"No future".

GIRLS WHO ARE BOYS
WHO LIKE BOYS TO BE GIRLS
WHO DO BOYS LIKE THEY'RE GIRLS
WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY'RE BOYS
ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLY LOVE

Some say a man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why
Sign o' the times

"It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it"

"Unrequited love is just a step from chronic masturbation"

"There is nothing better in life
Than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro
On a Saturday night
Instead of going to the pub."

Hey mighty brontosaurus
Don't you have a message for us.
You thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past.
You were built three stories high
They say you would not hurt a fly
If we explode the atom bomb,
Would they say that we were dumb.

Good, and indeed, grief.

that came up with the classic "Fuck art, let's dance."?

"I don't want to see a ghost,
It's the sign that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast"

Des'ree

Julian Cope said it best, I feel.
"People I see, just remind me of moo-ing like a cow on the grass,
but that's not to say
That there's anything wrong with being a cow anyway,
but people are people,
with the added advantage of the spoken word,
we're getting on fine,
but I feel more of a man when I get with the herd"

said..
What's it like to be a loon?
I liken it to a balloon!

Wise words mate!

10cc say

Life is a minestrone
Served up with parmesan cheese
Death is a cold Lasagne
Suspended in deep freeze

Elton John says

Life isn't everything, isn't everything

and Opus say

Life is life

As Anthony said to Cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale,
Oh I say...

Big enough to take the world and all it's got
Keep it stirring for a hundred years or more
and turn out coffee-coloured people by the score.

However...

If everybody looked the same...we'd get tired of looking at each other.

- 'Skank Bloc Bologna' by Scritti Politti. Amongst loads of other isms, including ones I'm sure Green made up.

The title says it all for this Robyn Hitchcock masterpiece if you want psychological theory:

Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.
Lack of involvement with the father,
or over-involvement with the mother,
can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual fears,
and in homosexual leanings, narcissism, transexuality (girls from the waist up/men from the waist down),
attempts to be your own love object.
Reconcile your parents to you by becoming both at once!
Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.

So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.
If you give in to them every time they cry
They will become little tyrants but they won't remember why
Then when they are thwarted by people in later life
They will become psychotic and they won't make an ideal husband or wife
The spoiled baby grows into the escapist teenager who's
the adult alcoholic who's the middle-aged suicide. (Oy.)

So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.

1. In Watching The Wildlife, Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson advocates a way of life which has value in and of itself:

"If you live by the sword
well that's your own reward."

However the lyrics for Relax teach us that such swordsmanship requires technique and discipline. One cannot simply go waving one's sword around willy-nilly.

2. The La's Lee Mavers on the importance of a good breakfast for promoting mental agility:

"On this street for knowledge
You must eat your porridge"

3. The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan uses Bosnia as a contemporary example of the socio-political ills of the world, while also experimenting with mixed tenses:

"I would like to state my vision
life was so unfair
We live in our secure surroundings
And people die out there."

"Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully"
"Wooly Bully"

"It only takes a minute, girl, to fall in love"
on the other hand, one could say that
"Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all"
Confusing, n'est ce pas?

Irrespective of the actual lyricist concerned.....
"Time is on my side" vs "Time waits for no-one".....
The difference a few years make, but who'd of thought the first statement may have carried better. I guess it depends from whose point of view.
(Late late shout for Mick Taylors Santana-esque solo in the latter, nearly cut out entirely by the Glimmer twins, I gather, were it not for Charlie: uncertain as to veracity of this, but as told me, years ago, by Charlies erstwhile next door neighbour, in Lewes, Sussex.)

I've just posted the same thing in the Best opening lines bit, but Nick Cave, Into your arms, "I don't believe in an interventionist God..." Start the theological debate now.

PS He also doubts the existence of Angels...

... placing Mr Rotten in the great empirical tradition of British philospohy since it was right on the money ... (and all the moreso for Manchester airport which is a soulless mall with planes attached)

Robbie Williams' entire solo career...