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Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:59 pm
by Mudfuzz
Have we done this before… maybe but anyway.. post what you fucking love!
so first up is a song about a lot of us…
Jocko Homo by Devo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaXiUHI-Og[/youtube]
They tell us that
We lost our tails
Evolving up
From little snails
I say it's all
Just wind in sails
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
D-E-V-O
We are pinheads now
We are not whole
We're pinheads all
Jocko homo
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
D-E-V-O
Are we not pins?
We are Devo!
Monkey men all
In business suits
Teachers and critics
All dance the poot
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
D-E-V-O
Are we not pins?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
D-E-V-O
I got a rhyme that comes with a riddle
O-HI-O
What's round on the ends and high in the middle?
O-HI-O
God made man
But he used the monkey to do it
Apes in the plan
We're all here to prove it
I can walk like an ape
Talk like an ape
Do what a monkey can do
God made man
But a monkey supplied the glue
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
D-E-V-O
We must repeat
O.K. let's go!
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:05 pm
by Chankgeez
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJdBLnqCKd4[/youtube]
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:22 am
by bob the r0bot
Of Montreal - Little Rock
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu2ISpr6ZI8[/youtube]
"Little Rock, I offered my heart and you tried to steal Nina's hat..."
Drop Nineteens - Winona
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4oCboj39jo[/youtube]
"It's why I've got to know the truth; was it you who sang in Xanadu?"
Why? - Even the Good Wood Gone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDgpZKgok3Y[/youtube]
"And when I'm really buried, I'll be buried in Cleveland with a new pair of skis and someone's old set of keys to their car and bottom floor apartment door and health club locker."
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:12 am
by pelliott
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RURod5D0UTI[/youtube]
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:39 am
by jfrey
Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves
Anathema - Thin Air
Dawnbringer - IX
So many others
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:22 pm
by Mute Swan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pru77ZsGE[/youtube]
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:12 am
by goroth
bob the r0bot wrote:
"And when I'm really buried, I'll be buried in Cleveland with a new pair of skis and someone's old set of keys to their car and bottom floor apartment door and health club locker."
That was great man!
I don't really give a crap about lyrics - as long as they convey a feeling, and the words, or rather the sounds, work, then I'm happy. If I'm interested in saying something, or finding out what someone else has said I'll usually read/write poetry instead. But that said, there are a couple of tunes that I really dig:
Outshined!
Best couplet ever:
I'm looking California
And feeling Minnesota
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNh-iw7gsuI[/youtube]
I got up feeling so down
I got off being sold out
I've kept the movie rolling
But the story's getting old now
I just looked in the mirror
Things aren't looking so good
I'm looking California
And feeling Minnesota
So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child
I'd like to say
That I'm down on my knees today
It gives me the butterflies
Gives me away
Till I'm up on my feet again
I'm feeling outshined
Someone let the dogs out
They'll show you where the truth is
The grass is always greener
Where the dogs are shedding
I'm feeling that I'm sober
Even though I'm drinking
I can't get any lower
Still I feel I'm sinking
So now you know who gets mystified
Show me the power child
I'd like to say
That I'm down on my knees today
It gives me the butterflies
Gives me away
Till I'm up on my feet again
I'm feeling outshined.
Also quite like King for a Day...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAUXPkx7gMI[/youtube]
It is not a good day, if you are not looking good
This is the best party that I've ever been to
Today I asked for a god to pour some wine in my eyes
Today I asked for someone to shake some salt on my life
Look!
Everything's spinning
(We're on the ground)
Never cheer before you know who's winning
(Don't make a sound)
Sniff the glass and let it roll around on you tongue
Let me introduce you to someone before the party is done
Someone to look to in need or in want or in war
If you give him everything, he may give you even more
This is the best party I've ever been to
Don't let me die with that silky look in my eyes
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:30 pm
by kbit
"Goin through the motions
Just to make shit happen right,
Never knowin where we're goin
Just rollin' like waves at night"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmZ6WDkuj0[/youtube]
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:09 pm
by D.o.S.
pelliott wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RURod5D0UTI[/youtube]
Hold Steady crush for lyrics.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:18 pm
by pelliott
It feels like once a day I notice yet another incredible Craig Finn line in every damn song.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:19 pm
by D.o.S.
My contribution to this thread is just the first three HS records.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:24 pm
by pelliott
Welp gonna be tough to top that contribution. Better just pack it up and stop trying, everyone.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:30 pm
by D.o.S.
That's it, this is the end of the session. I ain't gonna be taking any more questions, and I think my attorney is gonna second that notion.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:34 pm
by pelliott
Let this be our annual reminder that we could all be something bigger.
Re: Favorite Lyrics thread!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:47 pm
by Achtane
gmcfosho wrote:Im playin goodmitten
y'all playin badmitten
shot got dat sof tuch
it feel like sad kittens
B on dat tenis court
opponents only show me luv
o u bowlin turkeys?
well i just bowl'd a dove