Spring in Fialta
A malign star kept him
I've been thinking about posting in this thread for a few days. Originally I was thinking of what to post, but when I actually sat down and thought about specific songs I realised it was hopeless. Anything I posted would have been a mixture of a few things. Self-indulgence mainly, as a list a bunch of songs I like to an audience I think cares. I've done this regularly since I was about fourteen. Aside from that though I wondered whether it was the lyrics themselves I liked, or the way in which they're delivered. There were some I hold a strong emotional attachment to and some I don't. Do I like some more than others because of this? Do I think they're better (what a term) than others because of this? How, then can I put an assortment of songs/lyrics here that anyone should care about?
It didn't help that I had a shortlist of about fifteen songs. With several from the same artists. That's not self-indulgence, that's taking the piss. Then there's the case of several songs from the same artists. While it's obvious that a lyricist doesn't peak with only one song, surely it's an exercise in redundancy seeing five songs from one source? And what if it's full songs rather than a verse, a chorus, a single line?
Anyway
Watching her these things she said
The times she cried too frail to wake this time
Ceremony - New Order (I don't know why the title for this says 2019 remaster - this was on the 2008 Collector's Edition of Movement)
I spy a boy
I spy a girl
I spy the worst place
in the world
In the whole world
Oh, you didn't do bad
You made it out
I'm still stuck here
Oh, but I'll get out
Oh yeah, I'll get out
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
My lords and ladies
I will prevail
I cannot fail
'Cos I spy
Oh, I've got your number, taken notes
I know the ways your minds work out, I've studied
And your minds are just the same as mine
Except that you're clever swines
You never let your masks slip
You never admit to it
You're never hurried
Oh, no no no
And every night I hone my plan
How I'll get my satisfaction
How I will blow your paradise away
Away
Away!
'Cos I spy
It's just like in the old days
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head
"The crowd gasps at Cocker's masterful control of the bicycle
Skilfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop
Imagining a blue plaque above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest
But hold on
You've got to wait for the best"
You see you should take me seriously
Very seriously indeed
'Cos I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks
Smoking your cigarettes
Drinking your brandy
Messing up the bed you chose together
And in all that time
I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon
And catch us at it in the front room
You see I spy for a living
and I specialise in revenge
On taking the things I know will cause you pain
I can't help it
I was dragged up
My favourite parks are car parks
Grass is something you smoke
Birds are something you shag
Take your Year in Provence
and shove it up your ass
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, oh yeah
With roach burns in designer dresses
Skin stretched tight over high cheekbones
And thousands of tiny dryness lines
Beating a path
Beating a path to the corners of your eyes
And every night I hatch my plan
It's not a case of woman v man
It's more a case of haves against haven'ts
And I just happen to have got what you need
Just exactly what you need, yeah
La la, la la la la la la la la
In the midnight hour
La la, la la la la la la la la
I will come to you
I will come to you
I will take you from this sickness
Dinner parties and champagne
I'll hold your body and make it sing again
Come on, sing again
Let's sing again
Oh yeah, 'cos I spy
Yes, I spy
I spy a boy
And I spy a girl
I spy a chance to change the world
To change your world
I Spy - Pulp
Why do I deserve the science?
To feel better about you
At a loss I lost my cool
I denied that I found you
I tried to be a basket-case
I did not surprise you
I'm trying to find a signal fire
Let me know when I should move
But you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don't need me
Why do I desire the space?
I was mourning after you
I was lost and lost my shape
There was nothing I could do
I don't want to waste away
It was all I gave to you
Take me back or take my place
I will rise right up for you
But you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don't need me
But all the while you waste away you're asking
Did I really need another one to take me down?
Everybody knows it's something that you had to live with, darling
Nobody's gonna tear you down now
There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection
There was nothing but quiet retractions
To families pleading: don't look in that cabinet
There's far more bad than there's good
I don't know how it got there
That was something your father had burned in me
Twenty hours out of Homestake: eternity
You can go anywhere but you are where you came from
Little girl you are cursed by my ancestry
There is nothing but darkness and agony
I cannot only see, but you stopped me from blinking
Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here
The Silence - Manchester Orchestra
I believe in a house in the clouds
God's got his dead friends round
And painted all the walls in red
To remind them they're all dead
Head Rolls Off - Frightened Rabbit
So I bide my time
As you devour my insides
Cause I lost my guts
When I was a boy
Cool Ethan - The Xcerts
Stupid of me since I know you're a New Order fan and now maybe I'm wrong about this, but it just clicked with me that your username is a reference to the Joy Division song. It's my second favorite song of all-time. Also, I wouldn't worry about posting a song to an audience you think cares. This board is mostly an exercise in that and there's nothing wrong with it. The only reason this thread was started was because I liked a song.
And now:
My, my, my, we're treating each other just like strangers
You can't ignore the significance of these changes
But you can't treat it lightly and you'll
Have to face the consequences
All my worst fears are grounded
You'll have to make the choice between the Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch and me (no no no no)
By this time I got to looking for a kind of substitute
I can't tell you who I found except that it rhymes with "dissolute"
But my baby's so lazy she is
Almost unable and it's
Driving me crazy and her
Loving's just a fable that we sometimes try with passion to recall (oh no no no)
Send for an ambulance or an
Accident investigator
He's breathing like a furnace so I'll
See you later, alligator
He'll set the sheets on fire
Mmm, quite a burning lover
Now he'll barbecue your kitten
Just another learner lover
Now you'll have to make the choice between the Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch and me...