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Post by dee on Dec 7, 2016 23:23:44 GMT -5
Here's one of mine from Can't Hardly Wait.
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up!Hurry up!
Ain't you had enough of this stuff?
Ashtray floors,dirty clothes,and filthy jokes
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 8, 2016 10:07:42 GMT -5
One of mine is:
A good day
is any day that
you're alive
It took me a long time to realize that he's not saying "you" in the general sense of everyone, general speaking. he was saying that to Bob and about Bob, and the song took on an even more poignant meaning to me.
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Post by teddinard on Dec 8, 2016 21:41:44 GMT -5
There's a world in between being everything--to everyone
And being nothing--to no one
I am a button--to sew on
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Post by con on Dec 9, 2016 12:54:28 GMT -5
23 hours ago you called my phone
you said get your ass down here so we can talk
23 years ago I would have run every mile
woulda called you in the morning
you said maybe this ain't the right thing to do
and I'd spend the afternoon in tears
not particularly witty but this song - and these lines, right before the solo kicks in - always gets me, and then:
Our paths cross again and again
sometimes five years in between or ten
there's one thing that goes unsaid
now we say it out loud
maybe you was the one
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Post by Freddy on Dec 9, 2016 18:47:22 GMT -5
"When you wish upon a star that turns into a plane"
I have a lot of favorites, but that one is the tops for me.
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 15, 2016 11:11:35 GMT -5
I just pulled out Besterberg and had to laugh at Man Without Ties again. Ahhh, bachelorhood....
On Saturday they won't catch you in your yard
You're dreaming of tonight's fine cuisine
With a microwave and a library card
It'll taste like plastic, but it'll be fast and hot....!
A man without ties don't need a thing
Don't want no wife, showed (?) her goodbye
A man without ties is king
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Post by bside on Dec 16, 2016 15:18:01 GMT -5
And if you say nothing
Then that's something I'll understand
So simply sums up the end of a relationship/search for closure or meaning.
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Post by wiser's deluxe on Dec 17, 2016 3:01:35 GMT -5
"it'll never die, this rock and roll. ... it'll never die but it damn sure kills."
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Post by nyc1lkg on Dec 17, 2016 15:13:23 GMT -5
Talens Show:
Well we got our guitars and we got thumb picks
And we go on after some lip-synch chicks
We're feelin' good from the pills we took
Oh, baby, don't gimme that look
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Post by nyc1lkg on Dec 17, 2016 15:16:30 GMT -5
Answering Machine:
Big time's got its losers
Small town's got its vices
A handful of friends
One needs a match, one needs some ice
Call-waiting phone in another time zone
How do you say I miss you
To an answering machine?
How do say good night
To an answering machine?
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 19, 2016 10:52:15 GMT -5
And if you say nothing
Then that's something I'll understandSo simply sums up the end of a relationship/search for closure or meaning. Great lyric....I always thought this was Paul talking about how the mainstream audience never responded to the Mats and just didn't get them. |
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 19, 2016 10:53:55 GMT -5
now there there ain’t no bad blood
all blood is good
and there ain’t no better
is that understood?
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Post by dee on Jan 4, 2017 22:57:16 GMT -5
I took pictures of myself and sent them to the sunset,to my disappointment I got no reply.
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 8, 2017 11:31:19 GMT -5
I was cast as a happy-go-lucky guy
Now I’ve been demoted to an old, sad stay-inside
But on the backstage wall
With my boot I signed for us all
I shouted I was finally here once
Well before your time
Yes, I was finally here once
Well before my time
I was finally here once
I always kind of thought this was vaguely a metaphor about Paul's career and life. The "sad stay-inside" referencing his reclusiveness, the defiance of kicking the wall and letting it be known that he's still around.
Paul has also said in interviews that he thought the Mats' timing was off, that they were ahead of their time too and when grunge and the loud guitar stuff became fashionable, the Mats were on their way out and moving in a different direction as well.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Feb 8, 2017 20:07:48 GMT -5
A friend and I once wrote a pilot episode for a TV show. While the script never left his apartment, there is a line that was stolen from Westerberg. One guy is talking to the other about a girl that he's been after but can never get to and he refers to her as "My white pearl in a sky of ebony". The two goofballs look knowingly at each other, impressed by the poetic nature of the line, nod and go on with their day. Obviously taken from Blavk Eyed Susan.
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 9, 2017 11:38:39 GMT -5
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Fuck you! "505. Remedies for infringement: Costs and attorney’s fees In any civil action under this title, the court in its discretion may allow the recovery of full costs by or against any party other than the United States or an officer thereof. Except as otherwise provided by this title, the court may also award a reasonable attorney’s fee to the prevailing party as part of the costs." Section 504 discusses Remedies for infringement: Damages and profits www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
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Post by con on Feb 9, 2017 22:20:02 GMT -5
Come as you are
as you were
as I want you to be
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Post by con on Feb 9, 2017 22:23:38 GMT -5
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Fuck you! "505. Remedies for infringement: Costs and attorney’s fees In any civil action under this title, the court in its discretion may allow the recovery of full costs by or against any party other than the United States or an officer thereof. Except as otherwise provided by this title, the court may also award a reasonable attorney’s fee to the prevailing party as part of the costs." Section 504 discusses Remedies for infringement: Damages and profits www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html hell yeah that's it haha |
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Post by raccoon on Mar 7, 2017 23:07:12 GMT -5
I still think its funny how Paul would always change the lyrics of 'within your reach' live. Such as:
Never seen the bears go sixteen and oh
or
Never seen a mountain cept on a six pack of beer
P.S. I will vote for the entire lyrics of 'shut up'
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Post by bigbak on Mar 8, 2017 2:19:46 GMT -5
Some popcorn for dinner, last night it was cheesecake
A little sleepy-time tea spiked with another heartache
How young are you? How old am I? Let's count the rings around my eyes
You're like a picture on a fridge that's never stocked with food
A leap of faith or a jump of stupid
If being wrong's a crime I'm serving forever
If being strong's your kind, I need help here with this feather
You wax poetic about things pathetic, as long as you look so cute
Baby learns to crawl, watching Daddy's skin
The rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting drunk
I need something to calm me down, I need something to keep me focused
Narcoleptic, Paranoid, & borderline hopeless
ADD, PCP, F-U-C-K-E-D that's me
Man, I'm dressin' sharp and feeling dull
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