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#289983 - 24/11/11 10:33 AM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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DailyDean
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Registered: 22/11/11
Posts: 28
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Short Change Hero by The Heavy.
"This ain't no place for no hero"
Triple negative much? I'm not actually sure which way this line is going because of it.
The song itself is actually pretty good though  The Heavy - Short Change Hero
Edited by DailyDean (24/11/11 10:34 AM)
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#290005 - 24/11/11 05:18 PM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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Screaming Dave
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Registered: 18/08/11
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Loc: Andover, UK
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I love Billy Bragg. He writes some brilliant, brilliant lyrics. Just about the whole of New England is pure witty poetry, but I love the lines
"I loved you then as I love you still,
Though I put you on a pedestal
They put you on the pill"
and my favourite ...
"I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites,
It's wrong to wish on space hardware,
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care"
And the other one I love of his is ...
"I am the milkman of human kindness,
I will leave an extra pint"
Billy Bragg and Charles Dickens working in perfect harmony! 
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#290036 - 25/11/11 11:10 AM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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S&P
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Registered: 18/08/11
Posts: 85
Loc: Sheffield UK
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I have always loved the line from REM
"I think I thought I saw you try"
Edited by S&P (25/11/11 11:11 AM)
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#290037 - 25/11/11 11:58 AM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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Megi
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Registered: 08/07/11
Posts: 1271
Loc: Lincolnshire
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Ian Dury:
Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers
He must have been a pencil squeezer
He didn't do the Mona Lisa
That was an Italian geezer
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Graham, jazz guitar nut!
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#290038 - 25/11/11 12:03 PM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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Megi
Old Timer
Registered: 08/07/11
Posts: 1271
Loc: Lincolnshire
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One I really hate is the opening of the great jazz standard "Misty":
Look at me
I'm an helpless as a kitten up a tree
How sickly is that? Makes me want to throw up!
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Graham, jazz guitar nut!
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#290855 - 20/12/11 10:22 AM
Re: Lyrics To Die For......
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Str88
Be Nice (I'm New!)
Registered: 03/12/11
Posts: 16
Loc: Warwick UK
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My favourite all time singer/songwriter/lyricist is Jackson Browne. This is the opening line to "The Late Show"
"Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell
Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere
Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear"
All his songs are filled with such honesty, sometimes a cruel honesty but nontheless very poignant.
He wrote some fantastic songs when he was just 17! How could someone that age have such an insight into peoples feelings is amazing.
Edited by Str88 (20/12/11 10:23 AM)
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