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Old 29-09-2022, 16:50
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Don't want no friends
Don't want no friends
Don't want no
Don't want no
Don't want no friends
Don't want useless fuckers knocking at my door
Poxy fucking assholes following me
Don't you understand that I fucking despise
Every single living organism?

(I'm dead)
A travesty this was cut from the new mix.
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Old 30-09-2022, 00:55
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Reminds me of Russia and Iran right now.
Reminds me much more of the UK. Also what a great lyric that. The applauding of a collapsing state line is the best poetic summary yet of the pandemic England I saw.
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Old 30-09-2022, 22:28
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Oh so many, here are a few…

“When the summer is gone you know it’s dead”
(And that whole song!)

“If the love between us has faded away
Left in the rain, scratching at the stains
The paralyzed future
The past sideways scrawl
I must give up on this
It makes no sense at all

And yet I kept my silence
Your memory is still mine
No I will not share them
Acquaintance through denial
For I witnessed splendour
And evil that no-one saw
And I felt kindness
And vanity for sure”

”Maybe this strangeness only ever was
To hide ourselves from some kind of happiness
But always the moment it just seems to stay
Tearing it off like so many calendar days”

”But now I feel so weak
Dead trees and traffic islands never meet
Is this, is this my defeat?
This purgatory for beginners”

”Throw myself against you 'cause you ain't frail
Underneath silk riches sixty six million giving slaves
This needle of religions gonna rust my skin
Tear out and exit abeyance of created sin”

”So hold me, hold me, hold me like a heaven
I want some faith and wanna be forgiven
I wanna feel your divine intervention
So hold me, hold me
So hold me, hold me like I'm lost in your heaven”


And, so many good suggestions in the thread, but this!:
”Just like a moment in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in sepia film”
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Old 04-10-2022, 10:58
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Old 02-11-2022, 22:37
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I'm breaking and I'm shaking
So delete the feeling
Beneath the real thing
D3lete the feeling
D3lete the feeling
I could probably put most of epicentre in here and i have always liked the song but the reissue has given me a new appreciation for it. It feels like it should fall apart any second because it's all over the place but the centre holds with some very personal, heartbreaking lyrics. The whole thing is melancholia eternally.

EDIT: Fascinating, i can't quote those lyrics verbatim without it throwing an error message.
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Old 07-11-2022, 22:12
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There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more," - Byron

'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


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Old 08-11-2022, 19:48
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Before I even started the plan began to fall apart
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Old 02-12-2022, 18:26
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Daft observation but anyway....I love the bands lyrics...they're what first reeled me in...yet when pondering over the ones that really hit....you realise how the ones that catch you out combine with the music to hit hard....this joke sport severed hits me everytime but if I quote this joke sport severed, I endeavoured to find a place where I became untethered....it doesnt overwhelm on the page quite as it does against the music....
But then poetry and lyrics are different I guess....poetry can hit hard lyrics need the music....to realise and feel words ....to make them reach and mean...to quote Patrick Jones...a lyricist needs a band

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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more," - Byron

'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
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