Thinking Caps On - Favourite Lyric?

MrJoeSoap

Whats everyones favourite lyric?
Weird / Wacky , Funny / Sad ,
Emotional , Stupid .

empathy

killer cars - radiohead for sad

roundgirl

Best first line: <p>
I don't believe in an interventionist god . . . Nick Cave, into my arms. <p>
Best lyrics ever? <p>
Maybe there's a god above, but all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. but it's not a cry that you hear at night, and it's not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. <p>

roundgirl

apologies for the paragraph markings - I'm new in the house

James_M

Sooo many!

Top contenders

Wit: "I'd rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy"
Tom Waits

Funny: "You look cool for a naked chick in a pool...Put some clothes on and call me"
Presidents of the USA

Tragic: "Its better to burn out than to fade away"
Neil Young (also Nirvana and many others methinks)

Just plain cool: "Time is a piece of wax falling on the termites that are choking on the splinters"
Beck

thedrowner

the nicest lyric i think i've ever heard for love is jeff buckley's gunshot glitter

the funniest lyrics i've heard, well i quite like the entire lyrics to king missile's detatchable penis

the worst lyrics ive ever heard are by u2? the song that he's talking about new york? just plain crap.

thedrowner

oh and the weirdest are either the beatles, lucy in the sky or i am the walrus. sorry i keep posting 2 posts, i keep forgetting stuff i wanna say. and its honestly not because i wanna have over 200 posts!!!

GoneShootin

theres a little EDIT Link right over the POST REPLY button, use that to append info to previouos threads

Monkey

I've always liked Bob Dylan's lyrics and those of the Eels even though I may not have understood every word of every song.

Raggamuffin

life is short and hard like a bodybuilding elf. -bloodhound gang

You're it
No, you're it
Hey, you're really it
You're it
No I mean it, you're it
-sonic youth

p-t saviour

why dont we do it in the road?

Seán

lamda

Saddest gotta be Radiohead...er toss up between Motion Picture Soundtrack or No Surprises.
Funny/cool - Take a walk on the wild side.
Gotta go with Bob Dylan as well....er too hard to pick one.
Grandaddy's lyrics are really weird but great funny and sad at the same time..especially Beautiful Ground.
And anything Jeff Buckley wrote....
Aghhh too hard!!!!

The Evil Monkey

funny or cool has to be anything written by Tre Cool from Green Day. He's the drummer and hes written one or two songs for them on albums and stuff and a few on the internet. Everything he does is ****ing hilarious . apart from that Bob Dylan is amazing aswell as Cat Stevens. Rancid actually write some good stuff also. I cant narrow it down to actual songs, they're all just so good!

tony 2 tone

(cos i'm) Wired to the moon, stapled to the sky, happy as i am and i dont know why.....Dance-Therapy?

In my opinion Andy Cairns/Therapy? come up with some great lyrics, angst-y stuff, weird stuff, its all good so i cant pick one song or even one bit of a song....."never seen any porn that i didnt like"

And the Bloodhound Gang are the kings of sick funny as fucklyrics, thanks to them i will remember that fist can be a verb too but i cant pick one song

And and and RV by Faith No More too

p-t saviour

"I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"... thats prolly the funniest lyric ever, courtesy of early 90's ravers, snap.

Seán.

mixer007

Rolling Stones from Stray Cat Blues - "I can see that you're fifteen years old
No I don't want your I.D."

Funny

starsilver

"whatever tomorrow brings ill be there with open...."
incubus, drive brilliant song

"i guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower bout the things you didnt show her" Couinting crowes, long december

Anything by nick cave who is a god when it comes to writing meangful words in songs

roundgirl

the piano has been drinking, not me - Tom Waits



And worst lyrics:

someone left my cake out in the rain . . .
I don't think that I can take it, coz it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again, AGAYYYYN!!

snakybus

There are few better lyricists than Kurt Wagner from Lambchop.

My Face Your Ass has the lyrics "Well I wonder what would happen if the world was in a wire, and the wire was in a spiral in a burning ring of fire" and then the chorus is "I'll show your punk rock ass". I know it sounds completely daft, but when accompanied by Lambchop's unique music, it creates a beautiful, scary, surreal image (and I mean surreal in the artistic sense).

In "The Old Gold Shoe", he creates an image of a living, breathing record player that represents a better time in the past.

I suppose you have to kind of be into that kind of stuff though.

www.settlersite.com

Trev M

After much deliberation I think this is my favourite verse of all time,

"You're everything you want to be
Accomplished, gracious and great company
It makes perfect sense, you're never hated
But then, appearances are overrated"


Funniest ever
A whole heap of Wesley Willis stuff, but for the sake of sanity I won't go down that road.


Most annoying....

Lallaaalaaaalaaaallaaallaaaaal (Kylie's Version) ahhh bastard its in m'head.

Emotional Type
"Of lives of friends that I have lost
Who pays the price, who pays the cost
Can't cry, just anger till the end
It burns inside to lose a friend"


Stupid
"Cause we don't, don't give a **** and
We won't ever give a **** until you,
You give a **** about me
And my generation"
Sorry anyone who likes them ....but its limp!


Favorite Angry Lyrics (GGGGGRRRRRR)
"Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been
Belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time"

DeVore

Angry: "Fear is the product you push, we'll I'm a truth addict aww *shít* I gotta head-rush" - RATM.

DeV.

pixe

"Whats the point in getting sober when you gotta get drunk again"-Joe Jackson;)

speedyK

:mad:
its not fair that roundgirl stole BOTH my favourite opening line
and lyric..so **** it ill just go for Squarepusher:
"Givin it what youve got
Gonna **** you with my red hot cock"
(sung craig dvid stylee!!)


or perhaps for sheer timing of line

"CMON YOU **** LETS 'AVE SOME APHEX ACID"

by rdj hisself

twoheadedcow

anything by jeff buckley and/or radiohead really. probably because both J.B. and Thom Yorke are probably two of the finest singers of our generation and they help enhance the power of the lyrical content. it does it for me though:)

dccarm

'fraid The Smiths lyrics will always be the best in my book.

"Oh you can kick me, and you can punch me and you can break my face, but you won't change the way I feel..."

"Because the music that you constantly play, it says nothing to me about my life"

And the worst ever? I think it was Desree (spelling?) and it went along the lines of

I'm afraid of the ghost
I'd rather have a piece of toast

Genius if ever I heard it, although it is almost matched by Oasis and She's Electric

"She's got a sister
And on the palm of her hand there's a blister" ??????

slash99

Drink up,
Shoot in,
Let the beatings begin...

Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow

thedrowner

oh yes, the smiths! how could i have forgotten them
"i dreamt about you last night, and i fell out of bed twice, you can pin and mount me like a butterfly"
they have angry, sad, funy, wacky, everything in theirs
but having thought about it again the stupidest lyrics i ever had were in a song by crush? (remember donna air and that other girl) that went osmehitng like
"i know what boys like. they know what girls like. " repeatedly.

Jeranimo

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners, than cry with the saints."

"The sinners are much more fun"--- Billy Joel

"Only the Good die young".........

Gar_ptc

*My vagina has two sets of lips
but i dont get monthly blood drips
my vagina hardly even used
...
operation
successful
...
and when i wipe my ass
i go from front to back
cos i dont want a bladder infection*

legend

or the entire of henry rollins "liar"
master of lyrics,that song is

o sleep

i would've gone for the smiths too, but it's already been said. so i'd have to go for jim o'rourke for my favourite funny (or should that be sick?) lyric. and it's kind of like a smith's idea too.

can't wipe the smile from my face
when you strut by in your leg brace
you just can't climb the stairs
and you aint got any hair
i just can't get you to sit
you and your stupid epileptic fits
and i know that you can't run away
cos i'm halfway to a threeway

as i lay you down on my bed
it don't matter that you're braindead
i could get so close to you
now that you're in a coma
i'll make it sweet but short
when i pull out your life-support

it's funnier when you actually listen to the song, as it's sung with the sweetest whisper and it sounds like a beautifully romantic ballad, until you hear the lyrics. it's quite ... unsettling

bandit

manics every time especially
"the only way to gain approval is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me" this is yesterday
"life has been unfaithfull and it all promised us so much" la tristtea duerea<cant spell>
therapy
"shranpnel <cant spell> of your insults buried deeper then confidence can ever overcome" unbeliever

just to prove {to myself at least} that im not a depressing c u n t
the smiths
"i want to live and i want to love, i want to catch something that i might be ashamed of" frankly mr shankley

beardedchicken

Originally posted by roundgirl
the piano has been drinking, not me - Tom Waits

or indeed anything at all by tom waits....
that song's a classic, the best lines from it include:
"cream puff casper milk toast"
and of course
"the owner is a mental midget with the IQ of a fence post"
hilarity!!!!

other than that, some beautiful jeff buckley stuff, "lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love" (i know it's not *technically* written by him, but still!!)

smashing pumpkins all the way for angst "despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage"

and for sheer accuracy........." a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better"....how true (placebo)

Bard

Great (but nothing without the eerie music):

That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone
And I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

Better (but not the same without Art Garfunkel singing it) :

When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all

I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you

I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on Silver Girl,
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way

See how they shine
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

James_M

Feckin legend song, Bridge over troubled Water.

Exept for poxy Popstars destoying it. - I mean....I didn't watch the show... I mean...thats what I heard like.

Aw hell. No more cred for me then

DeadBankClerk

"I'll tell you what i want, what i really really want.
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
I'll tell you what i want, what i really really want.
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
I wan't a what? I want a what? I wany a what?
I said i really really really want a zig-a-zig-ah!"

morro

All of 'Black' by Pearl Jam, what a song!

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay,
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul,
As the earth to the sun.
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn.
And all I taught her was everything...
I know she gave me all that she wore...

And now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds,
Of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black...
...tattooed everything.

I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
And twisted thoughts that spin around my head...
I'm spinning...I'm spinning...
How quick the sun can drop away.

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass,
Of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black...
...tattooed everything.
All the love gone bad turned my world to black...
...tattooed all I see...all that I am...all I'll be.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be mine?


.......or Counting Crows 'Mrs. Potter'

"If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."
Adam Duritz has to be one of the best, and most honest, modern day song writers.

Cheez

TooL - The Grudge

"Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, controlling, and we're sinking deeper"


TooL - Reflection

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason ...
before we pine away.

---

Good lyrics them imho

Aspro

From the sadly missed Spitting Image

The Chicken Song

Its the time of year
Now that Spring is in the air
When those two wet gits with their girly curly hair
Make another song for moronic holidays
That nauseate-ate-ate
In a million different ways
From the shores of Spain
To the coast of Southern France
No matter where you hide
You just can't escape this dance.
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
And extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quartet
And pretend your name is Keith.

Skin yourself alive
Learn to speak Arapahoe
Climb inside a dog
And behead an eskimo
Eat a Renault Four with salami in your ears
Casserole your gran
Disembowel yourself with spears.

The disco is vibrating
The sound is loud and grating
Its truly nauseating
Let's do the dance again....

Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Yes you'll hear this song in the holiday discos
And there's no escape in the clubs or in the bars
You would hear this song if you holidayed in Mars.

Skin yourself alive
Learn to speak Arapahoe
Climb inside a dog
And behead an eskimo
Now you've heard it once
Your brain will spring a leak
And though you hate this song
You'll be humming it for weeks.

Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
La la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la la laaaaaaa.

Jules Winfield

Beck-

"I got a job making money for the man,
puttin' chicken in a bucket with a soda pop can,
........
Ain't gonna work for no soul suckin' jerk,
I'm gonna take it all back in hindsight jaack,"

In fact the lyrics to all of that are great.

And also by Beck, "Truck Drivin' Neighbours Downstairs" is excellent. I play it at about 1/3 volume for my neighbour downstairs (partially because he parks his jeep right in front of the steps of the house and partially because he's just a perv)

"Grizzly bear mother ****er never goes to sleep,"

The Trailer Park Song by "The Dead Milkmen" also gets my vote as one of the funniest songs ever conceived.

freakofnature

ummmm... as a pumpkins fan, uh, did they ever make truly funny lyrics? continuing with my story,i guess it depends how its sung. ya know, the way billy corgan sings the line 'i wanna go hooommmme' in spaceboy, its just beautiful. same for hallelujah by jeff buckley. so heres a pretty lyric:

'what a gas it was to see, him walk her every day in to a shaded place, he's not the dark, but i'd want him'

please don't mock me if i got that wrong, i'm not a huge fan of the pixies! oooh wait, one more

'saw you with a smile, cut you like you want me to, cut there little child' disarm, pumpkins.

yes i DO know what that songs about and it doesn't make it any less good

mike65

"They called her Natashia when she looks like Elsie, I dont wanna go to Chelsea"

Elvis Costello. Nice!

Mike.

pixe

'A Robin woke me gently when i was in bed,

I opened my window quitely, and smashed the ****ers head!'

dccarm

Forgot my favourite of all time from Belle and Sebastian.

I dreamt I had to go to Mars. I'm always kidding on about going to Mars during the day. But faced with the reality of it, in a dream, I was terrified.

insanebadgergirljess

how has noone mentioned the frames yet? ( maybe someone has and i missed it,if so,sorry). Glen Hansard is one of the greatest lyricists of our time.i could give examples but i'd be here for hours and hours.Elliott Smiths lyrics are also amazingly brilliant.and the smiths.and of course jeff buckley

irokie

"bang your head against the stage like you never did before, make it hurt make it sweat make it really sore"
metallica - nuff said

The Evil Monkey

I was alone,
I was all by myself,
No one was looking,
I was thinking of you!
Oh yeah did i mention,
I was all by myself,
All by myself!

I went to your house,
But no one was there,
I went in you room,
I was all by myself,
All by myself!

Some of the funniest lyrics ever by Tré Cool from Green Day. he writes other stuff but its really x-rated for this site

irokie

i want to redeem myself

"you don't remeber, you don't remember, why don't you remember myname, off with his head man off with his head now why don't you remember my name i guess he does..."

"immerse your soul in love"

"so on i wait my whole life time for you...
hear me: and if i close my mind in fear, please pry it open,
see me: and if my face becomes sincere, beware
hold me: and when i start to come undone, stitch me together,
see me: and when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn"

"precious precious silver and gold"

i just gotta be stupid for a sec...
"DIE, BY MY HAND, I CREEP ACROSS THE LAND, KILLING FIRST BORN MAN *OH MOTHERF**ER DIE*"

thanks

mmmmchocolate

favorite lyric would have to be

"...we only stay in orbit for one moment of time....."-recovering the satellites counting crows

or

"...i get on a train and i just stand about now that i dont think of you,i keep falling over i keep passing out when i see a face like you..." black star- Radiohead

saddest would have 2 be all of "fairytale of new york(the speaking version gets me every time!!) or "the drugs dont work"


on a lighter note!funniest would be anything by the presidents of the usa-"..we're not gonna make it oh no we're not gonna make it,coz we dont have the talent,we dont have the time,we dont have the patience,&we dont know how2rhyme..." aah classic!!

mmmmchocolate

sorry,i've another 1!all of disappointed by the frames-f*CKING EXCELLENT the man's one of the greatest(along with adam duritz,dave matthews,jim morrison,jeff&tim buckley,carole king&paul simon!!!!!)

Deirdre

'From fuedal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power'

Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

MiEcH

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
OR.
I am too connected to you to Slip away, to fade away Days away I still feel you Touching me, changing me, And considerately killing me.
The Guy who writes these lyrics is an absolute genius. Anyone know who he is and what band?
I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on the Lyrics