last part of bad cover version also makes me chuckle: like the later tom and Jerrys when the two of them can talk

definitely :P - there are so many great lyrics should be interesting to see what everybody thinks

Deebs, if I hadn't already met you I would be wondering if you were a little disturbed! But the dark ones are always the best, I can't argue with that.

Where do you start...possibly not with ''that goes round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round again'' ;)

''First you let him in your bed
Now he's moved inside your head
And he directs all the dreams you are dreaming'' sums-up many fucked-up relationships quite deftly.

Sorry to take a chunk of a song (spoken-word though it is) but this:

''I went there again for old time's sake, hoping to find the child's toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune. It was still there - but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it. And the cafe was still there too; the same press-in plastic letters on the price list and scuffed formica-top tables. I sat as close as possible to the seat where I'd met you that autumn afternoon. And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it, I finally took your face in my hands and I kissed you for the first time and a feeling like electricity flowed through my whole body. And I immediately knew I'd entered a completely different world. And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child's ride outside.'


...just kills me. So evocative that I often think it must have happened to me at some point in the past.

I remember listening to We Love Life for the first time, on my CD Discman in bed late at night, the day it came out and Wickerman leaving me awestruck.

A lot of the lyrics from the This Is Hardcore era, considering the state of his mind at the time, are quite incredible really.

I'm only trying to give you what you've come to expect
Just another song about single mothers and sex

There's loads!

Just a few to be going on with:

"And it's hard to know he doesn't count for much
Oh, he's not a has-been, just a never-was"

All of "Being Followed Home"

"Oh, I guess this is where I fall apart
and I guess this is where the teardrops start
but I don't care 'cos I just fell in love again"

"Oh, you can be just what you want to be
Oh, just as long as you don't try to compete with me"

"I've never seen you
look so ugly
as the way you did that night"

"And I long to be with you
now these cold nights have come
Oh, I go down to the river
but the river will stop for no one
Though I ask it, it keeps flowing on
When I ask it, it tells me you're gone"

"Oh, and I could be a genius
if I just put my mind to it
And I, I could do anything
if only I could get 'round to it
Oh, we were brought up on the Space Race
now they expect you to clean toilets
When you have seen how big the world is
how can you make do with this?
If you want me, I'll be sleeping in
sleeping in throughout these glory days"

 

"Help the aged, one time they were just like you
drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue"

maybe this one doesn't counts but it's so nerdy and sweet:
"I've cleaned the tin up now, and I keep it on the mantelpiece at home with my coin collection in it"

"I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church
She's trying to replace me but it'll never work"

 

Nice. I missed this thread first time round.

"It seems the current style, to wear a toothy smile/No matter how events may go,
to never let emotions show/Being happy's fine, but not all the time"

"Those years of endless rain they just washed her away"

"Why live in the world when you can live in your head?"

"Without you my life has become a hangover without end/A movie made for TV: bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest/Too long with no story and no sex"

"And it could be tonight if I ever leave this room/I never leave this room"

"...with the period features and original dust and the china everywhere"

 "those useless trees produce the air that I am breathing"

I have heard the songs so many times and seem to have absorbed them into my mind and body that it is almost hard to stand back and choose. Like Eamonn points out you almost imagine it happened to you and maybe it did! Actually it often really did... we had a broken handle on the third drawer down of the dressing table when DC was out & I used to love listening to 'Feeling' and thinking 'there it is' looking at the broken handle. The passage Eamonn has selected is wonderful. There's a little clip on YouTube where Jarvis mentioned about the seaside and melancholy. I think he may have been talking about a grown man sitting on a carousel or something and that reminded me of that excerpt from Wickerman too. Beautiful lyrics. I also agree about This is Hardcore.

Looking forward to that book of lyrics. And Anet I also *love* that line from 'I Spy'

Edit: went on a bit

-- Edited by Jean on Sunday 9th of October 2011 09:28:54 PM

-- Edited by Jean on Sunday 9th of October 2011 09:48:37 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA95Hqy5uKw

From 'Sickly Grin', Fred

 

Edit: and the "those years of endless rain, they just washed her away" is from 'She's Dead' on Separations

-- Edited by Jean on Sunday 9th of October 2011 09:54:52 PM

Cuckoo:

And it's tragic
Yeah, it's so shoddy
The way you're making love to someone else's body
Oh, but my flesh can go and crawl
halfway up the bedroom wall
And you know I'm always there

Ansaphone:

Oh, I need to see you
It's not enough for me just to hear you
You said you'd be here by ten thirty
but you wanna stay out and be dirty

Underwear:

If fashion is your trade
then when you're naked
I guess you must be unemployed, yeah

Dogs doing it (oof) in central reservations and causing multiple pile ups in the centre of town.

Oh but I want you to stay... please stay for awhile. I don't want to live in the cold.