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Points: 3843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2010 at 19:20
Originally posted by Terry Terry wrote:

I believe 'eating mustard' might have the same meaning as 'eating humble pie' 


Ahh, that actually makes a bit of sense, thanks.  (Thanks to the mustard gas guy as well, but I'm going with humble pie)
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2010 at 19:27
Can you believe god makes you breathe
How did he lose six million jews
 
I know it's already been discussed but it almost made me cry with laughter the first time I heard it, I had to stop the music and recover.
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Points: 4395 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2010 at 20:18
Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

There's a Dream Theater lyric in a song on Scenes From a Memory that involves the phrase "ever-deadly suicide", which might be the most redundant, asinine thought ever released from a human mouth. 
Check the lyrics book or get another source before you submit an answer. The line is "evidently suicide". Wink
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Points: 1008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2010 at 06:26
The Colony of Slippermen included:
 
"We've been cured on the couch
Now you're sick with your grouch.
I'll not risk my honey pouch
Which my slouch will wear slung very low"
 
I'm a big fan of Genesis' lyrics generally, but sometimes they didn't quite work.
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Points: 75 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:06
Anybody mention early Van Der Graaf?
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:16

"There she comes again, Smiling like a horse..."

Really?
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Points: 770 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:32
Originally posted by idoownu idoownu wrote:

Anybody mention early Van Der Graaf?

How could I forget?!

"Just one breath and it's instant death/ Its the areosol grey machine!"

Makes me smile every time....
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"Well listen to me you ungrateful fool
Here comes a dose of reality
You'll go to your grave a sad and lonely man
The door is now closed on your pathetic little plan"

DT goes emo. And one must add the fact that this line is part of LaBrie's rapping on this song. My god, how I hate the "silly childish angry DT phase" , ToT, and particularly this song.
 
Also, lyrics aren't one of DT's strong points. But it amazes me that no one has mentioned any line of The Count Of Tuscany yet.
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Hah! forgot about that song, it is excellent musically, but the lyrics are simply laughable!
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Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

Can you believe god makes you breathe
How did he lose six million jews
 
I know it's already been discussed but it almost made me cry with laughter the first time I heard it, I had to stop the music and recover.
Same here, man that's a terrible line.
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Originally posted by Morningrise Morningrise wrote:

Also, lyrics aren't one of DT's strong points. But it amazes me that no one has mentioned any line of The Count Of Tuscany yet.

I'll mention TCoT

Let me introduce
My brother
A bearded gentleman
Historian
Sucking on his pipe
Distinguished accent
Making me uptight
No accident
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And The Dark Eternal Knight?


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http://soundcloud.com/jontejh
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LOL the part about the wine improving with age. 
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Points: 4395 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2010 at 22:07
Originally posted by JonteJH JonteJH wrote:


Let me introduce
My brother
A bearded gentleman
Historian
Sucking on his pipe
Distinguished accent
Making me uptight
No accident

I think those lines would be a lot less lolworthy if Portnoy didn't growl them like he did.
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Points: 756 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2010 at 22:43
Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Originally posted by JonteJH JonteJH wrote:


Let me introduce
My brother
A bearded gentleman
Historian
Sucking on his pipe
Distinguished accent
Making me uptight
No accident

I think those lines would be a lot less lolworthy if Portnoy didn't growl them like he did.

I feel like a lot of BCaSL would have been better if Portnoy had actually Death-growled instead of talking angrily under LaBrie's vocals... A Nightmare to Remember has a lot of examples of this. (And some equally questionable lyrics)
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'Shake for me girl I wanna be your back door mat!' (Whole lotta love - Led Zepplin) is a classic!Confused
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Points: 46 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:24
There was a man, he leapt to and fro: "Hello, hello" from Caravan. Very funny.
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Points: 4373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:26
"What am I, a speck of lint on the penis of an alien?" Dead

King Crimson's The ConstruKction of Light
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Points: 7 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:33
"Gone are the days of the knights" - Rick Wakeman. 
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Points: 620 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:57
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The following are both from ELP's Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman on Love Beach

Yes it's great now you're a full time nurse
but do be careful with the air-raids getting worse Embarrassed

When I finally marched from Sandhurst
I'd learned to put my fellow man first

They are not very good I admit, but there are extenuating circumstances. Because the band wanted to record the album and get out of there quick, Sinfield had to come up with lyrics very quickly. Even he knows they are not that good.


Do you think this is an excuse?
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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Points: 620 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 03:01
Originally posted by DAVE M DAVE M wrote:

'Shake for me girl I wanna be your back door mat!' (Whole lotta love - Led Zepplin) is a classic!Confused



"back door man"
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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