Great lyrical lines

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Don't let's limit ourselves to hip-hop although I choose to start a new thread rather than hi-jacking those hip-hop threads.

Anyway, a great one from Elvis Costello's "Brilliant Mistake"

She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

let us not limit ourselves to 'songs' either.

henri chopin to thread!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

let us not limit ourselves to 'songs' either.

Well, not necessarily, although I am not certain whether this is really the place to site Shakespeare. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yes.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

War planes go over but no wages go 'round. A sign goes up to say hey we're twin towned. The dough is rising but no bread will be baked. The fur is genuine but the orgasm's faked. We're spending millions to learn to speak porpoise, when human loneliness is still a deafening noise.

XTC's "Across this Antheap".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, you have shit taste in lyrics.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"...I'm giving you jimmy bitch, what could be better bitch.."

What Could Be Better Bitch - Son Of Bazerk

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women
in the Greenwood southside society pool.
I love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighs
you're a shimmering socialite jewel.

From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy
to the children's crusade marching through the downtown.
Well I think I'd die see, if you just said hi to me.
When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound."

Silver Jews "Blue Arrangements"

― Famous Athlete, Sunday, 27 April 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hope doesn't serve me now
I don't move fast at all these days
You think you've understood
You're ignorant that way

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm sorry, I can't be cancelled out like this
We had to kill too much
Before we could even kiss"

Magazine - "You Never Knew Me"

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 27 April 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Annie I'm not your daddy.
Cause if I was in your blood, then you wouldn't be so ugly

(Kid Creole & The Coconuts: "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy")

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 8 December 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

They say time will
make all this go away
but it's time that has taken my tomorrows
and turned them into yesterdays

Ben Harper - "Walk Away"

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Well all of your letters burned up in the fire
Time is just memory mixed with desire
That's not the road, it is only the map, I say
gone just like matches from a closed down cabaret

Tom Waits, "The Part You Throw Away"

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I comprehend that there's a danger
you might misapprehend the way things are.
You look to me like you're a stranger
Perhaps you've come here from afar.

I've been down here for oh so many years
I hardly notice now
The things they do
But my advice is that you go back home
You're much too beautiful
They're bound to ruin you.

--by Roxy Epoxy, on the Epoxies' debut alburm

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

tonight never ends if we never go inside, the moon is always full, your calendar is always pinned on summertime.

alkaline trio

― alexandra., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Clearing my throat and gripping my lectern, I smile and face my audience, clearing his throat and smiling with his hands on the bathroom sink."

That's TMBG from "Til My Head Falls Off"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Does she know how you told me you'd hold me
Until you died, 'til you died
And you're still alive
-Alanis Morisette, of course, from "You Oughta Know". One of my absolute favourite lyrics EVER and it gets absolutely no recognition.

Two more faves, then I'll stop:

"There are people wearing frowns/Who'll screw you up when they would/Rather screw you down" - Love, "You Set The Scene". Arthur Lee's lyrics always SANG great, no matter how goofy or meaningless they could be.

"I lost more friends than you'll ever have" - Uncle Sam, "Goodbye Mr. Mary"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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