What are your favorite song lyrics?

[westofyou]

saint of barges
queen of nails
sparkling drumsets
and murders of crows

metal teeth of
carousels
lighting cigars on
electric chairs

buildings are rooks
nature's a vice
rattle of diesels
snakes eating their own tails

pretty girl, milkin' a cow, oh yeah
pretty girl, milkin' a cow, oh yeah
pretty girl, milkin' a cow, oh yeah
pretty girl, milkin' a cow, oh yeah

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Sparkelhorse

[marcshoe]

Someone mentioned Neil Finn's songwriting on another thread; he gets a co-writing credit on this Split Enz song (as does Noel Griggs), but the wicked lyrics most likely are big brother Tim Finn's, who is credited first and did the vocals:


Dirty Creature come my way from the bottom of a big black lake
Shuffles up to my window making sure I'm awake
S'probably gonna pick my brain
Got me in a vice-like grip
He said one slip, your dead. Ha.
Dirty Creature of habit
Little horror here to stay
Anyone in his right mind would tell it to go away
but the river of dread runs deep
full of unspeakable things
The creature don't mess around
I don't wanna mess with him

I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail
I don't wanna, I don't wanna sail tonight
Dirty Creature's got me at a disadvantage from the inside.

Tentacles on the brain keep me from falling asleep
I'm rooted to the spot
The beast don't know when to stop
Sneaking up from behind
Binds and gags my wits
Dirty Creature got my head exactly where he wants it

I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail,
I don't wanna, I don't wanna sail tonight,
Taniwha is waiting for me just below the surface so bright (Yeah)
Even as we speak the Dirty Creature springs a nasty surprise.

Dirty Creature knows my type found it in a magazine
He's seen the look of fear before splattered all over the screen
The animal magnet thug draws me out of myself
I need a dragon-slayer who can save me from myself

I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail,
I don't wanna set sail for the middle of nowhere tonight
Dirty Creature's got me at a disadvantage from the inside (Yeah)
I don't wanna sail upon the waters of invention tonight

[Northern Dancer]

Two of my favourite pop songs:

Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville

Nibblin' on sponge cake
Watchin' the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin' my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's nobody's fault

I don't know the reason
I stayed here all season
Nothin' to show but this brand new tattoo
But it's a real beauty
A Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven't a clue

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
Now I think
Hell, it could be my fault

I blew out my flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's my own damn fault
Yes and some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And I know it's my own damn fault.


Michel Pagliaro - What the Hell I Got
(French Canadian singer - this song came out in 1975 - its my all-time favourite pop song)

Hey baby on my mind
You're doin' something to me all the time
Too much and always stoned
I'm drinking baby, drinking all alone

Don't know what the hell I got
Whatever it is it's an awful lot
Hey, I'm gonna loose control
From my liver to my very soul
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey baby mind is blown
Never ever want to answer the phone
Time and time again I've tried
But someone answers and I know he lies

Don't know what the hell I got
Whatever it is it's an awful lot
Hey, I'm gonna loose control
From my liver to my very soul

I don't want to be lonely, no, no, no, no, no
I don't want to be lonely, lonely without love

Suitcases in my hand
Packing baby, packing all I can
Tunes rolling in my head
Make me think of all the things you said

Don't know what the hell I got
Whatever it is it's an awful lot
Hey, I'm gonna loose control
From my liver to my very soul

I don't want to be lonely, no, no, no, no, no
I don't want to be lonely, lonely without love

Don't know what the hell I got
Whatever it is it's an awful lot
Hey, I'm gonna loose control
From my liver to my very soul

I don't want to be lonely, no, no, no, no, no
I don't want to be lonely, lonely without love

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Without love
Without love
Hmmm, without love
Yeah, yeah, without love
Hmmm, without love

[Hap]

"BOB"" BY Alfred Yankovic

Each line of this song is a palindrome (the same backwards and forwards) and is sung in a Bob Dylan style.


I, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see god?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?

Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi," I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda

Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

[ghettochild]

me and my girls song

Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

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[ghettochild]

another one of my favs

Am I loud and clear or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer or we just getting more lost?
I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

(Chorus)
We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the end
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long I think that its time to move
The winter's so cold summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
And I've got some friends some that I hardly know
We've had some times I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

(Chorus)
We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the end
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
Until you hold my hand

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse
And let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the end
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

take life away
swing life away
swing life away
swing life away

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