Most memorable music lyrics

[potsdam_11]

One of my favorite lines of all times... from the Moody Blues

"Blasting, billowing, bursting forth,
with the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes"


Still causes a smile...

[Badgepack]

More 80's

Starz - "Boys in Action"

"When we come it tastes just like a milkshake"

[superfan]

This is one of my favorite song bites for its simplicity, rhythym and overall blasphemy of basic English grammar rules.

"Where your eyes don't go", They Might be Giants

"Every jumbled pile of person
has a thinking part
that wonders what the part
that isn't thinking
isn't thinking of."

[superfan]

Here's a portion of lyrics from "Hold On" by Yes, album titled 90125. Lyrics are solid on their own merit, but the manner in which they are delivered really makes them special. One of my favorite albums growing up.

Talk the simple smile
Such platonic eye
How they drown in incomplete capacity
Strangest of them all
When the feeling calls
How we drown in stylistic audacity
Charge the common ground
Round and round and round
We living in gravity
Shake - We shake so hard
How we laugh so loud
When we reach
We believe in eternity
I believe in eternity
Hold on - Hold on

[K-town]

Dropkick Murphys
"Bastards on Parade"

I've lost all the time that I have in this world
I spent it unwisely. Unwisely you see
And I can't get it back
And I can't move forward
I'm broken and I'm empty
It's over for me

If I could undo all the wrongs that I've caused
Fall to my knees pray for swiftness and just
For I'm just a fool
A fool driven to dust
And the world ain't gonna change for me

So give me one more chance to prove these problems and frustrations
aren't just manifest in memories we're destined to repeat
A second chance to prove I know right from wrong
I swear I'll do things different but can't promise to be strong

So come on all you losers, you bastards and cheats
Vagrants and barflies down on the streets
Follow this path to salvation vindication awaits
We're marching on East Broadway streets tonight

If you can look into this old face and try to see the young man
I swear I once was pretty, not the monster you now see
But I squandered all my chances
Lost my faith and took for granted
This life and precious one chance the whirlwind I'll reep

If I could undo all the wrongs that I've caused
Fall to my knees pray for swiftness and just
For I'm just a fool
A fool driven to dust
And the world ain't gonna change for me

So come on all you losers, you bastards and cheats
Vagrants and barflies down on the streets
Follow this path to salvation vindication awaits
We're marching on East Broadway streets tonight

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Blotto--"I Wanna Be A Lifeguard"

Selling shoes
Another loser working in a shopping mall
9 to 5
A slave driver telling me "Get on the ball!"
A crowded store
I kneel before them
Misery beyond compare
Sweaty socks
A lady boxer
What's she got against fresh air?
I want an ocean and some sunscreen lotion
Take me to the beach with a thousand pretty girls in reach
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (help,help,help,help)
I, I, I wanna guard your life
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (lifeguard, lifeguard)
Hardly any clothes (lifeguard)
Sand between my toes (lifeguard)
White stuff on my nose
Selling shoes
Another loser working in a shopping mall
I'm getting fat
What does it matter?
Nobody cares at all
But next July, I'll say goodbye to every out-of-it, dull-witted fool
Convert their feet into meters, marking distance at the swimming pool
Summer blondes revealing tanlines
I'll make more moves than Allied Van Lines
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (be a big man, now...get a great tan, now)
I, I, I wanna guard your life
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (lifeguard, lifeguard)
Sitting on my chair (lifeguard)
In the salty air (lifeguard)
White stuff on my nose
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (help,help,help,help)
I, I, I wanna guard your life
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (lifeguard, lifeguard)
Lounging on the deck (lifeguard)
Whistle 'round my neck (lifeguard)
White stuff in my nose
I, I, I wanna be a lifeguard (lifeguard, lifeguard)

Wow, haven't thought about that song since maybe 85, when I worked as a lifeguard at a small suburban pool outside of Miltown.

Remember some angry fan upset over Metal Head and slamming the guitar playing. Total "burn" when noted that Buck Dharma was the guitarist.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Iron Mike, Bonus points for identifying this classic 80s rock/disco tune.

In a jungle of the senses
Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper
Love has no meaning, not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple
Very little fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully correctly wrong

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
From the juices of the dying
We are no monsters, we're moral people
And yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendour of our achievement
Call in the airstrike with a poison kiss

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

How bad it gets, you can't imagine
The burning wax, the breath of reptiles
God is not mocked, he owns our business
Karma could take us at any moment
Cover him up, I think we're finished
You know it's never been so exotic
But I don't know, my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home...

[Iron Mike]

That's Shriekback, but I'll be damned if I can remember the title....

Where've you been, BTW?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

That's Shriekback, but I'll be damned if I can remember the title....

Where've you been, BTW?

Title: Nemesis. I thought you would get it by reading the lyrics. Whenever you post 80s I know, if you were in wisco that we were at the same shows or listened to alot of the same bands. Blotto...you really pulled one out there. Not to may "humor" bands did i like..maybe them and the Tubes, Oingo Boingo. But, that was a great time to be watching MTV. Everyday you'd discover something new. SIGH.

Got me thinking about all old bands I was listening to back then...dream syndicate, 3 o'clock, Dbs, Wire Train, Let's active, translator, Golden Palominos, etc. Big jangle psych pop fan.

Where I been? First, i'm always lurking, but not always thrilled with the threads or subject matter. Plus, i don't like to get involved in the little squables..partial, etc.

Second, busy working. Gotta make the dollars. 2nd and 3rd quarter are the big quarters in my line of work, so working hard and little time on the road.

Third, like to inflict a little heartache on the FYI thread on jsonline. According to Lamboo and TPB i'm a traiterous, anti american liberal scum. LOL

Lastly, SHOWS. Brilliant show by The Clientele..one of my favs. Next 2 weeks include: The Long Winters, Phoenix (and I live in Phx, ahh, the irony), Massive Attack, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Black Keys, Sparta etc.

I think you told me about LUCERO..they are coming in October.

Good shows or music for you?

[Badgepack]

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

"Rave On"

Well the little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you
Rave on it's a crazy feelin and
I know its got me reelin
When you say, I love you
Rave on

The way you dance and hold me tight
The way you kiss and say goodnight
Rave on it's a crazy feelin and
I know its got me reelin
When you say, I love you
Rave on

Well rave on
Its a crazy feelin
and I know
Its got me reelin
Im so glad
That you're revealin your love for me

Well rave on
Rave on and tell me
Tell me
Not to be lonely
Tell me
You love me only
Rave on to me

Well rave on
Its a crazy feelin
and I know
Its got me reelin
Im so glad
That you're revealin your love for me

Well rave on
Rave on and tell me
Tell me
Not to be lonely
Tell me
You love me only
Rave on to me

Best song ever in my opinion,

Just talked to one of Holly's back-up singers in the day, and listened to a special on Holly on BBC radio, and thought I'd post the lyrics.

[Noodle]

Eight friggin pages of lyrics, and not one Stones song. You people sicken me.

How's about a little nasty something called Stray Cat Blues (obviously a favorite of Bill Wyman) from Beggars Banquet:

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs
I know you're no scare-eyed honey.
There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

I can see that you're fifteen years old
No I don't want your I.D.
I can see you're so far from home
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Bet your mama don't know you scream like that
I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that.

You look so weird and you're so far from home
But you don't really miss your mother
Don't look so scared I'm no mad-brained bear
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
Oh, yeah
Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scatch like that
I bet she don't know you can bite like that.

You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you
Why don't you bring her upstairs
If she's so wild then she can join in too
It's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
I bet you mama don't know you can bite like that
I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back


This is from 1968 and it's got it all -- even the suggestion of a 3-way. All other bands must bow and lick the boots of the mighty Stones. Of course, now that I have teen-age daughters, the song has lost some of its charm.

[justanotherpackfan]

http://www.rapnews.net/0-202-261390-00.html?tag=relnav

[MJZiggy]

Dangit, I have a song stuck in my head and to top it all off, it's an obscure Christmas tune. Maybe because I just preordered my Christmas concert tix? But still. Aaarrrghh.

[Harlan Huckleby]

It's no capital crime

Depends on which state. I'll bet they have death penalty for statutory rape in Texas.

[Joemailman]

It's no capital crime

Depends on which state. I'll bet they have death penalty for statutory rape in Texas.

Unless you play football.