your fave lyric on american slang....?

for some reason just loving the line "for the hub city girls in the ribbons and the curls" and also liking "american girls they want the whole world, they want every last light in NYC"


discuss gaslighters

And shame on you, my love
You sold your youth away
Memories are sinking ships
That never would be saved

The clothes I've worn just don't fit my soul anymore

"american girls they want the whole world, they want every last light in NYC"

e7c wrote:

The clothes I've worn just don't fit my soul anymore

Second that.

loazis wrote:

e7c wrote:

The clothes I've worn just don't fit my soul anymore

Second that.

thirded.

Also:

If I cut you up
Maybe I came to bear
To bandage your wounds
With the salt on my tongue

These lines seem to stand out for me at the moment....

So don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go

Not sure why.

Stop clicking your red heels and wishing for home,
I'm hearing that he tells you he can read your palms

"We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret"

That and the American girls lyric posted a couple of times.

I really like the first verse of Orphans.

I got three:

"American girls, They want the whole world/
They want every last little light in NYC."

"If you find a good man don't take him home"

"Hub city girls with the ribbons and curls/
they know the meaning of staying out late"

"You took it all gracefully on the chin
Knowing that the beatings had to some day end
Found the bandages inside the pen and the stitches on the radio"

The clothes I've worn just don't fit my soul anymore.

You've got your pride and your prose tucked just like a tommy gun somewhere in the smoke just in case you need it.

too many
though i might look this through sometime this weekend

"There are no reasons to believe
I buried my faith in an unmarked plot
With your heart and your clothes
When I find...
That I don't feel you or recall
I'll put your bones out in the yard"

BostonMike wrote:

"There are no reasons to believe
I buried my faith in an unmarked plot
With your heart and your clothes
When I find...
That I don't feel you or recall
I'll put your bones out in the yard"

With that verse, I hear: "Where your heart and your claws cannot find"

Shrewsbury_Stars wrote:

BostonMike wrote:

"There are no reasons to believe
I buried my faith in an unmarked plot
With your heart and your clothes
When I find...
That I don't feel you or recall
I'll put your bones out in the yard"

With that verse, I hear: "Where your heart and your claws cannot find"

You may very well be right. It's either claws, or clothes, with some real emphasis put into the O. I assumed it was clothes most likely because of the way that I interpret that particular verse.

"Don't sing me your songs about the good times, those days are gone and you should just let 'em go" cut like a knife on first listen because of all the nostalgia present in the first two and SATQ.

And basically all of The Diamond Church Street Choir.

Its always changin, but for now its

"And you say the night just got too cold
Well everybody's cold"

from Bring It On

Bring It On:

So give me the fevers that just won't break
And give me the children you don't want to raise

The Queen Of Lower Chelsea:

Did you grow up a good girl,
You daddy's pride?
Did you make all the right moves,
Take all the right drugs right on time?
American girls, they want the whole world
They want every last little in New York City

Old Haunts:


So don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go

The Spirit Of Jazz:

Was I good to you, the wife of my youth
Not another soul could love you
Like my rotten bones do

BostonMike wrote:

"There are no reasons to believe
I buried my faith in an unmarked plot
With your heart and your clothes
When I find...
That I don't feel you or recall
I'll put your bones out in the yard"

That one rocks too

isthisreal wrote:

The Spirit Of Jazz:

Was I good to you, the wife of my youth
Not another soul could love you
Like my rotten bones do

i love that part

"What you don't have, you don't need it anymore."

-Stay Lucky

oldgospelchoir wrote:

isthisreal wrote:

The Spirit Of Jazz:

Was I good to you, the wife of my youth
Not another soul could love you
Like my rotten bones do

i love that part

Agreed, but I personally think the part towards the end where the drums drown out the last three words is even better. Really gets the passion behind the lyrics across.