"THIS IS A HAPPY BEAT!"

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Please allow me to present the counter thread to fritz's 'lyrics full of melancholy', namely, which couplets/stanzas/lines jump out of a song and fill you joy?

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― JM, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh you got blue eyes oh you got green eyes oh you got grey eyes

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Coz the record company Rosie/THEY JUST GAVE ME A BIG ADVANCE!"

― JM, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A sign of terror, right there.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The early bird is waiting for the worm, and the worm is waiting for the bird.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm walkin' on sunshine, oh yeah, I'm walkin' on sunshine" (slinks away ashamedly)

― nickn, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

people of the world!!
every boy and every girl!!

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that bit in "editions of you" when Ferry goes "boys will be boys will be boy-oy-oy-oys!". Pretty joyful that one.

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the world is turning on!

― lawrence kansas, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Does your heart, Does your heart, Does your hear go boom?/Baby I love you/You make my heart go boom."

― Graham, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'the sun was hot, the day was long, the best day we'd had in ages' - kenickie

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

first verse of 'Just Like Heaven'

also: 'will you meet me down on a sandy beach...we could roll up our jeans, so the tide won't get us below the knees' - that one's a very quiet, subdued joy

― Ron, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'the sun was hot, the day was long, the best day we'd had in ages'

i actually find that line almost unbearably sad...

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i say I'm in love you best believe I'm in love L-U-V

― fritz, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"He's good/bad, but he's not evil" is even more titteringly wonderful.

I think the Shangri Las won the album that everyone agrees is wonderful thread which is of course WONDERFUL!

― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nah somehow mott the hoople won that. it was a scandal of competitive figure skating proportions.

― fritz, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not number one no i'm sorry I lied I'm numbers one two three four and five.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oh baby baby what can I do
You know you drive me crazy when I'm looking at you"

― Curt, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I had a shower / And then called my brother up"

― scott p., Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You think you're in love/like a bolt from ab-o-o-ove.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"i need someone to be around, cos I'm breakin' into life, somebody stop me, cos I'm lookin' for my, lookin' for my high" - supergrass

― dysign, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'the sun was hot, the day was long, the best day we'd had in ages' i actually find that line almost unbearably sad...

cool line, whats it from?

― kiwi, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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