Great Song Lines

[jonthefox]

Just the other day 

I thought I’d ditch me bird 

she was hanging round me neck

like a love sick turd 

 

 

Macc Lads 😎

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

Just the other day 

I thought I’d ditch me bird 

she was hanging round me neck

like a love sick turd 

 

 

Macc Lads 😎

Bloody hell I'd forgotten about the Macc Lads 

 

Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of chips
Sweaty Betty, she's got massive tits
Sweaty Betty, she's got a huge vagina
Sweaty Betty, you'd fit a bus inside her

[Milo]

Me I've just died
But some machine keeps on humming
I'm just an extra piece of dead meat to keep running

 

 

Tubeway Army, late 70's. Always stuck with me for some reason.

 

Also:

 

I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear

 

Is probably the best ever line written in one of the best ever songs written, imo.

 

 

I think context and zeitgeist-ness has to be taken into account, when revisiting these kind of things...   

 

[Alf Bentley]

Could pick so many, but here's 3......

 

Wreckless Eric:

"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'

I'd go the whole wide world
Go the whole wide world just to find her"

 

Bruce Springsteen:

"Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run"

 

Gang of Four:

"Your kiss so sweet

Your sweat so sour
Sometimes I'm thinking that I love you
But I know it's only lust
The change will do you good
I always knew it would
You know the change will do you good
You know the change will do you good

Damaged goods
Send them back 
I can't work, I can't achieve 
Send me back 
Open the till 
Give me the change you said would do me good
Refund the cost 
You said you're cheap but you're too much"

[RoboFox]

“I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news“
 

Des’ree’s “Life”. Pure lyrical magic.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

Typically bonkers lyrics from Mozza:

 

I was delayed, I was way-laid
An emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make a shy, bald, Buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder

 

The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

 

 

On a more simple level...:

 

Guilty Feet Have Got No Rhythm

 

A genius line written by George Michael when he was just 17.

SEVENTEEN !!

[PAULCFC]

Could be wrong, i could be right! p.i.l.

[pSinatra]

There was one in a gang who had Scalextric

And because of that - he thought he was better than you

Every day after school, you'd go round there to play it

Hoping to compete for some kind of Championship

And it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up

And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work

 

It was a dodgy transformer

 

Half Man Half Biscuit - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit

[Jimothy]

12 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Come on guys, you all know the best is this beauty from Des'ree's Life 

 

I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news

 

8 hours ago, RoboFox said:

“I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news“
 

Des’ree’s “Life”. Pure lyrical magic.

[Crinklyfox]

It's funny how I could never cry

Until tonight when you passed by

Hand in hand with another guy

You're dressed to kill, and guess who's dying

 

Roxy Music, Dance Away

[Wakeyfox]

See I reckon you're about an eight or a nine, 

Maybe even nine and a half in four beers time. 

 

The Streets

[StanSP]

I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news

[PaddyS]

16 hours ago, Izzy said:

Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty

 

(Happy Mondays, Kinky Afro)

My favourite opening line ever. And probably true (or something similar) for so many families.

[joachim1965]

"No oven no pie"

Everly pregnant brothers.

[Jimothy]

16 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news

Knot seen that one before.

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, pSinatra said:

There was one in a gang who had Scalextric

And because of that - he thought he was better than you

Every day after school, you'd go round there to play it

Hoping to compete for some kind of Championship

And it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up

And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work

 

It was a dodgy transformer

 

Half Man Half Biscuit - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit

Fvckin brilliant  

 

Reminds me of another classic of theirs...

 

I went dans la cuisine in a bilinguistic mood
And Morphy Richards popped up with the goods
I was feeling ‘Hungary’ both this morning and last night
And with an appetite like that you see the woods
I was a teenage armchair Honved fan

 

HMHB - I was a teenage armchair Honved fan

[boots60]

Sitting on a corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

 

John Lennon 1967  (Genius or nutter?)

[joachim1965]

4 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Sitting on a corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

 

John Lennon 1967  (Genius or nutter?)

Bit of both, but absolute legend.

[Guest Manini]

Called up to listen to the voice of reason, but got his answering machine. I left my message, but did he **** get back to me, and now I’m stuck here wondering how it’s meant to be. 
 

Arctic Monkeys - Reckless Serenade. 

Edited 28 June 2020 by Manini

[Trav Le Bleu]

59 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I don't want to see a ghost, 
It's a sight that I fear most 
I'd rather have a piece of toast 
And watch the evening news

If we're talking bad lyrics, the one that really gets my goat is Nelly Retardo's "I'm Like a Bird."

 

I'm like a Bird

I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is

I don't know where my home is

 

So, as a metaphor for being a lost soul, she chose birds, who are frequently used metaphorically for not getting lost, due to their well known ability to fly thousands of miles, year after year, to return to the same nest every year.

 

Well done Nel, you flipping lyrical genius

Edited 28 June 2020 by Trav Le Bleu

[StanSP]

2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Knot seen that one before.

This is worse than the song lines.

You are knot qualified to make such a pun.

[Fox92]

My favourite Bowie lyrics are the beginning of Absolute Beginners

 

I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
But I'm absolutely sane

[ozleicester]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

If we're talking bad lyrics, the one that really gets my goat is Nelly Retardo's "I'm Like a Bird."

 

I'm like a Bird

I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is

I don't know where my home is

 

So, as a metaphor for being a lost soul, she chose birds, who are frequently used metaphorically for not getting lost, due to their well known ability to fly thousands of miles, year after year, to return to the same nest every year.

 

Well done Nel, you flipping lyrical genius

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains

 

Shakira

[Jimothy]

36 minutes ago, StanSP said:

This is worse than the song lines.

You are knot qualified to make such a pun.

Harsh. Knot very fair 

[foxile5]

'inject him with the Wuhan flu'