Lines I Like in Lucksmiths Lyrics

[Yimothy]

Where the sky was swimming pool blue
And the swimming pool was too

-Southernmost

 

[Yimothy]

The milk was always spilling
And we cried ourselves to sleep

-Weatherboard

 

[Yimothy]

It’s already Friday
And soon it’ll be Friday night

-Under the Rotunda

 

[Yimothy]

On Brunswick Street the bits of broken glass
Sparkle brighter than the six or seven stars

-Requiem for the Punters Club

 

[Yimothy]

I’ve still got the alarm clock that you bought me for my birthday
And I wake up at nine
There’s no present like the time

-Frisbee

 

[zonetrope]

I don't know the Lucksmiths well enough to quote any lyrics, but this thread has gotten "The Music Next Door" stuck in my head for the last couple days (a good thing).

 

[Yimothy]

I’m glad someone else knows the band, at least. Wasn’t sure how this thread would land. The Lucksmiths were definitely my favourite band for a while there, and are still high on the list. I like almost all of their songs, and can only think of one that I would say I actively dislike (“Are you having a good time?!?!”). I’m a big fan of their sound as well as the lyrics, probably even before the lyrics for the most part. It hasn’t happened in a while since there haven’t been any new Lucksmiths songs in ten years, but I used to quite often be listening to some song of theirs that I’d heard many times and suddenly a perfect line that I’d never noticed before would jump out at me.

For the thread it’ll probably mostly be wordplay sort of lines I’ll be posting. Things that I think can stand up without the music. They had a knack for lines that were both really dumb and really clever, at least in my opinion. The “Friday night” line above is one that’s sort of stupid, but magnificently so.

“The Music Next Door” is a song I really like, but I’m not sure what line I would highlight out of it. I think my favourite is “Then/from in the wings/a neighbour sings”, but it needs the song around it to come off.

Anyways, I hope you/anyone else enjoy the thread. Here’s a picture I got of the band’s old website about the lyrics:

 

[Yimothy]

Don’t call me a nincompoop
Just call me the coast guard

-Up

 

[Yimothy]

But P R L N Q F C
Spells “trouble” to me

-Even Stevens

It’s about scrabble

 

[Yimothy]

Nice work if you can forget it

-Edward, Sandwich Hand

 

[Yimothy]

You had your father’s charm
And thus your mother’s Volvo

-Great Lengths

 

[Yimothy]

And you get away with murder
Because you’ve got a way with words

-Music To Hold Hands To

 

[Yimothy]

Fingers crossed
All is not lost

-The National Mitten Registry

 

[Yimothy]

I’ve woken up on one too many floors
But my favourite was yours

-There is a Boy That Never Goes Out

 

[Yimothy]

You put your hair in pigtails and you put your hand in mine

-The Golden Age of Aviation

 

[Yimothy]

We're enjoying what we'll just call champagne

-After the After Party

 

[Yimothy]

Have you been drinking?
‘Cos it’s not too late to start

-Requiem for the Punters Club

 

[Yimothy]

And your loyalties have divided
Between digital and vinyl
But I’m biding time
Until the cassingle revival

-The Cassingle Revival

 

[Yimothy]

The days I’ve thrown away
And the hours that I am keeping

-Untidy Towns

 

[Yimothy]

You were on and off my doorstep
But you’re often on my mind

-Frisbee

 

[Yimothy]

You can’t keep a secret
But you keep a diary anyway

-Music To Hold Hands To

 

[Yimothy]

I sat backwards on the train and suddenly
The city was further and further in front of me

-The Sandringham Line

 

[Yimothy]

Somewhere over the railway line...

-Under the Rotunda

 

[Yimothy]

Follow the yellow brick apartment blocks

-Transpontine

 

[Yimothy]

Just like life I can’t remember the beginning
And I can’t help feeling I’ll be sad in the end

-My Overdue Library Fines