There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets - Half Man Half Biscuit

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comment by Alisson Wonderland (Formerly LGT) (U13718)
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There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets - Half Man Half Biscuit

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Or any line from The Trumpton Riots

https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip

The party that became so powerful
By sinking foreign boats
Is dreaming up new promises
'Cause promises win votes
And being resolute in conference
With the ad man's expertise
The majority by their silence
Shall pay for days like these

The smell of pi$$ is so strong
It smells like decent bacon
Kevin's getting footloose on the overspill
Under the pi$$-station

So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars
Blame it on me, blame it on me,
Sugar mice in the rain, your daddy took a raincheck

Lyrics by Fish from Marillions Sugar Mice

How soon is now is brilliant lyrically.

"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else" - pretty apt for these times

The whole lyrics in 'Faster' could be included though IMO. That and 'I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing' being my favourites.

I saw a man paint a woman on the wall
Mask on her face, screen over her eyes
Hospital clothing, worried and exhausted
A thing of beauty, a thing of care
Pure class right there, right there
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

Lyrics by Steve Hogarth. Marillions tribute to the NHS during Covid. Song - Care

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/yma-o-hyd-lyrics-meaning-23535380

The lyrics to the Welsh song 'Yma o Hyd' also resonate with me. The above link has the lyrics with (approximate!) English translations.

comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (U2462)
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"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else" - pretty apt for these times

The whole lyrics in 'Faster' could be included though IMO. That and 'I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing' being my favourites.
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Some great lyrics in The Holy Bible, by far their best work

Love this simple but brilliant lyric by Suede from By the Sea

‘And we said our good-byes to the bank
left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack’

Very evocative if you’ve ever lived in the concrete jungle of Seven Sisters road 😹

The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs
Feels up children in the bogs

Maf

Find the River - R.E.M. (all of it)
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley (all of it)

comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
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comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (U2462)
posted 10 seconds ago
"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else" - pretty apt for these times

The whole lyrics in 'Faster' could be included though IMO. That and 'I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing' being my favourites.
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Some great lyrics in The Holy Bible, by far their best work
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Had Richey not disappeared who knows how bleak the next album would have been!

4st 7lbs is very harrowing considering his known eating disorder.

Rabbit,rabbit,rabbit.........

Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying son
Oh, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come

I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Scared of the spotlight
You don't come to visit
I'm stuck in this bed
Thin rubber gloves
She laughs when she's cryin'
She cries when she's laughin'
Fat bloody fingers
Are suckin' your soul
Away, away, away
Away, away

Always liked the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Time.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

comment by Alisson Wonderland (Formerly LGT) (U13718)
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Always liked the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Time.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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Could you take my place and stand here?
I do not think you'd take this pain
You'll be on your knees and struggle under the weight
Oh, the truth would be a beautiful thing
Oh, the truth is a beautiful thing

Several by The National:

Lemonworld;
I gave my heart to the Army, the only sentimental thing I could think of
Cousins in colours somewhere oversea
But it’ll take a better war to kill a college man like me

Conversation 16:
It’s a Hollywood summer
You’d never believe the sh*tty thoughts I think
I figured out what we’re missing
Tell you miserable things when you are asleep

Pink Rabbits:
You didn’t see me I was falling apart
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart
You didn’t see me I was falling apart
I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park

Little Faith:
All our lonely kicks are getting harder to fight
We’ll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries
All our lonely kicks will keep us saintly and thin
We’ll play nuns versus priests until somebody wins

Haven't seen any hip hop mentioned here, but always thought Biggie's Juicy was lyrically great (as is much of his work):

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days
Now we sip champagne when we thirsty

comment by Ace (U14461)
posted 1 minute ago
Several by The National:

Lemonworld;
I gave my heart to the Army, the only sentimental thing I could think of
Cousins in colours somewhere oversea
But it’ll take a better war to kill a college man like me

Conversation 16:
It’s a Hollywood summer
You’d never believe the sh*tty thoughts I think
I figured out what we’re missing
Tell you miserable things when you are asleep

Pink Rabbits:
You didn’t see me I was falling apart
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart
You didn’t see me I was falling apart
I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park

Little Faith:
All our lonely kicks are getting harder to fight
We’ll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries
All our lonely kicks will keep us saintly and thin
We’ll play nuns versus priests until somebody wins

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Some good picks there, but Baby We'll be Fine is my favourite National tune