Author Topic: Great single lines from lyrics (Read 24366 times)

Steph · « **Reply #25 on:** 20 May, 2014, 06:16:01 pm »

If no wheels are available, metal, not organic limbs should be employed wherever possible...

Sod it; the whole piece is superb!

Peter · « **Reply #26 on:** 20 May, 2014, 08:23:22 pm »

It's hard to chose a single line of Bob Dylan, who hs probably written more great lines then the rest of the world's lyricists put together (Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin just didn't write enough songs!) but how about these:-

They're selling postcards of the hanging; they're painting the passports brown

and

The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
?

On second thoughts, maybe we should ban Bob Dylan or the internet might break.

nicknack · « **Reply #27 on:** 20 May, 2014, 08:30:50 pm »

Yes and every bloody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt

Steph · « **Reply #28 on:** 20 May, 2014, 09:58:58 pm »

VDGG?

Of course it must be. You ever play two at once? I prefer Boleas Panic from that album.

Valiant · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 May, 2014, 04:45:03 am »

Don't marry her, fuck me.

nicknack · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 May, 2014, 03:24:57 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 20 May, 2014, 09:58:58 pm

You ever play two at once?

Wondered what you meant for a sec.

I used to when I played in a prog band about 35 years ago. Occasionally toy with the idea of tenor and bari together (Dana Colley in Morphine) but haven't plucked up the nerve yet.

Steph · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 May, 2014, 05:54:09 pm »

I do believe the man I was speaking about now goes by the name 'Jaxen' or 'Jaxon'. I used to have a great y**tube link to a performance of "Darkness'. Wonderful stuff.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 May, 2014, 06:05:39 pm »

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

rogerzilla · « **Reply #33 on:** 21 May, 2014, 06:18:50 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 20 May, 2014, 01:32:32 pm

Quote from: Juan Martín on 15 May, 2014, 08:36:36 am
Think only of yourself.

If you are making love, it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.

Says who? In all pornos, she comes first ;-)

tiermat · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 May, 2014, 06:46:25 pm »

If rain makes Britain great, then Manchester is greater...

Kim · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 May, 2014, 07:06:32 pm »

But it's really not that you can't see the forest for the trees, you've never been out in the woods alone.

citoyen · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 May, 2014, 07:08:19 pm »

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 21 May, 2014, 06:05:39 pm

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

"Nero fiddles while Gordon burns"

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 May, 2014, 08:25:08 pm »

And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican

NHRC Chris · « **Reply #38 on:** 22 May, 2014, 12:23:17 am »

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?

Billy Bragg - Greetings to the new brunette

Nethypete · « **Reply #39 on:** 22 May, 2014, 12:34:41 am »

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away for a wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Steve GT · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 May, 2014, 03:53:26 pm »

"People had worries from when the dead sea was only critical" - Lucky Dube.

clarion · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 May, 2014, 03:57:39 pm »

Je ne suis qu'un bulletin qu'on intoxique et qu'on glisse dans un urne - Trust

J.Y.Kelly · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 May, 2014, 07:33:04 pm »

"You smell like a field, ..cow-shit in the mid-summer sun".
From the song "One eyed trouser snake rumba" by Humble Pie. (Greatest song title ever).From the album 'As Safe As Yesterday'

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 May, 2014, 08:45:22 pm »

På bara Fyra sekunder, underbart är kort - Magnus Uggla

In only four seconds, wonderful is short.

A song about a premature ejaculation sufferer who eventually meets a girl who comes as quickly. I love a happy ending. It got to the top of the Swedish charts in '94.

citoyen · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 May, 2014, 10:23:56 pm »

"He lost poetic ethic and his songs were pathetic"

"If he made me in his image then he's a failure too"

Both from Failure by Laura Marling

citoyen · « **Reply #45 on:** 27 May, 2014, 06:56:35 pm »

"On a vu souvent rejaillir le feu de l'ancien volcan qu'on croyait trop vieux"
- Brel, Ne Me Quitte Pas

Peter · « **Reply #46 on:** 27 May, 2014, 08:31:24 pm »

Wonder if they use that on French (or Brelgian) packets of Viagra?

Deano · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 May, 2014, 10:56:52 pm »

More HMHB:

"I could have been like Lou Barlow, but I'm more like Ken Barlow".

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #48 on:** 28 May, 2014, 12:02:29 am »

Quote from: Valiant on 21 May, 2014, 04:45:03 am

Don't marry her, fuck me.

She "Left the band" soon after that performance! Paul Heaton managed to uncomfortable face of the year on thAT GIG.

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 May, 2014, 12:05:23 am »

Riding along in their Big old Chryslers, with the Big under inflated white tyres...

Moe Tucker.. Blue all the way to Canada....