Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

I Was Born With A Plastic Spoon In My Mouth

I was parturitated with a polystyrene ladle in my embouchement.

~The Who, Substitute




Who Are You: The Life Of Pete Townshend

What a Wonderful World

I see topiaries of verdigris...
Rubicund roses conjointly...
I descry their efflorescence...
For me and for you...
And I surmise to myself...
What a pulchritudinous world.

~Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings

Friday, March 25, 2011

A Reader Contribution - Ring of Fire

"Also, it conflagrates, conflagrates, conflagrates...
The circlet of combustion, the circlet of combustion."




Thanks to Atomic Punk!

A Boy Named Sue

"I'm appellated Sue!", I catechized, "By what means effectuate what you effectuate? Forthwith, you will succumb!"

When I was just a baby...

"Sequential with being a neonate
My matriarch apprised me, "Androcentric offspring,
In perpetuity be an inculpable gamin,
Eschew gamboling with ordnance."

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Stop! Hammer Time!

"Desist! An occasion for mallets!"

Any way the wind blows...


"Notwithstanding the proclivity of the air currents, doesn’t inordinately signify anything to me."

Because you're mine...

"Inasmuch as you are intrinsic to me, I perambulate the demarcation."