I’ll go first
All the stars that never where are parking cars and pumping gas.
Dione Warwick - do you know the way to San Jose
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I’ll go first
All the stars that never where are parking cars and pumping gas.
Dione Warwick - do you know the way to San Jose
Ha ha ha
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing gnome
And you can't catch me
David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
"I'm standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me"
'Take It Easy' - Eagles
".... sad as a gypsy serenading the Moon"
'Skylark' - Hogey Carmichael
"While the Chief puts Sunshine on Leith"
Proclaimers
You can do anything but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
Words are flowing out like endless rain in to a paper cup, they slither while they pass they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, possessing and caressing me.
The Beatles- Across The Universe
I can feel the earth begin to move, I hear my needle hit the groove.
Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
Maybe I will never be
all the thing that I wanna be
now is not time to cry
nows the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We'll see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Oasis - Live Forever 1994
My name is Sue! How do you do! Now you're gonna die!
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
Neat idea - BD - Like A Rolling Stone
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Plucked her eyebrows on the way,
Shaved her legs and then he was a she...
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
When you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard
Dr Hook
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Africa, Toto
… When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me......
True Faith, New Order
"I hope I die before I get old".
we dont need no education , we dont need no thought control
Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head but dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away and forget about everything
Libraries gave us power.
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?
A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away.
Banquet - Bloc Party
Design for Life qualifies as iconic imo, Bloc Party maybr not so much but they are great lyrics.
"Ground control to Major Tom".
"Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind" - Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones
"I know you won't believe it's true, I only went with her 'cause she looks like you" - Babies, Pulp.
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses" - Killing in the name, Rage Against the Machine
"When I was young I thought I had my own key, knew exactly what I wanted to be. Now I'm sure, you've boarded up every door." - Fade Away, Oasis.
"I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real" - Hurt, Johnny Cash.
"It's 9 O'clock on a Saturday, regular crowd shuffles in, There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin" - Piano Man, Billy Joel.
"If I listened long enough to you, I'd find a way to believe that it's all true." - Reason to Believe, Rod Stewart.
"I'm alive again, more alive than I have been in my whole entire life.." - No Love, Eminem.
"I'm only a paperboy from the North West, but I can scrub up well in my Sunday best. How could I ever do for you, because I'm true and I'm real, and this is how I feel." - Courteeners.
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
This ones iconic to me as it represents some fine times
When I hold you baby
feel your heart beat close to me
want to stay in your arms forever
only love will set you free
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away..
I cant get no....
Still don't know what I was waitin' for
And my time was runnin' wild
GGTTH
"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"
The intro from straight outta Compton by nwa.
I said a hip hop
A hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop
Arguably the song that started to bring rap into the mainstream and everyone knows those opening lyrics.
and so Sally can wait
she knows it too late...
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Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news.
How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? How many seas must the white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?
I can see you. Your Brown skin shining in the sun. You've got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby. I can tell you my love for you will still be strong. After the boys of summer have gone.
I'm sitting on the dock of the bay. Watching the tide rolling away. I'm sitting on the dock of the bay. Wasting time.
These braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream....
Goodbye Norma Jean
Do they know its Christmastime at all
We're all goin on a ... :-)
GGTTH
There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply.
There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
Please to meet you,
hope you guess my name.
The Rolling stones
Sympathy for the Devil
I’m an Edinburgh man myself :greengrin
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s going to make them stay at home.......
Never chew a pickle
With a little slap and tickle
You have to throw the stone
To get the pool to ripple...
There’s been a load of compromisin’
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinin’ on me........
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps
My Maserati does 185 I lost my license now I don’t drive
With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
Dissolve the nerves that have just begun
Listening to Marvin (all night long)
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound........
Always slipping from my hands
Sand’s a time of its own
Take your seaside arms and write the next line
Oh I want the truth to be known......
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
God save the queen,
The fascist regime
The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide
Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, screaming, Gucci little piggy.
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die.
In my mind my dreams are real
Now you're concerned about the way I feel
Tonight, I'm a rock n roll star
A broken antler points the way to the still pond where reflections of Bonnie Prince Charlie lie wounded in the shallow water :greengrin
Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as the northern star, and I said 'constantly in the darkness. where's that at? if you want me I'll be in the bar'
We are the sultans of swing...
A few that instantly spring to mind are:
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how.
Well I've heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the Lord.
Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
Oh it's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you.
i'm worth a million in prizes, with my torture film, drive a G.T.O, wear a uniform, all on a government loan.
I wrote for luck
And they sent me you
Happy Mondays
I sold my medal
It paid a bill
Manic Stree Preachers
Jarvis had a few decent ones actually.. okay maybe I've just started thinking of ones I like rather than iconic. But I'm enjoying myself.:
"You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control, and with nowhere left to go." - Pulp, common people.
"Let's do some living after we die" - Rolling Stones, Wild Horses.
"She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean, she was the best damn woman that I ever seen." - ACDC, You shook me all night long (defo iconic that one)
"So how can you tell me that you're lonely and say for you that the sun don't shine?" Ralph McTell, Streets of London.
"Jimmy was a local boy but he's seen much more than a change in the weather." The Rifles, Local Boy.
"Never saw it as the start. It's more a change of heart." Ocean Colour Scene, the day we caught the train
Three great examples of the genius that is Tom Waits.
(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night
Tell me is the crack of the pool balls, neon buzzin'?
Telephone's ringin', it's your second cousin
Time
And you’re east of East St Louis
And the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
Shiver Me Timbers
Where the clouds are like headlines
On a new front page sky
One day I'll cut my legs off
I'll burn myself alive
I'll do anything to get out of life to survive
Not ever to be next
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay....
Son im thirty, I only went with your mother cause she's dirty.
Now I'm a union man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think, that the company stinks
Yes I'm a union man
When we meet in the local hall
I'll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout, it's "Out brothers, out!"
And the rise of the factory's fall
Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Til the day I die
Til the day I die
Us union men are wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled by the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say:
Oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Til the day I die
Til the day I die
Before the union did appear
My life was half as clear
Now I've got the power to the working hour
And every other day of the year
So though I'm a working man
I can ruin the government's plan
And though I'm not hard, the sight of my card
Makes me some kind of superman
Oh, oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Til the day I die
Til the day I die
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Til the day I die
Til the day I die
Let's move before they raise the parking rate - all right now? :thumbsup:
She’s got a smile that it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories
silver horses, run down moonbeams, in her dark eyes
She told me come but I was already there
I’ve seen a million faces, and I’ve rocked them all
But I gotta get out, I gotta break out now, before the final crack of dawn
She was more like a beauty queen, from a movie scene
Rebel souls, deserters we are called
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, turned my whole world upside down
And as we wind in down the road, our shadows taller than our soul
is this the real life, is this just fantasy
we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
On the National Express there's a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle
Back in '63 (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size
Of a small country
All the people, so many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their Parklife
Wouldn't it be nice, to get on with me neighbours
But they make it very clear, they've got no room for ravers
I may not always love you,so long as there are skies above you. You never need to doubt it ...
I see seas of green, red roses too
What becomes of all the little boys, who never comb their hair.
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so's Lola
La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
If I had written a song last year when I was say, 21 years and 11 months old, and I had then stuck it in a drawer. Today, a year later (I'm now 22 and 11 months old), I take the song out the drawer and sing it to you and say "I was 21 years when I wrote this song. I'm 22 now but I won't be for long - because I'll soon be 23"
Can't see the confusion unless you're thinking he's taken 21 years to write the song? :dunno:
Husband don't know what hes done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't sayyyy, they can't seeeeee
Putting it down to another bad day
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone
Little Joe was blowing on the slide trombone
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang
The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption...
Just what is it that you want to do?
Well, we wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do
And we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time
And that's what we're gonna do (away baby, let's go)
We're gonna have a good time, we're gonna have a party
Yeah, but you have changed your original song and are effectively writing a new one.
He is either 21 and has said he is 22 or he is 22 and said he is 21.
Anyway, probably not worth all this discussion and thanks for the info about S&G - I didn’t know that, just love New England as a song. [emoji4]
I had an uncle who once played, for red star Belgrade.
Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more...
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
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"It was a moonlit night in old Mexico
I walked alone between some old Adobe haciendas
Suddenly I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl......"
We are Hibs,
We are good,
We had Celtic on the run...
I'm a creep...
Chanson d'amour
Rat ta ta ta tat
19
Get your motor running, head out on the highway........
Well, I've been runnin down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me
Two that wanna stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy
Take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy
I’ve just realised that it was me that started this thread. That’s not an iconic lyric by the way.