| Favourite lyric 20:17 - Mar 6 with 5962 views | Coastalblue |
Anybody have some personal favourites? I have a few I like, witty, poignant, funny etc.
A couple of my favourites.
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here
and
And I guess it's all true what your girlfriends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
followed by
I see you've sent my letters back
And my L.P. records and they're all scratched
Editted fir speeling [Post edited 6 Mar 2023 20:39]
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| Favourite lyric on 20:30 - Mar 6 with 3107 views | Swansea_Blue |
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
I always saw this as us being the pineapple, always pushed and battling against the constraints of life (need to escape the branches of the tree), but only able to do so with caffeine stimulus via the exploitation of 3rd world workers on coffee plantations. Black Lace are deeper than people think.
PS. Scary, just seen Keno’s post entitled aga do do - I hadn’t seen it before this. Must be another sign. [Post edited 6 Mar 2023 20:33]
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| Favourite lyric on 20:31 - Mar 6 with 3115 views | Illinoisblue |
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude.
And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling |  |
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| Classic.... on 20:32 - Mar 6 with 3103 views | Bloots |
Run for the sun, little one
You're an outlaw once again
Time to change, Superman
He'll be with us while he can
In the land of make believe |  |
| "He's been a really positive influence on my life, I think he's a great man" - TWTD User (May 2025) |
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| Favourite lyric on 20:38 - Mar 6 with 3068 views | Coastalblue |
| Favourite lyric on 20:31 - Mar 6 by Illinoisblue |
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude.
And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling |
Some of the Squeeze lyrics are amazing, all the more so because they tend to be wrapped up in almost throwaway humour. That's one of my personal favourites too. | |
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| Favourite lyric on 20:38 - Mar 6 with 3067 views | iamatractorboy |
A call girl with yesterday eyes
Was our witness and priest
Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir
Your vow was your smile
As we move down the aisle
Of the last bus home
And this is where I go
Just when it rains |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 20:44 - Mar 6 with 3037 views | gtsb1966 |
I wait here in this hole
Playing poker with my soul
I hold the rifle close to me
It lights the way to keep me free
If I die in a combat zone
Box me up and ship me home
If I die and still come home
Lay me where the rose is sown |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 20:49 - Mar 6 with 3022 views | Rozz |
"When the heat starts growing horns,
She's thunderstorms." |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 20:58 - Mar 6 with 3004 views | thebooks |
The spare room is fine
Though a little haunted
By Mr. Reagan who had hung himself at number 13
Mr. Reagan hung himself at number 13
It'll be great when it's decorated
My new house
You should see my new house |  | | |
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| Favourite lyric on 21:01 - Mar 6 with 2996 views | BrianTablet |
Rainy Night In Soho by The Pogues:
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song?
To all those little girls and boys
Very simple, but in the context of that song, it gets me right in the heart. |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 21:02 - Mar 6 with 2992 views | Plums |
When I had my loft
Converted back into a loft
The neighbours came around and scoffed
And called me retro |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 21:06 - Mar 6 with 2975 views | MattinLondon |
‘Time for Heros’ by The Libertines contains some great lyrics but the following are my favourite
There's fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Also ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ is also remarkably honest - also by The Libertines.
An ending fitting for the start
You twist and tore our love apart
Your light fingers threw the dark
Shattered the lamp and into darkness it cast us
No, you've got it the wrong way round
You shut me up, and blamed it on the brown
Cornered the boy, kicked out at the world
The world kicked back a lot f***in' harder now |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 21:18 - Mar 6 with 2909 views | DropCliffsNotBombs |
You said, "Send me stationary to make me horny"
So I always write you letters in multicolours
Decorating envelopes for foreplay
Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away
On the back of a natural disaster
Fixed with parcel tape and with kids sticking plasters
Nothing says "I miss you" quite like
War poetry carved in your door with a Stanley knife. |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 21:20 - Mar 6 with 2900 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
But I got right up between her
Rum and her Ribena |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 21:25 - Mar 6 with 2881 views | Keno |
Johnny Hates Jazz lyric
Lying here in silence
Picture in my hand
Of a boy I still resemble
But I no longer understand
That just about sums me up!!! |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 21:53 - Mar 6 with 2815 views | ParisBlue |
You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
Forgotten Sons
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost
For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons
Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child
Just another Forgotten Son |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 22:00 - Mar 6 with 2806 views | DJR |
When You're Young by the Jam has some great lyrics including the following (and especially the words "the world is your oyster but your future's a clam".
"You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young
You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone
No corporations for the new age sons
Tears of rage roll down your face
But still you say "it's fun"
And you find out life isn't like that
It's so hard to understand
Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam
It's got you in its grip before you're born
It's done with the use of a dice and a board
They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn."
I also liked the directness of the opening lines to their song Time for Truth, which appealed to me as a quasi-rebellious 17 year old struggling against the conformity expected of me.
"Whatcha trying to say that
You haven't tried to say before?
You're just another red balloon with a lot of hot gas
Why don't ya f**k off?" [Post edited 6 Mar 2023 22:01]
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| Favourite lyric on 22:04 - Mar 6 with 2802 views | Steve_M |
If good song-writing tells a story then the first verse sets the scene:
The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch, as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that’s me and I want you only |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 22:06 - Mar 6 with 2785 views | Coastalblue |
| Favourite lyric on 22:00 - Mar 6 by DJR |
When You're Young by the Jam has some great lyrics including the following (and especially the words "the world is your oyster but your future's a clam".
"You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young
You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone
No corporations for the new age sons
Tears of rage roll down your face
But still you say "it's fun"
And you find out life isn't like that
It's so hard to understand
Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam
It's got you in its grip before you're born
It's done with the use of a dice and a board
They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn."
I also liked the directness of the opening lines to their song Time for Truth, which appealed to me as a quasi-rebellious 17 year old struggling against the conformity expected of me.
"Whatcha trying to say that
You haven't tried to say before?
You're just another red balloon with a lot of hot gas
Why don't ya f**k off?" [Post edited 6 Mar 2023 22:01]
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Weller at his best is quite the wordsmith, has the same sort of quality that Difford has with Squeeze, but a fair bit more gritty. I always thought A Town Called malice was a work of wonder lyrically. | |
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| Favourite lyric on 22:35 - Mar 6 with 2731 views | thecheek |
"So, then, what becomes of the inhabitants
Of this once-unstoppable isle
When all of its exports are no longer in style?
Are you seriously still tryna kid me
That our culture will be just fine
When all that's left is nobheads morris dancing
To sham 69?" |  | | |
| Favourite lyric on 22:55 - Mar 6 with 2696 views | Guthrum |
"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired"
Ozzy Osbourne I Just Want You
"The wind was raging, and the stars were black
We all knew there was no turning back
The gates of Hell stared in our face
Nowhere to hide in this wasted space"
Hawkwind Night Of The Hawk
"No man is an island
No man is an island
He's a peninsula"
Jefferson Airplane A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 23:08 - Mar 6 with 2647 views | Zx1988 |
"I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them, but they were only satellites.
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care." | |
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| Favourite lyric on 23:15 - Mar 6 with 2634 views | SlippinJimmyJuan |
Floyd have got some incredible lyrics haven't they. Hard to pick a favourite from just Wish You Were Here, not to mention Time and Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Away from that, the one that hits me hardest is probably this from Joy Division:
Someone take these dreams away
That point me to another day
A duel of personalities
That stretch all true realities
I'll give an honourable mention to Father John Misty for making me laugh with both:
Bedding Taylor Swift
Every night inside the Oculus Rift
and
She says, like literally
Music is the air she breathes
And the malaprops make me want to f***ing scream | |
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| Favourite lyric on 23:22 - Mar 6 with 2626 views | clive_baker |
Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying
Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum
The real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday
Sunscreen - Baz Luhrmann |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 23:40 - Mar 6 with 2604 views | Whos_blue |
You hold the gun and I hold the wound.
We stand looking in each others eyes.
Both think we know what's right, both know we know what's wrong, but we tell ourselves so many many lies.
We're not pawns in any game, we're not tools of bigger men.
There's only one who can really move us all.
It all looks fine to the naked eye, but it don't really happen that way all.
Naked Eye - The Who.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
Pure and easy - The Who
But my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be.
I have hours, only lonely.
My love is vengeance, that's never free.
Behind blue eyes - The Who |  |
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| Favourite lyric on 08:54 - Mar 7 with 2374 views | SaleAway |
| Favourite lyric on 23:40 - Mar 6 by Whos_blue |
You hold the gun and I hold the wound.
We stand looking in each others eyes.
Both think we know what's right, both know we know what's wrong, but we tell ourselves so many many lies.
We're not pawns in any game, we're not tools of bigger men.
There's only one who can really move us all.
It all looks fine to the naked eye, but it don't really happen that way all.
Naked Eye - The Who.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
Pure and easy - The Who
But my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be.
I have hours, only lonely.
My love is vengeance, that's never free.
Behind blue eyes - The Who |
Wannabes and losers all trying to get a break
They don't give a damn they'll do whatever it takes
If they climb the ladder they get to play for higher stakes
That's why there's low life in high places
Mama things have changed since you were young
When you scream in the dead of night
Now no one ever comes
And the poor man, he's cast as the villain and the thief
See him down on the street begging for enough to eat | |
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