Best Lyrics Ever

[balladmaker]

Having read the 'Worst Lyrics Ever' thread, we might as well have a 'Best Lyrics Ever' thread also......

To start it off:

And you dare to call me a terrorist
While you look down your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
You have plundered many nations
Divided many lands
You have terrorised their peoples
You ruled with an iron hand
And you brought this reign of terror to my land!

Chorus of 'Joe McDonnell' - The Wolfe Tones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkUGpo_2tc

[hitzelsperger]

Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street, probably the best tune ever sang

You gotta lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinnin'
You gotta lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
You just wanna be on the side that's winnin'

You say I let you down, you know it's not like that
If you're so hurt why then don't you show it?
You say you lost your faith, but that's not where it's at

You have no faith to lose, and you know it
I know the reason that you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you're in with

Do you take me for such a fool to think I would make contact?
The one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with
You see me on the street, you always act surprised
You see how I could look, but you don't mean it
When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come at once out screaming
No, I do not feel that good I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them

And though you're dissatisfied with your position and your place
Don't you understand, it's not my problem?
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

[The Real Laoislad]

 

   
LOVELY LAOIS

CHORUS
Lovely Laois I hear you calling
In my dreams I hear you say
Come back home to dear old Ireland
Lovely Laois I'll come back to you someday

20 Years ago today since I first sailed away
and left my dear old home so far behind
since that lonely journey
My heart has always yearned
My happy home in Laois once more to find

CHORUS
Lovely Laois I hear you calling
In my dreams I hear you say
Come back home to dear old Ireland
Lovely Laois I'll come back to you someday


The view from the Slieve Blooms
And dreams I still can see
A beauty just as rare as you will find
To see those scenes from childhood
Once more I will return
And meet those folks so friendly and so fine

CHORUS
Lovely Laois I hear you calling
In my dreams I hear you say
Come back home to dear old Ireland
Lovely Laois I'll come back to you someday

[DirtyDozen12]

Eminem - My Fault

"Help me I think I'm havin a seisure!
I said, "I'm high too bitch, quit grabbin my t-shirt"

Pure quality!!!

[full back]

The Bloodhound Gang: Lift Your Head Up High and Blow Your Brains Out

"Life is short and hard, like a bodybuilding elf"

Genius

[Ryano]

A love song for the ages.....



- Hi Barbie!
- Hi Ken!
- You wanna go for a ride?
- Sure, Ken!
- Jump in!
- Ha ha ha ha!

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a blonde single girl in the fantasy world
Dress me up, take your time, I'm your dollie
You're my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamour and pain
Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky

You can touch, you can play
You can say I'm always yours, oooh whoa

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees
Come jump in, be my friend, let us do it again
Hit the town, fool around, let's go party

You can touch, you can play
You can say I'm always yours
You can touch, you can play
You can say I'm always yours

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah
Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

- Oh, I'm having so much fun!
- Well, Barbie, we're just getting started!
- Oh, I love you Ken!

[downredblack]

"He thinks he got the whole world in his hands
Stood at the urinal "

Boy Racer - Morrissey

[Great Leap Forward]

Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street, probably the best tune ever sang

You gotta lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinnin'
You gotta lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
You just wanna be on the side that's winnin'

You say I let you down, you know it's not like that
If you're so hurt why then don't you show it?
You say you lost your faith, but that's not where it's at

You have no faith to lose, and you know it
I know the reason that you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you're in with

Do you take me for such a fool to think I would make contact?
The one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with
You see me on the street, you always act surprised
You see how I could look, but you don't mean it
When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come at once out screaming
No, I do not feel that good I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them

And though you're dissatisfied with your position and your place
Don't you understand, it's not my problem?
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Can't disagree. This is my favourite song of all time although I heard Simply Red do a version of it once and it gave my a dose of the skitter.

[Jimbobjnr]

For all of our languages we can't communicate
For all of our native tongues we're all natives here
Sons of their fathers' dream the same dream
The sound of forbidden words becomes a scream
Voices in anger, victims of history
Plundered and set aside, grow fat on swallowed pride

With promises of paradise and gifts of beads and knives
Missionaries and pioneers are soldiers in disguise
Saviours and Conquerers, they make us wait
Like fishers of men they wave their truth like bait
But with the touch of a stranger's hand innocence turns to shame
The spirit that dwelt within now sleeps out in the rain

For all of our languages we can't communicate,
For all of our native tongues, we're all natives here
The scars of the past are slow to disappear
The cries of the dead are always in our ears
And only the very safe can talk about wrong and right
Of those who are forced to choose, some will choose to fight

[SammyG]

Good calls by 5ivetimes and Jimbobjnr

I'd go for

'How can you lie back and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team'

[Sandy Hill]

"Use the code of the border road and flash the lights at me"

at     http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=3527860071
and

"Horse it into you Cynthia for you're the girl for me"
at     http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=3516410855

Classic!!

[Great Leap Forward]

Good calls by 5ivetimes and Jimbobjnr

I'd go for

'How can you lie back and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team'

Good call Sammy but you are doing Mr Bragg a huge dis-service by not printing the whole song. There is a load of cracking lines in that song. The lines about the tatoos and the parked cars are corkers.



Shirley,
it's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room
Shirley,
you're my reason to get out of bed before noon
Shirley,
you know when we sat out on the fire escape talking
Shirley,
what did you say about running before we were walking

Sometimes when we're as close as this
It's like we're in a dream
How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team

Shirley,
your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle
Shirley,
we are joined in the ideological cuddle

I'm celebrating my love for you
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo
And if you haven't noticed yet
I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet

Politics and pregnancy
Are debated as we empty our glasses
And how I love those evening classes

Shirley,
you really know how to make a young man angry
Shirley,
can we get through the night without mentioning family

The people from your church agree
It's not much of a career
Trying the handles of parked cars
Whoops, there goes another year
Whoops, there goes another pint of beer

Here we are in our summer years
Living on icecream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you were my missus

Shirley,
give my greetings to the new brunette

[The Real Laoislad]

Always love the Lyrics to this song by Bruce Springsteen


THE RIVER

I come from down in the valley
Where mister, when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
And, man, that was all she wrote
And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse,
that sends me
Down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
My baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

[Sandy Hill]

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.

The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt your heart beat close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command.

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last till the end of time my love
It would last till the end of time my love

The first time ever I saw your face, your face,
your face, your face

Listen to the above sung by Roberta Flack and then depending on your relationship status  ----- WHAM!!!!!!!!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=taOGrtXYc20&mode=related&search=

[pintsofguinness]

great song laoislad, one of my favs, and another two of my favourites....

Hazard
My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven
Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes
That boy's not right ...
Three years ago when I came to know Mary
First time that someone looked beyond the rumours and the lies
And saw the man inside ...
We used to walk down by the river
She loved to watch the sun go down
We used to walk along the river
And dream our way out of this town ...
No one understood what I felt for Mary
No one cared until the night she went out walking alone
And never came home ...
Man with a badge came knocking next morning
Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly
Pointed right at me ...
I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town
I think about my life gone by
And how it's done me wrong
There's no escape for me this time
All of my rescues are gone, long gone
I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town ...

Travelling Soldier
Two days past eighteen
He was waitin' for the bus in his army greens
Sat down in a booth a café there
Gave his order to the girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gave him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talkin' to me I'm feelin' a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I've got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin home

So the letters came
From an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be lovin'
All of the things he was so scared of
Said when it's gettin kinda rough over here
I think about that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's coming home

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For the list of the local Vietnam dead
Cryin' all alone under the stands
Was the piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and no body really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of the travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone
When the letter says a soldier's comin home