“coming in out of the rain - you hear the jazz pour down” - dire straits
-Imp
“I felt you electric light”. Bush, Machinehead.
“the more it stays the same, the less it changes” - david st. hubbins
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DSR9tZ1hA[/youtube]
-Imp
“my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo, I want to sink her with my pink torpedo” - david st. hubbins
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG87axdarw[/youtube]
-Imp
The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take - Big A Little A [Crass]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE[/youtube]
“I need a girl that chews Copenhagen, when she opens up her mouth, all her teeth are falling out.” BuzzPoets-“Copenhagen Girl”
“I don’t know if the millions will survive, but I’ll believe in God when 1 and 1 are five.” Bad Religion-“Do What You Want”
“Sanity is a full-time job in a World that is always changing.” Bad Religion-“Sanity”
“I just quit my job makin’ toothpicks out of logs
you know it’s gettin thin when your friends turn you in” Montrose - “I Don’t Want It”
“I’m down on my knees but I don’t have a prayer for you” from a song I wrote a long time ago and have mostly forgotten.
Awesome line.
I don’t know where this one comes from - maybe from nowhere. “Green eyes, black dress, and I think you know the rest…”
I can’t find it anywhere, I can’t even find lyrics that exactly match: “Green eyes, black dress,” although, it works with the tune from Escape Club’s, “Wild Wild West,” but there was no lyric in that song even close to that.
Green eyes,
Black dress,
I think you know the rest
“Forty seven
Deadbeats
Livin’ on a back street” Escape Club-“Wild Wild West”
New Additions:
“We go undiscovered 'cause people are careless, but one way or another they’ll never forget us.” Duran Duran- “Playing With Uranium”
“'Cause eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time.” Bad Religion-“You”
QUESTION:
Do you guys think it appropriate to post entire refrains in this thread? I have some I’d like to post.
Such a pretty house, and such a pretty garden - Radiohead - No Surprises
“I’m never alone, I’m alone all the time.” Bush-“Glycerine”
Too young to hold on, too old to just break free and run. - Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
Yeah, Pav. I seem to remember it as a line I was going to use as the first line in a song. Sort of a fast blues/boogie. But I probably just heard it somewhere.
Were you in a band?
Never a rock band.
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy.” -Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
“In the year 7510, If God’s a-comin’ He oughta make it by then.” - Zager and Evans: In the Year 2525
“There’s a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free. Though I respect that a lot
I’d be fired if that were my job after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts” - They Might Be Giants: Little Birdhouse In Your Soul
“I never existed, not even after I’m dead,
But you’ll never leave me, not even after I beat in your head!” - Me: Ralimah
“You get me closer to God” - Trent Reznor.
But you really have to be there - out of context - well, you’ve all heard it, anyway.