Top 36 Shane Macgowan Quotes
#1. And as I sit and talk to you I see your face go white
This shadow hanging over me
Is no trick of the light
The spectre on my back will soon be free
The dead have come to claim a debt from thee
Shane MacGowan
#2. Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
Shane MacGowan
#4. Down the dirty old street
The Angel of the East is calling
And with a trembling hand
I open up a can
I can hear a baby bawling
Shane MacGowan
#5. This town has done us dirty
This town has bled us dry
We've been here for a long time
And we'll be here 'til we die
So we'll finish off the leavings
Of blood and glue and beer
And burn this bloody city down
In the summer of the year
Shane MacGowan
#6. Fucked Up
Set up
Faced up
Jacked up
Sitting there in chokey
14 years old
No lock on the door
But no way out
No joking
No hoping
No nothing
Pinned Down.
Shane MacGowan
#8. So I walked as day was dawning
Where small birds sang and leaves were falling
Where we once watched the row boats landing
On the broad majestic Shannon
Shane MacGowan
#9. But he never threw a fight when the fight was right
So they sent him to the war
Shane MacGowan
#10. A hungry sound came across the breeze
So I gave the walls a talking.
Shane MacGowan
#11. Ah sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two
Shane MacGowan
#12. For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl
About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball
Shane MacGowan
#13. People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse.
Shane MacGowan
#14. I can type with me toes
Suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end
God only knows
Shane MacGowan
#15. My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
Shane MacGowan
#16. Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
Shane MacGowan
#17. Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and Paks and Jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout We'll have another round!
Shane MacGowan
#18. I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last
Shane MacGowan
#20. I sat on the floor and watched TV
Thanking Christ for the BBC
A stupid fucking place to be
Down Rain Street
Shane MacGowan
#21. Oh the torn up ticket stubs
From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the carparks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And its just another bloody rainy day
Shane MacGowan
#22. Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole
from White City
Shane MacGowan
#23. I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
Shane MacGowan
#24. One, two, three, four, turn your poles
Give me a cup of sweet poitin
Madness from the mountains crawling
When I first saw you, my own Aisling
Shane MacGowan
#25. Fuck the Yanks
And drink their wives
My mind is clear
The sky is bright
I'm happy as a horse's shite
Up came the Bottle of Smoke
Shane MacGowan
#26. If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where rivers all run dry
Shane MacGowan
#27. I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?
Shane MacGowan
#28. I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure ...
Shane MacGowan
#29. What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.
Shane MacGowan
#31. When the cold winds come and find you
Blowing down from the top of the high rise
I'll come and take you back down to Soho
Away from all those madmen's eyes
Shane MacGowan
#32. Something that's obvious to a lot of people but it's never said much on the television or anything, that the architects and planners and whatever in London are inhuman to a really disgusting extent.
Shane MacGowan
#33. When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Shane MacGowan
#34. There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
Shane MacGowan
#35. I've been spat on and shat on
And raped and abused.
Shane MacGowan
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