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  • A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)
  • Stig said:

    Some great lyrics on here. But for me, only the ones I already knew. I read the unfamiliar lyrics and they all seem a bit meh. I guess you need to hear them in context. Anyone else noticed this?

    Yes I know what you mean - I posted the Coral lyrics above because they tell a little story that many of us would have some level of empathy with!
    rananegra said:

    A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)

    That's a great call. Love that song.
  • rananegra said:

    A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)

    and then twist it around........

    Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 aint bad

    "I want you, I need you, but I'm never gonna love you"
  • rananegra said:

    A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)

    and then twist it around........

    Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 aint bad

    "I want you, I need you, but I'm never gonna love you"
    I grew up listening to Meat Loaf on the way back from Charlton games. It's only when I got a little older that I realised how brilliant the lyrics are. "I want you, need you, won't love you, but chin up darling, cos you scored 2 out of 3"!

    Also, Bat Out Of Hell is basically "I've had a one night stand and as soon as I am done I am getting the fuck out of there."

    See also: Paradise By The Dashboard Light, which is about a guy getting his end away with a girl in a car, who then stops him and makes him declare undying love for her in order to shag her. He does, then ends up having to marry her and thus, lives a miserable life.

    "I couldn't take it any longer
    Lord I was crazed
    And when the feeling came upon me
    Like a tidal wave
    I started swearing to my god
    And on my mother's grave
    That I would love you to the end of time
    I swore I would love you to the end of time"

    (But...)

    "So now I'm praying for the end of time
    To hurry up and arrive
    'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
    I don't think that I can really survive
    I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
    But God only knows what I can do right now
    I'm praying for the end of time
    It's all I can do (ooh, ooh)
    I'm praying for the end of time
    So I can end my time with you"
  • These days I sit around and laugh
    At the many rivers I've crossed
    But on the far banks there's always another forest
    Where a man can get lost
    Well there in the high trees love's bluebird glides
    Guiding us 'cross to another river on the other side
    And there someone is waitin' with a look in her eyes
    And though my heart's grown weary
    And more than a little bit shy
    Tonight I'll drink from her waters to quench my thirst
    And leave the angels to worry
    With every wish...

    Broooce
  • Was I going to post the final conclusion to Der Abschied (Das Lied Von Der Erde - Mahler) but would seem as bit potentious but it always has me in tears. Erwig (farewell). Roll over Beethoven!
  • "Funny how their missus' always looks the bleedin' same"


    And it's so true.
  • JiMMy 85 said:

    rananegra said:

    A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)

    and then twist it around........

    Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 aint bad

    "I want you, I need you, but I'm never gonna love you"
    I grew up listening to Meat Loaf on the way back from Charlton games. It's only when I got a little older that I realised how brilliant the lyrics are. "I want you, need you, won't love you, but chin up darling, cos you scored 2 out of 3"!

    Also, Bat Out Of Hell is basically "I've had a one night stand and as soon as I am done I am getting the fuck out of there."

    See also: Paradise By The Dashboard Light, which is about a guy getting his end away with a girl in a car, who then stops him and makes him declare undying love for her in order to shag her. He does, then ends up having to marry her and thus, lives a miserable life.

    "I couldn't take it any longer
    Lord I was crazed
    And when the feeling came upon me
    Like a tidal wave
    I started swearing to my god
    And on my mother's grave
    That I would love you to the end of time
    I swore I would love you to the end of time"

    (But...)

    "So now I'm praying for the end of time
    To hurry up and arrive
    'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
    I don't think that I can really survive
    I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
    But God only knows what I can do right now
    I'm praying for the end of time
    It's all I can do (ooh, ooh)
    I'm praying for the end of time
    So I can end my time with you"
    check out the live version on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Pure theatre.
  • 'Her beautiful arse
    Cantilevering
    Over a table of hors d'oeuvres
    She took a sip of her drink
    And said 'Hey,
    This music really gets on my nerves'

    I defy anyone to find the word cantilevering in any other song ever.
    (She's sad, she said, The Judybats).


  • JiMMy 85 said:

    rananegra said:

    A lot on here I like, one I wanted to add, just because it's such a good way of saying how much you love someone, just thrown in casually in a list of things he's been doing at work.

    "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"

    Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb wrote it, Glen Campbell sang it first)

    and then twist it around........

    Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 aint bad

    "I want you, I need you, but I'm never gonna love you"
    I grew up listening to Meat Loaf on the way back from Charlton games. It's only when I got a little older that I realised how brilliant the lyrics are. "I want you, need you, won't love you, but chin up darling, cos you scored 2 out of 3"!

    Also, Bat Out Of Hell is basically "I've had a one night stand and as soon as I am done I am getting the fuck out of there."

    See also: Paradise By The Dashboard Light, which is about a guy getting his end away with a girl in a car, who then stops him and makes him declare undying love for her in order to shag her. He does, then ends up having to marry her and thus, lives a miserable life.

    "I couldn't take it any longer
    Lord I was crazed
    And when the feeling came upon me
    Like a tidal wave
    I started swearing to my god
    And on my mother's grave
    That I would love you to the end of time
    I swore I would love you to the end of time"

    (But...)

    "So now I'm praying for the end of time
    To hurry up and arrive
    'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
    I don't think that I can really survive
    I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
    But God only knows what I can do right now
    I'm praying for the end of time
    It's all I can do (ooh, ooh)
    I'm praying for the end of time
    So I can end my time with you"
    I've seen meatloaf live five times over a twenty year period.
    Pure quality.
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  • Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
    You can hear the boats go by
    You can spend the night beside her
    And you know that she's half crazy
    But that's why you want to be there
    And she feeds you tea and oranges
    That come all the way from China
    And just when you mean to tell her
    That you have no love to give her
    Then she gets you on her wavelength
    And she lets the river answer
    That you've always been her lover
    And you want to travel with her
    And you want to travel blind
    And you know that she will trust you
    For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
  • The Jam – The Eton Rifles Lyrics
    Sup up your beer and collect your fags,
    There's a row going on down near slough,
    Get out your mat and pray to the west,
    I'll get out mine and pray for myself.
    Thought you were smart when you took them on,
    But you didn't take a peep in their artillery room,
    All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
    What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
  • The Butterfly Collector
    The Jam
    Lyrics
    So you finally got what you wanted
    You've achieved your aim by making me walk in line
    And when you just can't get any higher
    You use your senses to suss out this week's climber
    And the small fame that you've acquired
    Has brought you into cult status
    But to me you're still a collector
    There's tarts and whores but you're much more
    You're a different kind 'cause you want their minds
    And you just don't care 'cause you've got no pride
    It's just a face on your pillowcase
    That thrills you
    And you started looking much older
    And your fashion sense is second-rate like your perfume
    But to you in your little dream world
    You're still the queen of the butterfly collectors
    As you carry on 'cause it's all you know
    You can't light a fire, you can't cook or sew
  • "Funny how their missus' always looks the bleedin' same"


    And it's so true.

    I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone
  • Butterfly Collector is a great song.
  • Eminem - Drug Ballad - Cuz if I get caught cheatin then I'm stuck with you.
  • There's always -

    The distant echo -
    of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
    To take them home to
    the ones that they love and who love them forever
    The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
    Cold and uninviting, partially naked
    Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's papers
    Mr. Jones got run down
    Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow
    Madmen on the rampage
    And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

    I fumble for change - and pull out the Queen
    Smiling, beguiling
    I put in the money and pull out a plum
    Behind me
    Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices
    Hating, waiting
    "Hey boy" they shout "have you got any money?"
    And I said "I've a little money and a take away curry,
    I'm on my way home to my wife.
    She'll be lining up the cutlery,
    You know she's expecting me
    Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"
    And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

    I first felt a fist, and then a kick
    I could now smell their breath
    They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
    And too many right wing meetings
    My life swam around me
    It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
    The smell of brown leather
    It blended in with the weather
    It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
    It blocked all my senses
    Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
    And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
    I said I was down in the tube station at midnight

    The last thing that I saw
    As I lay there on the floor
    Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
    And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday -
    Do it today!"
    I glanced back on my life
    And thought about my wife
    'Cause they took the keys - and she'll think it's me
    And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
    The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
    I'm down in the tube station at midnight
    Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight

    and always liked

    For liberty there is a cost - its broken skulls and leather cosh,
    From the boys in uniform - now you know whose side their on -
    With backing - with blessing,
    From earthly gods not heaven,
    A stones throw away from it all.

    Whatever pleasures those who get - from stripping skin with rhino whip,
    Are the kind that must be stopped - before their kind take all we've got -
    With loving - with caring,
    They take great pride in working,
    The stones throw away from it all.

    Whenever honesty persists - you'll hear the snap of broken ribs,
    Of anyone who'll take no more - of the lying bastards roar -
    In Chile - In Poland,
    Johannesburg - South Yorkshire,
    A stones throw away: Now we're there.

    and from the glimmer twins, always liked the lines -

    When I'm watchin' my TV
    And that man comes on to tell me
    How white my shirts can be
    But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
    The same cigarrettes as me.

  • edited June 2017
    Tin Soldier by Small Faces
    Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
  • "National Express" by The Devine Comedy.
  • The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin:

    The other day I discovered
    A magazine of my brother's
    I read it under the covers
    It got me all hot and bothered.
    Now every time that I see you
    Your uniform becomes see-through
    You don't know how much I need you
    The "Handy Andys" I've been through
    I don't want to die a virgin
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  • Two suns in the sunset,
    Could be the human race is run.
  • edited October 2019
    Many of Latin Quarter tracks, Radio Africa was their main hit but America for Beginners is a superb critique of McCarthyism.

    Horsefield9, many decent Jam lyrics, as are Elvis Costello and Mary Coughlan.
  • Let me gaze upon your curves
    Instead of Ipswich Town reserves

    HMHB, 'Swerving the Checkatrade'
  • IdleHans said:
    Let me gaze upon your curves
    Instead of Ipswich Town reserves

    HMHB, 'Swerving the Checkatrade'
    Pretty much any HMHB song contains blinding lyrics. 
  • They have a HMHB random lyric generator on this website 

    http://www.chrisrand.com/random-hmhb/
  • Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf.

    Isn't it nice
    Sugar and spice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice
    I can make a film
    And make you my star
    You'll be a natural
    The way you are
    I would like you
    On a long black leash
    I will parade you
    Down the high streets
    You've got the attraction
    You've got the pulling power
    Walk my doggie
    Walk my little sex dwarf
    We can make a scene
    We'll be a team
    Making the headlines
    Sounds like a dream
    When we hit the floor
    You just watch them move aside
    We will take them
    For a ride of rides
    They all love your
    Miniature ways
    You know what they say
    About small boys

    Sex dwarf
    Sex dwarf
    Sex dwarf
    Sex dwarf

    I'm a Rolls Royce
    Look its so huge!
    It's big and it's gold
    With my dumb chauffeur
    Looking to procure
    Run little doggie
    Lure a disco dolly
    Run my little sex dwarf
    I feel so lonely
    Get my little camera
    Take a pretty picture
    Sex dwarf in a gold Rolls
    Making it with the dumb chauffeur

    Isn't it nice
    Sugar and spice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice
    Sex dwarf
    Isn't it nice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice

    Sex dwarf

    We can make an outfit
    For my little sex dwarf
    To match the gold Rolls
    On my dumb chauffeur
    We'll all look so good
    We'll knock 'em cold
    Knocking 'em cold
    In black and gold
    We can have playtime
    In my little playroom
    Disco dollies
    My sex dwarf
    And my dumb chauffeur
    I would like you
    On a long black leash
    You can bring me
    All the things I need

    Sex dwarf
    Isn't it nice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice
    Sex dwarf
    Isn't it nice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice

    Sex dwarf

    Sex dwarf
    Isn't it nice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice
    Sex dwarf
    Isn't it nice
    Luring disco dollies
    To a life of vice
  • from the swinging sixties;
    Love - Live and Let Live - first line - "oh the snot has caked against my pants, it has turned into crystals"
  • Barbra Streisand
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    Barbra Streisand
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    Barbra Streisand
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    Woo woo
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