Neil's best lyrics / your favourites...

[Sammy Jenkis]

The world before the war,
Exquisite in your dreams,
Still bore the angry children,
Who only saw extremes....

[Richard-Eastham]

As many on this thread have said, so many brilliant lyrics to choose from, but this one always makes me smile. So clever, with so much packed into just four lines:

Now I’m digging through my student paperbacks
Flicking through Karl Marx again
Searching for the soul of England
Drinking tea like Tony Benn

I end up singing this in my head every time I make myself a cup of tea.

[nervousboy]

A few favs.

And, at the end, your funny uncle staring
at all your friends with military bearing
And stopped to stand
to smile and speak of you directly
‘Goodbye’, shake hands
like you did everything correctly

The ladies from the village
say tearful goodbyes
The gardener locks the greenhouse
Suspicion in his eyes
The world before the war
exquisite in your dreams
still bore the angry children
who only saw extremes

Don’t be scared
for only the dark
can show you the stars
I’ll be there
the moment the dark
reopens your heart

Come on, join a line
The ghost train leaves on time
It’s always dark
in Luna Park
On the shooting range
the plastic prizes never change
So make your mark
on Luna Park

[Skybluearmy87]

Dreaming of the queen

There are no more lovers left alive
No one has survived
so there are no more lovers left alive
and that’s why love has died
Yes, it’s true
Look, it’s happened to me and you’

[Skybluearmy87]

Love comes quickly

You can live your life lonely
heavy as stone
Live your life learning
and working alone
Say this is all you want
but I don’t believe that it’s true
’cause when you least expect it
waiting round the corner for you

[Skybluearmy87]

Only the wind

It’s only the wind
How it takes you by surprise
Suddenly begins
then before you know it dies
My hands are not shaking
I don’t touch a drop
You must be mistaken
I know when to stop

[Skybluearmy87]

The way it used to be , love the whole song and lyrics but this verse hits hard

What is left of love?
tell me
Who would even care?
So much time has passed
I’d still meet you anywhere
Water under bridge
evening after day
What is left of love here
that didn’t drift away?

[Debussy]

Storytelling at its best...I mean who else would use the word supplicant?

I walked into the room
Imagine my surprise
You were sitting close to him
Staring in each other's eyes

Each of you looked up
But no one said a word
I felt I should apologise
For what I hadn't heard

A silence filled the room
Awkward as an elephant
In the crowded court of your love
I was now a supplicant

And clumsy as I felt
At stumbling on this theft
To save further embarrassment
I made my excuses and left.

[Skybluearmy87]

Storytelling at its best...I mean who else would use the word supplicant?

I walked into the room
Imagine my surprise
You were sitting close to him
Staring in each other's eyes

Each of you looked up
But no one said a word
I felt I should apologise
For what I hadn't heard

A silence filled the room
Awkward as an elephant
In the crowded court of your love
I was now a supplicant

And clumsy as I felt
At stumbling on this theft
To save further embarrassment
I made my excuses and left.

Amazing words , and I lived them that’s why I love the boys , they write what I have lived ,

[Skybluearmy87]

To face the truth

You know it hurts me when you lie
Sometimes it even makes me cry
’cause I’m so in love with you
If you don’t believe what I have said
take a look, my eyes are red
’cause I’m so in love with you

[babi7808]

"All the pomp and circumstance
can’t drag me away from this
A simple suburban love affair
where you fight and then you kiss
(Do you call me a fool?)
The feeling of epic grandeur
at the end of a summer’s day
The sense of so much missing
when the world gets in the way

Happy people
living in a sad world
Happy people
living in a sad world"

[MikeyC]

The morning after the night before
I'd been alerted
to your lies
I phoned you up
Your calls were all diverted
Took a long time to track you down
even then you were defiant
It's not what you think it is, you said
and proceeded to deny it.

[Ramzy]

The morning after the night before
I'd been alerted
to your lies
I phoned you up
Your calls were all diverted
Took a long time to track you down
even then you were defiant
It's not what you think it is, you said
and proceeded to deny it.

Funnily enough this one has always bothered me slightly. What is "it's not what you think it is" if not, already, a denial?

[MikeyC]

The morning after the night before
I'd been alerted
to your lies
I phoned you up
Your calls were all diverted
Took a long time to track you down
even then you were defiant
It's not what you think it is, you said
and proceeded to deny it.

Funnily enough this one has always bothered me slightly. What is "it's not what you think it is" if not, already, a denial?

A further denial. x

[Sandy Shaw]

I'll throw this one in from Love is a Bourgeois Construct.

The whole track is a musical and lyrical delight but I've noticed the potential double meaning in ''mugging'' used here!

I’ve been hanging out with various riff-raff
somewhere on the Goldhawk Road
I don’t think it’s gonna be much longer
’til I’m mugging up on the penal code