Lyrics that make you smirk/chuckle/guffaw
A wry smile perhaps. Not really out and out hysterical stuff just kind of witty.
For me Nick Cave - The Lyre of Orpheus. Probably needs the back story - Orpheus is tinkering in the shed when he creates a lyre that plays beautiful music. He rushes inside to show his sleeping wife Eurydice, but when he plucks it her head explodes. He feels a bit guilty but also really in love with his lyre, goes around playing it killing everything around and eventually wakes up God. God is not happy, smashes him in the head with a hammer and Orpheus wakes up in the afterworld. Here he sees the blood-soaked Eurydice:
And she said to Orpheus
If you play that fucking thing down here
I'll stick it up your orifice!
Gets me every time.
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Tom Waits - Pasties & a G-String
Crawlin' on her belly, shakin' like jelly
and I'm gettin' harder than Chinese algebra
Tell me why and I'll spit in your eye..
*Ask me why
Unless I'm thinking of the wrong song. The Smiths have a few - Hand in Glove, Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Headmaster Ritual
Ah yeah.
I was going to check but didn't bother. Used to make me lol when I first got into the smiths.
Grass is something you smoke...
Birds are something you shag...
Take your 'Year in Provence' and shove it...up your...ARSE
If fashion is your trade...
...then when yer naked, I guess you must be unemployed - yeah!
Brakes
Ring-a-ding-ding, oh my head's in a spin,
Now there's a cowboy in the court, he's got a monkey on a string.
He's singing dance, dance, dance to the monkey macaroni,
had to get out now, it was making me horny.
You shared a cab with Karen O!
Oh oh oh oh oh oh! I heard about your band. WHATEVER DUDE
Radical Face - Family Portrait
Bit grim but hey...
Six years later father dies in the very same bedroom.
Many said it was the grief that did it,
I have to say it's 'cause he hung himself.
More Nick Cave
I love Nature Boy. It's such a beautiful track. There's a couple of verses on there that make me smile:
I was walking around the flower show like a leper
Coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria
When I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair
Up against the pink and purple wisteria
You said, hey, nature boy, are you looking at me
With some unrighteous intention?
My knees went weak,
I couldn't speak, I was having thoughts
That were not in my best interests to mention
and
You took me back to your place
And dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit
You played the patriot, you raised the flag
And I stood at full salute
ERRRR'BODY RIP THE SWAG OFF
BEFORE I RIP MA TAG OFF
ASK WHY MY PANTS SAG OFF
CAUSE I'M RAPPIN MY ASS OFFFFF
FLOW SO UUUUUGLY
MONEY SO HAAAAANDSOME
and the thought troubled the monkey
For he was afraid of spelunking down in those caves
It's mostly about the alliteration
with some indie record that's much cooler than mine
Some of Beck's lyrics are funny:
We like the boys
With the bullet proof vests
We like the girls
With the cellophane chests
We like to ride on executive planes
We like to sit around and get real paid
You look good in that sweater
And that aluminum crutch
I'm gonna let you down easy
I've got a delicate touch
I'm mixing business with leather
Christmas with Heather
Freaks flock together
And make all the b-boys scream
sleep a lot eat a lot brush em like crazy
run a lot do a lot never be lazy
I don't think a lyric has ever made me laugh
it's better than that, it's good.
another one is;
it was the light, it was the angle
which is clever and funny as it's a callback to earlier in the song.