This morning when I checked Twitter for the first time in a few days I saw this
I tried to narrow it down and sort of categorize them. My picks also might change as soon as tomorrow depending on my mood, but here we go:
My favourite witty ones for their word play and rhythm and audacity
For fortune favours bravery
And a fortune’s what I’ve got
Look up victory in the dictionary
There’s a picture there of me
Foreigners aren’t great coroners, see
And no-one in Spain is as clever as me
My favourite one for modern-day relevance
You think we’re badass? You ain’t seen nothing
Democracy, you won’t see us coming
The ones I could/can relate to the most, both from “Dead in the Water”, which my ” ‘I Want’ Song” as much as it is Charles’.
But it’s part of my biology to start with an apology
One day I’ll metamorphosize
The scales shall tumble from their eyes
And thus shall end this wretched old routine
And then there are the many many inspirational ones
But life is much more pleasant when you’re living in the present
It’s no life if you’re forgetting to live
and of course
Set your hearts to the horizon
Leave your fears upon the shore
Thanks to my tendency to do long write-ups for events I loved, I knew there was at least one memorable lyric which was lost over time. For good reason probably, but I still have fond memories of it, because it stayed with me for a while. From a previous version of “All the Ladies”
Stage a coup
For your mothers and your sisters too
And while I’m at: Can I have moment of remembrance for “Let Me Die in Velvet” and the audacity to rhyme pretentious with trenches ? That definitely would have made this list 😉
