best "rock" (or whatever) couplet ever

«You look like you've been losin' sleep"
Said a stranger on a train
I fixed him with an ice cold stare
And said "I've been havin' those dreams again…»

Charlie, ferchrissakes, if you wanna know the truth of it
I don't have a husband, he don't play the trombone

favorite actor dennehy, favorite drink o'doul's
bears hawks sox bulls

No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground where they used to grow

Saw Adam and Eve
without their leaves

i'll never travel far
without a little Big Star

save my life, I'm going down for the last time
woman with the sweet lovin' better than a white line

i found an island in your arms, a country in your eyes?
arms are chains. eyes are lies

It's the nexus of the crisis
The origin of storms

Well, on the government website from the 21st March 2020
It said COVID-19 was no longer high risk

I live my life like a shot in the wind, if tomorrow don't come I know, I stole my share of fun for me
Cause I'm too fast, too rad, I'm going wasted when I go, the cost of freedom's never free

The backstage of your life
Is filled with props and lines you should have sung
The backstage of your life
Is filled with echoes of the ones you love

I'm the type of guy who doesn't have a type at all
I'm not dressed for this climate someone take me to the mall

if there's ever anyone else, i'll understand and kill him
and i'll overflow your every inlet, you will not cough and spit
you'll welcome me in
and i tell you with my tongue between your toes
if there's ever anyone else
don't let them do this

Oh, what an ordinary day
Take out the garbage, masturbate

When I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead

So let us not talk about the past
The descending voices when we dare
To fall in each other's arms
There is nothing to say about history

A sparkled shiny diner
Is a home fir wayward maga
Aghhhh

She tried to hit me with a mop,
And I can't stand it anymore.

otm

look it up in the bookmobile
look it up in the gun rack

god's up in heaven or not there at all
and down on the ground ain't too far to fall

I’ll never know
I’ll never know

rock rock til you drop
rock rock never stop

you opened my mail apart at the seams
Now you know I live beyond my means

Yes, my world's tumbling down, stone by stone to the ground
Please take out the garbage

No more dragging this wormy anus ‘round on shag piles from Persia to Thrace
I've severed my reeking gonads, fed them to your shrunken face

I'll see you around
every hollow has its favorite sound

Oohoohoohoohoohoohoohooh I’m a robot man
Oohoohoohoohoohoohoo I’m a loser

sir kenneth clark
sir kenneth clark

And the white man sold quaaludes to the monkeys
And they all died high up in the tree

some hills are never seen
the universe is expanding

Or is it in his face? – Oh no, it's just his charm
In his warm embrace? – Oh no, that's just his arm

^Good one!

Try to imagine another planet
Another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do matters

And the white man sold quaaludes to the monkeys
And they all died high up in the trees

the charm/arm couplet has always impressed me. i recently got a girl-group comp that has that on it and I'd been struck again by its brilliance just this week!

Every thousand years
This metal sphere
Ten times the size of Jupiter
Floats just a few yards past the Earth
You climb on your roof
And take a swipe at it
With a single feather
Hit it once every thousand years
'Til you've worn it down
To the size of a pea
Yeah, I'd say that's a long time
But it's only half a blink
In the place you're gonna be

The tenderest girl
I get lost in the trees
And I pass like the breeze
'Cause I'm nothing you've haven't done before

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

there's a thin line between what you do and what you should
every time i cross it i just feel insanely good

Sometimes you really dig a girl the moment you kiss her
And then you get distracted by her older sister

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, June 20, 2022 2:28 AM (eleven hours ago)

Heard on WFMU this AM!!

‘tis (almost) the season!

Toss-up for me between these two.

And I need you more than want you
and I want you for all time

But I'm as priceless as a brass ring
That's losing the heat from your hand

Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's hip, he knows what cooks
Just tell your hoodlum friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride

Beautiful Delilah, bathing in the sun
Audience of seventeen and noticed not a one
Local Casanova, who wouldn't be outdone
Let her steal his heart away, and break it just for fun

I didn't change my number
I only changed who I reply to

Everything goes when you're dead
Everything empties from what was in your head

I've got six things on my mind
you're no longer one of them