I would have gone for this one 🙂 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
Finished 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!
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
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”
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!
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