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
“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
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"
~~ 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…
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.
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~)
~~ It’s radiohead again… Paranoid Android
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
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.
The line “Yellow matter custard, dripping for a dead dog’s eye.” is from a well-known playground song. Not the whole verse.
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
“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
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.
Wow! You have great taste, not cynical. Damn simulpost.
He said, It’s all in your head.
I said so’s everything, but he didn’t get it.
Fiona Apple
I also like:
“I woke up in between a memory and a dream”
- Tom Petty , You Don’t Know How it Feels
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.
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.
“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
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
“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