# Pithy song lyrics you wish you'd written?... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312 "2001-11-08T23:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![D\_Nice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@D\_Nice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Nice)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/41 "2001-11-09T16:12:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anticay \* > \*\*~~ I meant to include this in another like tread but was too > buzzed… of course the radiohead thread reminded me… > shell smashed, juices flowing > wings twitch, legs are going > don’t get sentimental > it always ends up drivel > one day, I am gonna grow wings > a chemical reaction > hysterical and useless… > also, > …floor collapsing > falling > bouncing back and > one day, I am gonna grow wings… \*\* Let Down is currently the song that is effecting me most from Radiohead. I still have to go with Fake Plastic Trees as the Radiohead song that evocs the most emotion in me. Let Down _Let down and hanging around crushed like a bug in the ground_ ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/42 "2001-11-09T16:35:50Z")
“And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads, then love, love will tear us apart” - **Joy Division** ,_Love Will Tear Us Apart_ “Seasons don’t fear the reaper, Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain… We can be like they are.” - **Blue Oyster Cult** ,_(Don’t Fear)The Reaper_ “I was the one who let you know,I was your sorry-ever-after.” - **The Connells** ,_'74-'75_ “Well now everything dies baby that’s a fact,But maybe everything that dies someday comes back,Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty,And meet me tonight in Atlantic City” - **Bruce Springsteen** ,_Atlantic City_ “And he calls her the chocolate girl, Because he thinks she melts when he touches her, And she knows she’s the chocolate girl, Because she’s broken up and swallowed and wrapped in bits of silver” - **Deacon Blue** ,_Chocolate Girl_ “Say a prayer for me,I’m buried by the sound,In a world of human wreckage, I’m lost and I’m found, And I can’t touch the ground, I’m plowed into the sound” - **Sponge** ,_Plowed_ ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/43 "2001-11-09T16:48:27Z")
How about this one? _Well the telephone was ringing, that’s when I handed it to Liz. I said it isn’t who it would be, if it wasn’t who it is._ **"Wolfman’s Brother by Phish"** ---
**Author:** ![tapioca\_tundra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tapioca\_tundra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapioca_tundra)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/44 "2001-11-09T16:52:51Z")
~~ all through lunch this has been played in my head SO!.. “When I am king you will be first against the wall, with your opinions which are of no consequence at all.” This line made me smile like crazy the first time i heard it I almost feel like i did write it, I have so many people who need to be first… ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/45 "2001-11-09T16:56:33Z")
From my favorite BNL song, _Call and Answer_: “I’m warning you, don’t ever do those crazy messed up things that you do. If you ever do, I promise you, I’ll be the first to crucify you.” The whole tone of the way it’s sung is what makes it, though. The whole song is kind of depressed, and it kind of builds up to being somewhat hopeful, then they smack you with that warning. It’s a great song. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/46 "2001-11-09T17:02:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anticay \* > \*\*“When I am king you will be first against the wall, > with your opinions which are of no consequence at all.” > \*\* Great pithy lyric **Anticay**!!! I like it so much I want to know who sings it… (I suspect I might go “Doh!” when you tell me though ~grin~) ---
**Author:** ![tapioca\_tundra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tapioca\_tundra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapioca_tundra)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/47 "2001-11-09T17:11:25Z")
~~ It’s radiohead again… [Paranoid Android](http://www.geocities.com/radioheadlyrics/computer_lyrics/paranoid_android.html) ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/48 "2001-11-09T17:12:14Z")
Cool topic! How’s about _It’s been 10 years and a thousand tears and look at the mess I’m in A broken nose and a broken heart an empty bottle of gin._ -Social Distortion “Ball & Chain” _Sometimes, I think it’s a shame When I get feelin better when I’m feelin’ no pain_ -Gordon Lightfoot “Sundown” Sure I’ll think of others ---
**Author:** ![D\_Nice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@D\_Nice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Nice)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/49 "2001-11-09T17:44:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anticay \* > \*\*~~ It’s radiohead again… [Paranoid Android](http://www.geocities.com/radioheadlyrics/computer_lyrics/paranoid_android.html) \*\* Seeing Radiohead in concert was one of the most powerful and emotional things that have ever happened to me. more gripping lyrics. \*I feel better, I feel better now you’ve gone. I got better, I got better, I got strong. I feel better, I feel better now there’s nothing wrong. I got better, I got better, I got strong. Tell me something, tell me something I don’t know. Tell me one thing, tell me one thing, and let it go. I got something, I got something, heaven knows. I got something, I got something, I don’t know. - ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/50 "2001-11-09T17:53:21Z")
> [@](#): > > “Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye. > Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, > Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down. > I am the eggman, they are the eggmen. > I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.” > (from “I Am The Walrus”, credits to Lennon/McCartney) > > Are you saying they lifted this from a local made-up song? > Do you have a cite? Or do you have personal experience? I’m not necessarily questioning your veracity, I’m just very curious and interested. The **line** “Yellow matter custard, dripping for a dead dog’s eye.” is from a well-known playground song. Not the whole verse. > [@](#): > > Like Harrison Ford I’m getting Frantic, like Sting I’m tantric, like Snickers guranteed to satisfy Eh, I always thought it was “like Sting I’m tantric, like Sting guranteend ot satisfy.” I guess that’s my Sting bias coming through. 😉 “What you feel is what you are, and what you are is beautiful.” Goo Goo Dolls _Slide_ “And I’ll give up forever to touch you, because I know that you feel me somehow. You’re the closet to heaven that I’ll ever be, and I don’t want to miss you right now.” Goo Goo Dolls _Iris_ “I can’t stand to fly. I’m not that naive. Men weren’t meant to ride, with clouds between their knees… I’m only a man in a silly red sheetlooking for special things inside of me… It’s not easy to be me.” Five For Fighting _Superman_ “Why should I cry for you? Why would you want me to?” Sting “Takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile, be yourself no matter what they say.” Sting _Englishman in New York_ “Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can’t drink anymore.” Paul McCartney _Picasso’s Last Words_ ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/51 "2001-11-09T17:55:18Z")
“The ones who love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please/ If it’s any consolation, I don’t begin to understand it” - _Bastards of Young_ - The Replacements ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/52 "2001-11-09T18:33:58Z")
The ones who love us best Are the ones we’ll lay to rest And visit their graves On holidays at best The ones who love us least Are the ones we’ll die to please -The Replacements Gotta agree with the Billy Bragg mention too. Another from him. I woke up this morning, to find that we have outlived the myth of trust. Great stuff, great thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/53 "2001-11-09T18:36:01Z")
Wow! You have great taste, not cynical. Damn simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/54 "2001-11-09T19:36:15Z")
He said, It’s all in your head. I said so’s everything, but he didn’t get it. Fiona Apple ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/55 "2001-11-09T19:51:56Z")
I also like: “I woke up in between a memory and a dream” - Tom Petty , You Don’t Know How it Feels ---
**Author:** ![Venkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ec9cab/32.png) [@Venkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venkman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/56 "2001-11-09T20:20:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by algernon \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Venkman \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by algernon \* > > > “…yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.” (Beatles) > > > > Not written by any of the Beatles; this line comes from one of those made-up songs that every generation of kids seems to know. \*\* > > “Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye. > Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, > Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down. > I am the eggman, they are the eggmen. > I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.” > (from “I Am The Walrus”, credits to Lennon/McCartney) > > Are you saying they lifted this from a local made-up song? > Do you have a cite? Or do you have personal experience? I’m not necessarily questioning your veracity, I’m just very curious and interested. \*\* Somewhere buried in the Anthology videos, George Harrison talks about this song. Just the first line you quote, the “yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye”, is from a song all the Liverpool kids knew. George quotes the whole thing but the only other part I can remember at the moment is the last line, “wash it all down with a cold cup of sick”. As far as I know all the rest of “I Am the Walrus” was written by John. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/57 "2001-11-09T20:39:22Z")
Thank you **Venkman** and **pepperlandgirl** for your information regarding “I Am The Walrus”. This is very interesting. “I Am The Walrus” was released as a single on November 27, 1967, so I have believed that “yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye” was an act of creative genius for 34 years (minus a few days). And all along it was a “sample” of a common kid’s song… amazing. Well, I’ll be comforted in the fact that the rest of the lyrics in the song are just as creative… just not as evocative. ---
**Author:** ![DaveX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@DaveX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveX)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/58 "2001-11-09T21:30:21Z")
“The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories I never thought I’d still be here today… Drink enough of anything to make myself look new again Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves” - Doug Hopkins, RIP ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/59 "2001-11-09T22:04:57Z")
I thought of you as my mountaintop I thought of you as my peak I thought of you as everything I had but couldn’t keep –Pale Blue Eyes, Velvet Underground People tell me it’s a sin To know and feel too much within. I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring. She was born in spring, but I was born too late Blame it on a simple twist of fate. –Simple Twist of Fate, Bob Dylan You’re an idiot, babe. It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe –Idiot Wind, Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Stellablue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Stellablue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stellablue)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312/60 "2001-11-10T03:05:07Z")
“I told the priest-Don’t count on any second coming. God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumimg He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us- No, I don’t wonder why I wonder what he thought It would get us.” A. Prieboy performed by Concrete Blond “Your flag decal won’t get you Into heaven any more” John Prine “climbing walls while sitting in a chair.” Sam Stone by John Prine "Come on baby Come and let me show you my tattoo. Greg Allman [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-song-lyrics-you-wish-youd-written/92312.md?page=4)