"When you die it's a shame/ But your old life stays the same" - Throwing Muses.

...And alas, Princess Diana shall remain in our hearts and minds forever!!!


:P

Jon! A fellow Muses fan! Let's set the date right now...

How about:
"I swung my firey sword/ I vent my spleen at the Lord/ He is abstract and bored/ too much a-milk and honey"
Pavement - Transport is Arranged

"Life is a lemon and I wany my money back" - song of the same name, Meatloaf.

Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan



Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.


You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

"Do we see them in the yard?
Who cares if they're rolling in bed?
There's only darkness upstairs.
Does love sit cold 'til you put it somewhere
Do objects spit it at your heart?
I don't see that anymore..."

Know this one, Jon?

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break is gonna take
A metal ball hung from a chain

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To pick the broken ruins up again
To mend her heart, to help him start
To see a world apart from pain

- They Might Be Giants

Minimum waaaaaage, hyaahh!

- They Might Be Giants

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke
It's true

etc, etc...

"I used to love her,
But I had to kill her
I had to put her, Oo, six feet under
And I can still hear her complain"

G'N'R - Used to love Her

>
>"I used to love her,
>But I had to kill her
>I had to put her, Oo, six feet under
>And I can still hear her complain"
>
>G'N'R - Used to love Her
>
>
You're not serious???

"Me and the cat own the lease on the flat" - THE COLOUR FIELD

"What's that on your head? A wig!!" - THE B52s

"All soldiers together in World War War One, Having a bit of a laugh on the Somme" - CARDIACS

"Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net - and we're so full of shit" - PROPAGANDHI

"They call me Doctor Worm
Good morning, how are you?
I'm Doctor Worm
I'm interested in things
I'm not a real doctor
But I am a real worm
I am an actual worm
I live like a worm...."

"Dr Worm" by They Might Be Giants

"God's good, the devil is bad.
He always gives me money.
Never setting things on fire.
Never bad.
Don't have to hide your money in your hand."

"God's Box" by the Sea Nymphs

"She's got a sneer on her face
like the Mona Lisa
Coke-hole in her nose
like the sphinx at Giza"

The Cramps- Sheena's in a Goth Gang now

I dreamed about you again last night
You never have the same face twice
But I always know it's you
'cos you're always looking better than you really do

"Heart Remains a Child" EBTG

>"They call me Doctor Worm
>Good morning, how are you?
>I'm Doctor Worm
>I'm interested in things
>I'm not a real doctor
>But I am a real worm
>I am an actual worm
>I live like a worm...."
>
>"Dr Worm" by They Might Be Giants

I'd like to play the drums
I think I'm getting better
But I can handle criticism

or something like that...

"I saw a river fall from heaven
God playing those games
Saw your mother shoot your father
Killed herself the same"

"Goodbye Cruel World" Cold

"I am the master of masturbation,
On a crusade against overpopulation.
There's too many people on this planet,
I'm gonna change it, Goddamnit!", Cheese Cake Truck

"Satan is my master,
He has alweays been.
He tells me what to do;
He buys my Metallica records for me..."

"Ve beni karanl�klar sarar
Kendimi ararken ��kmaz�nda bilmecemin
Ay bile bulutlardan d��er
Ba�r�m� de�erken melekleri her gecemin"

You're talking out so sexually
'bout boys and girls and your friggin' dreams

So no you feel lusty
Your hot and confused
So now you've been busted
Your caught feeling used

You had to do someone else
(You shoulda been by yourself)

haaaaaaa!

"You in the sea, on the decline, breaking the waves. Watching the lights go out, letting the cable sleep"

# My love for you is bigger than Everest... it's bigger than Birmingham... bigger than a DIY Superstore! #



[...because, of course, he lied. Where's that love now you've ripped out my heart, mm?]

"And I kiss, yes I kiss your perfumed hair,
The sweet essence of Giraffe."

#Siiiiing if you're glad to be gay, sing if you're happy that way#

"I never would have opened up, but you seemed so real"

"give us a tantrum
and a know it all grin
just when we need one
when the evening's thin

oh you're a beautiful
a beautiful fucked up man
you're setting up your
razor wire shrine "

"Sen �z�lme g�l�m incinme
Canimin i�i iki g�z�m sakin k�sme
Bana hediye birak but�n kederleri
Ben aglarim ikimizin yerine"


"We gather together
for yams, beans, and cranberry sauce.
But have you given much thought lately
to the turkey holocaust?
200 million noble birds
slaughtered every fall.
Ain�t no difference between Hitler, Stalin,
and the folks at Butterball, Butterball.
So set your tables, America
from Birmingham to Branson.
But when you carve that turkey
you�re a finger lickin� Charlie Manson"

"I need revolution cos I can't afford the price of Cake"

- Super Furry Animals, "Guacamole"

Well, that's what it sounds like to me. Who says Chris Morris isn't influential?

kennedy died in '63
poor John F
Kennedy's wife with his brain on her knee poor Jackie

Adam and the Ants

I could drink a case of you
and still be on my feet

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays
Tell me why, I don't like Mondays
Tell me why, I don't like Mondays........


Boomtown Rats

Open call for a prison architect
Send me your blue prints asap...

... I've never heard the song, but I'm sure Ewar was quoting "Prison Architect" by Scarfo, on the "Luxury Plane Crash" album (their 1st and last).

The chap out of Scarfo now has a band called Fiji who I've seen do loads of support slots, and they're OK as background noise, but aren't really interesting at all. He should have just got a proper job.

I wasn't quoting anyone, Jon, it was just a desperate plea.











Oh, alright, it was Pavement again. The desperate plea still stands, though.

Which track was that, then? I would guess something off 'Wowee Zowee'.

"You've got 3 week's worth of homework dumped under your bed/
And between the sheets lies a grateful deputy-head"

- Fosca, "The Millionaire Of Your Own Hair"

coyote's sitting in some caf�
staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
(joni mitchell)

coming up
the birmingham turkey
a face like a man of 130
(when people were shorter and lived near the water)

j xxx

Books are burning in the main square
And I saw there the fire eating the text
Books are burning in the still air
And you know where they burn books people are next

I believe the printed word should be forgiven, doesn't matter what it said
Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living
Key to a larder for your heart and your head

Books are burning in our own town
Watch us turn round and cast our glances elsewhere
Books are burning in the playground
Smell of burnt books is not unlike human hair

I believe the printed word is more than sacred
Beyond the gauge of good or bad
The human right to let your soul fly free and naked
Above the violence of the fearful and sad

The church of matches
Anointing ignorance with gasoline
The church of matches
Grows fat by breathing in the smoke of dreams
It's quite obscence

Books are burning, more each day now
And I pray now you boys will tire of your games
Books are burning, but I hope somehow
This will allow a phoenix up from the flames

- XTC

"We've got nothing better to do than watch TV and have a couple of brews" - Black Flag

This forum's slogan?

Ewar, you like the 'Flag???

Oooh, I haven't listened to them yeeears, Teej. I'm mellowing with age.

Nor have I, but I still have fond memories of listening to them...