Your lyric of the year

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:20 am

...another attempt to get us to share our faves of this year-- cause I learn so much from you guys this way, and am greedy for your knowledge.

This one belongs to Tallulah and not me, really, but I think it was the best string of words in a new song this year:

Your leg came to rest against mine
Then you lounged with knees up and apart
And me and my heart, we knew,
We just knew
For evermore

Morrissey in COME BACK TO CAMDEN from You Are The Quarry.
Others? One apiece, please, cause I want you to think hard....

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:23 am

I guess I really did love that record, cause I notice now that my bottom-quote, my location quote at left, and the content of the post are from 3 diff songs from that same disc.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:31 am

I Should Have Known There Was Something Dodgy About You
When You Told Me How Much Your Double Glazing Cost

Zulus - Wreckless Eric

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:35 am

' And there's kids playing guns in the street,
And one's pointing his tree branch at me.
So I put my hands up, I say-
"Enough is enough
If you walk away, I'll walk away"
And he shot me dead. '
- Bright Eyes, featuring Emmylou Harris
(I guess it's next year's lyric, but I got the cd early.
This man is the songwriter of this generation.
Dylan - Costello - Oberst)

tallulah · Post by **tallulah** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:44 am

I know you said one, but you stole mine

so I am posting two that I love a lot.

First from Come on Home by Franz Ferdinand

You're where you want to be I'm where I want to be
Come on we're chasing everything we've ever wanted
I replace you easily replace pathetically
I flirt with every flighty thing that falls my way
But how I needed you when I needed you
Let's not forget we are so strong
So bloody strong

Second, I Like You by Morrissey

No one I ever knew or have spoken to resembles you
This is good or bad, all depending on my general mood
Why do you think I let you get away with all the things you say to me?
Could it be I like you
It's so shameful of me, I like you...

They look at you and I, and
Envy makes them cry, envy makes them cry

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:48 am

Just for the first ever use of Frappucino in a lyric.

Everything’s dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand

Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:01 pm

I know it's gravity that drags down my balloon
She stays in orbit way after midnight

"Call Me Mellow"
Tears for Fears

I guess Roland's feeling the years. His balloon stayed up long enough, however, to write the insanely catchy chorus to this song, which I highly recommend.

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:02 pm

A line from "Needle Time" by EC allows me to think of my ex and laugh:

"Liars like you are ten-apenny/Women would slap you if you knew any"

At the end, he lied about so many things it was incredible. One of those lies was after we broke up--he told he was engaged and moving to another state. He got fired from his job and he's still in town. I guess he doesn't know any women to slap him after all.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:22 am

"Wearing a raincoat is flying around in an airplane made of a raincot
But when you think of that you hurt your mind, and you'll need your mind for later on.
Needing your mind for later on is food that comes from a pipe.
But if you eat the food that comes from a pipe, you will turn to drugs to help you sleep.
Turning to drugs to help you sleep will only lead to sleep.
And sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake again.
Being awake is swimming around in a lake of the undead.
And the undead are like a bunch of friends who demand constant attention.
And when they get your attention, they'll use it to get your attention.
And when they get your attention, they'll use it to get your attention."

They Might Be Giants - "Raincoat"

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:07 am

noiseradio wrote:
They Might Be Giants - "Raincoat"

...dang. Gotta love those guys.

Love the Wreckless Eric one, too....

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:22 am

"I launch the bishop of love into the silky abyss
Have you ever felt power throbbing like this
up to the hilt, with no sign of guilt
Oh shit, I've messed up my new patchwork quilt."

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:45 am

there's a bottomless feeling that I just cannot kill...

and, from that same lovely tune -

he watched her pick over her broken playthings, what played on his mind was not love...

I think, if Elvis wrote a song for Gone With the Wind, this would be it, and it would be playing during the scene where Rhett makes Scarlett go to the ball in the red dress (after he's found her in a compromising position with Ashley).

and that's all I have to say about that.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:20 am

For me, it would probably be something from The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come for Free", but it would be hard to pick just one moment. The whole album is a sort of desperate inner monologue over a period of days or weeks. I saw where Elvis compared it to some of the early work of The Kinks, and that seems apt, even if, from a purely musical standpoint, the two have very little in common.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:39 pm

From "Needle Time" only because it is reminscient of the old Elvis, who I admit to missing from time to time.

"I wish that I didn't hate you, at least as much as I do..."

No art, just something that is very real and honest and rock and roll.

There are more artful lyrics to add here, but this is the one that really caught me as an opening line for a "Modern" Elvis song.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:49 pm

Who Shot Sam? wrote:For me, it would probably be something from The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come for Free", but it would be hard to pick just one moment. The whole album is a sort of desperate inner monologue over a period of days or weeks. I saw where Elvis compared it to some of the early work of The Kinks, and that seems apt, even if, from a purely musical standpoint, the two have very little in common.

Me too. I bet Martin is annoyed that Elvis is so keen on the Streets!

How about this beauty:

"I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in."

And there are many others. And on Franz Ferdinand.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:00 pm

Me too. I bet Martin is annoyed that Elvis is so keen on the Streets!

Bloody right!

I dont have much time for lyrics, but for some reason the lyrics to that moronicly catchy Rachel Stevens smash, Some Girls got my attention. It was either the Heys at the end of these lines

My baby drives a car (hey)
He calls me when he wants (hey)

Footloose and fancy-free (hey)
My baby waits for me (hey)

or this line

You made a promise to make me a star

done scarily in a sort of bitter falsetto.

Whatever, I downloded an mp3 of it, distorted it slightly by converting it in to a WAV file, and it's my song of the year, never mind lyric.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:50 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:How about this beauty:

"I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in."

That's one of my faves. I love the little touches - the little bit of the TV that broken round the back, his mobile cutting out, his lame pick up attempt in the McDonald's. There's also something strangely moving about the vacant quality of tracks like "Empty Cans" and "Blinded by the Lights".

I've been listening to the wonderful Futureheads disc again tonight and this one struck me as well, from "Meantime":

"I wasn't laughing properly, when you were talking to me
I didn't find it funny, your story didn't do it for me
False conversations, false conversations
And you thought that i was joking when i said you were a moron
When i said it i was smiling, so you thought that i was joking"

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:09 am

The Streets lyrics are good...but they didn't make me sit up...

I liked this lyric by the poptastic Natasha Bedingfield in the song These Words...

Read some Byron, Shelley and Keates,
recited it over a hip-hop beat
I'm havin trouble sayin what i mean,
with dead poets and a drum machine

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:56 am

Best lyrics of the Century

Well, I went to the doctor
I said, "I'm feeling kind of rough"
He said, "Let me break it to you, son"
Your shit's fucked up."
I said, "my shit's fucked up?"
Well, I don't see how-"
He said, "The shit that used to work-
It won't work now."

I had a dream
Ah, shucks, oh, well
Now it's all fucked up
It's shot to hell

Yeah, yeah, my shit's fucked up
It has to happen to the best of us
The rich folks suffer like the rest of us
It'll happen to you

That amazing grace
Sort of passed you by
You wake up every day
And you start to cry
Yeah, you want to die
But you just can't quit
Let me break it on down:
It's the fucked up shit

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:50 am

That's one of the songs that made me fall in love with Warren Zevon. Cope, you never cease to amaze me.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:22 am

CANDY..so you relate to it too?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:39 pm

one more, just cause.

From Graham Parker's brilliant Fairground -

well the girl who takes the tickets
for the ghost train around the back
looks a lot like Courtney Love
you know a real class act
and I'll bet that that's her boyfriend
who runs the hoopla stand
maybe he's a genius that no one understands
maybe he's an inventor
clever with his hands
right now he's just small time
but he's got big plans
or maybe he's a shifty guy
that's got a violent streak
maybe he's the one who murdered
that clown and got away scot free

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:01 pm

eeeee!

i LOVE this line:

And sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake again.

think it's time to change the sig line.

Mr. Misery · Post by **Mr. Misery** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:37 am

I went through all the posts to make sure no one mentioned this yet! From Lil' Jon's 'Friends and Lovers':

"Opened up your heart 'cause you said I made you feel so comfortable,
Used to play back then, now you all grown-up like Rudy Huxtable."

DreadPirateRoberts · Post by **DreadPirateRoberts** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:09 pm

hello, how're you doin'
what's it like to ruin
all my self esteem?
let me blow off some steam

- from 'best thing you never had', butch walker, letters