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Songs with the Greatest lyrics...

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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,902
    Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide - David Bowie
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,034
    PemburyAddick said:
    "I wish you'd listen to me, no I don't want a cup of tea."

    "Stick my fingers right up your nose"

    "wish your 16 again"

    three songs and three guesses? (bet Stonemuse gets em)
    2 Something Better Change The Stranglers.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,034
    1 Hurry up Harry Sham 69. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,034
    edited April 2020
    3 Sixteen Again The Buzzcocks ?
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,371
    killerandflash said:
    Though it has to be said that few song lyrics have the simple, yet devastating poetic lyricism that takes you back to a point of time where thousands were unified by a simple message, in harmony with one collective thought like a multi-consciousness gestalt 

    Simon Jordan is a wanker, is a wanker.
    Simon Jordan is a wanker, is a wanker.
    To rival that;
    oh, oh Roland, ooo aa  I wanna know why you’re such a cnut. 
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    Quicksand by David Bowie. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,256
    Real real gone
    I got hit by a bow and arrow
    Got me down to the very marrow
    And I'm real, real gone

    Real real gone
    I can't stand up by myself
    Don't you know I need your help
    And I'm real, real gone

    Some people say
    You can make it on your own
    Oh you can make it if you try
    I know better now
    You can't stand up alone
    Oh baby that is why
    I'm real, real gone

    I can't stand up by myself
    Don't you know I need your help
    You're a friend of mine
    And I'm real, real gone

    And Sam Cooke is on the radio
    And the night is filled with space
    And your fingertips touch my face
    You're a friend of mine
    And I'm real, real gone
    I'm real gone

    Oh Lord I got hit by a bow and arrow
    Got me down to the very marrow
    You're a friend of mine
    And I'm real, real gone
    And I'm real, real gone
    I'm real gone

    Wilson Pickett said:
    "In the midnight hour,
    That's when my love comes tumbling down"
    Solomon Burke said:
    "If you need me, why don't you call me"
    James Brown said:
    "When you're tired of what you got, try me"
    Gene Chandler said:
    "There's a rainbow in my soul"
  • PemburyAddick
    PemburyAddick Posts: 506
    Covered End said:
    3 Sixteen Again The Buzzcocks ?
    Spot on all three!
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    JohnfromNorfolk said:
    So many on here I could agree with but 'Its to late' by Carole King has to be the saddest song ever written.
    For me, The Drugs Don’t Work is the saddest. If I’d written that about dad, there’s no way I’d be able to sing it in front of an audience!  
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    It's hard to keep from crying,
    After all that we've been through.

    Now that it's all over, now that you and I are free,
    Now there's nothing left except the bit of property.
    Started off with nothing, started off just you and me,
    Now that it's all over you can keep the property.

    And all the little gifts we thought we'd throw away,
    The useless souvenirs bought on a holiday.
    We put them on a shelf, now they're collecting dust.
    We never needed them, but they outlasted us.

    Property - The Kinks

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  • SE_7EVEN
    SE_7EVEN Posts: 289
    Eton Rifles
    All that rugby puts hairs on your chest
    What chance do stand against a tie and a crest.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,450
    You may not agree with his politics, and his singing is an acquired taste, but Billy Bragg writes some bloody good lyrics. Personal favourite is probably "Must I Paint You A Picture", which starts off
    "It's bad timing and me:
    We find a lot of things out this way.
    And there's you
    a little black cloud in a dress.
    The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work
    must be resisted for they never fit together again."
    Although as a football fan I've always been tickled by the bit in "Greetings to the New Brunette" that goes
    "Sometimes when we're as close as this,
    it's like we are in a dream.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    when you don't even know who's in the team?"
  • Sarrf_London
    Sarrf_London Posts: 523
    edited April 2020
    Latin Quarter. America for Beginners, No Rope as Long as Time.
    Man in Black - Hurt
    Ami Winehouse - Rehab
    Furniture - Brilliant Mind
    All Saints -Never Ever
    Amy McDonald - This is the Life
    UB40 - One in Ten
    Mary Coughlan - Ice Cream Man
    Nick Cave - Where the Wild Roses Grow.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,382
    Ramones - Pinhead
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    Rhythm of cruelty by Magazine. 
  • Addick in SW16
    Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
    edited April 2020
    Some personal faves:

    As - Stevie Wonder
    Little Green - Joni Mitchell
    How? - John Lennon
    A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
    The Needle and The Damage Done - Neil Young
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,962
    Greenie said:
    Donegal by Jack Harris even if it’s just for this one line.
    ”to a place where your lips kiss away a mans reason and sing all his tempers to sleep”
    Must confess prior to involving myself on this subject,I new  nothing of Jack Harris,just watched him on u tube,what an artist,loved his music superb guitar player,just shows the wealth of talent that sits just below the surface of the major recording stars.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,137
    They might be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
    Prefab Sprout - King of Rock’n’Roll

    I win
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    The Song of Wandering Aengus penned by WB Yeats and sung by Christy Moore
  • stevexreeve
    stevexreeve Posts: 1,388
    Great line in Hotel California which lots of people can identify with.

    You can check out any time you like
    But you can never leave.

    (You can stop drinking but you're still an alcoholic)
    (You can stop going to games but you still get pissed off when Charlton lose)
    etc..  

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  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Fumbluff said:
    They might be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
    Prefab Sprout - King of Rock’n’Roll

    I win

    Who sang I win?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,861
    Johnnysummers5 said:
    Fumbluff said:
    They might be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
    Prefab Sprout - King of Rock’n’Roll

    I win

    Who sang I win?

    Lethal Bizzle ;-)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,256
    Fumbluff said:
    They might be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
    Prefab Sprout - King of Rock’n’Roll

    I win
    Good shout
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    I think that Kris Kristofferson has written many, many songs with brilliant lyrics.
    Sunday morning coming down and Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do being two of many wonderful examples.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    iainment said:
    I think that Kris Kristofferson has written many, many songs with brilliant lyrics.
    Sunday morning coming down and Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do being two of many wonderful examples.
    Kris Kristofferson.
    Wasn't he once married to Rita Ritacoolidge?
    And he appeared with Bob Bobdylan in the film Pat Patgarrett and Billy the Billykid  ;)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Henry Irving said:
    "You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you"

    Agree about "May you never"

    "Born for a purpose" Dr Alimentado

    "Forever Young" Dylan

    Hal David was the genius, Bert just wrote some nice tunes.
    For an extra point; who sang backing vocals on this?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    iainment said:
    I think that Kris Kristofferson has written many, many songs with brilliant lyrics.
    Sunday morning coming down and Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do being two of many wonderful examples.
    Kris Kristofferson.
    Wasn't he once married to Rita Ritacoolidge?
    And he appeared with Bob Bobdylan in the film Pat Patgarrett and Billy the Billykid  ;)
    Was one of the Highwaymen and can't sing for toffee. Makes my ears bleed
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Great lyrics in this -

    https://youtu.be/cpeMZS2_6Xc
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    iainment said:
    I think that Kris Kristofferson has written many, many songs with brilliant lyrics.
    Sunday morning coming down and Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do being two of many wonderful examples.
    Kris Kristofferson.
    Wasn't he once married to Rita Ritacoolidge?
    And he appeared with Bob Bobdylan in the film Pat Patgarrett and Billy the Billykid  ;)
    Was one of the Highwaymen and can't sing for toffee. Makes my ears bleed
    It’s about lyrics though.
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,601
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Henry Irving said:
    "You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you"

    Agree about "May you never"

    "Born for a purpose" Dr Alimentado

    "Forever Young" Dylan

    Hal David was the genius, Bert just wrote some nice tunes.
    For an extra point; who sang backing vocals on this?
    A certain man from Dartford. Jagger.

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