# Favorite Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991 "2015-10-18T12:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/21 "2015-10-19T17:06:18Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Why is this good? This is Nirvana, so you have to sort of listen to the lyrics to get the full effect. [They’re here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj3bCXViNNM) _I’m not like them, but I can pretend_ I’m modestly obsessed with Kurt Cobain. From watching his interviews I imagine he feels (felt) like I often do: out of place; not quite like everyone else. _The sun is gone, but I have a light The day is done, but I’m having fun I think I’m dumb, or maybe I’m just happy_ I was raised religiously, and the inverse relationship between wisdom and happiness is something I’m intimately familiar with. (Eccl 1:18: “_For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow._”) Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between being dumb, and being happy. _My heart is broke, but I have some glue_ My heart’s been broke a long time, but I’ve never had any glue. \*Help me inhale, and mend it with you We’ll float around, and hang out on clouds Then we’ll come down, and have a hangover \* He knows the “glue” doesn’t really help anything, but sometimes a moment’s peace seems worth it. _Skin the sun Fall asleep_ “Skin the sun” is reference to Icarus. “Fall asleep” is a reference to heroin, Kurt’s drug of choice. _Wish away Soul is cheap_ Lesson learned Here he’s talking about his heroin addiction and the thought that life - or perhaps particularly his life - is not valuable. “_Lesson learned_” is sarcastic. _Wish me luck Soothe the burn Wake me up_ Here’s he’s talking about hoping someone will help, even though he knows what he’s doing is dangerous, and possibly fatal. ---
**Author:** ![moldmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@moldmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/22 "2015-10-19T21:10:47Z")
And the days that I keep my gratitude Higher than my expectations Well, I have really good days Ray Wylie Hubbard - Mother Blues ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/23 "2015-10-19T21:34:10Z")
> [@LinusK](#): > > This is Nirvana, so you have to sort of listen to the lyrics to get the full effect. [They’re here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj3bCXViNNM) > > _I’m not like them, but I can pretend_ > > I’m modestly obsessed with Kurt Cobain. From watching his interviews I imagine he feels (felt) like I often do: out of place; not quite like everyone else. > > _The sun is gone, but I have a light > The day is done, but I’m having fun > I think I’m dumb, or maybe I’m just happy_ > > I was raised religiously, and the inverse relationship between wisdom and happiness is something I’m intimately familiar with. (Eccl 1:18: “_For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow._”) Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between being dumb, and being happy. > > _My heart is broke, but I have some glue_ > > My heart’s been broke a long time, but I’ve never had any glue. > > \*Help me inhale, and mend it with you > We’ll float around, and hang out on clouds > Then we’ll come down, and have a hangover > \* > > He knows the “glue” doesn’t really help anything, but sometimes a moment’s peace seems worth it. > > _Skin the sun > Fall asleep_ > > “Skin the sun” is reference to Icarus. > “Fall asleep” is a reference to heroin, Kurt’s drug of choice. > > _Wish away > Soul is cheap_ > Lesson learned > Here he’s talking about his heroin addiction and the thought that life - or perhaps particularly his life - is not valuable. > > “_Lesson learned_” is sarcastic. > > _Wish me luck > Soothe the burn > Wake me up_ > > Here’s he’s talking about hoping someone will help, even though he knows what he’s doing is dangerous, and possibly fatal. I always got the impression that he was wallowing in self pity here and that he was also passive-aggressively saying that people who were happy were the dumb people but that he was too smart to be happy. BTW I hope you’re listening to some other voices too man. Hang in there. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/24 "2015-10-19T22:02:32Z")
_Keep your drawers on girl, ‘cause it ain’t worth the fightin’ By the time you drop 'em, I’ll be gone And you’ll be right where they fall the rest of your life_ ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/25 "2015-10-19T22:08:25Z")
\*I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore And I know too much to go back and pretend… \* etc., etc. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/26 "2015-10-19T22:16:45Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Keep your drawers on girl, ‘cause it ain’t worth the fightin’ > By the time you drop 'em, I’ll be gone > And you’ll be right where they fall the rest of your life_ - Zip City it’s a good thing that they built a wall around you Zip up to Tennessee then zip back down to Alabama I got 350 heads on a 305 engine I get ten miles to the gallon I ain’t got no good intentions\* ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/27 "2015-10-19T22:52:39Z")
_I didn’t phone you And you didn’t phone me back_ All Spring All Summer - Walter Salas-Humara ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/28 "2015-10-20T01:20:03Z")
“A Ghost To Most” Drive-By Truckers \*Saving everybody takes a man on a mission With a swagger that can set the world at ease Some believe it’s God’s own hand on the trigger And the other dumping water in the streets Talking tough is easy when it’s other people’s evil And you’re judging what they do or don’t believe It seems to me you’d have to have a hole in your own To point a finger at somebody else’s sheet Baby every bone in my body’s gone to jumping Like they’re gonna come through my skin If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn’t matter if they did But skeletons ain’t got nowhere to stick their money Nobody makes britches that size And besides you’re a ghost to most before they notice, That you ever had a hair or a hide\* ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/29 "2015-10-20T16:01:32Z")
Twisted: My analyst told me That I was right out of my head. The way he described it, I’d be better dead Than live. I didn’t listen to his jive, 'Cause I knew all along That he was all wrong, And I knew that he thought I was crazy, but I’m not! > **[Joni Mitchell - Twisted lyrics | LyricsFreak](https://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/twisted_20075309.html)** > > Read or print original Twisted lyrics 2023 updated! My analyst told me / That I was right out of my head / The way he described it / He ---
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/30 "2015-10-20T19:51:24Z")
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight Lovers In A Dangerous Time - Bruce Cockburn ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/31 "2015-10-20T19:57:09Z")
> [@](#): > > So be sweet and kind to Mother, > Now and then have a chat > Buy her candy or some flowers, > Or a brand new hat > But, maybe you had better let it go at that > Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex > And > You may end up like Oedipus > (I’d rather marry a duck-billed platypus) > Then end up like old Oedipus Rex! –Tom Lehrer _Oedipus Rex_ He found a rhyme for “Oedipus” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/32 "2015-10-20T22:39:37Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > _I didn’t phone you > And you didn’t phone me back_ > > All Spring All Summer - Walter Salas-Humara I close my eyes/Then I won’t see The love you don’t feel/When you’re holding me I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/33 "2015-10-20T23:29:08Z")
Heaven help the boy who won’t reach 21 Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun. -Stevie Wonder- Another mule is kickin’ in your stall. -Muddy Waters- Let’s go get stoned. -Ray Charles- ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/34 "2015-10-21T02:25:28Z")
As a musician who has written and performed many love songs, this one has always spoken to me. I remember that time that you told me, you said Love is touching souls, surely you touched mine Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time You are in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you And still be on my feet, I would still be on my feet - Joni Mitchell from “A Case of You” ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/35 "2015-10-21T02:28:55Z")
. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English Way Roger Waters ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/36 "2015-10-21T06:21:53Z")
You say that all the men you knew were dealers, who said they were through with dealing every time you gave them shelter. Oh, you know that kind of man, his golden hand dispatching cards, But now it’s rusted from the shoulder to the fingers; and he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter. I’m unsure of the lyrics, but I do love **Stranger Song** , by Leonard Cohen. It was used in the film McCabe and Mrs Miller. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/37 "2015-10-21T07:39:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > –Tom Lehrer _Oedipus Rex_ > He found a rhyme for “Oedipus” Lots of things rhyme with Oedipus - the Attic noun there is pronounced like “-oos” and in English it’s usually pronounced to rhyme with piss. My favourite lyrics are manifold - but here’s one lot from Swans - God Damn The Sun: When, when we were young We had no history So nothing to lose Meant we could choose Choose what we wanted then Without any fear Or thought of revenge ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/38 "2015-10-21T08:07:47Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > - Joni Mitchell from “A Case of You” Really, there isn’t a single word out of place in the entirety of Blue. It’s a masterpiece. Anyway, it used to tickly my funny bone that I’d be listening to the sorrowful tones of Blue and this verse of “A Case of You”: "Just before our love got lost you said “I am as constant as a northern star” And I said “Constantly in the darkness Where’s that at? If you want me I’ll be in the bar” … and then move on to Gerry Rafferty’s City to City and “Right Down the Line”: “I know how much I lean on you, only you can see Changes that I’ve been through have left their mark on me You’ve been as constant as a northern star, the brightest light that shines It’s been you, woman, right down the line” Well FFS guys, is the constancy of the Northern Star good or bad? I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/39 "2015-10-21T11:35:20Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Lots of things rhyme with Oedipus - the Attic noun there is pronounced like “-oos” and in English it’s usually pronounced to rhyme with piss. But he didn’t merely rhyme the last syllable – he effectively rhymed the last three, which is the entire name “Oedipus”. You’d be harder pressed to rhyme that. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/40 "2015-10-21T12:10:54Z")
Ken Block, Sister Hazel, simple but direct and moving. It’s hard to say, What it is I see in you Wonder if I’ll always, Be with you But words can’t say, And I can’t do Enough to prove, It’s ALL FOR YOU (title) Ken recently had a very serious eye retina procedure, face down for a week. Full recovery not for sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991.md?page=3)