above, here is my prayer.... Kill him just fucking kill him, i don't care if it hurts, yes i do, i want it to. fucking kill him but first make him cry like a woman"

- shellac

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black

The lyric is basically about the brainwashing of kids from a young age through their stories to be happy, hard working unassuming citizens, and preventing them from thinking freely- "Slumbering in my jimmy-jammies- My wonderous imagination long since closed and put away".
Neo-liberals value good workers over anything else, so the kids are being told to work hard and they'll be rewarded in the real world (through characters in the book)- which of course isn't the case.

Anyway, as for best lyrics, I would go for either the aforementioned lyric, or
"All of your friends are cunts/ your mother is a ball point pen thief" (Mclusky, Gareth Brown Says)
or
"Freeze, don't move/ you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life" (Pavement, Shady Lane)

"The stars are gonna spell out the words to tommorow's crosswords and the Phillips corporation will admit that they've made an awful mistake and Bill Gates will single handedly spearhead the Heaven 17 revival" - Cubs in Five

"and you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon, we were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on, nine hundred cc's of raw whining power, no outstanding warrants for my arrest, hi diddle dee dee, goddamn, the pirate's life for me" - Jenny

"I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow;
I hope it bleeds all day long.
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises;
we're pretty sure they're all wrong." - No Children

"I'm in the living room watching the Watergate hearings while my stepfather yells at my mother,
launches a glass across the room straight at her head and I dash upstairs to take cover
lean in close to my little record player on the floor,
so this is what the volume knob's for" - Dance Music

"Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
Trucks loaded down with weapons
Crossing over every night
Moon yellow and bright
There is a shortage in the blood supply
But there is no shortage of blood
The way I feel about you baby can't explain it
You got the best of my love" - International Small Arms Traffic Blues

There are probably millions more but those are the ones that come to mind now.

Mark E Smith
Tom Waits
Stephen Merritt
Stuart Staples
Yan Seapower

Rolly:Are you ready Bob
Bob:Yes
Rolly:How bout you Lofty
Lofty:Im a bit scared
Bob: O.K. team lets go

1,2,3,4,5 everybody's outside
So come on lets ride to the
Builders out around the corner
The gang's all here
And it's time for us
To do what we wanna

There's a house with a roof that leaks
It's an urgent job
And it could take us weeks
There's Dizzy, Lofty and Rolly too
Wendy always knows just what to do

There's no job too big or small
With Scoop and Muk we can do it all
Metal, brick or wood
It's all good
And we can always send in the tractor!

CHORUS:
A little bit of timber and a saw
A little bit of fixing that's for sure
A little bit of digging up the road
A little bit of moving heavy loads
A little bit of tiling on the roof
A little bit of making waterproof
A little bit of concrete mixed with sand
A little bit of Bob the builder man!

Jump up and down
And move it all around
Mix it up to the sound
Dig a hole in the ground
Take one step left
And one step right
One to the front
And one to the side
Clap your hands once
And clap your hands twice
And if it looks like this
Then you're doing it right!

CHORUS X2

There's Rolly, Lofty, Scoop, Muk and Dizzy
So much more to keep ourselves busy
Can we fix it?
Yes we can
With the team and Bob, the builder man!

Bob, Bob, Bob, the builder man!

the rise and fall, great track.

My favourite song ever. That bit with Ben screaming is just ACE.

"Everything familiar changed
Like the sea and the shore
Shed a tear for old dreams
They don't exist anymore."

"Give me a mile and a destination
My favourite place is Falkirk High Station
Metal rails stretch off towards life
And I'm... just waiting"

"Tune out everyone in the crowd
Because now it's just you and me
Come fall in love with the sound"

"You smile and I am lost for a lifetime"

and finally
"The first time that I met her I was throwing up in the ladies room stall. She asked me if I needed anything; I said, “I think I spilled my drink�. And that’s how it started (or so I’d like to believe)…"
which I think is my favourite album opener ever.