Favourite Song Lyric

joewicklow · 07-07-2010 08:16PM

Boney's high on china white, Shorty found a punk
Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's just God when he's drunk
Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line
What you say you meet me down on Heartattack and Vine

Heart Attack & Vine

Tom Waits

Giselle · 07-07-2010 08:22PM

I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.
I went out for a ride and I never went back,
Like a river that don't know where its flowin'
I took a wrong turn, and I just kept going.

Bruce Springsteen, Hungry Heart. I like how it alliterates.

I paid fifteen dollars for a prostitute,
with too much makeup and a broken shoe,
but her eyes were just a counterfeit,
she tried to gyp me out of it,
but you know that i'm still in love you.

Don't listen to the rumors that you hear about me,
cause i ain't as bad as they make me out to be,
well i may lose my mind but baby can't you see,
that i'll be savin' all my love for you.

Tom Waits, Saving All My Love For You. I love the melancholic tone as he sings it.

--Kaiser-- · 08-07-2010 09:28AM

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where we're going

Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night
Singing Ha, Ah La La La De Day
Ah La La La De Day
Ah La La De Day

Sweet the sin
Bitter taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

You know I took the poison
From the poison stream
Then I floated out of here
Singing...Ha La La La De Day
Ha La La La De Day
Ha La La De Day

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will...

Suffer the needle chill
She is running to stand

Still.

deadlineday · 07-05-2014 11:50PM

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness

8 yrs on and still hurting!!!

RedMickeyMouse · 08-05-2014 04:39AM

And everyone just feels like they can relate/
I guess words are a motherf*cker/
They can be great/
Or they can degrade/
Or even worse they can teach hate/
It's like these kids hang on every single statement we make

..

but then these critics crucify you/
journalists try to burn you/
fans turn on you/
attorneys all want a turn at you/
to get their hands on every dime that you have/
they want you to lose your mind every time that you're mad

..

they say music can alter moods and talk to you/
well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too?/
well if it can then the next time you assault a dude/
just tell the judge it was my fault, and I'll get sued

..

and my favourite verse of all:

that's why we sing for these kids who don't have a thing/
except for a dream and a f*ckin rap magazine/
who post pin up pictures on their walls all day long/
idolise their favourite rappers and know all their songs/
or for anyone who's ever been through sh*t in their lives/
so they sit and they cry at night/
wishing they'd die/
till they throw on a rap record/
and they sit and they vibe/
we're nothin to you/
but we're the f*ckin sh*t in their eyes/
that's why we/
seize the moment/
try to freeze it and own it/
squeeze it and hold it/
cos we consider these minutes golden/
well maybe they'll admit when we're gone/
just let our spirits live on through our lyrics that you hear in our songs

all from Eminem's "Sing for the Moment"

he is genuinely the greatest lyricist the planet has known

harry Bailey esq · 08-05-2014 04:52AM

"son,im thirty..
i only went with your mum cause she's dirty
and i don't have a decent bone in me"

Happy Mondays,kinky Afro.

orangesoda · 08-05-2014 05:02AM

Waylander - Lámh Dearg

Rise above that, which divides us
True love for this land must sustain
Bow to the goddess both planter and gael
True love for our land must sustain

Lámh Dearg - Raise the red hand high
Lámh Dearg - Abu
Lámh Dearg - Ulaidh Go Brea
Lámh Dearg - Abu

Collie D · 08-05-2014 06:40AM

Lot of Smiths lyrics already posted but I love this one. Never a truer word spoken

I was looking for a job
And then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now

stefan idiot jones · 08-05-2014 07:16AM

Treat your women like toilets,
they're happy when you're abusing them.
But toilets don't follow you 'round,
when you've finished using them.

The Macc Lads - Beer, Sex, Chips & Gravy.

oldyouth · 08-05-2014 07:53AM

You'll know heartache
Still more crying
When you're thinking of your mother's only son
Take to your bed
You say there's peace in sleep
But you'll dream of love instead

Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero

MagicIRL · 08-05-2014 10:26AM

On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evenin' sun
Stealin' past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searchin' out fear in the gathering gloom
And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
And there is nothing I can do when I realize with fright
That the Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight

And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning
I will wake up in the shivering cold
And the Spiderman is always hungry

I couldn't pick a single line from the above. It's The Cure's Lullaby.

Tasden · 08-05-2014 10:38AM

Be mine by David Gray- "every day feels so incomplete til you walk into the room", just a perfect way to describe loving someone

Anything else I could think of was depressing/the smiths!

Muise... · 08-05-2014 10:44AM

The rain hit the roof
With the sound of a finished kiss

or

Then I ran my tin cup heart along
The prison of her ribs

Both Australian, as it happens, but I'm quite free with my lyric favours so this could change by noon.

RhubarbCrumble · 08-05-2014 11:10AM

"Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life"

Just haven't met you yet - Michael Buble.

Simply Red · 08-05-2014 11:26AM

Baby, baby, baby oooh
Like baby, baby, baby nooo
Like baby, baby, baby oooh
I thought you'd always be mine

Lyrical masterpiece

Yamanoto · 08-05-2014 11:30AM

There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Whoa so this is what she means
She means we're bouncing into Graceland

- Paul Simon

Beast of a cover version by this kid....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYKjQLgnOs

Thargor · 08-05-2014 11:39AM

"Theres a feeling I get when I look to the West..."

It always gets me when I hear that lyric no matter where I am.

diomed · 08-05-2014 12:38PM

War, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh

D-FENS · 08-05-2014 12:40PM

“I hate the way that even though you
Know you're wrong you say you're right
I hate the books you read and all your friends
Your music's ****e it keeps me up all night

I hate the way that you are so sarcastic
And you're not very bright
You think that everything you've done's fantastic
Your music's ****e it keeps me up all night

And it will be nice to be alone
For a week or two
But I know that I will be
Right back here with you”

Poignant words from a man who wasn’t technically married when he wrote them

MY CUP OF TEA · 08-05-2014 12:42PM

Not only a fav lyric but total life mantra..

For having left the path of others..you find a very special hand.
(Christy Moore's - Bright Blue Rose)

Bell X1 are a great crowd for the lyrics tho!...this gets me every time

Now this applies equally to you and I
The only thing that we share
Is the same sky
These empty metaphors
They're all in vain
Like can't you see the grass is greener where it rains
(Bell X1 - Eve is the Apple of my Eye)

Funkfield · 08-05-2014 01:02PM

boobar wrote: »

And if a double decker bus crashes into us
to die by your side, what a wonderful way to die

The Smiths

I want to live and I want to love
I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of

The Smiths

Could go on and on and on!

Absolutely!

There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die
- How Soon Is Now?

And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask
- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths

Funkfield · 08-05-2014 01:04PM

"Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)"

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp,
I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp
Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town,
Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground
Bazanti bootin al zootin al hoot and Al Cohn
Sharing this apartment with a telephone pole
And a fish-net stocking, spike-heel shoes,
Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues
And the porno floor show, live nude girls,
Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls
Chesty Morgan and Watermelon Rose
Raise my rent and take off all your clothes
With trench coats, magazines, a bottle full of rum,
She's so good, make a dead man come
Pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
Wrinkles and Cherry and Twinkie and Pinkie and Fifi live from Gay Paree
Fanfares, rim shots, back stage, who cares, all this hot burlesque for me
[scat]

Cleavage, cleavage, thighs and hips
From the nape of her neck to the lipstick lips
Chopped and channeled and lowered and lewd
And the cheater slicks and baby moons
She's a-hot and ready, creamy and sugared
And the band is awful and so are the tunes
[scat]

Crawling on her belly, and shaking like jelly,
And I'm getting harder than Chinese algebrassieres
And cheers from the (hmm) compendium here
"Hey sweetheart" they're yelling for more
You're squashing out your cigarette butts on the floor
And I like Shelly, and you like Jane
And what was the girl with the snakeskin's name?
And it's an early-bird matinee, come back any day,
Get you a little something that you can't get at home
Get you a little something that you can't get at home
It's pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
Popcorn, front row, higher than a kite, and I'll be back tomorrow night,
And I'll be back tomorrow night
[scat]

The genius of TOM WAITS

smellmepower · 08-05-2014 01:08PM

''The first time that you stole
You stole rubber lips and tenners
Bought a radio then ran away for ever
Never felt so good, never felt so good with you
When we were young we had no fear
Of love nor sex nor warnings
Everyone was hanging out, everyone was sorted
When we were young nobody knew
Who you were or what you'd do
Nobody had a past that catches up on you

Babies, sex and flagons, shifting women, getting stoned
Robbing cars, bars and pubs, rubber johnnies, poems
Starsky and Hutch gave good TV
And Starsky looked like me.''

Whipping Boy-When We Were Young

Muise... · 08-05-2014 01:09PM

Go ahead, call the cops
You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.

magicmushroom · 08-05-2014 01:17PM

I've got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
Well we might die from medication
But we sure killed all the pain

~ Conor Oberst, Lua

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

~ Nick Cave, Into my Arms

Pedro K · 08-05-2014 01:19PM

I quite like this one from Can't stand me now, by the libertines.

"Cornered the boy kicked out at the world, the world kicked back a lot ****in harder now."

Iang87 · 08-05-2014 01:27PM

"But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with"

Jim Croce Time in a bottle.

Wrote this when is wife was pregnant, he died when the child was 2 or 3. Cant remember the exact story

stefan idiot jones · 08-05-2014 01:42PM

There she was just a walking down the street singing,
Fcuk Cnut Bastard Bugger **** Bugger ****.

Manfredd Macc.

LordSutch · 08-05-2014 02:41PM

"Life is whappens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Very true too . . .

John Lennon - Beautiful Boy (1980).

irish_stevo815 · 08-05-2014 02:48PM

"I need something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live."

Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow"

Favourite Song Lyric

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