Or I could send her back to bitch school.
On a slightly related note:
A mighty wind’s a blowin’
‘cross the land and ‘cross the sea
It’s blowin’ peace and freedom
It’s blowin’ you and me
Kirsty MacColl:
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you’d be true
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you
This is a love song.
Your love for me is not debatable
Your sexual appetite’s insatiable
You never ever make me waitable
Delectable, inflatable you.
“Inflatable You” - Tim Minchin
Better yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0Ts57nzbA
Rolling Stones, Tumbling Dice
Dr. Hook, Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball
Elvis Costello, Two Little Hitlers
mmm
Waitress In the Sky by The Replacements:
She don’t wear no pants and she don’t wear no tie
Always on the ball, she’s always on strike
Struttin’ up the aisle, big deal, you get to fly
You ain’t nothin’ but a waitress in the sky
This Charming Man by the Smiths
Why ponder life’s complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
There is a Light That Never Goes Out by the Smiths
And if a double-decker bus crashes in to 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
This verse from Eurrotrash Girl by Cracker:
But then, there’s a lot of stuff that David Lowery writes that cracks me up!
More Elvis Costello, can’t really say why this makes me smile:
“But she used to have a care-free mind of her own, and a devilish look in her eye,
saying ‘You can call me anything you like, but my name is Veronica.’”
And the bridge to Blues Traveler’s “Hook”.
John Prine, Please Don’t Bury Me
“Sled Dogs after dinner close their eyes on their howlin’ ways
Kurt cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face
Then they drift past strips of Seregeneti and the gates of sleepy hollow too
You can pause and wonder, they pause and wonder, yeah I pause and wonder, too”
“Don’t Wake Daddy” - The Tragically Hip
I know… he rhymes “too” with “too.” I don’t care, though - I still love the song.
Much of early Dylan makes me smile. (Quotes from memory)
There is Talkin’ WW III Blues, the funniest song about the agonizing holocaust outside of Lehrer.
“I lit a cigarette on a parking meter, and walked on down the road.
Just a normal day.”
The there is “I Shall Be Free”
The telephone rang, it would not stop
It was President Kennedy calling me up
He said ‘my friend Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?’
I said ‘My friend John, Brigitte Bardot’
And there is “Motopsycho Nightmare,” mixing a traveling salesman joke and a popular movie.
I’m a doctor and it’s true
I’m a cleancut kid and I’ve been to college too.
and
I was sleeping like a rat when I heard something jerkin’
There was Rita looking just like Tony Perkins
Oh, (i know) you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh, down beside that red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Ice Cube’s Cave Bitch (a wonderfully tame expression of Cube’s racial preference for his sexual partners):
*At least I’d know, she’s comin’ from the Nubian
And not the Ku Klux Klan that you be in
And I don’t give a fuck if your family is rich
You’re still a little cave bitch *
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And really, rhyming “comin’ from the Nubian” with “not the Klu Klux Klan that you be in” is pretty cool.
Well it’s 40 below
And I don’t give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck
And I’m off to the rodeo
[[shortened excerpt]]
Back in the USSR
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
The intertextuality, if I can call it that, of this bridge section is absolutely amazing. I was listening to this song for a very long time before i realized just what all this section was referencing. There’s a lot of really amazing Beatles lyrics out there that work on different levels, but these ones truly astonished me when I finally figured it all out.
*Why can’t we be friends *by War
‘I know you’re working for the CIA,
They wouldn’t have you in the Mar-fy-aaaeeee’
Not only the silly imagery but the shoehorned-in sentiment and enunciation.
Makes me smile every time indeed.
You know, I swear AD Rock misspeaks the last line of this, and actually says “Like a pinch from the neck of Mr. Spock.”
Kudos! That one tickles me, too.
A song that really makes me laugh is
“Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” by Meatloaf.
Girl: I gotta know right now, before we go any further, do you love me? Will you love me forever?
Boy: Lemme sleep on it, baby, baby, lemme sleep on it. Lemme sleep on it, I’ll give you an answer in the morning.
“Sister Golden Hair”…dunno why, but it makes me smile.
“Feels so good feeling good again”–Robert Earl Keen-love that one, also his "“They Just Want to Blow you Away.”
No particular lyrics from these songs but the entire songs themselves do it for me:
“Wonderful One” by Marvin Gaye
“Little Things” by Marty Stuart
“Two beavers are better than one, they’re twice the fun, ask anyone. Two beavers are better than one.”
-Robin Sparkles/Jessica Glitter