favorite lyics

[susandennis]

Every once in a while one of these interminably long numbered memes turns up something that makes me want to join in for one minute.

And here's my contribution for today's minute. It never fails to delight me.

Best line ever in a song or most anywhere else: There's no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion.

Stripes by Brandy Clark


You were lyin' there with nothing on
But a goofy little grin and a platinum blonde
I can't believe you'd do that on our bed
I got a pistol and I got a bullet
And a pissed off finger just'a itchin' to pull it

The only thing keepin' me from losin' my head
Is I hate stripes and orange ain't my color
And if I squeeze that trigger tonight
I'll be wearin' one or the other
There's no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion
The only thing savin' your life
Is that I don't look good in orange and I hate stripes

I could fall in love with the prison guard
I could sell cigarettes in the prison yard
Don't think hard time would be that hard on me
I could pick up trash on the side of the road
But I'd die if I saw someone I know

Ain't the chains, it's the clothes that's stoppin' me
I hate stripes and orange ain't my color
And if I squeeze that trigger tonight
I'll be wearin' one or the other
There's no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion
The only thing savin' your life
Is that I don't look good in orange and I hate stripes

Oh, and one shot ain't worth a bad mugshot
God knows I wouldn't be caught holdin' up a number
While the whole town's starin' at the picture
In the paper of me wearin' stripes

There's no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion
The only thing savin' your life
Is that I don't look good in orange and I hate stripes
And orange ain't my color
And if I squeeze that trigger tonight
I'll be wearin' one or the other
There's no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion
The only thing savin' your life
Is that I don't look good in orange and I hate stripes

Comments

[meowmensteen]

Ha, I was totally wearing an orange dress yesterday.

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

Had to go over to youtube and have a listen to it. It's a hoot! LOL!
:^D

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I have to go look it up! Definitely sounds like a country song!

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, if it's just a one-liner, rather than a whole song, I'd pick "If Dirt Were Dollars" by Don Henley.

"She just stared at me uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train."

Love that simile.

[susandennis]

yes. excellent!

[eventidereverie.livejournal.com]

Love this.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Interesting lyrics. Made me think of the night I caught my best friend giving my lover a blow job on MY sofa. I told them, "Be glad I didn't see this 10 years ago, 'cause you two would have been pinned permanently together with a chef's knife." Both of them were immediately thrown out of my place (around midnight) and his stuff was left out on the grass by morning.

[susandennis]

wow