Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room Great lyrical lines of our time

A love of the camera; a stomach for slaughter
Fresh from the front: our favourite reporter
The risks are increasing, she'd hang if they caught her
The odds on survival grow shorter and shorter...

Is it time to repair? Is it time for unlocking?
To the shrine of the nomads, the pilgrims are flocking
Tracing a bee-line to witness a flogging
A slayer of giants in the finest of stockings

Wire - 'The Agfers Of Kodack'

'I got comparisons coming out my ears
And she never can hit the pause
If only Morrissey weren't so Morrisseyesque
She might overlook all my flaws'

'Lighten Up, Morrissey' - Sparks

Only they could get away with it.

I watched this on youtube a time or three. Such a superb parody.

really, really clever song

Evening Martin as you picked up on my Teardrop mention ;I'll repay the compliment by including this little gem from the Mael Brothers
Leaving my syntax back at school
I was grown for a loss over gender and simple rules
You mentioned Kant and I was shocked ... so shocked
You know, where I come from, none of the girls have such foul tongues
Hasta Manana Monsieur

Sheer Brilliance

Meanwhile here's ome quality stuff from the abovementioned fey Mancunian (Big mouth strikes again)

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her hearing aid started to melt

Oh Morrisey did so many good ones didn't he? Here's my fave:

"And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine"

I can't believe this thread has been dormant for a year.

Come on, let's hear those great, great lines

All you did was wreck my bed
And in the mornin' kick me in the head...

Has it really been that long? Goodness me...



I was tempted by the devil in his deep blue swimming pool
Until the devils makeup ran..
And my future's in the strangle hold of ever changing rules
I don't intend to understand

Duran Duran - 'I Believe/All I Need to Know

Was ist ist
was nicht ist, ist moglich
nur was nicht ist
ist moglich!

(what is is, what is not is possible, only what is not, is possible!)

Einsturzende Neubauten: Was ist ist

Billy MacKenzie wrote some clever lyrics. This is one of them:

Someone tell me what's wrong
the wrong that's always in wrong

Party Fears Two - The Associates