Through the years there have been numerous songs with lyrics that caught my ear more than tune. I might as well just throw them out there to you guys. These are obviously only excerpts -just the parts that are poignant, I guess.
"Here comes Johnny Yen again with the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine
He's gonna do another striptease. ....
Well I am just a modern guy. Of course I've had it in the ear before"
- Lust for Life, Iggy Pop
"... put on your gloves and black pumps. Let's pretend the fog has lifted.
Now you see me, now you don't. Now you say you love me. Pretty soon you won't.
If we get our full three score and ten we won't pass this way again.
So kiss me with your mouth open.
Turn the tires toward the street.
And stay sweet. "
- Dilaudad, The Mountain Goats
"There are lots of broken fingers in the dark parts of my room ..."
- Please Don't Touch, Polly Scattergood
"I've come to understand that kiss was quite impossible and if I'll ever find a way I'll halt the turn of time... "
- Hooked, Seabound
"I go through this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you"
- Hyperballad, Bjork
"Pitiful joy
She looked away
Into a hollow sky
Came face to face"
- Joy, PJ Harvey (I actually like the whole Is This Desire? album... probably because it has my name all over it but PJ Harvey is an incredible lyricist)
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