Best T. Rex Couplet

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Oh, there are so many to choose from. I'm a fan of this, from "Liquid Gang":

Peter with the heater,
He's such a messy eater
He's got frogs in his eyes
From telling those lies

Unless someone can convince me otherwise, nobody could write suggestive nonsense like our Marc.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you think you're a champ
but you ain't nothing but a raw ramp

--Raw Ramp

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What I like about this is that it assumes that one can't be both a champ AND a raw ramp. Why one or the other?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

rockin in the nude
feelin such a dude

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

there's grander couplets (hell even in the same song), but nonetheles...

Girl you're good
And I've got wild knees for you

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a good place to get an answer to a burning question I've been keeping in for years:
Is it: "what's it like to be alone? / I liken it to a balloon"
or "what's it like to be a loon? / I liken it to a balloon"
???
Either way, it's my vote for ultimate T-Rex couplet.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Catch a bright star and place it on you forehead, say a few spells and there you go.
Take a black cat and sit it on you shoulder and in the morning you'll know all you know.

― Michael G, Friday, 3 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this one is particularly timely:

The president's weird
He's got a burgundy beard
It's a ripoff

― Matt A, Friday, 3 October 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Girl I'm just a vampire for your love
and I'm gonna suckya"
- Jeepster

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 3 October 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that Dim Stars one has a lot of good ones.

― calstars (calstars), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his."

Beautiful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 October 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh deborah/you look like a zebra

magic.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 4 October 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Inevitably:

Did you ever see a woman coming out of New York City
With a frog in her hand?
I did, dontcha know.

Also:

I drive a Rolls Royce
Cos it's good for my voice.

― harveyw (harveyw), Saturday, 4 October 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Me, I'm loose, like a golden goose
You can have my juice

― adaml (adaml), Saturday, 4 October 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You slide so good
With Bones so fair
You've got the universe reclining
in your hair

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 4 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

You slide so good
With bones so fair
You've got the universe reclining
in your hair

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 4 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Believe me Pope Paul my toes are clean
Whatever happened to the teenage dream?

― Brian (Brian Dillon), Saturday, 4 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also from Raw Ramp:

Ohh woman, I love your chest
Oh baby I'm crazy bout your breasts

But my fav is:

Me I funk
But I don't care
I ain't no square
With my corkscrew hair

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 4 October 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

You can trip the light fantastic
Become a space grotesque
You can fossilize your thought dreams
Behind a rusty desk

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 October 2003 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you have lighted my innermost eye
its rock and roll stuff.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 5 October 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Underrated? I think not.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 5 October 2003 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Love You Yeah/I Love You Yeah" ("Soul Of My Suit")

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 5 October 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Sunday, 5 October 2003 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Girl you're good
And I've got wild knees for you

I always thought "And I've got wild wood for you" would've been a more satisfying rhyme. If only Marc had lived to witness the glory of Beavis & Butthead.

Covers I'd like to see: Prince, doing 'Rip Off.'

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I think about it, I'd quite like to hear Dylan's version of 'Rip Off' as well.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to hear Marc doing it, like, right now. Having had a decades long career with a revived American reputation in the late seventies ensuring him a better situation all around, turned into an elder statesman of rock like Bowie while somehow avoiding an eighties implosion, making fun of the Rolling Stones for not doing it right and being the best talk-show guest on American TV in the nineties. Xtina would ask him to sing on "Beautiful," he'd have sung Jay-Z's praise to the skies, his biggest hit single in the past five years would be a fluke techno collaboration for a movie soundtrack.

Oh to dream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, you make me weep for what might have been.

Incidentally, that Fellini film he was supposed to have been writing the music for, according to the interview on the Metal Warrior CD rerelease.. Was that just an idle boast? I'm sure it must have been, but.. wow, just the thought of it make my brain explode.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

When it came to planned projects that never panned out or even existed, Marc made someone like Gene Simmons seem like a piker. Who knows what the truth is, but it's a great story.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children

Ok, I know that's more than a couplet, but I like it. Oh, and you've gotta hear him sing it.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hippy!

(Oops, sorry.)

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I wanted to choose one of the more nonsensical and glam ones, but this one always stuck with me. I'm about as much of a hippy as Bolan was, which is to say, sort of, when it's convenient, but really not all that much.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be jive. You're beautiful, man.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

making fun of the Rolling Stones for not doing it right

mick jagger shoes
mick jagger shoes
keef does it naturally
mick smells of poo

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 17 January 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this thread

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss the person who constituted this thread.... no that's not the lyric, this is:

"Hiding in the road like a Pasolini toad"

Like, what? Actually there's far too many to mention, virtually every song has some moments of inspired lunacy.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 17 January 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, this is a wonderful thread.
not really couplets:
"ive got a powder keg leg, and my wigs all pooped...for you"

"just like a car, youre pleasing to behold, ill call you jaguar if i may be so bold."

ive said this before, but am i the only one who thinks marc bolan always no-so-secretly wanted to have sex with a car?

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 17 January 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

thread makes me happy

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

There are at least four great examples of this in Telegram Sam alone,
my favorite being :
"Automatic shoes
Automatic shoes
Give me three D vision
And the California blues"

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Ned - is it "alone" or "loon"? Which one does he liken to a balloon?!

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

another one from "raw ramp"...
"lady, i love your chest too,
baby i'm crazy about your breasts!"

― naturemorte, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

"I was dancing since I was aah"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

oops i reposted one...blast! well, i'll have to include a different one...for serious songs, how about.
"With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living
Anyway"
spaceball ricochet!

― naturemorte, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

"Girl you look good
Just like Robin Hood"

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

ROARRRRRRRRR!
GRRRRROWLLLL!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

His clothes were his life, but his heart was a knife
Inscribed upon it was rock and roll, it's true

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Ned - is it "alone" or "loon"? Which one does he liken to a balloon?!

The loon. And I quote:

"What's it like to be a loon?
I liken it to a balloon."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago)

God, I love that song.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago)

i wanna call you
i wanna ball you... ooh all night long

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago)

"and when I'm sad
I slide"

and so the entire goth thing became redundant 10 years before it happened

― ian g, Friday, 17 September 2004 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Love this thread.

There's a lot of fantastic lines to pick from, but somehow the first that came to mind was:

"Myxomatosis is an animal disease,
But I got so shook up mama
That it ate away my kness..."

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 17 September 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago)

"Small girl with the smiling gibbon
Bridled with an orchid ribbon"

"Meeting behind the iron sling
My brandy tongue was like a caterpillar thing"

"Do you remember when we met
You moved behind me like a stained glass net"

"Roasting his feet by the furnace of peat
He roars at the boars who massively sleep at his feet"

"The lavish lion Aslanically scythes the hay
The unicorn bids you stay"

"You're a silver stud fender
I'm a jive brained bender"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 17 September 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Someone make an "random Bolan couplet generator". It would be lovely.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Someone should, yes.

Anyway:

"deep in my heart
there's a house
that can hold
almost all of you"

Sung softly and reflectively, and sounds great on a slightly grey Sunday afternoon.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 March 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

"Call me Rabbit Fighter you know it's true
'Cos babe I'll rabbit fight all over you... Hey!"

― hugo, Monday, 29 December 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Myxomatosis is an animal's disease,
But I got so shook up mama that it ate away my knees"

- Left Hand Luke & the Beggar Boys

― ImprovSpirit, Monday, 19 July 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

you're so cheap
you're so fair
you shine like a snare with a bear in your hair

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

I could never never see
The cosmic sea
Was like a bumblebee

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago)

^^^REAL TALK

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago)

you're so cheap
you're so fair
you shine like a snare with a bear in your hair

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, July 19, 2010 2:38 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

love this

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Monday, 19 July 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago)

We make feasties of the beasties
But the beasties just live in the wild

― bidfurd, Monday, 19 July 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago)

Oh love's a wonderful thing that comes and goes
Even when I'm picking my nose

from "Sitting Here"

― Officer Pupp, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

+1 vote for Raw Ramp couplets.

― Moka, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago)

I am going to admit something potentially embarrassing here: Until two days ago, I never knew that a ramp was a kind of wild leek. Some friends took me out to a very nice dinner at a place I could never afford on my own, and something on the menu was prepared with ramps. I asked what it was, and they explained it, and I immediately thought to myself, "Ah, so that is where 'Raw Ramp' comes from!" And I almost interrupted the conversation to explain my realization to my friends, which would have been a mistake, since this is not an interesting story.

I always pictured a freeway on-ramp when he sang that line, which from Bolan seemed OK.

― Mark, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago)

xpost: lol also thought he was singing about road ramps. The line still doesn't really make sense to me though... why would you call anyone a raw leek?

― Moka, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 06:16 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

I want to give every childe
The chance to dance
I want to spread my feet
In the silver heat
I want to give every man
A kingdom fair
To hide inside
His golden hair
I want to give every face
A secret place
Where to take their tears
So there's no disgrace
I want to give every childe
The chance to dance.

― glengarry glen "ross from friends" (s1ocki), Saturday, 25 September 2010 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

she puts me in the can and smiles through the wall
i got the horror's cos i'm one inch tall

next thing i know's a girl by my side
dressed in a bayleaf she's trying to hide

^ most of this song tbh

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago)

A+ forever, both those posts.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 September 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago)

You can shake your torpedoes
You can shoot your gun
You can mix your martinis
From the blood of the sun

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 25 September 2010 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

can't believe i never posted that one before, it's only like my favorite

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 25 September 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago)

yum - bloody suntini

― glengarry glen "ross from friends" (s1ocki), Saturday, 25 September 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

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