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I thought the Bowie line was "I drew something awful on it"? I think it's a good line too.
On a totally different note, I don't think Ludacris is asking anything yr not supposed to, isn't he just making fun of the guy w/excessive sarcasm? either way calling him brilliant for it seems a bit of a stretch.

― daria gray, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gavin, you're an evil fucker for blaspheming against "The Lebanon" like you did! It's a goddamn perfect song is what it is!

― Clarke B., Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

"your boyfriend he went down on one knee, well could it be he's only got one knee?"..morrissey...i find this somewhat funny but somewhat painful to hear.....

― david layden, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"...and stay smooth like a prism" from _No One Can Do It Better_ by the diggy diggy D.O.C.

Smooth like a prism? I mean, I think he was trying to rhyme the word "rhythm", but "smooth like a prism?"

― Hunter, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Revive.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Red House Painters are one of my favorite bands, and "Medicine Bottle" is one of my favorite songs. But this lyric has always bothered me:

"i drank so much tea
i wrote my letters in kanji"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

I love the line but in John Cougar Mellencamp's "Small Town" the chorus has the line "And I cannot forget from where it is that I come from." The lyric sheet doesn't show the error but I swear its still in the song.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

i do not like a couple of lines picked out as good or funny on the sophie ellis-bextor shoot from the hip thread:

"i'll still change my underwear if that's ok with you" from 'i won't change you' and "straight from the mouth of mr. ed" from 'party in my head' - the latter being surely the most extraordinarily nonsensical tv reference since "it's like murder she wrote once i get you out them clothes" (though i luvv that one).

none of this means i think either se-b or r. kelly are great poets otherwise; just that those particular lines stick to my ribs.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

the latter being surely the most extraordinarily nonsensical tv reference since "it's like murder she wrote once i get you out them clothes"

or "what's on the box - Man About the House with Paula Wilcox"

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

"i do not like a couple of lines picked out as good or funny on the sophie ellis-bextor shoot from the hip thread:
"i'll still change my underwear if that's ok with you" from 'i won't change you' and "straight from the mouth of mr. ed" from 'party in my head' - the latter being surely the most extraordinarily nonsensical tv reference since "it's like murder she wrote once i get you out them clothes" (though i luvv that one)."

True! I prefer the "orgy like club med" line from the same rhyming pattern.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

Smooth like a prism? I mean, I think he was trying to rhyme the word "rhythm", but "smooth like a prism?"

Er, yes? You prefer your optical instruments smooth, trust me.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

every time "After the Gold Rush" comes on I think it's really great . . . until he croaks, "And I felt like getting high." NO NO NO YOU MORON YOU'RE *ALREADY* HIGH. That's what makes the song! Idiot.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

run wild by new order is a string of heinous lines pulled together but 'im gonna live till i die / im gonna live to get high' takes the cake

another n.o. gem is found in behind close doors: 'i feel it in my bones / i check up on the scores / i listen to the corrs / behind closed doors'

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

I really like the lyrics (and the idea, in general) of "The more you ignore me, the closer I get" by Morrissey. But the line:

"I will be in the bar / with my head on the bar"

sounds terrible. Although if you think about it, it sort of makes sense in a funny way.

― daavid, Friday, 5 December 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

New Sugababes album to thread. "Caught up in the middle, jumping through the riddle"...

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:06 (twenty years ago) link

wrong thread but..
I think it's Mystikal from 'Shake Ya Ass' when he says 'I came here with my dick in my hand' it's not a bad line, but it just has the the best visuals. Sort of *ding dong* who could it be?

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

any couplet where the same word is rhymed with itself, or another version of that word ie:

rhyming "our" with "flower"

"pretext" with "text"... it's the same bloody word, just with more letters before it!

i will be at the bar with my head on the bar...

― scout, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Though I love the song, I hate this break in "Bottle of Fur" by Urge Overkill where he sings

"and I would hold you in the night.....we used to make it 'till daylight"

I cringe every time I hear that insipid bit

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

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