I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
walkin’ through the streets of Soho in the rain.
-Warren Zevon
Imagine there’s no Heaven.
She was a very kinky girl.
I knew by the way you parked your car sideways it wouldn’t last.
It was one of those nights when you turn out the lights and everything comes into view.
What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl.
I think I guessed at everyoe of the above lines. But it’s just I rermember the line. Then I just heard Little red Corvette. “I guess I shoulda known by the way you parked your car sideways it wouldn’t last”
–She aint go no money, her clothes are kind of funny.
(If you leave out the intro, which is a bit wordy…)
A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairgrounds painted swings,
These foolish things remind me of you.
The whole song is full of killer images. “The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations…”
“Teenage angst has paid off well
But now I’m bored and old.” - Nirvana
“How young are you?
How old am I?
Let’s count the rings
Around my eyes” - Replacements
“I’ll be grazing by your window
Please come pat me on the head” - Dinosaur Jr
“I was saying let me outta here before I was even born
It’s such a gamble when you get a face
It’s fascinating to observe what the mirror does
But when I dine it’s for the wall that I set a place” - Richard Hell
“Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl” - The Clash
“There’s blood in my mouth
'Cuz I’ve been biting my tongue all week” - Rilo Kiley
“We were married in the mirrored hall when I was sixteen
You spoke the word ‘I love girls in white leather jackets’
That was good enough for love
That was good enough for me” - Neko Case
“I’ve been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand” - Joy Division
“Our band could be your life” - Minutemen
“God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son’
Abe said, ‘Man, you must puttin’ me on’
God said ‘No’
Abe said ‘What?’
God said ‘You can do what you want, Abe
But the next time you see me comin’ you better run’” - Bob Dylan (Every song on Highway 61 Revisited could fit though)
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain” - John Lennon
“Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom!” - Little Richard
“LLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDD!!!” - Stooges
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
Thank you for posting this.
Nice girls not one with a defect,
cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.
Red dogs under illegal legs.
She looks so good that he gets down and begs.
mmm
You say you want a revolution?
Well, you know we all want to change the world.
why don’t we do it in the road…
From [the second best rock and roll song of all time (and my personal theme song)](The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say
I don’t share your greed, the only card I need is
The Ace Of Spades)
If you like to gamble, I tell you I’m your man
You win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me
I’ve always like the opening lines of Modern Love, by David Bowie:
I catch the paperboy
but things don’t really change…
I like Thunder Road’s already mentioned opening lines, too.
Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand
Jack is in his corset, Jane is her vest
And me, I’m in a rock’n’roll band
-Lou Reed, Sweet Jane
Harry was a rich young man who would become a priest
He dug up his dear father who was recently deceased
-Lou Reed, Hangin’ 'round
If I could be anything in the world that flew
I would be a bat and come swooping after you
Lou Reed, Andy’s Chest
I’m waiting for my man, 26 Dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
Lou Reed, I’m Waiting For the Man
mmm
Hey mister tambourine man, play a song for me.
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to.
Now, somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon
If I had a boat, I’d go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony, I’d ride him on my boat
We could all together, go out on the ocean,
Just me upon my pony on my boat
Melodic stanzas symphonizing their way through your weary head…" - “Travel” by The Gathering
My friend, she’s gone away, and left us here to stay, and I understand; I do. When you were here you didn’t fit us; when you passed over, it hit us; you were the one who knew the only hidden truth…" - “Yalin” by Agua de Annique
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection. ~ Random Rules by The Silver Jews.
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head? ~ The Calendar Hung Itself by Bright Eyes.
The only girl I’ve ever loved was born with roses in her eyes, but then they buried her alive one evening 1945. ~ Holland 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Red is my favorite color - red like your mother’s eyes, after a while of crying about how you don’t love her. ~ Red by Okkervil River.
I got a million of 'em.
I was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty, Delta day.
I seen the bright lights of Memphis, and the Commodor Hotel,
and underneath a street lamp, I met a southern belle.
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
it’s a wonder I can think at all.
Well I was rolling down the road in some cold blue steel,
I had a bluesman in the back and a beautician at the wheel.
there are maybe ten or twelve
things i could teach you
after that, well i think you’re on your own
that wasn’t their opening line
that was the tenth or the twelfth
make of that what you will—A.C. Newman, ‘There Are Maybe Ten or Twleve’
Look, I’m standing naked before you/don’t you want more than my sex?–Tori Amos, ‘Leather’
It’s a motherfucker/being here without you–the Eels, ‘It’s a Motherfucker’
I’m spinning out/I can’t control my car—Veruca Salt, ‘Get It Back’
My head is a’ spinnin’ round/my heart’s in my shoes/I went and set the Thames on fire/Now I gotta come back down—Tom Waits, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’
God reached his hand down from the sky/He flooded the land, when he set it afire/He said, "Fear me again, know I’m your father/Remember that no one can breathe underwater/So bend your knees and bow your heads/Save your babies, here’s your future–the Thermals, ‘Here’s Your Future’
I’ve always heard it as Mary’s dress waves, but “sways” sounds cool too.
Another Springsteen, from Tunnel of Love:
Fat man sitting on a little stool
Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you
I watched him as the dregs went down
I saw his pulse rate going down
I saw him in convulsive throes
And I said - “I’ll have one of those!”
TISM - I’m on the drug that killed River Phoenix