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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: redsock on September 05, 2004, 05:07:00 pm
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We are doing some stuff involving lyrics on BY, and i was hoping you all could come up with some of your favorite lines from songs...
I'll leave the rest to your imaginations.
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he was a skater boy, so see you later boy
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Oh, you silly thing, you've really gone and done it now.
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if there's a problem, yo! i'll solve it
check out the hook as my dj revolves it.............
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"It would take a gunshot just to clear your head awhile"
from Innocence by Kirsty MacColl
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"Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense"
Hanger 18 - Megadeth
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I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
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You say that every thing sounds the same
Then you go buy them!
There's no excuses my friend
Let's push things forward
Gangsta rap?
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You are not what you own
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Bury your heart US of A
History rears up to spit in your face
You took what you wanted
You took what you saw
We know how you got it
Your method equals
Wipe out...
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My head is cold My hands are cold My heart is cold My heart is black.
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
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If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,
don't be alarmed now.
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen.
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Any of those post-9/11 country songs are great. There's one that rhymes "Bin Laden" with "Have you forgotten". And the one about "putting a boot up your ass..its the American way. " Anytime I pass those on the radio, Im mesmerized like a mosquito to a light.
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"stan" parody by jimmy kimmel
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"I've sired now I'm tired
and I wanna to go to
sleep". - "Sheep" The
Sugarplastic
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See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez
I can't find my knees"
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Right about now NWA court is in full effect.
Judge Dre presiding in the case of NWA versus the police department.
Prosecuting attourneys are MC Ren Ice Cube and Eazy muthafuckin E.
Order order order. Ice Cube take the muthafuckin stand.
Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth
and nothin but the truth so help your black ass?
Why don't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
Fuck tha police
Comin straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, cuz I ain't tha one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin on, and throwin in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin with me cuz I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin my car, lookin for the product
Thinkin every nigga is sellin narcotics
You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo rollin in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still can't swallow bread and water
I don't know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none
But don't let it be a black and a white one
Cuz they slam ya down to the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop
Ice Cube will swarm
On any muthafucka in a blue uniform
Just cuz I'm from the CPT, punk police are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in LA
Yo Dre, I got somethin to say
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
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Some of you have included it... not to be a pain, but could we get the artist and song title.
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Um, this if for what? And why are you referring to yourself as "we?"
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Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi
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Originally posted by pollard:
Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi
Obsessed?
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B. Dylan. Actually, almost any line from this song could make the "interesting lyrics" shortlist. Visons of Johanna (http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/visionjo.html)
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Obsessed?
nope, markie is obsessed with her, was just making sure redsock knew the artist and song that these wonderful lyrics came from
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Billy Bragg -- A New England
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Obsessed?
nope, markie is obsessed with her, was just making sure redsock knew the artist and song that these wonderful lyrics came from [/b]
Ahhh...
So it was his sk8teboard that he fell off of and not his bike as he claims.
Gottcha. ;)
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Fugazi -- Merchandise
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
You are not what you own
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There is no mercy
For those who have ability
And don't use it
Just waste it
Black Uhuru -- Happiness
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Well, my adrenaline was curdling like cream
As I was being led by the hand
Through the sound of sirens
And the distant noise of some drunken jazz band
Through the stench of disinfectant
That infected my head
Through the darkness of a corridor
And into a strangers bed
The Band, take a load (of Fanny.)
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Fugazi - Smallpox Champion
Originally posted by econo:
Bury your heart US of A
History rears up to spit in your face
You took what you wanted
You took what you saw
We know how you got it
Your method equals
Wipe out...
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Streets - Let's Push Things Forward
Originally posted by econo:
You say that every thing sounds the same
Then you go buy them!
There's no excuses my friend
Let's push things forward
Gangsta rap?
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She got lips all around the hole
Where she puts her food in
They call it THE MOUTH
Charlie's Enormous Mouth: Frank Zappa
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This world is full of people who
Look a lot like Gavin McCloud
Nitro Burning Funny Cars: Dead Milkmen
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I said, 'Honey, I don't feel so good, don't feel justified
Come on put a little love here in my void,' he said
'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything'
But he didn't get it I thought he was a man
But he was just a little boy
madonna -vogue
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There were six men in Birmingham
In Guildford there's four
That were picked up and tortured
And framed by the law
And the filth got promotion
But they're still doing time
For being Irish in the wrong place
And at the wrong time
The Pogues - Streets Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
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This World Over - XTC
That's this world over
Or so it seems
That's this world over
The end of dreams
That's this world over, over, over and out.
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Originally posted by Liberte:
B. Dylan. Actually, almost any line from this song could make the "interesting lyrics" shortlist. Visons of Johanna (http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/visionjo.html)
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face"
is my all-time favorite Dylan lyric.
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ooh, ooh, can I play
"When you cast your eyes upon the skyline
of this once proud nation
can you sense the fear and the hatred
growing in the hearts of its population"
The The 'The Beaten Generation'
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I hate the countryside so much
I hate the countryfolk so much
The Fall - Contraflow
just discovered the second line is actually
I hate the contraflow so much
but even the place I found the lyrics say it sounds like Mark E. says country folk, I am betting that was the intent
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there's my favorite rollercoaster
next to the blue water
the one only sissies ride
there's the sun
going down
creating that florescent glow
reminding me i'll never be able
to relive this day
except in memory
there's those big barking fish
in the concrete stream
growling for dog food
bulging dead eyes that gleam
but where's dad
and where is mom
looks like from here on out
it's just me and you
looks like from here on out
it's just me and you
red house painters- "rollercoaster"
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But when you said that I wasn't worth talking to
I had to take your word on that
But if you'd known
How that would sound to me
You would have taken it back
And boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Boxed it up and buried it in the ground
Burned it up and thrown it away
- Liz Phair, "The Divorce Song"
One of my favorite lyrics of all time....I adore the idea of words as a tangible thing you can bury and/or burn up. If only.
I also love the Billy Bragg line -- good call, ggw.
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I walked into the house of miraculous recovery
And stood before king everything
And he asked me to join him in the red wing
Took me to pie land
Said, Iâ??m a thigh man
I will be eternally hateful
GBV - Hot Freaks
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It's OK.
It's not loaded.
I'm a good driver.
Don't worry, Honey.
"Famous Last Words" - 9353
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If I ever do karaoke, this Robbie Fulks song will be the song. Too difficult to choose just a line or two.
Well, I came down to Nashville in 1993
'Cause my friend Jim said Nashville had money growin' right on the trees
So I thought I'd go pick some, and I don't mean musically.
Now it's 4 years later, and I'm wonderin' where I went wrong
Shook a lotta hands, ate a lotta lunch, wrote a lotta dumbass songs
But I couldn't get a break in Nashville, if I tried my whole life long
So, fuck this town...fuck this town
Fuck it end-to-end, fuck it up and down
Can't get noticed -- can't get found -- can't get a cut, so
Fuck this town.
Hey, this ain't country-western!
It's just soft-rock feminist crap!
And I thought they'd struck bottom back back in the days of Ronnie Milsap
Now they can't stop the flood of assholes: there ain't a big enough ASCAP.
Sure, I like old Tim Carroll, and BR5-49
But Nashville don't need that noise, no,
Nashville'll do just fine
As long as there's a moron market
And a faggot in a hat to sign.
Fuck this town! Fuck this town!
Fuck...this...town.
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Demon is up in the attic to the left
My eye turns to the left to say, "no"
You said, "First, I am the special one."
I never hammered my mind out
I never have the bloody hammer [x3]
I never have the bloody [x2]
I never have the bloody hammer
~ Bloody Hammer by Roky Erickson and the Aliens
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Your dream world is just about to fall.
- Midnight Earle
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From the splinter in the hand, to the thorn in the heart, to the shotgun to the head, you got no choice but to learn to glean solace from pain or youll end up cynical or dead.
Jim White
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Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had,
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold,
And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' How do you do! Now you gonna die!"
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Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash (written by Shel Silverstein)
Full Lyrics (http://www.banned-width.com/shel/works/boysue.html)
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And a few from my childhood that I used to sing along to, not knowing what they meant, that I laugh about now:
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit gone died...
Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion
He wear no shoe shine, he got toe jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot co-ca cola
Beatles, Come Together
And of course this whole song:
WHITE RABBIT (G. Slick)
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
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Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
Good call Markie. And The Queen is Dead is right up there for Big Mouth Strikes Again:
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said I'd like to
smash every tooth in your head
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said by rights you should be
bludgeoned in your bed
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
now I know how Joan of Arc felt
as the flames rose to her Roman nose
and her Walkman started to melt
And There is a Light that Never goes Out:
And if a double-decker bus
crashes in to us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Among the many others....
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
I like you Mark E. I definitely agree. I must rate you.
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Originally posted by dotdot:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
I like you Mark E. I definitely agree. I must rate you. [/b]
BTW, Smith, what Fall lyrics do you like the best? And is The Real New Fall LP as good as everyone says? I'm a little scared...
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I'll give the Smiths credit for writing good songs, but the lyrics are a little too obvious for me.
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Originally posted by econo:
I'll give the Smiths credit for writing good songs, but the lyrics are a little too obvious for me.
Is it not that you have heard them too often? Plus they are 20 years old......
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Originally posted by dotdot:
]I like you Mark E. I definitely agree. I must rate you.
Thankyou for rating me....
I would rate you, but then you dont like Torino and that irks me no end..... I almost put health and efficiency into this thread.
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Originally posted by dotdot:
what Fall lyrics do you like the best?
Repition and Bingo masters break out are highlights for me, both off of the early years.
I have listened to the real new fall album a couple of times. If you like the fall you ought to like it. As Pollard already said....
"I hate the countryside so much,
I hate the contraflow/countryfolk so much"
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I actually prefer Sparta FC but the lyrics are not as good:
Come on I will show you how I will change
When you give me something to slaughter
Shepherd boy (Hey!)
Everybody sing (Hey!)
Better act quick (Hey!)
Be my toy
Come on have a bet
We live on blood
We are Sparta F.C.
[background vocal by Elena] [1]
I don't have a jack knife it went up the hill
I don't know if i'll get it back
But by hook or by crook I will
Hey! Hey!
Be my toy
Come on have a bet
We live on blood
We are Sparta F.C.
Hey! Hey!
We have to pay for everything (Hey!)
But some things are for free (Hey!)
We live on blood (Hey!)
We are Sparta F.C. (Hey!)
English Chelsea fan this is your last game (Hey!)
We're not Galatasary We're Sparta F.C. (Hey!)
[background vocal by Elena] [1]
And take your fleecy jumper you won't need it anymore
It is in the car boot moving away
'Cause where you are going clothes won't help
Stay at home with TV set
Be my toy
Come on have a bet
We live on blood
We are Sparta F.C.
Cheap English man in the paper shop
You mug old women in your bobble hat
Better go spot a place to rest
No more ground boutique at match in Chelsea
We are Sparta F.C.
Come on have a bet
We live on blood
We are Sparta F.C.
Hey! Hey!
Shepherd boy (Hey!)
Everybody sing (Hey!)
Better act quick (Hey!)
Be my toy (Hey!)
Come on have a bet (Hey!)
So I can win (Hey!)
This is not a poem (Hey!)
For the bin (Hey!)
I don't have a jack knife (Hey!)
It went up the hill (Hey!)
I don't know if I'll get it back (Hey!)
By hook or crook I will (Hey!)
English Chelsea fan (Hey!)
This is your last game (Hey!)
We're not Galatasary (Hey!)
We're Sparta F.C. (Hey!)
Sparta!
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by dotdot:
]I like you Mark E. I definitely agree. I must rate you.
Thankyou for rating me....
I would rate you, but then you dont like Torino and that irks me no end..... I almost put health and efficiency into this thread. [/b]
I only listened to Torino twice, but I like Va Va Voom Cinerama much more. Sure, the songs are simpler and poppier, but I think that's what they were best at. I have a weird and anal "thing" towards production, and that album had that glossy-radio sound that bugs me. It's hard to explain. But Mark, you should give me a break b/c at least I LOVE Gedge... It's better to disagree about his records than talk about a pretentious "indie-rock" band like Bright Eyes or something... I know you'll kill me if you like them, but boy, they really irk me.
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Originally posted by dotdot:
like Bright Eyes or something... I know you'll kill me if you like them, but boy, they really irk me.
Its Ok you can stay living some time more.
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I think it was the English majors in college that ruined The Smiths for me. In high school I liked them fine.
Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by econo:
I'll give the Smiths credit for writing good songs, but the lyrics are a little too obvious for me.
Is it not that you have heard them too often? Plus they are 20 years old...... [/b]
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
You'll dance to anything by The Smiths
You'll dance to anything by any bunch of stupid Europeans who come over here with their big hairdoos bent on taking OUR money instead of giving your cash, where it belongs, to a decent American artist like myself!
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you are my new hero!
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
It's OK.
It's not loaded.
I'm a good driver.
Don't worry, Honey.
"Famous Last Words" - 9353
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Originally posted by King Dons:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
You'll dance to anything by The Smiths
You'll dance to anything by any bunch of stupid Europeans who come over here with their big hairdoos bent on taking OUR money instead of giving your cash, where it belongs, to a decent American artist like myself!
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ahhh, love the dead milkmen.
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
ahhh, love the dead milkmen.
bede (http://twiki.maybe.net/twiki/pub/Main/WebHome/bedebede.wav)
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Lyrically, the best album ever! (http://www.geocities.com/caress06uk/hatfulofhollow.html)
just one of the best albums ever.....
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Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
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Here's a little couplet I'd forgotten about until hearing it again today
I hear youâ??ve got a new girlfriend
Howâ??s the wife taking it ?
Prefab Sprout - "Moving the River"
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"When the rain hit the roof
With the sound of a finished kiss
Like when a lip lifts from a lip
I took the Wrong Road round"
The Go-Betweens - The Wrong Road
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Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol...
Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol...
Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol...
C-C-C-C-COCAINE!!!
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
-- Queens of the Stone Age
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How much strychnine was in that ecstasy
You gave me an hour ago?
Beauty Pill -- Cigarette Girl From the Future
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i get this song stuck in my head everytime I see one of those Bush Lies. Who Dies? posters
Hot Snakes - Who Died?
I'm at a seance
I tried prayer
Ex boyfriends, relatives and neighbors
Say you aren't there
Tried the priest
I tried the maid
They tried to reach you
But you're in the grave
My friends all wanna know
Who dies?
Yeah they all ask me
Who died?
Your phone is dead
You ain't home
You ain't alive
It was you
You, you're the one who died
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Fatima Mansions 'Blues for Ceaucescu'
Well, hello.
You can no longer depend on the land in which you were born.
You can no longer depend on any land in which you choose to place yourself.
You can no longer depend on the bed in which you lie by night,
or the room in which you sit by day.
You can no longer depend on the pillow on which you lay your head.
You can no longer depend on the existence of [silence] in your mind when you close your eyes.
Go to England, baby-raper, false economist.
Call yourself King Charles III.
Nobody will notice.
Nobody will be alarmed.
There is no constitution.
Go. Goodbye. Goodbye.
He's shining brightly, he can't be a man
He is the genius of the Carpathians
He's running checks on his mother's womb
He's gonna be reborn real soon
Ciao, Ceaucescu! Ciao, Ceaucescu! Ciao, Ceaucescu!
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I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record.