"I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl"
"I'm on the chopping block
Chopping off my stopping thought
Self doubt and selfism
Were the cheapest things I ever bought …"
Antigee ..
I would have gone for this one 🙂
[i]Stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging
Hear the cavemen singing
Good news they're bringing[/i]
.....and why notfasthaggis - Member
Antigee ..I would have gone for this one....
tomhoward - MemberFinished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind.
That's a good call. Continuing the Sabbath theme, 'wheels of confusion' is up there with
'long ago I wandered through my mind'
A good opening lyric isn't just good in isolation, it lets you know exactly what the script is. Which in the case of the above is 'Sabbath are taking WAY too much coke, this is going to get messy'. Which it did.
A spider wonders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow,
Not the regal creature of border caves!
But, the poor misguided directionless familiar of some obscure scottish poet!
The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope.........
'Sabbath are taking WAY too much coke, this is going to get messy'. Which it did.
Yeah but [i]what[/i] a mess! Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener is off the scale brilliant isn't it?
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and
Things to make it look good.
Everyone in Nacogdoches just knew Tom Ames
would come to some bad end
Well the sheriff had caught him stealing chickens and such
by the time that he was ten
Well one day his daddy took a ten dollar bill
and he tucked in his hand
He said "I can tell you're headed for trouble son
and your momma wouldn't understand"
Well he took the money and his brother's old bay
and left without a word of thanks.
He fell in with a crowd in some border town
and took to robbing banks.
Might be pushing 'opening lyric', but it's ace nonetheless
35 dollars and a six-pack to my name! SIX PACK!!
The moment I wake up,
Before I put on my makeup...
Well you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red...
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news
Leaning in your corner like a candidate for wax,
"I am a lineman for the county"
Topical, but probably would have been my choice anyway.
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café
Nico - Member
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café
that was on my list along with
"Look out the left the captain said
The lights down there, that's where we'll land"
Malvern Rider - Member
Kick out the jams, m********ers !
Yeah! I, I, I, I, I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick 'em out ! Yeah !
Oi you get your own suggestions.
'I ride, I ride the wind that brings the rain, a creature of love, and I can't be tamed'
Wild Child -WASP.
😉
"the trouble with your brother, he's always sleeping with your mother.
and you know your sister's missed her time again this month."
Philip Duke of Anjou
Now I'm happy to kneel beside you
To witness the burden you bear
Silently, silently bowing in prayer
"masturbation saved my life"
Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
"All of your friends are c***ts, and your mother is a ball point pen thief."
Or...
"My name is Dai Young. I'm the king of Welsh goth."
Oh, and +1 for Mama Said Knock You Out!
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
if i leave here tomorrow
will you still remember me?
The ambulance sirens rang as they wheeled her to the stand
Feathered, tarred and handcuffed to a stretcher
Another James entry:
Ladies and gentlemen, here's my disease
Give me a standing ovation and your sympathy
Poor old Johnny Yen set himself on fire again
keep reading through this wondering how many appear in Mint Sauce strips.
If you're havin girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Joan of Arc had a dildo named Jesus
Made of wood from the cross of its namesake
She considered the splinters atonement
And when she came it would fill her with light!
Ever seen a blind man cross the road
Trying to make the other side?
Ever seen a young girl growing old
Trying to make herself a bride?
He was just a social drinker but social every night
He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four
She was just a silent thinker, silent every night
He'd enjoy the thought of killing her before
J Edgar Hoover was a sinister man
He had a sinister face and a sinister plan
Although he was sinister, it must be said
J Edgar Hoover never hoovered my head
Well some people try to pick up girls and get called an asshole
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt all right to me.
why all the bleedin' english? How about:
Wham! Bam! Mon chat 'Splash'
Gît sur mon lit, à bouffé sa langue
En buvant tronc mon whisky
Quant à moi, peu dormi, vidé, brimé
J'ai du dormir dans la gouttière
Où j'ai eu un flash
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou! En quatre couleurs
Actually here's one I really do like:
Si yo fuera Maradona
Viviría como él
("If I was Maradona, I would live just like him". I don't speak Spanish.)
Nice to see some Trouble Gum references here. Some belters on that album.
I remember putting it on in my mums car for the first play and seeing her face when it went:
"I'm gunna get drunk, come round and **** you up"
Oh they joys of teenhood.
I met this girl she looked like Axl Rose,
Got drunk,took her home and we slept in our clothes
(This one was written some time ago. Obviously.)
'Too many Florence Nightingales not enough Robin Hoods ...'
"In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name"
[i]Sign of the Times, Prince[/i]
"Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again"
[i]The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel[/i]
I think jimi won this in the 60s! 😆
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand!
Please..........
Reminds me of a bar I used to go in in Abergavenny
😀
'The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves'
Sorry to be pedantic surfer, but this needs to be right.........
the opening line in plaistow patricia -- ian drury and blockheads -- can't post it as it is deemed against the filters
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
I first heard this late one night, I think it might have been Janis Long playing it, and it was Tori Amos covering it, from one of her EP's.
It sent cold shivers all over me, I'd never heard it before, and it has particular resonance with the events taking place in Charlotte now.
The original is Strange Fruit, by Billie Holliday, for anyone not familiar with it.
"inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile"
The sexually transmitted diseases love song, by Eric Idle : one of the great but underrated british songwriters
my favourite Elvis lyric
"She wears a wedding ring her sister left to throw them off the scent"
'They say don't look to heaven because it's just too far away, well I've heard it's just like here except beauty don't decay'
"Is she really going out with him?"
and
"Hello.Hello.Hello - HaHaHa"
Better stop dreaming of the quiet life, cause its one we'll never know.
I was five and he was six...
Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang
There's the whole of life in that song
LS - Member
'Sabbath are taking WAY too much coke, this is going to get messy'. Which it did.
Yeah but what a mess! Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener is off the scale brilliant isn't it?
Yea, I suspect if you could list every track you've ever listened to on 'number of plays - highest to lowest', wheels of confusion would probably be top for me. Volume 4 would probably do the same for the album list...
They went too far though, if they'd kept to Volume 4 levels of wastedness they might not have produced this:
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muppetWrangler - Member"Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again"
The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
Oooft, I'd forgotten that one. Classic.
"You've been on my mind, like a tumour, eating away at my every thought."
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tainted hair...
:Kenny rogers Ruby dont take your love to town.
Daddy? Yes son? what does regret mean? Well son, a funny thing about regret is..its better to regret something that you have done than something you havent done, and by the way..if you see your mom this weekend be sure and tell her.. satan! satan! satan! :Butthole surfers Sweat loaf
Malvern Rider - Member
Kick out the jams, m*****ers !
Yeah! I, I, I, I, I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick 'em out ! Yeah !Oi you get your own suggestions.
Indeed, you really should (mother*er)...
You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch people's heads a roll
Never more appropriate than since Trump came to power. He makes the person I assume was the original subject of the ditty seem quite tame...
As boys we ****ed each other. as men we lie and smile;
Bonnie Prince Billy - New Tibet
For the impact:
Straight outta Compton, crazy mother****er named Ice Cube
I guess I should of known
By the way you parked your car sideways
That it wouldn't last
I like bouncing boing boing boing
Up and down until I get a pain in me groin
"Is she really going out with him?"
Well the opening line is "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street" - which is pretty good.
How about "Arseholes, bastards, *ing *s and pricks" - Ian Dury, Plaistow Patricia (EDIT - just spotted it had previously been mentioned).
or
"I love a good bum on a woman it makes my day" - Jake Thackray, On Again, On Again.
Ooh, another one
"Many well dressed people in several locations are kissing quite a bit".
Well the opening line is "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street"
*Shakes head*
Need to read up on your punk grandad.
Ah, there's still a generation gap then?
Woke Up This Morning, Put On My Sunday Shoes. Don't Ask Me Why, It's Just The Nature Of My Groove. ...
After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
Would you put on that long white gown
And burn like there's no more tomorrows?
Hello don't you know me
I'm the dirt beneath your feet
Ah, The Wind cries Mary. Sublime.
"Déjà Vu"
If I had been God
I would have rearranged the veins in the face to make them more resistant to alcohol and less prone to aging
Roger Waters
I am angry, I am ill and I'm ugly as sin,
My irritabilty keeps me alive and kicking
OK another Jake Thackray one:
Breasts and thighs that hypnotise me,
Galvanise me, so agonisingly,
But such a size that, not surprisingly,
She can hardly move at all.
Pretty inappropriate given recent events but I always liked;
This is how it works
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
Well the opening line is "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street"
*Shakes head*Need to read up on your punk grandad.
Punk? He may be slow but the old codger is right!
When I was a young boy My mama said to me
"There's only one girl in the world for you And she probably lives in Tahiti."
Punk? He may be slow but the old codger is right!
He was once almost nibbled to death by an Okapi.
That kind of thing leaves scars.
Then there's the scabies.....
Strolling along minding my own business
Well there goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down
Somewhere, there's a country you remember from your youth
Imagine there's no heaven , it's easy if you try.
No hell below us , above us only sky
Don't pay the ferryman
Don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman
Until he gets you to the other side