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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Apr 29, 2018 10:47:47 GMT -5
"For liberty there is a cost:
This broken skull and leather cosh
From the boys in uniform.
Now you know whose side they're on."
Paul Weller, for The Style Council's 'A Stone's Throw Away'
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Post by guigsysEstring on Apr 29, 2018 11:51:53 GMT -5
theyknowwhatimean Thanks for a reminder of The Style Council, just played this gem- "You don't have to take this crap You don't have to sit back and relax You can actually try changing it"
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 8, 2018 13:58:50 GMT -5
"Stone love: she kneels before the grave:
A brave son who gave his life to save the slogan
That hovers between the headstone and her eyes--
For they penetrate her grieving."
David Bowie, for 'Soul Love'
(Don't fully know what this means. It just sounds good and reads well).
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Post by funhouse on May 16, 2018 15:44:37 GMT -5
"Smoke lingers 'round your fingers
Train - Heave on to Euston
Do you think you've made the right decision this time?"
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Post by andybellwillring on May 17, 2018 8:44:47 GMT -5
Excuse me sir
I'm lost
I'm looking for a place
Where I can get lost
I'm looking for a home
For my malfunctioning being
I'm looking for the mechanical music museum
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 19, 2018 6:07:48 GMT -5
"Don't you have anything better to do?
I wish that someone could hug you.
Must be lonely being angry, feeling overlooked.
And you sit alone at home in the darkness,
With all the pent up rage that you harness.
I'm really sorry 'bout whatever happened to you."
Courtney Barnett, for 'Nameless, Faceless'
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 12:54:15 GMT -5
Who kicked a hole in the sky so the heavens would cry over me?
Who stole the soul from the sun in a world come undone at the seams?
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 20, 2018 16:30:39 GMT -5
"Oh, it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl.
And, with the way you look, I understand that you were not impressed.
But I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
I'm not gonna get too sentimental, like those other sticky valentines,
'Cause I don't know if you are loving somebody: I only know it isn't mine."
Elvis Costello, for 'Alison'
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jun 21, 2018 18:39:14 GMT -5
"Please beware of them that stare:
They'll only smile to see you while your time away.
And, once you've seen what they have been,
To win the earth just won't seem worth your night or your day.
Who'll hear what I say?"
-Nick Drake, for 'Things Behind the Sun'
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Jul 13, 2018 16:26:06 GMT -5
Thanks.
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Post by Headmaster on Jul 13, 2018 18:40:21 GMT -5
The trouble with your brother,
he's always sleeping
with your mother.
And I know that your sister missed her time again this month.
Am I talking too fast or are you just playing dumb?
If you want I can write it down.
Pulp - Razzamatazz
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Jul 14, 2018 2:26:41 GMT -5
The hare once betrayed me and so did the fox and the crow
Just once defied me
There's me and there's space where are they?
Maybe dead no one knows
You can't defy me
-Blind Guardian, Ashes of Eternity
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 15, 2018 14:09:35 GMT -5
Listening to The Beatles' 'Day Tripper' for the first time since the creation of this thread, I'm struck by the ambiguity of the opening verse:
"Got a good reason for taking the easy way out.
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now."
-Lennon/McCartney
An alluring opening to a song...
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Post by funhouse on Jul 15, 2018 14:53:26 GMT -5
"I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the russians too?"
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Post by funhouse on Jul 24, 2018 15:45:38 GMT -5
"A girl consumed by fire
We all know her desire"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 16:05:31 GMT -5
"I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl".
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Jul 25, 2018 9:21:28 GMT -5
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
"There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right/Boys and girls in America, they have such a sad time together."
Brilliant.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Jul 25, 2018 10:02:12 GMT -5
Even better....
The Hold Steady - Killer Parties
"If they ask about Charlemagne, be polite and say something vague like another lover lost to the restaurant raids."
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Jul 25, 2018 10:13:35 GMT -5
A thousand years of sleep
I've missed the rising sun
Wish I could change this
(LeStat tribute, not Dracula)
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 25, 2018 12:51:55 GMT -5
"Pale, pubescent beasts roam through the streets and coffee shops;
Their prey gather in herds of stiff knee-length skirts and white ankle songs.
But, while they search for a mate, my type hibernate in bedrooms above,
Composing their songs of love."
-Neil Hannon, for The Divine Comedy's 'Songs of Love'
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 18:22:23 GMT -5
"I was dressed for success
But success it never comes"
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Post by bringmethemonkey on Jul 25, 2018 18:53:07 GMT -5
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 3, 2018 9:28:52 GMT -5
Keep your Beady eyes on me.
Turn to Dust - Wolf Alice
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Aug 3, 2018 11:18:14 GMT -5
Dirty little secret
Dirty little lies
Say your prayers and call me rare
Save your soul tonight
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Post by funhouse on Aug 6, 2018 9:15:58 GMT -5
"There's something in the way she moves
Or looks my way, or calls my name
That seems to leave this troubled world behind"
The lyrics are very straightforward and maybe not that clever, but combined with the melody it is a perfect opening to a song. And if those first words seem familiar, George Harrison once heard it and asked if he could use them in a song of his own. Not a bad song either, that one.
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