[Music] Best lyrics in a song

[Bish Bosh]

I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution
I could be an inmate at a long-term institution

 

[seagull_special]

A distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains, to take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever

 

[Grombleton]

She appears composed; so she is, I suppose.
Who can really tell?
She shows no emotion at all; stares into space like a dead china doll.


If looks could really kill
then my profession would be staring


You are the smell before rain
You are the blood in my veins

 

[Super Steve Earle]

See my signature. Bet nobody guesses it without looking it up first.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

One more from the Nobel Prize winner for literature .

“Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best
Trust yourself
Trust yourself to do what's right and not be second-guessed
Don't trust me to show you beauty
When beauty may only turn to rust
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself.“

 

[Icy Gull]

I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it
in everyone
Every junkie's like a setting sun

 

[studio150]

See my signature. Bet nobody guesses it without looking it up first.

I'm sure Whispering Bob would get it immediately

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walkin' through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was lookin' for the place called Lee Ho Fooks
For to get a big dish of beef chow mein

 

[Wienergull]

Sometimes I don't know where
This dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I don't even know the reason why
But I guess I keep a-gamblin'
Lots of booze and lots of ramblin'
Well it's easier than just a-waitin' around to die

One time, friends, I had a ma
I even had a pa
Well he beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
Headed down to Tennessee
Well it's easier than just a-waitin' around to die

Well I came of age and I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit in on the sly
I tried to hide the pain, I bought some wine and hopped a train
Well it's easier than just waitin' around to die

A friend said he knew
Where some easy money was
We robbed a man, and brother did we fly
The posse caught up with me
And drug me back to Muskogee
Two long years waitin' around to die

Well, now I'm out of prison
I got me a friend at last
Well he don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
His name's codeine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Yah, together we're gonna wait around and die
Yah together we're gonna wait around and die

Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

 

[Wienergull]

From bleak to redemptive:

Well, they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a steam

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door'

- Frankie Goes To Hollywood

 

[pearl]

Robert Smith may hold the prize for singing about caterpillar girls and big fat hairy spiders, but can he write lyrics like this ......

The way I drive the car, the way I hang wet clothes.
The times I clean my teeth, the way I blow my nose.
The way I eat my food, the way I close a door,
The way I drink my wine, all this and more,
I never do it right or I take too long.
She always lets me know I do it wrong.

Peter and the Test Tube Babies

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I wandered in a meadow
All that rubbish there
Look at them with the plastic picnic
Talking 'bout the length of my hair

 

[Juan Albion]

No-one beats Jonathan Richman for lyrics.

Well, Cleopatra, take my patience and test it.
Cleopatra, take your time as ye may.
My time has been well-spent,
I done cleaned up my tent.
You'll like it when you see it someday.

I will wait for Cleopatra
For I know my time must come,
And I'm gettin' ready for wherever she'll be at-ra,
Cause I'm gettin' stronger now and not so dumb.
Abdul yearns for Cleopatra in the early desert sun.

 

[Sheebo]

I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed.

Mike Skinner

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
"Things are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Life's just much too hard today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Robinjakarta]

You may say I''m a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

 

[banjo]

Friggin in the riggin cause there’s **** all else to do.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street'

- Joe Jackson

 

[Norman Potting]

".....,But as I travel around this big old world
There's one thing that I most fear
It's a white man in a golf shirt
With a cell phone in his ear...."

Tom Russell - "Who's Gonna Build Your Wall"