Topic: Great Opening Lyrics

[So… Howard Philips]

The one thing missing from this thread is the name of the songs, some I know, some I think I know and some I’d like to know.

[liverbloke]

The one thing missing from this thread is the name of the songs, some I know, some I think I know and some I’d like to know.

yeh but ain't that the point? finding out who those lyrics are by and then hearing the awesome songs?

you lazy get 

[Red Raw]

Frank settled down in the Valley,
And hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead...

[liverbloke]

^ nice


She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

[So… Howard Philips]

yeh but ain't that the point? finding out who those lyrics are by and then hearing the awesome songs?

you lazy get 

Maybe some of these lyrics are just made up by very wicked posters to cause confusion.

[classycarra]

The one thing missing from this thread is the name of the songs, some I know, some I think I know and some I’d like to know.

is that from Everybody's free to wear sunscreen?

[So… Howard Philips]

is that from Everybody's free to wear sunscreen?

When I think about it that was a great line. I’ll copyright it.

[Filler.]

birth and death and birth again
fucking reincarnation

https://thegutters.bandcamp.com/album/im-in-a-rut-2

[liverbloke]

In every dream home a heartache
And every step I take
Takes me further from heaven
Is there a heaven?


(roxy music - in every dream home a heartache - basically it's about the a guy in love with his blow up doll, yes it is, no really it is)

[Pistolero]

Well, you tried it just for once
Found it all right for kicks
But now you found out
That it's a habit that sticks

[Terry de Niro]

I know Eleanor Rigby starts with
"Ah, look at all the lonely people" But the opening verse was well ahead of its time.

Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

[Alan_X]

So the Waterloo was the suburb of Crosby not the London railway station?

So who the fuck were Terry and Julie?

Apparently not. I Googled who were Terry and Julie and found this article.

“Originally I wanted to call it Liverpool Sunset,” Davies reveals. “I loved Liverpool and Merseybeat. But you know what they say as advice for writers – write about what you know. I knew London better than I knew Liverpool.”So I changed it.”

It’s inspired by Liverpool but the ‘Waterloo Sunset’ he describes is from his childhood in London.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-waterloo-sunset-by-the-kinks

[Crosby Nick]

We’re they not Terrence Stamp and Julie Christie from some movie billboard? Or is that made up?

[So… Howard Philips]

Apparently not. I Googled who were Terry and Julie and found this article.

“Originally I wanted to call it Liverpool Sunset,” Davies reveals. “I loved Liverpool and Merseybeat. But you know what they say as advice for writers – write about what you know. I knew London better than I knew Liverpool.”So I changed it.”

It’s inspired by Liverpool but the ‘Waterloo Sunset’ he describes is from his childhood in London.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-waterloo-sunset-by-the-kinks

Alan thanks for that link, really interesting.

I was 14 going on 15 in the summer of 1967 and Waterloo Sunset, Penny Lane and Whiter Shade of Pale are the stand out memories of that long summer holiday.

Strange coincidence that there is a Waterloo at the mouth of the Mersey estuary which ‘hosts’ the local sunsets.

[Son of Spion]

In every dream home a heartache
And every step I take
Takes me further from heaven
Is there a heaven?


(roxy music - in every dream home a heartache - basically it's about the a guy in love with his blow up doll, yes it is, no really it is)

I was only listening to that song yesterday. It's brilliant.

[Son of Spion]

Fade to scenes of violence like a TV screen but silent
Where the victims are all paid by the hour
Staring at the ceiling as she gyrates all around me
I'm trying to forget she's done this all before

[Rahul21]

When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies, " I cried she was deaf

[djahern]

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?

[Red Ol]

Well, you tried it just for once
Found it all right for kicks
But now you found out
That it's a habit that sticks

Ha! The soundtrack to my teens 

[kavah]

Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit. …

The last line is decent too 

[ElDuderino]

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants
It has turned into crystal
There's a bluebird sitting on a branch
I guess I'll take my pistol

[Malaysian Kopite]

I thought I saw you in the Battleship
But it was only a look alike
She was nothing but a vision trick
Under the warning light
She was close
Close enough to be your ghost
But my chances turned to toast
When I asked her if I could call her your name

[Red Ol]

He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man
The only survivor of the National People's Gang

[ToneLa]

Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb

[Terry de Niro]

Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb

Oh Debora, always look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the Spanish Main, oh Debora

[LanceLink!!!!!]

Well you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red

[ToneLa]

I'M THE TROUBLE STARTER, PUNKIN INSTIGATOR

[shy_talk]

In my eyes, indisposed, in disguises no one knows
hides the face, lies the snake, and the sun in my disgrace

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I don't mind stealin' bread from the mouths of decadents

[Sheer Magnetism]

When the rich die last
Like the rabbits running
From a lucky past
Full of shadow cunning

[Terry de Niro]

Hello, Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

[So… Howard Philips]

Hello, Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

Djahern got in before you!

[Crosby Nick]

Djahern got in before you!

Terry couldn’t hear him.

[Terry de Niro]

Djahern got in before you!

Terry couldn’t hear him.

[ToneLa]

Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

[shy_talk]

Heaven bend to take my hand and lead me through the fire

[ToneLa]

DAAAARLING, COME HEE-RE, FUCK ME UP THE -

[SouthDerryLaggo]

well we stood stone like at midnight

[Zlen]

I got somethin' to say, I killed a baby today,
and it doesn't matter much to me as long as it's dead.
Well, I got somethin' to say, I raped your mother today,
and it doesn't matter much to me as long as she spread.

[ToneLa]

A BATTERED STREET A TATTERED COAST THE WIND DID GATHER LIKE A GHOST AND HEAVY BLOWS CAME BEATING DOWN ON ME

[So… Howard Philips]

The summer sun is fading as the year goes old,
And darker days are drawing near,
The winter winds will be much colder,
Now you’re not here.