!!!" - tooth
Gotta love it. Your mother does.

 

[herv]

Originally posted by Giveamanakick
"One of us is a cigar stand, and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine"

"the trolls in the glen are consorting again, the liberals say they don't exist but i know that they do"

Both by Pavement, in the same song too.


Oh, and i have to stick this one in...

"I move like an obscene groove machine on the floor...ON YOUR MOTHER!!!" - tooth
Gotta love it. Your mother does.

or before silo gets this in...

"pigs they tend to wiggle when they walk, the infrastructure rocks...."


my personal favourite though:

wire: 'the other window'

"...he saw a black horse fighting for its life...in a barbed wire fence, fatally tangled... the more it struggled, the more it strangled..."

and the lyrics from the the's 'this is the day' of course. always makes me quite emotional.

 

[Anthony]

The entire lyrics to I'M an Adult Now by The Pursuit Of Happiness... though my fave is

"can't write songs about girls anymore
have to write songs about women
no more boy meets girl boy looses girl
more like
man tries to understand what went wrong"

In fact anything that Moe Berg writes is genius
"I'm not so special that I can have anything I please,
I like you because you like me"

the list goes on...

or how about
"I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed" from TMBG : Dead. Simple but class.

 

[Beanstalk]

Originally posted by Anthony

or how about
"I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed" from TMBG : Dead. Simple but class.

Oh yeah, anything by They Might Be Giants...in particular, "Dr.Worm"...

"They call me Dr.Worm
Good morning how are you, I'm Dr. Worm.
I'm interested in things.
I'm not a real doctor but
I am a real worm
I am an actual worm..."


OK, you have to be there.

 

[Alex]

"Ci sono giorni in cui non interagisco ed appeso al silenzio come un ragno al soffitto, sorvolo il mio spazio aereo minacciando tutto cio' che gira" *

*There are days I don't interact and, hanging at the silence like a spider at the ceiling, I fly over my air space threatening everything that spins

Momenti di Noia - Subsonica

 

[egg_]

'When you play that tarantella all the hounds begin to roar
The boys all go to hell and then the Cubans hit the floor.
The drive along their pipeline, they tango til they're sore .... etc'
Tom Waits

'Took my diamond to the pawnshop, but that don't make it junk'
(and all of Famous Blue Raincoat)
Leonard Cohen

'Ohh let me have it, let me grab you soul away'
and
'I hear him before I go to sleep and ponder on the day that's been
I realise he's there when I turn the light off and turn over'
Kate Bush

'Gala hangs from the windowsill dressed in blue and white
Her face is colourless in the moonlight
She turns around and her lips move, the words just drop away
Leans on the back of her chair and her arms begin to sway.
She and I can hear voices talking in the room next door
Saying things we used to say that we can't believe in any more
We've seen too many castles crumble, made to many innocent mistakes
Who could have known that one house could hold so much heartbreak
etc etc'
Waterboys

'I'm a building jumper, roof to roof see me flying in the air'
Pixies

'He had just finished his breakfast smiling'
Cpt Beefheart


Jaysus, the hair was standing up on the back of my neck typing that Waterboys thing, had to put in two lines to make me smile afterwards.

Hmm I'm sure I've got zillions more favourite lyrics ... anyone who's into verse should subscribe to the Stoat poetry list, by the way. One poem by a proper poet (Philip Larkin, Walt Whitman, Louis MacNiece etc etc) every Monday morning to brighten up your day - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoat_poems/ (or you can subscribe by mailing [email protected])

 

[dudley]

I'll let a train be my feet
If it's too far to walk to you
If a train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus
Because I'm going to find you
You're going to see me shadow soon around you
And my head is my only house unless it rains

I walk the meadow plains
Water deserts are my eyes until I find you
I won't sleep until I find you
I won't eat until I find you
My heart won't beat until
I wrap my arms around you

My arms are just two things in the way
Until I can wrap them around you
You can make my sad song happy
Make a bad world good
I can feel you out there moving
You're mine, I know I'll find you
And my head is my only house until I've found you

I hate to have other people hear me sing this song
If this reaches you before I do
Follow it to "I love you"
That's where I'll find you
And my head is my only house until I find you

 

[bob_jesus]

Most recently I kinda like these...

"...and when i'm drowning in the sea of me
will you dive in, dive in and save me,
dive in and take me out of the crowd,
in my head..."
- Nina Hynes: Dive

"you're a cold piece of steel between my ribs and there's no saving me.
And I can't get up from this wet crimson bed that you made for me.
...And if you go, angels will run to defend me"
- Rob Dougan: Furious Angels.

I'd add some Tom Waits, but there's just so goddamn much there to add!

bob

 

[danny]

An obvious one,

"...but I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die"
Johnny Cash

 

[Monkey]

"Just kicking down the cobblestones,
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy"

 

[coraline]

all tori amos songs really but this one in particular called doughnut song.

had me a trick and a kick and your message
well you'll never gain weight from a doughnut hole
then thought that I could decipher your message
there's no one here dear
no one at all

and if I'm wasting all your time
this time
maybe you never learned to take
and if I'm hanging on to your shade
I guess I'm way beyond the pale


and southern men can grow gold
can grow pertty
blood can be pertty
like a delicate man
copper to steel to a hinge that is faltered
that let's you in let's you in let's you in
something's just keeping you numb


you told me last night
you were a sun now with your very own


devoted satellite
happy for you
and I am sure that I hate you
too sons too many too many able fires


and if I'm wasting all your time
this time
I think you never learned to take
and if I'm hanging on to your shade
I guess I'm way beyond the pale

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Half Man Half Biscuit ,
From "Girlfriend's Finished with Him"

"Telly Savalas is set to spearhead an Oi! revival down Whitechapel way"

From "Vatican Broadside"

"Who the fuckin' hell are Slipknot?"

 

[krystal]

there's a man on the roof / but there isn't any proof

(c) some nutter on a bontempi keyboard and attired in a Fido Dido sweatshirt, in the Underground, 1991

although it pains me to say this about a song by a band so lacking in an original tune or idea, but with a good line in bandwagons, the lyrics to that Libertines single are kinda funny... two bob cunt..

 

[pete]

Grimly I dig up the turfs
To remove the corrupted stiffs
Trying to contain my excitement
As I desecrate graveolent crypts...
Fingers claw at coffin lids
Eager festal exhumation
Hugging your wry, festered remains
With post-humous joy and elation...
Body snatched, freshly interred
Whatever takes my fancy
To satisfy my gratuitous pica
My culinary necromancy...
Scrutinised then brutalised
My forensic inquisition is fulfilled
My recipe is now your epitaph
Be it fried, boiled or grilled...

I devour the pediculous corpse
Whetting my palate as I exhume
The festering stench of rotting flesh
Makes me drool as I consume...

Carcass - Exhume To Consume

 

[IFF]

"the last time you saw a brown skinned man was whne your grandparents bought one"
zack de la rocha of rage against the machine in down rodeo on the classic album evil empire