The Village Green Preservation Society

There's bats in the belfry
The windows are jammed
The toilet's ain't healthy
He don't give a damn
Just chuckles and smiles
Laughs like a madman
A born again Rachman
Here comes Sheriff Fatman

Sheriff Fatman - Carter USM

 

Criminally underrated tune.

 

People like you find it easy
Naked to see, walking on air
Hunting by the rivers through the streets every corner
Abandoned too soon, set down with due care…

John Peel played this when announcing the death of Curtis … never to be forgotten

 

I could be here all day in a thread like this, but these are two of my favourites...


My friend, you're black and when you fly you're wild
I am white, sometimes I behave just like a child
The northern seas are cold, but they're our own
We'll sail your southern seas before too long

When I was a viking,
My friend he was the raven.

(The Stranglers - The Raven)


You say the hill's too steep to climb
Chiding
You say you'd like to see me try
Climbing
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb the hill in my own way
Just wait a while for the right day
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
I look down hearing the sound of the things you said today.

(Pink Floyd - Fearless)

 

Indeed, brilliant song live in a small venue, could pick any of the verses from this song.
It’s pushed close by this though:

Well, that was alright for a while
But soon I wanted more
I want to see as well as hear
And so I, I hid inside her wardrobe
And she came home 'round four
And she was with some kid called David
And from the garage up the road
I listened outside, I heard her
Alright

Babies - Pulp.

 

And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While "Angry from Manchester" writes to complain about all the repeats on TV
Computer terminals report some gains in the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

 

If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway.

 

Any David Bowie lyrics between 1968 & 1974.

 

Surprised nobody has yet mentioned the best alliteration ever...

"There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millet's"
- National ***** Day, Half Man Half Biscuit

Also got a soft spot for

"Just because you're better than me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because you're going forwards
Doesn't mean I'm going backwards"
- To Have and Have Not, Billy Bragg

 

A few off the top of my head are...

"And you're the kind of girl who wants to
Open up the bottle of pop
Too early in the journey"
Billy Bragg - 'A Lover Sings'


"Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude"
The Jam - 'That's Entertainment'


"Mister I ain't a boy, no I'm a man
And I believe in a promised land"
Bruce Springsteen - 'The Promised Land'


"I was born here of an Irish family
But that in itself is not too good for me
Because national identity won’t fulfill me
I don’t fit that kind of all the pagin I read
Oh no that is not me
That’s just not me

Nowhere is home to me
Nowhere is home to me

I don’t know oh, where I belong
I’ve been all over this great big hell
I never thought there’s a place where I could be
But, it’s a lie, it’s a filthy lie

Nowhere is home to me
Nowhere is home to me"
Dexy's - 'Nowhere is Home'


"Now you ask me if I'm sincere
That's the question that I always fear"
Rod Stewart - 'I was only Joking'

 

Poor man wants to be rich
Rich man wants to be king
And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.
Both Springsteen

The Devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
Squeeze, up the junction,

 

Laughing Gnome must have been before 1968 !!??
If not, I’ll report you to the Gnome office

 

Greatest album ever made. All other answers are incorrect.

 

I’ve seen the poison letters of the horrible hacks
About the yellow peril and the reds and the blacks
And the TUC and its treacherous acts
Kremlin money – All right Jack
I’ve seen how democracy is under duress
But I’ve never seen a nipple in the Daily Express

John Cooper Clarke.

 

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

 

Bridges and rivers and buildings pulled down
Time spent in places my footsteps had found
Mirrors in ballrooms lie smashed on the ground
Walking with November mists

Pathways and windows and movies in May
Quiet old ladies who'll soon pass away
Paintings and songs that I'd done in a day
Going 'round in my head

Fires on spires and chimneys of black
Fields on horizons with pylons that crack
With singing sad wires for council house mystics
To apply their statistics
And read the tea leaves
Time knows no limits for days such as these.

 

Marie Curie was Polish born but French bred. Ha! French bread! Of course, she ended up dead from radiation. Slow, invisible suffocation.

Super Furry Animals, Hermann Loves Pauline

 

When one voice rules the nation
Just because they're top of the pile
Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest
The voices of the people
Are falling on deaf ears
Our politicians all become careerists
They must declare their interests
But not their company cars
Is there more to a seat in parliament
Than sitting on your arse
And the best of all this bad bunch
Is shouting to be heard
Above the sound of ideologies clashing
Outside the patient millions
Who put them into power
Expect a little more back for their taxes
Like school books, beds in hospitals
And peace in our bloody time
All they get is old men grinding axes
Who've built their private fortunes
On the things they can rely
The courts, the secret handshake
The Stock Exchange and the old school tie
For God and Queen and Country
All things they justify
Above the sound of ideologies clashing

Take your pick of which line is relevant

 

Live version!! Due to guitar solo.