Favourite and not-so-favourite song lyrics

[antigpa]

If love was my building
will you be my arch-i- tect
will uou be my arch-i tect
Lets build this bitch together..

If futures are written like a book
will you be my bio - graph-er
will you be my bio-graph-er
Lets write this bitch now or never... 

[The Real Laoislad]

The view from the Slieve Blooms,
In dreams I still can see
A beauty just as rare as you will find,
To see those scene's from childhood,
Once more I will return,
And meet those folk so friendly,and so kind
Lovely Laois I hear you calling...................

[antigpa]

As I trevelled from Rostrevor to Newry on a hard winters night
the sleet swirled so thickly I couldnt have seen out
not a sight could be seen sure the fog was that thick
when I got to newry I realised, Id missed the 'point
Id missed- the point. 
id missed the point Fade to finish..
I missed the point.
C) Jacklion 72

[Billys Boots]

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner

In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle

In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer

Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards

Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?

waiting for the great leap forwards

well here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it

waiting for the great leap forwards

It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole

waiting for the great leap forwards

If no one out there understands
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

waiting for the great leap forwards

In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so get some room

waiting fort the great leap forwards

So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a T-shirt away
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

(C) Stephen William Bragg

[Billys Boots]

One of them's off her food
And the other one's off his head
And both of them are off down the boozer
To drink a toast
To the one that he hates most
And she says there are no winners, only losers

Well if there are no winners
Then what is this he thinks
As he watches her complete a lap of honour
And he sits in the stands With his head in his hands
And he thinks of all the things
He'd like to bring down upon her

Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
As the juke box says 'It's All Over Now'
And he stands and he screams
What have I done wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb

In public he's such a man
He's punching at the walls with his bare and bloody hands
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby

He holds your letters but he can't read them
As he fights this loneliness that you call freedom
You said this would happen and you were not wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb

(C) Stephen William Bragg

[delboy]

Worst lyrics ever have to go to steven segal and his "talk to my ass" song.

I especially love the fact that he thinks he has 4 legs, 4 hands and 4 eyes 




I woke up this mornin' and I asked my baby to fix me some scrambled eggs
I woke up this mornin' and I asked my baby to fix me some scrambled eggs
Well she looked at me kinda surprised
And she said baby, you got your own two pair a legs

I went to bed last night, I tried to give my baby some love
I went to bed last night, I tried to give my baby some love
Well she looked at me kinda surprised and she said
Baby you got your own two pair a hands
but you ain't got no glove


chorus

But thank you
for reminding me I got my own two pair of legs
oh and thank you
for reminding me I got my own two hands
but it seem like I got a new set of plans
I cant have no compromise
I hate to break it to you
but I got my own two pair a eyes

I went down to see my mama
and I told my mama my situation
she said son it sound like you need some excavation in your habitation
she said love goin' to have to have some give and take
if you can't have that you gonna have nothing but heart break

I went back home last night
I told my baby to get on up the road

Well she looked at me kinda surprised
Suddenly she not so cold
I told her I cant have no more sass
and from now on she can talk to my ass

[Niall Quinn]

by Bono, aged 31:
'a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle'

[PadraicHenryPearse]

Arcade fire Rebellion (lies)

"Sleeping is giving in,
no matter what the time is"

Bellx1 - In Every Sunflower

"Standing on a black Ulster hill"

Bellx1 - Rocky took a lover

"She said 'I don't believe in any old Jesus
If there was a God, then why is my arse
The perfect height of kicking?'"

Not sure why i like the first two but the last one just makes so much sense.....

I am not sure if they are the greatest or the worst but Peter Sarstedt has some classics in "where do you go my lovely"

This is a favourite

When you go on your summer vacation
You go to Juan-les-Pins
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan on your back and on your legs

or

Your name, it is heard in high places
You know the Aga Khan
He sent you a racehorse for Christmas
And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh, a-ha-ha-ha

[Hardy]

There used to be a funny parody version around:

You walk like Benjy Riordan
And you talk like Micheál O'Hehir
Your clothes are all bought in Dunnes Stores
And the dandruff is thick in your hair ... and on your back and on your legs.

Your name is heard in high places
You're a good friend of Hector Gray
He gave you a greyhound for Christmas
And it shagged off on Steevenses Day, for a laugh, a-ha-ha-ha

[J OGorman]

"I drank to drown my sorrows, but my sorrows learnt to swim"

[Denn Forever]

Walk away Renee - Billy Bragg

She said it was just a figment of speech
And I said, "You mean figure?"
And she said, "No, figment"
Because she could never imagine it happening
But it did.

When we first met I played the shy boy
And when she spoke to me for the first time
My nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest

The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect our fares
Well, I knew then this was something special
I couldn�t stop thinking about her
And every time I switched on the radio
There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us

It was just like being on a fast ride at the funfair
The sort you wanna get off because it�s scary
And then as soon as you�re off
You wanna get straight back on again

But our love is strange
And you have to take the crunchy with the smooth I s'pose
She began going out with Mr Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park
With his coat around her shoulders that I realised
I went home and thought about the two of them together
Until the bath water went cold around me

I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts
And about the point where their bodies met
I confronted her about it.
I said, "I�m the most illegible bachelor in town."
And she said, "Yea, that's why I can never understand
Any of those silly letters you send me."

And then one day it happened
She cut 'er hair and I stopped lovin' 'er

[seafoid]

Billy Bragg, between the wars

I was a miner
I was a docker
I was a railway man
Between the wars
I raised a family
In times of austerity
With sweat at the foundry
Between the wars

I paid the union and as times got harder
I looked to the government to help the working man
And they brought prosperity down at the armoury
"We're arming for peace me boys"
Between the wars

I kept the faith and I kept voting
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
And mine is the peace we knew
Between the wars

Call up the craftsmen
Bring me the draughtsmen
Build me a path from cradle to grave
And I'll give my consent
To any government
That does not deny a man a living wage

Go find the young men never to fight again
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Sweet moderation
Heart of this nation
Desert us not, we are
Between the wars

[Orior]

Lyrics ruined by a ****:


Back in '68 in a sweaty club (Oh Geno)
Before Jimmy's Machine and The Rocksteady Rub (Oh Geno)
On a night when flowers didn't suit my shoes
After a week of flunking and bunking school
The lowest head in the crowd that night
Just practicing steps and keeping out of the fights

Academic inspiration, you gave me none
You were Michael the lover, the fighter that won
And now just look at me as I'm looking down on you
No I'm not being flash, it's what I'm built to do

That man took the stage, his towel was swinging high (Oh Geno)
This man was my bombers, my Dexy's, my high (Oh Geno)

The crowd, they all hailed you and chanted your name
But they never knew like we knew me and you were the same
And now you're all over, your song is so tame
You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name

Academic inspiration, you gave me none
You were Michael the lover, the fighter that won
And now just look at me as I'm looking down on you
No I'm not being flash, it's what I'm built to do

Oh Geno (oh geno)

Oh Geno

[Billys Boots]

Billy Bragg, between the wars

Some smart arse - Denn Forever will probably know, did a pisstake of this that went ...

I was a miner
I was a docker
I was f**king busy
Between the wars

[Celt_Man]

"I drank to drown my sorrows, but my sorrows learnt to swim"

Flipping great line