Have you a favourite song lyric?

[Redler]

When I became familiar with The Smiths in late 80's. There were many lyric I liked a lot. So, this is just an example...

There's a light that never comes out

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

The lyric and melody was a perfect combination.

[Redler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpoDA5R_H4w

Here's just a live take of this tune, but CMX (CloacaMaXima) is my favourite Finnish band. Now, I noticed a site where their lyric has been translated to English...not all the best ones tho. I'm curious. Are these lyrics translated in English fluently? As a Finn, I feel that some of lines is very difficult to translate well..

Golden mask

I hate you,
I want you.
I can read these words
from your pose.
You on the white sheet
you're like a woman
but you don't want to be a woman
and me not to be a man.

A fleet of black cars you are, and endless
Like in books that only tell the other version
I shall never bow to the purple
I shall never confess that I want and I can't go

(refrain):
I am yours
If you wish so
I am yours,
Like your heart;
impetuous, raging.
If you want
I am yours.
(2x)

I want you,
I want to hate you.
The beast with two backs
Razes the night.
Time and space are forgotten
as are the leather covers and guilt
and on our faces
only persistence of memory

Did I build you up only to fall?
I seek for the truth that tells of us.
The colours of the retable that we so tried to capture
fade away, and in tears ends this saga.

(refrain)

Recall the anima of dreams
How they can speak
How the golden-masked
Yet comes



Taken from http://lyricstranslate.com/en/kultanaamio-golden-mask.html#ixzz35gJShus5

[Redler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HE3j2jFDQ8

The rhymes between English/Finnish doesn't "match" together, but here's Päänsärkijä.

Headcracker

"Today a song can be heard..."

They have sung to us with million sentences
Beautiful things, beautiful things
Promises of love, whispering of yearning.
They have begged and asked with silver tongues
for us to dance at the bottom of our souls
in the rhythm of the siren songs of false prophets.

Swimming back and forth in the cloth of the world,
We would like to be wefts in it.
Lost ones, small ones, those who sold their will,
consumers, those poor devils who settle for too little.
We cry blindly in the shining of colors
of flotilla's paradeflags,
Not even a wooden spoon in our hands.

refrain:
I want to live, I want to die
like there would be a place
beyond the gloomy passage,
between the stars, impossible to reach (2x)

What kind of workshop of alchemists is there
where the emptiness is changed into a perfect life
of which everyone dreams of in their sleep.
In the shining of the sun, in front of the face
of the kind almighty
who doesn't strike, who doesn't mock.
A shepherd tends the golden cattle
on the fields with no shadows.

Dear friends, they have been bullshitting us
and we take medicine for our anxiety
There's enough of every kind
to keep girls and boys so useful
for the production departments
and there's nothing weird about that
except that no-one is living and kicking
when the teeth are being pulled out of the mouths.

refrain

These words are making me insane
These words are making me insane



Taken from http://lyricstranslate.com/en/p%C3%A4%C3%A4ns%C3%A4rkij%C3%A4-headcracker.html#ixzz35gOA7xwy

[ODH]

Any song that has a verse about shoes is a winner in my book

Accept Yourself - The Smiths

Others conquered love - but I ran
I sat in my room and I drew up a plan
Oh but plans can fall through as so often they do
And time is against me now

...

Everyday you must say
Oh how do I feel about my shoes?

They make me awkward and plain
How dearly I would love to kick with the fray
But I once had a dream and it never came true
And time is against me now
Time is against me now

[64Guitars]

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn`t you?

I woke up with these words stuck in my head this morning and I thought they deserved a mention in this thread.
Very clever lyrics. (Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you?)

Mairzy Doats
- composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston

I know a ditty, nutty as a fruitcake
Screwy as a goon and crazy as a loon
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn`t you?
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn`t you?

If the words seem queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn`t you-oo?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn`t you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re1CAZix9wI

[Geir]

I woke up with these words stuck in my head this morning.............................

I won't even ask how that happened

Great lyrics indeed





oh no .... now it's stuck in my head too

[T.C. Elliott]

Speaking of Ian McLagen.... I know this was the two Ronnies that wrote it, but it's from the Faces:

Ooh La La - Faces

when you want her lips, you get her cheek
makes you wonder where you are
if you want some more then she's fast asleep
leaves you twinkling with the stars
poor young grandson there's nothing I can say
you'll have to learn, just like me
and that's the hardest way

ooh la la
ooh la la, la la, yeah

I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--HaFAtC17U