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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Mar 22, 2018 18:47:05 GMT -5
"Do not listen to a word I say; just listen to what I can keep silent."
-Richey Edwards/Nicky Wire, for Manic Street Preachers' 'This Is Yesterday'
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Post by eva on Mar 22, 2018 18:48:10 GMT -5
"If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm"
Josh Ritter, The Temptation of Adam (one of my favourite songs)
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Post by World71R on Mar 23, 2018 1:13:42 GMT -5
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night - Waterloo Sunset, Kinks I love Waterloo Sunset. That's a great opening line. Another one, a little closer to home, "There we were, now here we are... All this confusion, nothing's the same to me", is pretty great especially in the context of Oasis's meteoric rise in the '90s. |
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2018 6:55:53 GMT -5
12,710. Interesting topic for discussion. Anyone got any favourites? 12712. "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" Always the one that pops in my head when I hear that question. |
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Post by rorymcbride on Mar 23, 2018 9:42:31 GMT -5
"The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife, did it quick then split"
"Guts" by John Cale
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Post by madferitusa2025 on Mar 23, 2018 17:46:56 GMT -5
Take a little dope, walk out in the air.
The stars are all connected to the brain.
Find me a woman, lay down in the grass.
Pleasure comes falling down like rain.
The Who - Naked Eye
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Post by WirralRiddler on Mar 23, 2018 18:24:23 GMT -5
Hello, it's me
Adele.
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Post by WirralRiddler on Mar 23, 2018 18:27:20 GMT -5
Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 24, 2018 4:19:18 GMT -5
It’s a Bittersweet Symphony this life, trying to make ends meet, trying to find some money then you die - Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
Afterlife...oh my God, what an awful word. - Afterlife, Arcade Fire.
I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I woke up I spent that on a necklace - told God I’d be back in a second, man, it’s so hard not to act reckless - Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ - Kanye West.
Darkness at the break of noon shadows even the silver spoon, the handmaids blade, the child’s balloon... - I’m only Bleeding - Bob Dylan
The ones that came to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 5:20:42 GMT -5
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
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Post by mancraider on Mar 24, 2018 6:30:21 GMT -5
Oh God said to Abraham kill me a son,
Abe said 'Man you must be putting me on.
God said no, Abe said what?
God said you can do what you want Abe
But next time you see me coming you better run.
Always loved this.
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Post by funhouse on Mar 24, 2018 7:39:25 GMT -5
I am the son And the heir Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar Referring to Smiths songs in this thread should almost be considered as cheating. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Mar 24, 2018 18:57:42 GMT -5
"People just ain't no good--I think that's well understood."
Nick Cave, for 'People Ain't No Good'
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Post by mimmihopps on Mar 25, 2018 13:07:06 GMT -5
She's coming over,
We'll go out walking,
Make a call on the way.
She's in the phone booth now,
I'm looking in.
There comes a smile on her face.
- My Drug Buddy by Lemonheads -
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Post by Bellboy on Mar 25, 2018 13:23:58 GMT -5
I woke up in a Soho doorway a policeman knew my name.
Who Are You
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 16:30:15 GMT -5
When the routine bites hard, And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high, But emotions wont grow
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Post by funhouse on Mar 25, 2018 16:57:41 GMT -5
When the routine bites hard, And ambitions are low And the resentment rides high, But emotions wont grow "A change of speed, a change of style A change of scene, with no regrets A chance to watch, admire the distance Still occupied, though you forget" |
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Post by funhouse on Mar 25, 2018 16:59:12 GMT -5
And how come no one's mentioned this one?
"The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays"
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Post by mystoryisgory on Mar 25, 2018 23:58:57 GMT -5
"They're selling postcards of the hanging"
I have never seen a song open with a line that is at once hilarious and horrifying in exactly the right proportion as this one.
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Post by wylliejack on Mar 26, 2018 7:44:12 GMT -5
"the nature of reality, is pure subjective fantasy"
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 26, 2018 8:10:07 GMT -5
My mind is like my mobile, it's low on memory
and there's a sweaty loser standing where the mirror used to be,
although the leaves are growing back they really look the same
as last year, when I swore I'd never write things like this again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 11:04:54 GMT -5
Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad
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Post by mimmihopps on Mar 26, 2018 12:56:59 GMT -5
When he spoke she smiled in all the right places
In her smile he saw the poison she tasted
- Blue Boy by Orange Juice -
I stand accused just like you for being born without a silver spoon
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Mar 26, 2018 21:42:28 GMT -5
Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday.
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Post by GreedyTune on Mar 26, 2018 21:51:55 GMT -5
If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit
In her children's children's children
It lives on
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