She'll come back as fire and burn all the liarsLeave a blanket of ash on the ground
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
You know I'd pay a lot to cry to try to understandA flower's still a flower crushed to dust inside my hand
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
oh help me mrs medleycott i don't know what to doi've only got three bullets and there's four of mötley crüe
― imago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
they had the best selectionthey were poisoned with protection
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm,And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
West VirginiaMountain Mama
― flopson, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
it's gone too farinside this car
― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
even hitler had a girlfriendso why can't I
― sarahell, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
son im 30i only went with your mother cos shes dirty
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
beat me to it
― JoeStork, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
I saw you there, just standing thereAnd I thought I was only dreaming, yeah..
― Mark G, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
It's hard to celebrateWith a headache
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Oh, oh I said, "I'm so happy I could die"She said, "Drop dead, " then left with another guy
Or maybe:
'Cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changedSince you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a lightOn the corner by sound exchange
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'emThat I got no cerebellum
I was twenty one years when I wrote this songI'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long
I don't like you, I just hate youI'm gonna kick your ass, oh yeah! oh yeah!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
you put me on a pedestali put you on the pill
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
give me a week or two togo absolutely cuckoo
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
I've travelled round the worldI've seen so many things - why am I talking to you?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
i have been around the worldlooking for that woman / girl
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
it's kinda funny how bad these read. rock couplets r the ultimate 'guess you had to be there'
― flopson, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
i probably didn't even say that rightand i really don't give a damn
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
but if you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics you will find that their minds rarely move in a lineso it's much more realistic to abandon such ballistics and resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
mother, i've tried, please believe me: i'm doing the best that i cani'm ashamed of the things i've been put through; i'm ashamed of the person i am
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
ain't no particular sign i'm more compatible withi just want your extra time and your X X X kiss
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
The milk truck eased into my spaceSomebody screamed somewhere
― cwkiii, Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
With these vulgar factions of the treble clefI wish you luck with a capital F
― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
SomethingSomething
AMANDA
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 June 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
Everybody rappin like it's a commercial Actin like life is a big commercial
― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
Post punk x man parked his forkliftLike a billion stars flickering from the grinders wheel
― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
i don't mind choppin woodand i don't care if the money's no good
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
Widows face the future Factories face the poor
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eyeThink he's making something special and I'm smart enough to try
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
belligerent ghoulsrun manchester schools
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
I've been high and I've been lowAnd I don't know where to go
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:28 (six years ago) link
I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteriaWhen I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hairu p against the pink and purple wisteria
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
I'll make it sweet but shortWhen I pull out your life support
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
She hit town a rose in bloomSmell the sweet, sweet perfumeThe color faded and the petals diedDown in the city no one criedAnd in the streets the garbage liesProtected by a million fliesWith roaches so big they got bonesThey moved in and made themselves at homeI say nice boys, don't play rock 'n' rollNice boys, don't play rock 'n' rollI'm not a nice boy!
― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 4 June 2017 07:10 (six years ago) link
I knew we'd never writeSomehow that seemed alright
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 4 June 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
If you look carefully in the background of The ScreamThe couple on the bridge are both Robson Green
― devvvine, Sunday, 4 June 2017 08:14 (six years ago) link
ftw
― Mark G, Sunday, 4 June 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line >>>>>>>> this thread
― imago, Sunday, 4 June 2017 09:44 (six years ago) link
Suddenly a half-sucky summer song came over the spider ride speaker systemIt sounded like the best thing I ever heard, I just wanted to sit down and listen
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 4 June 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
I drove my Cadillac to Vegas to satisfy my lustWheelin', dealin', left ol' Vegas on a Greyhound bus
― mizzell, Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, JackI went out for a ride and I never went back
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
If you feel alive in a darkened roomDo you know the name of your solitude
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
Dance with the dead in my dreamsListen to their hollow screams
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
I got something to sayI killed a baby today
These lonely brothers on the radioIf that's a DJ I'm the pilgrim Mona Lisa
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
Your dying for the hope is goneFrom here we go nowhere again
I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing too muchI can't climb out the way I fell in
she's got her toe in the cornholebleeding out in a snow cone
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Fourth day, five day marathon.We move like a parallelogram.
― Black Arkestra, Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
I met her at the Burger KingWe fell in love by the soda machine
― spastic heritage, Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:28 (five months ago) link
I'm curious, if I went through this thread, how many of these couplets I would recognize. I wouldn't be surprised if a huge hunk were from songs I loved and I just never noticed!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:57 (five months ago) link
Same
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:12 (five months ago) link
that Ramones one is absolutely all-time
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:16 (five months ago) link
Yeah, that one I knew.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:19 (five months ago) link
I fact I remember thinking about it in the 80s whilst sitting in the Burger on Northern Boulevard, the one close to Douglaston.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 02:21 (five months ago) link
no bookcase can rescue a manonly a letter of sorry can
― brimstead, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:18 (five months ago) link
i bought fake jordansthey weren't even shoes
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:41 (four months ago) link
he fantasized an equipagea two-horse carriage garage
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:07 (four months ago) link
Do you take sugar?One lump or two?
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:49 (four months ago) link
otm voodoo chili
in the same vein:
deleted scene of lightning mcqueenblacked out at full speed
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link
tobacco they grow in pekingin the year of the locust you'll see a sad thing
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:35 (four months ago) link
you can never be strong!!!!!you can only be free!!!!!
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
average MCs is like a TV blooperMF DOOM, he's like DB Cooper
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:37 (four months ago) link
^^^ pops into my head often
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:41 (four months ago) link
honestly doom never really misses as far as i care... but that line in particular stands out to me because it is so fucking funny
― tremolo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:43 (four months ago) link
Once built a steamboat in a meadowBecause I'd forgotten how to sail.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:01 (four months ago) link
the stockings are hung, but who carespreserved for those no longer there
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:05 (four months ago) link
Still there's a light I hold before meYou're the measure of my dreams
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:13 (four months ago) link
he is the king of childrensinging like a boiler, 'tomorrow is on its way'
― tremolo, Friday, 15 December 2023 09:50 (four months ago) link
Maybe I should just change my styleBut I feel alright when you smile
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:36 (four months ago) link
Counting the cost in money onlyStrikes me as funny don’t you know
― Mule, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 12:56 (four months ago) link
Holidays and salad daysAnd days of moldy mayonnaise
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:04 (four months ago) link
(A bit of a cheat)
And in the endThe love you takeIs equal to the love you make
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:08 (four months ago) link
wait awhile eternityold mother nature's got nothin on me
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:43 (four months ago) link
so many amazing lines in that song. I think my favorite couplet is the last one:
It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight.I'll prob'ly get homesick. I love you. Goodnight.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:51 (four months ago) link
yeah beautiful. he can deploy a word rhyming with itself like no other (not being sarcastic).
i also deeply love the image of
The search light in the big yard swings round with the gunAnd spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun
and the chess game... they're all great
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:00 (four months ago) link
The searchlight might be my favorite image in any song. just so instantly evocative and so beautiful.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:04 (four months ago) link
And if you survive 'til 2005, i hope you're exceedingly thinFor if you are stout you will have to breathe out while the people around you breathe in
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
Many things on my mindWords in the way
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:14 (two months ago) link
and that ain't no jokeyou can disappear in smoke
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:14 (two months ago) link
it's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar:-there's no escaping without a door prize-they're operating at significant loss
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
Oh, I never should have said the books that you readWere all I loved you for
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:17 (two weeks ago) link
I can dance like Sherlock HolmesI can sing like Sherlock HolmesBut I can't be Sherlock Holmes
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:33 (one week ago) link
he took a ride on the new highwaya culvert down to the ducks and drakes
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:51 (one week ago) link
In the fragrance sweet of the evening airI could leave this world quite without a care
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link