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I remember when I was told a story of crushed velvet, candle wax, and dried up flowers. The figure on the bed, all dressed up in roses, calling, beckoning to sleep, offering a dream.
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"I lit my purest candle close to my window hoping it would catch the eye of any vagabond who had passed it by and I waited in my fleeting house."
-- Blood Sweat and Tears, "Morning Glory"
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You bury your treasure Where it can't be found But your love is like a secret That's been passed around There is a silence that comes to a house Where no one can sleep I guess it's the price of love I know it's not cheap
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Georgia Pine, your heavy heart sways When you turn the other way Beneath the bright light clear white moon You say the darkness comes too soon Tears dampen the tile floor A wind chime serenades the back kitchen door Sugar scratches, she wants in from the heat And you are lost in the silence you keep
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Wow. Someone else remembers the Josh Joplin Group. I was almost convinced I hallucinated that brief portion of my life when they were around.
You and me and me we were the pretenders We let it all slip away In the end what you don't surrender Well the world just strips away Girl ain't no kindness in the face of strangers Ain't gonna find no miracles here Well you can wait on your blessings my darlin' But I got a deal for you right here I ain't lookin for prayers or pity I ain't comin round searchin for a crutch I just want someone to talk to And a little of that human touch
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I liked The Josh Joplin group too! Josh is actually from my hometown. On his first album he has a song titled "Dutch Wonderland" which is a small amusement park, oh so aptly named, here in the middle of Pennsylvania Dutch country. Posts: 1295 | Registered: Jan 2003
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My favorite line in a Josh Joplin Group song is when he says, "I sound like Michael Stipe..."
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Twenty years ago, saw a friend was walking by And I stopped him on the street to ask him how it went, and all he did was cry I looked him in the face, but I couldn't see past his eyes Asked him what the problem was, he says "Here is your disguise"
Now he's hardly getting over it, Hardly getting used to getting by
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I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts There they are standing all in a row Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head, Give 'em a twist, a flick of the wrist That's what the showman said. I've got as lovely bunch of coconuts, There they are standing all in a row....
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A little uptight You're a baby's fist Butterfly kisses up and down your wrist When you see daddy coming You're licking your lip Nails bitten down to the quick
My My My I'm once bitten Twice shy Baby My My My I'm once bitten Twice shy Baby My My My I'm once bitten Twice shy Baby
Woman You're a mess Gonna die in your sleep There's blood on my amp and my Les Paul's beat Can't keep you home You're messin' around My best friend told me you're the best lick in town
You didn't know that rock-n-roll burned So you bought a candle and you lived and you learned You got the rhythm You got the speed Mama's little baby likes it short and sweet I said
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" Great White
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Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story Hand me down my walking shoes Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat the talking blues He got the action, he got the motion Oh yeah, the boy can play Dedication, devotion Turning all the nighttime into the day He does the song about the sweet loving woman He does the song about the knife He does the walk, he does the walk of life
Dire Straits - "Walk of Life"
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"Pan-amoebic algebra, pre-bizzare bacteria What to do, oh what to do. Africanized killer bees, alabaster deities Milk from spoons, sip milk from spoons
Within the ruins, against the firth The salamander, has given birth.
Only Red horse rainbows CAN save us"
Clutch - Red Horse Rainbows
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Took a walk with you In the shadow of my shoes Danced around the broken blues In the dirty summer rain Moonlight on the cars Parked in single file at bars With a thick and rosy smoke Waving its busted hand
Bringing you down, can't bring you down Bring you down, can't bring you down Bring you down, can't hear the sound Run through the river and into town Pretty little moon with its head hung down Chin up Cheer up
Ryan Adams. "Chin Up, Cheer Up"
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Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world It's hard to get by just upon a smile Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world I'll always remember you like a child, girl
"Wild World", Cat Stevens
Edited because I didn't remember exactly (but I was pretty close - only a couple of words off).
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Okay, this is ridiculous. I'm trying to find the lyrics to the first song in The Music Man, the one where the salesmen are on the train before they arrive at River City.. It goes something like
"You need a biscuit in an airtight sanitary package Makes the cracker barrel obsolete, obsolete... Who's gonna patronize a little bitty Two-by-four kinda store anymore?"
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Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee? Oh, the deeper I spin Oh, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin Took a drive in the dirty rain To a place where the wind calls your name Under the trees the river laughing at you and me Hallelujah, heaven's white rose The doors you open I just can't close
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It’s hard to listen to a hard, hard heart Beating close to mine Pounding up against the stone and steel Walls that I won’t climb Sometimes a hurt is so deep, deep, deep You think that you’re gonna drown Sometimes all I can do is weep, weep, weep With all this rain falling down
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Megan, I still think I'm insane. I get a "Page Cannot be Displayed" error when I try your link. Oh well, on with the game.
"I would beg and steal just to feel Your heart beating close to mine. Ev'ry night I pray to the stars that shine above me, Begging on my knees, all I ask is please, please, love me."
-- Elvis Presley, "Love Me Tender"
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Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain Let her talk about the things you can't explain To touch is to heal To hurt is to steal If you want to kiss the sky Better learn how to kneel On your knees boy
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I'm singing in the rain, Just singing in the rain What a glorious feeling I'm happy again. I'm laughing at clouds. So dark, up above, The sun's in my heart And I'm ready for love.
Let the stormy clouds chase. Everyone from the place Come on with the rain Have a smile on your face I'll walk down the lane With a happy refrain And singin' Just singin' in the rain
I'm dancin' and singin' in the rain
(Many of these songs use the word 'rain' so far all my lyrics have used the word 'rain' )
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A man will beg , a man will crawl On the sheer face of love Like a fly on a wall It's no secret at all
It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
-U2, The Fly
(I have that last line as a quote on my buisness card. It lists my title as "cannibal, thief, florist")
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See, and I bet you live a much fuller life than all those others who restrict themselves to only the eating of human flesh or flower arranging without bothering to become a well-rounded person.
She'll let you in her car To go drivin' round She'll let you into the parts of herself That'll bring you down She'll let you in her heart If you got a hammer and a vise But into her secret garden, don't think twice
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Time, time, time See what´s become of me While I looked around For my possibilities I was so hard to please Look around Leaves are brown And the sky Is a hazy shade of winter
Paul Simon,* Hazy Shade of Winter
*performed, as we all appreciate, by the Bangles; however, I don't want to get Speed on me again, like he did when I (quite fairly in my view, as the song is made much richer by their performance) credited Urge Overkill with "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon." Speed, perhaps with some justification felt wounded on behalf of Neil Diamond, who wrote the song, and called me on it. Not that I'm taking anything away from Neil Diamond; his performance of "They're Coming to America" is among the most imitated by I and my associates, in a hugely overexaggerated Diamond "I'm-really-constipated" voice. Anyway, this credit is for you, Speed. So nyah. Posts: 794 | Registered: Aug 2000
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And so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale.
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sing Sing a song Make it simple To last your whole life long Don't worry that it's not good enough For anyone else to hear Sing Sing a song
(waxes happily amongst the la la las)
Sing Sing a song Sing out loud Sing out strong Sing of good things, not bad Sing of happy, not sad
Sing Sing a song Make it simple To last your whole life long Don't worry that it's not good enough For anyone else to hear Sing Sing a song
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Singing this song makes me happy I'm not happy with you Singing this song makes me pale Is that all Is that all... Is that all you want from me?
-U2 Is That All?
(it must be noted that a couple days prior to recording this song, which appears on the October album, some groupies in Portland stole all of the lyrics Bono had written. So, songs like this, while brilliantly improvised, are not neccessarily the most stunning U2 has produced )
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One, two, Princes kneel before you That's what I said now Two princes, princes who adore you Just go ahead now
The Spin Doctors, "Two Princes"
I have to confess, I know nothing about this band except for this song, which played incessantly on the radio a few years back. However, I've got a friend who is, for some reason, an *active* Spin Doctors fan, which is so unusual that I find it important to mention it when I see him. Since I was plotting our annual July Fourth baseball game with him today, and asking him about the welfare of the Spin Doctors, these lyrics happened to be in the forefront of my mind. And here, I encounter a golden opportunity to use them.
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She can kill with her smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her terrible lies She'll only reveal what she wants you to see She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me.
She can take you for love She can take you or leave you She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you. She'll take what you give her as long as it's free. She steals like a theif but she's always a woman to me.
Ooohh- She takes care of herself She can wait if she wants She's ahead of her time Ooohh- And she never gives out And she never gives in She just changes her mind.
Billy Joel- She's Always a Woman to Me
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(will pretend if you gimme the keys to that damn code! I've gone through half a notepad already!!!)
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Ok, I've worn out my enthusiasm for my U2 kick. Let's play the Billy Joel lyric game!
I see these children with their boredom and their vacant stares God help us all if we're to blame for their unanswered prayers They roll the sidewalks up at night, this place goes underground Thanks to the condo kings there's cable now in Zombietown
-Billy Joel, No Man's LandPosts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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