The best song lyric you've ever heard.

Songs.

There's literally loads of 'em knocking about if you know where to look.

I reckon there's at least a few hundred, if not more.

So what's your favourite lyric (the words) of all time?

It may be something that you heard that spoke to your soul and moved you to tears.

It may be something clever that made you see things differently.

Or it may just be something that made you piss your sides laughing.

Mine's by (in my humble opinion) one of this nation's greatest ever wordsmiths, Nigel Blackwell esq.

"Who...?" I hear you all shout.

He's the man behind the criminally under appreciated Half Man Half Biscuit, a band I've followed for nearly thirty years.

The line is: "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets!" and it comes from a song called National Shite Day.

Pure genius in my book.

What's yours?

Half Man Half Biscuit.
They take me back.
Only became aware of them because they were the favourite band of the England cricket all rounder,Derek Pringle.
Good stuff.
This thread needs some thought.

"Lost an erection and found it in an aggressive nun"

Come on, Boggers.....context?

Oasis,Champagne Supernova.....

'Slowly walking down the hall,faster than a cannonball'.

"A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."

Ice Cube - "A Bird In The Hand" from his Death Certificate LP.

Ice Cube brilliantly reworks the idiom, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," as a critique of then president George H.W. Bush. When the law doesn't work in your favour, and your back is against the wall, it's easy to justify drug dealing as a means of survival (a "bird" is slang for roughly 36 ounces of cocaine).

Boggersbelief wrote:"Lost an erection and found it in an aggressive nun"

Earlwolf?

"Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman/You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy."

Aesop Rock - "Daylight"

And the best of all:

"Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant shit to me. You see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain/Motherfuck him and John Wayne."

Public Enemy - "Fight The Power" from their Fear Of A Black Planet LP.

I'm jotting these down for when Matron comes round.
Keep 'em coming.

"How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?"

Bob Dylan  "Blowin' in the Wind"

Come on by the verve
Drop the world by lil wayne
Mosh by Eminem
History by the verve
Rather be by the verve
For lovers by wolfman ft pete doherty
Cosmic gypsies by taskforce (never heard of them until nat mentioned them on here)

Natasha Whittam wrote:And the best of all:

"Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant shit to me. You see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain/Motherfuck him and John Wayne."

Public Enemy - "Fight The Power" from their Fear Of A Black Planet LP.

One of my all time top ten songs.



Along with Burn Hollywood Burn.

Great album that one.

Breadman wrote:
One of my all time top ten songs.



Along with Burn Hollywood Burn.

Great album that one.

You have gone up in my estimations.

Fuckin' hell.

Do I get a swift relatively pain free death now instead of a long drawn out, painful one?

Dooms rhyme structure is incredible, literally no idea how he comes up with his lyrics. I could pick any song but deep fried friendz -

(FRIENDS)
Some come in the form of co-dependence
Alotta times only end up bein co-defendants
Ten bucks say they tell for a lower sentence
And leave you up under the jail, beggin for a penance

Around 2 minutes -

This is scaring me now. I'm going back to my thread to play some Neil Young. (with a little Brucie thrown in for good measure).
I'll come out when I think your medication has kicked in.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em
But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Cause ain't no way I'ma let you stop me from causing mayhem
When I say I'ma do something I do it,
I don't give a damn what you think,
I'm doing this for me, so fuck the world
Feed it beans, it's gassed up, if it thinks it's stopping me
I'ma be what I set out to be, without a doubt undoubtedly
And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony
No ifs, ands or buts, don't try to ask him why or how can he
From "Infinite" down to the last "Relapse" album
He's still shitting, whether he's on salary paid hourly
Until he bows out or he shits his bowels out of him
Whichever comes first, for better or worse
He's married to the game, like a fuck you for Christmas
His gift is a curse, forget the Earth, he's got the urge
To pull his dick from the dirt, and fuck the whole universe

George Formby?