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Favorite Music Lyrics (Read the Fucking Rules You Damn Philistines)


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So I've been listening to more music at work (now that I have a job that lets me do that) and I've been coming across some of my favorite songs/lyrics.

Rules:

1) Don't post full song lyrics, just the few lines that you find inspiring/neat-o/fuckass awesome/profound...etc.

2) Please include the artist, song title, and album.

3) Format counts you lazy SOB's; Lyrics and song title in "quotes", Album title in italics.

ie.

Artist: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Album: This is Somewhere

Song: "Ah Mary"

Lyric: "She's the beat of my heart, She's the shot of gun"

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Good thread. The threads where people post entire song lyrics are useless.

Artist: Genesis

Album: A Trick Of The Tail

Song: "Squonk"

Lyrics: "All in all you are a very dying race,

Placing trust upon a cruel world,

You never had the things you thought you should have had

And you'll not get them now,

And all the while in perfect time

Your tears are falling on the ground..."

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I don't agree with your formatting choices, but...whatevs...

Artist: Tonio K.

Album: Life in the Foodchain

Song: "HATRED"

Lyric: "I wish I were as mellow, as, for instance, Jackson Brown

but 'fountain of sorrow' my ass motherfucker

I hope you wind up in the ground"

Dusty FTW!!! My God I love that song!!!

Anyway, mine is simply one line, but it rolls off the tongue wonderfully. The fact that it describes something so horrific makes it even more delightful to me:

Artist: Warren Zevon

Album: Excitable Boy

Song: "Werewolves of London"

Lyric: "Little old lady got mutilated late last night"

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Artist: Killing Joke

Album: Democracy

Song: "Absent Friends"

Lyric: "And I remember laughing so much we cried

/ You knew my every thought, there was nothing i could hide

/ We celebrated moons we marvelled at the night sky

/ With flute and drum and pen we were grateful for our lives"

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  • 2 weeks later...

Artist: Belle & Sebastian

Album: If You're Feeling Sinister

Song: "If You're Feeling Sinister"

Lyric: "But if you are feeling sinister/Go off and see a minister/He'll try in vain to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever/La la la la la la la"

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Artist: Tom Waits

Album: Rain Dogs

Son: 9th and Hennepin

Lyrics: forget a snippet. Not a wasted word in these lyrics:

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin

All the doughnuts have names that sound like

prostitutes

And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky

Like a tarp thrown

all over this

And the broken umbrellas like dead birds

And the steam

comes out of the grill

Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow...

And

the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos

And everyone is behaving

like dogs

And the horses are coming down Violin Road

And Dutch is dead on

his feet

And all the rooms they smell like diesel

And you take on the

dreams of the ones who have slept here

And I'm lost in the window, and I

hide in the stairway

And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your

hat...

And no one brings anything small into a bar around here

They all

started out with bad directions

And the girl behind the counter has a

tattooed tear

One for every year he's away, she said

Such a crumbling

beauty, ah

There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't

fix

She has that razor sadness that only gets worse

With the clang and

the thunder of the Southern Pacific going by

And the clock ticks out like a

dripping faucet

til you're full of rag water and bitters and blue

ruin

And you spill out over the side to anyone who will listen...

And

I've seen it all, I've seen it all

Through the yellow windows of the evening

train...

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Artist: Rilo Kiley

Album: The Execution of All Things

Song: "The Execution of All Things"

Lyrics:

"Soldiers come quickly.." Months without sechs, they better come quickly

"Someone come quickly" Ad Nauseum

"Oh god come quickly" ;]

"And lastly, you're all alone with nothing left but sleep" Naturally, since you are already on a bed.

"It's just you and me..." Unless he leaves right after ;[

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Artist: Fiona Apple

Album: Extraordinary Machine

Song: Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song)

Lyric:

"But it isn't the red we painted,

It's... just... rust "

"'Cause it isn't the rush of remembering

It's just mush"

"So why did I kiss him so hard late last friday night

And keep on letting him change all my plans

I'm either so sick in the head

I need to be bled dry to quit

Or I just really used to love him

Or I just really used to love him

Or I just really used to love him

I sure hope that's it"

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Comus - First Utterance - "Diana"

"Lust cries running with his eyes the white-clad figure fleeting

Mud burns his eyes but desire burns his mind

Fear in her eyes as the forest grins through the steaming woodlands

Lust now his destroyed with emnity disarmed

...

The dim light she comes peering through the forest pines

And she knows by the sound of the baying, by the baying of the hounds

Diana, Diana kick your feet up

Lust bears his teeth and whines

For he's picked up the scent of virtue

And he knows the panic signs"

Also from this album:

"A million fleshy things converge upon the spot"

"Your soft white flesh turns past me slaked with blood"

Lots of clever little gems.

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Artist: Jethro Tull

Album: Songs from the Wood

Song: "Hunting Girl"

Lyric: She took this simple man's downfall in hand; I raised the flag that she unfurled.

Rules: Screw them.

Song: "Pussywillow"

Lyric: Pussywillow --- down fur-lined avenue

brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes.

Runs for the train --- see, eight o'clock's coming

cutting dreams down to size again.

Pussywillow --- down fur-lined avenue

brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes.

Runs from the train. Hear her typewriter humming

cutting dreams down to size again.

Rules: Screw them, yet again.

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Artist: Amber Benson (as Tara)

Album: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack to Once More, With Feeling

Song: "Under Your Spell"

Lyric:

I'm under your spell

Surging like the sea

Wanting you so helplessly

I break with every swell

Lost in ecstasy

Spread beneath my willow tree

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Artist: Eric Idle

Film: Life of Brian

Song: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

Lyric:

And always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the right side of life...

(Come on guys, cheer up!)

Always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the bright side of life...

(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)

Always look on the bright side of life...

(I mean - what have you got to lose?)

(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.

What have you lost? Nothing!)

Always look on the right side of life...

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