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
Footsteps running 'cross the silver sand Steps going down into tattoo land."
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
the comic book and me, just uswe caught the bus
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
Her stories are boring and stuffShe's always calling my bluff
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Dusty frames that still arriveDie in nineteen fifty-five
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Now all the politicians, they just flap their mouthsThey say we'll build a wall to keep them out
― o. nate, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Amateur seasalt gatherers colonizedThey're good enough for Conrad Hilton,Not good enough for my eyesI trust you will tell meIf I am making a fool of myselfMan is breedin' forever, because of the weatherThey come out and blister the sea, oh yeah
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
I met her at the Burger King We fell in love by the soda machine
― o. nate, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
Chewin' out a rhythm on my bubblegumThe sun is out and I want some
― jmm, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
Caroline, Caroline, see she's the reason for the word "bitch"I hope she's speeding on the way to the club trying to hurry up to get to some baller or singer or somebody like that and try to put on her makeup in the mirror and crash, crash, craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash into a ditch
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
I send my murdergram to all these monster kidsIt comes right back to me and it'sSigned in there daddies' blood
― Moodles, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
*their
― Moodles, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
To tell you that I think of youAlmost as much as you think of you
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 5 June 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
You were like a cloud, yes you were a flowerThen you were a lime, now our love is sour
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 June 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link
You, and your masculine youForever benched, sitting by the dirty window
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 5 June 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
We speaks about travel, yeah we think about the landWe smart like all peoples, feeling real tanI could take you places, do you need a new man?Wipe the pollen from the faces, make revision to a dream while you wait in the van
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 June 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
is it ever appealingto stand on the ceiling?
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 5 June 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
You're having tea with Graham Greene In a coloured costume of your choice
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 5 June 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
A cigarette to brand a baby's armA bit of ash in his face keeps him warm
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 June 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Two couplets:
And you're a dumb fuck, you fucking idiotAnd you're a dumb fuck, you fucking piece of shit.
And you're a dumb fuck, you fucking loserAnd you're a dumb fuck, you stupid fucking kid.
― Treeship, Monday, 5 June 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
He took her handThey took the floorShe was his all time favourite dancerSmile lopsidedlyDecidedlyAwkwardHe asked herTake my handTake me andI'll take my cueAin't you guessed by nowI dote on you
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 5 June 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
all men would writhebeneath his scythe
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Warm beer and cold women, no I just don't fit inEvery joint I stumble into tonight, that's just how it's been
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link
My love's a laboratory, I set all my pets freeSo baby, you should sleep with me
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
But they caught him with his case in a public placeThat is what we had feared
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
He whistles and he runs, so hold him fastBreathe the burn, you want to let it lastHe might succumb to what you haven't seenHe has a keen eye for what you used to be
When the cadaverous mob saves its doors for the dead man,You cannot leave.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 06:10 (seven years ago) link
Some folks itt (flappy bird) totally stretching the definition of "couplet"
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
The buzz that you be gettin' from the crack don't lastI'd rather be OD'in on the crack of her ass
Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
― devvvine, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 08:24 (seven years ago) link
like a game of pick-up sticks/played by fucking lunatics
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 08:29 (seven years ago) link
And now its ten years on, she's living with a plutocrat"I'm swapping millionaires for billionaires" was writ large on the mat
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
And William called and tried to tell me that his sister's boyfriend has just diedHe's not sure what to do and I'm not sure what to tell him he should do.
― djh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Sometimes, William, we're just screwed.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
She was just 17You know what I mean
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
are we going with rhyming couplets as a rule? i think the above^ might be the best, or the other Beatles couplet i posted at the top of the thread. i was just posting every Paul Banks lyric i could think of last night
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
i'm long since dead and i live in hellshe's the only girl that i loved wellwe were raised together and together we fell
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
Hold on tight for the show(Are you felling alright)Leave me here let me go(Can I get you a light)
― martyfalling, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
Something’s coming down loveFrosted pictures disappearCan you take the time to drop me offAnd pick me up when we’re clear
I said love you’ve got itCome on come on come onBaby you’ve got it now
― martyfalling, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
Can you breathe and is it clearHave all your worries disappearedAre you warm and snuggled tightBefore the cold wind starts to bite
― martyfalling, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
I’m tomorrow’s ghostwriter expect to see me at your doorAnd with my typewriterI’ll make you money and then more
― martyfalling, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link