Your favourite lyrics?

Haven't created a rando thread like this for a while but at lunch we were discussing our favourite lyrics or songs with our favourite lyrics. To clarify, not favourite songs, not nice music, just best lyrics. No youtube videos - just lyrics.

In my case I have things like:

Metallica - Blackened
Blackened is the end, winter it will send
Throwing all you see into obscurity
Death of Mother Earth, never her rebirth
Evolution's end, never will it mend
Never

Metallica - Dyers Eve catering for teenage angst mixed with overbearing parental units. The whole song is fucking cool but let's pick this verse:

Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every thought I’d think you’d disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired

Mostly though, I was thinking about creative lyrics, word play, which is mostly hip hop stuff

Ice-T Midnight:
Midnight chillin' at A.M P.M.
Coolin' drinkin' apple juice
In Evil's BM
The sound's up loud
To attract attention
armouralled tires
On a lowered suspension

which reminds me "cutting laps" and the car culture when I was in school.

e-dubble Changed My Mind:

i'll fucking bleed for it, ask them, they know
color me in sepia they are fuckin' day glow
shades on, shoes tied shorcuts never work
in it for the long haul, pot shots never hurt
thick skinned rhinos, elephants we don't forget
what's important overall, no withdrawl we don't regret
pushing forward even those this life sucks sometimes
fucking with this noose I promise I can get it untied
you made it outta bed, task one, crossed off

Fidlar - Cheap Beer:
40 beers later and a line of speed
Eight ball of blow and a half pound of weed
Heading down the track to Mexico
Fucked on beer and staying gold

I drink cheap beer, so what? Fuck you
I drink cheap beer, so what? Fuck you

NIN - Head Like a Hole:
Head like a hole, black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control

Awesome Snakes - You Don't Like Snakes, I Don't Like You:
You don't like snakes
I don't like you
Everyone likes snakes

Bonus: Karil - Caballo Homosexual de Las Montañas:
Caballo homosexual de las montañas
Caballo homosexual de las montañas
Ningún animal se salva
Caballo homosexual de las montañas
Caballo homosexual de las montañas
Ningún animal se salva

All Limp Bizkit.

Jokes aside, I have a lyric going round my head which is 'hip hop's not dead, it was on vacation', but a cursory Google didn't turn anything up. Can anyone tell me who this is by?

I also remember seeing a performance by someone on Jools Holland (maybe) about 15 years ago (maybe) with the lyric 'you can't rap my friend, you're white and you're from Fulham'. Any clues?

I also remember seeing a performance by someone on Jools Holland (maybe) about 15 years ago (maybe) with the lyric 'you can't rap my friend, your white and your from Fulham'. Any clues?

You can't rap my friend, you're white and you're from Fulham
Please put down the mic, there's no way you can fool them
Don't be stupid, you won't get that far
Turn your back on hip hop, bruv, and go and play guitar

https://genius.com/Example-you-cant-rap-lyrics

What's up? You say you wanna be down
Ease back
Or mutha fcker get beat down
Out ma face fool I'm the illest
Bullet Proof, I die harder than Bruce Willis

Also Ice-T

Obliged. I thought I had searched, but clearly not very well.

The other one was Talib Kweli

Hip-hop's not dead, it was on vacation
We back, we bask in the confrontation
You can ask me, have any conversation

Viagra Boys - Research Chemicals

We're in town and cooking up some stuff
Psychedelic amphetamine, yeah, put it your butt
It ain't like other shit, it's 20 times as strong
You'll know it's working when everything feels wrong

Idles - Never Fight a Man With a Perm

Brylcreem, creatine
And a bag of Charlie Sheen
Brylcreem, creatine
And a bag of co-ca-ine
A dulcet man with a dulcet tone
From a dulcet town and a dulcet home
He hates me, I like that
Two arms like big baseball bats
I bark, he bites back
A jaw like a fuck-off bear trap
He said, "These boots are made for stomping
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna
Stomp all over you"

Modest Mouse - Third Planet
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight along enough you end up where you were

Dead Kennedys

"Your Emotions"

Your mommy told you this
And your daddy told you that
Always think like this
And never do that
You learned so many feelings
But what is there to that
Which are really yours
Or are you just a copycat

Your school told you this
And your church told you that
Memorize this
And don't you dare look at that
...

Just a tape recorder
Mimicking of the bores

You're so boring boring boring
Always tape machine recording
You're so boring boring boring
I've heard all this before

Planless and mindless
Scraps from anywhere
Bunch of used parts
From garbage pails everywhere
Frankenstein became a monster
Just like you
Your scars only show
When someone talks to you

You're so boring boring boring
Always tape machine recording
You're so boring boring boring
I've heard all this before
I've heard all this before
I've heard all this before
Your emotions make you a monster
Your emotions make you a monster
Your emotions make you a monster
Your emotions make you a monster

Megadeth - Hanger 18

"military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense"

Underworld - King of Snake

Dailydailydailydaily thing
Like tom&jerry thing
Yeah
Drink
Drink
Drink
And you go ping

:)

Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf

Daddy?
Yes, son.
What does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret
Something you have done than
To Regret something that you haven't done
And by the way, If you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and
Tell her...
SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!!

Is that where that comes from! It's in the into to an Orbital track called Satan too :)

Yep, same song, different vide.
Don’t Google the live version lyrics:/

Cant keep up with you hopitty flip stuff.

Sticking here an old fave of old Hippies from those guitar blues times

Walk on your tip toes, don't tie no bows
Better stay away from those that carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose, watch the plainclothes
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell

I was waiting for a moment
But the moment never came
All the billion other moments
Were just slipping all away

I’m not sure why this lyric resonates with me. Alex Turner is a genius in my opinion.

Arctic Monkeys - American Sports

I lost the money, lost the keys
But I'm still handcuffed to the briefcase

My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
and they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me.

• Nice bit of Silver Jews
  

And a classic:

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
It went like this:
The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
And pulled out their hair
The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days"
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever
We woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
For sure it's the valley of death
I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood

I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles.

The whole of Tangled Up in Blue.

So many great bits from Half Man Half Biscuit songs:

I shout all my obscenities from steeples,
but please dont label me a madman,
I'm off to see the Bootleg Beatles,
as the bootleg Mark Chapman

They've got a German Shepherd dog called Prince,
The one called Sheba died.

Also Half Man, Half Biscuit.