Lyrics

Batfish · 29 Jun 2005, 13:39

Can we have a mention for the mighty Jazz Butcher please:

Well I wish I'd born in a bar
I wouldn't have to walk so bl**dy far
I'd peel back my cranium, put my brain in a jar
If only I'd been born in a bar

And I wish I'd been born on the beach
With everything I wanted in my reach
I'd date the richest women and suck 'em like a leach
If only I'd been born on a beach

And I wish I'd been born in the woods
And I don't want to be misunderstood
I'd rail out all humanity and give it up for good
If only I'd been born in the woods

And I wish I'd been born up a tree
Walking on the ground just not for me
I'd build a little shelter, get my foilage for free
If only I'd been born up a tree

And I wish that I'd been born in Selangore
I wish I'd been a tiger even more
If I ever got in trouble I would only have to roar
So I'd been born in Selangore

And I wish I'd been born down the drain
'Tis where I've ended up, all the same
Talk to the spiders, that comes out in the rain
If I'd been born down the drain ...

Or in a bar.

Francis · 29 Jun 2005, 14:07

A

to John and Motz. And two to Ruffers

for so eloquently demonstrating how Waters wiped the flaw with Barrett in the lyrics stakes.

Francis · 29 Jun 2005, 14:11

markfiend wrote:
Francis wrote:Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
One of the finest lines written IMO

Agreed. Animals is sh!te though.

29 Jun 2005, 14:30

Francis wrote:
markfiend wrote:
Francis wrote:Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
One of the finest lines written IMO
Agreed. Animals is sh!te though.

Yeah. But it was the first Floyd album I owned.

Johnny M · 29 Jun 2005, 14:35

Francis wrote: for so eloquently demonstrating how Waters wiped the flaw with Barrett in the lyrics stakes.

Cunningly insightful word play or typo?

I'll go for the former.

Francis · 29 Jun 2005, 15:50

I'll go for a Freudian slip. He was a Floyd fan as well.

Andie · 29 Jun 2005, 21:03

damn...i hate pinky'n'perky floyd...with a vengeance

Escaped the net in '45, hiding out in South America
Protected by money and powerful friends
Hoping the world has forgotten by now
All the things that you did in the Nazi Death camps
The people that you tortured and killed
You can live you life in expectant fear
Sure some day you'll be made to pay

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

Man walks over dressed in flashy clothes
With an empty heart and a head full of money
Puts his arm around the lad of fifteen years
Talks sort of close like a long-lost brother
"It's really cool, all the pop stars do
If you don't try a little you'd really be a fool
Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free
And when you want some more just come back to me"

[Alternative version of second verse:]
Loading up the barrels at the warehouse gates
Men in overalls on double rates
Put the stuff in the river and away for a beer
Don't worry too much, they don't live around here
And the poison seeps into every pore
Every child's eyes, every innocent's sore
Everybody knows behind the closed doors
Kick down the doors, kick down the doors

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner
Plants poison where there was just confusion
Walks away scot-free and laughing
Rides on the tide as the cancer grows
And the business man on corruption charges
With millions of dollars in dirty money
Gets a thousand pound fine after months in court
While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

Black Alice · 29 Jun 2005, 21:06

I hate PF too - see Motz you were right

In my head at the moment - Asteroiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid (Killing Joke)

eastmidswhizzkid · 29 Jun 2005, 21:12

Burn wrote:damn...i hate pinky'n'perky floyd...with a vengeance

Escaped the net in '45, hiding out in South America
Protected by money and powerful friends
Hoping the world has forgotten by now
All the things that you did in the Nazi Death camps
The people that you tortured and killed
You can live you life in expectant fear
Sure some day you'll be made to pay

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

Man walks over dressed in flashy clothes
With an empty heart and a head full of money
Puts his arm around the lad of fifteen years
Talks sort of close like a long-lost brother
"It's really cool, all the pop stars do
If you don't try a little you'd really be a fool
Tell you what I'll do, I'll make the first one free
And when you want some more just come back to me"

[Alternative version of second verse:]
Loading up the barrels at the warehouse gates
Men in overalls on double rates
Put the stuff in the river and away for a beer
Don't worry too much, they don't live around here
And the poison seeps into every pore
Every child's eyes, every innocent's sore
Everybody knows behind the closed doors
Kick down the doors, kick down the doors

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner
Plants poison where there was just confusion
Walks away scot-free and laughing
Rides on the tide as the cancer grows
And the business man on corruption charges
With millions of dollars in dirty money
Gets a thousand pound fine after months in court
While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought

Ch: I believe in justice
I believe in vengeance
I believe in getting the bastard

i also hate pink floyd...but i fcukin' love new model army.

Delilah · 29 Jun 2005, 21:19

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:

i also hate pink floyd...but i fcukin' love new model army.

me too. sometimes

Brideoffrankenstein · 29 Jun 2005, 21:40

Delilah wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:

i also hate pink floyd...but i fcukin' love new model army.
me too. sometimes

Andie · 29 Jun 2005, 22:15

i get the feeling that more of us like/love/adore...enjoy even...New Model Army than those friggin Hippyartwanks called Pink Floyd

so be it...

hallucienate · 30 Jun 2005, 07:40

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
Burn wrote:damn...i hate pinky'n'perky floyd...with a vengeance

I believe in getting the bastard

i also hate pink floyd...but i fcukin' love new model army.

30 Jun 2005, 09:27

Burn wrote:i get the feeling that more of us like/love/adore...enjoy even...New Model Army than those friggin Hippyartwanks called Pink Floyd

Some of us like both...

The time I think most clearly, the time I drift away
Is on the bus-ride that meanders up these valleys of green and grey
I get to think about what might have been and what may yet come true
And I get to pass a rainy mile thinking of you
And all the while, all the while, I still hear that call
To the land of gold and poison that beckons to us all

Nothing changes here very much, I guess you'd say it never will
The pubs are all full on Friday nights and things get started still
We spent hours last week with Billy boy, bleeding, yeah queuing in casualty
Staring at those posters we used to laugh at:
Never Never Land, palm trees by the sea
Well there was no need for those guys to hurt him so bad
When all they had to do was knock him down
But no one asks to many questions like that since you left this town

And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey

You used to talk about winners and losers all the time - as if that was all there was
As if we were not of the same blood family, as if we live by different laws
Do you owe so much less to these rain swept hills than you owe to your good self?
Is it true that the world has always got to be something
That seems to happen somewhere else?
For God's sake don't you realise that I still hear that call
Do you think you're so brave just to go running to that which beckons to us all?

No, not for one second did you look behind you
As you were walking away
Never once did you wish any of us well
Those who had chosen to stay
And if that's what it takes to make it
In the place that you live today
Then I guess you'll never read these letters that I send
From the valleys of the green and the grey

hallucienate · 30 Jun 2005, 09:48

And NMA have a new album out in September! Can't wait!

30 Jun 2005, 09:51

hallucienate wrote:And NMA have a new album out in September! Can't wait!

Goody

hallucienate · 30 Jun 2005, 12:17

markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote:And NMA have a new album out in September! Can't wait!

Goody

yup, some old band from west yorkshire still know how to release albums, and even sell stuff on their site.

30 Jun 2005, 12:52

hallucienate wrote:
markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote:And NMA have a new album out in September! Can't wait!

Goody
yup, some old band from west yorkshire still know how to release albums, and even sell stuff on their site.

Johnny M · 30 Jun 2005, 12:59

markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote:
markfiend wrote:

Goody
yup, some old band from west yorkshire still know how to release albums, and even sell stuff on their site.

It'll all end in tears ...

hallucienate · 30 Jun 2005, 13:05

Johnny M wrote:
markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote: yup, some old band from west yorkshire still know how to release albums, and even sell stuff on their site.
It'll all end in tears ...

or an oily stage.

30 Jun 2005, 13:08

hallucienate wrote:
Johnny M wrote:
markfiend wrote:
It'll all end in tears ...
or an oily stage.

Or Barry getting cross with us

Johnny M · 30 Jun 2005, 13:21

markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote:
Johnny M wrote:It'll all end in tears ...
or an oily stage.
Or Barry getting cross with us

Never ...I'm his girlfriend ...

30 Jun 2005, 13:31

you kids....

hallucienate · 30 Jun 2005, 13:33

Johnny M wrote:
markfiend wrote:
hallucienate wrote: or an oily stage.
Or Barry getting cross with us
Never ...I'm his girlfriend ...

he never gets cross with Johnny

30 Jun 2005, 13:35

hallucienate wrote:
Johnny M wrote:
markfiend wrote:Or Barry getting cross with us
Never ...I'm his girlfriend ...
he never gets cross with Johnny

Is it my turn now?