It’s not just the lyrics, but the tone in which they are sung. Andrew’s example is a perfect blend of tone and lyric or some crap like that.
These lyrics immediately pop into my head by KT Tunstall – Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.
“And my heart knows me better than I know myself, so I’m gonna let it do all the talking.”
not bad but how about :
“No amount of poetry will mend a broken heart, but you can push the Hoover round if you want to make a start” …..
Ahh…The Whitlams – great band! That CD was a permanent fixture in my CD player 10 years ago.
Cake are also a good source of witty lyrics. Here’s a line from “The Distance”:
“Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.”
It’s not just the lyrics, but the tone in which they are sung. Andrew’s example is a perfect blend of tone and lyric or some crap like that.
These lyrics immediately pop into my head by KT Tunstall – Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.
“And my heart knows me better than I know myself, so I’m gonna let it do all the talking.”