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Songs with the Greatest lyrics...

American Pie - Don McLean
Where do you go to my lovely -Peter Sarstedt
Rolling stone  -Dylan
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  • Agree with American Pie one of my all time favourites.
  • Peter and The Test Tube Babies - Up yer bum.
    B side - Cannot Conceive 
  • Most songs penned by Mr Weller, most notable for me, Above The Couds and Brand New Start
  • So many, will give it some more thought, but these off the top of my head:

    • Loads of great lyrics by Nick Cave, The Curse of Millhaven takes some beating.
    • The Lemonheads, The Outdoor Type for its humour or Baby's Home for the surprise twist.
    • Pulp, Common People. "I'll See What I Can Do" is perhaps the most sublime delivery of any five words anywhere in music.
    • Squeeze, Up The Junction, and many others.
    • Of Montreal, Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider
    • Abba, The Day Before You Came

  • Roxette - Dr Feelgood

    I saw you out the other night
    I saw somebody hold you tight
    Roxette, I wonder who it could be
    It was so dark I couldn't see
    But I know it wasn't me
    When I tell you it ain't right
    I know you've got to agree

    I followed you into a show
    The band was playing rock'n'roll
    Roxette, I didn't need to seek you out
    The music played so loud
    That I could hear you through the crowd
    You was telling everyone
    About a new guy you'd found

    Roxette I gotta go away
    And leave you for a couple of days
    Roxette, I don't want no more of your tricks
    I'm gonna get some concrete mix
    And fill your back door up with bricks
    And you better be there waiting
    When I get my business fixed
  • Having been in the house for for long , prodigy - smack my bitch up
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart. - Joy Division
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  • Going down - Stone Roses
  • Hurricane - Bob Dylan
  • Stig said:
    • Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
    Ah yes, great call Stig.

    ''Home improvement expert
    Harold Hill of Harold Hill
    Of do-it-yourself dexterity
    And double-glazing skill
    Came home to find another gentleman's kippers
    In the grill
    So sanded off his winkle
    With his Black and Decker drill''
  • We didnt start the Fire   -  Billy Joel
    Little does she know   - Kursaal Flyers.
    Subterranean homesick blues  - Bob Dylan
  • Nick Cave - Into my arms
  • C_A_F_C
  • Alice's Restaurant- Arlo Gutherie.
    Leonard Cohen - Anthem 
  • Perfect 10 - beautiful south
  • I hope you dance - Lee Ann Womack
  • Stig said:
    • Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
    • Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
    • The Jam - Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
    • John Cooper Clarke- Thirty Six Hours
    • Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
    • The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
    • Pink Floyd - Time
    • Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown 
    • The Smiths - Sweet & Tender Hooligan
    • Pluto Shervington - Your Honour
    • Carter always brilliant for cultural references, for their best I'd probably say God, St Peter & The Guardian Angel
    • Elvis Costello - Let Him Dangle
    • The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin

    My perfect cousin - He thinks that I'm a cabbage because I hate University Challenge. 
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  • In my life - Beatles
    This is definately up there
  • Spent a life time listening to great songs,one stand out chorus for me

    May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold
    May you never lay your bed out in the cold

    The great John Martyn

  • Stig said:
    • Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
    • Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
    • The Jam - Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
    • John Cooper Clarke- Thirty Six Hours
    • Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
    • The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
    • Pink Floyd - Time
    • Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown 
    • The Smiths - Sweet & Tender Hooligan
    • Pluto Shervington - Your Honour
    • Carter always brilliant for cultural references, for their best I'd probably say God, St Peter & The Guardian Angel
    • Elvis Costello - Let Him Dangle
    • The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin

    My perfect cousin - He thinks that I'm a cabbage because I hate University Challenge. 
    He always beat me at Subbuteo
    'Cos he flicked to kick and I didn't know.
  • I could be here all day now,check out Vince Gills The Key to life,a moving tribute to his father

    Just a few chords on the banjo that was all he new
    But in the eyes of a child man his fingers flew
  • Holland, Dozier & Holland
    Fagan & Becker
    Cole Porter 
    Johnny Mercer
    Lieber & Stoller
    Goffin & King
    Lennon& McCartney
    Hank Williams
    Irving Berlin

     .. these and many others have written classics by the dozen, there are really far too many to either remember or mention 
  • "You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you"

    Agree about "May you never"

    "Born for a purpose" Dr Alimentado

    "Forever Young" Dylan

    Hal David was the genius, Bert just wrote some nice tunes.
  • Donegal by Jack Harris even if it’s just for this one line.
    ”to a place where your lips kiss away a mans reason and sing all his tempers to sleep”
  • There are a lot.

    'Lover you should have come over' by Jeff Buckley is one of them.
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