Best Song Lyrics Ever

Stig

pettgra said:

London Girls by Chas and Dave.
It is not thought provoking stuff but my god it really cheers you up.
Have a look and give yourself a chuckle.
https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/chas-dave/london-girls-31

Love Chas and Dave. A particular favourite of mine is, from Ain't No Pleasing You:

Now if you think I don't mean what I say, and I'm only bluffin'.
You've got another think comin', I'm tellin' you that for nothin'.

Probably because I spent half my childhood being told I had another think coming and I've never heard that particular phrase in any other song.

Saga Lout

Best opening line (IMHO):

Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news

The Teardrop Explodes

bobmunro

Life is just a bowl of All-Bran
You wake up every morning and it's there
So live as only you can
It's all about enjoy it 'cause ever since you saw it
There ain't no one can take it away.

Stig

⦁ Lemonheads - The Outdoor type:

I can’t go away with you on a rocking climbing weekend
What if something’s on TV and it’s never shown again
Just as well I’m not invited
I’m afraid of heights
I lied about being, the outdoor type

⦁ Lemonheads - Baby's Home: (not copying the lyrics here, because I wouldn't wan't to spoil the surprise for anyone who's not heard it. And if you haven't heard it, make sure you hear it).

⦁ The Scaffold - Lily The Pink:

Mr freers had sticky out ears
And it made him awful shy
And so they gave him medicinal compound
And now he's learning how to fly

⦁ Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Development:

I rhymed the periodic table to stay one step ahead
See in the periodic table hydrogen is number one
'Cause hydrogen is what puts the shine in the sun
Through nuclear fusion and when it's done
It leaves element number two
Helium... helium is the second lightest gas that there is
So we use it in balloons we give to little kids
Then there's lithium often used to treat mental problems
Beryllium don't conduct electric currents, it stops them
Boron can be used to make things harden
And that smoke that's coming out of your exhaust, carbon
Carbon is arguably the most important element
And nitrogen in the air is almost eighty percent
The rest of the air is mainly oxygen
And fluorine is the lightest of the halogens
OK that's enough teaching
I ain't trying to bore ya
I'm just trying to be a positive role model for ya

⦁ The Jam - Going Underground

What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns

And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants

Henry Irving

To every thing, turn, turn, turn there is a season
A time to live, a time to die

Acab

Two degrees in beebop
A PHD in swing
He's the master of music
He's the rock and roll king.

Little Feat, Rock and Roll doctor.

Acab

Over the wall we go, all coppers are b@&:"?!'s. Bowie. ACAB

Macronate

What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face

Covered End

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die

And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

bolloxbolder

Macronate said:

You spend your time in smokey rooms
Where haggled old women with cheap perfume say
"It never happens for people like us, you know"
Well nothing ever happened on it's own
And well the toilet smells of desperation
The streets all echo of aggregation
And you wonder why you can't get no sleep
When you've got nothing to do
And you've had nothing to eat
Your life's slipping and sliding right out of view
And there's absolutely nothing that you can do, well

We'll live and die
We'll live and die in these towns
Don't let it drag you down
Don't let it drag you down now

We'll live and die
We'll live and die in these towns
Don't let it drag you down
Don't let it drag you down now

Dirty dishes from a T.V. meal
That went cold from the wind through a smashed up window
You can't go out if anybody calls you
'Cause you can't have a bath When there's no hot water
And your friends are out on the town again
And you ask yourself if it will ever end
And it's all too much for your head to take
Just a matter of time before you break, well

We'll live and die
We'll live and die in these towns
Don't let it drag you down
Don't let it drag you down now

The Enemy

Great band. Much missed .

ken_shabby

The Jam - Going Underground

What you see is what you get.
You made your bed, you better lie in it.
You choose your leaders and place your trust
But their lies bog you down and their promises rust
It's the killing machines that breed more rockets and guns
And the public gets what the public wants
But I want nothing that society's got
I'm going underground

seth plum

Ian Dury deserves a mention.

Covered End

seth plum said:

Ian Dury deserves a mention.

He's had one.

MillwallFan

There's a man I meet,
Walks up our street,
He's a worker for the council,
Has been for 20 years,
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
And puts it in a bag
And never thinks to mutter.

And he packs his lunch in his Sunblest bag,
The children call him boogy,
He never lets on,
But I know cos he once told me.

He let me know a secret,
About the money in his kitty,
He's gonna buy a dingy,
..... Gonna call her Dignity.

(Off the top of my head so not sure if word perfect but close enough. Some of my favourite lyrics of all time)

SoundAsa£

Macronate said:

What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face

Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.

Stig

Flight of the Conchords - Sugarlumps:

Chillin' at my store, doin' my thing, when in walks a guy with his dick in a sling
I'm like, "Holy shit! What happened to you?
He said, "How much will you give me for the family jewels?"
I said "Ten bucks"; he said "No way!"
"Ten bucks and a Frisbee"; he said "Okay"
And I took his sugarlumps and put 'em on display, and sold 'em as hacky sacks later that day

bobmunro

SoundAsa£ said:

Macronate said:

What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face

Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot.
Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.

A couple of contenders that could challenge that:

Oasis - Wonderwall was kept from number one by Robson and Jerome's I Believe
David Bowie - Jean Genie was kept from number one by Little Jimmy Osmond's Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

Shrew

River - Joni Mitchell
Letter to Hermione - David Bowie
Judy and the Dream of Horses - Belle and Sebastian
Onward - Yes
Clarissa - Sun Kil Moon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel.

LawrieAbrahams

CHG said:

bobmunro said:

Bowie - Life on Mars
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Don McLean - America Pie

So many ....

Great shout with Don McLean

Hmm "the three men I admire most, the father, son and holy ghost, just caught the last train for the coast"

raytreacy69

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find -Paronoid -Black Sabbath -Although American Pie takes some beating

Stig

Grinderman (Nick Cave) - No Pussy Blues:

I changed the sheets on my bed,
I combed the hairs across my head,
I sucked in my gut and still she said
That she just didn't want to.

I read her Eliot, read her Yeats,
I tried my best to stay up late,
I fixed the hinges on her gate,
But still she just never wanted to.

I bought her a dozen snow-white doves,
I did her dishes in rubber gloves,
I called her Honeybee, I called her Love,
But she just still didn't want to.
She just never wants to.
Dammit!

I sent her every type of flower,
I played her guitar by the hour,
I patted her revolting little chihuahua,
But still she just didn't want to.

1StevieG

Pixies Where Is My Mind -

with your feet on the air and your head on the ground
try this trick and spin it, yeah
your head will collapse
and there’s nothing in it
and you’ll ask yourself
where is my mind?
way out in the water
see it swimmin'

Macronate

SoundAsa£ said:

Macronate said:

What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face

Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.

Remember it well as I loved Vienna. Great video as well.

McBobbin

Henry Irving said:

To every thing, turn, turn, turn there is a season
A time to live, a time to die

Best use of the Bible ever

ken_shabby

SoundAsa£ said:

Macronate said:

What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face

Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.

Even now it hurts. Despite the famous Billie Curry quote. 'It was great. I wish we'd written it'. Would have hone down as a nothing funny song, but it kept a truely great one off no. 1

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Des'ree- Life

Themightyath2

Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve

Depressing but so true...

muppetman

You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather

But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

Substitute your lies for fact
I can see right through your plastic mac
I look all white, but my dad was black
My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

Substitute me for him
Substitute my coke for gin
Substitute you for my mum
At least I'll get my washing done

McBobbin

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Des'ree- Life

Yes! I'd rather have a slice of toast to seeing a ghost too. It's a message that carves across generations

SE7toSG3

I always liked,

a vincent motorcycle, a bit of slap and tickle, cheese and pickle

also

while American businessmen buy up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital bed