Favorite Lyric?
- fightoffyourdemons
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"I want to see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about"
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- s_mcsleazy
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were you at the gig in glasgow where they opened for dinosaur jr.?fightoffyourdemons wrote:"I want to see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about"
- Built to Spill, 'Car'
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'Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? Or do you just want me to solder a couple of resistors into your Muff?'
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1. I've seen a million faces and I rocked them all. (Bon Jovi being as honest, in their own way, as Fugazi ever was).
2. I smell like I sound.* (Duran Duran lyrics are completely opaque and ponderous).
* equivalent to the riddle of the sphinx, on some level. And there is a better answer than just "good" or "terrible."
Built to Spill "car" is amazing. "You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works"
2. I smell like I sound.* (Duran Duran lyrics are completely opaque and ponderous).
* equivalent to the riddle of the sphinx, on some level. And there is a better answer than just "good" or "terrible."
Built to Spill "car" is amazing. "You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works"
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I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so~The Vapors
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
Lines are always popping in and out of my memory, but:
"He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge,
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege"
and
"The salty lips of the socialite sisters,
With their continental fingers that have
Never seen working blisters
Oh, I know they've got their problems
How I wish I was one of them"
"He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge,
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege"
and
"The salty lips of the socialite sisters,
With their continental fingers that have
Never seen working blisters
Oh, I know they've got their problems
How I wish I was one of them"
- fightoffyourdemons
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I sure did! It was an absolute dream gig for me; two of my absolute all time favourite bands. The Built to Spill set had me totally mesmerised. I presume you were in attendance?s_mcsleazy wrote:were you at the gig in glasgow where they opened for dinosaur jr.?fightoffyourdemons wrote:"I want to see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about"
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dude, i was frount row right infrount of lou barlow. i was also one of the many people who was welling up during carfightoffyourdemons wrote:I sure did! It was an absolute dream gig for me; two of my absolute all time favourite bands. The Built to Spill set had me totally mesmerised. I presume you were in attendance?s_mcsleazy wrote:were you at the gig in glasgow where they opened for dinosaur jr.?fightoffyourdemons wrote:"I want to see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about"
- Built to Spill, 'Car'
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'Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? Or do you just want me to solder a couple of resistors into your Muff?'
'Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? Or do you just want me to solder a couple of resistors into your Muff?'
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
Just to prove that bad or at least really dated songs can have surprisingly good lyrics (just like good can have bad).
Alphaville - Big in Japan (actually a lot better done byAne Brun)
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight...
Big in Japan-be-tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan-alright,
Pay! -- Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or should I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history I see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight...
Big in Japan-be-tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan-alright, pay!
Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Actually this reminds me of the Lyrics to Klima - Fluorescent Starsfor some reason, it's a real skin prickler
it's saturday night
and i don't want to go out
i'm staying in bed
watching the stars on my wall
my friends are in a bar
drinking beers and telling jokes
i'm here on my own
counting the stars
so many of them
my eyes are closing
so many of them
one, two, three, four hundred
the noise from the street
is coming to my ears
but they've decided to be deaf tonight
and concentrate on the stars
so many of them
my eyes are closing
so many of them
one, two, three four hundred
Alphaville - Big in Japan (actually a lot better done byAne Brun)
Winter's cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I'd ever find a glimpse
Of summer's heatwaves in your eyes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history I see
Here's my comeback on the road again
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight...
Big in Japan-be-tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan-alright,
Pay! -- Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Oh when you're big in Japan
Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
Of strange illuminated mannequins
Shall I stay here at the zoo
Or should I go and change my point of view
For other ugly scenes
You did what you did to me
Now it's history I see
Things will happen while they can
I will wait here for my man tonight
It's easy when you're big in Japan
Aah when you're big in Japan-tonight...
Big in Japan-be-tight...
Big in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Japan-alright, pay!
Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Japan
Actually this reminds me of the Lyrics to Klima - Fluorescent Starsfor some reason, it's a real skin prickler
it's saturday night
and i don't want to go out
i'm staying in bed
watching the stars on my wall
my friends are in a bar
drinking beers and telling jokes
i'm here on my own
counting the stars
so many of them
my eyes are closing
so many of them
one, two, three, four hundred
the noise from the street
is coming to my ears
but they've decided to be deaf tonight
and concentrate on the stars
so many of them
my eyes are closing
so many of them
one, two, three four hundred
Are you loathsome tonight?
- fightoffyourdemons
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[/quote] dude, i was frount row right infrount of lou barlow. i was also one of the many people who was welling up during car[/quote]
I must have been pretty close to you. 'Car' was amazing!
I must have been pretty close to you. 'Car' was amazing!
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
"to buy a drink there is so much more reasonable / i think i'll go there when it gets seasonable"
New Order, of course, from "Sooner Than You Think." it's the kind of couplet that could sound strained, were it not so completely charming -
New Order, of course, from "Sooner Than You Think." it's the kind of couplet that could sound strained, were it not so completely charming -
in the coldest night / huddled 'round the dying embers
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awesome.fightoffyourdemons wrote: I must have been pretty close to you. 'Car' was amazing!
offset guitars resident bass player.
'Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? Or do you just want me to solder a couple of resistors into your Muff?'
'Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? Or do you just want me to solder a couple of resistors into your Muff?'
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
The Mississippi delta was shining
Like a national guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
I'm going to Graceland
Like a national guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
I'm going to Graceland
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GG Allin
Eat my diarrhea
Just ate a burger at the sleazy joint
Now I gotta take a shit, get to the point
Sittin' on the toilet, my ass is a blast
Runnin' smelly diarrhea outta my ass
No fuckin' paper
Hey baby lick my ass 'til your face turns blue
You're finished rimmin' me and you want some more
Ya say ya don't flush but your out the door
I'm back in the...with a cup
Scoop it outta the toilet 'cause you wanna slurp it up
Eat my diarrhea you're chuggin' it down
You're suckin' my ass and your lips are all brown
Since we've gone back to the hamburger place
I'm gonna stick my ass right on your face
I'm gonna shit in your mouth
I'm gonna shit in your face, your mouth
And I wanna shit on your mother
I'm gonna shit on you and your mother
Diarrhea
I gotta take a shit
Gotta bottle a Ex-Lax, gonna take it
I'm gonna take me a lumpy shit
Gonna throw it at you, I hope I hit you
I hope it splats in your face there too
It's comin' out my ass all drippin' wet
I want you to suck up all of it
Lick my ass and eat it too
Cause diarrhea is good for you
Ya eat it, eat it, eat
Eat it, eat it, eat
Diarrhea
Eat my fuckin' shit
Eat my diarrhea
Just ate a burger at the sleazy joint
Now I gotta take a shit, get to the point
Sittin' on the toilet, my ass is a blast
Runnin' smelly diarrhea outta my ass
No fuckin' paper
Hey baby lick my ass 'til your face turns blue
You're finished rimmin' me and you want some more
Ya say ya don't flush but your out the door
I'm back in the...with a cup
Scoop it outta the toilet 'cause you wanna slurp it up
Eat my diarrhea you're chuggin' it down
You're suckin' my ass and your lips are all brown
Since we've gone back to the hamburger place
I'm gonna stick my ass right on your face
I'm gonna shit in your mouth
I'm gonna shit in your face, your mouth
And I wanna shit on your mother
I'm gonna shit on you and your mother
Diarrhea
I gotta take a shit
Gotta bottle a Ex-Lax, gonna take it
I'm gonna take me a lumpy shit
Gonna throw it at you, I hope I hit you
I hope it splats in your face there too
It's comin' out my ass all drippin' wet
I want you to suck up all of it
Lick my ass and eat it too
Cause diarrhea is good for you
Ya eat it, eat it, eat
Eat it, eat it, eat
Diarrhea
Eat my fuckin' shit
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
The Pink Fairies did a vocal version of Walk Don't Run
which includes a favourite rhyming couplet
"She took me up to her room
And she hit me with a broom"
which includes a favourite rhyming couplet
"She took me up to her room
And she hit me with a broom"
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Re: Favorite Lyric?
Then I had religion,
Then I had a vision,
I could not turn from their revel in derision.
Then I saw the Congo,
Creeping through the black,
Cutting through the jungle like a golden track.
Then I had a vision,
I could not turn from their revel in derision.
Then I saw the Congo,
Creeping through the black,
Cutting through the jungle like a golden track.
Science Friction burns my fingers
Electricity still lingers
Electricity still lingers