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I was pondering this earlier. Is there anything to better Fu Manchu's Ojo Rojo?

'She wanted nothing, and I delivered'

Epic.


 
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"A screen door slams, Mary's dress waves"


 
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'I don’t believe in an interventionist God'.....


 
Posted : 14/08/2017 9:07 pm
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Maybe not the best, but one of my favourites...

[i]Don't call it a come back[/i]

Edit: maybe not the highbrow response the OP was after (-:


 
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When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live


 
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I don't do what you do and you don't do what I do but you should do, you


 
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I'm hot, and when I not, I'm cold as ice.


 
Posted : 14/08/2017 9:17 pm
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Do you have the time to listen to me whine.


 
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Continuing on from thestabiliser's Mancunian post:

"Son, I'm thirty, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty"

"I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me"


 
Posted : 14/08/2017 9:18 pm
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I can already hear your tune, calling me across the room.


 
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Yeah, we're comin' back then with another bombtrack


 
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In Reno town for a few dollars down, you can buy yourself ... a separation
- Tony Christie


 
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Yo, VIP, let's kick it!


 
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It's a big job just gettin by with nine kids and a wife


 
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You may have to rescue me from limestone quarries, frequently.....


 
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"Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man"
Back in 1969, those words made something of an impression.


 
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"Woah to you o' Earth and Sea..."

"Do you know where the **** you are..."


 
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In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man.


 
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I love you from the bottom of my pencil case

Beautiful south.


 
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I must have walked past this doorway 30 times just trying to catch your eye


 
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When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low


 
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Wont you lend your lungs to me, mine are collapsing.


 
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog


 
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Fu Manchu - what a ****in band....!

Saw them live in a very small venue years ago - SO loud n heavy 🙂

Any video with a Sandrail in wins as well!


 
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I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham


 
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

August and Everything After still feels as fresh today as it did back in 93 when I ran down to Woolies to get it.


 
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City girls just seem to find out early how to open doors with just a smile


 
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"I guess I'm still angry, I'm still punching walls that look like you
I drop kicked an old lady, She didn't do anything
There are consequences for inactions, too"

Owen, No Language.


 
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I betcha wonder how I knew....

All men have secrets and here is mine...

Bring the mother f**ckin ruckus

Three that always spring to mind


 
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'I woke up in a Soho doorway,
a policeman knew my name'


 
Posted : 14/08/2017 10:07 pm
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And...

[quote=Kryton57]
"[s]Woah[/s] [b]WOE[/b] to you, oh Earth and Sea..."

Sorry for the pedantry*

*Not sorry


 
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If we're the flagship of peace and prosperity
We're taking on water and about to ******* sink


 
Posted : 14/08/2017 10:11 pm
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Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long


 
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@simonbarnes - that was the first line that immediately sprung to my mind. Second was howsyourdad1's "I betcha wonder how I knew"


 
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Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is a angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough


 
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Poah, finally another ministry fan! 8)


 
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I'm a lineman for the county

Or

Yeaaaahhhhhh boiiiiiiiiiii


 
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You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast

I don't need no one's opinion
On the matter concerning my dress
I was raised in a clinic down in Oklahoma
There were many things I did not possess

Well my name it is Dai Young
I’m the King of Welsh Goth,
The village I come from
Is near Abersoch..


 
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I get violent when I'm swear filtered up,
I get silent when I'm doped up,
I want excitement,
Don't get none I go wild


 
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Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhah!


 
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[i]In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth[/i]


 
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@benjim - Immigrant Song?


 
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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey


 
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Many songs by The Hold Steady have great lyrics and their first lines are no exceptions.

She drove it like she stole it, she stole it fast, with a multitude of casualties.

There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right, boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.

If they ask about Charlemagne, be polite and say something vague, like another lover lost to the restaurant raids.

She said always remember never to trust me, she said that the first night that she met me. She said there's gonna come a time when I'm gonna have to go, with whoever's gonna get me the highest.


 
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