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I sat on a rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
"It's time for bed"

 

She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

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There's a fly in the window
A dog in the yard
And a year since I saw you
There's a trunk in the corner
I keep all my letters
My bills and demands I keep too


Well I can't help thinking
About the times
You were a wife of mine
You aimed to please me
Cooked black-eyed peas-me
Made elderberry wine

 

Drunk all the time
Feeling fine on elderberry wine
Those were the days
We'd lay in the haze
Forget depressive times
How can I ever get it together
Without a wife in line
To pick the crop and get me hot
On elderberry wine

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20 hours ago, WhoTom said:

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond


You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine

 

That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn he can never mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
 
[anyone over 40 should be singing to these fast and complicated lyrics very quickly, maybe they don't have the last line down without seeing it....]
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12 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

did any other band use the words "opaque" or "pataphysical" in lyrics?

 

 

songs that more than 1,000 have heard/herd

 

More spoken word than song lyric and not at all mainstream:

 

Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (Zappa/Beefheart)

I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug.
Opaque melodies that would bug most people.
Music from the other side of the fence.

23 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn he can never mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
 
[anyone over 40 should be singing to these fast and complicated lyrics very quickly, maybe they don't have the last line down without seeing it....]

 

Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast:

 

Once again the roadrunner
Leaves the coyote in the dirt
You've got another plan of action
But we all know it ain't never gonna work
 

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Well they're headin' for their car but I hit the gas
And spun around and headed them off at the pass
Well I was slingin' gravel and puttin' a ton of dust in the air

 

Well I had them all out there steppin' an' a fetchin'
Like their heads were on fire and their asses was catchin'
But I figured I oughta go ahead an split before the cops got there

 

When I hit the road I was really wheelin'
Had gravel flyin' and rubber squeelin'
An' I didn't slow down 'til I was almost to Arkansas

 

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1 hour ago, row_33 said:

 

did any other band use the words "opaque" or "pataphysical" in lyrics?

 

 

songs that more than 1,000 have heard/herd

 

Phish, NICU:

 

Would you please
Make clear to me
I'm peering out through your opacity
Though you rehearse
Tomorrow's verse
Forgive me if I don't sing in your key

 

(Close enough?)

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RIP Robert Hunter, penned the lyrics for Jerry's songs about gamblers and hired guns and other badassery of the Old West...

 

If I had a gun for every ace that I had drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold

 

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars (note 1)
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around at the wide world over
But you'll never find another honest man

 

Last fair deal in the country, sweet Susie (note 2)
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby
Before you let my deal go down

 

Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
Well I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go

 

Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine

I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losing this time
Well I got no chance of losing this time

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Well long, tall Sally
She's built for speed, she got
Everything that Uncle John need, oh baby
Yeah baby, woo baby
Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah
 
Well, I saw Uncle John with long tall Sally
He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley oh baby
Yeah baby, woo baby
Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah, ow
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You choke down all your anger
Forget your only son
You pray to statues when you sober up for fun
Your anger don't impress me
The world slapped in your face
It always rains like hell on the loser's day parade


You see, you'd love to run home, but you know you ain't got one
Cause you're living in a world that you're best forgotten, around here
When you're thinking you're a joke and nobody's going to listen
To the one small point I know they've been missing around here

 

Broadway's dark tonight
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway's dark tonight
See the young man sitting in the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die

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