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GAC

01-20-2008, 08:06 PM

"Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover."

"Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent."

"Well I'm runnin down the road tryin to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind"

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup"

"People try to put us d-d-down"

"I read the news today oh, boy"

"Ah, look at all the lonely people"

"Hello, is there anybody in there, just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone at home?"

"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes"

Caveat Emperor

01-20-2008, 08:23 PM

"Heeee wakes up in the morning. Does his teeth, bite to eat, and he's rolling"

Yachtzee

01-20-2008, 08:32 PM

"Kick out the jams, blakety blankers!"

vaticanplum

01-20-2008, 08:43 PM

"In the next world war, in a jacknifed juggernaut, I am born again"

MrCinatit

01-20-2008, 09:02 PM

"I'm a fleabit peanut monkey, all my friends are junkies..."
"Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring..."
"I am he as you are he and as you are me as we are all together..."
"All our times have come, here but now their gone..."
"Gotta leave town, got another appointment, spent all my rent, girl you know you enjoyed it..."
"Lights go out and I can't be saved..."
"Ooooo...Hold tight, wait 'til the party's over, hold tight, we're in for nasty weather..."
"What'll you do when you get lonely, and nobody's waiting by your side..."
"Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law..."
"So...so you think you can tell, heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..."
"Is this the real life..."
"Poor old granddad, I laughed at all his words, he thought he was a bitter man, he spoke of women's ways..."
"Did you get your disconnection notice..."
"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"
"Pistol shots ring out in the barrroom night..."
"Midnight on the water, I saw the oceans daughter, Walking on a waves chicane, Staring as she called my name..."
"Hear the sound of the falling rain Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)"
"Lonely feeling, deep inside, find a corner, where I can hide..."
"I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old..."

I can't make up my mind.

5DOLLAR-BLEACHERBUM

01-20-2008, 09:06 PM

"Sally called when she got the word, she said I suppose you've heard...about Alice"

vaticanplum

01-20-2008, 09:06 PM

God I am really terrible with lyrics. There are very few of these that I can identify offhand, and I'm guessing these aren't all obscure songs.

"We carried you in our arms on Independence Day"

savafan

01-20-2008, 09:11 PM

2 of my favorites:

"She's got a smile that it seems to me reminds me of childhood memories..."

and

"Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white..."

5DOLLAR-BLEACHERBUM

01-20-2008, 09:14 PM

[QUOTE=MrCinatit;1538075"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night".[/QUOTE]
That song is clasic, I still contest that they say wrapped up like a ******. Come on Manfrid Mann you can fool the tourists but I live here. I will say that "And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride" is one of my favorite lines from a song though.

Ravenlord

01-20-2008, 09:17 PM

"So after all those one night sands..."

and

"As darkness falls so hard..."

and

"All of your life you have denied..."

Falls City Beer

01-20-2008, 09:18 PM

God I am really terrible with lyrics. There are very few of these that I can identify offhand, and I'm guessing these aren't all obscure songs.

"We carried you in our arms on Independence Day"

Good lord, granny, get with it. Excepting maybe mine and pedro's, these lyrics are shooting fish in a barrel.

Robbie Robertson rules by the way.

Edit: Ravenlord comes and drops the hammer of obscurity on all of us.

KronoRed

01-20-2008, 09:19 PM

I work very hard, but I'm lazy

Ravenlord

01-20-2008, 09:24 PM

Edit: Ravenlord comes and drops the hammer of obscurity on all of us.

all sung by the same man at that.

"Believe" and "Streets" by Savatage

and

"Mephistopheles" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra

pedro

01-20-2008, 09:32 PM

"Stuck a pin in your backbone"

RFS62

01-20-2008, 09:36 PM

"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends"

vaticanplum

01-20-2008, 09:37 PM

Good lord, granny, get with it. Excepting maybe mine and pedro's, these lyrics are shooting fish in a barrel.

Robbie Robertson rules by the way.

Edit: Ravenlord comes and drops the hammer of obscurity on all of us.

I do not recognize one of MrCinatit's choices. Not one. Now, sing me half a note of any of them and I'd stand a pretty good chance of getting it. But this is standard for me; I'm a terrible teammate to have on lyrics quiz games. It's odd because I am fond of words, but I do sometimes wonder if I don't listen to lyrics that well as a rule.

Also, I had no idea the Trans-Siberian Orchestra had lyrics. I think I confuse them with Manheim Steamroller, whom I at one time confused with REO Speedwagon. This is all probably very, very wrong.

edit: Ok, I spoke too soon. I can get two of MrCinatit's. But they're really, really easy.

Ravenlord

01-20-2008, 09:45 PM

Also, I had no idea the Trans-Siberian Orchestra had lyrics. I think I confuse them with Manheim Steamroller, whom I at one time confused with REO Speedwagon. This is all probably very, very wrong.

lots of lyrics...and a bunch of poetry or prose (depending on story/album) in between songs if you read the CD booklets.

All of your life you have denied
There'd be a time you would ever die
Still it's been rumored this thing must be

Why is then you that you act surprised
When I appear now to be your guide
Why do you hesitate to follow me

See it rising
Stare and wonder
Hear it beckon you to dance
Feel it hold you
Take you under
I'm your god of second chance

And now you claim that you are not prepared
So much to do you can not be spared
Still your entreaties death will not hear

The graveyard is filled with importnant men
Who could not be spared but were in the end
And so now I whisper in your ear

See it rising
Stare and wonder
Hear it beckon you to dance
Feel it hold you
Take you under
I'm your god of second chance

Domine
Domine
Domine

[fade out to "Moonlight Sonata"]

[The Devil then makes the composer an offer. If Beethoven will give him all his music, allowing Mephistopheles to wipe it from the memory of man, he will return his soul to him. Beethoven is overwhelmed by the situation. Fearing an eternity of damnation and torment he is desperate to reclaim his soul, but the thought of losing his music, his life's work, causes him to hesitate...

Falls City Beer

01-20-2008, 09:48 PM

I do not recognize one of MrCinatit's choices. Not one. Now, sing me half a note of any of them and I'd stand a pretty good chance of getting it. But this is standard for me; I'm a terrible teammate to have on lyrics quiz games. It's odd because I am fond of words, but I do sometimes wonder if I don't listen to lyrics that well as a rule.

Also, I had no idea the Trans-Siberian Orchestra had lyrics. I think I confuse them with Manheim Steamroller, whom I at one time confused with REO Speedwagon. This is all probably very, very wrong.

edit: Ok, I spoke too soon. I can get two of MrCinatit's. But they're really, really easy.

Yeah, Mr Cinatit's got a few I can't get.

Falls City Beer

01-20-2008, 09:49 PM

"Stuck a pin in your backbone"

Great song, great album, great band.

Ravenlord

01-20-2008, 09:51 PM

"Stuck a pin in your backbone"

isn't that Arch Loaf, Archer Meat, Low Arch or something to that likeness?

vaticanplum

01-20-2008, 09:52 PM

[The Devil then makes the composer an offer. If Beethoven will give him all his music, allowing Mephistopheles to wipe it from the memory of man, he will return his soul to him. Beethoven is overwhelmed by the situation. Fearing an eternity of damnation and torment he is desperate to reclaim his soul, but the thought of losing his music, his life's work, causes him to hesitate...

Didn't I read this in the metro section this morning?

In all seriousness...so, not REO Speedwagon then.

Falls City Beer

01-20-2008, 09:58 PM

"Do you see me (di di di di di di di) like I see you (doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)?"

pedro

01-20-2008, 10:32 PM

isn't that Arch Loaf, Archer Meat, Low Arch or something to that likeness?

Archers of Loaf

pedro

01-20-2008, 10:33 PM

"Julie Christie, the rumors are true"

westofyou

01-20-2008, 10:34 PM

A hip drag queen and a side-walkin street wheeler, Comin down the avenue.

sonny

01-20-2008, 10:35 PM

"I was up one morning, hanging around my house. I had that new book with pictures of Madonna naked, I was checkin' it out."

westofyou

01-20-2008, 10:36 PM

Ice baby, I saw your girlfriend and she was eating her fingers like they're just another meal

pedro

01-20-2008, 10:41 PM

"lies and betrayals, fruit-covered nails, electricity and lust won't break the door"

cincinnati chili

01-20-2008, 10:43 PM

Put down that chainsaw and listen to me

MrCinatit

01-20-2008, 10:49 PM

A little help...

"I'm a fleabit peanut monkey, all my friends are junkies..." The Rolling Stones: Monkey Man
"Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring..." Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
"I am he as you are he and as you are me as we are all together..." The Beatles: I Am The Walrus
"All our times have come, here but now their gone..." Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear The Reaper
"Gotta leave town, got another appointment, spent all my rent, girl you know you enjoyed it..." Jet: Cold Hard...
"Lights go out and I can't be saved..." Coldplay: Clocks
"Ooooo...Hold tight, wait 'til the party's over, hold tight, we're in for nasty weather..." Talking Heads: Burning Down The House
"What'll you do when you get lonely, and nobody's waiting by your side..." Eric Clapton: Layla
"Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law..." Styx: Renegade
"So...so you think you can tell, heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..." Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
"Is this the real life..." Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
"Poor old granddad, I laughed at all his words, he thought he was a bitter man, he spoke of women's ways..." The Faces: Ooh La La (Wish I Knew What I Know Now)
"Did you get your disconnection notice..." Sonic Youth: Disconnection Notice
"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" Manfred Mann: Blinded By The Light
"Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night..." Bob Dylan: Hurricane
"Midnight on the water, I saw the oceans daughter, Walking on a waves chicane, Staring as she called my name..." Electric Light Orchestra: Can't Get It Out Of My Head
"Hear the sound of the falling rain Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)" Greenday: Holiday
"Lonely feeling, deep inside, find a corner, where I can hide..." Guess Who: No Sugar Tonight
"I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old..." Marshall Tucker Band: Heard It In A Love Song

I can't make up my mind.

BTW...I like topics like this. Gives me some ideas.

RFS62

01-20-2008, 10:54 PM

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel

Jack Burton

01-20-2008, 10:56 PM

"So...so you think you can tell, heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..."

I 2nd that.

sonny

01-20-2008, 10:59 PM

"Hey sister, have you heard? Some people stand like trees, without a word; and what that means is that some people don't........talk."

Cyclone792

01-20-2008, 11:01 PM

"Unsealed on a porch a letter sat"

Easy winner right there, especially since there's not anybody out there who can understand those lyrics when you hear them.

savafan

01-20-2008, 11:06 PM

"So after all those one night sands..."

"stands" my friend, "stands".

;)

Caveat Emperor

01-20-2008, 11:51 PM

Some favorites I've noticed listening to my iPod while doing some work this evening:

"Born down in a dead man's town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground"

"1, 2, 3 and to the 4, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door."

"I want to believe in myself once again, so I dream of man whose hopes never end."

"Pack it up, pack it in let me begin I came to win, battle me that's a sin."

"Take a walk down town, and dream with me."

"Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world"

"Regulators. We regulate any stealing of his property and we damn good."

"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you"

"Standing here, the old man said to me 'Long before these crowded streets here stood my dreaming tree'"

"The world is a vampire"

"We spotted the ocean at the head of the trial"

"Face down in the gutter won't admit defeat though his clothes are soiled and black, he's a big strong man with a child's mind don't you take his booze away."

macro

01-21-2008, 12:00 AM

"Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who, heard it from another you been messing around."

"Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed."

"That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid."

guttle11

01-21-2008, 12:03 AM

"What ever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV..."

*BaseClogger*

01-21-2008, 12:31 AM

"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner..."

Ravenlord

01-21-2008, 12:36 AM

"stands" my friend, "stands".

;)

what happens when you're drinking rum while typing. :beerme: :)

sonny

01-21-2008, 12:37 AM

"In the marmalade forest, behind the make-believe trees, in a cottage cheese cottage, lives Albi"

Ravenlord

01-21-2008, 12:37 AM

"Listen not to ones who preach, those who fear you're a freak"

cincinnati chili

01-21-2008, 12:48 AM

http://www.spinaltapfan.com/images/break.jpgThe bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin.

Ravenlord

01-21-2008, 12:53 AM

http://www.spinaltapfan.com/images/break.jpgThe bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin.

image inspiration?

http://www.13thnote.co.uk/extras/manowar.jpg

pedro

01-21-2008, 01:01 AM

"Fashion bleeds, stains and frees, spreading all lifes scum and sleaze."

sonny

01-21-2008, 01:10 AM

Chip R

01-21-2008, 01:23 AM

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day

919191

01-21-2008, 01:28 AM

They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain
97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain
I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime
99 percent think we're 3 percent 100 percent of the time

cincinnati chili

01-21-2008, 02:35 AM

Make a hole with a gun
perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe;
Exit wound in a foreign nation.

BCubb2003

01-21-2008, 04:21 AM

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

"(Yes warden) I'm just here to get my baby out of jail"

"Katie Casey was baseball mad"

"In a buildin' tall with a stone wall around there's a rubber room"

"This is the theme to Garry's Show, the theme to Garry's show"

"Well, beat the drum and hold the phone - the sun came out today!"

oneupper

01-21-2008, 06:28 AM

That song is clasic, I still contest that they say wrapped up like a ******. Come on Manfrid Mann you can fool the tourists but I live here. I will say that "And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride" is one of my favorite lines from a song though.

Here's a bit of trivia. Bruce Springsteen wrote that song (Blinded by the Light)...way before he was famous.

RedsBaron

01-21-2008, 07:25 AM

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Headed for the train
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans

rotnoid

01-21-2008, 07:26 AM

"Lookin' out at the road rushin under my wheels..."

"Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream"

"Ma, take this badge off of me."

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned.

RFS62

01-21-2008, 07:33 AM

"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone"

919191

01-21-2008, 07:55 AM

Woke up this morn'in'
Put on my slipppers
Walked in the kitchen
and died.

Yachtzee

01-21-2008, 08:51 AM

Stop, collaborate and listen, Ice is back with my brand new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly, flow like a harpoon daily and nightly...."

Ok, maybe not the best of opening lines, but the thing is, alot of us could probably finish the rest of this horrible, horrible song. :)

I was thinking about that song too, but then I realized that this is for "Best Opening Line," not "Most absurd opening line."

Yachtzee

01-21-2008, 08:55 AM

Make a hole with a gun
perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe;
Exit wound in a foreign nation.

showing the home of the one this was written for.

My apartment looks upside down from there.
Water spirals the wrong way down the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends.

Roy Tucker

01-21-2008, 09:33 AM

Well I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head, that didn't hurt

nate

01-21-2008, 09:37 AM

"She's a girl in a dream, she sees a four-eyed cartoon monster on the TV screen" (OK, not the opening line, but the first verse)

"You're a bad, bad missus, in them skin tight britches"

"Simon says that your mind desires a vacation"

"If you hear a song in blue like a flower crying for the dew"

Betterread

01-21-2008, 10:53 AM

Good idea for a thread

"You're perfect in the way, a perfect end today. Burnin' out their light, burnin' in their eyes..."

"I don't know just where I'm going, but I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can, 'cause it makes me feel like I'm a man.."

Caveat Emperor

01-21-2008, 12:55 PM

Now what would be impressive is to see if anyone can sit down and name all these songs that've been quoted.

NYMoose

01-21-2008, 12:57 PM

Not Now John from Pink Floyd. Can't print the line due to forum rules

RedsBaron

01-21-2008, 01:14 PM

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is winding low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When times goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
Like me he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

westofyou

01-21-2008, 01:28 PM

The return of the thin white duke, throwing darts in lovers eyes.

pedro

01-21-2008, 01:33 PM

some other Bowie classics

"I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate"

"This aint rocknroll. this is genocide!"

"Well billy rapped all night about his suicide"

"I'm an alligator, I'm a mama-papa comin' for you"

Roy Tucker

01-21-2008, 01:33 PM

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"

"I don't like you, but I love you"

"Early one morning, the sun was shining,
I was laying in bed
wondering if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red."

"Hello, darkness, my old friend"

"She can kill with her smile. she can wound with her eyes"

"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government"

"Yeah baby, I've been drinking, and I shouldn't come by I know
But I found myself in trouble darling, and I had nowhere else to go"

CySeymour

01-21-2008, 01:34 PM

"Well excuse me, but I think you got my chair..."

George Strait

Roy Tucker

01-21-2008, 01:34 PM

"Ground control to Major Tom"

pedro

01-21-2008, 01:35 PM

"Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert."

Roy Tucker

01-21-2008, 01:38 PM

"Hello you, hello me, hello people we used to be
Isn’t it strange, we never changed"

westofyou

01-21-2008, 01:38 PM

Oh, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason

pedro

01-21-2008, 01:40 PM

"Look out momma there's a white boat coming up the river"

pedro

01-21-2008, 01:51 PM

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"

Dom Heffner

01-21-2008, 02:09 PM

"I bless the day I found you, I'll stay around you."

I love Willie's version.

Falls City Beer

01-21-2008, 02:16 PM

"No, I don't really want to die; I only want to die in your eyes."

RichRed

01-21-2008, 02:23 PM

"What's with these homies dissin' my girl?
Why do they gotta front?"

pedro

01-21-2008, 02:35 PM

the first line to NWA's "straight out of compton" and the second song, the name of which I can not print here.

Betterread

01-21-2008, 02:56 PM

"Julie Christie, the rumors are true"

Great song. Tom Courtenay, by Yo La Tengo - Have you heard the "acoustic" version with Georgia singing lead? I like it better than the original, which is remarkable.

pedro

01-21-2008, 02:57 PM

Great song. Tom Courtenay, by Yo La Tengo - Have you heard the "acoustic" version with Georgia singing lead? I like it better than the original, which is remarkable.

yeah, I saw them on their "acoustic" tour last fall. Great show by a great band.

SunDeck

01-21-2008, 03:15 PM

I have a question.

Do the first lines here represent songs that people thought were good songs? I mean, I think this line "I was a little too tall, coulda used a few pounds." is a pretty good opening line, but the song? Meh.

Secondly, how in the world do you people remember all these first lines? I honestly spent the better part of fifteen minutes trying to come up with one and that's all I got- Bob Seeger, circa 1976.

I can think of songs I like, but the first lines? Nothing.

pedro

01-21-2008, 03:17 PM

Dom Heffner

01-21-2008, 03:21 PM

I dunno, SunDeck. I think you can pick lines for bad and good songs as long as the opening line strikes a chord.

Your Bob Seger reference is perfect, though I'd argue it's a terrific song.

dabvu2498

01-21-2008, 03:35 PM

Got a lil change in my pocket goin jing-a-ling-a-ling

01-21-2008, 03:39 PM

"Kick out the jams, blakety blankers!"

Excellent choice. "Powderfinger" was a nice touch too pedro, might be the best one line scene setting in rock history.

Some others:

Im a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm

Is she really going out with him?

No one dared to show for that shower, when nobody turned out to be clean

1989, the number another summer, sound of the funky drummer

You're always dancing down the street with your suede blue eyes

Sunshine, blue sky, please go away, my girl has found another and gone away

You wake up late for school man you don't wanna go

I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler

Hey everybody, look what I found, simply the best manservant in town

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind

westofyou

01-21-2008, 03:42 PM

Do the first lines here represent songs that people thought were good songs?

Yep...

Like this dandy

He's got the Eye of Fatima on the wall of his room
Two bottles of tequila, three cats and a broom

dabvu2498

01-21-2008, 03:54 PM

There is a young cowboy he lives on the range

SunDeck

01-21-2008, 04:02 PM

Oh, and my head is full of all sorts of useless stuff.

Dude, I'm a librarian- you won't find a head more chocked full of useless knowledge than this noggin. But it's all stuff like how to figure out when Easter is each year and whether the Coriolis Effect makes toilets flush clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Half an hour later and all I have is this:

"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, was that a policeman rising up through the air."

Terrible, just terrible.

westofyou

01-21-2008, 04:08 PM

Careful with that Ax Eugene.

RichRed

01-21-2008, 04:10 PM

"I feel so good I'm going to break somebody's heart tonight..."

westofyou

01-21-2008, 04:15 PM

The beach is a place where a man can feel
He's the only soul in the world that's real,

nate

01-21-2008, 04:36 PM

"Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale"

Yachtzee

01-21-2008, 05:18 PM

So you've been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
Drivin' daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Crash Davis

01-21-2008, 05:21 PM

I went home with a waitress
the way I always doooo...

How was I to know
she was with the Russians too?

01-21-2008, 07:51 PM

(Chip, RFS62 and nate, we're on the same page...guttle11? you'll get yours...)

"A long, long time ago...I can still remember how that music used to make me smile"

"Out of southern Illinois, came a down-home country boy"

"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound"

"Well I heard there was a secret chord, that David played to please the Lord"

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine"

"How many roads must a man walk down?"

"Well, he hasn't always been around, and he won't always be"

"Who can turn the world on with a smile?"

"My child arrived just the other day"

"I've got a house down by the ocean, the rent is not too high"

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down"

"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that'd like to do"

"Hap-py birth-day, hap-py birth-day, misery and despair..."

(guttle11, this one's for you) "So many nights I sit by my window, waiting for someone to sing me his song"

01-21-2008, 08:14 PM

So you've been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
Drivin' daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

But is it better than ...

Efficiency and progress are ours once more, now that we have the neutron bomb

GAC

01-21-2008, 08:54 PM

"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends"

Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline
Will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene

deltachi8

01-21-2008, 08:55 PM

OK, just gonna give my froend Erik some props for a pop song he wrote in college, circa 1988...

"I knew I loved her but I didn't know her name"

RFS62

01-21-2008, 10:24 PM

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

Johnny Footstool

01-21-2008, 10:41 PM

For me, what makes an opening line great is either the lyric itself, or the way it's sung, or it's context within my life, or a combination of all those things.

"Just a small-town girl, livin' in a lonely world"

"Goddam you half-Japanese girls, you do it to me every time"

"Signal got lost through the satellite, got lost in the ride up to the plunge down"

"She's a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus, and America too"

"So she woke up, woke up from where she was lying still"

"I guess I shoulda known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last"

"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream, she said"

"Last night, I had a dream that we went to Disneyland, went on all the rides, didn't have to wait in line"

01-21-2008, 10:53 PM

"Goddam you half-Japanese girls, you do it to me every time"

Love that song

vaticanplum

01-21-2008, 11:03 PM

Love that song

Me too. And the opening line is indeed terrific.

Yachtzee

01-21-2008, 11:05 PM

Love that song

Good ole' "El Scorcho." I've actually heard it on the radio lately.

Spitball

01-21-2008, 11:05 PM

"Saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand,
walking through the streets of Soho in the rain,
he was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's,
going to get a big dish of beef chow mein".

"Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
I was layin' in bed
Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red."

"Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing."

"Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall."

"In the timbers to Fennario, the wolves are running round,
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground."

Yachtzee

01-21-2008, 11:09 PM

Satellite's gone up to the sky
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on TV

Hap

01-21-2008, 11:46 PM

There are those who think that life is nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, theyre red, white and blue.
And when the band plays hail to the chief,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, lord,

vaticanplum

01-21-2008, 11:47 PM

"A city freeze, get on your knees
Pray for warmth and green paper"

gonelong

01-21-2008, 11:49 PM

A few ...

He said I’ll love you til I die ... She told him you’ll forget in time ...

Would you know my name ... if I saw you in heaven?

City girls just seem to find out early ... How to open doors with just a smile ...

cincinnati chili

01-22-2008, 12:08 AM

With audio visual aids:

She's your adolescent dream. Schoolboy stuff, a sticky sweet romance. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRyQDwrytXE)

You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-Ym7xA4Jw)

My uncle used to love me, but she died. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJs_VAt-4Q)

Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11Kr1-q-pA)

The cat calls through the night, and two chicks in the parking lot crack wise on the price of fame they stood to gain. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42qRK3OYjY&feature=related)

They tried to make me go to rehab. I said, no no no. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlRF43-xaYc)

Roy Tucker

01-22-2008, 12:17 AM

Once I thought I saw you
in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light
from star to star.

pedro

01-22-2008, 12:53 AM

"Five names that I can hardly
Stand to hear
Including yours and mine
And one more chimp who isn't here"

BCubb2003

01-22-2008, 12:54 AM

Hello, walls

Caveat Emperor

01-22-2008, 01:03 AM

"It was raining hard in 'Frisco, I needed one more fare to make my night."

Long live the ballad!

George Foster

01-22-2008, 01:12 AM

The best of all time:

" The only thing that makes life worth living...is guitars tuned good and firm feeling women."

the late great Waylon Jennings

pedro

01-22-2008, 01:17 AM

Hello, walls

nice

Patrick Bateman

01-22-2008, 02:56 AM

It's not really an opening line, but the intro to "Touch Me" by the Doors is pretty funny. Morrison makes an odd hiccuping sound or something. Whatever it is, sometimes you have to wonder what exactly they were on when they came up with their songs.

sonny

01-22-2008, 03:21 AM

These walls are paper thin
and everyone hears every little sound,
Everyones a voyuer as their watchin' me
watch them watch me right now.

Dracodave

01-22-2008, 07:43 AM

"Into the trees
Past meadow grounds
And further away from my home
Baying behind me
I hear the hounds
Flock's chasing to find me alone"

"Lay it down one last time, let this be the last time,
I have seen the sunrise just one too many times"

(Also one of the best songs I've heard..with a chorus like.. "On earth as it is in a dime store. For all the amateurs that you've Knelt before. Breaks my mind in two. They surrounds us. One more night without you. They surrounds us. Take my will with you. They surrounds us. Break my mind into...".)

klw

01-22-2008, 02:58 PM

"It was Christmas eve, I was standing in the parking lot of "Fabulous Girls - Nude, Nude, Nude"

"Well I'm riding down Kingsley figuring I'll get a drink
Well I turn the radio up loud so I don't have to think at all
And I take her to the floor looking for a moment when the world seems right
And I tear into the guts, hmmm, of something in the night"

"Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening
To the hours and minutes tickin' away
Yeah just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin
While it was all just slippin' away
I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come
Or that train to come roarin' 'round the bend
I got a new suit of clothes a pretty red rose
And a woman I can call my friend
These are better days baby"

texasdave

01-22-2008, 04:05 PM

In walks Betrayal...to the room that can't be left...she sits down at your table...and lights your cigarette.

Joseph

01-22-2008, 04:13 PM

"Excuse me but can I be you for a while"

Chip R

01-22-2008, 04:25 PM

I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel

westofyou

01-22-2008, 04:34 PM

I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel

I've been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
Drunk and dirty, don't you know, and I'm still...willin'.

pedro

01-22-2008, 04:40 PM

"Watching girls go passing by
It ain't the latest thing"

"I was driving home early sunday morning through bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the
Lord by your side"

westofyou

01-22-2008, 04:46 PM

This one's about Santa Cruz

Cigarettes, and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the Cafè Xeno's steps
With a book I haven't started yet,
Watching all the girls walk by...

IslandRed

01-22-2008, 05:26 PM

A few from all over the place, apologies if there are duplicates from upthread:

"I bought a '30 Ford wagon and we call it a woodie"
"Well, I love her... but I love to fish"
"Lately I've been noticing a gradual escalation in your inability to handle your libations"
"I come in last night about half past ten, that baby of mine wouldn't let me in"
"You left for Frisco in your Rambler, the radiator running dry"
"There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to"
"Alone with the morning burning red on the canvas in my head"
"Might as well go for a soda, nobody hurts and nobody cries"
"Some people call me the space cowboy"
"Never met a girl could make me feel the way that you do"
"You think you're gonna take her away with your money and your cocaine"
"I'm the type of guy who will never settle down"
"She came down from Cincinnati; it took her three days on a train"

paintmered

01-22-2008, 06:57 PM

"I like big butts and I cannot lie."

Spitball

01-22-2008, 07:43 PM

"On the road for forty days,
Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze.
Sweet, sweet Connie -- doin her act,
She had the whole show and thats a natural fact."

The Connie in this song is a real person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Hamzy

http://www.spinmagazine.com/features/magazine/2005/01/oldest_living_confederate_groupie_tells_all/

http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004656.html

Note Connie Hamzy reportedly passed a polygraph on her Bill Clinton claim.

pedro

01-22-2008, 07:49 PM

"So you thought you might like to go to the show."

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm"

RFS62

01-22-2008, 07:58 PM

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Dom Heffner

01-22-2008, 08:10 PM

Jessie is a friend....

pedro

01-22-2008, 08:24 PM

"Theologians
They don't know nothing
About my soul
About my soul"

GAC

01-22-2008, 08:37 PM

A classic that I can't believe no one has mentioned yet.....

"Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove."

Spitball

01-22-2008, 09:18 PM

"Gimme an F!

F!
Gimme an I!

I!
Gimme an S!

S!
Gimme an H!

H!
What's that spell ?

FISH!
What's that spell ?

FISH!
What's that spell ?

FISH!"

Of course, Country Joe did a slightly different version at Woodstock in 1969. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5btZWbViPA

Johnny Footstool

01-22-2008, 09:44 PM

"I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime"

Reds Nd2

01-22-2008, 09:55 PM

"The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night"

mth123

01-22-2008, 10:01 PM

"She was just 17, you know what I mean and the way she looked was way beyond compare..."

"Thank Heaven for little girls..."

"Mama's got a squeeze box she wears on her chest..."

"There is a house in New Orleans..."

"Why don't we do it in the road .."

"I don't wanna go to rehab, I say no no no..."

"If I had a million dollars ..."

"Wise men say, only fools rush in..."

"In the year 2525 ...."

"After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out ..."

"I see a bad moon a rising..."

"And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain..."

vaticanplum

01-22-2008, 10:11 PM

"Well, the smart money's on harlow, the moon is in the street, and the shadow boys are breaking all the laws"

Cedric

01-22-2008, 10:17 PM

"Pistol shots ring out in a bar room night..."

Yachtzee

01-22-2008, 10:27 PM

Mama told me, yes she told me, I'd meet girls like you.
She also told me "Stay away, you never know what you'll catch."

Spitball

01-22-2008, 11:47 PM

"This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

pedro

01-22-2008, 11:50 PM

"I want YOU
to want ME"

Ravenlord

01-23-2008, 12:27 AM

"Hammer smashed face"

cincinnati chili

01-23-2008, 01:30 AM

If you wanna turn your daddy parts orange, eat some cheetos and watch some porn. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_EjEUsQt6vc)

Well, I thought about the Army. Dad said, "Son 'yer f---ing high." (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PXDVQ03lirE)

I like to keep it in the 'frigerator.... let me be your American gladiator. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=RKy5tk7QOl0)

WebScorpion

01-23-2008, 02:22 AM

Gunter glieben glauchen globen...

Tommy used to work on the do-o-ocks...

I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray...

There must be some kind of way out of here...said the joker to the thief.

She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean, she was the best dam woman that I ever seen...

When I was a young boy, said put away those young boy ways...

Hey! Ho! Let's Go!!

Jeremiah was a bullfrog!

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...

http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/music001.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

Ravenlord

01-23-2008, 04:42 AM

Another sleepless night a concrete paradise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vg9Z0Os9ck)

dman

01-23-2008, 06:16 AM

I can make anybody pretty, I can make you believe any lie, I can make you pick a fight with someone twice your size - Brad Paisley's "Alcohol"

durl

01-23-2008, 08:29 AM

"Get ready...to wiggle..."

(I have young kids.)

RFS62

01-23-2008, 09:02 AM

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle

nate

01-23-2008, 09:19 AM

Not the opening line but I always liked this one:

"Someone took a grapefruit and wore it like a hat,
I saw someone under my kitchen table, talking to my old tom cat,
They were talking about hockey and the cat was talkin' back,
Along about then everything went black,
But wasn't that a party?"

nycredsfan

01-23-2008, 10:04 AM

"I want to start a new life
With my valuable hunting knife"

westofyou

01-23-2008, 10:10 AM

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag

RichRed

01-23-2008, 10:19 AM

She cuts you once, she cuts you twice
But still you believe

Chip R

01-23-2008, 10:34 AM

She came onto him like a slow movin' cold front
His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie

I used to listen to the radio
And I don't guess they're listenin' to me no more

Caveat Emperor

01-23-2008, 10:45 AM

Well, I thought about the Army. Dad said, "Son 'yer f---ing high." (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PXDVQ03lirE)

"Grew a mustache and a mullet, got a job at Chik-Fil-A..."

Great song.

IslandRed

01-23-2008, 11:38 AM

"Get ready...to wiggle..."

(I have young kids.)

"If you like to talk to tomatoes..."

(So do I.)

Dom Heffner

01-23-2008, 02:28 PM

I got another confession to make....

RFS62

01-23-2008, 03:21 PM

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'ma goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter

Chip R

01-23-2008, 05:10 PM

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

durl

01-23-2008, 05:18 PM

"If you like to talk to tomatoes..."

(So do I.)

"If a squash can make you smile..."

apparently our kids like the same things. :)

RFS62

01-23-2008, 05:43 PM

I've got tears in my ears, from lying on my back, in the bed, cryin' over you.

Spitball

01-23-2008, 07:34 PM

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4y1Asq2hic&feature=related

Falls City Beer

01-23-2008, 07:49 PM

"That's great; it starts with an earthquake, birds, and snakes, an airplane; and Lenny Bruce is not afraid."

Reds Nd2

01-23-2008, 08:49 PM

"Somedays won't end ever and somedays pass on by,
I'll be working here forever, at least until I die."

Working for a Living ~ Huey Lewis and the News

Reds Nd2

01-23-2008, 08:51 PM

"I take my card and I stand in line
To make a buck I work overtime
Dear sir letters keep coming in the mail"

Feel Like a Number ~ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Spitball

01-23-2008, 10:53 PM

"That's great; it starts with an earthquake, birds, and snakes, an airplane; and Lenny Bruce is not afraid."

What is this song title?

Cedric

01-23-2008, 11:06 PM

What is this song title?

REM. End of the World as we know it.

That song has the best lyrics of any song ever, IMO. Huge statement I know, but damn he can write.

Yachtzee

01-23-2008, 11:08 PM

Hast du etwas Zeit fuer mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer dich
Von 99 Luftballoons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

Roy Tucker

01-24-2008, 12:07 AM

A-Wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boo

Roy Tucker

01-24-2008, 12:11 AM

In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.

Roy Tucker

01-24-2008, 12:16 AM

Holly came from Miami F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.

cincinnati chili

01-24-2008, 01:38 AM

now I heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord (written by leonard cohen) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0DKOGco_o)

well me and homer jones and big john tally had a big crap game goin back in the alley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzewk-FMgS0)

Two trailer park girls go 'round the outside (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzUPNwhkPw4)

Some take the bible for what it's worth, when they say that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Well I heard that some sheik just bought New Jersey last week, and you suckers ain't gettin' nothing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnU5OoiCK1k)

If time were only part of the equation, and we could draw the boundaries of our cage; then you wouldn't pile another stone upon me, and I'd be happy just to watch you age (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns0KLtAPX_Q)

her name is yoshimi; she's a black belt in karate; workin' for the city; she has to discipline her body (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKryxGbDAk)

i know a girl who thinks of ghosts; she'll make you breakfast, she make you toast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYCmtX1xKzc)

cincinnati chili

01-24-2008, 01:40 AM

Hast du etwas Zeit fuer mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer dich
Von 99 Luftballoons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

This song was sung at our local church a couple Sundays ago. In German. I sheeet you not. I guess there's a "peace" message to it, but I don't think the old folks quite "got it."

BCubb2003

01-24-2008, 01:42 AM

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

My pappy said "Son your gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln"

Too many teardrops for one heart to be cryin'

Dom Heffner

01-24-2008, 10:30 AM

This bed is on fire with passionate love...

(the neighbors complain about the noises above)

pedro

01-24-2008, 11:50 AM

Why should I care
If I have to cut my hair?
I've got to move with the fashions
Or be outcast.

pedro

01-24-2008, 12:06 PM

Here by the sea and sand
Nothing ever goes as planned,
I just couldn't face going home
It was just a drag on my own.

Puffy

01-24-2008, 12:53 PM

"I had a friend who was a great baseball player, back in high school"

"In West Philadelphia born and raised on the playground was where I spent most of my days"

"You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you"

"Im sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea"

"She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories"

GAC

01-24-2008, 09:10 PM

Some oldies....

"You ain't nothing but a hound dog"

"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain,
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!

"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like a ball"

"Wild thing, you make my heart sing"

"I am a lineman for the county. And I drive the main road."

Betterread

01-24-2008, 09:38 PM

"Girl it's like an angel's sigh when I see you walking by"

Reds Nd2

01-24-2008, 09:50 PM

"I'm seeing this girl and
she just might be out of her mind."

She's Got Issues ~ The Offspring

Reds Nd2

01-24-2008, 09:53 PM

"Rain is drizzling down
Skies are low
Can't seem to work this life out
Don't matter where I go
It's been a long long time
Since happiness was mine
I guess I might as well get drunk"

Might As Well Get Drunk ~ G.E. Smith & the Saturday Night Live Band

Ravenlord

01-24-2008, 10:17 PM

"I was gone for fourteen days, I mighta been gone for more..."

cincinnati chili

01-24-2008, 10:33 PM

There's a bunch of birds in the sky, and some deers just went running by. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMXM8s95Io)

Spitball

01-24-2008, 10:48 PM

"I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps"

Spitball

01-24-2008, 10:54 PM

"Lenny Bruce is dead but his ghost lives on and on
Never did get any Golden Globe award, never made it to Synanon."

RFS62

01-24-2008, 11:02 PM

Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed 2-45
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
Everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John

WebScorpion

01-25-2008, 09:52 AM

People let me tell you 'bout my be-est friend...

You've gotta be pretty old to remember that one. Not RFS62 old, but at least Remdog old. ;)

Dom Heffner

01-25-2008, 11:08 AM

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay...

westofyou

01-25-2008, 11:22 AM

People let me tell you 'bout my be-est friend...

You've gotta be pretty old to remember that one. Not RFS62 old, but at least Remdog old. ;)

Can you believe it's the same guy who sang the Lime in the Coconut song AND the Theme from Midnight Cowboy (which was the first X rated film to win an Acadamy Award)

01-25-2008, 11:49 AM

chili, for shame, linking to Rufus Wainwright's version of "Hallelujah" instead of John Cale of Jeff Buckley.

Falls City Beer

01-25-2008, 01:48 PM

People let me tell you 'bout my be-est friend...

You've gotta be pretty old to remember that one. Not RFS62 old, but at least Remdog old. ;)

Courtship of Eddie's Father?

westofyou

01-25-2008, 01:56 PM

Courtship of Eddie's Father?

Good Guess Mr Eddies Father

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/miyoshiumeki-coef.jpg

vaticanplum

01-25-2008, 04:37 PM

chili, for shame, linking to Rufus Wainwright's version of "Hallelujah" instead of John Cale of Jeff Buckley.

We do not blaspheme the Rufus. True, he didn't write the song. But then neither did John Cale or Jeff Buckley.

I actually can't stand to listen to Jeff Buckley, but I think that's because I dated a guy who worshipped him, in an uncomfortable preening self-conscious dead guy kind of way.

westofyou

01-25-2008, 05:06 PM

Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse
Where Peewee sits to prove a sage to teach

pedro

01-25-2008, 07:21 PM

Bitter fish in crude oil sea
You don't have to bother me
You just have to join in on this song

cincinnati chili

01-25-2008, 10:52 PM

Betterread

01-25-2008, 11:29 PM

Jessie is a friend....
I think of this song during a key scene and
"Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic"
playing during the credits
and I think of the world view of Paul Thomas Anderson.

01-26-2008, 02:28 AM

We do not blaspheme the Rufus. True, he didn't write the song. But then neither did John Cale or Jeff Buckley.

I actually can't stand to listen to Jeff Buckley, but I think that's because I dated a guy who worshipped him, in an uncomfortable preening self-conscious dead guy kind of way.

I'm no Buckley fan either (he mostly bored me and then he died and became a savant and I was still bored with his stuff), but Wainwright's version of that song is particularly weak. It's basically a straight cover of Cale's version, but he doesn't have the weary baritone to pull it off as well. As far as I'm concerned Wainwright's version sounds every bit like a song sung by a guy singing for a paycheck. Not his best work. Cale took Cohen's original, which was a mess, and forged it into a classic. Then again, Cale's a genius. Buckley used Cale's basic arrangement, but he put a heartbreaking vocal on it. Quite possibly his finest moment on record.

01-26-2008, 03:02 AM

I caught it in the face, coming around again, I thought it was worth waiting

Sunrise, wrong side of another day, sky high and six thousand miles away

60 revolutions per minute, this is my regular speed

One summer evening drunk to hell, I stood there nearly lifeless

Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene

I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheel

GAC

01-26-2008, 07:40 AM

People let me tell you 'bout my be-est friend...

You've gotta be pretty old to remember that one. Not RFS62 old, but at least Remdog old. ;)

I'm not as old as those two; but is that from the theme song to Courtship Of Eddie's Father? :lol:

919191

01-26-2008, 08:14 AM

dock ellis didnt think he would pitch that day
back in 1970
when he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark
a little bit differently
so by the time he hit the bullpen
half the world had melted away
thats about the time coach murtaugh said
hey dock your pitching today

01-26-2008, 03:06 PM

GAC

01-28-2008, 09:26 PM

"Why don't we do it in the road"

vaticanplum

01-28-2008, 09:43 PM

There's nothing more you can leave behind
So forget about seeing, get into your mind
Everything looks better when the world is black
Grab a fork, make the first attack

Is there gonna be a revival tonite? Oh, I wanna see a revival.

I've got dreams, dreams to remember

I'm worst at what I do best

Now, I'm bad with lyrics, but I do believe you just referenced both Mark Lanegan and Otis Redding. And that is impressive my friend, and almost makes up for the Rufus bashing.

RFS62

01-28-2008, 09:46 PM

"She came in through the bathroom window..."

RFS62

01-28-2008, 09:51 PM

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash,
It's a Gas!

01-28-2008, 10:00 PM

Now, I'm bad with lyrics, but I do believe you just referenced both Mark Lanegan and Otis Redding. And that is impressive my friend, and almost makes up for the Rufus bashing.

Them's good pickups for someone who's not good with lyrics. Got some Angry Samoans in there too.

For the record, I've got nothing in particular against the Rufus, I just don't like throwaway covers. They're fine if placed right in concert, mostly for that cool, unexpected effect, but I don't see the point in recording a cover that sticks so close to someone else's version.

And here's another attempt at some bizarre triangulation:

Stick it up, mister!
Hear what I say, sir

When I look up to the skies
I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow

I am an antichrist

Dom Heffner

01-28-2008, 10:44 PM

Every time I think of you
I get a shot right through
Into a bolt of blue

vaticanplum

01-28-2008, 10:49 PM

Them's good pickups for someone who's not good with lyrics. Got some Angry Samoans in there too.

For the record, I've got nothing in particular against the Rufus, I just don't like throwaway covers. They're fine if placed right in concert, mostly for that cool, unexpected effect, but I don't see the point in recording a cover that sticks so close to someone else's version.

And here's another attempt at some bizarre triangulation:

Stick it up, mister!
Hear what I say, sir

When I look up to the skies
I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow

I am an antichrist

The Sex Pistols? I got nothing else, though. If you're actually making CONNECTIONS between these groups, I don't stand a chance.

I understand the cover argument. I think the exposure and the paycheck for artists in situations like that can be good, but they run the danger of being known for the covers, which Rufus very nearly did with Across the Universe.

I loooooove Mark Lanegan. He toured with this guy actually
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01-28-2008, 11:49 PM

The Sex Pistols? I got nothing else, though. If you're actually making CONNECTIONS between these groups, I don't stand a chance.

I understand the cover argument. I think the exposure and the paycheck for artists in situations like that can be good, but they run the danger of being known for the covers, which Rufus very nearly did with Across the Universe.

I loooooove Mark Lanegan. He toured with this guy actually
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Totally unconnected. Toots and the Maytals and Status Quo were the other two.

Lanegan's fantastic.

cincinnati chili

01-29-2008, 12:47 AM

I'm sitting by the curb of the empty parking lot
of the store where they let me play the organ.

919191

01-29-2008, 01:03 AM

Woke up this mornin'
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen
and died.

westofyou

01-29-2008, 04:46 PM

Johnny's playroom
Is a bunker filled with sand
He's become a third world man

IslandRed

01-29-2008, 05:36 PM

The sign said, Long-Haired Freaky People Need Not Apply

pedro

01-29-2008, 05:38 PM

Lost in the Barrio I walk like an Injun
So Carlo won't suspect something's wrong here

pedro

01-29-2008, 05:40 PM

I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes
When you put me on the Wolverine
Up to Annandale
It was still September
When your daddy was quite surprised
To find you with the working girls
In the county jail
I was smoking with the boys upstairs
When I heard about the whole affair
I said oh no
William and Mary won't do

01-29-2008, 06:11 PM

How does it feel to treat me like you do?

I don't know what color your eyes are baby, but your hair is long and brown

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine

Sometimes I walk sideways to avoid you when I've annoyed you

You can take me anywhere and I'll strip down to my underwear if you give me half a chance

The chills that you spill up my back keep me filled with satisfaction when we're done

I'll turn you on like a tiger baby, hard body, motor city, love life

You're gonna take a walk in the rain and you're gonna get (I predict)

redsfanmia

01-29-2008, 07:40 PM

It all began when they took me from my home and put me on death row.
For a crime for which I am totally innocent dont you know.

redsfanmia

01-29-2008, 07:47 PM

I agree with who ever said The MC5

Kick out the jams you blankety blankers!!!!

GAC

01-29-2008, 08:17 PM

"Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!"

"Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're gonna like it."

pedro

01-30-2008, 03:15 PM

"If you talk any faster with food in your teeth
I swear to god I am gonna call the police"

"I look cute at the end of your leash"

01-30-2008, 04:17 PM

I had visions, I was in them, I was looking into the mirror to see a little bit clearer at the rottenness and evil in me

RichRed

01-31-2008, 10:41 AM

Silk pyjamas, silk pyjamas
She was wearing silk pyjamas
Usual outfit, big pith helmet
Dr. Martens and silk pyjamas

cinredsfan2000

01-31-2008, 11:51 AM

A couple of my more recent favorites
Protest the Hero -"Blood meat"
Enemies of Khanate strung on hooks like pigs to slaughter.
Heads will roll.
PROTEST THE HERO]-"No Stars Over Bethlehem"
I'll burn all the lives of this angel illuminati
When St. Michael sized means find an end to justify.
PROTEST THE HERO- "Heretics & Killers"
They call me the man with the blood of Christ, honestly,
but tonight I drink with heathens and the finest of our blastphamies