Utterly great lyrics

[kalowski]

They don't need to be deep or profound. To me, there's not much better than this:

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.

Obviously Bobby Z knew how to pen a decent lyric or two

Well you, look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it's really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head just like a
Mattress balances on a bottle of wine

As did old George Clinton

Rumpofsteelskin, he don't rust and he don't bend,
He's got dynamite sticks by the megatons in his butt

This is what the people want.

[DrGreggles]

No idea if they're actually great or not, but I love Gruff Rhys' lyrics.

[iamcoop]

The new Richard Dawson album is filled with beautiful lyrics. I could post the whole of 'The Queen's Head' but it really needs to be listened to in full. However:

"We've  been over to see our mam
Who's in the later stages of dementia
She  didn't understand that we had to go
A whole box of Maltesers got sent rolling all over the floor"

Floored me, that.

[SteveDave]

Obviously Bobby Z knew how to pen a decent lyric or two

From the same song:

Well if you, wanna see the sun rise
Honey, I know where
We'll go out and see it sometime
We'll both just sit there and stare
Me with my belt wrapped around my head
And you just sittin' there
In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

That is an image in my mind that I will never not find funny.

[phantom_power]

The new Richard Dawson album is filled with beautiful lyrics. I could post the whole of 'The Queen's Head' but it really needs to be listened to in full. However:

"We've  been over to see our mam
Who's in the later stages of dementia
She  didn't understand that we had to go
A whole box of Maltesers got sent rolling all over the floor"

Floored me, that.

At the other end of the emotional spectrum from the same album:

"Stop fannying around, keep it nice and simple"
"You're not Lionel Messi, just pass the bloody ball"

[kalowski]

Two margarines on the go,
It's the nightmare scenario,
Two margarines in my life,
It doesn't seem to bother my wife.

I love John Shuttleworth.

[holyzombiejesus]

Course I've been humbled by the void
Much of my faith has been destroyed
I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy
Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude

And as the pace of life keeps quickening
Beneath the bitching and the bickering
When I try to drown my thoughts in gin
I find my worst ideas know how to swim

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[non capisco]

Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
That clean the ocean floor
When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife
That's exactly what I saw

BURRRRRN! Got her ass!

[Twed]

The finest hour that I've ever known
Was finding a pound on the Underground

[phantom_power]

The greatest time I ever had was when we didn't tell the bands

[Satchmo Distel]

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Finns
Folks in Siam do it, think of Siamese twins
Some Argentines without means do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Cold cape cod clams 'gainst their wish do it
Even lazy jellyfish do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Electric eels, I might add, do it
Though it shocks 'em I know
Why ask if shad do it?
Waiter, bring me shad roe
In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

[C_Larence]

Might as well just make this an MF DOOM thread. Too many to count, but the two most audacious lyrics that come to mind are

Catch a throatful from the fire vocal
Ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull

and

One for the money, two for the better green
3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Nobody else comes close to writing anything that inventive

[kalowski]

Might as well just make this an MF DOOM thread. Too many to count, but the two most audacious lyrics that come to mind are

and

Nobody else comes close to writing anything that inventive

No. They're trying to hard. They are nothing like the quality of Cole Porter.

[C_Larence]

No. They're trying to hard. They are nothing like the quality of Cole Porter.

Oh ok.

[kalowski]

Oh ok.

Thanks.