SpondonBassed Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 17 minutes ago, kendall said: I'm a huge fan of Andrew Eldritch (Sisters of Mercy) when it comes to lyrics, there are many. But I've always loved the sting in the tail that he put at the end of Under The Gun. forget the many steps to heaven it never happened and it ain't so hard happiness is a loaded weapon and a short cut is better by far explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour abrasive wheels and molten metals it's a semi-automatic, get in the car corrosive heart and frozen heat we're worlds apart where we could meet where the street fold round and the motors start and the idiot wields the power where the chosen hold the highest card on the field of honour where the ground is hard so the highest hand is joking wild and the house soon fold and no-one stand I put my finger on and dialled the tower, the moon, the gun, and nine nine nine, singer down cloudburst and all around the first are last, the blessed get wired the best is yet to come I put my finger on and fired heat-seeking, out of the sun you can set the controls for the heart or the knees and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger everything under the gun That's got to be one of the longest couplets I have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendall Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) I saw it more as "Luscious Lyrics" Edited October 12, 2020 by kendall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendall Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 50 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said: That's got to be one of the longest couplets I have ever seen. I saw it more as "Luscious Lyrics" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 1 hour ago, kendall said: I saw it more as "Luscious Lyrics" I'm going to have to admit the facetiousness of my earlier comment. I have never listened to that tune. I don't have SoM anywhere in my collection. I'm listening to it now that you've said that. Cheers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 "Doctor's leaving for the holiday season Got crystal ice picks, no gift for the gab And in the parking lot, is the sedan he bought He never, he never complains when it's hot" A couple of couplets from 'Grounded' by Pavement. Pavement were always brimming over with superb lyrics, but the opening verse of this tale of the trials of well-heeled medical staff has a wonderful turn to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chezz55 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) WOT ! ! no Donald Fagen - I'll put that right immediately. From Steely Dan's 'Two Against Nature' album here's the last verse of "Cousin Dupree". The whole story is told in the song, and the musical groove is Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. One night we're playin' gin by a cracklin' fire And I figured I'd make my play I said babe with my boyish charm and good looks How can you stand it for one more day She said maybe its the skeevy look in your eyes Or that your mind has turned to applesauce The dreary architecture of your soul I said, but what is it exactly turns you off? Edited October 12, 2020 by Chezz55 Inclusion of Album Title and grammar correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 15 hours ago, davepb24 said: "Love Under Will" Fields Of the Nephilim...their definitive track lyrically and musically to me Althought that isn't to knock some of their other lyrics, such as "The flowers in your kitchen, they weep for you" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo.gwillim Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Stepping out of the grey day she came Her hair falling like the sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham56 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality I wasn't born so much as I fell out Nobody seemed to notice me We had a hedge back home in the suburbs Over which I never could see 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Ian Dury - so many to mention, but three classics: Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. He must have been a pencil squeezer. He didn't do the Mona Lisa, That was an Italian geezer. I could be a lawyer with strategems and ruses I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises I could be a writer with a growing reputation I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station Shall I mourn you decline with some thunderbird wine And a black hankercheif? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 And a corker from Elvis Costello: To tell the truth our mum ran off with someone else's father Went for two weeks holiday in Taramasalata Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1968 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) A Nobel prize, a piece of string You know what's awesome? Everything. Dogs with fleas, allergies, A book of Greek antiquities, Brand new pants, a very old vest Awesome items are the best. [Tegan and Sarah ft The Lonely Island, Everything Is Awesome. From The Lego Movie] If you squeeze my lizard I'll put my snake on you [Motorhead, Killed By Death] It's hard to walk in the dress, It's not easy I'm swinging over Like a heavy loaded fruit tree [Dress, PJ Harvey] I like to move it, move it I like to move it, move it I like to move it, move it Ya like to move it [I Like To Move It, Reel 2 Reel ft Mad Stuntman] Edited October 12, 2020 by nige1968 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Dropping through sky, Through the glass of the roof, Through the roof of your mouth, Through the mouth of your eye, Through the eye of the needle, It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven Than ever feel whole again. Disintegration by The Cure. I love Liz Taylors, I mean Robert Smiths little word plays and phrasing. There's many, many more from their back catalogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Again, a contribution from Mr Bragg from his version of "Walk away Renee". "And every time I switched on the radio There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us..." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) - Edited March 9, 2022 by Jus Lukin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rich Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) From the dreams on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen From the Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men From the realisation that all we've been left behind Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line (Slàinte Mhath - Marillion) You choose your leaders and place your trust As their lies wash you down and their promises rust You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns And the public wants what the public gets But I don't get what this society wants (Going Underground - The Jam) Edited October 12, 2020 by Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 A classic line from Dean Friedman's Ariel I picked her up in my new VW van She wore a peasant blouse with nothing underneath I said "Hi", she said, "Yeah, I guess I am" Ariel, Ariel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Sing me a song, you're a singer, Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil. The Devil is never a maker, The less that you give...you're a taker. I'll probably be slapped about worse than Mussolini was for saying this, but the Black Sabbath Dio period was musically superb, and lyrically superlative. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 For me Bruce Springsteen has come up with some wonderful stuff - love this from 'The River'. But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse That sends me down to the river Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 15 hours ago, Jus Lukin said: I'm also rather fond of "I never thought it would happen, with me and a girl from Clapham". And an lot of Cool for Cats was up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 In The Horne Sections' joyful country tale of pea production down on Grandaddy's farm, specifically regarding his quality control, and his rejection of grade B and Grade C peas, ensuring the customer only ever receives grade A peas.... Grandaddy checks the A-ness, so you can taste the Pea-ness, Grandaddy checks the A-ness, so you can taste the Pea-ness, Grandaddy checks the A-ness, so you can taste the Pea-ness, In your mouth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozza Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Son, I'm 30 I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty And I don't have a decent bone in me What you get is just what you see, yeah Poetry, that's what that is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCrane Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) - Edited March 9, 2022 by Jus Lukin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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