What's Your Favourite Rhyme in a Lyric?

[EdS]

I'm crying out in fury to the gods of fate
Come on, get me if you can

Fate -- New Model Army

 

[falcon]

Loads really....here's one by Michael Stipe of REM from Electrolite..

"Your eyes are burning holes through me...I'm gasoline, I'm burning clean "

 

[gregorach]

Half of these don't even rhyme!

I have to admit, my own favourite rhyme is one of my own... I came across a Tom Paxton song called I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler and decided it needed updating. (Hey, it's folk music! It's OK. ) Reworking the chorus was problematic, until I decided to replace the lines "I will tell some power broker / What they did for Iacocca" (that's Lee Iacocca) with "I will tell some mandarin / What they did for Fred Goodwin"... Took me bleedin' ages to come up with that!

(I had reworked it as "I'm changing my name to Barclays", but I've since found out that Barclays was one of the few that didn't get a bail-out, so I'll have to go with "I'm changing my name to HBOS" or something, which doesn't scan as well... Stupid reality!)

I'm sure there's also a bunch of great Tom Waits ones that I'm not remembering right now.

 

[iamasmith]

i said losing my penis to a ***** with disease,
she said excuse me please.

doesn't get a great deal better than that

stuart

'..I said losing my life to a ***** with disease, I said please!'

 

[shaggystu]

you can't buy time but you can sell your soul,
and the closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll

itunes on random, there's so many great lyrics out there

stuart

 

[Shewie]

"Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat.

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream ahhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhhhh"

 

[Kerne]

You used to get it in your fishnets / Now you only get it in your night dress

Arctic Monkeys

Assonance rather than rhyme but I like it.

 

[mart]

My brains' dead weight, I'm tryin' to keep my head straight, but I can't figure out, which Spice Gurl I wanna' impregnate!


My Name is, Eminem.

 

[durulz]

'1, 2, 3, 4,
John the Baptist knows the score...'

from God Gave Us Life by Half Man Half Biscuit

or

'it's wrong to wish on space hardware,
I wish, I wish, you were there.'

from New England by Billy Bragg

 

[robin wood]

Anything by Ian Dury, lyrical genius but sadly not much you can post on a family forum. A bit of Billericay Dickie might just pass



had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
a seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener

One of my fave Dury lyrics is written about Noddy but you'll have to google that one cos it certainly isn't repeatable here.

 

[robin wood]

and fave current bands lyric

So kiss me underneath this lamppost light,
I know it smells of p*ss but
You look beautiful tonight.

The King Blues

 

[British Red]

On of the cleverest has to be

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Country Joe and the Fish

 

[robin wood]

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?

Come on all you big strong men
uncle sam needs your help again

I thought that was coming when I saw the earlier 1,2,3 post

 

[naefearjustbeer]

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light

Soul Asylum "Runaway Train" Excellent tune!

 

[British Red]

Come on all you big strong men
uncle sam needs your help again

I thought that was coming when I saw the earlier 1,2,3 post

Me too - I had to go and watch the video

 

[rik_uk3]

"There was a young man from Cape Anchor"

From an old rugy son

 

[drewdunnrespect]

ome of my all time favs that i couldnt remember when i orginally posted

and my three best friends the father, the son, and the holy gohst took the last train for the cost

american pie don mclane

 

[falcon]

Think it's "the three men I admire most..etc " yeah, great line from a wonderful Don McLean song. Nice one..

 

[Shambling Shaman]

There will be dollars in his hand
He has all hell to pay
And he will pass them to you
If you promice you will stay

Big Country - Flam of the West

To be fair Jethro Tull has soooo many good lyrics i could have crashed the server

 

[British Red]

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away

Still gives me shivers