No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
All of your friends are cunts, your mother is a ballpoint pen thief Mclusky - Gareth Brown Says
I bet you twenty pounds
If you knew ten years ago how pretty you’d turn out
Then you’d have never have gotten your ears pierced
But I never got my ears pierced and look how I turned out Los Campesinos! - The International Tweexcore Underground
I went home with a waitress
the way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too Warren Zevon - Lawyers Guns & Money
It was the biggest cock you’d ever seen, But you’ve no idea where that cock has been. You said you were careful - you never were with me. I heard you did it four times but johnnies come in packs of three.
Converge - concubine
Dear, I’ll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay To keep the loneliest of nights from claiming you And to keep these longest of days from waking you For I felt the greatest of winters coming And I saw you as seasons shifting from blue to grey That’s where the coldest of these days await me And distance lays her heavy head beside me There I’ll stay gold, forever gold
The Boss
Light’s out tonight Trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision Smashin’ in my guts, man Caught in a crossfire That I don’t understand
Son, I’m Thirty
I only went with your mother ‘cos she’s dirty
And I don’t have a decent bone in me
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother
Jesus is my bestest friend
We don’t need nobody, 'cause we got each other
Or at least I pretend
Lana Del Rey - Body Electric
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were talking so brave and so sweet
Giving me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Bob Dylan - Blowin in the wind How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?
Obby Oss May Day Song Unite and unite and let us all unite, For summer is acome unto day, And whither we are going we will all unite, In the merry morning of May.
Kay Sutcliffe - Cole Not Dole (sung by a load of people but originally a poem) It stands so proud, the wheel so still, A ghostlike figure on the hill. It seems so strange, there is no sound, Now there are no men underground.
Cat Power - The Greatest
Once I wanted to be the greatest
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So simple but careworn and sets the whole song and indeed album up
Elliott Smith - Pretty Mary K (Other Version)
Pretty Mary K walks along the dock
With some sailor’s pay shoved down in her sock
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Incredibly evocative, just paints a picture instantly.
New Order - Sub-Cukture
I like walking in the park
When it gets late at night
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Brilliantly banal.
Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places that I used to play And I’m crazy for love, but I’m not coming on
Tower of Song/ Leornard Cohen
I’m beginning to hear voices and there’s no one around Well, I’m all used up and the fields have turned brown
Cold Irons Bound/ Bob Dylan
Asylums with doors open wide, Where people had paid to see inside, For entertainment they watch his body twist, Behind his eyes he says, ‘I still exist.’
Atrocity Exhibition/ Joy Division
Can’t believe I’m in first with this one (ah damn it, beaten).
“In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
Slowly screwing my way across Europe
They had to make a correction”
Silver Jews - Random Roles
“Jesus is just a Spanish boy’s name
How could one man get so much fame?
To enemy, it’s pointless to anybody
That doesn’t have faith
Give me the cloth and I’ll wipe my face”
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town”
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Think I’m just lifting mine from the Top 3 Lyrics thread
Arab Strap - Packs of Three
It was the biggest cock you’d ever seen
but you’ve no idea where that cock has been
Refused - Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull
I got a bone to pick with capitalism
And a few to break
And I’ll pick a new one to make three…
Los Campesinos! - I Just Sighed…
First and foremost, oh, let it be said I am writing this at 7:10 am
On the hard dry tarmac of a vacant forecourt
Astronomically speaking, it’s the first day of autumn
