An Appropriate Lyric…
…considering the events of the day:
You say : ’ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn
And you claim these words as your own
But I’ve read well, and I’ve heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose and poems
The word you use should be your own
Don’t plagiarise or take on loan
There’s always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who’ll trip you up and laugh
When you fall
Anyone know the artist, song, and album?
UPDATE 8:12 p.m.: No one knows this one? Hint: the lead singer was recently in Austin as part of SXSW…
morrisey of the smiths. i believe it’s “Bigmouth Strikes Again;” could be wrong. it’s been along time since i’ve immersed myself with that depressing drivel.
Right singer, right group…wrong song, though…partial credit…
i think it was from the queen is dead album. too lazy to dig through those cd’s, too honest to do a web search
wait, was it the song about Joan of Arc?
maybe not, the “nose” lyric made me think of it though. i KNOW this song, he mentions Keats and Yates, just can’t think of the title. oh well, it’s been a good decade since i’ve listened to that stuff
gotta go, my ipod is starting to melt…
Well, you’re getting awfully close – right album…let’s see, what kind of hint? The song mentions three prominent writers, all deceased, and the writers take sides…
Oh, and the Joan of Arc was the one you mentioned earlier – Big Mouth Strikes Again (and now I know how Joan of Arc felt / as the flames rose o’er her Roman nose / and her Walkman started to melt)…
Yes, you win! (unblocked your previous comment, sorry about that).
The weird thing is, it’s not Cemetary Gates, it’s Cemetry Gates. Yep, Cemetry…God knows why…
i dunno…those crazy brits
and to think that they accuse Americans of defacing the English language!!
colour me confused
Jeez, sorry about the spam blocker!…I try to check the ‘harvest’ fairly regularly to make sure nothing gets blocked that shouldn’t…
Perhaps “Cemetry” is word-play; a cross between Symmetry and Cemetary? I’m not too familiar with The Smiths, although I have Louder Than Bombs on vinyl.
Yeah, that’s occurred to me, too…though I’ve never found anything to back it up…
…”and you go home and you cry and you feel like you want to die.”
Always loved that song – too bad that Mars gets almost no credit for the amazing hooks and riffs he did for the Smiths way back then.
There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry
And you want to die
How Soon Is Now, the Smiths
That’s it, dmac, the theme song of my college years….
BTW Morrissey revealed at SXSW that it was Marr’s idea and not his to break the group up, and that the Smiths turned down $5 million to reuinite…
That’s too bad – I heard that Echo and the Bunnymen were terrific last Fall when they performed in my ‘hood, after they got back together. Unlike most ill – fated reunions, I always felt that the Smiths would likewise be as good as their original years.
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