Best First Lines

[Benny Bunter]

A plate steel object was fired
And I did not feel for my compatriots

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well I've never had a car
Never been near a lorry
Got a nasty habit of scratching my nose
My codename's Happy Harry
I'm into CB

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's hard to live in the country
In the present state of things
Your body gets pulled right back
You get a terrible urge to drink

 

[Benny Bunter]

Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young dicks make TV
Loads of hair-style ideals

 

[Benny Bunter]

Hosannah
First impressions...
Hosannah
Papal did visit, human trash
Waste
Prostrate, yellow-white umbrellas
Roam around

 

[Benny Bunter]

Got eighteen months for espionage
Too much brandy for breakfast
And people tend to let you down
It's a swine
Fantastic life

 

[the ig]

I miss having you around
Aggressive and 90 pounds
But in an hour or so
I wait wanting you to go
To where a thought’s left alone
In ventures through icyyyyyyy zooooo-ouuuuu-oooooo-ooooowwww-onnnnnnesss

(not strictly first lines, a sort of pseudo-chorus precedes)

 

[the ig]

You gave up my career
Promotion was in sight and just to keep the peace, I keep by mouth shut
Dreaming I was with others takes up too much time
I'm always catching colds we never seem to shake them off…



INSANE how good things got, just insane…

 

[Benny Bunter]

Man whose head:

A - Knew about politburo facade behind 'Kicker'

C - Who stole cafe's collection box

B - Who applied cut-up technique literally to himself

E - Who wore a red scarf to remind him of his fiancee

G - And visitor esoteric Japanese says analyser. Mr Alastair touched off the tragedy

Taped voice, barely audible: 'You can tell by the way (...)

H - There's a claque that makes use of Lancastrian patronisation of vice
Their rep Jim Davidson
The love of Paris infects the Civil Service
Lichen on the...N

I used to have this thing about Link Wray
I used to play him every Saturday
God bless Saturday
God bless Saturday

We are The Fall

 

[shakahislop]

i've seen and done things i want to forget

that's a good one

 

[catalog]

What song is this benny?

 

[william_kent]

What song is this benny?

every FALL song ever

 

[Benny Bunter]

The first God had in his garden
From the back, looked like a household pet
But when it was twirled 'round
Was revealed to be a 3 legged black grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen

 

[catalog]

"Man whose head" made me think grime

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

[Benny Bunter]

And it's painless, sitting in subterranea
Ancient reference to Mesopotamia

 

[Benny Bunter]

Tight faded male arse
Decadence and anarchy

 

[Benny Bunter]

A serious man in need of a definitive job
He had drunk too much mandrake anthrax
Pro-rae, pro-rae, oloron

 

[the ig]

Aberdeen's an old place
Dusseldorf's a cold place
Cold as spies can be
Lisp your way through Zurich
Walk on eggs in Munich
Rub salt in its knee knee knee

 

[Benny Bunter]

Tied up to posts
Blindfold so can't feel maintenance
Kickback art thou that thick?
Death of the dimwits