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jose
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France
140 Posts |
 Posted - 08/17/2005 : 13:50:21
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They tried to give me advice
Down at the record shop
I said sit down boys
This may come as a shock
What's all I listen to
It's all freedom rock
That's the ultimate Lyrics.
I said Pretty Please ! |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2005 : 15:45:31
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I would say that's impossible to choose...
Right this very second, I would say Honeycomb or Go Find Your Saint
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2005 : 16:37:40
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"one day soon and it won't be long, someone will call my name and i'll be gone"
oops! this is a cover (right? i forget) |
Edited by - fbc on 08/17/2005 16:39:03 |
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rudebody
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
11 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 17:14:26
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Well there's a perfect explanation for the shit that I've been in
As soon as I find out I'll let you know
And if it's any consolation your horse is going to win
Cause mine and all the others are just
too slow
Can I add a lyric 'bout Frank or should this be a new topic? Anyway:
When I'm listening to Frank Black on my headphones
Fazer Eyes melting my mind and burnin' thru my bones
If my body don't pop I think my heart'll explode
The lead up to the guitar solo fade out
Fires a desire for freedom and retires all doubt
Lyle's lick can lift me up from under any load
"You're an idiot babe,
It's a wonder you even know how to breathe" |
Edited by - rudebody on 08/18/2005 17:17:37 |
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dizzy g
- FB Fan -
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2005 : 18:09:45
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i get away, in my getaway car
every now and then ill send my regaurds
from a payphone down in the flats
im sorry for the love, im sorry for the pain
ill say im sorry baby again and again
im sorry were joining the stats
sing for joy |
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Marsist
- FB Fan -
USA
1 Posts |
Posted - 09/24/2005 : 20:31:37
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Or what about the whole song? My favorite verse is the first.
Georgie Porgie used to get real high
He used to kiss the world till it made him cry
He was under the bottle's command
But one winter he got it together and
Happiness came with the warmer weather laying across all the land
He had a love she also liked to drink
She got it together
But you know what I think?
I think she was still feeling glum
She took a gun and she shot him in the head
She shot herself and so they were wed as the air conditioner hummed |
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2564 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 04:44:02
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"And all this violence, it brings me down."-Letter to Memphis
"The arc of triumph" |
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Mister Dog
- FB Fan -
USA
91 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 15:43:50
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"If you go, I will surely die"
Are you lookin' for the motherlode? |
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dizzy g
- FB Fan -
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 11:00:39
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oh evolving from the sea would not be too much fun for me
to walk beside you in the sun
I read something about a son of a gun.....NAMED EXTINCTION EXTINCTION EXTINCTION
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2010 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 11:43:46
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Winter blows through my coat
It’s chilling my bones
But it does not compare
To your cold heart of stone
I pledged you my love
And I gave you my car
Now you're parking with him
Yeah I know where you are
Your favorite perfume
Well I gave you a tub
Now you’re stepping out
For your rubba dub dub
If ever you need
Don’t call
I once had a dog
Who ran from his home
But that wasn't even close
To your cold heart of stone |
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2010 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 13:49:25
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Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
I put it on when I go lonely
Will you take off your dress and send it to me?
I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me
I miss your soup and I miss your bread
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
Just wear that dress when you're dying
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore |
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Blackhead
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28 Posts |
Posted - 09/30/2005 : 16:42:49
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freedom rocker
- FB Fan -
USA
88 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2005 : 11:05:40
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I agree with the sing for joy reference.
When he says "and the air conditioner hummed" , I get a strange chill. My favorite line off of honeycomb.
the blues isn't an art-form, it's a product-- not unlike computer chips and tampons.
--dead milkmen |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2005 : 14:12:41
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I don't really have a favorite. I think that at some times a certain album might be more a favorite than others. Like for example pre Honeycomb it was the yellow/orange and TOTY. Then it was SMYT. Then it was FrankBlackFrancis. Then it was Honeycomb... which I adore to no end. But now it's more Pistolero and Black Letter Days.
It changes for what mood I am in and what's going on with my life but I would say off the top of my head I can't think of a single "bad" poetic lyric.
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2005 : 17:24:10
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and in the sky above that town
a cloud of steam makes it seem darker
they did'nt even put a marker
near the paper mill or shanty oh so brown
Signature checkbox
checked by default? |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1688 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2005 : 04:08:34
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It is very difficult to contribute to this thread as there are so many aspects of Frank's lyrics that I love.
Sometimes he's so good at describing common feelings with simple words. Some of them are so powerfully evocative it is almost difficult for me to listen to them - like "we used to ride in it in this frozen town..." And this forum is the proof that it might be powerfully evocative to people from different countries, with various backgrounds etc - for Frank's art is pure universally subjective.
Sometimes it can be funny, arogant, or down-to-earth mystical (like Honeycomb).
Neverheless, if there is one thing to be remembered, I think it would be his way of bringing new topics to poetry so easily.
For example, who else could write "Ole Mulholland" or "Pie in the sky"? Or "Olympus Mons"? Or "St Frncis"?
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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johnnyribcage
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1301 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2005 : 07:07:05
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First I saw the digits crawling slowly up the rocky coast
Just some seperated fingers looking for their fingerpost
From the water jumped a bloody had needing desperately a host
When I saw the bald bell ringers well I knew then that you were toast
He wants an altered state inside the mansion walls
she says she'd rather wait yeah for evening to fall
but still the cap they ate and with a drink they chased
the ghost that called
Now it occured to me as he drove away
D = R x T |
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dizzy g
- FB Fan -
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2005 : 22:37:21
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and some of these people are just so lame
i dont feel like a pupil just a loser on a gameshow |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2005 : 08:27:28
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ScottP
= Cult of Ray =
USA
618 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2005 : 09:17:32
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Remember when,
I was almost ready?
But it was then,
that I was already gone.
And I'm still around...
But who wants to listen
to my voice in your prison? |
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scruvs
= Cult of Ray =
353 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2005 : 14:28:15
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There's times I go East and there's time I go West
I don't know which is best; I can never be pleased
Someday I¹ll go down the Pan American Highway
It was a promise we made to go all the way South
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Boy, you sure can holler. |
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 20:49:58
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Down in the valley where there used to be the farms
Doctor Digger found a room full of arms
And now there's just a dog that barks
(woo woo woo woo)
Chained to a one man trailer park...
Down in the valley where there used to be the farms
Doctor Digger found a room full of arms |
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doctordigger
- FB Fan -
19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 20:52:40
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He was hurting for the answers
He was serving up the questions
He was searching for a guru
He was lucky that he knew you
When I saw your fine physique
I was into you like a train
I love it when you speak
You're so urbane
Oh I love your brain
(I love your brain)
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 20:58:17
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So slept a monster in the dune
Woke him up and then he drank
Pacific Rim has a think tank
But does she have IQ for the moon? |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 20:58:40
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| Hello, dd!! :) |
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 21:06:01
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I'm checking out inventions at the UFO convention tonight
Planes above the Hilton make it sunny, brought my money tonight
Blue blond ladies of abduction strumming guitars of instruction tonight
A lot of wannabe truckers making eyes with starfuckers tonight
I've got my hands on some sights
Electric glasses with lights
They got me feeling deluxe
For just a couple of bucks
Way down inside |
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 21:07:02
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ooops...the thrid tonight should be delight shouldnt it?
Blue blond ladies of abduction strumming guitars of instruction delight
Down in the valley where there used to be the farms
Doctor Digger found a room full of arms |
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1713 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 21:47:14
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 21:56:39
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Did you include the question mark?
When I answered you were totally shocked
You looked at me like I was a snark
While your head was extremely mentally blocked
I'm the guy from wonderland
And you could never understand
That you ain't me
You ain't me
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 22:24:48
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Robert 'The Case For Mars' Zubrin:
Robert leads me into thought
Onion layers wait for you
Bounty of eternal fields
Every muscle knot I feel
Robert tell me what to do
Tell exactly what you're not, yeah
Tails pushing grand whales
Heads hope to have the stuff
Each flag had no sail
Can you believe enough?
And though Diana calls to you
She will never never yield
Every siren has her spot
Four hundred million
Oh that was very far
Robert sweet Onion
Makes me feel so tired
Another layer and layers and layer, oh no
Robert can you find your way?
Show me the way to come
Zugzwang got me in a way
Under my opposing thumb
Brandishing my shield
Robert leads me into thought
Into the dimming blue
Nowhere in this world
Down in the valley where there used to be the farms
Doctor Digger found a room full of arms |
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doctordigger
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19 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 22:30:49
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Take my place after all you are my son
You take the moon I'll take the sun
And by the way if the revolution comes
Please take my rifles take my guns
A single bullet loaded in each one
Down in the valley where there used to be the farms
Doctor Digger found a room full of arms |
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 22:38:06
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Never since I met you
Did you let me in
Even when I let you
You wouldn't call me friend
Pedal to the metal
Mister, it's a sin
Getting so down
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1713 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 22:47:51
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Cross you fingers, people say a prayer.
i'm not a religious dog but i said that
better pray for the girls.
picture garrison keillor or henry rollins reading that on a spoken word tour. <shivers> |
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dizzy g
- FB Fan -
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 10/17/2005 : 15:06:03
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we don't know what were talkin about theyre just words in our libretto
i dont know if the sum of our stretto will end up a terrible shout
we left the ground and we floated above this town that never got better
we got drowned in the sea of love and i know that its gonna get wetter
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dizzy g
- FB Fan -
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 10/21/2005 : 13:53:33
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behold the rose of jericho
how many lives I really do not know
though with the rain i know it will return
today i burn today i burn |
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Favorite Frank Black "poetic" lyric?
