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Jarvgirl


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Since Panther posted the article by Bob Stanley who stated the best line being "Take your year in Provence..." I'm wondering what your favourite line(s) are.

Currently mine is 

We don't need your sad attempts at social conscience based on taxi rides home at night from exhibition openings. We just want your car radio and bass reflex speakers. Now.

 



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"Whilst in the area why not stock up on string or try some of our duty-free Parkin?"

This line really made me laugh when I first heard it. There are so many lines I love that if I put them all in a league table, I doubt it would come out on top, but it is a line I say to myself when I am in Robert Dyas and see balls of string for sale...

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Catcliffe Shakedown is epic, isn't it? So many ace lines to quote :)



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Absolutely! Epic and so funny and creates little pictures in your mind.

When I first spotted Catcliffe on a map, I got so excited: 'Blimey! It's real!'

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 "You said you wanted some space... well, is this enough for you?" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great thread topic - I hope it runs and runs... 



-- Edited by superchob on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 11:57:14 PM

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There's loads! But at the moment:

"It's a fast track express to the graveyard, I know
So what are you waiting for, hey ho let's go"
- pretty much sums up the average night out when you're in your 30s

"Why do we have to half kill ourselves
just to prove we're alive?
I'm here whenever you need me
And whenever you need me
Well I won't be here"
- as above

"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"
- nice take on a "love song"

"Can't you see a giant walks among you, seeing through your petty lives
Do you think I do these things for real?
I do these things just so I survive
And you know, I will survive
It may look to the untrained eye
I'm sitting on my arse all day
I'm biding time until I take you all on"
- if "Mis-Shapes" was the battle, then this is the war

"And if you think it's a crime

We'd like to get you out of your mind
It's just a matter of time, yeah"
- although asylum seekers are referenced in "Weeds", I do like this section which I think may be a nod to stoners (especially given "Weeds II")

"Now all our dreams melt in the sun
and visions dwindle one by one by one
Perhaps you should move somewhere far away
to another town where maybe they could see things in your way"
- writing about depression needs to be done in a certain way if it's going to work. These lines lay it on that think it's hard not to take notice

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Not sure where to start but I like Ian's and his explanations/interpretations so they'll do for now.

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1.  And then we went for rides...(Fairground) 
2.  The meal he eats is dead flesh, there is cancer in his cigarettes, and the drinks won't do a thing for him but revive some stupid memories... (Separations)  
3.  You knock me down, you knock me over, my blood upon the tarmac, i tore the dress from your back, you are my death, you are my lover, your red car is our hearse and your red dress my shroud..(Maureen) 
4.  Clean mister, clean missed her..(Tunnel) 
5.   Yes i'd like to turn you over to see whats' on your other side..(Joking aside) 


-- Edited by DEF2 on Thursday 20th of February 2014 08:34:38 AM

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Oh, you've got such a beautiful body
Oh, you'll make such a beautiful body

A little bit morbid, I know but I was so stoked when I heart it for the first time (dyrtft haha!)



You are the party that makes me feel my age

A very bad experience put in a nutshell

Are Solo-Jarvislines allowed too?

 

It's a complicated boogie and I don't know any better, baby


 



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It's not that I am going crazy,

It's just that I refuse to be blind.



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solo Jarvis lines are definitely included :) 

i do have a soft spot for "you're in big trouble, little lady" smile

I keep saying I'll ask Jarvis to sign something with that line but when I see him I never have the courage!

 



-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Wednesday 12th of February 2014 09:29:42 PM

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All of Inside Susan. I think it's lyrically one of their most beautiful songs because the subject matter is really simple but also really insightful. One of my favorite lines is from David's Last Summer (also lyrically one of my favorites overall) "The room smells faintly of sun tan lotion in the evening sunlight and when you take off your clothes you're still wearing a small, pale skin bikini"

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triciathetree wrote:

All of Inside Susan. I think it's lyrically one of their most beautiful songs because the subject matter is really simple but also really insightful. One of my favorite lines is from David's Last Summer (also lyrically one of my favorites overall) "The room smells faintly of sun tan lotion in the evening sunlight and when you take off your clothes you're still wearing a small, pale skin bikini"

This. All of this.



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"Now it's coming to the end of the evening

The time when the ceiling sways and objects jerk out of place"

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Agree with triciathetree re: Inside Susan, also feel the same about the whole of Wickerman, S:SC and David's Last Summer - maybe there's something about the spoken-word pieces.

A few particular favourites I can think of at the moment (if I think too hard, it'll be a whole essay of them):

"The whole city is your jewellery box. A million twinkling yellow street lights. Reach out and take what you want. You can have it all"

"I feel as if my whole life has been leading to this one moment, and as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe"

"Did you ever think this day would happen, after days trying to sell washing machines in the rain? It looked like we'd never leave the ground, but we're weightless, floating free, we can go wherever we want, solar systems, constellations, galaxies - I'll race you to the nearest planet. How many times have you wished upon a star? Now you can touch it, you can touch the stars"

"Wasting all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down. And the sky is crying out tonight for me to leave this town"


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1.Tell's his children they should have respect, tell's his wife that she's a nervous wreck..(Aborigine)
2. I could live sans danger, but all night i saw a stranger, a stranger that i knew was me.(What do you say?)
3. Litle girl with blue eyes there's a hole in your heart, and one between your legs..(Little girl,with blue eyes)
4.The years' pull their weight down on your cheekbones, the nights' have started hanging from your waist..(Mark of the devil)
5.If i told you a secret you'd be sure to leak it, you couldn't keep it inside, no matter how hard you try..(Boats and trains)


-- Edited by DEF2 on Thursday 20th of February 2014 08:36:12 AM

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DEF, you keep quoting songs I've never heard of  



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Agree with DEF2 on that line from the chorus to Little Girl (With Blue Eyes), that line really stuck out for me when I first heard that song. I also like: "Entertainment can sometimes be hard, when the thing that you love, is the same thing that's holding you down" from Party Hard. It's not really a hugely prolific lyric, there's just something in it that's made it stick in my head. And I adore pretty much all of Mile End - "it's just like heaven, if it didn't look like hell".



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Eamonn wrote:

DEF, you keep quoting songs I've never heard of  

 Hi Eamonn, I suspect you most definately know them all very well. But when isolated in shreds like that i suppose they can be difficult to pin down. Anyways, ive edited the posts to include names. All 10 of them (so far) 



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Most of those '80's songs are very dense in verbiage and when written on a page don't really look like lyrics at all. There's quite a lot of, being generous, quite juvenile symbolism and metaphor. That's not a criticism by the way, I don't mean juvenile in a pejorative way. I know its a bit hard to hear but I just love the lyrics to Snow.

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Anyone who had a heart part 2...



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Snow sounds nowt like anyone who had a heart, you should get yer ears seen too DEF2, or should that be DEAF2.....What i meant to say was some of the similarities with the words, not the actual music..Its a beautiful little song.



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Pejorative??  SAW, you clever man..



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Hooray, i'm now officially Hardcore...Anyways, i think thats enough of me for one day.



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DEF2 wrote:

Pejorative??  SAW, you clever man..

That's what a schooling from King Edward VII will get you my good man. 



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