You got to live like you’re on vacation – Kiss, “Lick It Up”
Kiss, “Let’s Put the X in Sex”
“Love’s like a muscle and you make me want to flex.”
When the Ataris covered the song in 2003, they changed the line to:
“Out on the road today
I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac”.
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you’re nothing
You’re fuckin’ perfect to me
“Fuckin’ Perfect”, Pink
I twisted you over and under to take you
“Furnace Room Lullaby”, Neko Case
I want to be the girl with the most cake
“Doll Parts”, Hole
Well, I’m a high school grad, I’m over five foot three
I’ll get a badge and a gun and I’ll join the P.D., they’ll see
“God Is A Bullet”, Concrete Blonde
Yeah; there’s a Tesla with one, driven by a nanny who drops off and picks up kids at my preschool.
Couple of gems from The Beautiful South:
“She’s a perfect 10, but she wears a 12, Baby save a little 2 for me.”
and
“She’s a Ph. D in ‘I told you so’, you’ve a knighthood in ‘I’m not listening’.”
“She is like a hurricane, there’s calm in her eyes.”
Neil Young
You ain’t never been loved like you’re gonna be loved when I, love, you, now….
Bill Murray in Hite Report Disco
And the magic’s in the music
And the music’s in me
Do You Believe In Magic
Lovin’ Spoonful
A screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Bruce Springsteen, “Thunder Road”
And would a thread like this be complete without some utter vulgarity?
If you want inside the well boy you better make her Raspberry Swirl – Tori Amos
On golden daffodils to catch the silver stream that washes out the wild oat seed upon Velvet Green – Jethro Tull
This can’t happen, this can’t be real, something lying next to me looks like I feel – Joe Walsh, Coyote Love
“Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinkin’ warm beer in the soft summer rain.” Bruce Springsteen-Jungleland
Me too for
I’ll add:
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection - Doors, “When The Music’s Over”
and
Mamas & Papas, Got A Feeling:
I got a feeling that you’re stealing
All the love I thought I was giving to you
I hear that as:
They say that looks don’t count for much; if so there goes your proof!”
ObElvisCostello entry:
“I don’t know if you are loving some body, I only know it isn’t mine”
Alison
ObBobDylan entry:
Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine
A Simple Twist of Fate
Every single meeting with his so-called superior is a humiliating kick in the crotch.
The Police, “Synchronicity II”
The world will still be turning when you’re gone
Wheels of Confusion by Black Sabbath
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
Doobie Brothers
This whole song. Really this whole album is just a tour de force of great lyrics (I’ll grant the opinion that they can get overwrought at times).
I wanted to add, from the same Thunder Road:
You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right,
And that’s all right with me
*I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood. * Wish List - Pearl Jam.
Leave her out? My God, she’s the headliner. The Dendarii band is her opening act.