Genius words/lyrics

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Up the Junction by Squeeze deserves a shout even with the smelly nappie bit lol

I never thought it would happen
With me and a girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said, "You are a lady"
"Perhaps, " she said, "I may be"
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up
I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her
This morning at four-fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

Totally agree. Utterly brilliant tune.

 

[idahoblues]

I'd rendezvous with janet
Quite near the isle of thanet
She looked more like a gannet
She wasn't half a prannet
Her mother tried to ban it
Her father tried to plan it
And when i captured janet
She bruised her pomegranate

 

[lefty goldblatt]

One of the best things about Genesis especially under Gabriel is that they wrote songs with timing and lyrics that didn't seem to need rhyming.
They just told a narrative.

Look at Squonk. (I know Gabriel had left) You're hard pressed to find a rhyme from start to finish.

Indeed.
The Lamb..... has many songs like this

 

[BigJoe#1]

If ever you feel you are on hard times, this always worked for me, gave me a way to help solve the problem.



If you're searching out for something
Don't try so hard
I you're feeling kind of nothing
Don't try so hard
When your problems seem like mountains
Feel the need to find some answers
You can leave it for another day
Don't try so hard

But if you fall and take a tumble
It won't be far
If you fail you mustn't grumble
Thank your lucky stars
Just savor every mouthful
And treasure every moment
When the storms are raging round you
Stay right where you are
Oh don't try so hard
Oh don't take it all to heart
It's only fools they make these rules
Don't try so hard

One day you'll be a Sergeant Major
Oh you'll be so proud
Screaming out your bloody orders
Hey but not too loud
Polish all your shiny buttons
Dressed as lamb instead of mutton
But you never had to try
To stand out from the crowd

Oh what a beautiful world
Is this the life for me
Oh what a beautiful world
It's the simple life for me

Oh don't try so hard
Oh don't take it all to heart
It's only fools they make these rules
Don't try so hard
Don't try so hard
Don't try so hard

 

[crublue1]

I see you everyday
In a way, you're so far away,
I see you looking at me,
You see me turn away.

I can't help myself,
I forget myself,
I can't help myself,
When it comes to you.
I'm tripping over myself,
Trying to get to you.

Far from genius but it is one of mine.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I got a barmaid from St Helens in the back of my Vauxhall Viva
She had massive melons and I wanted bang her beaver,
She had real bad breath and a dose of the pox
So I ripped off her bags and her sweaty socks,
And rattled mi taters against her dirtbox.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

I’m reporting you.
Once is bad enough but you’ve posted that abomination twice now.

You can thank your lucky stars that he's not posted anything by Dean Friedman

 

[lefty goldblatt]

I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer

You're about as easy as a nuclear war

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man
Tell me 'bout the colour of your soul
If part of your solution isn't ending the pollution
Then I don't want to hear your stories told
I want to welcome you to Scatman's world

I want to be a human being not a human doing
I couldn't keep that pace up if I tried
The source of my intention really isn't crime prevention
My intention is prevention of the lie, yeah
Welcome to the Scatman's world

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong
It's swell to have a stiffy
It's divine to own a dick
From the tiniest little tadger
To the world's biggest prick
So, three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake
Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend
Your Percy, or your cock
You can wrap it up in ribbons
You can slip it in your sock
But don't take it out in public
Or they will stick you in the dock
And you won't come about