What, no Clash?!

White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own
White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own

Black people gotta lot a problems
But they don’t mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick

An’ everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
An’ nobody wants
To go to jail!

White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own
White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own

All the power’s in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!

White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own
White riot – I wanna riot
White riot – a riot of my own

Are you taking over
or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhEdeq7i10&feature=related[/video]

Rehearsals afoot for the Christmas Play
It’s called “Roll The Square Arthur” and mind what you say
It’s a cricketing farce with a thickening plot
Act One, Scene One – Brenda Blethyn gets shot
Graduated to solids disturbingly early
Graduated to solids disturbingly early
Oh the mummers, the poppers
The Best Of The Coppers
Anyone can join in so I discarded my jeans
And played wine-maddened Pentheus, the King of Thebes
And some Bloomsbury peripheral said I had the best line
Check your sheds, check your sheds, I think I’ve lost my mind!

From: Half Man Half Biscuit: We Built This Village On A Trad. Arr. Tune – lyrics http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/achtung-bono-2005/we-built-this-village-on-a-trad-arr-tune/#ixzz1LVakMtso

Huge selection that I could have chosen by HMHB. Ah, not forgetting:

“I’ve only got 3 bullets and there’s 4 in Motley Crue”

The time I think More clearly, The time I drift away,
Is on the bus-ride that meanders up these valleys of green and grey,
I get to think what might have been and what may yet come true,
and I get to pass the rainy mile thinking of you,
and all the while, all the while, I still hear that call,
to the land of gold and poison that beckons to us all.

nothing changes here very much
you used to say it never will
the pubs are all full on friday nights
and things get started still
we spent hours last week with Billy boy
bleeding, queuing in casualty
staring at the posters we used to laugh about
never-never land, palm trees by the sea

well there was no need for those guys to hurt him so bad
when all they had to do was knock him down
but no-one asks any questions, not any more
since you left this town

and tomorrow brings another train
another young brave steals away
you’re the one I remember
from the valleys of the green and the grey

a mighty fine choice sir!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiQ_7Sj7nWM[/video]

We were a joke at our own record label
They told us, “Make a record, if you’re able”
They told us not to take too many chances
And we pissed away our big advances
The producer we got was a jerk
but White Punks was one song that worked
It was shot in the dark that just missed the mark

inflammation of the foreskin, reminds me of your smile

Monty Python’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases love song (quite possibly the greatest opening line of any song)

Ambition is a beast, accomplishment is what I feed it.

Richard Rich – Run This Town

I feel the pressure, under more scrutiny. And what I do? Act more stupidly.

Kanye West – Can’t Tell Me Nothing

“I had so many problems, and then i got me a walkman”
From,
“I Heard Ramona Sing”
Frank Black.

Does anyone wade through all this self-indulgent crap actually reading it?

Just wondered…

I’d kill myself for you,
I’d kill you for myself.

Pantera – This Love

Well she’s walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that’s running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
That’s all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind.

When I’m sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
It’s alright she says it’s alright
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.

I read all the ones with one or two stanzas. Have you no soul?

binners – Member
Son I’m thirty.
I only went with your mother cos she’s dirty.
And I don’t have a decent bone in me.
What you get is just what you see

Classic
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.
.
.
.
And your face is all see, I’ll tell you why
When you hurry past me, don’t believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you’re not with me

I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you’re a target
Then I guess I’m one too

I don’t believe you, but I won’t believe them too
You mount, and I got nothing left to do
Of problem’s that I think of in my sleep
I don’t want nothing, nothing wrong with me

I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you’re a target
Then I guess I’m one too

No matter what
I’m already gone

No matter what
I can’t think at all

And your face is all see, I’ll tell you why
When you hurry past me, don’t believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you’re not with me

I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you’re a target
Then I guess I’m one too

NO AGE – YOU’RE A TARGET

Not the best ever lyrics but I like listening to it

Expectations, Belle & Sebastien

Tell Veronica the secrets of the boy you never kissed
She’s got everything to gain cause she’s a fat girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs
cause you cant afford a blazer, girl you’re always wearing clogs

Nostalgically: Change in the house of flies, The Deftones. From my first proper girlfriend, “our song”.

I’ve watched you change
Into a fly
I looked away
You were on fire
I watched a change
In you
It’s like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I’ve watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
I watched a change
In you
It’s like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So alive
I’ve watched you change
It’s like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I’ve watched a change
In you
It’s like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I’ve watched you change.
Now you feel Alive
You Feel Alive
I’ve watched you change
It’s like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh

We had a complex relationship!

Does anyone wade through all this self-indulgent crap actually reading it?

Just wondered…

What song is that from 😉

This always weaves a story in my head; The Partisan by Leonard Cohen

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often,
I’ve lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I’m the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.

Les Allemands étaient chez moi,
ils me disent, “résigne toi,”
mais je n’ai pas peur;
j’ai repris mon arme.
J’ai changé cent fois de nom,
j’ai perdu femme et enfants
mais j’ai tant d’amis;
j’ai la France entière.
Un vieil homme dans un grenier
pour la nuit nous a caché,
les Allemands l’ont pris;
il est mort sans surprise.

[The Germans were at my home
They said, “Surrender yourself”
But I am not afraid
I have retaken my weapon
I have changed names a hundred times
I have lost wife and children
But I have so many friends
I have all of France
An old man, in an attic
Hid us for the night
The Germans captured him
He died without surprise.]

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.

This from Nick Cave

“I will kneel at your feet
I will lie at your door
I will rock you to sleep
I will roll on the floor
And I’ll ask for nothing
Nothing in this life
I’ll ask for nothing
Give me ever-lasting life”

and these from Placebo

“Farewell the ashtray girl
Forbidden snowflake
Beware this troubled world
Watch out for earthquakes
Goodbye to open sores
To broken centre floor
We know we miss her
We miss her picture “
….

“I’m unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen,
I seem to lose the power of speech,
You’re slipping slowly from my reach.
You grow me like an evergreen,
You never see the love in me at all”

All the lyrics from Tattooed Beat Messiah by Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction…..

Filthy, dirty, rock n roll yeah 😀

Excellent thread!

johnners – Member

Does anyone wade through all this self-indulgent crap actually reading it?

Just wondered…

Yes, course – don’t just post to hear the sound of my own bloody voice, what would be the point in that?

Beej, you’re right, far to many brilliant Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics to choose from.

But lets have another go anyway 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuiWmVHd8M[/video]

Well my name it is Dai Young
I’m the King of Welsh Goth
The village I come from
Is near Abersoch
I was brought up on Bauhaus
And black bedroom walls
And I had my first Snakebite
When I was in halls

Now the graveyard is calling
The sky’s getting greyer
I’ll drink the warm blood of
The Borough Surveyor
And I’ll murder the verger
I’ve seen how he gawps
And I’ll write on his headstone:
“Here lies Jones the Corpse”

Now my overweight girlfriend
She sits and she crimps
Her mother’s convinced she’s
Communing with imps
Her brother’s alright though
He’s a good lad is Wilf
‘Cos he’s into Placebo
And Cradle Of Filth

At my gig up in Butlins
The Redcoats complained
They tried to remove me
The bottles they rained
But for the first time in history
I didn’t run and hide
And the scousers in shellsuits
Had goths on their side

Now this Land Of My Fathers
It don’t suit my needs
I’d rather be some place
Like Bradford or Leeds
Where the Gipton teenagers
Could meet in my shed
For advice on mascara
And all things undead

Now my left index finger
Is nine inches long
It’s hovering over
A world that’s gone wrong
Ask me to Prestatyn
And that’s what I’ll do
And we’ll all die together
And Dylan can’t sue

The ammunition’s been passed,
And the lords been praised
But the wars on the television will never be explained
All the bankers getting sweaty beneath their white collars
As the pound in their pocket turns
Into a dollar
This is the 51st state of the USA.

always thought this was appropriate for this forum 😉

We need so damn many things
To keep our dazed lives going
Many things
To keep our lives
Lives going
So many things

We need so damn many things
To keep our stupid lives going
Many things
To keep our lives
Lives going
So many things

We can be bound, run around
Fooled animal bite its tail
Animal,
He has been bound
Run around
Around and Round

joolsburger- Great song and album that

Now I’m walkin down the street with some chicken and a forty
I’m yellin at these hoochies and I’m lookin for a party
Drink it fast, make it last, till you know it ain’t no mo’
Run outta doe, slap the hoe,
get the do’ and go back to that liquor sto’

[Chorus – repeat 4X]
Afroman likes tall cans

Now I’m a afroholic, call me Afroman
Love to sag my khakis with a tall can
My homies pop the forty of some St. I’s
Now that mother uh! staggerin from side to side
We the loudest homeboys in my neighborhood
We look real bad but we feel so good
My thirst is quenched but my cravin won’t extinguish
I need some forty ounce mother uh! Old English
Put the top in my mouth put the bottom to the ceilin
Drink it down down until I get that crazy feelin
Now just walkin down the street with some chicken and a forty
I’m yellin at these hoochies and I’m lookin for a party
Drink it fast, make it last, till you know it ain’t no mo’
Run outta doe, slap the hoe,
get the do’ and go back to that liquor sto’

[Chorus]

See these girls be actin all bad and rude
Always gotta bad attitude
See I just wanna dance, why can’t you get the picture
Act like a brother wanna move in with cha
I gots no fame, I gots no wealth
So I whined up dancin by my God damn self
But I pay my money, just like you
And baby I’ma do what I came to do
You see I can’t wait around till I get rich
Just to make yo gold diggin attitude switch
So I’m walkin down the street with some chicken and a forty
I’m yellin at these hoochies and I’m lookin for a party
Drink it fast, make it last, till you know it ain’t no mo’
Run outta doe, slap the hoe,
get the do’ and go back to that liquor sto’
etc etc

Genius 😀

While riding on a train goin’ west
I feel asleep for take my a rest
I dreamed a dream that make me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin’ and singing ’till the early hours of the morn’.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words were told, our songs were songs
Where we longed for nothin’ and were satisfied
Joking and talking about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
Our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I’ve never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

With you in that dress
My thoughts, I confess
Verge on dirty.
Ah, come on Eileen

and acca dacca…

I’m living in a nightmare
She’s looking like a wet dream
I got myself a Cadillac
But I can’t afford the gasoline

“Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and fate

I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moments of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a General’s rank
When the Blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank”
——————————
“Somewhere, between heaven and the landing ramp is the sacred mathematics of chance, the calculated risk, and the wind whipping you in the f%ing eyes, and the sharp metallic taste of life and death.

And there is a moment of utter calm there in midair. A moment of sheer silence and peace before you hear, as if in a dream, the sound of your own voice going “oh shit”.

Evel Knievel at the top of his takeoff ramp in 1967, with a f%ing earthquake in his chest and all 30 feet of intestines clenched against the concrete’s puckered lips. Evel saying goodbye to the mother of his kids. Daddy’s job is dangerous. Daddy’s job is to swim out further and further into the ocean. He comes back to them broken and never for very long.

At a press conference he tells the reporter, “This is what you call a one shot deal and I don’t come back for any late show, honey. No I have not practiced the jump, because there is no use practicing something you cannot miss, and if I miss the jump in a test run that means I’m dead and I will not ever get to do it for real, so this is what you call a f%king one shot deal. “”
B Dolan, “Skycycle Blues”

Mmm. Let’s see. 2010 solo-airs probably. Not a fan of the 2-step versions.

Yeah. Them my fave lyrics.
😆

One that makes me smile by Dre…

You can give me some head, but keep the breakfast in bed
I’d rather spend my morning digging through some records instead

Lyrically my favourite album is ‘Illmatic’ by Nas. Pretty much the whole thing is genius.

We owe you nothing
You have no control
You are not what you own

merchandise – fugazi

alternatively:

how many times can you bounce up and down
on satans big ol trampoline?
i do not know
but i`ll let you have a go
on satans big ol trampoline

satans trampoline – lawnmower deth

I love this verse from ‘Brother my cup is empty ‘ By Nick Cave

Well I’ve been sliding down on rainbows
Well I’ve been swinging from the stars
Now this wretch in beggars clothing
Bangs his cup across the bars
Look, this cup of mine is empty!
Seems I’ve misplaced my desires
Seems I’m sweeping up the ashes
Of all my former fires
So brother, be a brother
And fill this tiny cup of mine
And please, sir, make it whiskey
For I have no head for wine

“tomorrow holds no promise, live life while you can”
“if it was you or the sun, i’d chose eternal darkness to spend one more moment with you”

“freedom comes from inside” – textures

“without my existence
you are nothing
without my affection
you wilt… you wilt”
– The Dillinger Escape Plan – Sunshine the werewolf (quite possibly my favourite vocal section in a metal track, pure venom and anger)

+1 Emsz, going to have that playing at my wedding in two weeks time whilst we sign the registers! 1st dance has now been changed from Take That to ‘One day like this’;

Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun

What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel
It’s silly wrong but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like the final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Oh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

When my face is chamois-creased
If you think I’ll wink, I did
Laugh politely at repeats
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see you like
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year’d see me right!

One that always stops me in my tracks, in fact most of that album does;

“i think it’s dark and it looks like rain” you said
“and the wind is blowing like it’s the end of the
world” you said “and it’s so cold it’s like the
cold if you were dead” and then you smiled for
a second.

“i think i’m old and i’m in pain” you said
“and it’s all running out like it’s the end of the
world” you said “and it’s so cold it’s like the
cold if you were dead” and then you smiled for
a second

sometimes you make me feel like i’m living at
the edge of the world like i’m living at the edge
of the world “it’s just the way i smile” you said

The Cure ‘Plainsong’

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

Scratching in your hen house
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray

Sex farm woman, I’m gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I’ll rake and hoe you down
Sex farm woman, don’t you see my silo rising high?

Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering your livestock
They know what I need

Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your bean field
Planting my seed

Sex farm woman, I’ll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I’ll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don’t you hear my tractor rumbling by?

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

All the lyrics from Tattooed Beat Messiah by Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction…..

Oh yes.

For balance
So I broke into the palace
With a sponge and rusty hammer
She said ‘Eh, I know you and you canbot sing
I said ‘Thats nothing you should hear me play piano’

The devine comedy – through a long and sleepless night

Then again you could try just to live your own life
In the way that you find most amusing
I DON’T REALLY CARE!

Or loads of HMHB or Dylan should cover it…

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

I plant the kind of kiss
That wouldn’t wake a baby
On the self same face
The lie wouldn’t let me sleep

emsz+1

Saw them this year again, disappointed to not hear anything from AITB but good gig anyway 🙂

other favourite lines..

The man on the door has a head like Mars
Like a baby born to the doors of the bars
Surrounded by steam with his folded arms
He’s got that urban genie thing going on

What a beautiful day,
I’m the king of all time,
Nothing is impossible,
In my all powerful mind.

That song, and the rest of the Levellers albums, are in the process of getting me through some particularly tough times.

Gallows have also got some great lyrics 😆

My name is Casanova
I’m basically a man
I have the head of a wolf
The appetite of an entire land
This song is going out to the girls
You’re all looking **** fine
Baby spread those shaking legs
Because I’m feeling **** hungry tonight
I like to feed on broken hearts
There ain’t no taste like lovers falling apart

If I offer to buy you a drink
Trust me when I say it’s non-alcoholic
You’re no good to me if you can’t even speak
I don’t want you passing out when your sucking my dick
If I offer to buy you a drink
Trust me when I say it’s non-alcoholic
I want you to wake up and remember my name
When you’re washing my cum off your **** face

My name is Casanova
I’m basically a man
I have the head of a wolf
The appetite of an entire land
This song is going out to the girls
You’re all looking well buff
I’m sick of all this long term shit
I just wanna ****

I like to feed on broken hearts
There ain’t no taste like lovers falling apart

If I offer to buy you a drink
Trust me when I say it’s non-alcoholic
You’re no good to me if you can’t even speak
I don’t want you passing out when your sucking my dick
If I offer to buy you a drink
Trust me when I say it’s non-alcoholic
I want you to wake up and remember my name
When you’re washing my cum off your **** face

My name is Casanova
I’m nothing but a beast
Girl the way you’re shaking those hips
Has got me ready for a **** feast
This song is going out to the girls
I want to feel your body close against mine
Why waste time with conversation
When we can **** for the rest of our lives

The hardest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return

“There are a thousand things” he said “I’ll never say those things to you again”
And turning on his heel,
He left a trace of bubbles bleeding in his stead,
And in her head,
A picture of the boy who left her lonely in the rain,
And all around the night sang out like Cockatoos.