Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town

I’m no expert, but I’d be willing to hazard a guess that it will take place at the town jail.

🙂

Some towns have more than 1 jail!

You fell for the classic double swerve

Phil Lynott when asked how it feels to be black and Irish..

‘very much like a pint of guinness..’

Thick? Maybe, but he sure was a crap lyric writer

‘Like thunder and lightening!..goddam it’s so exiting’

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ql1lQ41Vc[/video]

I thought his lyrics pretty good 😉

Oh oh, poor Romeo, he’s all on his own-io 😆

Whack for my daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar-o.

(JOKE!)

dead thick

Metaphor
met·a·phor

a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea. For example: “Her eyes were glistening jewels”.

I’m a mad sexual rapist (now that is one of his!)

i’m a bit thick, i read that as Phill Liggett.

His missus was gorgeous, I remember that!

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i’m a bit thick, i read that as Phill Liggett.

Now he IS a bit thick!

🙂

You now got me listening and playing along to youtube Thin Lizzy 8)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD7VWZxjbk[/video]

Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town

Obviously prescient. Railing against the forthcoming Apple hegemony.

On a separate note, listened to bits of ‘live and dangerous’ a few weeks back for the first time in years. Still sounded great.

igmc.

Metaphor

oh wise one.. Pray tell the true meaning of

I can hear the hound dogs on my trail
All hell breaks loose, alarms and sirens wail

I saw him in concert , he asked the ladeez if they had any irish in them , and iif not would they like some , not that effffffing thick methinks

Some towns have more than 1 jail!

Particularly likely in this case as the Overmaster’s ‘lust for ultimate power had become an obsession. Religion and the media were all under his control and computer files were kept on all known persons within the city zones.

Many were arrested and jailed.’

Quite possibly more than one jail needed in the city zone for such an oppressive regime.

(My brother had the gatefold LP! Which I studied in great detail as a kid! :D) (the back story of the album was inside the cover BTW)

Rock gods don’t have to be right or cool to be rock gods! 😉

(and Danny Baker’s jailbreak joke still going strong after all these years! who’d ‘ave funk it?)

More magic from Phil

Friday night they’ll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino’s bar and grill
The drink will flow and blood will spill
And if the boys want to fight, you’d better let them

My worry is the ‘And’ in the last line. So the blood was being spilt before the fighting started? What are they up to?

Vampires?
Although that would be the wrong way round too wouldn’t it?
unless you’d spilt their pint of course!
There, perfect sense! 😉

Compared to most lyricists of the era he was a poetic genius!

+1!

I’ve got two copies of the gatefold album 8)

Gotta love Lizzy!

i’m a bit thick, i read that as Phill Liggett.

+1

took me a while too 🙄

Maybe he actually said “Andy, if the boys want to fight, you’d better let them” referring to his friend Andrew who ran a boxing gym and was waiting to hear from Phil whether the match could start or not? This of course after the fighting and drinking in the pub has gone on. That would be perfectly plausible.

slow day at the office then everyone?

No that’s not a frickin lyric!!!!!

“the weather is something of a damp squid”

His missus was gorgeous, I remember that!

She was Leslie Crowther’s daughter IIRC.

I reckon she still is

Poetic genius.. When did lyrics ever have to make sense?

He was clumsy too: “I always get chocolate stains on my pants.”

Lol @ DezB – I meant was as in Crowther is now very dead 🙂

I loved Thin Lizzy, still do. I was sad when Phil died. Anyway in those days if you were worrying about the lyrics you hadn’t taken enough drugs.

Maybe there was more than one jail in ‘this town’?

I do love Thin Lizzy, listened to [/i]Dancing in the Moonlight in my van today, what a cool song!

No sure about the ‘chocolate stains on my pants’ line though 🙄

Saw Lizzy four or five times, on the Rosain Dubh and Johnny The Fox tours, Reading twice, and I think there was at least one other tour as well, and saw him on what I’m sure was his last ever tour with Grand Slam, at Golddiggers in Chippenham, not long before he died. Brilliant front man, true rock’n’roll star. Regarding that lyric, there’s a great many far worse than that; “…sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an Empress above the Serengeti” really makes my teeth hurt every time I hear it. Grrrrrr.
Oh, and Caroline, his missus, was/is lovely. Sad loss.

probably more interesting than people on an internet cycling based forum. probably.

I saw Thin Lizzy half a dozen times – I was at one of the concerts ( glasgow apollo 1977) that live and dangerous was recorded at ( well some bits of it)

compared toe the other bands I liked at the time the lyrics are clear concise and meaningful. Rush, Genesis, Hawkwind etc

Singer in possibly a bit thick shocker.

They don’t get into singing because they’re smart, they get into singing because school is a drag and seems awfully hard work. Perhaps a bit too hard work.

I’ve got no problem with it but it does make me laugh the amount of people who hang on every word that comes out of pop group singers mouths like it was a modern day scripture.

It’s fun, but don’t ever pretend it’s important.

So the challenge for Friday is to identify a town with more than one jail. And it must be a town not a city.