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spankymuffin

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:41 am

Joined: Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:01 pm
Posts: 13

BBP wrote:

Six foot two and rude as hell
I gotta get him in the ground before he starts to smell

Does your name happen to be "mud"?

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FalseDichotomy

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:09 pm

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:35 pm
Posts: 1274
Location: Ohio

My favorite lyrical couplet, courtesy of the Butthole Surfers:

Julio Iglesias
Jacked off in outer-spacias

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Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:31 am

Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:19 am
Posts: 17901
Location: misanthropia

Mendel's machines replicate in the night
In the black iron prison of St. Augustine's light
He's paying the bills and they're doing him proud
They can float their burnt offerings on assembler clouds

With omega point in the sight
The new Franklin's fly their kites
And the post modern empire is ended tonight

From history
The flood of counterfeits released
The black cloud
Reductionism and the beast
Automatons gather all the pieces
So the world may be increased
In simulation jubilation
For the deceased...

Spray-on clothes and diamond jaws
Wrinkles smoothed by nanoclaws

With my machines I can dispatch you
From this world without a trace
Our nostalgia ghosts are ready to take your place

Content-shifting shopping malls
Gasoline trees and walk-through walls

None of them knew...

I feel the grey goo boiling my blood
As I watch the dead rise up out of the earth
Try to hide from the lies as they all come true

Deus absconditus
Deus nullus deus nisi deus

I feel the grey goo boiling my blood
As the fenris wolf slowly bites through his chain
Try to hide the myth as it becomes a man

None of them knew they were robots

Buying an X or an O
In state craft tic tac toe
Cats game for Joe blo

Post industrial bliss
A binary hug or kiss
Can be wrung from utility mist

They stole the great arcanum
The secret fire
Moloch found his gold
For the new empire
Once again
The necrophage becomes saint

Lindy hop around the truth
Jump back wolf pack attack
Slap back white shark attack
Swingin' up there in the noose
Jump back wolf pack attack
Slap back white shark attack

Phased array diffraction nets
From full-wall paint-on TV sets
Migratory home sublets
And time shared diamond fiber sets

Recombinant logos keys
Bitic Qabalistic trees

I feel the grey goo boiling my blood
As leviathan and his bugs freeze the sea
Try to save the world by immolating myself

From history
The flood of counterfeits released
The black cloud
The resurrection of the deceased
Automotons gather all the pieces
So the world may be increased
In simulation jubilation
For the builders
Of the body of the beast

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Philostopher

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:31 am

Joined: Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:22 pm
Posts: 4532
Location: Approaching Death

^^^ Sorry for my stupidity, but who is the source of those lyrics?

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Philostopher

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:49 am

Joined: Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:22 pm
Posts: 4532
Location: Approaching Death

I know Axl is a douche, but listen to this one on the headphones when you're going through a divorce.

"Better"

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

The hardest part
This troubled heart
Has never yet been through now

Was heal the scars
That got their start
Inside someone like you now

For had I known
Or I'd been shown
Back when how long it'd take me

To break the charms
That brought me harm
And all but would erase me

I never would
Or thought I could
No matter what you'd pay me

Replay the part
You stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy

If all I knew
Was that with you
I'd want someone to save me

It'd be enough
But just my luck
I fell in love and maybe

All that I wanted was

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better

So bittersweet
This tragedy
Won't ask for absolution

This melody
Inside of me
Still searches for solution

A twist of faith
A change of heart
Cures my infatuation

A broken heart
Provides the spark
For my determination

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

All that I wanted was

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better

I never wanted you to be so full of anger (anger)
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself

All that I wanted was

Now I know you better
Now we all know better
All that I wanted was

Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na
(cont, thru verse)

If I were you
I'd manage to
Avoid the invitation

Of promised love
That can't keep up
With your adoration

Just use your head
And in the end
You'll find your inspiration

To choose your steps
And won't regret
This kind of aggravation

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better

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But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

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calvin2hikers

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:26 am

Joined: Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:41 pm
Posts: 16859

This thread turned serious.

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Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:21 am

Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:19 am
Posts: 17901
Location: misanthropia

Philostopher wrote:

^^^ Sorry for my stupidity, but who is the source of those lyrics?

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MentalTossFlycoon

Post subject: Re: re: best lyrics ever?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:18 am

Joined: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:28 pm
Posts: 5462
Location: in the tiny dirt somewhere

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I'm the slime oozing out from your Excel spreadsheet...

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Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:18 am

Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:19 am
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Location: misanthropia

Another summer rolls by
And I can't help but feel pain
All those familiar faces
Come back to haunt me again
Whether I hated their guts
Or hardly knew them at all
I always felt far away
Beside them there in the halls

My yearbook keeps me informed
My yearbook keeps me in line
Its an obituary
Gives me a concept of time
We've graduated and grown
From a real world once our own
Yet we have proven them wrong
By dropping off all along

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Gray_Ghost

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:07 am

Joined: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:51 pm
Posts: 40776
Location: >>==> Wellington, New Zealand.

I got lumps in my throat
When I saw her comin' down the aisle
I got the wiggles in my knees
When she looked at me and sweetly smiled

There she is again standin' over by the record machine
Lookin' like a model on the cover of a magazine
She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen
Mean while I was thinkin'

She's in the mood, no need to break it
I got the chance, I oughta take it
If she will dance, we can make it
C'mon Queenie let's shake it

Go, go, go, little Queenie
Go, go, go, little Queenie
Go, go, go, little Queenie

Tell me who's the queen standin' over by the record machine
Lookin' like a model on the cover of the magazine
She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen
Mean while I was still thinkin'

If it's a slow song we'll omit it
If it's a rocker, that we'll get it
And if it's good, she'll admit it
C'mon Queenie, let's get with it

Go, go, go, little Queenie
Go, go, go, little Queenie
Go, go, go, little Queenie
Let's get it, everybody

written in 1959

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Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:24 am

Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:19 am
Posts: 17901
Location: misanthropia

Off of Highway Five
I won't tell you the exit
Is a filthy rest stop
Men are having sex at
They leave condoms on the ground
For innocent dogs to eat
They leave syringes in the grass
For stepping on with bare feet

Kids from my home town
Busted for petty stealing
Find themselves sentenced
To rest stop cleaning

I don't want to be the kettle
That called the pot black
But this rehabilitation scheme
Is the wrong attack
Kids need role models
Like the Four Freshmen or Mercyful Fate.
Punish them with rest stop cleaning
And beware the monsters you create

Kids from my home town
Punished by their very birth
Let them work fast food jobs
Let them prove their worth.

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Plook

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:39 am

Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:48 pm
Posts: 38086
Location: Somewhere in time

XTC - King For A Day

Everyone's creeping up to the money God
Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be
On stepping stones of human hearts and souls
Into the land of 'Nothing for free'

Well, the way that we're living
Is all take and no giving
There's nothing to believe in
The loudest mouth will hail the new found way
To be king for a day

Everyone's licking up to the new king pin
Trying to get a way up with the smile
Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click
Ain't my way of living in style

'Cause the ladder gets longer
And ambition gets stronger
I can't satisfy the hunger
That bad old moon has got you in its sway
To be king for a day, king for a day

You're only here once, so you got to get it right
No time to fuss and fight
'Cause life don't mean much
If measured out with someone else's plight

'Cause the way that we're living
Is all take and no giving
There's nothing much to believe in
The loudest mouth will hail the new found way
To be king for a day

King for a day
King for a day
King for a day
...

:idea:

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coevad

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:51 am

Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:52 pm
Posts: 20851
Location: LumberTruckWest

Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
And now the sand's become a crust
Most of you have gone away

Come Susie dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you'll want to know where winds come from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Four winds at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door left to take you in
The other one just mirrors it

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Yes the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never
Never warms
Never warms
Never warms

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Susie dear
Would find themselves at Four Winds Bar

It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent

Astronomy...a star...

Last edited by coevad on Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:25 am, edited 1 time in total.

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wakawazoo

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:35 pm

Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:20 am
Posts: 1658
Location: Argentina

You're a lonely little girl
But your mommy and your daddy don't care
You're a lonely little girl

The things they say
just hurt your heart
It's too late now
for them to start
to understand
the way you feel
The world for them
is too unreal
So you're lonely, lonely, lonely little girl

(All of your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
A plague due to their ignorance and the great despair of your ugly lives
Where did Annie go? When 'she went to town? Who are all those creeps thwt she brings around?
All of your children are poor unfortunate victims of lies you believe
A plague due to your ignorance that keeps the young men off of the truth they diserve)

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Plook

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:09 pm

Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:48 pm
Posts: 38086
Location: Somewhere in time

Muse - Madness

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

I
I can't get these memories out of my mind
And some kind of madness has started to evolve

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

I
I tried so hard to let you go
But some kind of madness is swallowing me whole, yeah

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

I have finally seen the light
And I have finally realized what you mean
And now I need to know is this real love
Or is it just madness keeping us afloat?

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

And when I look back at all the crazy fights we had
Like some kind of madness was taking control, yeah

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

And now I have finally seen the light
And I have finally realised what you need

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad

But now I have finally seen the end
(finally seen the end)
And I'm not expecting you to care, no
(expecting you to care)
That I have finally seen the light
(finally seen the light)
And I have finally realised
(realised)
I need your love
I need your love

Come to me, just in a dream
Come on and rescue me
Yes I know I can be wrong
Maybe you're too headstrong
Our love is...

MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA Mad Mad Mad
MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA
Madness

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Gray_Ghost

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:28 pm

Joined: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:51 pm
Posts: 40776
Location: >>==> Wellington, New Zealand.

I'm cryin'
I'm cryin'
Cryin' for Sharleena,
Can't you see
I called up all my baby's friends
'N ask'n 'em
Where she done went
But nobody 'round here seems to know
Where my Sharleena's been
Where my Sharleena's been

Ten long years I have been lovin' her
Ten long years
And I thought deep down in my heart
She was mine
Ten long years I been lovin' her
Ten long years
I would call her my baby, and now,
I'm always cryin'

I would be so delighted
I.would be so delighted
If they would just
Send her on home to me

Where she done went....gets me every time

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coevad

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:02 pm

Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:52 pm
Posts: 20851
Location: LumberTruckWest

Todd Rundgren - Stood Up (video with lryics)

http://youtu.be/5pMhk8-lSNM

Still my favorite song since 2000.

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Plook

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:00 pm

Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:48 pm
Posts: 38086
Location: Somewhere in time

coevad wrote:

Todd Rundgren - Stood Up (video with lryics)

http://youtu.be/5pMhk8-lSNM

Still my favorite song since 2000.

Very XTC-ish, Past seems loke an ode to Hall & Oats (and even throws in Sarah)

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coevad

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:15 pm

Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:52 pm
Posts: 20851
Location: LumberTruckWest

Liars is a great album.

Soul Brother - http://youtu.be/SvO3gMw5XqI

I didn't just pull into town.
This happened right before my eyes.
There's something missing in the sound,
That so used to satisfy.
It may rock, it may roll, but tell me
Whatever happened to your soul?

It's just a murky, jerky groove.
It motivates but it don't move
And all the pimps and funky divas
Crank out their empty testifying
They mixed it all in a bowl but then they
Forgot to add a pinch of soul

Tell me, whatever happened to soul, brother?
Tell me, what did they do with the soul, soul brother?
Tell me, where did they go with the soul, brother?
Can I get a witness?

We're only here to entertain
And just pretend to be in pain
And if you wanna see me get down
Just watch me wave my hands around
It's just a distraction I'm told, I use it
To hide my total lack of soul

Can't find a little a bit of soul
Cause it's so hip to be a ho
And all the brothers act like crooks
And all the kids in the suburbs write the radio hooks

And if you want to be a star
Just grab your crotch and squeeze it hard
And make your mom and daddy proud
As you dry hump for the crowd
It may be tired and old, but then it's
Your only substitute for soul

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Philostopher

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:14 pm

Joined: Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:22 pm
Posts: 4532
Location: Approaching Death

"Slainte Mhath"

A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado
A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm
Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu
And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far
This is the story so far
Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins
You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two
And when you declare the point of grave creation
They turn round and you to tell them the story so far
This is the story so far

And you listen with a tear in you eye
To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply
Is Slainte Mhath

Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie
Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns
Holding their own last orders commanding attention
We sit here and listen to all of the story so far
This is the story so far

Take it away, take it away, take it away
Take me away, take me away, take me away

From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen
From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men
From the realisation that we've been left behind
Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line

Waiting on the whistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
They promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows
Broken promises but the whistle still blows
Waiting on the whistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow

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lapsed maps

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:30 am

Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:19 am
Posts: 17901
Location: misanthropia

To the one true God above:
here is my prayer -
not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote.
(not the first, but the others were a long time ago).
There are two people here, and I want you to kill them.
Her - she can go quietly, by disease or a blow
to the base of her neck,
where her necklaces close,
where her garments come together,
where I used to lay my face...
That's where you oughta kill her,
in that particular place.
Him - just fucking kill him, I don't care if it hurts.
Yes I do, I want it to,
fucking kill him but first
make him cry like a woman,
(no particular woman),
let him hold out, hold back
(someone or other might come and fucking kill him).
Fucking kill him.
Kill him already, kill him.
Fucking kill him, fucking kill him,
Kill him already, kill him,
Just fucking kill him!

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The Forum Killed Arkay

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:10 pm

Joined: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:18 pm
Posts: 6774
Location: Between the Badges

I can't verify the lyrics below, but it looks like many sites repeat them.

ZZ Top - 10 Foot Pole

Tidify da, sinmah gough dah hep haing ding fum gogamamo
Stry da fings thadd awondt oont do butt any il thang thad a wondt meeto
Shees my nurirng my nu esit seten' ra mind at a ros reshoo
I don loo kadang doo my net loohah leten meen you

Hmm, I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole
I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole
You just don't know what shape I'm in

Try-da-fy thedit dern tasgoo
Itel dang ifl eeton if airs ron wichoo
Day me dy ron my nek
Thars a dang ana ding doo itan beegon

Shee kina sitn wita ly dou fang
Let it ang wit a itin imin babee
Ide oln lee pak da thangs yoodo
Letit ang ifen eeton wacha ron wichoo

I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole

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Batchainmovie

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:16 pm

Joined: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:50 pm
Posts: 355
Location: N. of Boston, MA USA

"The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest" -- Bob Dylan

Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
They were the best of friends
So when Frankie Lee needed more money one day
Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens
And placed them on a footstool
Just above the plotted plain
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy
My loss will be your gain".

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down
And put his fingers to his chin
But with the cold eyes of Judas on him
His head began to spin
"Would ya please not stare at me like that", he said
"It's just my foolish pride
But sometimes a man must be alone
And this is no place to hide".

Well, Judas he just winked and said
"All right, I'll leave you here
But you'd better hurry up and choose
Which of those bills you want
Before they all disappear"
"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now
Just tell me where you''ll be".

Judas pointed down the road
And said, "Eternity"
"Eternity ?" said Frankie Lee
With a voice as cold as ice
"That's right", said Judas Priest, "Eternity
Though you might call it Paradise"
"I don't call it anything"
Said Frankie Lee with a smile
"All right", said Judas Priest
"I'll see you after a while".

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down
Feelin' low and mean
When just then a passing stranger
Burst upon the scene
Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler
Whose father is deceased ?
Well, if you are
There's a fellow callin' you down the road
And they say his name is Priest".
"Oh yes, he is my friend"
Said Frankie Lee in fright
"I do recall him very well
In fact, he just left my sight"
Yes, that's the one", said the stranger
As quit as a mouse.
"Well, my message is, he's down the road
Stranded in a house".

Well, Frankie Lee he panicked
He dropped ev'rythimg and ran
Until he came up to the spot
Where Judas Priest did stand
"What kind of a house is this", he said
"Where I have come to roam ?"
"It's not a house", said Judas Priest
"It's not a house, it's a home".

Well, Frankie Lee he trembled
He soon lost all control
Over ev'rything which he had made
While the mission bells did toll
He just stood there starring
At that big house as bright as any sun
With four and twenty windows
And a woman's face in ev'ry one.

Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
With a soulful bounding leap
And foaming at the mouth
He began to make his midnight creep
For sixteen nights and days he raved
But on the seventeenth he burst
Into the arms of Judas Priest
Which is where he died of thirst.

No one tried to say a thing
When they carried him out in jest
Except of course, the little neighbor boy
Who carried him to rest
And he just walked along alone
With his guilt so well concealed
And muttered underneath his breath
"Nothing is revealed".

Well, the moral of the story
The moral of this song
Is simply that one should never be
Where ones does not belong
So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin'
Help him with his load
And don't go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road.

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coevad

Post subject: Re: Best Lyrics Ever?

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:12 pm

Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:52 pm
Posts: 20851
Location: LumberTruckWest

Space, place, face, halt, block
Stop, sorry, we're coming in

We Roman legions wend their way through
Ever-widening roads of Empire
Long straight tracks to new horizons
Gilded in soft-tinted campfire
Old Corinium Dobunnorum
Durovernum Cantiacorum
Bold Londinium offers voice in
Market square and open forum

Angles, Saxons, Danes and Normans
On the whole, a curve of learning
Alfie, great in spirit, battle, on Somerset
Levels left cakes a-burning
Willy Conker, work cut out, in Domesday
Pages, marks our number
Sheep and pigs amongst the hundreds
Fat tithes and taxes to encumber

Pizza palace, burger kingdom
Cocaine cola, nylon stockings
Playboy, Newsweek, Time and Life
G.I. Joe, spam fritter shocking

Cold War sparring, Langley spooking,
Grosvenor Square (the London Station)
Elvis hips and Monroe lips, John
Birch against United Nations

Bubblegum and Google-bum
Facebook-frenzied social network
Apple Mac and iPhone App, Gibson
Fender sonic fretwork
Star Trek, Baywatch, Friends, Sopranos
West Wing, Madmen, Walking Dead
Officer Rick will turn the trick and
Banish zombies from our heads

Ian Anderson - http://youtu.be/6DB_x0dWWgw

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Lumpy Gravy

Post subject: Re: best lyrics ever

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:16 pm

Joined: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:29 pm
Posts: 8471
Location: exile

anything by bob dylan.

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