Dev Card: Lyrics

 I don't feel like thinking up something to write about tonight. I've been messing with training schedules and other fun things at work, and my brain's a bit friend. 

So, I've pulled a Dev Card. 

It reads: 'Jot down every single song lyric you can think of. Random order. Fragments.'

Yeah, nah! Do you know me? I always have a song in my head. I could be writing for hours. 

Instead, I'll give you the first ten that come to mind. With links to the actual song. And appropriate malapropisms. (You know what they are...) And I'll try not to give you the David Byrne back catalogue. 

So, let's go. 

1. Breezeblocks - Alt J

'She may contain the urge to runaway

But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks

Germaline, disinfect the scene

My love, my love, love, love

Please don't go

I love you so

My lovely...

Please don't go, I love you so...'

(Yes, the song is about domestic violence. I still love it)

2. Leilani - The Hoodoo Gurus

'Somewhere on a South Pacific Island,

Sat a buy staring at the sun,

His former girlfriend died a death quite violent

A tribal sacrifice was to be earned,

Oh oh oh oh oh, Leilani don't go to the volcano....'

I could go on. I won't. 

3. Buck Naked - David Byrne

'Runnin' naked down the state highway

Runnin' naked in the middle of the day

Runnin' naked like a tomcat's behind

Runnin' naked, but the cat don't seem to mind

Give me your heart, I'll give you mine first

Give me your time and I'll give you my trust

And we're buck naked now like when we were born

When will we find out? And why does it take so long?

And we're buck naked now

And we're buck naked now

And we're buck naked now

In the eyes of the Lord'.

I adore this song. And I reckon it was at this performance, or one like it, in 1992, that I first heard this song.

4. Man with a Gun - Jerry Harrison

'Pretty girl young man old man

Man with a gun

Two people in love (Two people in love)

The rules do not apply...'

Well, okay, this is Jerry Harrison, who used to be in Talking Heads....

5. Ordinary World - Duran Duran

'What has happened to it all?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is the life that I recognise? 

But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world

Somehow, I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn to survive...'

Still the best Duran Duran song ever. 

6. Song 2 - Blur

'I got my head shaved,

By a jumbo jet, 

It wasn't easy. 

But nothing is...

WOOOOOHOIOOOOOOO!'

We've transitioned into the 90's. Love Blur. 

7. Coconut - Harry Nilsson

'She put the lime in the coconut, she called the doctor

Woke him up and said, "Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take

I say, doctor, to relieve this bellyache?

I say, doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take

I say, doctor, to relieve this bellyache?"'

So old. So fun. 

8. You Can't Roller skate in a Buffalo Herd - ABC School songs from the 70's. 

'You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, 

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, 

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, 

But you can be happy if you put your mind to it....

All you've got to do is put your mind to it,'

Knuckle down, buckle down, do it do it do it....'

We learned this at school. They used to make us sing from a song book produced by the ABC. This was one of the songs. 

9. Shape of my Heart - Sting

'He deals the cards as a meditation

And those he plays never suspect

He doesn't play for the money he wins

He don't play for respect

He deals the cards to find the answer

The sacred geometry of chance

The hidden law of a probable outcome

The numbers lead a dance

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier

I know that the clubs are weapons of war

I know that diamonds mean money for this art

But that's not the shape of my heart...'

Another favourite song. Gotta love sting. 

10. Nimrod's Son - The Pixies

'You are the son of an incestuous union!'

It's The Pixies. Need I say more. 

I could keep going, but I'd be here all night. I love music. But I need to go for a walk. 

And I would have given the lyrics to the song of the day, but nobody knows what they are - but James Reyne did a fabulous cover of this on Triple J's Like a Version. Look it up. 

Today's song: