Great lyric, great band. "Protecting the old ways, for me and for you". Give me your favourite song lyric - go!
This changes all the time but right now I love singing: ‘As I wait to collect my mental baggage. Imported straight from the West Riding’. The Cribs, Never Thought I’d Feel Again, Night Network, 2020
Moral sneaks in the White House Computer geeks in the school house Drug freaks in the crack house We don't have that stuff here We have a tiny little force Yeah, but we need them of course For the kittens in the trees And at night we are on our knees
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Way out in the water See it swimmin'
Disengaged I see your face An adrenaline rush I can't replace Hands around your neck, your senses numb Staring into your eyes When the stillness comes.
I've seen a million numbered doors on the horizon Now which is the future you choosin' before you gone dying? I'll tell you 'bout a secret I've been undermining Every little lie in this world come from dividing Say you're my lover, say you're my homie Tilt my chin back, slit my throat, take a bath in my blood, get to know me All out of my secrets All my enemies are turning into my teachers Because, lights blinding, no way dividing what's yours or mine when everything's shining You darkness is shining, my darkness is shining Have faith in ourselves Truth
Then my telephone shakes into life and I see your name And the wheat fields explode into gold either side of the train Elbow (Kindling) - Great song full of evocative lyrics from a superb album.
From two verses in the same song... You can arm yourself, alarm yourself But there's nowhere you can run 'cause a man with a briefcase Can steal more money Than any man with a gun It's a nation of noses pressed up against the glass They've seen it on the tv And they want it pretty fast You spend your whole life Just pilin' it up there You got stack and stacks and stacks Then, gabriel comes and taps you on the shoulder But you don't see no hearses with luggage racks
What you see is what you get You've made your bed, you better lie in it You choose your leaders and place your trust As their lies wash you down and their promises rust You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns And the public wants what the public gets But I don't get what this society wants