Clever Lyrics Thread

[thedualityofman]

Death Cab For Cutie - Title and Registration (from their cd Transatlanticism):

"the glove compartment is inaccurately named
and everybody knows it
so i'm proposing a swift, orderly change
'cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warm
and all i find are souvenirs from better times
before the gleam of your tail lights fading east
to find yourself a better life"

Metric - Wet Blanket (from their cd Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?):

"falling for the creep the body leech here he comes
vicious hypnosis, a clenched fist saying it's wrong
to want more than a folk song
underneath the shaker knit he's a brick wall
she keep falling for the trick vegetariate sing-along
give a little kick with your fine thigh high"

Something For Kate - Feeding the Birds and Hoping For Something In Return (from their cd Echolalia):

"he hears trees
talking about the wind or something
and he can't remember waking up
so he refuses to believe that he ever was asleep
and he's exhausted
he sits under a tree
feeding the birds and hoping for something in return"

[George Tropicana]

"Oh, the leaves they fall,
they go so far sometimes.
Do I blame the wind
or the tree for letting you go?"
-Tara MacLean, "Settling"

[dragoneyez]

Your foundation is canyoning
Fault lines should be worn with pride
I hate to say it
You're so much more, So much more
Endearling with the sound turned off.

[jaxxalude]

HOW SOON IS NOW
The Smiths

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does


I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Oh, of nothing in particular


You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does


There's a club, if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die


When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well, when exactly do you mean ?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone


You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does


Pure poetry. All hail Mr. Stephen Patrick Morrissey!

[thedualityofman]

Morrissey is a great, great man that had a great, great pompador.

With that said, more Morrissey and The Smiths

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul
I want to leave, you will not miss me
I want to go down in musical history

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck
I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck
I must move fast, you understand me
I want to go down in celluloid history, Mr. Shankly


Fame, Fame, fatal Fame
It can play hideous tricks on the brain
But still I'd rather be Famous
Than righteous or holy, any day
Any day, any day


But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled
Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill
I want to live and I want to Love
I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of


Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
Oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry
I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry, Mr. Shankly


Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask
You are a flatulent pain in the arse
I do not mean to be so rude
Still, I must speak frankly, Mr. Shankly

Oh, give us your money !

[crash46]

When you sleep, I will creep into your thoughts, like a bad debt that you can't pay, take the easy way and give in.

• "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get"

[thedualityofman]

These lyrics = Modern Day America

Lazy Boy - The Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal?
It’s a natural plant that grows in the dirt.
Do you know what’s not natural?
80 year old dudes with hard-ons. That’s not natural.
But we got pills for that.
We’re dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we’re putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

You know we have more prescription drugs now.
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.
I can’t watch TV for four minutes without thinking I have five serious diseases.
Like: “Do you ever wake up tired in the morning?”
Oh my god I have this, write this down. Whatever it is, I have it.
Half the time I don’t even know what the commercial is…
people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean.
I’m like that is the greatest disease ever. How do you get that?
That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy.

The schools now… It is all about self-esteem in the schools now.
Build the kids’ self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves.
If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who is going to dance in our strip clubs?
What’s going to happen to our porno industry?
These women don’t just grown on trees.
It takes lots of drunk dads missing dance recitals before you decide to blow a goat on the internet for fifty bucks.
And if that disappears, where does that leave me on a Friday night with my new high speed connection?

Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these terrorists masterminds that get killed in the middle east.
Terrorists masterminds.
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do, don’t you think?
They’re not masterminds.
“OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in your backpack. And you get on bus and you blow yourself up. Alright?”
“Why do I have to blow myself up? Why can’t I just…”
“Who’s the fucking mastermind here? Me or you?”

Americans, let’s face it: We’ve been a spoiled country for a long time.
Do you know what the number one health risk in America is?
Obesity. They say we’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
An epidemic like it is polio. Like we’ll be telling our grand kids about it one day.
The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004.
“How’d you get through it grandpa?”
“Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere.”

Nobody knows why were getting fatter? Look at our lifestyle.
I’ll sit at a drive thru.
I’ll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter.
Everything is mega meal, super sized. Want biggie fries, super sized, want to go large.
You want to have thirty burgers for a nickel you fat mother fucker. There’s room in the back. Take it!
Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that? It’s only three more cents.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there’d be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
You got to spend a long time in your own locker with your underwear shoved up your ass before you start to think,
“You’ll see. I’m going to take of the world of computers! I’ll show them.”

We’re in one of the richest countries in the world,
but the minimum wage is lower than it was thirty five years ago.
There are homeless people everywhere.
This homeless guy asked me for money the other day.
I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol.
And then I thought, that’s what I’m going to use it on.
Why am I judging this poor bastard.
People love to judge homeless guys. Like if you give them money they’re just going to waste it.
Well, he lives in a box, what do you want him to do? Save it up and buy a wall unit?
Take a little run to the store for a throw rug and a CD rack? He’s homeless.
I walked behind this guy the other day.
A homeless guy asked him for money.
He looks right at the homeless guy and says why don’t you go get a job you bum.
People always say that to homeless guys like it is so easy.
This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants.
Outside his pants. I’m guessing his resume isn’t all up to date.
I’m predicting some problems during the interview process.
I’m pretty sure even McDonalds has a “underwear goes inside the pants” policy.
Not that they enforce it really strictly, but technically I’m sure it is on the books.

[jaxxalude]

PRINCE
Sign O' The Times


Oh yeah
In france a skinny man
Died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle
And soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys
And their idea of fun
Is being in a gang called the disciples
High on crack, totin’ a machine gun

Time, time

Hurricane annie ripped the ceiling of a church
And killed everyone inside
U turn on the telly and every other story
Is tellin’ u somebody died
Sister killed her baby cuz she could afford 2 feed it
And we’re sending people 2 the moon
In september my cousin tried reefer 4 the very first time
Now he’s doing horse, it’s june

Times, times

It’s silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain’t happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh why
Time, time

Baby make a speech, star wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time, times

It’s silly, no?
When a rocket blows
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain’t happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why, sign o the times

Time, time

Sign o the times mess with your mind
Hurry before it’s 2 late
Let’s fall in love, get married, have a baby
We’ll call him nate... if it’s a boy

Time, time

Time, time

[JJ]

"in a world of post-modern fads, what was good now is bad" - Jewel, Intuition

[stevie nice]

Warm Leatherette - The Normal (Daniel Miller)

See the breaking glass
In the underpass
See the breaking glass
In the underpass
Warm leatherette

Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel
Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel

Warm leatherette

Warm leatherette

Warm leatherette
Melts on your burning flesh
You can see your reflection
In the luminescent dash

Warm leatherette

A tear of petrol
Is in your eye
The hand brake
Penetrates your thigh
Quick -- Let's make love
Before you die

On warm leatherette
Warm leatherette


Warm leatherette
Warm leatherette
Warm leatherette

Join the car crash set

[shark cousteau]

Kayne West has a slew of clever lyrics - these are the best

-The drug game bulimic, it's hard to get weight
A n***a's money is homo, it's hard to get straight

-And they DCFS, some of em dyslexic
They favorite 50-Cent song is 12 questions

-Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus
She had hair so long that it looked like weave
Then she cut it all off now she look like Eve

-I say f*** the police, thats how I treat em
We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom

-Getting choked by the detectives yeah yeah now check the method
They be asking us questions, harass and arrest us
Saying "we eat pieces of s**t like you for breakfast"
Huh? Yall eat pieces of s**t? What's the basis?

-Now n****z can't make it to ballots to choose leadership
But we can make it to Jacob's and to the dealership

-Its gon take a lot more than coupons to get us saved

-You ain't got to get heated at every house warmin'
Sittin' here, grillin' people like George Foreman
Why Uncle Ray and Aunt Shiela always performin'?
The second he storm out then she storm in
Y'all gon' sit down, have a good time this reunion
And drink some wine like Communion

-I went to the malls and I balled too hard
'Oh my god, is that a black card?'
I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term
African American Express

and my personal favourite (and in my opinion the most clever)

-Trying to be a millionaire - HA! I used two lifelines

**its reference to the 2 lifelines - 1, the record deal and 2, the lifeline at the hospital - and reference to "who wants to be a millionarie" where u're allowed one lifeline

Kanye is the top mc in the game right now so go and buy his album if you want to witness rap at its best

[gbaby]

I've only read the first page, so I don't know if this has already been mentioned. If it has, I apologize in advance.

"How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself..."
-Alanis Morissette, Eight Easy Steps.

[strong4PMB!]

"Shorty call me the Scare Crow, I'm lookin' for some brain!"
- Nick Cannon, "Gigolo"

JAM!

[Edf85]

Can you pay my bills
Can you pay my automobills

Destinys Child "Bills^3"

[Edf85]

gReXiCaN said:

"Shorty call me the Scare Crow, I'm lookin' for some brain!"
- Nick Cannon, "Gigolo"

JAM!

JAM!

[Rob64]

Here are a ton of EMinem classics

I don't do black music,
I don't do white music,
I make fight music,
for high school kids
-----------------------
Hey it's me Versache,
Somebody cut me,
and I was just checking the mail,
get it? checking the male
--------------------
Britney's garbage,
what is she retarded?
give me back my 16$
(LOL he bought her CD and wants his money back )
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I'm gonna end your career
and walk away with the whole floor
so that you have nothing to fall back on
---------------------
I burned your house DOWN
now I'm out of jail,
I'm gonna blow your house UP
--------------------
What? You want me to watch my mouth?
how? take my eyeballs out and turn them around?


I'll think of more later

[jaxxalude]

Artist: LL Cool J
Album:  Mama Said Knock You Out
Song:  Mama Said Knock You Out

[LL]

C'mon man

[News Report]

And with the local DBT news, LL Cool J with a triumphant comeback
[mumbling]
but tonite...

[LL]

Don't call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear
Makin the tears rain down like a MON-soon
Listen to the bass go BOOM
Explosion, overpowerin
Over the competition, I'm towerin
Wreckin shop, when I drop these lyrics that'll make you call the cops
Don't you dare stare, you betta move
Don't ever compare
Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced
Competition's payin the price

Chorus:

I'm gonna knock you out [HUUUH!!!]
Mama said knock you out [HUUUH!!!]
(REPEAT 4X)

Don't u call this a regular jam
I'm gonna rock this land
I'm gonna take this itty bitty world by storm
And I'm just gettin warm
Just like Muhummad Ali they called him Cassius
Watch me bash this beat like a skull
Cuz u know I had beef wit
Why do u riff with me, the maniac psycho
And when I pull out my jammy get ready cuz it might go
BLAAAAW, how ya like me now?
The river will not allow
U to get with, Mr. Smith, dont riff
Listen to my gear shift
I'm blastin, outlastin
Kinda like Shaft, so u could say I'm shaftin
Old English filled my mind
And I came up with a funky rhyme

Chorus
[LL]

Breakdown!!!

Shadow boxin when I heard you on the radio [HUUUH!!!]
I just don't know
What made you forget that I was raw?
But now I got a new tour
I'm goin insane, startin the hurricane, releasin pain
Lettin you know that you can't gain, I maintain
Unless ya say my name
Rippin, killin
Diggin and drillin a hole
Pass the Ol' Gold

Chorus

Shotgun blasts are heard
When I rip and kill, at WILL
The man of the hour, tower of power, I'll devour
I'm gonna tie you up and let you understand
that I'm not your average man
when I got a jammy in my hand
DAAAAAM!!!!! Oooooohh!!
Listen to the way I slaaaaay, your crew
Damage [UHH] damage[UHH] damage [UHH] damage
Destruction, terror, and mayhem
Pass me a sissy so suckas I'll slay him
Farmers [What!!!] Farmers [What!!!]
I'm ready [we're ready!!!]
I think I'm gonna bomb a town [get down!!]
Don't u neva, eva, pull my lever
Cuz I explode
And my nine is easy to load
I gotta thank God
Cuz he gave me the strength to rock
HARD!! knock you out, mama said knock you out

Chorus

[Free2Bme]

She packed my bags, and opened up the door.
Then I got a feeling she didn't want me around any more.

That woman that I had wrapped around my finger just came unwound.

[Nicholas2.0]

More Kanye cleverness:

"I/(Eye) spotted her like Spuds Mackenzie"

"Switch my girls around like I was 3-L-dub"

He has another clever one that I like, but I can't recall it.

Nick Cannon:
"Got on my OJ throwback so I'm dressed to kill."