brickboy

Following Jonny Gav's thread, here's a few of my faves to start:

"In the end it took me a dictionary
To find out the meaning of unrequited
While she was giving herself for free
At a party to which I was never invited"

Billy Bragg / The Saturday Girl

"All aboard Brenda's Iron Sledge
Please don't call me Reg
It's not my name ..."

Robyn Hitchcock / Brenda's Iron Sledge

"Son, I'm thirty
I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty"

Happy Mondays / Kinky Afro

"Outside the take-away, Saturday night
a bald adolescent, asks me out for a fight
He was no bigger than a two-penny fart
he was a deft exponent of the martial art
He gave me three warnings:
Trod on me toes, stuck his fingers in my eyes
and kicked me in the nose
A rabbit punch made me eyes explode
My head went dead, I fell in the road

I pleaded for mercy
I wriggled on the ground
he kicked me in the *****
and said something profound
Gave my face the millimetre tread
Stole me chop suey and left me for dead

Through rivers of blood and splintered bone
I crawled half a mile to the public telephone
pulled the corpse out the call box, held back the bile
and with a broken index finger, I proceeded to dial

I couldn’t get an ambulance
the phone was screwed
The receiver fell in half
it had been kung fu’d

A black belt karate cop opened up the door
demanding information about the corpse on the floor
he looked like an extra from Yang Shang Po
he said “What’s all this then
ah so, ah so, ah so.”
he wore a bamboo mask
he was gen’ed on zen
He finished his devotions and he beat me up again

Thanks to that embryonic Bruce Lee
I’m a shadow of the person that I used to be
I can’t go back to Salford
the cops have got me marked
Enter the Dragon
Exit Johnny Clarke

John Cooper Clarke / Kung Fu International

P1Fanatic

I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest, No stress
If you don't smoke sess, lest.
I must confess, my destiny's manifest In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless
Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess, Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness,
YES Bless you if you represent the Fu
But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're Doo Doo Voo Doo,
I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin' ****** give me hee-bee-gee-bees
So while you're imitating Al Capone I'll be Nina Simone And defacating on your microphone!

Lauryn Hill in the Fugees - Ready or Not. I especially like the last line

Simon.

beemerboy

tinky winky.... dipsy.... lala....po.


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