sandwer Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 What is the cleverest or most admired lyric you have heard in a song? I've just been struck by : "How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?" Billy Bragg - Greetings to the new brunette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 "Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death". Annie Lennox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibs Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 "Your Mother's Got a Penis" Goldie Lookin' Chain. Quote 88 Esprit NA, 89 Esprit Turbo SE, Evora, Evora S, Evora IPS, Evora S IPS, Evora S IPS SR, Evora 400, Elise S1, Elise S1 111s, Evora GT410 Sport Evora NA For forum issues, please contact the Moderators. I will aim to respond to emails/PM's Mon-Fri 9-6 GMT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Munday Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 "When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night, then your the oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock 1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matk Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Anything by Ian Drury. Quote Regards Mat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted April 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Anything by Ian Drury. <claps hands over mouth> Played the side 2 of New Boots and Panties at full blast the day I got it, thinking my Mum was out....I didn't hear the key in the door just before 'Plaistow Patricia' started... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmavore Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 I'm always hoping you'll be faithful But you're not, I suppose We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal So whose matches are those? Quote Luke Colorado, Super Spy. - Lotus Owner No Longer 1987 Zender Widebody 560SEC | 1994 Lotus Esprit S4 | 2013 Honda Fit EV (#269) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gghc87 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Anything by Ian Drury. hit me, hit me Quote Cliff Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. : Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 I LOOK PRETTY YOUNG BUT I 'M JUST BACKDATED YEAH PETE TOWNSHEND Quote hindsight: the science that is never wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitz Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 True Faith '87 by New Order. (goes to dig out New Order double album) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backmarker Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 This is England This knife of Sheffield steel This is England This is how we feel The Clash Quote Wing Commander Dibble DFC<br /><br /> North Midlands Esprit Group<br /><br />NMEG "the formidable squadron"<br /><br /> "probably the most active Esprit group in the world" Andy Betts, Castle Combe May 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrg_machine Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Oh! bold Sir John was young and fair, And bold Sir John was gay. He said, "I'll tread the morning dew, To take the air and listen to The twittering of the birds all day, The bumblebees at play, The twit, the twit, the twit, the twit, the twittering of the birds all day, The bum, the bum, the bum, the bum, the bumblebees at play." The Two Ronnies Quote Jez Mean Green S4s I think therefore I am - Descartes I'm pink therefore I'm spam - Eric Idle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73JPS Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 "So, you're the lawyer's wife... How's life on Lakeshore Road?"and, "F**k all that, we gotta get on with these... Gotta compete with the wiley Japanese There's too many home fires burning, and not enough trees" Quote "At home, I have a King Sized bed. Now, I don't know any Kings, but I would imagine if one were to come over, he would be comfortable." -Mitch Hedberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 A nod to luke's pet shop boys... But as a smiths fan, most other stuff seems lyrically infantile to me. You need people lke Bragg and Morrissey writing lyrics instead of fishing for a ryhme. As a side note, i think the Beatles and Paul Mccartney wrote the most mindless, meaningless (for the sake of a cheap singalong rhyme) and cringeworthy lyrics ever put down on vinyl. But, that short arsed moron midget 'Prince' who has to ruin everything he has ever recorded by having a wailing orgasm in the middle of every track (alphabet street, the wan*er), really bigged out with this: "My name is Prince and I am funky When it come to funk I am a junky" Cock, but not as big a cock as the poeple that bought his records. I mean for f****s sake, why not just ram pencils into you eardrums and shred your money instead, Please. Neneh Cherry went to the same 'song ruining school' as prince, it was like, yeah, buffalo stance, great song Neneh, please don't, oh go please don't, oh god no!!!! Yep, another crap rap in the middle of everything she has ever done. People that enjoy the utterings of Coldplay and the chuffing Lighthouse family truely deserve an instant death sentence without trial. Stop me if i'm being too harsh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrol feet driven Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Well, Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die, I'm a little bit scared of what comes after Do I get the gold chariot? Do I float through the ceiling? by Brand new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73JPS Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Too funny ... what Paul C said, that is. Quote "At home, I have a King Sized bed. Now, I don't know any Kings, but I would imagine if one were to come over, he would be comfortable." -Mitch Hedberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Yeah I'm sorry, I can't afford a Ferrari, But that don't mean I can't get you there. I guess he's an Xbox, and I'm more Atari, But the way you play your game ain't fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iconic Ride Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone Would like to have posted up the whole song, but don't want to be greedy. Decades later, I'm stlll trying to fathom some of the meanings (on the assumption that they're there to be found) of this haunting classic. Quote Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veg Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Aw c'mon Paul; stop sugar-coating it and tell us how you really feel. Quote "If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's electrical." -somebody's dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Munday Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things that make it look good I'd give it to you if I could... but I borrowed it Syd Barrett Pink Floyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) Believe it or not: Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men Who need more than they get Daylight deals a bad hand to a woman Who had laid too many bets ....comes from Boogie wonderland. Edited April 16, 2011 by Paul C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1 RMA Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Not sure if anyone on here is a fan of John Cooper Clarke but the lyrics to 'readers wives' is his usual wicked witty stuff with a great bit of guitar solo from Bill Nelson at the end. Seen him live several times first with more or less the Buzzcocks as his backing band then a few times as a solo performer. There is also the very dark Beasley Street which has some memorable lyrics throughout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Fleetcroft Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Rhyming 'company' with 'Serengeti', Toto, Africa; pure genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basalte Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 The world is your oyster but the future`s a clam. Paul Weller, The Jam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonb Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Billy Bragg again My friend said she could see no way ahead And I was probably better off without you She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back And she could make me happy like you used to But I'm sorry to say I turned her away Knowing everything she said was true And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do Poly Styrene I know you're antiseptic Your deodorant smells nice I'd like to get to know you But you're deep frozen like the ice and a bit of Weller 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 steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts Cold and uninviting, partially naked Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's papers Mr. Jones got run down Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow Madmen on the rampage And I'm down in the tube station at midnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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