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Best rock lyric ever?
- Thread starter AaronVonRock
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My baby fits me like a
Flesh tuxedo
I want to sink her with my
Pink torpedo....
-David St. Hubbins
Flesh tuxedo
I want to sink her with my
Pink torpedo....
-David St. Hubbins
Hey!
Down in joe's garage
We didn't have no dope or lsd
But a coupla quarts'a beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
Down in joe's garage
We didn't have no dope or lsd
But a coupla quarts'a beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
Momma's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Daddy never sleeps at night
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death
I can't sing yeah I can't even humm a tune but I'll make this crowd bounce like a bed springs on a honeymoon
This is from the song "Why Can't We Be Friends" from the band War, so I don't know if it qualifies as rock, but:
Sometimes I don't speak right/But yet I know what I'm talking about
Sometimes I don't speak right/But yet I know what I'm talking about
I have a challenge for you: define "rock".(That song was certainly played on the "rock" stations)
Now that I think about it, War is one of those undefinable bands, and musical genres are pretty tough to define, so I'm going to say that lyrics from War songs belong in this thread!
She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean. She was the best damn woman that I had ever seen.
I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I want to bang on the drum all day
When that song first came out I was convinced that Rundgren had plagiarized a tune my friend Geoff Weil had written a few years earlier
...even though they had almost nothing in common!
But the spirit. Whew!
The chorus — and, come to think of it, the verse also — of Geoff’s tune was
“I DONT WANNA GET NO JOB
THATS BECAUSE WORKING SUCKS”
effing brilliant
Some of the best lyrics from one of the greatest rock songs ever (yeah, I know I'm breaking the rules!):
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
In whatever comes our way
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Fire all of your guns at once and/Explode into space
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
In whatever comes our way
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Fire all of your guns at once and/Explode into space
Ode to Billy Joe
And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
There's so much going on in that one verse.
Billy Joe killed himself because he and the singer had a baby and threw it off the bridge. And her family knows nothing about it. That's some dark dark stuff, right there.
And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
There's so much going on in that one verse.
Billy Joe killed himself because he and the singer had a baby and threw it off the bridge. And her family knows nothing about it. That's some dark dark stuff, right there.
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