Best Marc Bolan/ T. Rex couplet(s)

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Beneath the bebop moon I'm howling like a loon for you --Mambo Sun (Electric Warrior)

― Mary, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ain't no square in my corkscrew hair. - Telegram Sam

― Dave225, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"What's it like to be a loon? I liken it to a ballon." Well, it's not the best, but it's my favorite right now.

Best is probably "I drive a rolls royce/Cause it's good for my voice".

― Arthur, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Balloon! Balloon! I liken it to a BALLOON!

― Arthur, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Always thought that line was a bit odd. ;-)

"20th century boy/I wanna be YOUR TOY!" -- from you know where. More the way it's sung than anything else.

"Hey little punk/forget all that junk" -- from "Celebrate Summer." It's so sweet and innocent, sorta.

"John Lennon knows your name/And I've seen his" -- "Ballrooms of Mars," The Slider -- not strictly speaking a couplet, but who cares? ;-)

"Rocking in the nude/I'm feeling such a dude" -- "Rip-Off," Electric Warrior -- it doesn't get any more joyously ridiculous. Lenny Kravitz would kill for those lines.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Just like a car/ You're pleasing to behold/ I'll call you Jaguar/ If I may be so bold/

--Jeepster

― Mary, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― Paul R, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For shame how could you forget the rhyming of

"Oh Debera/ you look like a zebera"

I bet he know some hippie chick called Debera who he fancied.

― Winkelmann, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The new Supergrass single sounds EXACTLY like T-Rex...weird...

― Andrew L, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"baby I've got metal knees ooh/lady I'm beggin' of you please"
and
"baby you think you're a champ but/girl you ain't nothing' but a raw ramp"

both from "Raw Ramp"
loon/balloon probably his best ever, tho

― Paul, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

err, ...nuthin'
(teach me to copy off the net)

― Paul, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The new Supergrass single sounds EXACTLY like T- Rex...weird... -- Andrew L (andrewlittlefield@hotmail.com), August 02, 2002.

Supergrass is now recording in Paris at Studio Tricatel, will be interesting to see how this affects their T. Rex leanings...

― Mary, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

five months pass...

"with my les paul/i know i'm small"

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 10 January 2003 05:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Slide so sleek with skin so fair/you shine like a snare with a bear in your hair"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Bopping down by the whirlpool
I met a girl she was god's tool'
(Beltane Walk)

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 10 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have never never kissed
A car before It's like a door
I have always always
Grown my own before
All schools are strange
And when I'm sad
I slide

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

---The Slider

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

the lyrics in that are pretty good, "i could never never see the cosmic sea is like a bumblebee".??

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got a powder-keg leg
And my wig's all pooped for you

-mambo sun

― nick ring (nick ring), Saturday, 11 January 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Belinda Mae Fender's got a cadillac bone,
Janie lost her cherry walking on the way home."
...just one of my favorites

― conesuela jones, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i wanna call ya
i wanna ball ya"

i always laugh at this.

― gygax!, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmm - spot the fake!

― Bishop Beesley, Thursday, 23 January 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

S-P-A-C-E
that spells space, baby!

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 23 January 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

you know, I just couldn't spot the fake here. I realize, though, that I have to figure out a way to listen so that I can tell what he's singing, because I am sure missing out.

― tom (alternate), Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...

I am Sam/Sam I am

― rumple, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Telegram Sam, of course.

did the good Dr. and Marc ever 'jam'?

― rumple., Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is Murdock indie?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Automatic shoes
Automatic shoes
Give me three D vision
And the California blues

Telegram Sam, again. It almost seems like he wrote that song with this thread in mind.

― Chesnick, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

Why do I keep forgetting the brilliance of this line?

Lithon the black
The rider of stars
Tyrannosaurus Rex
The eater of cars

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"I wanna call ya/I wanna ball ya" OTM

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

She puts me in the can
And smiles through the wall
I got the horror's cos I'm one inch tall

One Inch Rock!

― mnm, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Haha! Love the "I Wanna Call Ya! I Wanna Ball Ya! Aw-haw-all night lo-oo-oong!," bit! Classic cheese and classic sleeze! No-one ever did it better or worse! Eat your heart out mid-eighties buttrock!
But,,no-one mentioned:

"Girl I'm just a vampire for your lu-u-uv. An I'm gonna Suck ya!"
-Jeepster. Love it! Love it! Classic no-brain rock n roll soul.

― Dan C., Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean

and

The curfew comes at the crack of night
The sad old wino aches to disipate the fright
A jet-jump jiver speeds past in his machine

Whatever happened to the teenage dream? Probably his best lyric, apart from maybe Dandy in the underworld.

― ant, Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I only recently discovered this magnificent example, from "Sitting Here":

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

― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

organ blues (which i only know by the cover version by Shadow Government), but i love this line:

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

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

You move on up, you move on back
Your laser love is like a heart attaaaaack!

― frozen cookie (Abbott), Friday, 21 May 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Girl I'm just a vampire for your love
And I'm coming to SUCK you! *hiss*

― frozen cookie (Abbott), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Now I'm poppin' a few
In the morning dew

― a more happy, spress-free life (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 May 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link

wait wait wait ... I *know* I posted on a thread like this, there must be two of them

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link

hm ok there was this one

I could have loved you girl like a planet...

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link

On a mountain range
I'm Doctor Strange

― ljagljana (kkvgz), Saturday, 22 May 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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