[drjimmy]

And of course there's that terrible "Dancer" song. Who could possibly relate to that song 30 years after it was written, or another 30 years from now?

When a man is running from his boss
Who hold a gun that fires "cost"
And people die from being cold
Or left alone because they're old
And bombs are dropped on fighting cats
And children's dreams are run with rats
If you complain you disappear
Just like the lesbians and queers

No one can love without the grace
Of some unseen and distant face
And you get beaten up by blacks
Who though they worked still got the sack
And when your soul tells you to hide
Your very right to die denied
And in the battle on the streets
You fight computers and receipts
And when a man is trying to change
But only causes further pain
You realize that all along
Something in us going wrong...

You stop dancing.

[MassExodus]

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain.
The nights are hot and black as ink
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain.

Only a 17 year old separated from his first love by 50 miles of road and dissaproving parents can truly understand this.

Utterly timeless.

[stinkypew]

Its the manner in which it is sung, more than the lyrics. I didn't say the entire thing blows lyrically. There are definitely a few nuggets.

The entire mods v. rockers theme, I submit, will be of no interest whatsoever to the vast majority of listeners in 30 years. They will not even understand what he's talking about.

[ThreeYearLurker]

My favorite, from the Dirty Jobs..

I am a young man
I ain't done very much,
You men should remember how you used to fight.
Just like a child, I've been seeing only dreams,
I'm all mixed up but I know what's right.

I'm getting put down,
I'm getting pushed round,
I'm being beaten every day.
My life's fading,
But things are changing,
I'm not gonna sit and weep again.