Best lyrics post 2000

Skylarker

People come second, or possibly third.
"I set my sights no higher than this hardwood floor"

-Saint In A Stained Glass Window, Bonfire Of Teenagers, 2021 (unreleased)
 
Once I saw the river clean
Scratching up the latest scheme
Time will come but it hasn't yet
Someone's out to get me
I walked with my grandmother
Cornbrook Street, where incomplete
She would never be again
A Dublin dancer, free and young
 
Once I saw the river clean
Scratching up the latest scheme
Time will come but it hasn't yet
Someone's out to get me
I walked with my grandmother
Cornbrook Street, where incomplete
She would never be again
A Dublin dancer, free and young
Absolutely. Yes. Honestly that whole song > Smiths
 
Come Back To Camden... the entire song.

There is something I wanted to tell you
It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing
But then I, I look around
And I remember that I am alone
Alone
For evermore

The tile yard all along the railings
Up a discolored dark brown staircase
Here you'll find, despair and I
Calling to you with what's left of my heart
My heart
For evermore

Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames
Sullenly on a chair on the pavement
Here you'll find, my thoughts and I
And here is the very last plea from my heart
My heart
For evermore

Where taxi drivers never stop talking
Under slate grey Victorian sky,
Here you will find, despair and I
And here I am every last inch of me is yours,
Yours
For evermore

Your leg came to rest against mine
Then you lounged with knees up and apart
And me and my heart, we knew
We just knew
For evermore

Where taxi drivers never stop talking
Under slate grey Victorian sky
Here you'll find, my heart and I
And still we say come back
Come back to Camden
And I'll be good, I'll be good, I'll be good, I'll be good
 
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I apologise I grew old
I apologise I grew tired
I apologise I grew old

And now I live in oblivion
And it suits me very well
I live in oblivion
And it suits me very well
And the only thing that can kill me
Is the hospital food
And the only one left to visit me
Is you

I knew the best
The worst, the last
I knew them all
I set the world on fire
And now I'm tired

And now I live in oblivion
And it suits me very well
I live in oblivion
And it suits me very well
And the only thing that can kill me
Is thе hospital food
And the only one left to visit mе
Is you

Shove it in your mouth
Come on
Open wide
One, two, three
One more spoonful
Down the hatch
One, two, three
One more spoonful
There's a good boy
Oh, there's a good boy
There's a good boy
 
too many to mention,we could be here all day typing lyrics,so hard to pick a favourite because you are almost saying one is better than the other.
they are all glorious in their own way.vivaM.
 
"Just look at me, a savage beast
I've got nothing to sell
And when I die I want to go to hell
And that's when goodbye should be farewell
"

"Life is a pigsty
And if you don't know this, then what do you know?
Every second of my life I only live for you
And you can shoot me, and you can throw me off a train
I still maintain, I still maintain:
Life, life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
"

"And if it breaks your legs then don't come running to me"
 
"Tombs are full of full of fools who gave their lives upon command of romance gone wrong..."
-I Wish You Lonely (Low In High School, 2017)
 
I'm sure we've had a thread like this some time ago, but hey, whatever, here's one of my all time favourites:

When last I spoke to Carol I said:
"I can't pretend I feel love for you."
She said: "I've hammered a smile
Across this pasty face of mine
Since the day I was born in 1975."
 
some great lyrics above,and people say he hasnt written anything of note since the 90s,some people talk utter garb.
 
A few favourites:

"I'm doing very well, I can block out the present and the past now. I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out.
Thank you, drop dead"

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"Time will send you an invoice, and you pay with your strength and
your legs and your sight and your voice"

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"Loving you is a trauma no one else should face, or sit still for"

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"The woman of my dreams, she, she never came along. The woman of my dreams,
well, there never was one"

"You have never been in love until you've seen the dawn rise behind the home for the blind"

Sorry for going on but there are so, so many brilliant lyrics.
 
some great lyrics above,and people say he hasnt written anything of note since the 90s,some people talk utter garb.

The Quarry / Ringleader / Refusal stretch is, for me, his best period for lyrics apart from the Smiths.
 
This one gets me every time...

Was going to post this one as well.

All of my favourite artists are releasing more and more songs about mortality, ageing and death: Morrissey with I Live In Oblivion, Depeche Mode with Memento Mori, and The Cure with the new live songs, especially Alone and Endsong. They all get me.
 
Take me to the place I've been dreaming of
where the grotesquely lonely
meet the grotesquely lonely
and they whisper
just very softly:
"please be my mine, dearest love
be my dearest love."
 
Reflecting from my deathbed
I'm balancing life's riches
against the ditches
and the flat, grey years in between
all I can see are the never-laid
(that's the never-played symphonies)

I can't see those who tried to love me
or those who felt they understood me
and I can't see those who
very patiently
put up with me
all I can see are
the never-laid
(the never-played symphonies)
 
I like much of the lyrics in TDOHE:

You chase in the rat-race
And you always feel so hollow
You marry because it's expected of you
And it only makes you feel more lonely

You become your parents' parent
And you love them
But you can't help feeling used
And you hate the teenage dad on his estate
Because he's poor, but he's happier than you

They're all laughing at you
You're a dipper, slider, cart-horse provider
Nobody cares about you
Just as long as you're out there bringing it in
Despising the grin on the face of the boy
With the methadone...


Also like the mention of the Jensen Interceptor (classic old car).
 
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