Lines from songs that you think are brilliant

[FleetwoodRaincoat]

My absolute favourite is "We don't need no education", followed closely by "You're dressed to kill ... and guess who's dying?"

What are your favourites?

There's a natural order
Those most deserving will end up with the most
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top
Well I say, "Shit floats"
If you thought things had changed
Friend, you'd better think again
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words
Cunts are still running the world
Jarvis (again!) Cunts are still running the world.

Sucked more blood than a back street dentist.

Exit light
Enter night

So you go and stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die

How soon is now , the smiths. 🖤

If you're under him,you ain't getting over him!
Dual lipa-New Rules

My mother gave a mighty shout
Opened her legs and let me out

You’re perfect yes it’s true
But without me, you’re only you
Your menstruating heart
It ain’t bleeding enough for two

Midlife crisis Faith no more

@ShellfishLove

“ Deep so deep, the number one I hope to reap Depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovey cry, cry, cry, cry”

A Song For Whoever - The Beautiful South

The whole song is so clever, cutting and witty

Yes! So, so cynical but wonderful.

Take a good look at my face,you'll see my smile looks out of place.If you look closer,its easy to trace,the tracks of my tears.
The tracks of my tears-The miracles

@PlanetMJ

"Oh you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet”

— Joni Mitchell, Case Of You

I love the Ana Moura cover of this

I gave up nothing
You gave me everything
Until you gave me away

Held like water in your shaking hands
Are all the small defeats a day demands
10 to 6 or 9 to 5
Trying, dying to survive
Never knowing what survival means

Leave the apartment to buy alcohol
Hang our diplomas on the bathroom wall
Pick at the plaster chipped away
Survey some stunning tooth decay
Enlist the cat in the impending class war

Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist, by The Weakerthans.

Memory will rust and erode into lists
Of all that you gave me
A blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest
The best parts of lonely

Also The Weakerthans, Left & Leaving.

All their songs have amazing lyrics, but these two hit home.

See, if I was in your blood then you wouldn't be so ugly. (Annie, I'm not your daddy. Kid Creole and the Coconuts)

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti (Africa. Toto)

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die (How soon is now? The Smiths)

I get up when I want
Except on Wednesdays
When I get rudely awakened by the dustmen
(Parklife)
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea
And I think about leaving the house
(Parklife) (Parklife. Blur)

And just about all of Common People by Pulp

You run and run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking... Pink Floyd ‘Time’

I've never seen a woman make a fuckin skinhead cry,
And I never seen a woman try to snap an arm with her thigh.
Now I have and it's just across the pub,
And the worst thing is she's takin' you home for a rub.

Goldie Lookin Chain, Your Missus Is A Nutter. Fab singalong tune and great lyrics

“I dreamt about you last night, and fell out of bed twice.” (The Smiths, Reel Around the Fountain)

“One September in Boston I lost the will to live.i was just like an astronaut cut from the ship, floating and waiting to die. I was sick of my ordinary life.” (Ezra Furman, Ordinary Life.)

“She was unto S&M and bible studies, not everyone’s cup of tea, I’m sure you will agree.” (Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister)

“The devil came and took me from bed to bar to bookie.” (Squeeze, Up The Junction.)

Every heart is a package tied up in knots someone else tied

Josh Ritter, Kathleen

It's not fair
And I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean

The lyrical genius of Lily Allen

Touch my bum
This is life

Pure poetry

@Sawyersfishbiscuits you beat me to it 😍

'So come my friends, be not afraid, we are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear. Though all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door. There's no one who has told us yet what, Boogie Street is for'.

Leonard Cohen. Boogie Street

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time

Perfect lyrics

So so many lyrics I could name, especially Billy Bragg, ballboy, pulp, arctic monkeys, pj Harvey.
But I’ve had this on repeat this week and it’s really really made me feel happy:

I was taking every hit from you
drive by shooting son of a bitch, and I'm done
Whoa, I'm done

Who told you, that you could rewrite the rules, and do you
Really take me for a goddamn fool 'cause I'm done
Oh, I'm done

And you can drag me out before some authority
If that's what you have to do to feel like you can punish me
But I can't (ooh), I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs (ooh), with your dogs, at my door

You've been pouncing my weaknesses, slandering my name
You spent all your time trying to place your blame
And I'm done
Oh, I'm done

I used to think I hold the best parts of me
But sew the holes in your life and the cracks in your seams
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done

And I'm sorry that you don't like your life
But I fought for my own victories and for the beauty in my life
My joy (ooh), my joy, my joy takes nothing from you
No, my joy (ooh), my joy takes nothing from you

Well, you criticize my numbers, you hammer out the rules
Wait for me to fuck up, to find yourself some proof
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done

You just soak in the hatred of a sorry line
Yeah, you hide behind decorum and a fake smile (fake smile)
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done

Done - Frazey Ford

Disney's Ice Parade/ Ballboy
(This is such a lovely song, with some very arresting lines)

You left your notes on lesbian sex
On the fishtank in the hall
It took me all afternoon
To read them all

I learned more in that day
Than I’ve ever learned before
I don’t think you and I
Should go clubbing anymore

Last night your mother called to say
Your father’s run away
With the man who plays the polar bear
In Disney’s Ice Parade

She says don’t worry she’s okay
She hated ice-dance anyway
And now she’ll have more time alone
To drink her days away
Drink her days away

Doesn’t need anyone to help her
She’s okay

Now I’ve come home again
To find you in a sticky mess
We won’t get our deposit back
If you carry on like this
So put away your whips and chains
They couldn’t hold me anyway
It’s the space between your shoulder blades
That makes me want to stay

And I’m okay
I don’t need anyone to help me

And now we retreat to the kitchen I’ll make you some tea
You tell me when you were young you thought there would be
Something more glorious for you to be
And I say glorious?
What could be more glorious than you and me

And so your father’s run away
Your mother’s in a drunken haze
Doesn’t mean that you and I can’t make it anyway

How could I forget - “you said I must eat so many lemons, cos I am so bitter. I said, I’d rather be with your friends, mate, because they are much fitter.” (Kate Nash, Foundations.)

And - “I’m giving it my all, but I’m not the girl you’re taking home. I keep dancing on my own.” (Robyn, Damcing on my Own.)

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low

Ziggy really sang
Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
He came on so loaded, man,
Well-hung, snow-white tan

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them just for one day
We can be heroes just for one day