2012/12/17 12:14:55
Dave Modisette
Here's a chorus I like that's semi-current.

'Cause you and tequila make me crazy  Run like poison in my blood  One more night could kill me, Baby  One is one too many, one more is never enough 
2012/12/17 23:33:06
sharke
Don't know about "cleverest" but some of those old murder ballads are very well written. Here's my favorite, The Outlandish Knight as played and sung by the great Nic Jones. I love the guitar and vocal and this, but the lyrics are out of this world. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq6RldgW7NQ
2012/12/18 00:00:41
Linear Phase
This is a hard one, because, "what is clever?"

Do to the recent tragedy in Connecticut, I am apprehensively linking this.  I do not believe we should, "hide from art."  The song has slightly violent undertones.  Fair warning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BCTgMbLn_Q

The Ramones, "I Wanna Live."
2012/12/18 00:34:56
craigb
Linear Phase


This is a hard one, because, "what is clever?"

clev·er

/ˈklɛv ər/ Show Spelled [klev-er] Show IPA adjective, clev·er·er, clev·er·est. ...
2. superficially skillful, witty, or original in character or construction; facile: It was an amusing, clever play, but of no lasting value.

3. showing inventiveness or originality; ingenious: His clever device was the first to solve the problem.
...
 
 
HTH




2012/12/18 01:37:46
Linear Phase
craigb


Linear Phase


This is a hard one, because, "what is clever?"

clev·er /ˈklɛv ər/ Show Spelled [klev-er] Show IPA adjective, clev·er·er, clev·er·est. ...
2. superficially skillful, witty, or original in character or construction; facile: It was an amusing, clever play, but of no lasting value.

3. showing inventiveness or originality; ingenious: His clever device was the first to solve the problem.
...
 
 
HTH
I was asking rhetorically, "what is clever, what is dawn, what is truth, what is blue?"

2012/12/18 02:02:09
craigb
I love answering rhetorical questions.
2012/12/18 04:16:33
BenMMusTech
I agree with Julian Time is a great song with lyrics by roger waters and anything he has written is genius but for mind you can't go past Nobody Told Me by Lennon

Everybody's talking and no one says a word
Everybody's making love and no one really cares
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They're starving back in China so finish what you got 

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- strange days indeed 

Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move
Everyone's a winner and nothing left to lose
There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody's flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody's crying and no one makes a sound
There's a place for us in the movies you just gotta lay around 

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama 

Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high
Everybody's flying and never touch the sky
There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised 

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama




It's a pity that Lennon died before completing the song and apparently he wrote it for Ringo.


Anything by Lennon, Waters and Freddie Mercury.  These three are perhaps the best and clever lyricists of the classic rock era.


Peace Ben
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