Best opening song lyrics.

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Try this one on for size. Has to be played very very loud:

Wanna tell you story​

About woman I know​

When it comes to lovin'​

She steals the show​

 

[Northern_Brewer]

its memorable video (which heavily featured Pfeiffer)

Never, ever a bad thing....

I thought it was older than that when i saw 2010 when i googled it and of course it is -

Or it could date back to the 1920s gangsters :

 

[AMyd666]

With karate I'll kick your ass!
From here to Tiananmen Square!

...Tenacious D

 

[lupinehorror]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

nine inch nails - hurt

 

[StoutWolf]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

nine inch nails - hurt

Loved the original, love Cash's cover even more.

 

[lupinehorror]

Loved the original, love Cash's cover even more.

i agree with you on that one. both amazing but JC's version make the hairs on my arm stand up just a little more.

 

[StoutWolf]

Which reminds me...

Well, my daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze

 

[Mr_S_Jerusalem]

It's coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tiananmen Square
It's coming from the feel
That this ain't exactly real
Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there


I also like


He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect…

 

[dad_of_jon]

He's sure to go to heaven.

and he's got a synthesizer!

 

[StoutWolf]

and he's got a synthesizer!

He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cause he flicked a kick I didn't know

 

[Cestrian]

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants
It has turned into crystal
There's a bluebird sitting on a branch
I guess I'll take my pistol

 

[JonBrew]

i agree with you on that one. both amazing but JC's version make the hairs on my arm stand up just a little more.

Agreed. The video is proper lump on throat material too, beautifully done. Released shortly before he passed away which makes it all more poignant. Powerful stuff.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cause he flicked a kick I didn't know

Allegedly also the proud possessor of a not inexpensive fur-lined sheepskin jacket.

 

[strange-steve]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

nine inch nails - hurt

I might be in the minority but I think I prefer the original, it's one of those songs that gives me chills every time I hear it. Powerful stuff.

 

[Wilfy]

Inflammable material, planted in my head
It's a suspect device that's left two thousand dead

 

[Clint]

I,I will be king
You,you will be queen

 

[Gingerbrews]

I heard you on the wireless back in '52

 

[phillc]

Here's a few more....

"I don’t have to sell my soul, he’s already in me"

---

"On a cob web afternoon,
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages of a book full of death;
Reading how we'll die alone.
And if we're good we'll lay to rest,
Anywhere we want to go. "

---

"I can't believe life's so complex
When I just want to sit here and watch you undress"

 

[DavieC]

You were working as a waitress
In a cocktail bar,... When I met you,

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It's cold outside
And the paint's peeling off of my walls
There's a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette