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Last Post 7/19/2004 11:38 AM by  Brain of G
Best lyric ever...volume one
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qorian
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7/28/2004 2:14 AM
first of all, shame on you GAr for not including 'bome machine' in your list of tom waits must-haves. It is EASILY among my favorites, and chock full of FANTASTIC lyrics (the clip in my signature among them...I won't repeat it here. but read it. and listen to it. yowza.) another little known one is Paul Westerberg off 'stereo' from 2002. It's sort of one long line... "the sweet smell of candles burnt low by young women alone on their own for the very first time under posters of rock stars that you vaguely resembles in front of a cat who's responding perhaps means that you'll be the next one in line." and, erm, has no one anything to say about REM?!?!?! (they are, ultimately, my favorite band of all time, though if anyone quotes 'everybody hurts' i will gag slightly and and maybe punch something.) anyway, howsabout- "i can't look you in the eyes Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene Cherry-flavored neck and collar i can smell the sorrow on your breath the sweat, the victory and sorrow, the smell of fear. i got it." -e-bow the letter- DAMN SON. x, -h.
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7/28/2004 11:59 AM
A few favs of mine: Tom Waits Heart of Saturday Night ‘Maxwell eyes, Marmalade thighs and Scrambled yellow hair’ Red House Painters Rollercoaster ‘Theres the sun going down reminding me I’ll never be able to relive this day except in memories’ Pavement folk jam Well pardon my birth i just slipped out origins i can't brag about. spawn of a bank inquisitor And theives i wish.’ Lyle Lovett Skinny legs ‘See that boy with that guitar He's got skinny legs like I always wanted A girlfreind in his car 'cause he's got Skinny legs like I always wanted Sister look at me again You'd love me if I were as skinny as him’ Sonja Man I need to impress her 'Cause I'd like to undress her I need a song about Sonja When I'm singing tonight
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7/30/2004 1:01 AM
You'll have to excuse me if you don't find Eminem funny but "Will Smith don't have to cuss to sell records/but I do so f**k him and f**k you to" always makes me chuckle.
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7/30/2004 7:21 AM
ALways loved Incubus:The Warmth. Any time you might feel a bit down "Don't let the world bring you down Not everyone here is that f**ked up and cold"
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11/8/2005 11:44 PM
Stop talking crap, if u really want to see some nice lyrics searc any of "Joaquin Sabina" for example "Cerrado por derribo", "Ruido" or "Ahora que" P.D. Air hostess?? what kinda crap is that? P.D. You need to know some Spanish if you want to understand Joaquin Sabina's songs
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11/9/2005 12:28 AM
we did stop talking crap, in July 2004! (well OK, I personally have spouted a lot more crap on different threads since) Wow, talk about a blast from the past! this is a real "Golden Oldie" thread, not that theres anything wrong with resurrecting old threads if you've got something interesting to add of course.... Anyway Jimbostar, welcome to Cluas.
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11/9/2005 4:57 AM
Death Cab... poets Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound But while you debate half empty or half full It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown
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11/9/2005 8:43 AM
"half the people can be part right all the time, some of the people can be all right some of the time, but all the people cant be all right all the time, i think abraham lincoln said that, ill let you be in my dream if i can be in yours, i said that!" Bob Dylan - talkin world war iii blues
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11/9/2005 11:29 AM
Hard to get past Tom Waits 'Martha' for a 'lost love' type theme. Some of my other favourites are... "Soldier boy, made of clay, now an empty shell. twenty-one, only son but he served us well. bred to kill, not to care, do just as we say. Finished here, greetings death, he's yours to take away" -Disposable Heroes by Metallica "She's the main man in the office in the city and she treats me like I'm just another lackey. But I can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki" -Everythings AOR by Half Man Half Biscuit "I kicked off my sackcloth, threw away my jostick, burned my koran and said I was agnostic, I mean an atheist I cried as they moved in for the kill, the walls tumbled down as they handed me the bill" -Religious Persuasion by Andy White "The people from your church agree it's not much of a career, trying the handles of parked cars -whoops there goes another year -whoops there goes another pint of beer," Greetings to the New Brunette by Billy Bragg
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11/9/2005 2:11 PM
I really want this to be the first song my new band ever plays live. I think it'd be funny. Opening with covers is lame though. "lock me in tied to work splitting rocks cutting diamonds 100 days with no pay not anymore cause I'm caught I can't type I can't temp I'm way past college no ways out no back doors not anymore but then once a while we'll play a show then that makes it worthwhile our sights set low as jerry squares off the set - here we go but...this boy is exhausted 8 years long a single song come to this triple guessing double down a v.p.'s faith is one single long cause I can't write what I know - it's not worth writing I can't tell a hit from hell from one sing-along but then greg plugs in a treble checking that says we might win hell's henry pearls the woven strap wins the galloway girls but.... but then kev jumps in and hits the floor as the stick hits the rim I guess we're done cause every win on this record's hard won but...."
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11/9/2005 2:13 PM
Also about the only lyric that can top vile niall's suggestion for a lost love song: not yet 21 - with introductions done - a first slow dance just ends. I was at my best - we ignored the rest (my band and your friends). But as better night became best day we left the party while last records played. What started as dessert back at your house ended on the couch... hours at your mouth...sunday's on our hands. We followed where it led. I followed you to bed. We started secret plans. Forward 7 months: I've only seen you once...I never call on time. Trying to seem tough, I said one visit's enough - enough to keep you mine (of course it wasn't...) We were done by june. You'd graduate and leave for london soon. Your layover at newark's near my house. We met for dinner there... just one hour to spare - your 20's all mapped out. I'm in my driest drought feeling old and shot and how. And this is what I thought: I seem to still be caught... I'm a footnote at best...I envy who comes next...wish we could just make out. 'The hour's almost up', you said into your cup. And it makes no difference now, as I help lift your bags out, that I'm lost and out of rope while on my wrist you wrote your newest number down. I kind of said your name but you'd turned to your plane so I backed my car out. I knew we'd never write (somehow that seemed all right) but this counts as calling three years out.
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11/9/2005 7:57 PM
unicron - who wrote that tune? quality lyrics, would like to get my hands on it
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11/9/2005 9:34 PM
Daragh, last 2 were were both by the wrens, This Boy Is Exhausted and 13 months in 6 minutes, both taken from their album the Meadowlands. Charles Bissell from the band is quite possibly my favourite lyricist ever, recommended furthur reading: fourth floor room each girl I've brought back home to bloom all fold on close inspection each one leaves a banner hanging from the eaves marking the eve of election ex-girl collection why/ into why not into what else you got? it's just how men mark time ann slams in another lightening round begins this could get interesting where's ann been? she pours herself a don't-ask gin no ice and light on the bitters I'm done with quitters 'why / charles, I found out wipe that smile off your mouth I think it's tell-me time...' britt hit hard she found my box of beth's best cards hand cut and signed with 'x's called at work 'happy anniversary, jerk' and I just laughed at the timing with you on hold line 2 still crying 'why play sex on the cuff? does beth like it rough? and learn your dirty lines? and keep her hair cropped (the other shoe dropped) 'is this how men mark time in couples?', she cursed (this sounds too rehearsed) as ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the rafters the words turn and spit and scorch right through to the plaster I'm called 10 kinds of a bastard curses came faster why / into why not? into charles gone to pot in hotter water line up to lift up a toast to the ones I hurt most and how the well's gone lime with charles on the plow I'm roger over and how slower now men mark time fine why, what else you got?
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11/10/2005 11:08 AM
"I watched the A-team and Airwolf too, before i found drugs and started sniffin glue" GLC Classic stuff!
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11/10/2005 3:04 PM
for me it has to be the emotional rollercoaster experienced by lump, Lump lingered last in line for brains And the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane Small thing’s so sad that birds could land Is lump fast asleep or rockin’ out with the band
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11/11/2005 10:31 AM
John GOrka's "Silence" I met her in the summertime when her arms Were the color of silence So blue her eyes A new horizon So I walked that way And I talked that way too And I found my way through To her silence, To her silence, My heart was full of bitterness so dark And so close to violence The ace of spades Turned upside down Nothing beat in my hopeless chest I could not detect a sound But she would not let me rest Bound to my silence, Bound to my silence, Love came unexpectedly, late to the bill An added attraction The way it goes, the way it stays And when she is far away Still I feel her here Ever since she made the day And the lonely man disappear Into that silence, Into that silence,
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11/11/2005 5:52 PM
"B.J. the D.J. Only twenty-four A wreck at ninety miles an hour He'll spin the hits no more" I heard a version done by Big Tom where he sang... "B.J. the D.J. took too many risks B.J. the D.J. has spun his final disc" Eat your heart out Bob Dylan
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