There are problems in these timesand WOOOO! none o’them are mine!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:41 (eleven months ago) link
The best things in life are freeBut you can keep them for the birds and bees
just give me money...
― Lee626, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 12:42 (eleven months ago) link
Pulling into economy islandKing Shit and the Golden BoysMany more where we come fromTop of the bottomDon't stop now, don't stop now
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 October 2023 23:58 (eleven months ago) link
it's not worth it, you just don't tryyou're so perfect, you just get by
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:15 (ten months ago) link
celebrate the loss of one and all all all, and separate the torso from the spineburger bender bouncing like a ball ball ball, so burger bender bargain blender shine
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 19 November 2023 00:41 (ten months ago) link
I am the autumn in the scarletI am the make-up on your eyes
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 19 November 2023 09:41 (ten months ago) link
yep
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
I met her at the Burger KingWe fell in love by the soda machine
― spastic heritage, Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:28 (ten months ago) link
I'm curious, if I went through this thread, how many of these couplets I would recognize. I wouldn't be surprised if a huge hunk were from songs I loved and I just never noticed!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:57 (ten months ago) link
Same
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:12 (ten months ago) link
that Ramones one is absolutely all-time
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:16 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, that one I knew.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:19 (ten months ago) link
I fact I remember thinking about it in the 80s whilst sitting in the Burger on Northern Boulevard, the one close to Douglaston.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:21 (ten months ago) link
no bookcase can rescue a manonly a letter of sorry can
― brimstead, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:18 (ten months ago) link
i bought fake jordansthey weren't even shoes
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
he fantasized an equipagea two-horse carriage garage
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:07 (nine months ago) link
Do you take sugar?One lump or two?
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:49 (nine months ago) link
otm voodoo chili
in the same vein:
deleted scene of lightning mcqueenblacked out at full speed
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
tobacco they grow in pekingin the year of the locust you'll see a sad thing
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:35 (nine months ago) link
you can never be strong!!!!!you can only be free!!!!!
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
average MCs is like a TV blooperMF DOOM, he's like DB Cooper
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:37 (nine months ago) link
^^^ pops into my head often
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:41 (nine months 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