Best song lyric?

[Gelsons Dad]

is it worth it
a new winter coat and shoes for the wife
and a bicycle on the boy's birthday
it's just a rumour that was spread around town
by the women and children
soon we'll be shipbuilding
well i ask you
the boy said 'dad they're going to take me to task
but i'll be back by christmas'
it's just a rumour that was spread around town
somebody said that someone got filled in
for saying that people get killed in
the result of this shipbuilding
with all the will in the world
diving for dear life
when we could be diving for pearls
it's just a rumour that was spread around town
a telegram or a picture postcard
within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
and notifying the next of kin
once again
it's all we're skilled in
we will be shipbuilding
with all the will in the world
diving for dear life
when we could be diving for pearls

this is brilliant, what is it?

Shipbuilding Elvis Costello

 

[MCFC BOB]

Watching Glastonbury last night reminded me of a couple of gems from Elbow's 'One Day Like This'.

"Lying with you half awake, stumbling over what to say, well anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day."

Throw those curtains wide, one day like this a year would see me right."

 

[tonea2003]

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die

At the top of the stairs
Is darkness

I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
and what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

You were so tall
How could you fall?

Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son

I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute

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[bluealf]

I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue.

Makes me chuckle everytime I hear it.

 

[GStar]

"But Haley were in Sweden, how did you get to Sweden?"

Powerful stuff.

 

[mcmanus]

if i could I'll tell it all to you
there's one hundred thousand reasons way
I'm better drunk than blue

Red Moon Joe (no utd connection)

 

[Sven's Fluffer]

While some sore heads will rue last night's endeavours
Make Sunday's vow that they won't get so leathered
Dad's shout at lads so they foul number seven
There's no need for fighting; they're only eleven
What of the woman, who stands by her fella,
Despite the bruises brought on by the Stella
To cook and to clothe and to clean and to screw
Ain't the sum total of all she can do

Reverend & The Makers

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

David Bowie 'The Supermen'

When all the world was very young,
And mountain magic heavy hung,
The supermen would walk in file,
Guardians of a loveless isle.
And gloomy browed with super-fear their tragic endless
lives could heave nor sigh,
In solemn, perverse serenity, wondrous beings chained to life.

Strange games they would play then.
No death for the perfect men
Life rolls into one for them
So softly a super-god cries...

Where all were minds in uni-thought,
Powers weird by mystics taught,
No pain, no joy, no power too great,
Colossal strength to grasp a fate
Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers,
Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold,
A man would tear his brother's flesh,
A chance to die to turn to mould.

Far out in the red-sky,
Far out from the sad eyes,
Strange, mad celebration,
So softly a super-god cries...

Far out in the red-sky
Far out from the sad eyes
Strange, mad celebration
So softly a super-god dies...

 

[beano46]

I'm so sorry I woke you, It was vital that we met
Tonight has taught me something,
Dedication like I've never seen and will never forget

Throw your caution into the wind and your papers into the river
promise It will never go dark for the people in the park.

Sleep Well Tonight Inspiral Carpets, a well underrated tune imo