# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**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, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/41 "2015-10-21T12:21:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. Your pronunciation of platypus must be way, way different from mine… ---
**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, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/42 "2015-10-21T12:32:50Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Your pronunciation of platypus must be way, way different from mine… Lehrer’s is – listen to him performing the song. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mScdJURKGWM/hqdefault.jpg "Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScdJURKGWM) ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/43 "2015-10-21T12:36:11Z")
There was a young girl, whose heart was a frown, Because she was crippled for life, and couldn’t speak a sound And she wished and prayed she would stop living, so she decided to die. She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore, and to her legs she smiled [The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Castles Made Of Sand Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimihendrix/castlesmadeofsand.html) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/44 "2015-10-21T12:53:01Z")
All aboard… Brenda’s iron sledge All aboard… Brenda’s iron sledge Please don’t call me “Reg” It’s not my name [Robyn Hitchcock, Brenda’s Iron Sledge](https://youtu.be/ckpRHX880Po?t=79) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/45 "2015-10-21T20:44:57Z")
Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show always had good lyrics (often written by Shel Silverstein) “The Cover of Rolling Stone” > [@](#): > > We’re big rock singers, we’ve got golden fingers, > And we’re loved everywhere we go. > We sing about Beauty and we sing about Truth, > For ten thousand dollars a show. “The Queen of the Silver Dollar” > [@](#): > > She’s the queen of the Silver Dollar, she rules a smoky kingdom, > Her scepter is a wineglass, a barstool is her throne, > The jesters flock around her, they fight to win her favors, > To see which one will take the queen of the Silver Dollar home. “Veteran of the Psychic Wars”, written by Michael Moorcock, sung by Blue Oyster Cult, appeals to the teenage sci-fi geek in me: > [@](#): > > You see me now, veteran of a thousand psychic wars. > I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of Limbo roar. Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is haunting. > [@](#): > > Superior, it’s said, never gives up her dead, > When the gales of November come early. ---
**Author:** ![Richey84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Richey84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richey84)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/46 "2015-10-22T16:07:23Z")
From the song “Tallahassee” by the Mountain Goats: “Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector” ---
**Author:** ![Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buford_was_no_angel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/47 "2015-10-22T16:18:47Z")
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream don’t expect him to thank or forgive you. The best ever death metal band out of Denton in time will outpace and outlive you. ---
**Author:** ![Cold\_Dish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cold\_Dish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cold_Dish)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/48 "2015-10-22T16:33:22Z")
“I used to care, but things have changed” ``` -Dylan ``` ---
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/49 "2015-10-24T00:35:25Z")
“A Boy Named Sue” My daddy left home when I was three And he didn’t leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. * * * But the meanest thing that he ever did Was before he left, he went and named me “Sue.” * * * It seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I’d get red And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head, I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named “Sue.” Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean, My fist got hard and my wits got keen, I’d roam from town to town to hide my shame. * * * Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July And I just hit town and my throat was dry, I thought I’d stop and have myself a brew. At an old saloon on a street of mud, There at a table, dealing stud, Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me “Sue.” Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad * * * He was big and bent and gray and old, And I looked at him and my blood ran cold And I said: “My name is ‘Sue!’ How do you do! Now your gonna die!!” Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes And he went down, but to my surprise, He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair right across his teeth And we crashed through the wall and into the street Kicking and a’ gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer. I tell ya, I’ve fought tougher men But I really can’t remember when, He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile. * * * He went for his gun and I pulled mine first, He stood there lookin’ at me and I saw him smile. And he said: "Son, this world is rough And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough * * * So I give ya that name and I said goodbye I knew you’d have to get tough or die And it’s the name that helped to make you strong." He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight And I know you hate me, and you got the right To kill me now, and I wouldn’t blame you if you do. But ya ought to thank me, before I die, For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye Cause I’m the son-of-a-bitch that named you “Sue.’” * * * And I came away with a different point of view. And I think about him, now and then, Every time I try and every time I win, And if I ever have a son, I think I’m gonna name him **Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!** ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/50 "2015-10-27T02:25:48Z")
I’ll go from bad to worse and later back to better but I’ll never better bridges that I’m bent to burn. - Anna Nalick ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/51 "2015-10-27T04:08:35Z")
“Hello - I love you; won’t you tell me your name?” ~ The Doors “You’re a bluebird on a telegraph line; I hope you’re happy now.” ~ Elton John “We got Santa Margarita by the liter; she know even if I’m fucking with her I don’t really need her.” ~ Drake “Be kind to me, or treat me mean - I’ll make the most of it I’m an extraordinary machine.” ~ Fiona Apple “Get on my level? You can’t get on my level! You would need a space shuttle or a ladder that’s forever.” ~ Lil Wayne I could go all day on this; this shit is my bread and butter. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/52 "2015-10-27T04:17:10Z")
We’re not pawns in a game We’re not tools of bigger men There’s only one who can really move us all The Who, Naked Eye ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/53 "2015-10-27T11:09:19Z")
The following lyrics from Weird Al’s “Waffle King”, as he slides into megalomania: “I wanna see you grovel, you waffle-eating fools! Everybody on your knees! You wanna buy a waffle, you’re playing by my rules! Go on, beg me! Let me hear you say ‘pretty please’!” ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/54 "2015-10-29T06:23:44Z")
Thought of another favorite, by the late great Ian Dury: “Home improvement expert Harold Hill of Harold Hill Of Do-It-Yourself dexterity and double glazing skill Came home to find another gentleman’s kippers in the grill So he sanded off his winkle with his Black and Decker drill” ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/55 "2015-10-29T13:29:59Z")
Well that is that and this is this. Will you tell me what you saw and I’ll tell you what you missed, when the ocean met the sky. You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye. When the earth folded in on itself. And said “Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.” You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death? You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death? –Modest Mouse, “Ocean Breathes Salty” ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/56 "2015-10-29T15:59:34Z")
_Same dances in the same old shoes You get too careful with the steps you choose **you don’t care about winning but you don’t want to lose** After the thrill is gone_ The Eagles _After The Thrill Is Gone_ ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/57 "2015-10-29T21:41:22Z")
A bit o’ Pink Floyd: From _Animals_: And any fool knows a dog needs a home A shelter from pigs on the wing and from _The Wall_: and the worms ate into his brain ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/58 "2015-11-03T21:11:13Z")
I’m serious as cancer When I say rhythm is a dancer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991.md?page=2)