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His lady's aching to bring a body down She daily preaches on where she wants to be An evening with a movie queen, a face we all have seen Brooklyn owes the charmer under me Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
-Steely Dan, "Brooklyn"
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And everybody wants to see you fall That's why they always love to get you high And everybody knows you need the pain so much, lady Well, keep in touch, baby Just don't charge me with your rescue blues
Ryan Adams, "The Rescue Blues"
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"There's nothing you can to that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say But you can learn how to play the game It's easy All you need is love, all you need is love All you need is love, love, love is all you need"
The Beatles, "All You Need Is Love"
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The more you take, The more you blame, But everything still feels the same. The more you hurt, The more you strain, The price you pay to play to game.
Staind - Price to Play
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You left open the window till the morning and the winter walked in Reality fired her wooden bullet, splintered under our skin They say I'm walking on freedom, this is freedom Now I know, now I know, now I know, now I know I still don't blame you for leaving, baby It's cold living with ghosts
- Patty Griffin, "Every Little Bit"
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I play Russian roulette everyday, a man's sport, With a bullet called life, yeah mama called life. You know that every time I try to go Where I really want to be, It's already where I am, Cause I'm already there...
System of a Down, "Sugar"
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Isn't this world getting harder to live in? And isn't this road getting harder to travel on down? It doesn't really matter, when it shatters the glass just falls It's never made a difference, now you've got your due reward
Isn't one voice getting harder to come by? Isn't one love getting harder to imagine now at all? It doesn't really matter when it tumbles the weed just rolls It's never made a difference, your lack of readiness is growing old
We keep running down the Rock We're running down the Rock of Ages
-Tara Nevins(Donna the Buffalo) Running Down the Rock of Ages
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So we split and went to a party, some friends my girl said she knew But what a sight 'cause it's authors night and the place looks like a who's who!
Now I'm pounding the ouzo with Mario Puzo
Who's a funny fella? W.P. Kinsella
Who brought the cat? Would Margeret Atwood? Who needs a shave? He's Robertson Davies!
Ondaatje started a food fight, salmon mousse all over the scene Spilled some dressing on Doris Lessing, these writer types are a scream!
I like to go out dancing My baby loves a bunch of authors We'll be together for ages Eatin' and sleepin' and Eatin' and sleepin' and Eating und sleeping und Turnin' pages.
Yeah!
--Moxy Fruvous, "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors"
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Uh huh ... extra cheese Uh huh, uh huh ... save a piece for me
Pizza party at your house I went just to check it out Nineteen extra larges What a shame No one came
Just us eatin' all alone You said, "Take the pizza home" "No sense lettin' all this go to waste" So then I faced
Pizza all day And every day This cheese 'round the clock Is gettin' me blocked And I sure don't care For irregularity
Tell me Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated? 'Cause right now I'd do anything to just get my bowels evacuated In the bathroom ... I sit and I wait and I strain And I sweat and I clench and I feel the pain Oh, should I take laxatives or have my colon irrigated? No no no
-- Weird Al Yankovic "A Complicated Song" (to the tune of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated")
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You know I took the poison From the poison stream Then I floated out of here Singing...Ha La La La De Day Ha La La La De Day Ha La La De Day
-U2 Running to Stand Still
(OK, a bit of a stretch, but I was not going to use a word like "bowels." BTW Godric, I just bought Poodle Hat last night. Hilarious stuff. Especially "Angry White Boy Polka")
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Hello one and all Was it you I used to know? Can't you hear me call On this old ham radio? All I've got to say I'm alive and feeling fine Should you come my way You can share my poison wine
No marigolds in the promised land, There's a hole in the ground where they used to grow Any man left on the Rio Grande Is the king of the world as far as I know
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I'm a bookkeeper's son. I don't want to shoot no one. Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive. Got a case of dynamite. I could hold out here all night. Yes, I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive.
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While the music played you worked by candlelight Those San Francisco Nights, You were the best in town. Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl. You turned it on the world , That's when you turned the world around. Did you feel like Jesus? Did you realise That you were a champion in their eyes?
-Steely Dan, "Kid Charlemagne"
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Grace, she carries a world on her hips No champagne flute for her lips No twirls or skips between her fingertips She carries a pearl in perfect condition
-U2 Grace
(edit: accidently typed U1. Maybe it's time to get some sleep )
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Say, there's a wreck On the side of the road Lots of blood and broken glass The kid who was driving I know from somewhere Some kids just drive too fast Wait just a minute There's a beautiful survivor With dancer's legs and laughing eyes C'mon snake hips , it's all over now Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride
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Outside Somebody's outside Somebody's knocking at the door There's a black car parked At the side of the road Don't go to the door Don't go to the door
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In the corner of my eye, I saw you in Rudy's You were very high You were high, It was a cryin' disgrace, They saw your face On the counter, by your keys, Was a book of numbers, and your remedies One one of these, surely will screen out the sorrow But where are you tomorrow
I can't cry anymore, while you run around Break away, just when it seems so clear, That it's over now, Drink your big black cow and get out of here
-Steely Dan, "Black Cow"
(I actually happened to be listening to this one when your post came back, so it was easy.) (This is getting interesting, but I have to work in the morning, so I'll start again tomorrow. Good volley.)
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You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two? I didn't think so. You ever tried with all your heart and soul to get you lover back to you? I wanna hope so. You ever pray with all your heart and soul just to watch her walk away? Baby did a bad bad thing Feel like cryin' Feel like cryin' Feel like cryin'
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Sit and watch the tall grass grow I run and hide from the things I know Catch the dust up in my eye All is lookin’ different as the years go by There's a dish that I’m not passing Yours is a love that is everlasting You give to the world, you give to yourself When you’re giving your best to somebody else
"No Place Like the Right Time," Tara Nevins(Donna the Buffalo)
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Sometimes I, need to remember just to breath. Sometimes I, need you to STAY AWAY FROM ME! Sometimes I'm, in disbelief I didn't know. Somehow I, NEED YOU TO GOOOO!
Don't Stay Forget our memories Forget our possibilities. What you were changing me into Just give me myself back and Don't Stay Forget our memories Froget our possibilities. Take all your faithlessness with you Just give me myself back and Don't Stay!
Don't Stay~Linkin Park~ CD-Meteora (edit-forgot to name song band and cd name)
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There is one story that We are all connected to, The ever-begging universal serenade. Vibrating, horns crashing, Symphony that the mystics made, Love is everywhere, Change is everything. Destiny pulls another string. Life, it rages on, Standing holding to the seat Of a straight-back chair. "On Our Way On", Jeb Puryear(Donna the Buffalo)
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Anything goes in Anything goes out Fish, bananas, old pajamas, Mutton, beef and trout
-Cole Porter, "Anything Goes" (a la Monty Python's Flying Circus)
[edit: I know this isn't Steely Dan/ Donald Fagen, but Annie hasn't made a U2 post since my last one, so it's okay. By the way, I hope this is still going on come Tuesday, so I'll be able to post from the new Steely Dan album. Then we'll see who's the master.]
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Banana chips for you! Banana chips for me! In the afternoon, Banana chips and tea. Sliced bananas lightly fried with coconut oil. mmm... They're just a little bit sweet. I can never get enough Banana chips, it's true. Oh, I really like to eat them. Shonen Knife- Let's Knife
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Now on the sidewalk, one sunny morning, Lies a body just oozin' life, And someone’s sneakin' ‘round the corner... Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
--Marc Blitzstein's English adaptation of a song from Brecht & Weill's musical "The Threepenny Opera". --Mack the Knife
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Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms
Dire Straits. "Brothers in Arms."
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I was so happy a couple years ago when they named that dinosaur after Mark Knopfler.
I love you so much Can't count all the ways I've died for you girl, But all they can say is He's not your kind. They never get tired of putting me down And I never know when I come around What I'm gonna find Don't let them make up your mind Don't you know, girl You'll be a woman soon Come take my hand
Urge Overkill, Neal Diamond's "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon."
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I think I'd name a child after Mark Knopfler. The man's a genius. Hmmm... Knopflera Jane... has a certain ring to it, n'est-ce pas?
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If you don't want her to resent you when she's fourteen, you'd better either 1)Raise her on "Telegraph Road" and "Romeo and Juliet" (my personal Dire Straits picks), not to mention all the solo Knopfler stuff. Fortunately, I think he's still touring, but you'd best hurry. 2) Or make it Jane Knopflera.
I pick (1), of course.
Alas, to bed. The archives call early in the morning.
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Son you better be ready for love On this glory day This is your chance to believe What I've got to say Keep your eyes on the sky Put a dollar in the kitty Don't the moon look pretty
Tonight when I chase the dragon The water will change to cherry wine And the silver will turn to gold Time out of mind
-Steely Dan, "Time Out Of Mind"
[Thought this might be an appropriate response, since Mark Knopfler was the session-guitarist on this track. And it's brilliant, of course... anything he touches turns to gold.]
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By the way, Matt, while R&J may not be my favorite track (not that I dislike it), good call on Telegraph Road. Brilliant song. The whole "Love Over Gold" album is almost perfect. Of course, it's still hard to top the self title album, but that's just my opinion.
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You see them on the grass at lunch hour Soaking up the vertical rays In their summer dresses A little smile can really make your day Their kisses feel like real kisses And when they cry they cry real tears But what's left in your arms When the static clears
They're landing on the Jersey beaches Their engines make the white sand swirl The heat is so intense Earth men have no defense Against Tomorrow's Girls
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"Edna Million in a drop dead suit Dutch Pink on a downtown train Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot I'm in the corner on the pouring rain Sixteen men on a dead man's chest And I've been drinking from a broken cup Two pairs of pants and a mohair vest I'm full of bourbon, I can't stand up
Hey little bird, fly away home Your house is on fire, children are alone Hey little bird, fly away home Your house is on fire, your children are alone"
Moxy Fruvous, "Jockey Full Of Bourbon"
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That's actually a Tom Waits song. And while I'm here, what's up with giving Urge Overkill even partial credit for Neil Diamond's lyrics? Just thought I'd ask. Carry on.
[edit: added smiley, as I realized the post sounded a bit angry, which wasn't intended. ]
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Outside another yellow moon Has punched a hole in the nighttime, yes I climb through the window and down to the street I'm shining like a new dime The downtown trains are full with all of those Brooklyn girls They try so hard to break out of their little worlds
Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows They have nothing that will ever capture your heart They're just thorns without the rose Be careful of them in the dark Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Every night it's just the same, you leave me lonely now
-Tom Waits, "Downtown Train"
[This is a bit of a cheat, as these songs were originally on the same (extremely good) album, and one was made to be a reference to the other. But I'll take all the cheap shots I can get.]
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Hey, as long as we're talking Waits, I just wanted to throw in an amusing anecdote that I found in an essay about him:
quote: The one complaint Waits' fans have is that he doesn't tour (it seems he'd rather spend time with his family). In early 1996, however, he performed a benefit concert in San Francisco, for a friend arrested on trumped-up drug charges. The show sold out in forty-five minutes, and during the performance, someone called out: "Hey Tom, where you been?" Waits shot right back: "Where you been? You still working out at the airport?"
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Outside of this window In ten degrees just before dawn A plastic Mary blinks Illuminated from the inside My heart glows with the spirit of Christmas Jeb Puryear(Donna the Buffalo)(surprise)
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