I'm not looking for your favorites songs, just clever, funny, haunting, etc lyrics from songs you like.
I was listening to some old rap from my high school days (Mi Casa, Method Man) on my ride home last night and heard the following (Belly approved) lyric and chuckled a bit:
It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.
One of my favorite lyrics from Jason Isbell (If It Takes a Lifetime):
Man is the product of all the people that he ever loved
And it don't make a difference how it ended up
If I loved you once my friend, oh, I can do it all again
If it takes a lifetime
And just like Humpty Dumpty
You're gonna fall when the stereos pump me
I like to rhyme
I like my beats funky
I'm spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy
I'm sick wit dis, straight gangsta mack
But sometimes I get ridiculous
I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice
The Humpty Dance (Digital Underground)
I dare you to find another song where someone will eat BOTH your crackers and your licorice.
Ric Ocasek of The Cars came up with some of my favorites .......off-the-wall lines for sure.
#1
'Lucky me, working down in the gravel pit
Moving rocks, on a big dinosaur I sit
Mr. Slate gets mad and he throws a fit
Pull the birdies tail, everybody know it's time to quit" ("Bedrock Anthem" - Weird Al)
#2
"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" - a lot of alliteration by Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"
posted by Zunardo#2
"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" - a lot of alliteration by Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"
Big fan of this as well.
Jimmy in the back with a pocket of high.
If you listen close, you can hear him cry.
(I like to play this for my asshole neighbor named Jimmy)
Movie quote, but putting it here:
ODB "Got Your Money"
You act like your pussy don't interrupt
I don't have no problem with you fucking me
But I have a little problem wit you not fucking me
Photographs show the laughs
Recorded in between the bad times
Happy sailors, dancing on a sinking ship.
"Flashback Blues", John Prine (or pretty much anything else he's written).
look around and choose your own ground for long you'll live and high you'll fly
and smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
and all your touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
I love old blues lyrics:
Born under a bad sign
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Three O'clock Blues:
Goodbye everybody,
I believe this is the end.
Oh, goodbye everybody,
I believe this is the end.
I want you to tell my baby,
Tell her please, please forgive me,
Forgive me for my sins.
Stormy Monday:
They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad
Yes the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray
Water, fire, air and dirt
F***ing magnets, how do they work?
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is
Rush - Tom Sawyer.
Too many Urkels on your team, that's why you're Winslow.
Love everything about all the lyricsc on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." I interpret this song one of two ways, and each way is very powerful. 1) They are singing to their younger selves, wishes they were here now, seeing the journey. 2) A call to Syd Barrett (stoned for good on acid).
posted by ernest_t_bassLove everything about all the lyricsc on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." I interpret this song one of two ways, and each way is very powerful. 1) They are singing to their younger selves, wishes they were here now, seeing the journey. 2) A call to Syd Barrett (stoned for good on acid).
I thought the story was Sid walked into the recording and said, that song is deep, and they said, well, it's about you
Well he came down to dinner in his sunday best.
Excitable boy they all said
Then he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy they all said. Well he's just an excitable boy
Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy
alarm clock starts ringin, who could that be singin...it’s me baby with your wake up call
How do you like me now.....
I been to the edge
And there I stood and looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby
I got no time to mess around
So if you want it, got to bleed for it baby
