OT: Best Lyrics

[MattTuck]

So, I tend to over-explain things, and that's fine. Though, I truly believe (in most cases) less is more. Call it aspirational.

It makes me appreciate when a poet or musician can sum up a big or complex idea in just a few words. Let the listener figure it out.

My signature has one of my favorites.

Just listening to a song tonight, this gem:
"I give you majors, you give me minors"

Damn, that hurts.

What you got?

[Louis]

This isn't super-deep philosophy, but "Me and Bobby McGee" has several good lines.

So here's a link to the whole thing (JJ version, of course.)

https://youtu.be/oHkBv-AtKDA

https://www.needsomefun.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/9-Janis-Joplin-childhood-photograph.jpg

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[GOTHBROOKS]

“you suffer, but why?” - napalm death
https://youtu.be/B_HdSdKhsNM

[mhespenheide]

Kacey Musgraves. Country, but some wonderful turns of phrase. "Same trailer, different park" is one of them, but there's lots of little unexpected phrases.

[rustychisel]

Not even a contest, though philosopher songwriters abound and some use words in sublime fashion...

Greg Graffin, singer of Bad Religion, holds a doctorate of zoology from Cornell, teaches evolutionary theory, and came up with this from Chimaeara on 1991's 'Generator',

"you took the most abundant smallest bits of matter
and you instilled them with affinity
and then you stratified accumulations
weeded out bad variations
and blended up your unique recipe

you have created a powerful monster..."

[probably a song about the role of God in society, but you try and fit lyrics like this into a punk-pop song and tell me it's not genius]

[martl]

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/39100000/Skin-Deborah-Dyer-skunk-anansie-39122820-1200-800.jpgBritish alternative rock band "Skunk Anansie" doesn't have a song without brilliant lyrics, no matter if the song is about politics, religion, racism, love or lack of...

"And here I stand, redskin fist of power
Clawing at the stains of racism
It turns to black, 'cos you're so very credible
But you keep losing track

'Cos you don't see, my color in your melting pot of love
Where everybody is brown
So here I stand, knee deep in your soiled heritage
That's so charmingly underground"

[Llewellyn]

Knights of Cydonia by Muse

"I'll show you a God
Falls asleep on the job
And how can we win,
When fools can be kings"

Seems particularly relevant for 2020.

[reuben]

There is water!
At the bottom of the ocean!

- David Byrne/Talking Heads

[Bob Ross]

Oh yeah, I'm with OP: Those lyrics that suggest vast ideas with a minimum of words are gems. Compression is a virtue.

Some of my faves:

"Sunshine bores the daylights out of me"
- Mick Jagger, from "Rocks Off"

"Didn't it feel good just sitting there talking
or lying there not talking?"
- Joni Mitchell, from "Free Man In Paris"

"Our president's crazy! Did you hear what he said?"
- David Byrne, from "Making Flippy Floppy"

"I would do anything for love
but I won't do that"
- Meatloaf, from "Anything For Love"

[Bruce K]

You don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction.

Barry McGuire

BK

[johnniecakes]

You came and you gave without taking

Mandy Barry Manilow

[Elefantino]

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

John, 1971

[buddybikes]

"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine"


Pete Seeger:

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free,
And that's what the teacher said to me.

[gibbo]

It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna rock n roll


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[jamesdak]

"When the day turns to night and you run out of candles to burn and you can’t find a light...
You’re not alone, You’re not alone

When the walls are too high that I’ve built up inside
and the wolves are outside my door
You take me home, You take me home."

Out of the darkeness, My Indigo, Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation.

[reuben]

How can the wind with its arms all around me?

- Jon Anderson/Yes

[fkelly]

You don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction.

Barry McGuire

BK

Yeah, I was listening to a Folk Revival show on PBS (mostly a horrible mishmash of stuff like having Bobby Darin wreck Tim Hardin's Simple Song of Freedom) last night, and this stanza from Eve of Destruction jumped out at me:


"Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
Handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
And marches alone can't bring integration,
When human respect is disintegratin',
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction."

"coagulatin, contemplatin, regulation, legislation, integration, disintegratin, frustratin" ... wow. I always loved the song but never heard it quite that way before.

I could point out it's continued relevance 55 years after it was written, but that might cross a Forum line.

[OtayBW]

"And the dawn
don't rescue me
no more."
Condensed (but to the point) from It Makes No Difference by the Band.

[happycampyer]

Lyrics written in 1969:

Cat's foot iron claw
Neurosurgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man

Blood rack, barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets starving, children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man

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Maybe not the best lyrics... perhaps for another thread: “Most prescient lyrics...”

[bthornt]

When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose

And

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

[wc1934]

So many, but this is the first one that came to mind:

"Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men"

[wc1934]

LC

"Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah"

or

"Like a baby, stillborn. Like a beast with his horn. I have torn everyone who reached out for me"

BD

"Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land,
And don’t criticize,
What you can’t understand."

or

"They say ev’ry man needs protection
They say ev’ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall"

or

"They say I shot a man named Gray
And took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks
And when she died it came to me
I can't help it if I'm lucky"

[choke]

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" - The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again

"In the giving of my eyes to see your face" - Yes, Wonderous Stories

"It didn't take them long to try him in their court of law
He was guilty then of thinking, a crime much worse than all
They sentenced him to die so his seed of thought can't spread
And infect the little children, that's what the law had said" - Mason Proffit, Two Hangmen

"The cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is strangling the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole world's got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner, we can't pay the cost" - Steppenwolf, Monster/Suicide/America

[XXtwindad]

“Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah”
Best stanza of all-time. Leonard Cohen.


“Lost generation, fast paced nation
World population confront their frustration
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken
It's all contractual and about money makin
Pretend-to-be cats don't seem to know they limitation
Exact replication and false representation
You wanna be a man, then stand your own
To MC requires skills, I demand some shown
I let the frauds keep frontin and roam like a cellular phone”
Black Thought: “What they Do?”

“Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in, and the Vegas are pumpin'
Quick to the point, to the point no faking
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon
Burning 'em if, if you ain't quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo”
Vanilla Ice: “Ice Ice Baby”

“I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death.
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats
that can come about 'cause the tongue is mighty powerful.
And I can name a list of your favorites that probably vouch.
Maybe 'cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death.”
Kendrick Lamar: “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst”

“Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk”
Brothers Gibb: “Stayin Alive”

And lastly, when I’m in the mood to shed some tears about former lovers, this song never fails:

“And those were the days of roses
Poetry and prose and Martha
All I had was you and all you had was me
There was no tomorrows
We'd packed away our sorrows
And we saved them for a rainy day”
Tom Waits: “Martha”

[reuben]

My gal is red hot
Your gal ain't doodly squat

- Billy Lee Riley

[Dino Suegiù]

I love misreadings of lyrics, actually, from when I grew up listening to the radio or lps with no sleeve lyrics and there was no internet with instant access to "correct" our own perceptions.

So for decades I would perk up to one of my favorite songs ever, Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonseome When You Go" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Claf8E18eLs), singing along:
"Back in clouds so high above
I've only known callous love
It always has hit me from below"

Only to find out very recently that the correct lyrics apparently are:
"Dragon clouds so high above
I've only known careless love
It always has hit me from below
But this time around it's more correct
Right on target, so direct
You're gonna make me lonesome when you go"

Call me cynical, but in my own life experience my mis-heard version made/makes more cutting sense.... :(

[Bob Ross]

Two more that just occurred to me:

"Did you ever wake up to find
a day that broke up your mind,
destroying your notion of circular time?"
- Mick Jagger, from "Sway"


"Your admirers on the street
got to hoot and stamp their feet
in the heat from your physique
as you twinkle by in moccasin sneakers"
- Richard Palmer-James, from "Easy Money"

[Dino Suegiù]

In counterpoint, best use of extremely banal and trite lyrics in a context other than the original song:

"So...to business? To business...." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9qAhXfNAU)

[pooneej]

subjective for sure but also very surprised no one mentioned this yet:

Jimi Hendrix
Wind Cries Mary

After all jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights they turn a blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that they lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Will the wind ever remember?
The names it has blown in the past
And with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers "no, this will be the last"
And the wind cries Mary

[gpendergast]

"Fools swear they wise
Wise men know they foolish"
- Black Thought

"You've had too much to think
Now you need a wife"
- Jack White

[Toeclips]

Bicycle!!!! i want to ride my bicycle (bell sounds chiming)

[NHAero]

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes"

"your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore"

RIP John Prine

[Dino Suegiù]

Don’t say I never warned you
When your train gets lost

[DreaminJohn]

A little old school:

Everytime we say goodbye, I die a little,
Everytime we say goodbye, I wonder why a little,
Why the Gods above me, who must be in the know.
Think so little of me, they allow you to go.
When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it,
I can hear a lark somewhere, begin to sing about it,
There's no love song finer, but how strange the change from major to
minor,
Everytime we say goodbye.

Sung by this guy (with assistance from Betty Carter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRGynQG2sI

[Blown Reek]

Greg Graffin

That right there's a them and us.

[OtayBW]

Well, the extended outlook for an
Indefinite period of time until you
Come back to me baby is high tonight
Low tomorrow, and precipitation is
Expected
Emotional Weather Report - Tom Waits

[OldCrank]

WOW I love all this stuff!
Court of the Crimson King!
Zimmy!
Need some Pasties and a G String from Tom, amirite?


Philosophical Ray:
Life goes on, it happens every day
So `ppreciate what you've got, before it's taken away.
Life will hit you when you're unprepared,
So be grateful and grab all that you can while you're there.

Stevie w/ Traffic:
If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return,
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything, including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys.

[Toeclips]

Mr Mojo Rising! Mo Jo Rising!..... Riding riding whew ya you gotta keep on riding it

[joosttx]

"out of all those kinds of people, you had a face with a view." -Talking Heads.

"Mercy Mercy me, that murcielago." -K West

"you had to find justice when you couldn't find love" - Rhett Miller

"I guess, I don't know, I guess, I just don't know" - Lou Reed

"too pat to open too cool to bluff" - Robert Hunter

"I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel" -L. Cohen

"I won't forget to put roses on your grave" _ glimmer twins.

"Cried like a baby, screamed like a panther in the middle of the night" - Willie Nelson

"road goes on forever and the party never ends" - REK

[Dino Suegiù]

Written by a Bronx-born Russian Jew…who also taught high-school English to James Baldwin; whose wife Anne suffered two stillborn sons (Lewis and Allan); who with his wife adopted the two sons (aged 6 and 10) of the recently executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, after meeting the orphans at the home of W.E.B Du Bois; who was known for uncommon charity, courage, empathy, and generosity; who wrote, under the poignant pseudonym Lewis Allan, with incredible insight and grace…in 1937 this poem that soon become perhaps the most powerful protest against lynching, in song made universally famous by Billie Holliday in 1939, 81 years ago….


Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

[Clean39T]

...

[makoti]

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes"

"your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore"

RIP John Prine

"If dreams were lightening, and thunder desire, this old house would have burnt down a long time ago"

[XXtwindad]

Emotional Weather Report - Tom Waits

Damn he's good.

[XXtwindad]

Written by a Bronx-born Russian Jew…who also taught high-school English to James Baldwin; whose wife Anne suffered two stillborn sons (Lewis and Allan); who with his wife adopted the two sons (aged 6 and 10) of the recently executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, after meeting the orphans at the home of W.E.B Du Bois; who was known for uncommon charity, courage, empathy, and generosity; who wrote, under the poignant pseudonym Lewis Allan, with incredible insight and grace…in 1937 this poem that soon become perhaps the most powerful protest against lynching, in song made universally famous by Billie Holliday in 1939, 81 years ago….


Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop


I didn't know this.
Speaking of which : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/movies/bully-coward-victim-the-story-of-roy-cohn-review.html

[buddybikes]

>who with his wife adopted the two sons (aged 6 and 10) of the recently executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,


Yikes, an economics teacher at my school, who I met many times, was one of their sons - Michael Meeropol

[JAGI410]

I ain't the toughest Hickory that your axe has ever felled, but I'm a hickory just as well, I'm a hickory all the same" (Lady May by Tyler Childers)

I've been on an americana kick lately and Tyler Childers and Jason Isbell have me amazed. I read the lyrics to Jason Isbell's "If we were vampires" and got a little choked up, not gonna lie. Some deep stuff!

I like some of the lines that have been posted, excited to go down some rabbit holes and discover new music.

[vqdriver]

If I cried me a river of all my confessions
Would I drown in my shallow regret

Black, Sarah mclachlan
Dunno who wrote it

[fiamme red]

A Cottage for Sale (music by by Willard Robison, lyrics by Larry Conley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJJjMbS6bQ

Our little dream castle
With every dream gone
Is lonely and silent
The shades are all drawn
And my heart is heavy
As I gaze upon
A cottage for sale.

The lawn we were proud of
Is waving in hay
Our beautiful garden has
Withered away.
Where we planted roses
The weeds seem to say...
A cottage for sale.

Through every window
I see your face
But when I reach that window
There's empty space
The key's in the mailbox
The same as before
But no one is waiting for me anymore
The end of our story
Is there on the door
A cottage for sale.

[fiamme red]

Black and Blue (music by Fats Waller, lyrics by Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-XdQDPe1c

Out in the street, shufflin' feet
Couples passin' two by two
While here am I, left high and dry
Black, and 'cause I'm black I'm blue

Browns and yellers, all have fellers
Gentlemen prefer them light
Wish I could fade, can't make the grade
Nothing but dark days in sight

Cold, empty bed, springs hard as lead
Pains in my head, feel like old Ned
What did I do to be so black and blue?

No joys for me, no company
Even the mouse ran from my house
All my life through I've been so black and blue

I'm white inside, it don't help my case
'Cause I can't hide, what is on my face, oh!

I'm so forlorn, life's just a thorn
My heart is torn, why was I born?
What did I do to be so black and blue?

'Cause you're black, folks think you lack
They laugh at you, and scorn you too
What did I do to be so black and blue?

When you are near, they laugh and sneer
Set you aside and you're denied
What did I do to be so black and blue?

How sad I am, each day I feel worse
My mark of Ham seems to be a curse, oh

How will it end? ain't got a friend
My only sin is my skin
What did I do to be so black and blue?

[choke]

How could I have forgotten Death on Two Legs by Queen....Freddie was definitely not a fan of their old manager.

You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you breach
Screw my brain 'til it hurts
You've taken all my money, and you want more

Misguided old mule
With your pigheaded rules
With your narrow-minded cronies
Who are fools of the first division

Death on two legs
You're tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You never had a heart
Of your own

Kill joy, bad guy
Big talking, small fry
You're just an old barrow boy
Have you found a new toy
To replace me?
Can you face me?

But now you can kiss my ass goodbye

Feel good. Are you satisfied?
Do you feel like suicide?
I think you should
Is your conscience all right?
Does it plague you at night?
Do you feel good, feel good?

Talk like a big business tycoon
You're just a hot air balloon
So no one gives you a damn
You're just an overgrown school boy
Let me tan your hide

Dog with disease
You're the king of the 'sleaze'
Put your money where your mouth is, Mr. Know-All
Was the fin on your back part of the deal, shark?

Death on two legs
Tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You never had a heart
You never did
...of your own
...right from the start

Insane, you should be put inside
You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride

Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null and void
Make me feel good
I feel good

[Dino Suegiù]

Alabama, you got
The weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back
Your Cadillac
Has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

[jimcav]

"A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone", Iron & Wine

"Sorrow found me when I was young, sorrow waited, sorrow won", The National

[maj]

This isn't super-deep philosophy, but "Me and Bobby McGee" has several good lines.......

“Nothin ain’t worth nothin, but it’s free.” - a truly brilliant verse in the context of the song.


From Secret Gardens of the Heart by Judy Collins - this verse says so much in so few words and comes back to me more and more as I grow older.

“But most of all
It is me that has changed
And yet I'm still the same
That's me at the weddings
That's me at the graves
Dressed like the people
Who once looked so grown-up and brave“

[Matthew]

"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street." Is she really going out with him? Joe Jackson

[jm714]

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

[kylecycler]

For Annemiek van Vleuten...

If I'd thought about it, I never would have done it

I guess I would have let it slide

If I'd paid attention to what others were thinking

The heart inside me would have died

But I was just too stubborn to ever be governed

By enforced insanity

Someone had to reach for the rising star*

I guess it was up to me

- Bob Dylan, from Up to Me

*Or in Annemiek's case, the helicopter hovering over Lofthouse...

https://i.postimg.cc/q7wRxR3C/annemiek.png (https://postimages.org/)

(For anyone who doesn't know the story, she took off up the longest, steepest climb with over 100 Km of the 150 Km 2019 World Championship Women's Road Race still to go and the rest of the peloton never saw her again until after she crossed the line - an unprecedented (and unplanned!) 105 Km solo breakaway.)

[FlashUNC]

Rakim:

I take seven emcees put 'em in a line
And add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme
Well, it'll take seven more before I go for mine
Now that's twenty-one emcees ate up at the same time

KRS One:

If a dope lyrical flow is a must
You gots to go with a name you can quickly trust
I'm not sayin' I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin' your money on marketing schemes
And pretty packages pushin dreams to the beams
A dope mc is a dope mc
With or without a record deal, all can see
And that's who krs be son
I'm not the run of mill, cause for the mill I don't run

Kendrik Lamar, but really, just the entirety of the Control verse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdcNoGmt7Ws):

What is competition? I'm tryna raise the bar high
Who tryna jump and get it? You better off tryna skydive
Out the exit window of 5 G5's with 5 grand
With your granddad as the pilot he drunk as f*ck tryna land
With the hand full of arthritis and popping prosthetic leg
Bumpin Pac in the cockpit so the **** that pops in his head
Is an option of violence, someone heard the stewardess said
That your parachute is a latex condom hooked to a dread

Nas:

I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime, when I'm in a New York state of mind

Inspectah Deck:

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
And hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these
Mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
Tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics

Kanye West:
Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips

[blindwilly]

And if I look back
I'll remember all the good times
Warm days filled with sunshine
And just a little bit of rain

-Fred Neil


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[tmarcus1076]

Oh, is that concrete all around
Or is it in my head?

[Frankwurst]

Where Rainbows Never Die
The SteelDrivers

I'm an old man now
I can't do nothing
Young folks don't pay me no mind
But in my day I sure was something
Before I felt the heavy hand of time
I'm an old man now
I'm bound for glory
Time to lay these burdens down
Had enough of this old world of worry
Gonna trade my troubles for a crown
I will make my way across the fields of cotton
And wade through muddy waters one last time
And in my dreams I come out clean
When I reach the other side
Waste away the sunsets
Where rainbows never die
I've got on last thing to do
One more mile before I'm through
Casting off these early chains
Going where theres no more pain

[guyintense]

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed

I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say

I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help...no one will heed you

Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial

[charliedid]

"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street." Is she really going out with him? Joe Jackson

Damn beat me to it...

One of the best lies ever.

[glepore]

I saw a Werewolf drinking a Pina Colada outside of Trader Vics, his hair was perfect

[bironi]

It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown
That's the way that the world goes 'round

John Prine