oh help me mrs medleycott i don't know what to doi've only got three bullets and there's four of mötley crüe
― imago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
they had the best selectionthey were poisoned with protection
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm,And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
West VirginiaMountain Mama
― flopson, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
it's gone too farinside this car
― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
even hitler had a girlfriendso why can't I
― sarahell, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
son im 30i only went with your mother cos shes dirty
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
beat me to it
― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
I saw you there, just standing thereAnd I thought I was only dreaming, yeah..
― Mark G, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
It's hard to celebrateWith a headache
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Oh, oh I said, "I'm so happy I could die"She said, "Drop dead, " then left with another guy
Or maybe:
'Cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changedSince you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a lightOn the corner by sound exchange
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'emThat I got no cerebellum
I was twenty one years when I wrote this songI'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long
I don't like you, I just hate youI'm gonna kick your ass, oh yeah! oh yeah!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
you put me on a pedestali put you on the pill
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link
give me a week or two togo absolutely cuckoo
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
I've travelled round the worldI've seen so many things - why am I talking to you?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
i have been around the worldlooking for that woman / girl
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
it's kinda funny how bad these read. rock couplets r the ultimate 'guess you had to be there'
― flopson, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
i probably didn't even say that rightand i really don't give a damn
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
but if you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics you will find that their minds rarely move in a lineso it's much more realistic to abandon such ballistics and resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
mother, i've tried, please believe me: i'm doing the best that i cani'm ashamed of the things i've been put through; i'm ashamed of the person i am
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
ain't no particular sign i'm more compatible withi just want your extra time and your X X X kiss
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
The milk truck eased into my spaceSomebody screamed somewhere
― cwkiii, Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
With these vulgar factions of the treble clefI wish you luck with a capital F
― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link
SomethingSomething
AMANDA
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 June 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Everybody rappin like it's a commercial Actin like life is a big commercial
― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
Post punk x man parked his forkliftLike a billion stars flickering from the grinders wheel
― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
i don't mind choppin woodand i don't care if the money's no good
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
Widows face the future Factories face the poor
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:17 (seven years ago) link
I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eyeThink he's making something special and I'm smart enough to try
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
belligerent ghoulsrun manchester schools
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:53 (seven years ago) link
I've been high and I've been lowAnd I don't know where to go
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteriaWhen I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hairu p against the pink and purple wisteria
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
I'll make it sweet but shortWhen I pull out your life support
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:46 (seven years ago) link
She hit town a rose in bloomSmell the sweet, sweet perfumeThe color faded and the petals diedDown in the city no one criedAnd in the streets the garbage liesProtected by a million fliesWith roaches so big they got bonesThey moved in and made themselves at homeI say nice boys, don't play rock 'n' rollNice boys, don't play rock 'n' rollI'm not a nice boy!
― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 4 June 2017 07:10 (seven years ago) link
I knew we'd never writeSomehow that seemed alright
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 4 June 2017 08:06 (seven years ago) link
If you look carefully in the background of The ScreamThe couple on the bridge are both Robson Green
― devvvine, Sunday, 4 June 2017 08:14 (seven years ago) link
ftw
― Mark G, Sunday, 4 June 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link
Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line >>>>>>>> this thread
― imago, Sunday, 4 June 2017 09:44 (seven years ago) link
Suddenly a half-sucky summer song came over the spider ride speaker systemIt sounded like the best thing I ever heard, I just wanted to sit down and listen
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 4 June 2017 11:58 (seven years ago) link
I drove my Cadillac to Vegas to satisfy my lustWheelin', dealin', left ol' Vegas on a Greyhound bus
― mizzell, Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, JackI went out for a ride and I never went back
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
If you feel alive in a darkened roomDo you know the name of your solitude
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Dance with the dead in my dreamsListen to their hollow screams
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
I got something to sayI killed a baby today
These lonely brothers on the radioIf that's a DJ I'm the pilgrim Mona Lisa
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
Your dying for the hope is goneFrom here we go nowhere again
I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing too muchI can't climb out the way I fell in
she's got her toe in the cornholebleeding out in a snow cone
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Fourth day, five day marathon.We move like a parallelogram.
― Black Arkestra, Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Charlie, for Chrissakes, if you wanna know the truth of itI don't have a husband, he don't play the trombone
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 4 June 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
a miracle might point the way to solutions we're afterand avert our chronic impending disaster
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
honestly doom never really misses as far as i care... but that line in particular stands out to me because it is so fucking funny
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:43 (nine months ago) link
Once built a steamboat in a meadowBecause I'd forgotten how to sail.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:01 (nine months ago) link
the stockings are hung, but who carespreserved for those no longer there
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:05 (nine months ago) link
Still there's a light I hold before meYou're the measure of my dreams
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:13 (nine months ago) link
he is the king of childrensinging like a boiler, 'tomorrow is on its way'
― tremolo, Friday, 15 December 2023 09:50 (nine months ago) link
Maybe I should just change my styleBut I feel alright when you smile
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
Counting the cost in money onlyStrikes me as funny don’t you know
― Mule, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 12:56 (nine months ago) link
Holidays and salad daysAnd days of moldy mayonnaise
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:04 (nine months ago) link
(A bit of a cheat)
And in the endThe love you takeIs equal to the love you make
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:08 (nine months ago) link
wait awhile eternityold mother nature's got nothin on me
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:43 (nine months ago) link
so many amazing lines in that song. I think my favorite couplet is the last one:
It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight.I'll prob'ly get homesick. I love you. Goodnight.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:51 (nine months ago) link
yeah beautiful. he can deploy a word rhyming with itself like no other (not being sarcastic).
i also deeply love the image of
The search light in the big yard swings round with the gunAnd spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun
and the chess game... they're all great
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:00 (nine months ago) link
The searchlight might be my favorite image in any song. just so instantly evocative and so beautiful.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:04 (nine months ago) link
And if you survive 'til 2005, i hope you're exceedingly thinFor if you are stout you will have to breathe out while the people around you breathe in
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:50 (seven months ago) link
Many things on my mindWords in the way
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:14 (seven months ago) link
and that ain't no jokeyou can disappear in smoke
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:14 (seven months ago) link
it's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar:-there's no escaping without a door prize-they're operating at significant loss
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:58 (six months ago) link
Oh, I never should have said the books that you readWere all I loved you for
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:17 (five months ago) link
I can dance like Sherlock HolmesI can sing like Sherlock HolmesBut I can't be Sherlock Holmes
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:33 (five months ago) link
he took a ride on the new highwaya culvert down to the ducks and drakes
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:51 (five months ago) link
In the fragrance sweet of the evening airI could leave this world quite without a care
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:00 (five months ago) link
he'll wrap you up in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boyhe'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:26 (four months ago) link
If I had a nickel, if I had a dimeI'd put it in the toilet and I'd shit all the time
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:02 (four months ago) link
I’ve been around the world and I didn’t pay my dues Yeah we knocked ‘em dead in Dallas (they didn’t know we were Jews)
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:44 (four months ago) link
And when you finish doing thatBring in the dog and put out the cat
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:19 (four months ago) link
in the hanging garden change the pastin a hanging garden wearing furs and masks
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:12 (four months ago) link
telling this hasn't been mentioned
i'm stronger than you think
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:21 (four months ago) link
Oh, my peer, your veneerIs wearing thin and crackingThe surface informs underneathUnderneath is lacking
i'm talking here to me alone
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:25 (four months ago) link
your finest hour
take your instinct by the reins
better best, rearrange
what we want, and what we need
has been confused, been confused
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:27 (four months ago) link
something something something when this is over/leap in my grave like the arms of a lover
if there's a heaven, I hope they're having fun/cause if there’s a hell, I'm gonna know everyone
― francisF, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:27 (four months ago) link
and if you want i'll fall out foreveri can't say no more -- baby, dance with me!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 31 May 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link
It always comes on timeNot a second before the instantBut this year I think I'd rather be a relicThan part of the present
― Mule, Saturday, 1 June 2024 22:53 (three months ago) link
hey there’s nothing in my heartI’d rather be cool than be smart
― brimstead, Friday, 2 August 2024 23:00 (one month ago) link