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Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

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Some men here
They know the full extent of
Your distress
They kneel and pray
And they say:
"Long may it last!"
***
trouble loves me
trouble needs me
two things more than you do
or would attempt to
***
Now I've had enough
I've had more than could be
My rightful share
Of nights I can't bear
How can it be fair?
Time must wipe them out
So, again, I lay awake
In a trance
Oh, I just want my chance
But only with you
Only with you
That's all
That's all
***
See the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
though she needs you more than she loves you :tears:
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
(I'd) like you to stay
Want you to be my prize
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

"And yet I asked to be forgiven, knowing the life that I've been living... And yes I know it's too late, coz on your judgement day you're gonna close your gate... on me"

(Great song for us sinners!)
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

i saw the long row of blue bells.
i saw the fox glove and the night shade.
i saw the cool garden and i thought a while about
how i'd been waiting for you since the second grade.
the flowers made the air boil.
the boiling air made me think of you a while.
i did not come here to suffer.
i did not come here to suffer.
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

"I'm the world you'll never see
I'm the slave you'll never free
I'm the truth you'll never know
I'm the place you'll never go
I'm the sound you'll never hear
I'm the course you'll never steer
I'm the will you'll not destroy
I'm the gin in the gin-soaked boy"
'Gin Soaked Boy' by The Divine Comedy

and also...

"We watched the end of the century
Compressed on a tiny screen-
A dead star collapsing, and we could see
That something was ending.
Are you through pretending
We saw the signs in the suburbs?"
'Deep Blue' by Arcade Fire
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

Fond affections are never said
They're only sung in songs
I never was naive enough to know when I was wrong

There's no light at the end of it all
Let's all sit down and cry
There's no light at the beginning
Let's all sit down and cry

Now it's time to say goodbye
Now it's being forced upon you
It's just that person by your side remaining distant

Now the winter's growing close
The days are getting older
I can tell by your face
That your heart is getting colder

There's no light at the end of it all
Let's all sit down and cry
There's no light at the beginning
Let's all sit down and cry
 
"Old Billy the blacksmith, first time in his life /
Has gone home cold sober to his darling wife /
He walks in the kitchen, she says "You're early my dear." /
Then he breaks down and he tells her the pub's got no beer."

Pub With No Beer, my current favourite version of which is by the Dubliners due to a sterling vocal by Ronnie Drew.
 
Hold me now

-The Thompson Twins
 
The night time comes and the streets they ring
With the fears of a thousand things
But if you worry about your ports of call
You'll never get nothing done at all
 
Black-eyed Susan sometimes
Shakes to break
- so watch it
Black-eyed Susan
rest and do nothing
because it's the only thing that
you do quite well
 
And people who are uglier than you and I
They take what they need and just leave
Oh but don't mention love
I'd hate the pain of the strain all over again
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind or waterfall could STALL me
And then came the rush of the flood
The stars at night turned DEEP to dust

Melt me down
into big black armour
Leave no trace
Of grace
Just in your honor
Lower me down
TO CULPRIT SOUTH
Make 'EM WASH A SPACE IN TOWN
FOR THE LEAD
AND THE DREGS OF MY BED
I'VE BEEN SLEEPING
Lower me down
PIN ME IN
Secure the grounds
For the later parade
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

"And I think of those people who cut their own throats accidentally,
Catching their razors on moles or recalcitrant stubble.
They missed the chance to die older and lonelier eventually-
And to think there are those who say life’s but a pitiless struggle"

The Sound of the Ladies- 'Wash the sleep from my eyes, for one day I'll have to awake'. I downloaded the LP from Itunes yesterday, and it's very good.
 
I know they take
and that they take in turn
and they give you nothing real
for yourself in return
 
Re: Best Song, Best Line, Best Lyric RIGHT NOW (Non-Morrissey Edition)

I go down to the river
Filled with regret
I go down and I wonder
If there was any reason left
I left just before my LUNGS could get wet
I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

The White Stripes
 
Its actually "the sky became MATTE with stars"


Don't feel bad, nobody gets that one :)




It was only a test
but she swam too far
against the tide
she deserves all she gets
the sky became mad with stars
as an out-stretched arm slowly
disappears
 
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room,Safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
 
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room,Safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island

:love:
 
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