"I Got A Disease/It's Called 'Can't Find A Job'"

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There are many lyrical snippets out there that really shouldn't work at all but just DO. pick your favorite one and share it with the class.

(Mine comes from "Da, Da, Da" by Prince. It should be completely laughable but it's delivered with some much venom that it really hits home.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

"THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER! I'M GOING TO CUT OPEN YOUR FOREHEAD WITH A ROOFING SHINGLE!"

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

That's the best one I can think of at the moment.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

That's nice.

― The Ghost of Er, Where's It From, Why Does It Work, Etc Etc Etc? (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

"You don't have to go away mad, girl/Just go away"

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

John, John was a little crippled midget lesbian boy, but he stood ten foot tall with a knife!

― John E. Smoke, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

"You just couldn't call her smaAHll"
-- k d lang, "Big Boned Gal"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

corny indieness aside: "i dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me/dying on the banks of embarcadero skies i sat and watched you bleed"

― Jimmy_tango, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

"Another lonely night/stare at the TV screen/I don't know what to do/I need a rendez-vous"

― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

"I don't know karate, but I know CAH-RAY-ZEH." --jb's the payback

― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

I remember one night the kid cut off his right arm
in a fit to save a bit of power
he got 50,000 watts
in a big acoustic tower.

-- Nick Lowe, "So It Goes"

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

"Is there a doctor in the house? In the house of pancakes?
You got a banana split.. personality."

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

it's actually "I don't know karate/But I know ka-razor." JB would mime knifing someone while he sang the line onstage.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

dar1a OTM

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

x-post: I thought that was from Owen Wilson in Shanghai Nights.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Nick Lowe: "I made an American squirm/And it felt so riii-ight!" It's the insane enthusiasm he sings it with that makes the line.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

actually, that's just a great line, period. nevermind then.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

"insane enthusiasm" OTM. One of my favorite examples of this is Lowe's impossibly chirpy delivery of "I heard they castrated Castro/I heard they cut off everything he had."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

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