Cleverest lyric?

[marc71178]

No matter how many times I hear it, I still can't think past:

"Space may be the final frontier
But it’s made in a Hollywood basement"

No doubt others will now beat it though.

[Langeveldt]

An insane coincidence! I was thinking how clever that lyric was about an hour ago!.. I don't usually listen to the chilli's..

You can pick so many from that song..

"A teenage bride with a baby inside, getting high on information
and buy me a star on the boulevard, thats Californication.."

[Kasper]

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake"

[nibbs]

marc, i think that lyric is indeed very clever

[Sir Redman]

Yeah, Californication has got some great lyrics.

One of my favourite lyrics would be:

"Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beast under your bed
In your closet, in your head"

I don't know if you'd call it clever but its good..

A little while ago I was thinking about some great lyrics around, and now I've forgotten them all

[Dasa]

For cleverest lyrics, I nominate Madvillain - Great Day...a link since you have to listen/read to all the lyrics to really 'get' it.

[Nnanden]

Yeah, Californication has got some great lyrics.

One of my favourite lyrics would be:

"Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beast under your bed
In your closet, in your head"

I don't know if you'd call it clever but its good..

A little while ago I was thinking about some great lyrics around, and now I've forgotten them all

Whooooop to ES, mad song, though I`m a tad sick of it now.

"Shake their spears with Shakespeare."

I`ll certainly post more up later. SOAD have some mad ones about war.

[benchmark00]

"Bounce pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo..."

Hang on, thats more stupid than clever..

[Samuel_Vimes]

"If songs could kill
I'd spell out your name"

Tom McRae - Boy With The Bubblegun

[gibbsnsmith]

Every at the drive in/the mars volta song is pretty wild literacy wise.
but my personal faves are from Park:

Park - Which Wrist First

"Don't let me shut this light
For the killer in my head
Needs a signal to prove that I am not dead just yet
But burned out and going blue
The salt is set with open wounds
Doused and fresh

<...>

Just act as if I'm gone
And decaying in my room
I hold a shadow as close as a silver ghost
Grasps onto an image known to him as you
At this fast rate, I'll be lucky if I'm dead by morning

<..>

Tonight I'm spent
Pretend this razor is your lips
You're finding ways to kiss
(Ways to kiss me)
Deeply on the wrists

I loved what I had
It's impossible to get it back"


Park - Pomona For Empusa

"Are these lungs desperatley filled by someone
starving and sad,
because you know your lover,
won't be back?
Are these words useless and absurd?
Such a sight of this,
makes the harbor and the water sick.

I understand your reasons,
for this awkward dance.
I'd leave me, too,
if I thought I had the slightest chance.

I cry loud to these sheets they grip back tight.
Fall asleep to the sound of my own life.
If I drink this bottle fast enough,
I might get lucky and won't wake up. "

[Nnanden]

"Bounce pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo..."

Haag on, thats more stupid than clever..

I pity you, fool.

"Stupid people do stupid things, smart people out-smart each other."

...that`s pretty cool.

[KennyD]

I had a date
It didnt go well
I wonder if its
The way that I smell?
Well I took a shower
but sometimes you just cant tell
What will turn some people
off.

Nerds Night In by The Previous

[andyc]

I had a date
It didnt go well
I wonder if its
The way that I smell?
Well I took a shower
but sometimes you just cant tell
What will turn some people
off.

Nerds Night In by The Previous

your sig's a pretty cool song

[Samuel_Vimes]

I had a date
It didnt go well
I wonder if its
The way that I smell?
Well I took a shower
but sometimes you just cant tell
What will turn some people
off.

Nerds Night In by The Previous

Nice one

[Nnanden]

I had a date
It didnt go well
I wonder if its
The way that I smell?
Well I took a shower
but sometimes you just cant tell
What will turn some people
off.

Nerds Night In by The Previous

Haha... now sing those words to the tune of Skater Boy.