Hello Fellow Ferryfans..

I was singing Pyjamarama to myself all day the other day
I Could Not Get it Out of My Head

And I started thinking about all my Favourite lines from Roxy/Ferrysongs..

From Pyjamarama
My Favourite line is..
"Never Mind Take the World by Storm..
Just Boogaloo
A Rhapsody Divine.."

Which I interpret as:
Don't worry about becoming Famous..
Just Do What You Love..

Post Script....
There is a Comma in between
Never Mind, Take the World By Storm
Which Changes the meaning
Almost Entirely
To:
Become Famous by Doing What You Love!
Even More Fascinating that the line
Can be interpreted both ways......

And From Both Ends Burning
"You're a Flame That Never Fades..
Jungle Reds' a Deadly Shade.."
(It's a Lipstick Colour.. )

Casanova:
"Casanova,
Is That Your Name
Or Do You Live There?"

One of the Very best:

If There Are Many
Meanings the Same..
Then Being Specific
Is Just a Game....

I Could Go On and On..
Don't Get Me Started on Mother of Pearl

What are your Favourite Lines from Favourite Roxy/Ferrysongs?

Ahahaha
You Know That Time
Spent Well
Is So Rare...

"Put you foot down 'round the bend"

"......and mashed potato schmaltz......"

Other than Pyjamararama, he's done these songs in his solo shows, so the thread could fit either Roxy or Ferry. And I think the line is "but badgers couldn't compensate at twice the price for just another night with boys"

The authority in Bryan's delivery of the line "and listen to me, I'm not finished yet" in A Really Good Time.

It's like you have just got up to go to the fridge for a drink and he is telling you to sit down and listen to the rest of the song first

J.O'B.

Wow....so many to choose...an impossible task.

The wordplay and mood that Bryan built up on classics like ITIS, MOP, Casanova and Dream Home make selecting just a line or two lines from them as virtually heretical.

Here goes:

I blew up your body,

but you blew my mind.

That pause before the final line, then the manic outro of psychotic madness. Just mind-blowing.

I've always loved Bryan's puns and wordplaying, image connections, alliteration. Sunset is one of my favourites, connecting writing/paper in a letter of farewell to the day:

Cover cutting room floors...
Red letter light fades is filed away...
Postscript you trace...

It conjures a hazy shimmering glow.

And a killer line that gets overlooked by us Roxy veterans:

You're dressed to kill,
And guess who's dying?

So clever, and so true when you're heart is breaking.

And of course:

And the bridge,
It sighs.

Now that is genius!

And from Three and Nine:

Three and Nine to 45,
Decimal romance,
If you've warmed to centigrade
you stand a sporting chance
(a humorous bit of British parochialism about decimalisation in the UK in the early 70s)

As regards delivery, J O'B makes a nice point about his vocal delivery on A Really Good Time. I would put the whole of The Bogus Man in there for it's menace, throaty, glottal. And to go completely off-kilter; I have always got the same menacing feeling when I hear from You Can Dance:

Do you come hear often.....
Do you want to play?

Which reminds me John - there's a chunk missing in the Viva lyrics page to the latter song.

I've always loved the opening from All I Want is You:

"Somebody told me just the other day/ That you're leaving me, we're through"

Wouldn't you rather hear it first hand? And why wait a few days to find out for sure? I find it very funny and sad at the same time but chuckle every time.

From Rock of Ages on In Your mind:

"Once again, you're the song/ I'm the one who turns the pages"

I find that line so incredibly romantic, though I suppose it could be seen as manipulative by the voice of the singer.

From "Grey Lagoons": "Morning sickness on Friday Nights" Clever wordplay about a topic most would ignore.

And Mother of Pearl-as Teresa said, "don't get me started".

In reviewing Sunset I've just realised that the next track Serenade begins with the words "Darkness falls..."

So we go from a heartfelt farewell to the Sun to Bryan now limbering up for some nighttime"gymnastics."

Also, to lighten the mood, this thread reminds me of a post on a defunct Roxy website about misheard lyrics, one lovely lass said when she first heard Virginia Plain she thought the line "To Robert E Lee I'll show it" was "To rub on my knees..."

Ha !!

Oh....where to start! Many to choose from but when I "sing-a-long-a-Bryan" to Beauty Queen I have to make sure I get this right with the correct pronunciation:-
All of my hope and my "in-speeer-ation"
I drew from you our life's patterns drawn in sand
But the winds could not erase the memory of your face