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Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here,...
we was hitchhikin' down a long and lonesome road.
All of a sudden,
there shined a shiny demon...
in the middle...
of the road.

And he said:
"Play the best song in the world,
or I'll eat your souls (wisper:Souls)."

Well me and Kyle,... we looked at each other,
and we each said...
"Okay."

And we played the first thing that came to our heads,
Just so happened to be,
The Best Song in the World,
it was The Best Song in the World.

Look into my eyes and it's easy to see
One and one make two,
two and one make three,
It was destiny.

Once every hundred-thousand years or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
and the grass doth grow oooh

Needless to say,
the beast was stunned.
Whip-crack went his whippy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us:
"(snort) BE you angels?"
And we said,
"Nay.
We are but men."
Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahh,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!

This is not The Greatest Song in the World, No No!
This is just a tribute.
Couldn't remember The Greatest Song in the World, yeah,
No!
This is a tribute, oh,
To The Greatest Song in the World,
All right!
It was The Greatest Song in the World,
All right!
And it was the best mother fuckin' song,
The Greatest Song in the world!

Allllllright!
'Ti Tuga digga tu Gi Friba fligugibu Uh Fligugigbu Uh Di Ei Friba Du Gi Fligu fligugigugi Flilibili Ah
(Bow) (Bow) (Bow) (Ooh) (Bow) (Bi)
Fligu wene mamamana Lucifer!
(Mene) (LUCIFER)!
(guitar solo)
And the peculiar thing is this my friends:
the song we sang on that fateful night it didn't actually sound
anything like this song!

This is just a tribute!
You gotta believe it!
And I wish you were there!
Just a matter of opinion.
Ah, fuck!
Good God, God lovin' ,
So surprised to find you can't stop me.(scat)

O hallelujah I'm found! Rich motherfucker compadre aaaaah!
All right!
All right!

IrishMagpie | 19 Jul '06, 11:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

apologies to admin

if it's too long

IrishMagpie | 19 Jul '06, 11:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

You wrote out the stupid retarded lyrics.

I am going to punch you.
It's not funny.
At all.
It's gimp humour for gimps.

John_Brainlove | 19 Jul '06, 12:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Just try it Brainlove

JUST TRY IT.

I like it. It makes me smile.

bamos | 19 Jul '06, 12:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Elton John

"your song". A song about the song he's singing. How very postmodern.

Rhods | 19 Jul '06, 11:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Jeffrey Lewis

Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song

"I learned you have to have the sex first, then write the song after."

nice_squirrel | 19 Jul '06, 11:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

AGREED

and mountain goats - best ever death metal band...

althuogh that's about a band rather than a song, so probably doesnt quite fit.

ImageChange | 19 Jul '06, 12:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

when i was in a band

i had a song we never played.

that went

"why do i only write songs about writing songs, i'm not postmodern or clever, i just dont have anything to say, everyone else gets high, while i think of higher things"

it wasnt very good.

ImageChange | 19 Jul '06, 12:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Herman Dune (I think)

have a song with the lyrics "songs about songwriting suck so I'm writing a song about songs about songwriting."

nice_squirrel | 19 Jul '06, 12:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

haha!

i like the sound of that. I will hvae to look it up :)

ImageChange | 19 Jul '06, 12:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

indeed, it's a good song. the version i have of it is by jeffrey lewis though. not sure who recorded it originally, but it's on one of jeff's obscure releases i think.

myfirstmine | 19 Jul '06, 16:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

NOFX - Please play this song on the radio

Very, very silly song about writing a commercial song.

janfurnace | 19 Jul '06, 12:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

There was

once a crap new wave song in the early 80s called 'I Can't Get "(I Can't Get) Bouncing Babies" By The Teardrop Explodes' by a band called The Freshies. And apparently it's shit.

domgourlay | 19 Jul '06, 12:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Frank Sidebottom

or at least the bloke in the costume was singer with the Freshies. That's the only thing I know about them.

What about meta-lyricism? "Second verse, same as the first!"

simon_t | 19 Jul '06, 16:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

If we're going to make long posts with lyrics...

There once was a song!
It had a first verse!
With lots of words!
And some of them rhymed!

And then there was a chorus!
And suddenly the music changed!
And everybody sang along!
But only for a second!

Then there was a second verse!
With words very similar to the first!
And the music was the same as the first!
And really nothing new was added!

And then there was a chorus!
And suddenly the music changed!
And everybody sang along!
But only for a second!

Then there was a middle eight!
The music was really different!
It was quite a departure!
From what had come before!
Probably two completely different chords!
To show the band's diversity!
It was real impressive!
And then there was a guitar solo!

(guitar solo)

Then there was a third verse!
And this would be the last!
So the song would be about three minutes long!
And could be a big hit on crappy FM radio!

And then there was a chorus!
And suddenly the music changed!
And everybody sang along!
But only for a second!

Very silly.

mug_mug_mug | 19 Jul '06, 12:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

If these were Roy's headphones,

you bet he'd play "What Goes On"..

loque | 19 Jul '06, 12:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

and A Praise Chorus

references loads and loads of songs.

OceanStorm | 19 Jul '06, 20:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

how i wrote elastic man

by the Fall.

mapsadaisical | 19 Jul '06, 13:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i know a song that'll get on your nerves

get on your nerves
get on your nerves

alcxxk | 19 Jul '06, 13:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

this is the songs that never ends...

ImageChange | 19 Jul '06, 13:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

song*

ImageChange | 19 Jul '06, 13:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

pulp - something changed

does that count?

Slicky | 19 Jul '06, 13:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Yeah, "Something Changed" definitely counts

I love that song.

Also Billy Bragg's "A New England" - "I was 21 years when I wrote this song..."

joeymahone | 19 Jul '06, 13:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Guided By Voices - The Brides Have Hit Glass

I don't come around
Never call or let her know
I got a life of my own
You know I hate to be around her
When she's like that
I wrote a song once about her
Called "The Brides Have Hit Glass"

awisgard | 19 Jul '06, 13:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

the neon boys

tom verlaine and richard hell's pre-television band

recorded a song called "love comes in spurts" which appears to be about writing a song call "love comes in spurts" which I presume was the song "love comes in spurts" which turned up on richard hell and the voivoids 'blank generation'.

Does that make any sense?

zxcvbnm | 19 Jul '06, 14:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Song Against Itself

Shellac

timhulio | 19 Jul '06, 16:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

what's the song that goes

"i'll never write a song about you"?

my 13 year old brain thought that was the stupidest lyric ever. I'm sure it was a really bad song too, but now ive thought of it, i need to know what it is...

pretty_vacant | 19 Jul '06, 17:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

lynrd skynrd

sweet home alabama.

something_enigmatic | 19 Jul '06, 19:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Why I remember this is beyond me

but Janet Jackson had a song years ago, and I think the chorus went something like "I bet you think this song is about you, don't you".

So in a way that song was about itself.....

Shoot me someone.

IrishMagpie | 19 Jul '06, 20:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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