Favourite Lyric

[miserableoldgit]

genius song, genius lyric.

 

I particularly like this one from the Oysterband:

Lyrics to Here comes the flood :

factories in the phillipines,

cutting holes in brand new jeans,

for cutting edge consumers,

rich kids in the west you see,

they have no sense of irony,

and i'm losing my sense of humour,

all across the moonlit sky,

vapour trails multiply, trade winds are getting stronger,

while he says she has to chill,

they bring us apples from brazil,

new diseases from the congo,

 

(chorus)

i havent prayed since god knows when,

my teeth are un-american,

socialism's orphan child,

unimpressed, unreconciled

some people think im crazy.... but im not

here comes the flood x 2

 

a million tv dishes crown the skyline of shanty town,

everywhere our apsiration,

the word from cnn arives,

we watched the headlines of our lives,

each movement in isolation,

the cool blue line of isolation...

 

(chorus)

democracy for planet earth,

they roll it out like astroturf,

easy men theyre all in a hurry,

so you can wear a stupid grin,

watch em roll the bankers in,

only the bad guys amongst us need to worry......

 

Also great:

 

Man in the Corner shop by the Jam

 

and The Colours by Hampshire's finest, The Men They Couldn't Hang.

 

Absolutely love Oysterband. Get to see them as often as possible. So many of there song could fit in this thread.

 

One of my favourite lyrics/song is "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. Written for a girlfriend who was a ballet dancer who died:-

Jackson Browne For A Dancer Lyrics

 

Keep a fire burning in your eye

Pay attention to the open sky

You never know what will be coming down

I don't remember losing track of you

You were always dancing in and out of view

I must have thought you'd always be around

Always keeping things real by playing the clown

Now you're nowhere to be found

 

I don't know what happens when people die

Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try

It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear

That I can't sing

I can't help listening

And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round

Crying as they ease you down

'cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing

Dancing our sorrow away

(right on dancing)

No matter what fate chooses to play

(there's nothing you can do about it anyway)

 

Just do the steps that you've been shown

By everyone you've ever known

Until the dance becomes your very own

No matter how close to yours

Another's steps have grown

In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

 

Keep a fire for the human race

Let your prayers go drifting into space

You never know what will be coming down

Perhaps a better world is drawing near

And just as easily it could all disappear

Along with whatever meaning you might have found

Don't let the uncertainty turn you around

(the world keeps turning around and around)

Go on and make a joyful sound

 

Into a dancer you have grown

From a seed somebody else has thrown

Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own

And somewhere between the time you arrive

And the time you go

May lie a reason you were alive

But you'll never know

 

[Dimond Geezer]

 

What's that from Gemmel?

 

I don't think Gemmel got back to you, they're from Down In The Tube Station by The Jam, as Gemmel said - pure gold.

Here's the rest of them:

 

The distant echo -

of faraway voices boarding faraway trains

To take them home to

the ones that they love and who love them forever

The glazed, dirty stepsrepeat my own and reflect my thoughts

Cold and uninviting, partially naked

Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's paper

Mr. Jones got run down

Headlines of death and sorrowthey tell of tomorrow

Madmen on the rampage

And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

 

I fumble for changeand pull out the Queen

Smiling, beguiling

I put in the money and pull out a plum

Behind me

Whispers in the shadowsgruff blazing voices

Hating, waiting

"Hey boy" they shout"have you got any money?"

And I said"I've a little money and a take away curry,

I'm on my way home to my wife.

She'll be lining up the cutlery,

You know she's expecting me

Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"

And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

 

I first felt a fist, and then a kick

I could now smell their breath

They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs

And too many right wing meetings

My life swam around me

It took a look and drowned me in its own existence

It blended in with the weather

It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth

It blocked all my senses

Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer

And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I said I was down in the tube station at midnight

 

The last thing that I saw

As I lay there on the floor

Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter

And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awaydaya cheap holiday -

Do it today!"

I glanced back on my life

And thought about my wife

'Cause they took the keysand she'll think it's me

And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold

I'm down in the tube station at midnight

Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight

Edited 3 February, 2012 by Dimond Geezer

[Dimond Geezer]

Death On Two Legs by Queen (about their previous manager)

 

You suck my blood like a leech

You break the law and you preach

Screw my brain till it hurts

You've taken all my money

And you want more

Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules

With your narrow minded cronies

Who are fools of the first division

Death on two legs

You're tearing me apart

Death on two legs

You've never had a heart of your own

Kill joy bad guy big talking small fry

You're just an old barrow boy

Have you found a new toy to replace me?

Can you face me?

But now you can kiss my ass goodbye

Feel good are you satisfied?

Do you feel like suicide?

(I think you should)

Is your conscience all right

Does it plague you at night?

Do you feel good feel good?

 

You talk like a big business tycoon

You're just a hot air balloon

So no one gives you a damn

You're just an overgrown schoolboy

Let me tan your hide

A dog with disease

You're the king of the sleaze

Put your money where your mouth is

Mister know-all

Was the fin on your back

Part of the deal? (shark)

Death on two legs

You're tearing me apart

Death on two legs

You've never had a heart (you never did) of your own

(right from the start)

Insane you should be put inside

You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride

Should be made unemployed

Then make yourself null and void

Make me feel good I feel good

[saint_bert]

Revere...reverend

Is this some conspiracy?

Crucified for no sins

An image beneath me

Lost within our plans for life

It all seems so unreal

I'm a man cut in half in this world

Left in my misery...

 

The reverend he turned to me

Without a tear in his eyes

It's nothing new for him to see

I didn't ask him why

I will remember

The love our souls had

Sworn to make

Now I watch the falling rain

All my mind can see

Now is your (face)

 

Well I guess

You took my youth

And gave it all away

Like the birth of a

New-found joy

This love will end in rage

And when she died

I couldn't cry

The pride within my soul

You left me incomplete

All alone as the memories now unfold.

 

Believe the word

I will unlock my door

And pass the

Cemetery gates

 

Sometimes when I'm alone

I wonder aloud

If you're watching over me

Some place far abound

I must reverse my life

I can't live in the past

Then set my soul free

Belong to me at last

 

Through all those

Complex years

I thought I was alone

I didn't care to look around

And make this world my own

And when she died

I should've cried and spared myself some pain....

You left me incomplete

All alone as the memories still remain

 

The way we were

The chance to save my soul

And my concern is now in vain

Believe the word

I will unlock my door

And pass the

Cemetery gates

 

The way we were

The chance to save my soul

And my concern is now in vain

Believe the word

I will unlock my door

And pass the Cemetery Gates

[Punk]

To live your life in these crowed streets

With mirrored people that you meet

No good reason to stay the same

Cattle just afraid to stray

 

You can't be what you want to be

They won't let you go oh can't you see

You have to be you and not like them

Cos their sorry lives are all pretend

[Dr Who?]

Woomp there it is.

[Dr Who?]

I want to rock right now, I'm not internationally known, but I'm known to rock a microphone. I ain't stupid, or outrageous stay away from me if your contagious. It takes two to make a thing go right, it takes two to make it out of sight.

[johnnyboy]

Never thought of Hades under the Mississippi

But still I've come for to sing for him

So southern furies prepare to walk

For my harp I have strung and I will leave with him

 

Relax the cogs of rhyme

Over the Memphis sky

Turn back the wheels of time

Under the Memphis skyline

 

Always hated him for the way he looked in the gaslight of the morning

Then came Hallelujah sounding like mad Ophelia for me in my room living

 

So kiss me my darling

Stay with me till morning

Turn back and you will stay

Under the Memphis Skyline

[RonManager]

I'm the urban space man, baby; I've got speed

I've got everything I need

I'm the urban spaceman, baby; I can fly

I'm a supersonic guy

 

I don't need pleasure

I don't feel pain

If you were to knock me down I'd just get up again

I'm the urban spaceman, baby; I'm makin' out

I'm all about

 

I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face

My natural exuberance spills out all over the place

 

I'm the urban spaceman, I'm intelligent and clean

Know what I mean?

I'm the urban spaceman, as a lover second to none

It's a lot of fun

 

I never let my friends down

I've never made a boob

I'm a glossy magazine, an advert in the tube

 

I'm the urban spaceman, baby; here comes the twist--

I don't exist

[Ampersound]

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

And I thought of ma and I wanted to go back there

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

 

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts alot

Five years, that's all we've got

[Ric]

Going for the short option, I'll pick just a line from a song - how about a little bit of Madness:

 

"I'm as honest as the day is long... the longer the daylight, the less I do wrong"