Clever lyrics ?

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Ruskie

3,982 posts

199 months

Monday 16th October 2017
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Frank Turner - Get Better


I got me a shovel,
And I'm digging a ditch,
And I'm going to fight for this four square feet of land
Like a mean old son of a bh.
I got me a future,
I'm not stuck on the past.
I've got no new tricks, yeah I'm up on bricks,
But me, I'm a machine and I was built to last.

I'm trying to get better because I haven't been my best.
She took a plain black marker, started writing on my chest.
She drew a line across the middle of my broken heart and said
"Come on now let's fix this mess".
We can get better because we're not dead yet.

They threw me a whirlwind,
And I spat back the sea.
I took a battering but I've got thicker skin,
And the best people I know are looking out for me.
So I'm taking the high road,
My engine's running high and fine.
May I always see the road rising up to meet me and my enemies
Defeated in the mirror behind.

I'm trying to get better because I haven't been my best.
She took a plain black marker, started writing on my chest.
She drew a line across the middle of my broken heart and said
"Come on now let's fix this mess".
We can get better because we're not dead yet.

It's just a knot in the small of your back:
You could work it out with your fingers.
It's just a tune that got stuck in your head:
You could work it out with your fingers.
It's just some numbers tangled up in your sums:
You could work it out with your fingers.
It's just a simple braille missive from the person you miss,
A reminder you could always be a little bit better than this.

So try and get better and don't ever accept less.
Take a plain black marker and write this on your chest:
Draw a line underneath all of this unhappiness,
Come on now let's fix this mess.
We can get better, because we're not dead yet.

daphantom

403 posts

198 months

Tuesday 17th October 2017
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The Smiths - Rusholme ruffians

The last night of the fair
From a seat on a whirling waltzer
Her skirt ascends for a watching eye
It's a hideous trait (on her mother's side)

Emonda03

740 posts

199 months

Wednesday 18th October 2017
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Van Halens Tattoo....not the best song in the world but I love the mousewife to momshell line...



Tramp stamp tat
Mousewife to Momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

181 months

Friday 20th October 2017
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vournikas said:
Genesis managed to fit:-

Heraclea Mantigazziani

into a tune (Return of The Giant Hogweed)

ETA: Charming lyrics from a tune that I endlessly enjoy playing on the guitar:

Kiss me out of the bearded barley,
Lightly , beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

Oh, Kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out of the moonlit floor
Lift you open hand
Strike up the band, and make the fireflies dance
Silvermoon's sparkling,
So kiss me


That sent chills down my spine. Love that song



Edited by vournikas on Tuesday 1st August 22:47

Darryl247W

564 posts

122 months

Saturday 21st October 2017
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It was November 4th
I last held your hand
It seemed our time would last forever
You said don't ever leave
I thought you'd never go
I wish I could just remember your name...

Queensryche, London, from Rage for Order album which contains several other dark / stalkery lyrics.

Darryl247W

564 posts

122 months

Saturday 21st October 2017
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So much poetry from Green Day, but where to start? Perhaps every line of 'Jesus of Suburbia', but for a personal favourite :

"I read the graffiti In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall"

deeen

6,079 posts

244 months

Saturday 21st October 2017
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Darryl247W said:
So much poetry from Green Day, but where to start? Perhaps every line of 'Jesus of Suburbia', but for a personal favourite :

"I read the graffiti In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall"
I must admit I don't know if it was written by Green Day, but...


Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of it, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right,
I hope you had the time of your life.

fouronthefloor

457 posts

83 months

Sunday 22nd October 2017
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This thread could not possibly be complete without mentioning Elvis Costello.
There are just too many to list.

Just noticed page 4



Edited by fouronthefloor on Sunday 22 October 16:39

Jetblackonetenth

690 posts

208 months

Thursday 9th November 2017
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She's got a cousin
In fact she's got 'bout a dozen
She's got one in the oven
But it's nothing to do with me

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Friday 10th November 2017
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Fourth day, five day marathon
We're moving like a parallelogram

???

Little Pete

1,513 posts

93 months

Friday 10th November 2017
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“Even at the age of ten
Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then
He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn’t know”
The Undertones.

“I’m an escalator desecrater rattling down the tubes,
On the underwear adverts, pencilling pubes”
Robert Cox aka Ivor Biggun

TheChampers

4,093 posts

137 months

Friday 10th November 2017
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All About Eve; The Empty Dancehall.


Ribbons from your dancing shoes
In shreds and threads and feeling used
Are hanging up our yesterdays
Down the street, the empty dance halls
Due to empty circumstance
All seem to be closed down today
And through the silence

I hear the word for love
I hear the word for death
But I don't hear any answer
While death can talk of 'la mort'
And love can whisper 'l'amour'
The floor has lost its dancers

Take your partner by the hand
And dance the ghost of a sarabande
Moving like a miracle
Shoe to shoe and cheek to cheek
Every day of every week
Step by step by century
Through the silence

I hear the word for love
I hear the word for death
But I don't hear any answer
While death can talk of 'la mort'
And love can whisper 'l'amour'
The floor has lost its dancers


basherX

2,464 posts

160 months

Friday 10th November 2017
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"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you"

Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits

Sums up being in love, perfectly, succinctly. Knopfler's a genius.

Police State

4,063 posts

219 months

Friday 17th November 2017
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Clever Lyrics; and no Dylan?

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

Lucas CAV

3,021 posts

218 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Halmyre said:
Fourth day, five day marathon
We're moving like a parallelogram

???
Motorhead
Always preferred the Hawkwind version tbh.

David A

3,602 posts

250 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Past the big old church where the hands of God
Were stuck on lucky 7
And the bells inside were limbering up
For a sawn-off-shotgun wedding


K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Revved up like a deuce.....

Duke of Kidderminster

733 posts

126 months

Thursday 23rd November 2017
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Defcon5 said:
Will Smith don't have to cuss in his raps to sell records
Well I do
So **** him and **** you too

Always raises a smile from me
If you're going to quote one of the greats then at least get it right. It's:

Eminem's gotta cuss on his raps to sell records
Well me too
So fk Will Smith

zooky

190 posts

175 months

Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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Another one from Billy Bragg:

"How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team?"

(from "Greetings to the New Brunette").

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Matt Berninger from The National gets the angst of a mature family man. It's not for teenagers.

Conversation 16

I think the kids are in trouble
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Give them ice for their fevers
You're the only thing I ever want anymore
We live on coffee and flowers
Try not to wonder what the weather will be
I figured out what we're missing
I tell you miserable things after you are asleep

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Everything means everything

It's a Hollywood summer
You'll never believe the stty thoughts I think
Meet our friends out for dinner
When I said what I said I didn't mean anything
We belong in a movie
Try to hold it together 'til our friends are gone
We should swim in a fountain
Do not want to disappoint anyone

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything

I was afraid I'd eat your brains
I was afraid I'd eat your brains
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil

I'm a confident liar
Have my head in the oven so you know where I'll be
I'll try to be more romantic
I want to believe in everything you believe
I was less than amazing
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Fall asleep in your branches
You're the only thing I ever want anymore

Now we'll leave the silver city 'cause all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything

I was afraid I'd eat your brains
I was afraid I'd eat your brains
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil

The chorus is deliberately silly.