Your favourite lyrics

[John Brainlove]

Mine are relatively sentimental I guess.

"Be your own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. And let no foot mark your ground, let no hand hold you down!" - Wolf

"I tumble down on my knees, fill my mouth my snow - the way it melts, I wish to melt into you." - Bjork

"Can you feel the rings of Saturn on your fingers? Can you taste the ghosts who've shed their creaking hosts? Seas forever boil, and trees will turn to soil, stars will always hang in summer's bleeding fangs." - Sparklehorse

I was trying to pick a Tom Waits lyrics, but I need this whole song because it's so evocative... the music is great too, completely atmospheric. "Shore Leave" from Swordfish Trombones. What a song.

"Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
and with a big fat paycheck
strapped to my hip sack
and a shore leave wristwatch underneath my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife
and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so
Well I was pacing myself trying to make it all last
squeezing all the life out of a lousy two day pass
and I had a cold one at the Dragon
with some Filipino floor show
and talked baseball with a lieutenant
over a Singapore sling
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
and find you there
and you know I love you Baby
and I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so."

[prettyvacant]

my favourite lyrics are bjork's "pluto"


"excuse me

but i just have to
explode

explode this body
off me

wake-up tomorrow
brand new

a little tired

but brand new"

[chrispy]

"i'm flat out. you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. freeze, don't move. you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the the sequel to your life."

in fact, the whole song. perfect .

[Wiggles]

You're all going to think I'm odd, but I like Song of the Minerals. If anybody can think of a more fucked up song than that, I'd like to know what it is - that's actually a pretty good idea for a thread.

Also Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret by Blood Brothers.

[EDIT] Shellac Lyrics:

Eat yourself out of house and home.
Go home - there's nothing there because
you eat yourself out of house and home.
Throw up! Do it again.
Eat a meal of nothing at all.
Why? It makes you feel better.
It's the only thing in your life you own.
It's all right if it makes you feel better.
Cut yourself up and down your arms,
Both arms if it makes you feel better,
It's your arms, it's none of my business,
it's none of my business if it makes you feel better.
He's fucking you, he's a total stranger.
You picked him out but he's a total stranger!
Why? It makes you feel better.
It's none of my business if it makes you feel better.
It's all right if it makes you feel better and...
It's all right if it makes you feel better... (repeats)...

I can't find what he's saying at the end.

[John Brainlove]

Print 'em up then, Wiggles..

[Wiggles]

Charlie and the Propaganda Myth Machine by Million Dead is also good. I'll see if I can find the Shellac lyrics.

[tafkac]

Shit man I was going to mention that exact song. Great minds.

"Willy Wonka was a capitalist confidence trickster, a poster boy for neo-liberalism, a full-stop on revolt. and the BFG a propagandist for an unaccountable regime, Orwell's vision with a wrinkled face."

And that bit about the school/clinic. Who's been at the Foucault? I like playing "spot the literary/philosophical references" in that album. Turner loves his T.S. Eliot. I can't get enough of Million Dead lyrics, my favourite line is that bit in Smiling at Strangers on Trains about being "as far as Mongolia, as close as my clothes", and where he does Shakespearian asides: "I'm amazed. No, seriously folks, I'm really fucking awestruck"

Years ago, I always loved the lyrics to "Swan Swan H" by REM.

Weirdly the emo (yes, John, emo) band Alexisonfire have great, if inaudible lyrics:

"Raped by my childhood? What the hell do I know about rape anyway? Well I guess its fun to pretend, sorry. Just a thought that occurred when I wasnt quite awake enough to dismiss it. Its so easy to cheapen an event by pretending it didn't happen. Boring cliched self destruction..…I think I should start doing aerobics. And the rest: boxes of cats, people with taz tattoos, explosive personalities, self centered, protractors, brand new geometry sets, inability to do math, geography, polaroids of polar bears."

There are so many more but I just can't think.

[i_deserve...]

the whole of Hospital by Jonathan Richman, and lots of other stuff by the Modern Lovers too

Memory Lane by Nas

Ghostface Killah's verse on "Wu Banga 101" about a corrupt preacher:

[glow=red,2,300]Uh-huh.. yeah.. yo.. check it.. yo..
Bottles goin off in the church, we broke the wine
slapped the pastor, didn't know Pop had asthma
He pulled out his blue bible, change fell out his coat
Three condoms, two dice, one bag of dope
Oooh! Rev. ain't right, his church ain't right
Deacon is a pimp, tell by his ice
Mrs. Parks said, "Brother Starks, meet you at the numbers spot
Heard you got red tops out, and I want a lot"
Shirley fainted dead on the spot
Two ushers slipped eighty dollars right out the pot
Oh shit!
[/glow]
;D

[Raanraals]

"But now you only call me when you're feeling depressed. When you feel happy I'm so far from you mind" - Morrissey

"Smeared black ink, your palms are sweaty and I'm barely listening" - The Postal Service

"See me aged 19 with some dumb haircut from 1960" - The Walkmen

"How can I get closer and be further away from the truth that proves it's beautiful to lie?" - Wilco

[ana milgram]

ok, first up I'm a saddo Albini obsessive, so pretty much everything he's ever written could count for this (yeah, even Superpussy). Since Stuart's already nabbed one of my favourites on another thread, I thought I'd go for a slight theme:

Precious Thing – Big Black

I would like to wrap your hair round your neck like a noose
I would like to wrap your legs around my neck like a lock
You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me

Pavement Saw – Big Black

She went through me like a pavement saw
And I feel stupid 'cause I was so stupid about it

Trouser Minnow - Rapeman

Remember what it used to be like
When, when all we did was eat and fuck?
I let you shave my pussy
You let me paint your dick
You were always late for work
You said it didn't matter
And after a while
I guess it, I guess it did start to matter

Prayer to God - Shellac

To the one true God above
Here is my prayer
Not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote
Not the first, but the others were a long time ago
There are two people here, and I want you to kill them
Her, she can go quietly, by disease or a blow
to the base of her neck
where her necklaces close
where her garments come together
where I used to lay my face
That's where you oughta kill her
in that particular place
Him,just fucking kill him, I don't care if it hurts.
Yes I do, I want it to,
fucking kill him but first
make him cry like a woman
No particular woman
let him hold out, hold back
Someone or other might come and fucking kill him).
Fucking kill him.
Kill him already, kill him.
Fucking kill him, fucking kill him,
Kill him already, kill him,
Just fucking kill him!
Fucking kill him, fucking kill him,
Kill him already, kill him,

Ah Fucking kill him, fucking kill him,
Kill him already, kill him,
Kill him already
Kill him already
Kill him already
Kill him
Amen

______

Ah, sweet

I'll think of some non-Albini ones later

[tafkac]

Also enjoying Sage Francis's new rant compendium

From Gunz, Yo!:

might remind you of a mike
by the way i hold it (to the grill)
a homophobic rapper
unaware of the graphic nature of phallic symbols
tragically ironic, suckin' off each others' gats & pistols
i got more back issues than guns and ammo
cuz my uzi weighs a ton
and i never let go of the handle
hangin' on to mommy's pant leg
double-fistin'
knee-deep in shells kickin' ballistics
this dick is a detachable penis
an extension of my manhood positioned like a foetus
an intravenous hook-up feeds bullets to my magazine
nevermind the bollocks, my pistol is a sex machine

I like the reference to ""Republicrat, Democran - one party system."

[stuartmilgram]

"You're clean-living, clear-eyed, clever, level-headed brother said you'd put all the screws upon your newest lover."
Philadelphia - Magazine

OK, not my favourite, but the first one that popped into my head.

[Durutti]

Ground floor Shoppers' Paradise
Habedashery, needles, spoons and knives
Knuckle-dusters, glass jaws and wooden hearts
Spend your money girls on sprays and lipsticks
Tested on bunnies, girls, strays and misfits
Ozone friendly rape alarms
For those blinding dates
Another summer of hate

Good old Carter USM. If you say you don't like them I'll fight ya!

[ana milgram]

Washer - Slint
"my head is empty
my toes are warm
I am safe from harm"

You want it to be true. You know it's not. You shiver.

[stuartmilgram]

"so messed up, I want you here..."

poor iggy