20 April 2006

Best song lyrics

I read a brief article in the paper yesterday about a poll conducted by VH1 in the UK where they asked people to rank their favorite (favourite) song lyrics from a list of 100. Coming in at #1 was the line from "One" by U2: "One life, with each other: sisters, brothers." If you want to check out the top 20, you can go here. What really caught my eye was the lyric that came in second place. It was from "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths (feel free to sing along if you know it): "So you go and you stand on your own / and you leave on your own / and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die." I'll leave it up to you to decide what it says about the British national character that this one came in second. Although I think that line is great, it's actually only my second-favorite Smiths lyric. Number one for me comes from the song "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before" : "And so I drank one / it became four / and when I fell on the floor I drank more." I love the way Morrissey makes "more" into a two-syllable word. Pure genius.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

and the pain was enough
to make a shy bald buddhist
reflect and plan a mass murder

4/20/2006 6:33 PM

 

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