Thread for gratuitous quoting of Lyrics That Mean Something To Us

The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud
Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a
Little girl

Yeah I recognize that girl
She stumbled in some time last loneliness
But I could not stand to touch her now
My one and onlyness.

Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

Worms make their cruel design
Saying d-i-e into her skin
Saying dead into belly and death into shoulder
Well last night she kissed me but than death was upon her.

Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods yeah
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

Now the killed waits for the killer
And the trees all nod their heads, they are agreed
This knife feels like a knife feels like a knife that feels like it’s feed.
Yeah I recognize that girl
I took her from rags right through to stitches (pray for me now)
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.

Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods yeah
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

Love is for fools and all fools are lovers
It’s raining on my house and none of the others
Love is for fools and God knows I’m still one
The sidewalks are full of love’s lonely children
The sidewalks are full of love’s lonely children
The sidewalks are full of love’s lonely children
The sidewalks are full of love’s ugly children
(oh baby let’s go, ah pray for me baby, pray for me baby)
The sidewalk regrets that we had to kill them
And

As this is my thread, obviously I have lots of them. But this one has gotten me every time I've heard it, for years now.

"Why do we still live here / In this repulsive town / All our friends are in New York"
(The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies)

She had the face of an angel,
Smilin' with sin,
The body of Venus with arms
Dealin' with danger,
Strokin' my skin,
Like a thunder and lightnin' storm
It wasn't the first,
Wasn't the last,
It wasn't that she didn't care
She wanted it hard,
Wanted it fast,
She liked it done medium-rare

Touch Too Much - AC/DC

He wages war with the devil
a pistol by his side
and though he chases him out windows
won't give him a place to hide
he keeps his door open wide
fighting him he lights a lamp inviting him
he's a bandit and a heartbreaker
oh, but Jesus was a crossmaker

Judee Sill - "Jesus Was a Crossmaker"

Go away now
Let me go
Are you stupid or just a little slow? ("Please fuck off")
Go away now
I've made myself clear ("I don't think so.")
No it's not gonna happen
Not in a million years
You can't knock 'em out
You can't walk away
Try desperately to think of the politest way to say
Just get out my face
Just leave me alone
And no you can't have me number
'Cause I've lost my phone

Help does not just walk up to you
I could have told you that
I'm not an idiot
I could have told you that
Every serpent's eye watches where you go
Every serpent's double tongue takes a turn with your soul
If you let him ring your bell
If you let him ring the bell
Ringing the bell
Ringing the bell
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure it out?
Everyone tells you that
Everyone tells you not to quit
I can't even see it
If it looks like I'm not trying
I don't care what it looks like
'Cus I stood at the altar
And everything turned white
All I heard was the sound
of the world coming down around me
All I heard was the sound
of the world coming down around me
Why wouldn't I be trying?
Why wouldn't I try?
Why wouldn't I try?
'Cus them double tongues are singing
Hear the wail of that choir through the phone
The double tongues are singing
I hear the wail of that choir through the phone
They're always close
They're always so close
If there's a way out it will be step by step through the black
If there's a way out it will be step by step through the black
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure it out?
Don't mean I'm not trying if I don't make it back
I know serpents will cross universes to circle around our necks
I know that hands will cross the universe to circle around our feet
They're always close
Always so close
Step by step
One's beside me
to kill me
or to guide me
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure which one out?
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure which one out?

I was thinking about starting a commiseration thread on ILE because I'm in love with someone who can't/won't love me back, but this thread will have to do

(Songs:Ohia - Ring the Bell)

a not surprising lyric:

ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?
we all sit here stranded, but we all do our best to deny it
- bob dylan, "visions of johanna"

our band could be your life
real names'll be proof
me and d boon's played for years
but punk rock changed our life
we learned punk rock in hollywood
drove up from pedro
we were fucking corndogs
we'd go drink and pogo
mr narrator, this is bob dylan to me!
my story could be his songs
i'm his solider child
our band is scientist rock
but i was e bloom
then joe strummer, john doe
me and d boon, playing guitar

this gets me on multiple levels - the literal, tragic friendship of mike watt and d boon, then being kids playing and listening to music and being totally uncool.

they're corny, but whatevs - i am using the license to be emo:

Well, I feel
Like I have to feel
Something good all of the time
With most of life I cannot deal
But a good feeling I can feel
Even though it may not be real
And if a person, place or thing can deliver
I will quiver with delight
But will it last me for all my life
Or just one more lonely night

The lust, the flesh
The eyes
And the pride of life
Drain the life
Right out of me

Well, I see something and I want it
Bam! Right now!
No questions asked
Don't worry how much it costs me now or later
I want it and I want it fast
I'll go to any length
Sacrifice all that I already have
And all that I might get
Just to get
Something more that I don't need
And Lord, please don't ask me what for

The lust, the flesh
The eyes
And the pride of life
Drain the life
Right out of me

And I love when folks
Look right at me
And what I'm doing
Or have done
And lay it on about
How groovy I am
And that I'm looking grand
And every single word
Makes me think I'll live forever
Never knowing that they probably
Won't remember what they said tomorrow
Tomorrow I could be dead

The lust, the flesh
The eyes
And the pride of life
Drain the life
Right out of me

you won't be happy with me/but give me one more chance/you won't be happy anyway

"hey coffee eyes/you've got me coughing up my cookie heart" genius!

"I've got six things on my mind
you're no longer one of them"

(Prefab Sprout - "Desire As")

"Don't take yourself too seriously
There are precious few things worth hating nowadays,
And none of them are me"

(Todd Rundgren - "Chain Letter")

"Back on the farm, back on the farm
With your holy handle, your mantrap mantra,
Your anti-aircraft alarm,
Your spineless mass and your spineless man.
This is the Hate Socialist Collective,
All mental health corrected."

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard
First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart

also all of "Maladjusted" by Morrissey.

Six months in a St. Florian foundry, they call it Industrial Park.
Then hospital maintenance and Tech School just to memorize Frigidaire parts.
But I got to missing your Mama and I got to missing you too.
So I went back to painting for my old man and I guess that’s what I’ll always do

So don’t try to change who you are boy, and don’t try to be who you ain’t.
And don’t let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-man’s paint.

Don’t call what your wearing an outfit. Don’t ever say your car is broke.
Don’t sing with a fake British accent. Don’t act like your family’s a joke.
Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister’s birthday.
Don’t tell them you’re bigger than Jesus, Don’t give it away.

Also ...

hats the way it goes
This city is so cold
And I'm, I'm so slow
That's why I know

I say hit it
Born to lose
Born to lose
Born to lose
Baby I'm born to lose

Nothing to do
Nothing to say
Only one thing that I want
It's the only way

I say hit it
Born to lose
Born to lose
Born to lose
Baby I'm born to lose (2x)

Living in a jungle
It ain't so hard
Living in the city
It will eat out your heart

Born to lose (3x)
Baby I'm born to lose (4x)