Cool Lyrics

[Mistress of Darkness]

"I should get
Life in Prison
For how I treated my parents
From third grade until last week"

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I thought the punishment for how you treated your parents was that you got kids of your own....

[Mistress of Darkness]

It's from a song called "Unworthy". It's really fun.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

We only shoot when shot at. We give away what we don't need. We live for fun and freedom. We stamp out fear and greed. To create you must destroy. Smash the glass and cry, "Too much joy!"

A great idea when we were smashed: Turning anger into cash.

This from a band that compared their tours to a "hip good humor truck that all the kids come out to meet."

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Stacy's mom has got it goin' on....
Since your daddy walked out, she could use the company.

Ok, yeah, it's kinda sick in a Graduate sort of way. But I dig the song.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's MY water buffalo? I want a water buffalo.'"

[Mistress of Darkness]

That is not from a song. That's from an episode. The song said things like "Everyone has a water buffalo, yours is fast, but mine is slow. Oh where'd we get them? I don't know. Oh everyone has a water buffaloooooo! I took my buffalo to the store, got his head stuck in a door."

Okay, I know, I don't have any kids so there is no excuse.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

It's in the mp3. Therefore song. Deal.

[Fellfrosch]

Intra-song dialogue counts as part of the song (it's called recitativo), but I don't suppose it could technically count as lyrics....

But while we're on the subject of dialogue, here's an excerpt from My Fair Lady, from a song that's almost universally performed as speech instead of song. (My apologies in advance. I just thought we could use some extraordinarily well-phrased misogyny. http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/myfairlady/ahymntohim.htm)

Women are irrational, that's all there is to that!
There heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!
They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating,
Maddening and infuriating hags!

Why is thinking something women never do?
Why is logic never even tried?
Straight'ning up their hair is all they ever do.
Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?

(In the interest of parity, I offer the following retort from A Little Night Music.)

Men are stupid, men are vain.
Love's disgusting, love's insane.
A humiliating business.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I insist you fix that link, just for appearance's sake.

As for mine, you could technically argue it's not part of the song, as it's in between the bits about Water Buffalos and the bit about Baby Kangaroos ("Yours is pink, but min is blue"). But it's all the same tune and part of "Silly Songs with Larry" so I'm counting it. Even if it's not lyrics, it works better here than cool quotes, imo.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Perhaps.

"When I close my eyes
I am at the center of the sun
And I cannot be hurt
By anything this wicked world has done."

[House of Mustard]

"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, no. Those are not cool lyrics. Those lyrics essentially define why I have NEVER been able to listen to Neil Diamond. What? Was he EXPECTING the chair to answer?

[House of Mustard]

Don't worry.  I didn't think they were cool.  I thought they hilarious.

[Fellfrosch]

I find myself growing more and more inclined to enjoy Neil Diamond. I guess you really do turn into your parents.