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best malkmus/pavement lyric

25 votes
? by inside-outside

sorry for the pavement dry-humping

Voice coach taught me to sing, he couldnt teach me to love

ace

inside-outside | 23 Apr '08, 10:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The entire of Shady Lane

which someone will now Google and put in a box below ... mwahahaha ...

ColdGlassEye | 23 Apr '08, 10:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

'Fin'

"Open call for prison architects; send me up the prints ASAP"
OR
'We Are Underused'
"Let's thank the host, you've been such a great host, the roast, was just so perfectly prepared"

champion_versions | 23 Apr '08, 11:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

hmm..

"pick out some brazillian nuts for your engagement. check the expiration date man it's later than you think!" or something pretty similar to that

Bamnan | 23 Apr '08, 11:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"I've got all this Harvard LSD

why won't anybody fuck me?"

JohnM | 23 Apr '08, 11:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

'Architecture students are like virgins

with an itch they cannot scratch. Never build a building til your fifty? What kind of life is that?'

That's the ultimate winner.

jmags | 23 Apr '08, 11:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

mine is probably

"watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses they're insane, i hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains"

stwerewolf | 23 Apr '08, 11:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I thought it was

.. couldn't teach me to run?? Cus he's a coach....

Winkymagee | 23 Apr '08, 11:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm quite fond of

"show me a word that rhymes with Pavement, and I will kill your parents, and roast them on a spit"

from Harness Your Hopes

Corpsey | 23 Apr '08, 11:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"Searching for latent cause

Blame it on menopause
Or perhaps stress and strain
Credit cards, lumbar pain
But I've seen it double dare
Everything's ordinaire
I know the things you do
Gonna come back (on you)"

from Old to begin

Teepee_uk | 23 Apr '08, 11:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^^

"Leisure, a leisure suit is nothing, It's nothing to be proud of in this late century"

or just that whole song,

bourbonbeard | 23 Apr '08, 15:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"You're the kind of girl I like

because you're empty, and I'm empty." <3

Zapsta | 23 Apr '08, 11:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^

<3

jakam0 | 23 Apr '08, 11:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins

Nature kids, they don't have no function

grassrabbits | 23 Apr '08, 11:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

One of us is a cigar stand

and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine

Type Slowly

ElasticMan | 23 Apr '08, 16:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^

This one is niiiice. A bit slushy.

MarshallStaxx | 23 Apr '08, 17:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Conduit For Sale

I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN' I'M TRYIN'
{repeat until you turn blue in the face and keel over)

MarshallStaxx | 23 Apr '08, 16:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Either

"Irish folk tales scare the shit out of me" or "I got tired of the best years of my life". I feel like I ought to be cooler and put something here from an earlier album, but I can't think of anything that hasn't already been said.

chuff | 23 Apr '08, 16:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I didnt

even read yours....got to start opening my eyes !!!!

TSRlovesyou | 23 Apr '08, 16:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

how did it get so high?

i wonder if he talks like an ordinary guy

inside-outside | 23 Apr '08, 16:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I know him...

and he does.

MarshallStaxx | 23 Apr '08, 17:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i've always liked the "FREEZE...

don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life!!!"

no_flashlight | 23 Apr '08, 17:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

'Well,

you're my fact-checkin' cuz!"

sirodee | 23 Apr '08, 17:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The Ess Dog!

Jennifer dates a man in a 60s cover band
He's the Ess-dog, or Sean if you wish
She's 18, he's 31
She's a rich girl, he's the son
Of a Coca-Cola middle man

signeduptowinpbj | 23 Apr '08, 17:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"This is the city life, this is the city I come from

let's talk 'bout leaving."

Sibley | 24 Apr '08, 01:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

this thread is 80% unsubstantiated nonsense

my vote goes to "you're a nice guy, and I hate you for that / thanks to people like you I'm no longer that" from Platform Blues - I guess maybe because I can relate to this.

I think there are many better lyricists in the world than Stephen Malkmus though. He is a genius mainly for his guitar playing as far as I'm concerned.

dan_thw | 24 Apr '08, 01:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yeh theres better lyricists

but theres not many that are as quotable and comic as malkmuses

inside-outside | 24 Apr '08, 11:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i've got style

miles and miles

so much style that it's wasted

saps | 24 Apr '08, 08:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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